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Jupiter and Inequality.

Hey y'all,

We're having ourselves a cocktail party which is ostensibly about Jupiter....but really seems to be about power. Jupiter being a particular manifestation of that principle has been seen and experienced as vicious, benevolent, cruel, graceful, jealous, magnanimous, but always Powerful. All these other qualities have more, from what I've seen, to do with the perspective of a person at one end or the other of the power wielded.

I don't think Jupiter is a person. The image is a stand in for ease of connection. Jupiter is a conscious force of nature.

Jupiter does not have feelings. It's beyond human experience.  A bolt of lightning contains no sentiment, and neither does the electricity that powers a home. Power has no sentiment. Wealth is a stand-in for power, and cares not who possesses it. It cares not if it is used benevolently or otherwise, only that it is used and expressed.

Make your offerings, and make your virtue like that of Jupiter's. As you tune in, you'll find it's virtue expressed more in your own life. See your hermetic axioms.

Jupiter is a God, in truth, of Power, and the grace and benevolence he had been said to possess are often luxuries of the powerful. The same with his vanities and abuses of power. Power requires one thing only, and that is expression. As brother RO mentioned, Genghis Khan accomplished an amazing series of feats.....and he was a goddamn maniac, responsible for so much murder he caused climate change. He lived a long and likely joyous life, full of riches and song. Is that fair? Of course not. There is no such thing. Good and evil are entirely matters of perspective--all things are One thing,  hermeticists. Remember. Stratification in society is a matter of culture, and has little to do with the natural forces that drive being.

Don't sir arounf waiting for the rich to become fair.  That is foolish....instead, act with power. Eat them. Eat their children. You will find you have become them, and depending on how wise you wield power, you will have a similar or different fate. Doesn't matter whether you are good or fair, only if you are wise. Because Power doesn't have morality, and neither does Jupiter.

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  1. AnonymousMay 8, 2014 at 3:07 AM

    Well said. This is spot on.

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  2. weaverJune 14, 2014 at 3:41 AM

    here's to channeling jupiter!

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  3. AnonymousJune 16, 2014 at 9:52 AM

    Well said. And important. Jupiter's power is expansion and increase. Wealth and riches and song precede feasting, and sometimes follow feasting... but they are rarely expressions of sorrow and loss, either way.

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