Jupiter in Aries

Aries is a house of Mars, yet Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) gives Jupiter a share of its triangle by night and shuts Mars out of the same group. Lilly 1659 agrees about the night rule and awards Jupiter the opening six degrees of Aries as terms. Jupiter therefore holds real standing, in the old books, inside a sign owned by another planet.

Raphael's Guide of 1877 gives this pair a middle stature, an oval face and a mild, polite temper. The planet symbols in the scan of that book are damaged, so the match of entry to planet was worked out from the fixed order of its list.

By Lilly's qualities Jupiter is hot and moist and Aries hot and dry, an agreement on heat alone. Modern popular astrology tends to speak of enthusiasm that leaps first and plans after, a phrase that belongs to modern writers. Jupiter needs twelve years for the zodiac on Lilly's figure, so the sign changes about once a year and everyone born within those months shares it.