🌱The Crunchy Fascist II🌱

"Jupiter, the greater benefic, is a much more popular fellow than his dour compeer Saturn... The jolliness of his nature is much too stressed today, for he is more than just the planet of parties and ice-cream. The word 'jovial', derived from the Latin name of the planet, has become increasingly trivialized in our language until it describes just someone who has been at the sherry. True, a common manifestation of Jupiter's expansive nature involves unbuckling one's belt, but his real nature is as a spiritual guide, and in this he does not work alone, but hand in hand with Saturn. They are the carrot and the stick, 'Thy rod and Thy staff' which comfort me though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Saturn is the rod, that beats me onto the straight path; Jupiter the staff that pulls me out of the thorns. They are expansion and contraction, mercy and justice. We like mercy — or at least, we think we do: we like it until it is shown to the man who has wronged us." - John Frawley

Take a moment right now to stop. Close your eyes and steady your mind. Focus on listing out all the great things about yourself, things you have been given by the Gods, achievements you have reached, people of exceptional quality that surround you and enrich your life, means and sustenance you possess. Think on just how rich you are in the blessings of the Gods. Bask in the light of that realization and enjoy the bliss they have given you.

Heidelberg, Germany.

Ingeborg (1868). Peter Nicolai Arbo (Norwegian, 1831-1892).