HOLE #12: Do you know the difference between gambling and taking a risk ?

Jupiter leaves Cancer and walks into Leo this week => out of the water, into the fire and onto the stage. From Moon territory to the Sun. And the question that comes with that move is risk.

In Hole #12 > I go down the rabbit hole of risk taking. I talk about the difference between a bet and a wager. And why doing the work first is what earns you the jump. And about that voice that says "I'm not ready" = sometimes it's true, sometimes it's just fear.

Jupiter in Leo, the 5th house, gambling and faith. 

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This is the Uranian rabbit hole, and I'm Barrett. I'm an astrologer, and what I actually do is hand people a flashlight and point it at themselves. This is a voice from the dark. Come on in. I'm figuring out where the light switch is myself. Alright, hello again and welcome to this rabbit hole number 12. 12 in astrology is a very important number because you know the 12 signs da, the 12 houses. And I'm mini proud that I did 12 weeks in a row, one episode per week for you of this rabbit hole podcast. And if you like it, if you like what I'm talking about, how I'm talking about astrology, if it touches you, if it helps you, then hit the subscribe button and also rate the podcast and share it because it helps me not only grow but also to go on motivated for you. Also, liking and sharing and cheering me up is a very Jupitarian gesture. And this week is all about Jupiter. So how um convenient. Jupiter changes signs and moves from cancer into showy Leo. It happens on June 30th, and we can talk about a lot of things with both Jupiter and Leo in astrology and what it means, right? If the so-called lucky planet, namely Jupiter, enters the sign of Leo, of show business, of shine, of also joy, right? Of expression, of self-expression. But I'm gonna pick one topic only. So we don't get lost in the Jupiterian, you know, more, more, more. I'm gonna pick one topic and it's called risk taking. And the whole luck thing involved in it. I want to talk about gambling. And since we do rabbit hole style here, meaning we're going deep, I don't want to do the cheap version of, you know, just take a leap of faith and the universe has your back. I want to talk about the art of risk taking, because I think that there is an art to it. And I will try to explain what I mean and how it can also maybe help you to use this Jupiter and Leo transit, it's gonna last a whole year, in your favor and in a joyful, life-affirming way. Jupiter and Leo. So let's go down the rabbit hole together. And I want to start with the actual move that Jupiter does from cancer into the next sign. I mean, Jupiter kind of has no choice but to jump, but let's use this image anyway. As a move he does from one energy, from one sign into the next one. And let's call it taking a risk. Jupiter leaves cancer, and cancer is a place where he has stayed cozy in for one whole year. Cozy literally, because cancer equals coziness. Cancer is a water sign, it's feeling territory, it's ruled by the moon, emotional, right, and inward-oriented, embracing nurturing energy. It's the private, soft place where you go to like to a safe haven, a sanctuary to feel self, not self, that's Leo, to feel safe and held and nurtured. The moon is the planet that takes it all in, and Cancer is ruled by the moon. So Jupiter in Cancer has amplified this, taking it all in, this emotionality, the inward emotionality, I want to say. And now Jupiter walks out of there into the next sign, and that sign is Leo. And Leo is a fire sign ruled by the sun. And the sun does the opposite of the moon. The sun doesn't take in, right? The sun pours out light and and warmth and energy, and it's it's outward-oriented yang, we say, energy. It's a masculine or yang sign. Like all the fire signs, by the way. Fire signs, air signs, yang energy, outward-oriented, and the water and earth signs are inward-oriented energy. So check what just happened there. The two luminaries, right? Sun and moon, the big lights of our whole universe, also of our chart. And Jupiter just stepped from being in one territory in Cancer, in moonland, out into the other. Out of the water, Cancer into the fire. Out of the moon into the sunlight, literally. And from this inside Cancerian emotional safe place, yin into the fire sign of Leo, the sun, the light, the young energy. Kind of from feeling into you know expressing that feeling. Like, you know, the moon happens at night. I'm not gonna say that cancer, I don't know, likes to stay in the in the dark, but they like to be at home and more internal, right? But Leo wants to stand on the freaking famous stage with all the lights on them. We don't know if they want to or if they just do it. We're talking archetypes here, energies, right? But Leo is fire on the stage. And the question that comes with that move is risk. A creative kind of risk, right? Like to be in this light, in the spotlight. Or actually, we can take it even one step further, to be the light. Leo is the sun. Leo is the light. But you know, as we know, or anybody who has done any kind of theater performance in any kind of way, in any stage, and it can be the stage of just doing a little speech at the family dinner, a jump onto the stage, into the spotlight, Leo's job, can make you look like a fool. Or at least can make you feel as if you look like a fool. This image of a trapeze flyer comes to my mind. As he, you know, when when Jupiter moves from cancer into Leo and kind of takes this risk. This trapeze flyer that swings from one bar and lets go at one point to catch the other. Now, I don't know, is that a risk? I mean, Jupiter as a trapeze flyer doesn't really know what awaits him, right? Or does he? I just want to keep the image for our story about the risk taking as being this trapeze flyer, like Jupiter right now, and letting go of the known, of the familiar, and jumping onto the next handle, grabbing the next handle and then landing there in the new territory. In Jupiter's case, in Leo. In astrology, we call Jupiter the great benefic, meaning the lucky one. They talk about growth, abundance, and this, you know, this famous more, more, more. Jupiter is the planet that always says yes. And a yes makes things bigger. Jupiter rules over one of my favorite signs, Sagittarius. And if you see someone with a lot of Sagittarius and you actually look at their smile, it is always big. Almost like a horse. It's big, it's gigantic. Anyways, wherever Jupiter goes, that part of your life inflates, gets bigger, gets generous, and literally opens up. And we did talk about that before, right? Also, Jupiter is your faith. He helps you to be optimistic and have faith or trust that the things work out. He's kind of you know a positive thinker in a way. And when overdone, he can be idealistic almost to a thought. And also Jupiter is meaning. He wants to give life meaning or he wants to have or find the meaning in whatever he touches. And also, Jupiter is the famous risk taking, the theme of our rabbit hole today. Why is that? Maybe it's because he just trusts. He trusts, Jupiter trusts that things will turn out his way. Remember, idealistic. And because of this trust, he is more willing to actually jump, like our little trapeze flyer. Jupiter is the philosopher and the gambler, both in the same body, which is a strange and somehow perfect combination, right? If you think about it. Because both of them, the philosophy guy and the gambler, are more or less doing the same thing. They're betting on something that they cannot really prove. Faith in a way is a bet, isn't it? Because we don't know. That's why it's called faith. So Jupiter is not just this pure luck, he is also the willingness to leap towards something you believe in. To make this jump into the risk because you believe in it, in the risk, in yourself, in the thing, in the good outcome. In that whatever it is that you jump for is worth the damn jump, is worth the risk. It's really like Jupiter is like a positive drive guiding you. As we already have said, he has been in the sign of Cancer. Jupiter is actually exalted in cancer. Exalted means a planet is basically at its best, doing like its thing full capacity. And he did the cancer thing. He hopefully was growing our inner world and expanded Jupiter world, our sense of home and belonging, of caring, of nurturing also ourselves and others. I mean again, hopefully he did that. We had one year to feel this Jupiter in Cancer energy. And now he leaves all of that. He leaves this inner territory. We had the example of this leaving the water, the warm water, actually, cancer, and onto his little Leo stage. And Leo, as we said earlier, is the outward-oriented energy, the sun, the showing up, actually showing up yourself, your art, your creativity, spark, whatever your voice, your face, right? Out in the field, out on the stage, out in the world. This energy of Jupiter in Leo almost feels like a big megaphone and/or big spotlight that they hand to you. And in the user's manual it says, now show us what you've got. And that's a big shift in temperature from water to fire, from moon to sun, in a way from night to day, from safe at home to being seen out there. And it's just, you know, one is not better than the other. It is always just the next move. You don't stay in one harbor forever. So time for a little trapeze jump for all of us. Right? I don't know. Okay, the art of risk taking, or the art of risking. And actually, we can interpret Jupiter in Leo as the ideal time to take a risk, because Leo governs over gambling. Next to joy and self-expression and romance, not to forget, because Leo is the fifth house, and the fifth house is gambling, and joy and romance, etc. And in a way, so is Jupiter. Jupiter rules, as we said before, over gambling. So again, this is your time. If not now, then when will you jump? And be brave and bet on yourself, on your art. And bet big, right? And throw this thing or yourself out there and just trust and yeah, trust. But to me, that version feels a little bit iffy and a little bit too naive. That version is you on the edge of something high, but your eyes a little bit too blue or a little bit too shut, or the glass is a little bit too pink. When you just bet that the universe will catch you because you want it to. And I don't know. Maybe that works, and maybe I'm just a Capricorn who doesn't buy into it, and therefore will maybe never get to experience it. And part of that might be true, but I don't know, a nice little reality check now and then is not a bad idea. So the art of risk taking to me goes like this. There is a difference between let's call it a bet and a wager. A bet, at least the way I mean it, is pure luck, pure chance. You put the money down on the casino table and you pray that the luck decides in your favor, but the damn dice don't care about you. They just roll and then luck shows up or doesn't. You're more or less just a spectator. And that's this naive, you know, jump and you will be lucky version. And wager is something else. A wager is when you've already done the work, like you know your craft because you practiced the thing in the dark for years and years, and nobody clapped. So now you're not even betting on whether you can do it, because you know that you can. What you actually put down on this table is whether they will receive it, whether you know it lands for them, whether you get this applause thing. And that you genuinely cannot control, and that is the risk. That's the real risk. But you've earned the right, quote unquote, to take the risk because the craft underneath is solid. You're not just jumping and hoping, you're jumping and you know that you have done enough for luck to come your way. There is like a fair chance, I want to even say, that luck will land. It's jumping anyways, but without the rose-colored glasses on. A bet is kind of risking your luck, and a wager is just risking your art, your work, and the appreciation of it. If that makes sense. And I think that is the whole secret, not the whole secret, but one of the secrets of Jupiter in Leo. So the the art of the risk might be to do two things or to combine two traits, two personalities. Preparing like a careful person, and then having the nerve of a reckless person. Your work or your craft plus your jump is the magic trick, right? You need both. Because just the work without your jump will just sit there somewhere in your desktop, perfect maybe, but unseen. And if you just jump without knowing what you're doing, without the craft underneath, you're just falling or being naive about it, I think. The art is to marry them both. If you think back to the trapeze flyer, like a trained body on the trapeze, trained in the gym every day, right? And he flies and then he lets go of the bar. You know, he has faith and a bit of adrenaline, but he has also the strength, the strong hand to grab the next bar and land securely. And now the tricky part, because of course there's a tricky part. How do you know when you are ready? Right? What about the little voices in your head going, I'm not ready yet? And sometimes that is the truth, and you genuinely need more time in the gym, if we think about the trapeze flyer, or in your art studio, or whatever craft it is that you're practicing. And sometimes this little I'm not ready voice is just your fear, and you will keep saying it forever because there actually is no such thing as ready enough to feel safe. And yes, says a professional Capricorn. So Jupiter in Leo asks you for faith and risk taking, yes. But you have to feel inside yourself and feel the difference, and you have to be honest, because you know those inner voices are just tricky, and we all know them. Personally, I think I will. Use or I feel the Jupiter in Leo coming as a am I ready? I'm recording this podcast, you know, cozy in my office without a camera pointed at me, and I can look at my notes while I talk to you. I don't have to speak super freely in a camera. Am I ready to do this yet? I don't know. Maybe I have to practice a little bit. Remember, this is uh rabbit hole number 12. So maybe I have to practice a little bit in my gym on my computer, talking into my microphone without the camera on before I am ready to jump and press the on button on the camera. You will see it or not see it. And I have one year of Jupiter in Leo, you know, giving me his hand or inviting me to feel into this and be honest. Right now I'm not ready to jump. I'm still kind of practicing on my little trapeze, and thank you for bearing with me. And one more thing, because um I don't want to skip this step, and it's also kind of the heart of Jupiter. Faith, this big word, and I want to make clear in the name of Jupiter that faith is not certainty, and people, maybe Capricorns, mix it up. I mean, I do for sure. I want to feel sure before the damn leap, but that's not faith. Not a hundred percent, right? And Jupiter won't hand you this faith either. Because faith is exactly the thing that you reach for when certainty is not available. That's the trick. You prepare as much as you can, right? You build the craft, you go to the gym, and then there is still this damn gap, this moment of nothing. Where if we think of the trapeze artist, this poor guy lets go of the first bar before the second one is in his hand. There is a second, maybe two, where he's holding on to neither of the bars. And for this one heartbeat, he's just in the air. And all he has is faith, and the faith in the work he put in in the gym, in his body, in his art, in his craft. And you know, the Cirque de Soleil show never tells you in advance whether the trapeze artist will catch the handle. I think so far they have, hopefully, right? But you don't get to know. And that's not a flaw in the whole trick. That is the trick. That is the trick of faith. Yeah. The second, this one second in the air is the risk, and you cannot train that away, unfortunately. And maybe this Jupiter in Leo transit is the planet of faith and the sign of Leo coming to you to ask you to trust that you've done your part in the department of the arts, of self-expression, and invite you to let go into the second you cannot prepare for. And finding out is I want to say the invitation, the deal. I mean, the art of risk taking is not removing it altogether, right? That would be lame. The art is to take it anyways. So here's what I think about and what I would encourage you to think about this week, or actually this whole year, while Jupiter is in Leo, but maybe this week, especially while Jupiter makes this daring jump into Leo. And yes, by the way, you can check your Leo placements, the Leo placements of your chart, and all the fixed placements, fixed signs, which are Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Taurus. But you can also just sit with this energy of the art of gambling, the art of risk taking that we talked about. So what's the thing you keep saying you're not ready for? And why? And be honest with yourself. Do you actually really need more time and more practice, or are you just scared? And this not ready is just the excuse that kind of keeps you hanging in the waiting loop, like on the old trapeze line. And then another question: if you took the risk and nobody clapped, would that still have been worth doing? That's a tough one, right? And be honest, because if the answer is no, then maybe it wasn't all so much about your art at all. And you were just betting on the damn crowd, on the applause, the likes and hearts, and that's human and that's okay, but that can go low road Leo because we know that the crowd, the appreciation, the applause is the one thing we cannot control, no matter how hard we practice. And betting on what you cannot control would be just this gambling with the dice in the casino. That was your rabbit hole. That was number 12. And I hope, I really hope you found something down here that's worth keeping, maybe even for a year. Again, if you like it, share it, comment, and send some Jupiter this way. And now we go back up into the light.

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So let's go back up into the light.