As a followup to my other Jupiter posts; I have ruminated at great length on the topic since I wrote that a few years ago and it’s worth expounding upon.
Jupiter’s temperateness is a concept hard to convey in contemporary terms. Jupiter has the capacity to augment, but ultimately it is the active promotion of positive normalcy.
When you restore your device to default settings because it wasn’t working correctly, you are engaged in something akin to the purpose of Jupiter. Long before the revisionists (for religious reasons) switched the colors of Jupiter, astrologers assigned to him the colors white and yellow. Today, I’d add khaki and taupe; the colors of mildness and normalcy. The colors of the neutral, reliable default settings.
Jupiter’s powers are not those of inertia but the strength of the middle path. The Greater Benefic manifests through ordinary goodness in things.
Jupiter is used most prominently in healing magic and protective magic, because in both cases the ideal is physical normalcy and security from the difficult and abnormal.
This is why Jupiter is so hard to understand. It is the planet most defined in negatives; it is the planet most akin to the Air Element. It is invisible until something is awry. Unless one is suffocating in a vacuum or being blown about in a gale, one can easily forget that the atmosphere is not simply empty space. It is not empty space; it is what enables all life to be possible.
This is why Kabbalists felt that the intelligences of Jupiter were secret interlocutors to the godhead. It is the Divine which sets the defaults, which defines the rules, which establishes health and longevity and the good.
The cleanliness of the empty canvas or the unwritten page are not voids. They are abundances of possibilities. This is the secret of Jupiter– the hidden hand that always is helping, and often helping better because of its obscurity.
The abnormal is marvelous but seldom is it good. The normal is taken for granted easily, but it is the doorway to the good. And this is the case because — in astrological terms at least — the Divine world has rigged cosmic law slightly in our favors. The default is, surprisingly, benevolent.
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