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Imagine two friends who amiably walk in a glade, and at the bottom, a dark spot calls their attention: " Looks over there, what a lot of trees there are!", one of them exclaims. "It’s truth, it must be a big wood", the other answers.
The first one looks, separates and counts what he sees (so many trees), the second one instead combines, assimilates and creates a new unity (the wood). What are you like? Are you the type with thin trees optimistically sees a wood, or the type that in front of a sequoias wood only sees a lot of high trees? There are two ways of perceiving reality, two different ways to learn which have different characteristics and very faraway orientations between one and the other. In each one of us, in an absolutely spontaneous and natural way, one or the other of these trends prevails, and this makes us, astrologically speaking, a mercurial type or a Jupiter type, that is more in syntony with the energy of Mercury or of Jupiter. This time I want to talk to you about Jupiter, the planet that presses us to raise ourselves above the trifles of daily nature and to ignore details devoid of meaning, which instead it urges us on to gain a wider perspective and, above, spiritually or morally significant. Jupiter, the biggest planet of the zodiac in which thinks big, and from three trees makes a wood and from three men makes a movement, and to do this, if you don’t mind, it is necessary to look far, and especially to have "faith".
And faith is blind like love, no matter what faith it is, which God, an ideal or a mission, faith is absolute and it deprives us of doubts.
And Jupiter has faith, because beyond the variegated and multiform manners in which such faith becomes incarnate and makes it real (a particular philosophy, a religion, etc.), in the end there is always only the faith that the life of each man has a sense and a meaning that crosses and transcends the existence of a particular individual who is born and dies in a definite and limited time and place. "Earthly things must be known to be loved, the divine realities must be loved to be known", Pascal wrote, and Jupiter is like that: first of all it loves and believes and then knows, with trust and optimism, because there are no "little" or farsighted "scientific" demonstrations able to invalidate or to shake the love and the faith that it has in its creed.
This is the gifts that Jupiter, sat in his throne in Olympus, gives to those of us that have had the fortune of enjoying its benevolence: the certitude of being alive for a reason, and therefore the optimism, trust, the farsightedness and the pleasure of life, because with Jupiter at your side in life, it is really worth being here.