Planet
Jupiter
Where the chart expands, and where it overdoes it.
- Speed
- about a year in each sign
- Retrograde
- once a year, for about four months
- Rules
- Sagittarius and Pisces
- Keywords
- growth · faith · excess
Jupiter enlarges whatever it touches. In a natal chart that reads as the area of life where things come more easily, where confidence is native and where generosity costs you nothing, and equally where you have no natural brake.
A year in each sign makes it the first of the slow planets: people born within months of each other share it, so it says as much about a cohort as an individual. Its return every twelve years is one of the few cycles you can feel arriving.
Where to go next
Right now
Where Jupiter stands at this hour is on the sky today, with every other body beside it.
When it turns
Whether Jupiter is retrograde today, and when it next stations, is on the retrograde tracker, computed rather than copied from a table.
In your chart
Where it stood the day you were born: cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.