Growth through partnership and fair dealing
Returns about every 12 years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Libra since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Dec 26, 2028
That is about 2 years away. Last time it was here from September 2017 to October 2018.
Right now Jupiter is in Leo →
Growth through partnership and fair dealing
Jupiter is the planet of growth, faith, teachers and good fortune. Libra is a cardinal air sign ruled by Venus: balance, fairness, contracts and partnership. Venus and Jupiter are not friends in the tradition, so Jupiter is generous here but not fully at ease, expanding relationships faster than it settles them.
The theme is alliance. Treaties are signed. Marriages, mergers and coalitions multiply. Justice is argued in public. The lesson is that fairness grows when it is extended to others, and that a partnership is a teacher of its own.
Which partnerships formed in this year, and what did they ask of each side?
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.
9 years ago
September 2017 to October 2018
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 Libra and read them against each other.
Born then: Gukesh Dommaraju, Sarah Toscano, Leonor, Princess of Asturias.
2005–06 leaned to culture and sport, 2017–18 to politics and society. 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 Libra, 355 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 27% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 31% | 29% |
| Science and space | 12% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 30% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 7% | 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.
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