ALMUTEM
Jupiter in Cancer
Jupiter represents the part of you that trusts, grows and seeks meaning. In Cancer, it expresses itself with sensitivity and a wish to look after your own.
In Cancer — cardinal water, sign of the Moon — Jupiter stands in his exaltation, raised above his own stature, honoured as the guest given the place of honour at the table. The moist nature of the sign weds with his own, and the water of the Moon broadens his mercy until it overflows. It inclines to a generosity that welcomes and feeds, to a piety that takes pity, to a domestic and maternal faith that protects its own. It gives an abundance that nourishes, a hand that comes to the needy's aid, a mild judgement that prefers to pardon than to condemn. Justice here clothes itself in clemency, and religion becomes a devotion of the heart more than of the letter. It is the house where the greater benefic is most benefic, where his blessing runs like a full tide over the low-lying lands. The danger, if any, is that of an excess of mildness, a mercy that forgets the rigour owed.