Jupiter Station

It seems that transiting Jupiter is heading for a station near a sensitive point in my chart. Figure 2 shows the alignments.

Figure 1

The Jupiter station will occur on November 11th 2025 in 25º09' of Cancer, square my Ascendant and very close to my Nadir. At the same time, transiting Saturn will be in 25º23' retrograde of Pisces, so the two planets will be in trine. Jupiter is currently moving forward through Cancer but it will station and turn retrograde on the day mentioned. Transiting Chiron will be retrograde in 23º45' of Aries, very close to my Ascendant and in a square aspect to transiting Jupiter.

Spiritual Discipline

I looked back at the last time Saturn transited through Aries. It entered Aries shortly after my birthday in 1996 and exited in March of 1999. This time period was a very significant period of my life. It marked the start of my life overseas during which time I visited Meherabad in India with my then wife Sylvia. My appreciation and knowledge of Meher Baba deepened and culminated in Bhau Kalchuri's visit to Singapore in 1999. I also travelled to China and Nepal with students from the school at which I was teaching. I'm sure I've reviewed my Saturn's transits before but I'll push on as if I hadn't and maybe compare the two time-separated reflections later.

Saturn's first transit through Aries took place from March of 1969 until May of 1969. This was again a very important phase of my life. It marked the start of life beyond school. In 1967, I inadvertantly came across mention of Meher Baba in a book by Paul Brunton, titled "A Search in Secret India". It had been lent to me by my good friend Steve Ross and remember sitting in the sun at University and reading it. The next year, I attended a talk by Bill LePage about Meher Baba. That cemented Baba's name in my memory and proved the trigger to my acquisition of the book "God Speaks" in 1981. Academically this period was rather dismal but I made good friends during this time and was slowly growing into adulthood.

So the two previous transits of Saturn through Aries marked transformative phases of my life and both involve Meher Baba, the first laying the groundwork for my later epiphany and the second consolidating this same epiphany. Perhaps third time around there will be further developments in my relationship with Meher Baba. The presence of Neptune in Aries at the same time certainly makes this a possibility. However, it plays out I must embrace these dual influences and perhaps "Spiritual Discipline" is a good phrase to describe their very different energies. Lately I've been in a very negative state of mind but I have snapped out of it in the last couple of days and I need to ensure that I don't relapse.

I'm not sure what "spiritual discipline" entails but my physical discipline has certainly improved. I'm doing my usual round of exercises at least once and sometimes twice a day. This upcoming Saturn transit offers the opportunity to really make concrete skills and proficiencies that I've dabbled in but never fully mastered. 

A Bad Day

Yesterday I felt very bad psychologically and not good physically either. I wasn't good in the morning and by midday I took two panadol and lay down to rest. Psychologically, I'd been feeling quite negative for a few days but physically I'd been OK. Yesterday I felt I was coming down with the flu or a bad cold. However, today I feel much better. What was happening transit-wise yesterday. Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. See Figure 1.

Figure 1

Let's list the transits that were active yesterday.

• Chiron R was in 25º31' of Aries was conjunct my Ascendant in 24º15' of Aries: still active
• Mercury was in 24º39' of Libra, conjunct my Descendant: still active
• Sun in 10º15' of Libra, opposite my Mars-Venus conjunction: still active
• Ceres in 9º27' of Aries, conjunct my Mars-Venus conjunction: still active
• Moon in 18º07' of Aquarius, opposite my Ceres-Pluto conjuction

Transiting Neptune and Saturn of course are in early Aries and late Pisces respectively and remain very influential in the long term. Given the transient nature of my condition, it would seem that the Moon's transit was the probable culprit. However, notice how transiting Venus in 16º47' Virgo is exactly conjunct the Moon's South Node in 16º55' of Virgo. This very transient aspect might be a contributing factor although it doesn't seem to impact my natal chart in any obvious way.