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Astrologer, Teacher, and Specialist in Childhood & Adolescent Astrology
Alex Trenoweth is an astrologer, educator, author, and one of the most respected voices in the field of childhood and adolescent astrology. With years of experience both as a practicing astrologer and as a classroom teacher, Alex brings a rare combination of real-world educational insight and astrological wisdom.
Her work focuses on how astrology can help us better understand children, teenagers, learning styles, development, and the emotional realities of growing up. Alex is especially known for her practical, intelligent, and often refreshingly honest approach to astrology — one that connects symbolism to everyday life in meaningful ways.
In this special Christmas episode of Backstage Astrology, Alex explores the role of Jupiter in the natal chart, especially in relation to children, learning, gifts, values, and generosity.
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What kind of Christmas gift truly supports a child’s growth?
In this warm and thought-provoking Christmas special, Alex Trenoweth returns to Backstage Astrology to talk about one of her favorite subjects: Jupiter. Together, we explore why Jupiter may be far more important than Mercury when it comes to learning, education, curiosity, and adolescence.
Alex explains how Jupiter expands the mind, deepens understanding, and helps children connect facts to meaning. From there, the conversation takes a festive turn as she walks us through Jupiter in each sign, offering ideas not just for what each placement might want, but what kind of gift might actually help them learn, mature, and grow.
This is not a shallow “gift guide.” It becomes something more profound: a reflection on how giving can become teaching, and how the holiday season can remind us that the most meaningful gifts are not always the most obvious ones.
Alex Trenoweth approaches astrology through the lens of both teaching and lived experience. Rather than treating astrology as abstract theory alone, she uses it as a practical tool for understanding how people learn, grow, and develop over time.
In this conversation, Alex makes a strong case for Jupiter — not Mercury — as the true planet of learning. Why? Because while Mercury may describe facts, repetition, and mental data, Jupiter describes meaning, expansion, curiosity, integration, and wisdom.
Her approach is grounded, educational, and deeply human. She asks not only what a person likes, but also what helps them grow beyond comfort and into character.
Alex’s journey stands out because she does not speak about children and education from theory alone. She has lived it in the classroom.
As both a teacher and an astrologer, Alex has spent years observing how children learn differently, how classrooms develop their own personality, and how astrology can offer language for those differences. Her work bridges the world of formal education and astrological understanding, making her one of the most unique voices in modern astrology.
That’s part of what makes this episode so compelling: Alex is not simply assigning meanings to Jupiter signs. She is speaking from decades of watching students respond, struggle, grow, and discover their strengths.
Why Jupiter is the real planet of learning.
The difference between Mercury as facts and Jupiter as meaning.
How children learn in groups and classrooms.
Why gift-giving can be a form of education.
Jupiter in each sign: what brings joy, growth, and challenge.
The shadow of overindulgence during the holidays.
Generosity, empathy, and learning through giving.
How astrology can help parents choose more meaningful gifts.
The deeper spiritual lesson of Christmas: it is in giving that we receive.
“Mercury is the little pieces of information. Jupiter expands that information.”
“It’s Jupiter that’s the planet of learning, not Mercury.”
“Think about, for all the Jupiter signs… it’s in giving that we receive.”
Books by Alex Trenoweth:
Growing Pains: Astrology in Adolescence.
Mirror Mirror: The Astrology of Famour People and the Actors who Portrayed Them.
Mentioned / Referenced in conversation:
Jupiter-Saturn cycle for education & development.
Child safeguarding / child protection frameworks (training is non-negotiable).
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What stayed with me most from this conversation with Alex is that she took something as ordinary as Christmas shopping and turned it into a reflection on character, growth, and meaning.
I think many people expect astrology to tell them what someone likes. But Alex goes deeper than that. She asks: What helps this person become more whole? What helps them stretch? What helps them learn?
That really moved me.
I also loved hearing her defend Jupiter as the true planet of learning. Not learning as memorizing facts, but learning as expanding your world, connecting the dots, and becoming wiser through experience. That feels especially meaningful when we think about children — and honestly, about ourselves too.
This episode reminded me that gifts are never just objects. They can be invitations. They can be mirrors. They can even be gentle corrections.
And maybe that’s the real beauty of this season: not how much we consume, but how much heart we bring into what we offer.
So, welcome back to another special Christmas special here at Backstage Astrology. I’m here with Alex Trenoweth. If you have followed the channel, you already know her. She’s been here with us before. Alex, welcome by the way. I know you’re an expert, you know, on astrology, childhood, and adolescence.
And I wanted to ask you what would be like not the perfect Christmas gift for our kids but you know somewhere in the middle. But we were talking before a little bit and I remember and you mentioned that Jupiter is the ultimate kind of like Santa Claus kind of like figure.
He is Jupiter basically because he brings you joy. He brings you exuberance. He’s kind of fat and jolly and he brings you what you want, which we kind of think of exactly what we think of of Jupiter. But you can go too far the other way and go for the overindulgence.
You know we all know what it’s like to eat too much Christmas dinner, right?
Yeah.
And slob around from the television watching whatever movies are on, right? And yeah we’re in Sagittarius season now.
Showing the new generations Home Alone again, the movie. But Alex tell us why Jupiter is so important not only in the chart but you know education childhood adolescence. Why Jupiter?
Okay so we teach children by year group so that means that each classroom has its own particular Jupiter because the children will be taught under this Jupiter sign and the teacher whether they realize this or not they kind of cater to their children the learning styles of the children in the classroom.
Now I have heard some astrologers talk about Mercury being the planet of learning and all I can say is good luck with that because I think Mercury is more to do with rote learning.
But not only that because Mercury stays so close to the Sun it is possible that you could have all 12 signs of Mercury in a classroom which makes it quite unusable for teaching.
Whereas Jupiter is only one or two signs to remember and it’s pretty easy to keep track of. So Jupiter is whereas Mercury is little pieces of information Jupiter helps you to expand that information.
It’s blows out the lesson and it gives children you know or students something to pique their interest. It gives them something to want to explore and to take to the next level. Whereas Mercury doesn’t really do that.
Mercury is more like repeating what it hears. It’s those little pieces of information. You know 1066 was the Battle of Hastings. That’s an example of Mercury learning. You just memorize a date you don’t understand.
The Jupiter learning is taking that information to look at how it builds throughout British history. You can look at the castles. William the Conqueror built the first castle and you can expand it into geography.
Whereabouts in England were those castles built? How did the castle structures change throughout history? How did warfare change throughout history? So you see Jupiter takes that little piece of knowledge and expands it.
It allows the student to have the freedom to explore that little bit of piece of information. So it’s Jupiter that’s the planet of learning, not Mercury.
Yes. I think anybody wants to fight me can.
No I mean you’re also a teacher. Come on. So you’re very familiar with education and then you’re an astrologer. So I think we have pretty much confidence that what you’re saying is the right thing.
But I think what I’m hearing is more like Mercury is more about facts maybe like the small data and keeping that information somewhere in your brain like in a drawer and Jupiter is more about integrating maybe that piece of information taking it somewhere else.
So Alex when we are choosing like a Christmas present for our kids or teenagers what would you say for those who have like Jupiter in a specific sign would that work first of all?
Yeah I mean I think a lot of astrologers would take Venus for making you happy to be a present. But see with Jupiter you can make everybody happy. You could choose a present that includes the whole entire family for example.
But I think that another thing that parents tend to reach for immediately these days are electronic games. You know used to be PlayStation or Game Boy or whatever but now it tends to be mobile phones apps games that you can play on your phone things like that.
Or gift cards that allow you to buy tokens to play your games or whatever. By the way I play Merge Dragons if anybody’s feeling generous.
Where is your Jupiter?
Oh my Jupiter is in Cancer which means that there’s nothing more I like to do than sit in bed with a packet of Cheez-Its next to me playing games. And don’t let me do that. Don’t let me do that. Get me out of the house.
As I get older I do enjoy a fine meal with people that I’m familiar with. I’m somebody who likes to be around familiar people.
If you’re going to give me a present I’d like to be with somebody that I know I’ve known for a while. Obviously things that I love history so things that allow me to look back in the past. I especially love culture looking at culture through history.
I’m interested in looking at old craftsmanship. To give you an example I recently learned how to churn my own butter.
And that’s been keeping me very entertained because now I’m into baking and I never used to be. So things that look back at the past and allow me to find my place in history and imagine how people lived 100 years ago really interest me.
So if we start at the start of the zodiac I can give you some examples of how I think each Jupiter sign works.
Yeah. Oh I love that. Thank you Alex. Well this was very helpful. Maybe people were expecting you to give us a list of presents but I think what you gave us is how can we learn through giving.
So I really really appreciate what you’ve done here. And Alex again you’re always welcome here to talk about anything. Please don’t forget about us.
So guys here it is. Alex thank you so much for this really quick Christmas special. However you celebrate Merry Christmas.
However you celebrate.
Thank you thank you and Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year.
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