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Jupiter in Sagittarius

Jupiter at home: faith, law and the long road

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

Next visit

Feb 17, 2031

That is about 4½ years away. Last time it was here from March 2019 to November 2020.

Right now Jupiter is in Leo →

What Jupiter in Sagittarius means

Jupiter at home: faith, law and the long road

Jupiter
Growth, faith, teachers and good fortune.
Sagittarius
A dual fire sign, ruled by Jupiter. Fire signs act first and lead. A dual sign adapts and carries one phase into the next.
Comfort
At homeJupiter rules Sagittarius, so it is at home here.
Rhythm
Stays 13 months at a time. Returns about every 12 years.

Jupiter is the planet of growth, faith, teachers and good fortune. Sagittarius is a mutable fire sign that Jupiter rules: philosophy, law, teachers, religion and long journeys. The planet is at home here and works without strain.

The theme is meaning made large. Faiths gather. Laws are written for the ages. Universities and explorers set out. The lesson is that a good teacher points past themselves, and that the journey is the subject of the lesson.

What the tradition expects

  • Religious and legal landmarks, councils and charters
  • Universities, publishing and exploration
  • Confidence in principles, and the risk of preaching

Carry this into the record

Which principles declared in this year were lived up to afterwards?

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.

7 years ago

2019–20

March 2019 to November 2020

It crossed in and out of Sagittarius, so it was there three times:Mar 29 to Apr 22, 2019Nov 4, 2019 to Mar 29, 2020Jun 29 to Nov 20, 2020

In the news

20 of 74 stories
  1. Mar 3120192019 Ukrainian presidential electionPresidential election held in UkrainePolitics and society
  2. Apr 2120192019 Sri Lanka Easter bombingsA series of explosions in Sri Lanka across multiple cities on Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019Conflict and disaster
  3. May 72019Google I/OComputer software and hardware developer conference hosted by GooglePolitics and society
  4. May 142019Eurovision Song Contest 201964th edition of the Eurovision Song ContestCulture and sport
  5. May 262019El Viso del AlcorMunicipality of SpainPolitics and society
  6. Jul 222019Chandrayaan-2India's second lunar exploration missionScience and space
  7. Dec 1220192019 United Kingdom general electionElection to the 58th United Kingdom House of CommonsPolitics and society
  8. Jan 32020Assassination of Qasem Soleimani2020 US drone strike in Baghdad, IraqConflict and disaster
  9. Jan 82020Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752Flight shot down by Iranian armed forcesConflict and disaster
  10. Jan 312020BrexitWithdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European UnionPolitics and society

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 Sagittarius and read them against each other.

2007–08 leaned to culture and sport, 2019–20 to conflict and disaster. The same transit set the backdrop both times; what played out in front of it differed.

The pattern across 11 visits

What made the news. Every story in the record for Jupiter's visits to Sagittarius, 356 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.

Jupiter in SagittariusUsual mix
Kinds of news story during Jupiter's visits to Sagittarius, next to the usual mix since 1900
Kind of storyThese visitsUsual
Conflict and disaster31%35%
Politics and society31%29%
Science and space14%13%
Culture and sport24%24%
Treaties and agreements9%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 Sagittarius. That does not mean Jupiter caused them. The teaching above is what the tradition expects; the record is yours to weigh.