Gonino School
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SCHOOL OF ASTRAPSYCHOLOGY · THE PLANETS
Jupiter
VISION · ABUNDANCE · MEANING
The principle of expansion and meaning — where one seeks the larger whole.
I.
The Aesthetic
imperial purple and gold, expansive vaults, far horizons
Every image the School makes of Jupiter begins here — the motif set on a parchment ground, painted in the School's house style: Van Gogh's impasto crossed with Monet's open air, drawn toward the Greco-Futurist line.
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PORTRAIT OF JUPITER — FORTHCOMING FROM THE SCHOOL OF AESTHETICS
II.
The Attributes
ARCHETYPE
The Sage
The seeker and keeper of meaning and wisdom.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION
meaning, faith, and expansion
The part of the personality Jupiter governs — its job in every chart.
THE ROMAN NAME HOLDS
♃ Jupiter
Jupiter goes by its Roman name, which is already its astronomical name.
III.
The Astronomy
The giant — more massive than every other planet combined, a banded sphere of hydrogen carrying a storm, the Great Red Spot, wider than Earth.
ORBITAL PERIOD
11.86 years
TIME PER SIGN
~1 year per sign
RETROGRADE
Retrogrades once a year for about 4 months.
Spins fastest of all the planets — a 10-hour day — while pacing the zodiac at almost exactly one sign a year, the calendar rhythm of expansion.
Shepherds the asteroid belt, holds the Trojan swarms at its Lagrange points, and deflects or captures comets — the system's gravitational gatekeeper.
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The Meaning
The principle of expansion and meaning — where one seeks the larger whole.
In the natal chart, Jupiter governs meaning, faith, and expansion. Where it stands — its sign, its house, the aspects it casts — shapes how that part of you shows up in practice: as vision, abundance, meaning.
THE SHADOW
excess and overconfidence; mistaking your own views for the whole truth.
V.
Dominion
RULES
Sagittarius
Pisces
CO-RULER
Rulership updates on new information — the modern ruler commands, and the classical ruler remains as the explicit co-ruler, the secondary voice.
EXALTED IN
Cancer
NATURAL HOUSES
IX
The 9th House
The far world — meaning, philosophy, journey, and the larger pattern.
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The 12th House
co-ruler · The hidden ocean — the unconscious, retreat, what dissolves and what is veiled.
VI.
The Study
The Study — forthcoming
A thorough scholarly treatment of Jupiter is being prepared by the School — its history, its cycles, and its full psychology.