Addendum to Kid Gloves - on Jupiter
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 6:08 pm
(The following is a substantial excerpt from a piece called "Addendum to Kid Gloves" by Garth Allen in the June 1956 issue of American Astrology.)
...The main addendum in our mind at the moment, however, has to do with a benefic Jupiter. You will recall that the basic motif we tagged onto Jupiter was the eating process. Since writing the Jupiter interpretation, we chanced to read a most fascinating item about one psychologist's finding. His studies showed that ore than fifty percent of all outbursts of temper in the world occur ion the hour before lunch and the hour before dinner! In view of our astropsychoanalytic theory, this is truly food for thought.
We have an extra meaty thought or two about the copycatting nature of Jupiter, too. The emulation motif of Jupiter is mirrored clearly in all forms of socially expressed enthusiasm, for it is the Jupiterian ergie which I at the heart of patrotic fervor, in the same way it impels a sailor to get tattooed because sailors are supposed to be tattooed, or Junior to emulate his heroes through appropriate costumes and mannerisms. A common comic spectacle of our time is a parent ridiculing his child's emulative craving for a Davy Crocket cap or a Captain Space happy tee-shirt before leaving the house to join his fellow Caribous in an antler-fest at the lodge, or maybe to drop in for a beer at the temple where his friends are all dolled up like Caliphs.
Jupiter, as a driving ergie in the soul of every mortal, is the planetary sponsor of this universal yen to be visibly identified with whatever has been deemed honorable. Despite how civilized we have become we still find our sense of social belongingness in identification with our totems. Even whole nations are symbolized by totems in the same way political parties, ball teams, fraternal orders and scout troops are represented by totems of endless variety ranging from Mickey Mouse to elephants. The psychic mechanism of this Jupiterian phenomenon I the same subjective gimmick we believers in astrology employ when calling ourselves "Taurus the Bull" or "Leo the Lion," unaware of how ridiculous we really sound to the uninitiated. Totems may e inanimate, too, and spark that same sense o belongingness imparted by living symbols, for there is a non-animal sign in the zodiac, just as there are many ball teams which think of themselves as rockets and steamrollers.
Totems inspire an automatic loyalty and wholesome enthusiasm in their behalf, so they are as useful as they are at times improbably selected. They can be harmful, according to psychologists, in so far as they destroy individual integrity and self-expression. Everybody has Jupiter somewhere in his birth chart, and only those with a "weak" Jupiter could, without mental anguish, walk down the street in clothing a couple of decades out of style. As a general rule, a person will be a pat conformist in proportion to the strength of Jupiter.
A word about the connection of Jupiter with crimes for gain as contrasted with crimes for vengeance or of erotic depravity. A powerful natal Jupiter that is badly laced with afflictions will often compel its owner to so crave the accouterments which signify social altitude that he may go to dishonorable extremes to satisfy this desire, even resorting to embezzlement or outright robbery. This is the rationale for the frequent prominence of Jupiter in the astrology of crime patterns, a situation which has misled many students in the past into the illusion that squares and oppositions involving Jupiter are essentially bad. (The most notorious kidnap-ransom case of modern times was perpetrated by a man uner powerful Jupiterian compulsion, misleading many an astrologer into assuming he was not guilty. As well say that Carl Austin Hall was guilty because his progressed Moon was square Jupiter at the time o the tragic Greenlease kidnapping, but that Bonnie Heady was not because her progressed Moon was sextile Jupiter.)
Every reader surely knows at least one individual of the afflicted Jupiter type whose eyes light up at every passing Cadillac and haberdashery window, but who cannot seem to save even a dollar a week toward ultimate lawful purchase or the coveted objects. Society will continue to foot a staggering bill for public crime as long as it considers conspicuous possession as something meritorious in itself and manual labor as something intrinsically degrading. It is the ergie of Jupiter in you that makes you feel a wee bit embarrassed when you are with new people you would like to impress favorably but have to let know that you work behind a counter or with a drill or beside a conveyor belt and so on. They, too, might punch time clocks and cut corners to get the bills paid, but as long as you do not know this and appearances smack of sophistication, it is only human for you to feel a mite self-conscious about your lot.
...The main addendum in our mind at the moment, however, has to do with a benefic Jupiter. You will recall that the basic motif we tagged onto Jupiter was the eating process. Since writing the Jupiter interpretation, we chanced to read a most fascinating item about one psychologist's finding. His studies showed that ore than fifty percent of all outbursts of temper in the world occur ion the hour before lunch and the hour before dinner! In view of our astropsychoanalytic theory, this is truly food for thought.
We have an extra meaty thought or two about the copycatting nature of Jupiter, too. The emulation motif of Jupiter is mirrored clearly in all forms of socially expressed enthusiasm, for it is the Jupiterian ergie which I at the heart of patrotic fervor, in the same way it impels a sailor to get tattooed because sailors are supposed to be tattooed, or Junior to emulate his heroes through appropriate costumes and mannerisms. A common comic spectacle of our time is a parent ridiculing his child's emulative craving for a Davy Crocket cap or a Captain Space happy tee-shirt before leaving the house to join his fellow Caribous in an antler-fest at the lodge, or maybe to drop in for a beer at the temple where his friends are all dolled up like Caliphs.
Jupiter, as a driving ergie in the soul of every mortal, is the planetary sponsor of this universal yen to be visibly identified with whatever has been deemed honorable. Despite how civilized we have become we still find our sense of social belongingness in identification with our totems. Even whole nations are symbolized by totems in the same way political parties, ball teams, fraternal orders and scout troops are represented by totems of endless variety ranging from Mickey Mouse to elephants. The psychic mechanism of this Jupiterian phenomenon I the same subjective gimmick we believers in astrology employ when calling ourselves "Taurus the Bull" or "Leo the Lion," unaware of how ridiculous we really sound to the uninitiated. Totems may e inanimate, too, and spark that same sense o belongingness imparted by living symbols, for there is a non-animal sign in the zodiac, just as there are many ball teams which think of themselves as rockets and steamrollers.
Totems inspire an automatic loyalty and wholesome enthusiasm in their behalf, so they are as useful as they are at times improbably selected. They can be harmful, according to psychologists, in so far as they destroy individual integrity and self-expression. Everybody has Jupiter somewhere in his birth chart, and only those with a "weak" Jupiter could, without mental anguish, walk down the street in clothing a couple of decades out of style. As a general rule, a person will be a pat conformist in proportion to the strength of Jupiter.
A word about the connection of Jupiter with crimes for gain as contrasted with crimes for vengeance or of erotic depravity. A powerful natal Jupiter that is badly laced with afflictions will often compel its owner to so crave the accouterments which signify social altitude that he may go to dishonorable extremes to satisfy this desire, even resorting to embezzlement or outright robbery. This is the rationale for the frequent prominence of Jupiter in the astrology of crime patterns, a situation which has misled many students in the past into the illusion that squares and oppositions involving Jupiter are essentially bad. (The most notorious kidnap-ransom case of modern times was perpetrated by a man uner powerful Jupiterian compulsion, misleading many an astrologer into assuming he was not guilty. As well say that Carl Austin Hall was guilty because his progressed Moon was square Jupiter at the time o the tragic Greenlease kidnapping, but that Bonnie Heady was not because her progressed Moon was sextile Jupiter.)
Every reader surely knows at least one individual of the afflicted Jupiter type whose eyes light up at every passing Cadillac and haberdashery window, but who cannot seem to save even a dollar a week toward ultimate lawful purchase or the coveted objects. Society will continue to foot a staggering bill for public crime as long as it considers conspicuous possession as something meritorious in itself and manual labor as something intrinsically degrading. It is the ergie of Jupiter in you that makes you feel a wee bit embarrassed when you are with new people you would like to impress favorably but have to let know that you work behind a counter or with a drill or beside a conveyor belt and so on. They, too, might punch time clocks and cut corners to get the bills paid, but as long as you do not know this and appearances smack of sophistication, it is only human for you to feel a mite self-conscious about your lot.