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Jupiter - 6th generation

Ohrmazd

OHR-mazd · the wise lord · Jupiter

The name of Jupiter in your ancestral chart - the faith and worldview your deep ancestors handed down.

By Oksana Melnyk, Founder & Lead Researcher, Ancestral Astrology

The short answer

Ohrmazd is the Zoroastrian name for Jupiter, and in Horospire's ancestral system it names the sixth generation - your great-great-great-grandparents. Your Jupiter sign describes how you grow, what gives you meaning, and what you believe is worth pursuing. Read generationally, it is the faith and worldview that distant generation set running through the line.

Planet

Jupiter

Generation

6th

Stands for

Great-great-great-grandparents

Governs

Your Growth & Purpose

The definition

What is Ohrmazd in ancestral astrology?

Ohrmazd governs your growth, philosophy, and sense of meaning - the worldview your deep ancestors set in motion.

Your life philosophy, what gives you meaning, how you expand and grow, and the wisdom that shapes your sense of what is worth pursuing.

The planet

What does Jupiter govern?

Jupiter is the planet of expansion and meaning: your beliefs, your optimism, how you grow, and the wisdom that shapes what you think is worth doing. It is the chart's sense of the bigger picture.

The inheritance

What does Ohrmazd inherit from your great-great-great-grandparents?

As the sixth generation, Ohrmazd carries your great-great-great-grandparents. Jupiter's sign is where that generation's faith and philosophy still move through you - the family's sense of what life is for, its luck or its dogma, the story it told about meaning. It is inherited worldview, six generations deep.

How to read it

How do you read your Jupiter sign?

Read your Jupiter sign as an inheritance of belief. Ask which of your convictions about how life works you actually examined and which arrived as ancestral inheritance dressed as common sense - questioning them is how a handed-down faith becomes a chosen one.

Where does the name Ohrmazd come from?

Ohrmazd is the Middle Persian form of Ahura Mazda, the wise lord and supreme divinity of Zoroastrianism, traditionally identified with the planet Jupiter. The association of wisdom, benevolence, and expansive order maps onto Jupiter and onto the inherited philosophy of the deep ancestors. The mapping of the seven planets onto seven ancestral generations is Horospire's interpretive framework, rooted in the Zoroastrian Fravashi tradition, and offered as a reflective lens rather than proven science.

Find your Jupiter sign

Read your full birth chart to see the sign Jupiter occupied at your birth, then let Horospire interpret it as Ohrmazd - your 6th generation - alongside the other six.

Ohrmazd: FAQ

Ohrmazd is the Zoroastrian name Horospire gives Jupiter, the sixth of the seven ancestral generations. It stands for your great-great-great-grandparents. Your Jupiter sign describes how you grow and find meaning, read as the worldview that distant generation set running through your line.

Ohrmazd represents the 6th generation: your great-great-great-grandparents. Jupiter sits sixth in the seven-planet sequence, carrying the faith, philosophy, and sense of meaning handed forward from five generations before you.

Ohrmazd is the Middle Persian form of Ahura Mazda, "the wise lord", the supreme divinity of Zoroastrianism. He has traditionally been identified with Jupiter, the planet of wisdom, expansion, and benevolent order.

Ohrmazd is your Jupiter. In ancestral astrology the sign Jupiter occupied at your birth is read as the beliefs and worldview your great-great-great-grandparents passed down, not only as your personal optimism. Same placement, generational reading.

The other six generations