Brewer's: Jovial

Merry and sociable, like those born under the planet Jupiter, which astrologers considered the happiest of the natal stars.

“Our jovial star reigned at his birth.”

Shakespeare: Cymbeline, v. 4.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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