Astrology of Jupiter in Cancer 2025 - 2026

Jun 2

Jupiter is gearing up to enter a new sign, water sign Cancer, and this begins a whole new Jupiter cycle. Jupiter spends about one year in each Zodiac sign, and takes about twelve years to go through the entire Zodiac. Unlike other planets - looking at you Saturn! - Jupiter is a beneficial planet and brings opportunities, optimism, and new experiences. Onward!

Entrances & Exits for Jupiter in Cancer:

Enters Cancer June 9th 2025 @ 5:01PM ET/2:01PM PT
Exits Cancer on June 30th 2026 @ 1:52AM ET/June 29th 2026 @ 10:52PM PT

General Impact of Jupiter in Cancer:

Jupiter is the planet of expansion in astrology. In your natal chart, Jupiter shows the areas of life where you can expand and explore and pursue new experiences based on the house it’s located, and how you go about that based on the sign it’s in.

With transit (moving) Jupiter, this expansive energy is available to all of us all at once. This is super positive! No hard lessons to learn, no blocks to overcome, no baggage to release, no hard times to endure. Jupiter wants everything to be easy and breezy and light. We’re more open and ready for adventure with Jupiter.

In general, Jupiter in Cancer focuses on what Cancer rules: the home and family, emotion, and foundations. The home and family gets top priority, and we can be more invested in improving our home lives in some way. For some, this can mean moving is in the cards, or you may opt to do some remodeling and renovating, or redecorating.

Changes can also come at home involving people moving in or out, like a kid going off to college - or coming back home! Or getting new roommates, or living alone for the first time. Jupiter likes space, so any changes that occur at home and with our living environment may end up giving us more space in some way.

Expansion can also involve our family, and we can see new family members added in - kids being born, relatives getting married. We may try to make more time for family, or for those we think of as family, as well. This can include things like family vacations, or family reunions.

Cancer rules emotions, and with Jupiter being the planet of optimism, we can be much more emotionally optimistic with Jupiter in Cancer. We want to focus on the bright side of situations and not get stuck in serious emotions. This can help us get out of jams, but we do have to be mindful of just trying to avoid the serious when it actually needs our attention.

Cancer is the very bottom of the Zodiac, so it also relates to foundations - of ourselves, our lives, projects, and plans. We can focus on strengthening our internal foundations, the foundations we’re building our lives on, and the foundations of what we’re building. This can also be a time where many of us are starting something from the ground up.

All of this may focus on the areas of life ruled by the house(s) in your natal chart where Jupiter in Cancer will tour. Those areas can be ones where you’re emotionally optimistic, strengthening foundations, making family-like connections, or starting from the bottom.

Some Good and Some Bad for Jupiter in Cancer:

Jupiter will immediately be square (3 signs away) Saturn and Neptune in Aries (exact June 15th 2025 for Saturn and June 24th 2025 for Neptune) as soon as it enters Cancer, so right off of the bat, we may have some challenges with accessing the expansive optimism, helpful changes at home, or strong foundations with Jupiter in Cancer.

Saturn is restrictive while Neptune dissolves, so these two forming challenging aspects to Jupiter cuts off Jupiter’s energy at the onset. With Saturn, we may have to deal with something that requires more discipline and hard work, and opportunities and expansion have to take a back seat. With Neptune, we may struggle with focus, are rundown, or need to address some karmic, spiritual, or subconscious baggage first.

Early on, a Cancer New Moon occurs on June 25th 2025 that is conjunct (aligned with) Jupiter. This does provide some beneficial energy for new beginnings and new ventures since New Moon are times to start new with something, and the alignment with Jupiter brings great luck for this.

The Cancer New Moon can help us take the initiative to make improvements at home, spend time with family, become more positive emotionally, or start from the ground up with a new project or venture. So, the squares aren’t all bad and we do have really helpful energy available to us with this New Moon. We just need to make sure we’re doing things the right way and for the right reasons with Saturn, and shedding what we no longer need with Neptune.

There will be a cardinal t-square August 6th to October 22nd 2025 with Mars in Libra opposing Neptune and Saturn in Aries, and all square Jupiter in Cancer, forming a t-square. Plus Ceres, a dwarf planet ruling nourishment, support, and resources, will be retrograde in Aries starting August 11th - oy, the energy!

This is likely to be a challenging period. Cardinal t-squares are full of activity, and this needs to be directed in a positive way and productively, otherwise it can lead to big problems. We’re likely to see more violence in the world, unfortunately. With Jupiter being the squared planet in Cancer, it’s getting all of the attention, so we can see more internal divisions in countries and attacks from within as this is ruled by Cancer.

Individually, we may get too caught up in our own emotions at times, and become overly subjective. We can’t see the forest from the trees, and refuse to open our minds and listen. We may take things too far emotionally, and use our feelings as an excuse for bad behavior, recklessness, or selfishness.

We’re likely lacking in objectivity, and don’t want to take a step back to see the whole picture. We’d rather stay caught up in our feelings and lash out irrationally.

The way to properly deal with t-squares is via the missing sign, the sign that opposes the squared planet, which is Capricorn for this t-square. We need to be more disciplined, structured, responsible, and pay attention to the long game. On a personal level, you’ll need to apply this to the areas of life ruled by the house in your natal chart where Capricorn lies and Jupiter opposes.

For an oddity: Mercury will turn retrograde (appear to move backward) in Cancer about 12 hours before Jupiter exits Cancer, so right at the end! This means, if we’re not careful, we may come out of this Jupiter in Cancer period having to clean up the mess we’ve made.

We have to make sure we’re being mindful of our actions and choices, and doing things right at home, personally, and internally, otherwise we may come out of Jupiter in Cancer with bigger problems than we realize.

Jupiter Returns for Jupiter in Cancer:

A return occurs when a transit body returns to the exact position it was at when you were born, and tends to be a big deal for whatever that body rules. Jupiter returns roughly every 12 years, and is super beneficial!

Very different from Saturn, which comes with hard lessons and challenges, Jupiter Returns are instead all about opportunities for expansion, exploration, and new experiences. Often, your Jupiter Return comes with a wonderful opportunity that can be transformative in the best way possible.

For Jupiter in Cancer, this can focus on improvements in your home and family life that helps you tremendously, and you can feel so much more positive emotionally. There can also be opportunities for you to start at the bottom with something big, and it can be something you build on for the next decade of your life.

The Jupiter Return doesn’t last as long as the Saturn Return does, so you’re usually only going to get access to this beneficial energy for a few weeks. Look for when it’s coming, and make the most of it.

Jupiter in Cancer for the Zodiac Signs:

For Aries, Jupiter in Cancer highlights your home and family life, and you have the greatest opportunity to make improvements at home, with family, or emotionally. You may need more space at home or emotionally, and don’t want to feel stifled. You can focus on starting something from the ground up that ends up reaching big heights in about 6 years.

For Taurus, Jupiter in Cancer stimulates your mind, and you can suddenly have a lot more ideas, plans, opinions, and information. You may become interested in learning something new, and can share lots of news, get and give advice, and love to gossip. You can be more engaging, more expressive, and much more active.

For Gemini, Jupiter in Cancer means Jupiter exits your sign, and you’ve been benefiting from Jupiter in Gemini for the last year. Jupiter leaving your sign slows down the expansion, and you can focus on opportunities to ground yourself and all you’ve experienced, and to bring stability and security into your life.

For Cancer, Jupiter in Cancer brings Jupiter to your sign, and this can be a wonderful year for you to focus on expanding your life, having new experiences, and getting out into the world. Blow past the fences around your life, and open your mind and heart. This can be an amazing time for opportunities to do what you’ve been dreaming about.

For Leo, Jupiter in Cancer can be a bit quieter for you, and provides you with an opportunity to plan and prepare. You can work well on your own, out of the spotlight, behind the scenes, and in the background, and you can get something important finished or cleared out. This sets you up well for Jupiter moving to your sign next.

For Virgo, Jupiter in Cancer opens you up to your future, and you can pursue opportunities for change that help you progress with what you hope for most in life. You can embrace the unconventional, open up to experimentation, and can work well with groups as well as independently. You can meet new people and make a wide variety of new friends.

For Libra, Jupiter in Cancer can be one of the best times of your life for success and achievement, and you can hit new heights and get recognition for what you’ve done the right way and for the right reasons. You can be disciplined, attentive to your plans, and others can see you as a leader and can be impressed by you.

For Scorpio, Jupiter in Cancer increases your optimism, and you can focus on any opportunities you have for new experiences you can learn from. You can see the best in any situation, and this optimism can open up more opportunities for you. Embrace a sense of adventure, be bold and brave, and this can set you up for success next year.

For Sagittarius, Jupiter in Cancer can be a time of empowerment, and you can take more control over situations that have been troubling, and become more comfortable with your personal power. This can help you to be more formidable, and you may come back from something that you thought was long dead.

For Capricorn, Jupiter in Cancer highlights your relationships and partnerships, and there can be lots of opportunities for you to enter into new partnerships, alliances, and arrangements. You can make more progress with help, and you can be a great cheerleader with loved ones. You can benefit from having more balance and keeping the peace.

For Aquarius, Jupiter in Cancer can bring lots of opportunities for new jobs, projects,and to improve your daily life. You want to have something to focus on each day that thrills you, and you can get excited by new projects and plans. You can benefit from being better organized, sticking to a schedule, and taking a practical approach.

For Pisces, Jupiter in Cancer expand your heart energy, and you can make more time for who and what you love. You may want to be with loved ones more often, and you can be more romantic and want to have fun in love. Your creativity can soar, and you can take on new hobbies, or may get attention for a skill or talent.

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