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Jupiter in Leo

Generosity from the throne

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

Here now

In Leo until Jan 24, 2027

After it leaves, it will seem to drift backward for a while and return once more, Jun 25 to Nov 26, 2027.

Oct 31, 2026Jul 24, 2028

In LeoAway for a few months

What Jupiter in Leo means

Generosity from the throne

Jupiter
Growth, faith, teachers and good fortune.
Leo
A fixed fire sign, ruled by Sun. Fire signs act first and lead. A fixed sign holds and deepens.
Comfort
In a friend's signLeo is ruled by Sun, a friend to Jupiter, so Jupiter is at ease here.
Rhythm
Stays 13 months at a time. Returns about every 12 years.

Jupiter is the planet of growth, faith, teachers and good fortune. Leo is a fixed fire sign ruled by the Sun, Jupiter's friend: authority, performance, celebration and the self at the centre. The two agree, and the mood is grand.

The theme is leadership that gives. Ceremonies are large. Leaders are celebrated, sometimes beyond their merit. Confidence is contagious. The lesson is that a big heart and a big stage go well together, as long as the heart is in charge.

What the tradition expects

  • Celebrated leaders, big ceremonies and public confidence
  • Arts, performance and sport on a grand scale
  • Pride that is generous, and pride that is only loud

Carry this into the record

Which celebrations in this year honoured something real, and which were only spectacle?

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.

11 years ago

2015–16

July 2015 to August 2016

In the news

20 of 78 stories
  1. Jul 142015Iran nuclear dealInternational agreement on the nuclear program of IranPolitics and society
  2. Sep 2420152015 Mina crowd crushCrowd crush incidentPolitics and society
  3. Oct 312015Metrojet Flight 92682015 airliner bombingConflict and disaster
  4. Nov 132015November 2015 Paris attacksSeries of terrorist attacks in Paris, France, Europe, on November 13, 2015Conflict and disaster
  5. Nov 2420152015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdownShootdown of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft by Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jetsConflict and disaster
  6. Nov 3020152015 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceInternational climate change conference in Paris, France in November–December 2015Politics and society
  7. Dec 122015Paris Agreement2015 international treaty regarding climate changePolitics and society
  8. Feb 28201688th Academy AwardsAward ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 2015Culture and sport
  9. Mar 142016ExoMarsAstrobiology project to investigate the past habitability environment of MarsScience and space
  10. Mar 2220162016 Brussels bombingsAttacks of 22 March 2016Conflict 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 Leo and read them against each other.

2015–16 leaned to conflict and disaster, 2026–28 to politics and society. 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 Leo, 408 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.

Jupiter in LeoUsual mix
Kinds of news story during Jupiter's visits to Leo, next to the usual mix since 1900
Kind of storyThese visitsUsual
Conflict and disaster43%35%
Politics and society27%29%
Science and space8%13%
Culture and sport23%24%
Treaties and agreements10%10%

Gold numbers differ from the usual mix by five points or more. Wikipedia covers some kinds of story more than others, and a few visits are a small sample, so treat a difference as something to notice and check, not a rule.

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 Leo. That does not mean Jupiter caused them. The teaching above is what the tradition expects; the record is yours to weigh.