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The Sun conjunct Jupiter

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

What the tradition reads

Within a single chart the Sun conjunct Jupiter fuses identity with the tradition's most generous planet: Ptolemy classes Jupiter, together with Venus, as temperate and benefic, and the delineators who inherited that judgment read this fusion as a will naturally inclined toward optimism and confidence, expecting good outcomes from life and, more often than plain odds would predict, getting them. Modern accounts describe a resourceful, big hearted person who wins other people over easily, keeps more promises than most, and reads as fair and sincere, though the same generosity can tip into over indulgence in food, drink or spending, and a confidence in things turning out well enough to promise more than can actually be delivered, unless Saturn also stands near enough to add restraint. Between two charts, the tradition treats one person's Sun conjunct another's Jupiter as one of synastry's most agreeable contacts: the Jupiter person extends warmth, faith and the benefit of the doubt to nearly everything the Sun person does, and the Sun person tends to rise to that faith by showing their better side in return. Sources describe the bond as a distinctive, durable friendship in its own right, with the standing caution that the pair's shared expansiveness, unchecked, becomes a shared over indulgence neither side is well placed to correct.

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, yet Wikipedia's summary counts the conjunction among the five traditional major aspects sometimes called Ptolemaic, and reports that conjunctions are said to be the most powerful aspects, because they mutually intensify the effects of the involved planets, and gives a conjunction an orb of about ten degrees. Jupiter's own myth gives the fusion its particular character. Jupiter succeeded his father Saturn as king of the gods; unlike the Greek story of Cronus and Zeus, the Romans did not regard this succession as violent or hostile, and Saturn kept his own temple and cult afterward. Jupiter ruled the sky as Rome's "Optimus Maximus," the best and greatest, an office built as much from titles of victory and protection as from plainly agricultural ones, a guardian of the harvest as much as of the state. He divided the world afterward with two brothers, in the Greek influenced telling: Neptune took the waters, Pluto the underworld, and Jupiter kept the widest and brightest of the three realms for himself. A Sun fused with the planet already ruling the whole visible sky can hardly help being lifted by the association, taking on, degree for degree, some of that same scale.

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Corpus key aspect:Sun:Jupiter:conjunction.