Stop Predicting, Stop Saving, Start Living: Jupiter’s Retrograde Wisdom

This blog is inspired by a recent episode of The Emily Klintworth Podcast.
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Jupiter goes retrograde next week in the sign of Cancer, a sign associated with intuition, nurturing, caregiving, and emotional safety. Astrologically, Jupiter symbolizes higher consciousness, wisdom, and our individual relationship with the Higher Self. When Jupiter appears to move backward, it invites reflection rather than expansion—an inward journey into why we serve, whom we serve, and what we expect to gain from offering ourselves to others.

In this blog, I explore three core truths I have learned from Jupiter—truths that have reshaped how I understand service, purpose, and growth.

These truths are not abstract. They are practical, uncomfortable, and deeply transformative:

1. If you are trying to help a past version of yourself, you are not serving—you are still healing.

2. Prediction creates limitation.

3. There is no final answer.

Truth 1: Helping a Past Self Is Not Service—It Is Self-Healing

When we grow or awaken, it is natural to want to help others. But if you are drawn to help people because they remind you of your younger self, you may still be in your own healing process, not in true service.

Seeing yourself in others can create energetic entanglement. You begin projecting your story onto their life, assuming what they need based on what you needed. This is not compassion—it is reenactment. Service requires differentiation: You are not them. They are not you.

Jupiter retrograde mirrors this. Jupiter spends nearly half the year in retrograde motion—moving “backward,” revisiting, re-evaluating, catching up to itself. It reminds us that growth is not linear. We ascend, but reflection is inevitable. You cannot outgrow your own humanity.

To express this concept, I offer a term:

Seasonance (see-zuh-nence): the state of living in harmony with all seasons of being—honoring your own cycles rather than resisting them.

Just as no season is superior—winter is not less valuable than spring—no version of you is less worthy than the present one. When you stop ranking your seasons, you make space for grace. When you stop trying to “fix” someone's winter by forcing spring, you begin to serve rather than save.

Truth 2: Prediction Creates Limitation

This may seem paradoxical coming from an astrologer, but I mean it sincerely—predicting your future can limit it.

When you decide in advance where your life is supposed to go, you confine yourself to what your current consciousness can imagine. You create a future based on your past. This keeps you in a spiritual holding pattern—what I call a kind of purgatory—especially if your soul is trying to evolve beyond what you have planned.

Just as seasons do not create themselves—nature does through its relationship with light, time, and celestial movement—you do not generate your destiny by force. You enter into rhythm with it. Prediction is control. Harmony is trust.

Truth 3: There Is No Final Answer

There is a part of us that wants to solve life like a puzzle. But as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy beautifully reveals: when the supercomputer “Deep Thought” is asked to calculate the meaning of life, it eventually responds with only one answer—“42.”

The point is not the number. The point is that the question itself was flawed.

I believe life is art. Identity is art. Souls, relationships, nature—art. And art does not exist to be solved. It exists to be experienced. God, nature, consciousness—they are not engineers—they are artists.

Artists do not demand universal agreement. If someone does not like a piece of art, they step aside. The only real disturbance comes when someone interrupts another artist mid-creation.

A Practical Invitation During Jupiter Retrograde

As Jupiter turns inward, let your life become simple enough to be lived rather than solved.

Choose one clear, achievable goal for the next three months.

Let that be enough.

Do not rush to predict the outcome.
Do not try to save a former self.
Do not hunt for the final answer.

Instead: live in seasonance, in rhythm with what is here, now.

Weekly AI Prompt: 

Cut and paste the prompt below into your favorite AI using your Natal Chart Navigator.

"Write all responses in easy conversational language, not lists or bullets. Jupiter is retrograding from 25° Cancer 09′ to 15° Cancer 05′. Using only the house cusp degrees listed in Table 2 of the Natal Chart Navigator (where each cusp is written with a degree and sign, such as “10° Cancer”), determine which house or houses Jupiter travels through during this retrograde. Do not use Table 1 or Table 3, and do not assume or calculate anything beyond what is shown in Table 2. Once the house placement is identified, interpret the retrograde through that house by answering: Where am I trying to return to or repair a past version of myself instead of serving from who I am now? Where am I trying to control or predict the future rather than trusting timing and unfolding? Where am I searching for final answers instead of accepting cycles, seasons, and mystery? Additionally, include how this retrograde connects to my natal Sun and Moon in relation to that house."