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Jupiter conjunct Neptune

Jupiter conjunct Neptune, within one nativity or between two charts in synastry

What the tradition reads

With Jupiter conjunct Neptune in the birth chart, the tradition reads a strong spiritual or idealistic side to a person's worldview, someone who values the layers of life that cannot be seen and their bearing on how people perceive things. Money is said to come and go without much apparent effort, and the same idealism can tip into unrealistic expectations if a person expects more from a situation than it can deliver; compassion and a preference for trusting people or the universe over living in suspicion are named as this conjunction's more consistent gift. Between two charts, one person's Jupiter conjunct another's Neptune is read as a bond built on shared ideals, beliefs or dreams, each person touching the other's compassionate side. Sources warn that the same connection can unwittingly encourage one another's unrealistic or impractical leanings, and that faith in the relationship is best kept short of treating it as something grander or more inhuman than it actually is.

The story

A conjunction sets two bodies at, or close to, the same degree, with no real angular distance between them; Ptolemy's own chapter on the mutual configuration of the signs measures the opposition, trine, square and sextile by the number of degrees separating two positions, leaving the conjunction outside that scheme, yet Wikipedia's own summary of the aspect counts the conjunction as a fifth major aspect regardless, saying conjunctions are the most powerful aspects "because they mutually intensify the effects of the involved planets". Jupiter's own page names him brother to Neptune and Pluto in the Greek-influenced tradition, the three of them presiding respectively over the sky, the waters and the underworld, one realm of the universe apiece; Neptune's own page confirms the same three-way brotherhood in its own words, naming him ruler of the seas alongside Jupiter's heaven and Pluto's underworld. Jupiter kept the sky and its thunder for his own, thunderbolt and eagle his standing emblems and king of the gods his title; Neptune, god of freshwater and the sea, took the waters, Salacia his consort and the trident among his own emblems. Set at the same degree, sky and sea stand for once at no distance at all, Jupiter's own thunder meeting Neptune's own tides as though the ancient division of realms had, for the moment, folded back into one.

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Corpus key aspect:Jupiter:Neptune:conjunction.