J U P I T E R I N C A N C E R
Cancer is the sign of home, family, and upbringing. The character you have acquired through your upbringing is ruled by this sign, as well. When you meet some real "characters", they often have Cancer prominent in their charts. Cancerians often love history.
Since Cancer is ruled by the Moon, they can be moody. I have known Cancer women who changed their clothes many times a day, as their moods changed, and one Cancer artist who had an entire color-coded system for recording her moods. I have known Cancer men who dressed like someone out of an historical period. Cancers can be quite loony (especially those born from 1949 to 1956 when Uranus was in Cancer).
Cancer is the sign of home and family -- Cancers tend to be devoted to both. The negative sides of Cancer come about when Cancer is too parochial, too afraid of that which is foreign -- anyone or anything which isn't "familiar" (where familiar comes from the same root as family!). Cancer can be the caring father, but is more often associated with women and motherhood. Cancers often want to feed people and to make them feel "at home".
Jupiter makes people see the larger context -- it's the sign of growth and expansion. Jupiter rules religion, philosophy, and politics. Jupiter also rules over-expansion, snobbery, and greed (it's more negative traits). In terms of nations, Cancer rules nationalistic sentiment and the sense of a homeland. Prominent planets in Cancer signal highly patriotic times.
Jupiter is exalted in Cancer since Jupiter makes Cancer see the larger context and break out of their parochial limitations. Since Jupiter stays in a sign for a year and, therefore, circles the zodiac in 12 years, we can look back to the years when Jupiter was in Cancer to see the patterns.
As we would expect, these periods were good for women's rights -- Jupiter expands the role of women in the society. Everything from Mother's Day to the first woman in the U.S. Senate happened with Jupiter in Cancer.
During these years people cared (Cancer) more (Jupiter) for others. People often broke out of some prejudice or expanded their awareness. Of course, people tend to be more emotional, more interested in home and family. Jupiter in Cancer is the common thought, "my children will be better off than I am".
As an interesting aside, the United States chart for July 4, 1776 has the Sun in Cancer conjunct Jupiter in Cancer. When Jupiter is in Cancer it's the Jupiter return for the United States.
1900s July 13, 2001 - Aug 1, 2002 July 30, 1989 - Aug 18, 1990 Aug 20, 1977 - Dec 30, 1977, Apr 12, 1978 - Sep 5, 1978, Feb 28, 1979 - Apr 20, 1979 Sep 21, 1965 - Nov 17, 1965, May 5, 1966 - Sep 27, 1966, Jan 16, 1967 - May 23, 1967 May 24, 1954 - Jun 13, 1965 Jun 10, 1942 - Jun 30, 1943 Jun 26, 1930 - Jul 17, 1931 Jul 13, 1918 - Aug 02, 1919 Jul 30, 1906 - Aug 18, 1907 1800s Aug 19, 1894 - Jan 1, 1895, Apr 10, 1895 - Sep 4, 1895, Mar 1, 1896 - Apr 18, 1896
Films: "Look Who's Talking", "Steel Magnolias", "Uncle Buck", "War of the Roses",
"When Harry Met Sally". During this year, whenever Jupiter was aspected, people showed
more emotion and awareness, more sense of other people in need. The San Francisco Bay Area
had an earthquake in October 1989 (the 1906 one was with Jupiter in Gemini, so there is no pattern here).
1977 - 1979
First Female General in U.S. Marine Corps. Annie Hall awarded best picture. Pope John Paul II (a
Polish Pope) is the first non-italian Pope in 456 years.
1965 - 1967
Moon landing by Surveyor I. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein about extended families.
Six-Day War between Israel and Arab nations. "In the Heat of the Night" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner",
movies about race relationships, come out in theatres. "Eleanor Rigby" and "Strangers in the Night" are played
on the radio -- common theme is lonely people.
1954 - 1955
School desegregation initiated by Supreme Court. McCarthy censured after emotional scene on T.V. (he
did witch hunts against anyone un-American with a focus on Hollywood). Movies: "Three Coins in the Fountain",
"The Seven Samurai", "Rear Window",
and "Young at Heart". Plays: "Teahouse of the August Moon". Books: Lord of the Flies, Lord of the Rings, and
Doors of Perception. Doors of Perception was about using drugs to open the mind. First annual Jazz festival held
in Newport, Rhode Island.
1942 - 1943
Children need not salute flag. "White Christmas" is a song in the movie "Holiday Inn". "Bambi" is also playing.
This transit is during World War II (from 1941 to 1945 for the U.S.). Mass production techniques improved --
liberty ships built in 4 days apiece. Race riots in several major U.S. cities.
1930 - 1931
Songs: "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain", "Goodnight, Sweetheart". The "Star Spangled Banner"
becomes the national anthem. Other songs: "Georgia on my Mind" and "I Got Rhythm".
1918 - 1919
First women member of British parliament. End of World War I. Mount Wilson telescope finished.
1906 - 1907
Universal suffrage in Austria. Boy Scouts founded. First cubist exhibition in Paris. Teddy Roosevelt
makes the first trip by a U.S. President outside the U.S. "The Jungle", a book about conditions in the
stock yards of Chicago, leads to the Pure Food and Drug Act. Color photography invented by Lumiere (who
invented movies with his brother during an earlier Jupiter in Cancer transit). Mother's Day established.
1894 - 1896
Movies invented. Horizontal record disc. X-rays and radio telegraphy discovered. Rocket theory discovered and liquefaction of air demonstrated. Freud pens "Studies in Hysteria" about emotional states. Art Nouveau predominates. Swan Lake has it's first full production.
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