tion of good things, and deliverance from bad things. It represents officials, administra-
tors, advisors, counselors, aristocrats, aristocracy, and foreign ministry. It rules law,
courts, judges, lawyers, and the judicial system, as well as clergy, priests, ministers, and
religious leaders. In business, Jupiter rules bankers, brokers, bondsmen, cashiers, clerks,
magistrates, managers, merchants, stockbrokers, stocks, treasuries, trusts, and taxes. It is
associated with celebrations, coronations, commemorations, grandeur, graduations,
inaugurations, monuments, pageants, parades, regalia, rituals, salutes, and winning.
Jupiter gives affluence, amplification, applause, betterment, benevolence, bonus-
es, charity, chivalry, compensation, credentials, dignity, distinction, elite position, emi-
nence, endowments, enhancement, extravagance, good fortune, gain, generosity,
increases, endorsement, inheritance, integrity, joviality, luck, magnanimity, magnifi-
cence, opulence, philanthropy, prestige, pride, proclamation, promotion, protocol, pro-
tection, purity, recommendation, redemption, reputation, remuneration, restitution,
reverence, self-esteem, sincerity, spirituality, splendor, success, superiority, temperance,
title, tributes, verification, vindication, wealth, wisdom, worthiness, and worship.
Classical diseases and health problems associated with Jupiter are abscesses,
accumulations, arteries, assimilation of food, blood in general and blood pressure,
boils, the formation of red blood cells, diabetes, diseases from excess, enlargements,
fatty degeneration, glands, growths, hepatic system, liver, upper legs and thighs, obesi-
ty, pleurisy, and tumors.
Modern astrology links Jupiter with the level of intelligence that perceives the
world around us and puts things into a context that creates our beliefs and our world-
views. It develops the rational thinking processes that lead to conclusion and under-
standing, bringing opinion and wisdom. Jupiter is the storyteller and is responsible for
the dissemination of information on a broad scale. It is influential and inspirational in
its delivery of ideas. In modern times it is associated with advertising, sales, and propa-
ganda. Jupiter relates to higher levels of thought: education, philosophy, psychology
and religion.
In Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet,Liz
Greene identifies Jupiter as the planet symbolizing the myth-making principle:
Jupiter is thus connected with the urge within the psyche to create
symbols, and this takes us into profound depths when we consider the
creative power that has shaped the great myths, legends, and religions
of the world. It is no less a creative power that shapes the symbolism of
our dreams, so that each dream is a masterpiece of meaning and could
not be altered in any way for improvement. In this way Jupiter is truly a
god of the gateway, for he forms a link between conscious and uncon-
scious through the creation and intuitive understanding of symbols. As
we have seen, symbols are the primordial language of life; and Jupiter
symbolizes the function which both creates them within man and intu-
its their meaning.
In Jyotish astrology, Jupiter is associated with the elephant-headed god
Ganesh, and the king of the gods, Indra. The myths call Jupiter either Guru, which
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