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Jupiter in Cancer

Jupiter at its strongest, in the sign of home

Returns about every 12 years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Cancer since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.

Away for now

Jupiter is in Leo right now

It will seem to drift backward for a while and return to Cancer from Jan 24 to Jun 25, 2027.

Oct 18, 2025Jun 25, 2027

In CancerAway for a few months

What Jupiter in Cancer means

Jupiter at its strongest, in the sign of home

Jupiter
Growth, faith, teachers and good fortune.
Cancer
A movable water sign, ruled by Moon. Water signs feel and protect. A movable sign starts things.
Comfort
ExaltedJupiter is exalted here: this is its strongest sign.
Rhythm
Stays 13 months at a time. Returns about every 12 years.

Jupiter is the planet of growth, faith, teachers and good fortune. Cancer is a cardinal water sign ruled by the Moon, Jupiter's friend: home, mother, nourishment and belonging. The tradition calls Jupiter exalted here, at its best, because care is the highest form of generosity.

The theme is protection that grows. Nations tend their own. The vulnerable are fed and housed. Belonging widens. The lesson is that a good year is measured by who was looked after, and that generosity begins at home and should not end there.

What the tradition expects

  • Care for the vulnerable, housing and the welfare of families
  • Nations and peoples asserting belonging and homeland
  • Teachers and faiths that nourish rather than instruct

Carry this into the record

Who was protected or provided for in this year, and by whom?

How to read any transit

Three questions, in this order. They work for every planet and every sign.

  1. How comfortable is the planet here?Exalted, at home, in a friend's sign, or debilitated. Comfort sets whether the planet's themes come easily or have to be worked for.
  2. Which house is it in, for you?The same sign is a different house for every rising sign. The house says which part of life the transit touches: money, home, work, partners.
  3. What else was in the sky?A slow transit sets the backdrop. The other slow planets, and the eclipses, say what played out in front of it. No single transit explains a year.

Every visit since 1900

11 visits

Pick a visit to read its record. The most covered stories come first; the kinds of story show as colours.

12 years ago

2014–15

June 2014 to July 2015

In the news

20 of 65 stories
  1. Jun 252014Google I/OComputer software and hardware developer conference hosted by GooglePolitics and society
  2. Jul 1320142014 FIFA World Cup final2014 FIFA World Cup matchCulture and sport
  3. Jul 172014Malaysia Airlines Flight 17Passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala LumpurConflict and disaster
  4. Jul 242014Air Algérie Flight 5017Flight crashed on July 24, 2014Conflict and disaster
  5. Sep 132014Siege of Kobanî2014 battle in the Syrian Civil WarConflict and disaster
  6. Sep 1820142014 Scottish independence referendumVote on the independence of Scotland from the United KingdomPolitics and society
  7. Nov 920142014 Catalan self-determination referendumVote on independence on one of the regions of SpainPolitics and society
  8. Nov 122014Nagoya ProtocolGlobal treaty on biological diversityPolitics and society
  9. Dec 32014Hayabusa2Japanese asteroid sample-return spacecraftScience and space
  10. Dec 1620142014 Peshawar school massacreTerrorist attack on the Army Public School in the Pakistani city of PeshawarConflict and disaster

Born during this visit

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.

Compare two visits

The same transit, a generation apart. Pick any two of Jupiter's visits to Cancer and read them against each other.

2014–15 leaned to politics and society, 2025–27 to conflict and disaster. The same transit set the backdrop both times; what played out in front of it differed.

The pattern across 10 visits

What made the news. Every story in the record for Jupiter's visits to Cancer, 354 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.

Jupiter in CancerUsual mix
Kinds of news story during Jupiter's visits to Cancer, next to the usual mix since 1900
Kind of storyThese visitsUsual
Conflict and disaster34%35%
Politics and society32%29%
Science and space11%13%
Culture and sport23%24%
Treaties and agreements10%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.

The stories and people come from Wikipedia. We show the ones written about in the most languages, a rough measure of how widely they are known. Tap any of them to read more.

These things happened while Jupiter was in Cancer. That does not mean Jupiter caused them. The teaching above is what the tradition expects; the record is yours to weigh.