Jupiter

Jupiter programs personal law and reward. Its gate describes the principle that sustains your expansion: following it brings protection, luck and growth; ignoring it brings dispersion. Unlike Saturn, which teaches through restriction, Jupiter teaches through abundance: it shows you what happens when you do what is right for you. Its twelve-year cycle marks returns (12, 24, 36, 48, 60) when the law is reviewed and renewed.

The Personality Jupiter is the law you can state: "I never…", "I always…". It is the principle you defend out loud and for which you are willing to lose opportunities. Misaligned, it becomes dogma: you apply your law to everyone and miss the expansion that was coming another way.

The Design Jupiter is the law the body keeps without knowing it: the kind of conduct that, when you maintain it, makes you feel protected, and that you abandon just before things get complicated. Recognising it usually explains whole streaks of good or bad luck.

A Jupiter in Gate 40 has chosen solitude as its law: when its time alone is respected, it delivers; when not, it burns out. In Gate 50 its law is the tribe’s values: it prospers when it cares and loses itself when it transgresses. In Gate 5 the law is rhythm: while it keeps its routines, everything grows. Read your Jupiter in the Library and hold it against your best periods.

Write your law in one sentence. Read your Jupiter gate, draft the principle it describes and check how many of your best decisions kept it. Then keep it on purpose.

Tick the ones that ring true. Three or more and this energy is probably yours.

• You have a personal rule that, when you keep it, "everything works".
• You can name a period when you broke it and things fell apart.
• At 24 or 36 you felt a cycle close and a new one begin.
• People describe you as someone "with principles" on one specific theme.