Jupiter – for the birds

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Jupiter being a sky god and a seer into the future, it makes sense that prediction based on the flight or song of birds would be connected to him. Indeed he is often represented by the eagle.

I’d have to confess a personal interest since years back I had a couple of striking experiences seeing birds (magpies initially) which fitted in with outer events, so became fascinated. And I have a very strongly aspected Jupiter in my chart, tied in to my Sun, Mercury, Moon, Uranus, MC, Saturn and by minor aspect to Pluto and Mars Venus, Ascendant.

The first was connected to the death of a horse in odd circumstances which succumbed to a rare cattle gangrene. A magpie and a dead calf had appeared a few days beforehand on the road when I was exercising. Magpies are ten a penny but that one gave me a shudder and stuck in mind. The second was seeing a magpie on the back of a sheep, like a tic bird, which coincided with the death of a pet sheep, which I was only told about later. The third, more cheerfully, was when I sold a flat astonishingly and unexpectedly well, having seen six magpies that morning on the heath – ‘one for sorrow, two for joy – six for gold’. So I became hooked and read up the nature myths.

Magpies have become less birds of death for me, than indications of a traffic holdup on motorways. If I see a black and white bird then everything jams up ahead. Greenfinches are sickness, not necessarily terminal, just slump. A Greater Spotted Woodpecker – wonderful red, black and white handsome birds – turned up in my London garden for the first time the day I got a significant work opportunity. The day I bought the house I’m in now, a golden eagle flew low over the road just above my car –  magnificent and velvet brown, with a huge wingspan. Hawks which fly the highest are supposed to be messengers of the gods – and presumably a gift from Jupiter. Herons and storks are a symbol of the morning and therefore new life.

It’s not something I talk about too freely lest I sound a complete basket case. But many people (and certainly their grannies) will have had similar experiences. It’s such a shame that we are so hidebound by the Saturnine rational diktats that we don’t admit to an inexplicable layer of life that can’t all be written off to coincidence or delusion.

5 thoughts on “Jupiter – for the birds”

  1. Why is it that, because some of Us have a tad more awareness of energetic connections, we’re considered ‘weird?” We’re here to learn and as human beings can be so very off-message, I do trust in hints and top tips from the natural world!
    I have house martins and swallows nesting in my courtyard, and I feel very privileged.

  2. Thanks Marjorie for sharing this, I’ve always had a deep respect for our feathered friends but never thought that there might be some element of prophecy or meaning tied into their appearance – it’s a fascinating thought. Come to think of it though there is that saying when you see magpies, one for sorrow, two for joy… so there’s obviously something to it. I think I’ve had more events predicted by black cats crossing my path and two strange occurrences when each of my parents died, one for my father when on the day of his funeral all the cats in the neighbourhood came out and sat at the end of their respective driveways as we passed by as if to pay their final respects and the second at my mother’s funeral when several cats appeared and sat in line as we arrived. Definitely many inexplicable layers to this life and our connection to the animal and bird kingdom.

  3. Jennifer, Sextiles are normally 6 degrees and trines 8 degrees, though if they are tied into a Grand or a mini-Grand Trine I’d allow a degree or twos latitude.

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