Jupiter's archetype

      Before I begin this article I will be linking it  up with the archetype of the Sun and then I will bring the two together, followed by an article on the transformation of the Sun and Jupiter and what it means to the individual and the collective human species.So hang on in there! it's a work in progress and will make sense.
      Jupiter's planetary archetype has traditionally been regarded as the great benefic signifying good luck, achievement and success and has always been associated with positive results in every endeavour.(santa claus..ho,ho,ho is a good caricature, full of largesse geniality and abundance.)
     In most cases it is a genuinely constructive influence.
     The shadow side of Jupiter is excesses,waste, sloppiness and arrogance(imagine if you will..a dark santa...dressed in a dark blood red costume consumed with excesses,grandiose ideas and arrogance..Hitler showed this arrogant expanded grandiosity at its most extreme.)
    Jupiter's energies are expansive... and this is the key.                                                        
It expands on ......whatever it transits or touches.
    It expands the sphere of action and experience in which the individual lives and moves.
      In my experience this brings about a sense of glowing achievement,a sense of expansive warmth,a gentle sense of powerfulness, a sense of 'fullness',abundance and a togetherness with everyone.
      The early expression of the Jovian archetype is the child expanding its horizons into the outside world,away from its parents.This is the love of freedom,exploration, growing, learning, travel,increasing her scope of her action and experience out in the world.Yet this also gives rise to excessive growth,waste and sloppiness. In the desire to grow and expand ,the need to handle details and deal with the minor aspects of living get overlooked and are arrogantly deemed unworthy of our attention.This is all part of teenager's journey! 
      Jupiter is also to do with the Father,specifically in his role to encourage the child to expand and go out,into the world.He also has a role in helping to integrate these experiences.This integrative part also gives us a sense of being part of something bigger than ourselves..the cosmos, the universe..god
      So Jupiter encourages the child to overcome the challenges that he/she is facing and to assimilate them.
       
      Yet there is always a limitation to expansion and this is imposed by two forces. 1)That every living entity has a self imposed boundary.(Saturn's archetype)
     2)The outside world can only support so much growth.(Saturn's archetype met from the outside).It needs time to integrate the experiences from that growth.Jupiter again!!


    Let us look at the Astronomy of Jupiter.
The Planet Jupiter is a gas giant with a rocky core of heavy elements.The gas consists mainly of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium. Similar to the sun.It's mass is one thousandth of our sun but two and half times the mass of all the planets in our solar system combined.So it's big.

     Jupiter has 66 satellites of these 50 are less than 10k across.The four largest moons are Io,Europa,Ganymede and Callisto.The moon Ganymede is larger than Mercury giving rise to an oddity of a planet sized moon orbiting a planet.
     The inner 3 moons orbit Jupiter in a 4:2:1 resonance.Meaning Io's orbits Jupiter once to Europa's twice to Ganymede's  four times.The moons receive tidal heating due to Jupiter's gravity field.
     All the moons have water,carbon dioxide and oxygen present.
      So what I'm saying is that the 3 moons are warm and active, have water, oxygen and carbon dioxide and have  balanced orbits around  Jupiter. 
      I feel these moons have the 'right' conditions for life and for it to evolve,if the could only have a Sun to give them more light and warmth. And this is what I'm building up to.
     Next article...archetype of the sun.