Every parent wants the best for their child – and that starts with understanding how they learn. In astrology, Jupiter is the planet of growth, wisdom, and confidence – qualities every child needs to thrive, whether they have a comprehensive, a private education or are home schooled. With its 12-year cycle, Jupiter offers a cosmic roadmap to your child’s educational development.
In Zeus on the Loose, teacher and astrologer Alex Trenoweth blends real-world classroom experience with astrological insight to help parents and educators tap into the powerful timing of Jupiter. Discover how to work with Jupiter’s rhythm to support your child through key learning milestones – from early education and tricky transitions to exams and higher learning. You may even find ways of unleashing your own inner thunderbolt.
Alex Trenoweth
Alex Trenoweth, MA, DFAstrolS, ISAR CAP Alex Trenoweth is an internationally recognised research astrologer and educator. She holds the...
Show moreZeus on the Loose: Unlock your Child’s Cosmic Superpower is a suitably exuberant title for an intriguing Jupiterian guide to junior development.
Written by teacher and astrologer Alex Trenoweth, it brings her knowledge of the classroom to bear on Jupiter in each sign and its journey from birth, toddler years and onto school through squares, oppositions, returns and the mid teen Saturn opposition Jupiter. With cogent thoughts on the ruler of each of the Jupiter signs.
Steve Judd writes in the foreword: “This book revels how Jupiter’s placement in the natal chart can illuminate a person’s learning style, motivation and educational needs. With practical guidance, symbolic depth, and cases of well-known individuals, it bridges astrology and education in a way that is both accessible and profound. Readers are guided through every Jupiter placement, learning how each sign shapes early development, major life transitions and philosophical growth.”
Using astrology as an educational tool, the author is on a mission to help parents and teachers understand childrens’ temperament and personality depending on when they were born. Her previous book Growing Pains: Astrology in Adolescence was met with appreciation especially for those working in education as a way to understand the differences between certain years of birth – and for at-risk children gleaning insight from their specific charts.
Marjorie Orr www.starforecast.com
If Jupiter is about ‘finding ways of pushing our limits and reaching for the sky,’ then Alex Trenoweth has given us a gem to encourage that aspiration. As the subtitle suggests, the book is geared towards understanding individual cycles of growth and development, with specific focus on children. What I like most is the author’s practicality and clarity in using astrology as a purposeful tool.
With Zeus on the Loose, the focus is on the planet Jupiter and its cycles. There are twelve chapters, each dedicated to Jupiter in a single sign, offering insight into the range of styles of individual learning, thinking and growth. One need not be a seasoned astrologer, or even a parent, to find practical value here. If you know the placement (sign and degree) of Jupiter in an individual’s chart, this is an easy-to-follow text. However, this is not simply a book of interpretations, it is much more than that. For each sign it is both general and specific, offering meaningful insights along with practical suggestions and guidance.
Although Jupiter can reside in any one of the twelve signs, there really is no limit to the ways in which one might approach learning and development. After all, we are all unique – our charts and our lives represent more than just our Jupiter – and other factors contribute to personal style. What this book does though, is suggest that with a focus on a single planet, the exploration of an individual’s style and preferences is an uncluttered and solid place to begin. Adding to the detail suggested by Jupiter’s sign placement, other planets are drawn into the dialogue. There is commentary on the Jupiter and Uranus sextile, Jupiter in opposition to Saturn, and the ruling planet of Jupiter’s sign, all adding depth and breadth to the overall picture. Interesting case studies serve to illustrate how Jupiter and its cycles are reflected in the individual journeys of famous figures, allowing us further insight into the potential path of learning and personal development.
Overall, the book is well organized and well written. Early on, in ‘A Note from the Author,’ there is a suggestion (with an exercise) to begin by considering the characteristics and related experiences of your own Jupiter before diving into the charts of others. To use the author’s own words, ‘By focusing on the planet of expansion, we open the door to endless possibilities—not just for knowledge, but for wisdom, understanding, and a fuller, more meaningful life.’ I recommend following the step-by-step exercise and walking through the process. You may be surprised by what you learn, or perhaps even reframe your understanding of your own developmental experience. Enjoy!
Jayne Logan for www.astrobookclub.com
Delighted to receive a copy of my friend Alex Trenoweth‘s brand-new book on astrological Jupiter, Zeus on the Loose. Like much of her existing body of published astrological writing, it’s greatly informed by her experience of working with children, as a professional teacher; and I always admire her courage for someone in that role where reputations can easily be damaged by the slightest perception of deviation from the values expected of educational role models to children, which in the UK’s conservatively scientific educational culture are expected to lean towards the rejection of any disciplines perceived by the scientific establishment as pseudosciences.
What’s more, there’s a particular focus within the pages of Zeus on the Loose upon Jupiter cycles experienced during childhood and youth, up to and including the second Jupiter Return at the age of 24. Thus, the book is unashamedly using astrology to help understand children and the major developmental experiences connected with elements of Jupiter’s cycle at different times in their early lives.
Alex is implicitly holding up a mallet to the stranglehold of the scientific orthodoxy upon educational values and shattering its opaque veneer, to open up new vistas upon childhood itself, seen through the lens of astrology. Again, I admire her courageous stand in boldly going where few teachers would dare. In this respect (and I hope she doesn’t mind me saying so), she personifies the expansive and optimistic values traditionally associated with Jupiter itself.
I think it can fairly be said that humour is also somewhat associated with Jupiter, and there’s a playfulness to the rhyming title ‘Zeus on the Loose’ that brings back memories of similar 20th-century memes such as ‘There’s a moose loose about this hoose’ (which actually makes sense if you know how people from parts of northern England pronounce ‘house’).
Philip Graves
