Sun/Jupiter is massive confidence. The ego expands, but in a discordant way due to amplified needs that cannot be expressed smoothly.
You might experience this as a big push forward, fuelled by a need for more. Or, aggressive mothering. This comes across as too much – you’re confident this is your newly expanded purpose but you end up steamrolling those around you. Or, you’re confronted by the jovial, over-the-top individual whose optimism has an edge.
Check your ego – you can’t muscle your way through to make up for core neediness or family issues. If you find yourself in the path of someone who won’t take “No” for an answer, step away and don’t allow their jubilance to distract you from the fact that they’re trampling over your boundaries.
This can be a warm and enveloping energy, but address what’s going on underneath.
Ceres/South Node suggests physical growth and nurturing that happens easily because it’s rooted in solutions and improvements from the past. The fix still works and the nurturing is a habit. When we pair it with the Sun/Jupiter square, Jupiter in Moon-ruled Cancer seems to imply this habitual nurturing can become overwhelming. Just because it’s always worked doesn’t mean you double down on it.
Ceres makes a sextile to the Pisces North Node – the way forward involves allowing the existing solutions to mutate. Growth is encouraged when you give the person or situation room to find their own path.
Painting by James Jebusa Shannon
