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Venus opposition Jupiter: Treat Yourself and Help Others in Shift

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When it’s your own turn, you often make do with it, but when it’s someone else’s turn or a bigger goal, you are very generous: Venus opposition Jupiter puts Venus’s immediate pleasure and Jupiter’s long-term vision in opposite corners of the horoscope, taking turns to dominate.

The natal chart shows: Venus and Jupiter are in position across the diameter of the astrolabe, and the aspect line traverses the disk, marking the axis of mutual alignment between treating yourself well and looking far ahead.Schematic, not a real chart

The core of Venus opposition Jupiter: one sentence version

opposition is a 180-degree axis: one end is the pleasure in the hand at this moment, and the other is the call of “it can be bigger”. Both ends are true, but the difficult part is the shift - if you only respond to one end for a long time, the days will be unbalanced in that end. This page clearly writes down the shift schedule for both ends.

What do the two planets want?

Venus wants specific happiness: delicious food at the moment, plenty of money to spend, and a comfortable relationship. Jupiter wants to expand: raise the standard of comfort to a higher level and place trust in people and things further away. Opposition folds this expectation to the “opposite side” and is often represented by others - friends advise you to upgrade, your partner takes you away from home, and when you look back you find that your own share is shrinking.

The feeling of hard aspect: three specific scenes

  1. As soon as I deal with someone, I start a whole team: bringing goods, ordering, and busy until midnight; when I switch to my own list, I even hesitate to order more.
  2. Agree quickly, make up the budget and itinerary only after agreeing, and stay up late on days when they are not fully met.
  3. Saving and leaking money at the same time: Make up for favors in the holiday budget first, then switch to it next month, and then bottom out at both ends.

Immature version and mature version

The immature version regards both ends as opponents: the month of treating others generously and treating yourself poorly, and the month of compensatory consumption take turns, and no one is treated well. The mature version reads the position as a complementary axis - for large commitments, write the upper limit first, and put fixed expenses into your own square, instead of what is left at the end of the month; keep different accounts on both sides, and align them once at the end of the month.

Orb and priority: 180 degrees, natal practice within 7 degrees

natal’s oppositionorb is 7 degrees, check the actual angle between the two stars before reading. The key point of opposition is not which end is correct, but that both ends must have a place: when interpreting, first look at the overall main axis, and then ask which end of this axis usually speaks in your life.

Cheat sheet: Six aspects of Venus and Jupiter

Change the angle of the same axis, and the six grids are arranged below.

aspect angle and natalorb one sentence
conjunction Within 0 degrees, 7 degrees Enjoy automatically upgraded flavors
opposition (this page) 180 degrees, within 7 degrees Give yourself and give away and take turns to tilt
trine 120 degrees, within 6 degrees Generosity and blessing develop in the same direction
square 90 degrees, within 6 degrees The desired portion often crosses the line
sextile 60 degrees, within 4 degrees The channel is on the shelf, and it will be available when it is opened
quincunx 150 degrees, not highlighted Liked and enlarged ones are not aligned

As long as the two ends of the axis are complementary and do not deduct money from each other, this set of positions can be used: The myth of hard aspect removes the default “aspect is always good or bad”, and the list of six gold and wood combination methods is concentrated in aspect pair index. If you want to practice it in practice, the question set of aspect courses is arranged accordingly.

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