Moon-Jupiter

Overview: Moon-Jupiter in tense alignments combines the Moon's association with emotional care, nurturing, and the archetype of the woman and mother, with Jupiter's association with the heights, expansion, royalty, and idealism.

the challenges: The family (moon) that is overly big and suffocating (Jupiter). The physical body (Moon) that tends toward weight gain (jupiter). The appetite (Moon) that is expansive (Jupiter).

The strengths: This combination can be reflected as the expansive enrichment (Jupiter) of domestic life (Moon), through living abroad, bringing the multicultural world into one’s home, or through having a physically large and expansive home. also a life in which an abundance (Jupiter) of both giving and receiving nurturance (Moon) is present, either through nurturing others or receiving nurturing oneself.

Below are examples of well-known individuals born with this combination in their natal charts (an astrological birth chart is a symbolic map of the sky at the moment of birth). Observing how this combination appears in their lives can help us recognize it in our own. The more consciously we engage with these astrological alignments—or “aspects”—the more their underlying tensions can be integrated, allowing their strengths to emerge.

Please note: the expression of this archetypal tension, as seen in the lives and work of the people below, may reflect varying levels of integration.

• The Moon-Jupiter combination in the chart of singer/actress Julie Andrews can be easily seen in her tendency to play roles as royal or high society (Jupiter) women (Moon), such as Queen Guinevere in Camelot, Maria Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi of Genovia in The Princess Diaries, and Queen Lillian in the Shrek series. This symbolism can also be seen in the name of Hip Hop artist Queen Latifah, who was also born with the Moon-Jupiter combination in her natal chart.