First visit
- When
- May 2011 to May 2012
- How long
- 12 months
- Stories
- 52, mostly politics and society
Most covered
- Jul 20112011 Norway attacks
- Aug 2011Juno (spacecraft)
- Nov 2011Curiosity (rover)
- Feb 201284th Academy Awards
Growth that goes first
Returns about every 12 years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Aries since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Apr 6, 2035
That is about 8½ years away. Last time it was here from April 2023 to May 2024.
Right now Jupiter is in Leo →
Growth that goes first
Jupiter is the planet of growth, faith, teachers and good fortune. It expands whatever it touches. Aries is a cardinal fire sign ruled by Mars, Jupiter's friend: the impulse to begin, to lead and to act. The two agree, and the mood is bold.
The theme is confident expansion. New ventures start with faith in themselves. Leaders promise. The risk is growth that outruns caution. The lesson is that optimism is a resource, and that it needs direction to become achievement.
Which bold starts in this year grew, and which grew too fast?
Three questions, in this order. They work for every planet and every sign.
Pick a visit to read its record. The most covered stories come first; the kinds of story show as colours.
3 years ago
April 2023 to May 2024
Anyone born under a transit carries it in their birth chart. Those with a chart in our library open straight into it.
Too soon to tell. People born during this visit will appear here once they are grown and well known.
The same transit, a generation apart. Pick any two of Jupiter's visits to Aries and read them against each other.
2011–12 leaned to politics and society, 2023–24 to conflict and disaster. The same transit set the backdrop both times; what played out in front of it differed.
What made the news. Every story in the record for Jupiter's visits to Aries, 410 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 34% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 28% | 29% |
| Science and space | 11% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 27% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 7% | 10% |
Nothing here stands out from the usual mix by five points or more. That is a normal answer: a transit sets a tone, and the news keeps its own shape.