Sky history

Jupiter in Scorpio

Growth that goes deep

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

Next visit

Jan 24, 2030

That is about 3½ years away. Last time it was here from October 2018 to November 2019.

Right now Jupiter is in Leo →

What Jupiter in Scorpio means

Growth that goes deep

Jupiter
Growth, faith, teachers and good fortune.
Scorpio
A fixed water sign, ruled by Mars. Water signs feel and protect. A fixed sign holds and deepens.
Comfort
In a friend's signScorpio is ruled by Mars, 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. Scorpio is a fixed water sign ruled by Mars, Jupiter's friend: depth, secrets, research, shared money and transformation. The two agree, and Jupiter here digs rather than spreads.

The theme is depth rewarded. Investigations grow. Big finance moves. Hidden things come to light, and the light is generous rather than cruel. The lesson is that faith can go into dark places, and that what is found there can be a gift.

What the tradition expects

  • Investigations, research and the uncovering of what was hidden
  • Large-scale finance, inheritance and shared resources
  • Transformation taken on with confidence rather than fear

Carry this into the record

What came to light in this year, and who grew from it?

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

10 visits

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

8 years ago

2018–19

October 2018 to November 2019

It crossed in and out of Scorpio, so it was there twice:Oct 11, 2018 to Mar 29, 2019Apr 22 to Nov 4, 2019

In the news

20 of 74 stories

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 Scorpio and read them against each other.

Both visits had more politics and society stories than any other kind. The same transit can carry a similar tone a generation apart, or the record can simply reflect what gets written about.

The pattern across 10 visits

What made the news. Every story in the record for Jupiter's visits to Scorpio, 328 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.

Jupiter in ScorpioUsual mix
Kinds of news story during Jupiter's visits to Scorpio, next to the usual mix since 1900
Kind of storyThese visitsUsual
Conflict and disaster25%35%
Politics and society34%29%
Science and space15%13%
Culture and sport27%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 Scorpio. That does not mean Jupiter caused them. The teaching above is what the tradition expects; the record is yours to weigh.