Jupiter-Neptune

Jupiter-Neptune joins together the high ideals, broad visions, and good fortune of Jupiter with the imagination, spiritual faith, dreams, and dissolving boundaries of Neptune.

 While this combination can show up as the overblown (Jupiter) vision, dream, or fantasy (Neptune), or the gregarious celebratory (Jupiter) tendency to seek intoxication (Neptune), it can also be experienced as the positive, optimistic, encouraging, and benevolent (Jupiter) dimension of spiritual transcendence (Neptune) that is the redemptive backdrop of all reality.

Below are examples of famous people born with this combination in their natal charts (natal chart is another word for astrological birth chart, or pictographic representation of the sky when they were born). When we witness how this combination shows up in the lives of others, we can become more self-aware of how this combination shows up in our own lives. The more we are conscious of the ways astrological alignments (otherwise known as “aspects”) show up in our lives, the more the archetypal tensions involved can become integrated in our lives, thus revealing their inherent strengths to us.

Please note that the tension of this archetypal combination, as illustrated in the lives and creations of the famous people in the examples below, may be demonstrated in ways that are more integrated or less integrated.

  • Jupiter-Neptune combines the heights, good fortune, and broader vision of Jupiter with the spirituality, faith, and inspiration of Neptune. This shows up in the following quotes by singer Erykah Badu: “Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.” “I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.”

 

  • The Jupiter-Neptune combination in the chart of Franklin D. Roosevelt can be seen as the broad (Jupiter) vision (Neptune) and the uplifting (Jupiter) empathy (Neptune) in the following quotes: “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” “We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”

  • The Jupiter-Neptune combination can be seen in the birth chart of author Jack Vance, who wrote novels that richly (Jupiter) imagined (Neptune) high cultures (Jupiter) of make believe (Neptune) lands.

  • Neptune’s association with intoxication, imagination, and fantasy, mixed with the expansive and celebratory quality of Jupiter, can be seen in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for its air of celebration and intoxication, New Orleans has a Jupiter-Neptune combination in its natal chart. Similarly this combination in the natal chart of musician Michael Jackson can be seen in the Neverland Ranch amusement park he built for himself as a place of expansive fantasy and imagination. In a similar vein, the Jupiter-Neptune combination can be associated with “getting high,” which connotes a Neptunian intoxication and a Jupiterian height. Bob Marley was born with the Jupiter/Neptune combination in his natal chart; Snoop Dogg was also born with the Jupiter/Neptune combination in his natal chart. Both musicians are known for their use of marijuana.

  • The Jupiter-Neptune combination in the birth chart of musician Isaac Brock can be seen in his song entitled Float On with the band Modest Mouse. Overall the song’s lyrics offer a positive (Jupiter) redemptive and unifying (Neptune) anthem for the listener to take with them into life’s difficulties:

I backed my car into a cop car the other day
Well, he just drove off, sometimes life's okay
I ran my mouth off a bit too much, oh, what did I say?
Well, you just laughed it off, it was all okay

And we'll all float on, okay
And we'll all float on, okay
And we'll all float on, okay
And we'll all float on anyway, well

A fake Jamaican took every last dime with that scam
It was worth it just to learn some sleight of hand
Bad news comes, don't you worry even when it lands
Good news will work its way to all them plans
We both got fired on exactly the same day
Well, we'll float on, good news is on the way

Bring it on, here we are, win or lose, win or lose
Win or lose, win or lose, win or lose, win or lose
Win or lose, win or lose, I can't say

And we'll all float on, okay
And we'll all float on, okay
And we'll all float on, okay
And we'll all float on, alright

Already, we'll all float on
No, don't you worry, we'll all float on, alright
Already, we'll all float on, alright
Don't worry, we'll all float on

(Alright, already) And we'll all float on
Alright, already, we'll all float on, alright
Don't worry, even if things end up a bit too heavy
We'll all float on
Alright, already, we'll all float on (I'm told don't function and listen everyday)
Alright, already, we'll all float on (The worlds' still going strong)
Okay, don't worry, we'll all float on (I lose hair)
Even if things get heavy, we'll all float on (while living here)
Alright, already, we'll all float on (Alright!) (float on)
Now don't you worry, we'll all float on (Alright!)
We'll all float on

  • Perhaps one of the most classic and obvious examples of the Jupiter-Neptune combination is the famous version of the song “What a Wonderful World,” performed by Louis Armstrong, who was born with this combination in the birth chart. The song portrays wonderfully the positive, uplifting, and hopeful characteristics of this combination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrd_3VMC3c