Jupiter planet of Expansion, Good Fortune, Opportunity turns retrograde March 8th late in the day and will back pedal through the sign of Scorpio until July 10th.

When a planet turns retrograde it gives us the opportunity to review, re-evaluate, reconsider, revamp, basically all of the re's in the area the planet touches.

Jupiter in retro does NOT mean that there will be no good news, blessings, opportunities, food fortune afoot, it DOES mean that Jupiter in retrograde will be showing each of us what is standing in the way of these blessings.

What is standing in the way of you being the Source of the Miracles you seek.

What is standing in the way of the love, health, wealth, abundance, creativity, intuitive connection you desire.

What is standing in the way of the next steps of creation on your journey.

Jupiter is also connected with the astrological sign Pisces so this retro period may present with a deep spiritual component. You may be led to re-treat for meditation, perhaps sign up for a spirit journey or soul journey re-treat, practice silence for a period of days.

You may be led to a deeper meditation practice, more inner work, different kind of inner work process then you have been doing.

Foreign travel will have a pull along with foreign influences. Perhaps the answers you seek are not from a local health care practitioner but from one who lives halfway around the world and is accessible in person or via Skype. Or the love you want to create is with a person to lives in another country. Or that service provider you have been asking for lives in distant land.

Jupiter in retrograde is also asking you Does your inner world support the creations you want to see in tangible form in your reality? And the energy will help you to make any adjustments necessarily to make it so.

You may also notice a bit of a slow down in some area of life where there has been momentum. For instance a project you have been working on may slow down. Slow downs often happen during retrograde periods. There doesn't have to be a slow down just offering a heads up. Particularly since right about now Mercury is heading into shadow readying for its next Retrograde period coming up in a couple of weeks.

Also the shadow side of Jupiter in retro may appear for some. Where are you feeding Ego with extravagance and excess? This is the question I am being asked to put forth to you for contemplation. Jupiter is about blessings, opportunities, bounty... the flip side is excess. There is nothing wrong with having a lot of something and yet notice, is that excess coming from the heart's desire, the soul's desire or from Ego saying I want more. I want more then they have. I want more to feel better about myself. I want more because then I win and you lose. I want more because the one with the most toys wins.

As you see this once a year Jupiter in retrograde phase is perfectly poised to flush out more limitation and take us to new levels of our Earth Experience As Spirit Beings.