Welcome to this meditation on Jupiter,
Luck,
Abundance and the Expanding Heart.
Find a comfortable position and allow yourself to take up a little more space than usual.
Let your shoulders be wide and your spine long.
Let yourself be larger than you often allow.
Take a big,
Generous breath,
The kind of breath you might not usually take.
Fill your lungs right to the top and then let it out slowly,
Completely,
Easily.
Take another.
Let it fill you all the way up,
Your chest and your tummy,
As much air as you can take in and then just relax and let it out in the knowledge that there's more.
And then one more conscious breath all the way in right to the top and then let it out and smile.
We are working with Jupiter today.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and energetically it is the most expansive.
Jupiter governs growth,
Good fortune,
Opportunity and the quality of generous openness that draws good things towards us.
Jupiter is sometimes called the great benefic.
It's the bringer of luck.
But here's the truth about luck.
It's not something that happens to certain people and not others.
It's a quality of attention,
A quality of readiness.
Luck lives in the person who's paying attention,
Who says yes to the unexpected opening,
Who does not shrink when opportunity asks them to step forward.
Bring your awareness to the space around your heart,
Your chest and your ribcage.
Notice whether that space feels open or contracted.
Neither is wrong,
No judgment,
Just notice.
Now imagine breathing directly into that space.
Each inhale gently widens the ribcage,
Creating a little more room inside,
As if your heart is a room and you are throwing open the windows.
Light coming in,
Air moving,
Something fresh.
Jupiter asks,
What would you welcome if you truly believed you were allowed to have it?
Ignore the cautious answer.
We don't want the one tempered by past disappointments or the voice that says be careful you'll jinx it.
Let yourself open up to the real answer,
The one that you truly want.
The one that lives underneath the sensible answer.
Let it form in your mind.
Don't judge it.
Don't make it smaller.
Jupiter energy does not respond well to smallness.
It responds to the broad,
Generous gesture of someone who is willing to imagine something wonderful.
So frame the question again.
What would you welcome if you truly believed you were allowed to have anything?
Now let's expand this into the body.
Imagine a warm golden light beginning at the center of your chest and expanding outwards.
Slowly in all directions,
Out to the edges of your body and beyond the edges of your body,
Filling the space around you like a soft golden field.
You are not grasping at abundance.
You are becoming the kind of space that abundance can move into.
Notice the difference.
One is tense and effortful,
But the other one,
You,
Now,
Open,
Warm and inviting.
As you breathe,
Feel that space full of golden,
Warm light.
Generosity pouring in from all directions.
Jupiter teaches us that generosity is magnetic.
When we give freely,
When we celebrate others' good fortune rather than contracting with envy,
When we share what we have,
We signal to the universe that we believe there is enough,
And that belief calls in more.
Think of one person in your life whose joy you can celebrate today.
Send them a warm thought.
Let their flourishing feel like evidence that flourishing is possible.
It is not finite.
There's room for everyone.
There is enough for everyone.
And as we bring this practice to a close,
Carry that open,
Golden feeling with you.
Jupiter is a planet of trust.
Trust that the right things find their way to you.
Trust that your life is allowed to be spacious and good.
Trust that the universe is,
At its core,
Open.
On your side.
Bring yourself gently back to your physical space.
And when you're ready,
Open your eyes and go about your day filled with warmth.
Thank you so much for sharing your space with me today.
Have a wonderful day.
