Jupiter’s symbol is the crescent of personality raised above (or uplifted by) the cross of matter. It represents man’s (the crescent’s) triumph over earthly experiences (the cross) through his understanding of universal law gained through just those experiences. Saturn is those experiences and the testing through which this wisdom was obtained, and hence their symbols are each other’s turned upside-down. Thus the wisdom and understanding of Jupiter is the way through the tests of Saturn.In the body Jupiter rules the thighs, liver, hips, pituitary gland, and assimilation on all levels. Its house position shows what activities shaped your social principles and ethics. Just as the liver produces bile to help you digest food, so too does your ethical, religious and social training produce the principles and values that help you digest life’s experiences.
Jupiter is a planet with a lower and higher manifestation. If well placed by sign or house or well aspected it can signify subtle understanding of life’s deeper principles, learning through travel or higher education, general good fortune or luck, and material abundance. If poorly placed or afflicted it symbolizes indiscriminate sensuality, self-indulgence, wastefulness, greed, avarice, dilettantes, and wanderers. Jupiter rules Sagittarius where it embodies all the planet’s positive aspects, and is exalted in Cancer where it expands the nurturing, mothering principle.
