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Guru
Also written Jupiter · Brihaspati
Guru is Jupiter — the guru of the gods, and the natural great benefic of the chart. It signifies wisdom, higher learning, faith and dharma (right living), and it expands whatever it touches: knowledge, children, wealth, optimism.
It is the significator of the teacher, the counsellor, the priest — and, for a woman’s chart in classical texts, of the husband. A strong Jupiter is read as grace, generosity and good judgement; even afflicted, it tends to protect.
The slow-moving Jupiter takes about a year per sign, and rules the nakshatras Punarvasu, Vishakha and Purva Bhadrapada. Its day is Thursday, and Guru Purnima honours the teacher it represents.
In the modern pairing of planets with the chakras, Guru is paired with the sacral chakra (Svadhisthana).
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