Jupiter in Scorpio in the Third House
The placement of Jupiter in Scorpio indicates that you are inclined toward a mode of expansiveness that is intense and, at times, emotionally charged. This often manifests as your expansion into an arena in a powerful way. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Jupiter in Scorpio are a result of your intense, emotional need to expand, which may be accompanied by an expansive pursuit of power.
With Jupiter in Scorpio, you tend to understand the world and humanity’s place in it in terms of power relationships or connectedness to the primal source. Your worldview tends to be dominated either by your focus on power or by an intense, insightful perception into the heart of things. You are almost certain to try to understand the power dynamics of a situation before you move expansively into an arena.
The placement of Jupiter in Scorpio has an inherent potential for tension. This is symbolized by the natural semi-sextile between Scorpio and Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius. Scorpio is the Fixed Water sign. In the Jupiter in Scorpio placement, the powerful water energy associated with Scorpio will symbolically draw Jupiter down deep within where the expansive functions associated with Jupiter will be forced to operate. Because this “within” is often unexplored and untamed by the consciousness, there is often turbulence associated with Scorpio that can be disruptive to Jupiter’s energies. However, the unleashed power inherent in Scorpio, when propelled outward, can be awesome.
Insecurities
Having Jupiter in Scorpio, the Naked Truth is never easy to bear, particularly if you are insecure. The call to expand your understanding and find the Inner Voice entails suffering. Many will run from this call to understand Reality deeply, doing all in their power to deny its existence. With Jupiter in Scorpio, the result is generally an excessive displacement of this universal drive and a search for fulfillment in the lower attributes associated with Scorpio sex and power over others. Your excesses in these areas are your defense mechanism against ego-destroying Truth. If anyone tries to “rein you in,” your reaction can be severe and ruthless as you protect your essential vulnerabilities.
Jupiter in the 3rd House:
Jupiter in the 3rd House may be somewhat problematic, since Jupiter is placed opposite the house that it rules. In the 3rd House, with its focus on the immediate and the short-term, the expansive and horizon-seeking forces symbolized by Jupiter may have difficulty finding adequate expression. Confined to what is at hand, with Jupiter in the 3rd House, you may feel constrained and lacking in opportunities for expansiveness and quest.
On the other hand, there are opportunities for growth and development symbolized by Jupiter in the 3rd House, if you can be content and disciplined enough not to wander in your mind and heart to remote pastures and high adventure. The key is often learning to assimilate fully what exists in the world at hand. With Jupiter in the 3rd House, by focusing on the here and now and realizing that there are limitless possibilities in its detail, you may experience growth and expansion within a small scale, rather than on the large scale at which the forces symbolized by Jupiter naturally operate.
When Jupiter in the 3rd House is positively manifested, you may exhibit an enthusiasm for life as it occurs in the present and as it is happening to you. You may look at your immediate experience and circumstance in a positive light, focusing on its benefit to you and taking the lessons that it offers as a way to expand and grow in your understanding of reality.
Having Jupiter in the 3rd House, you may experience a great deal of contentment with your immediate situation and the life around you. The danger in this is that, if you are merely content to be content, you may be missing whole worlds of opportunity. You may have shut your eyes to the wider world around you, being so pleased with the narrower world that is immediately accessible.
Focus of Expansion and Growth
As an individual with Jupiter in the 3rd House, expansion and growth take place for you in your immediate environment and through your interaction with that environment. If you are open, you learn lessons and you gain understanding from your own experiences in life. You also learn from others who are close at hand. With Jupiter in the 3rd House, you may have a teacher, particularly at a young age, who had a profound influence on you, increasing your desire for knowledge and your hunger for understanding, and teaching you how to find answers to your questions in the things around you.
Focus of Well-Being
Having Jupiter in the 3rd House, you are likely to feel comfortable and happy when you are in your own environment. Everyday life is likely to make you happy and give you a feeling of
well-being. Because of this, you may have a bright and cheery disposition and a positive attitude toward life in general. As an individual with Jupiter in the 3rd House, this optimism and sense of secure well-being may disappear, however, if you find yourself in strange and unfamiliar circumstances or if the everyday routine of your life is disrupted. Thus, you are not likely to stray too far away from “home” in the multiple meanings of that term. You may have also been happier and more content in childhood, when you were surrounded by the safe and familiar and when you were not challenged to leave the boundaries of your immediate world.
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Article referenced from:
Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs
Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses
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