Wizard Weekly by Daniel Giamario | April 5, 2026 |
On this Easter Sunday, April 5, at 3:23PM PDT, the Sun squares Jupiter at 16Cancer08. This marks a critical turning point within the larger Jupiter in Cancer cycle, a crisis in consciousness.
What is this crisis? And what is this larger initiatory process?
Jupiter in Cancer
Jupiter has often been referred to as the “year star”. As he takes an average of 11.5 years to orbit the Sun, Jupiter takes about a year to move through one whole sign. In China, Jupiter’s movement through their 12 constellations on the celestial equator was the original version of their 12 signs as we know them in Chinese astrology today. The researcher Thomas Tao has found evidence that this attention to Jupiter was the earliest known source of the “twelveness” that has become so foundational to astronomy, astrology and number systems.
Jupiter entered the sign of Cancer last June 9, 2025. The conjunction with the Sun was on June 24, 2025, at 3Cancer21. This was the “seed point” for the intent of this year-long process.
Here are its key punctuations:
- June 09 2025: Jupiter enters Cancer
- June 24 2025: Sun conjunct Jupiter, 03Cancer21 – Cancer seed point
- October 16 2025: Sun waxing square to Jupiter, 24Cancer06 – Crisis in Action
- January 10 2026: Sun opposition to Jupiter, 20Cancer06Rx – Expanded Consciousness or Lunacy
- April 5 2026: Sun waning square to Jupiter, 16Cancer 08 – Crisis in Consciousness
- June 29 2026: Jupiter enters Leo
- July 29 2026: Sun conjunct Jupiter, 06Leo24 – Leo seed point
What is this Crisis?
The meanings and connotations given for the word “crisis” have mutated and evolved over the centuries. In the Western world it started as a medical term referring to a turning point in a disease.
Here is the Greek root:
Greek krisis (act of separating, outcome, or decision)
If one uses current AI definitions we get this:
“A crisis is an unstable, dangerous situation or turning point causing significant disruption, often requiring urgent action or decision-making. It can stem from abrupt, negative events in personal life, economics, politics, or the environment. Key types include financial crashes, natural disasters, and conflict-driven shortages, like the 2026 Middle East crisis affecting global energy.”
In the astrological context, I have always, since the 1970s, used my first mentor Dane Rudhyar’s interpretation:
A waxing square is “Crisis in Action”
The waning square is a “Crisis in Consciousness.”
Both require action!
In case of the waxing square, this action is based on external events requiring some kind of reaction.
In case of the waning square, it is an action hopefully based on the awareness and expanded consciousness engendered by the opposition.
Surely you remember back in January, at the time of the opposition, Venus and Mars were in the underworld – the closest underworld saga of Venus and Mars in 400 years! You can read about it in this article or review my December 2025 vlog.
The current time can be thought of as a referendum as to whether global humanity learned anything. The actions taken now will reflect that.
Jupiter’s Amplification of Cancer
My favorite keywords for Jupiter are expansion, amplification, activation and enthusiasm. In the Shamanic Astrology Paradigm ™, Jupiter symbolizes planetary Dharma, and the sign he moves through is the primary Mystery School of Life amplified and activated during the year of Jupiter’s passage. The meaning of “Dharma”, as we use it, refers to the duty and responsibility each Mystery School has to Global Humanity. It is also what Global Humanity needs from each Mystery School.
So, what is the intention of Jupiter’s amplification of the Cancer Mystery School? And how is it going now that we’ve reached the “Crisis in Consciousness?”
The TOTAMS definition of the Cancer Mystery School is:
“How to provide responsible and personal nourishment and safety to a ‘seed’ until it reaches its maturity.”
This can apply to parent-child, teacher-student, therapist-client, and spiritual teacher-chela relationships. It has a giving nature and operates through the feeling function. Within recent patriarchal structures it has, all too often, been limited to clannish, family and country domains. This is Cancer’s shadow. What we need is a global vision for Cancer. This waning square is designed to motivate us to take action to expand the intent of Cancer to serve all of global humanity. This will require expanding beyond binary partisanship, beyond my team vs your team, my country vs another country. Blood feuds and all that smacks of “an eye for an eye” philosophies are now obsolete and in stark contradiction to the natural empathy of an authentic heart-centered human being.
This quote says it all:
“Only when the sense of the pain of others begins, does man begin.” Yevgeny Yevtushenko
This Cancerian crisis in consciousness is in play with the United States right now. The US has four planets in Cancer:
- Mercury at 24Cancer11RX
- Sun at 13Cancer19
- Jupiter at 5Cancer56
- and Venus at 3Cancer06.
Jupiter and Venus were in the underworld. The United States is now in its 20th Jupiter return.
Quite possibly the most powerful timeline split is upon us. Will the United States follow its dark shadow Cancer path? Or can a Great Awakening restore America to at least some of the original ideals of its Founders? Renewal, a renaissance, and resurrection are always possible. Let’s intend that this Easter!
Revisioning the Mystery Schools of Life
We will soon begin our new project titled Calling In The 12 Tribes. Starting with Cancer in June, together we will envision an expanded and evolved understanding of the 12 Tribes, the 12 Mystery Schools of Life. Watch our recent Equinox Seminar that introduces you to the project. And join us – more details coming soon!
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