Jupiter Sign Calculator
Jupiter is the planet of growth, generosity and meaning. Find the sign it was in when you were born, its exact degree and house, and the dates Jupiter comes back to that degree, about every twelve years.
- Every Jupiter return in your life, dated
- Jupiter's dignity in your sign
What is your Jupiter sign?
Jupiter is the largest planet and, in traditional astrology, the greater benefic: the planet of increase, wisdom and good fortune. Its sign shows the style of that growth, and its house the area of life it works in.
Jupiter takes 11.86 years to go round the zodiac, so it spends about a year in each sign. Everyone born within the same year or so shares a Jupiter sign, which is why astrologers read it alongside its house and its aspects, the parts of the placement that are yours alone.
How long Jupiter stays in a sign
On average Jupiter spends a little under a year in each sign, but rarely in one straight stretch. Every thirteen months or so it turns retrograde for about four months, and when that happens near the edge of a sign it can slip back into the previous one before moving on. A sign can be visited in two or three separate stretches across a year and a half.
That is why a birth date alone, without the year, cannot give your Jupiter sign, and why the calculator works from the full date and place. If Jupiter changed sign on the day you were born, the calculator says so and shows both signs until you add a birth time.
Jupiter in each sign
A first line for each sign. The calculator gives the full reading for yours, and its house when you know your birth time.
♈︎ Aries
Growth through courage: starting, leading, taking the risk.
♉︎ Taurus
Growth through patience: building lasting abundance.
♊︎ Gemini
Growth through curiosity: learning, talking, connecting.
♋︎ Cancer
Growth through care: family, belonging, nourishment. Exalted.
♌︎ Leo
Growth through self-expression: creativity and generosity.
♍︎ Virgo
Growth through useful work: skill, service, health.
♎︎ Libra
Growth through others: partnership, fairness, beauty.
♏︎ Scorpio
Growth through depth: trust, transformation, shared resources.
♐︎ Sagittarius
Growth through meaning: travel, study, belief. At home.
♑︎ Capricorn
Growth through discipline: structure and earned results.
♒︎ Aquarius
Growth through ideas: communities, causes, the future.
♓︎ Pisces
Growth through compassion: imagination and faith. At home.
Where Jupiter is strongest
Traditional astrology rates each planet's strength by sign. For Jupiter:
At home: Sagittarius and Pisces
The signs Jupiter rules. Its qualities are expressed freely and fully.
Exalted: Cancer
An honoured guest. Jupiter's generosity is at its warmest and most protective.
Detriment: Gemini and Virgo
The signs opposite its homes. Jupiter's breadth meets a sign of detail and has to work harder for perspective.
Fall: Capricorn
Opposite its exaltation. Expansion is held in check, and growth comes through effort and structure.
A weaker placement is not a worse life. It describes the kind of work Jupiter's gifts take, and the calculator shows your Jupiter's dignity beside its reading.
Jupiter in the houses
Where Jupiter's sign shows the style of your growth, its house shows where it happens: in the 2nd, resources; in the 7th, partnership; in the 10th, career and reputation; in the 12th, the inner life. The house is the most personal part of your Jupiter, since people born in the same year share the sign but rarely the house.
The house depends on your birth time. Without one, the calculator gives the sign and degree and leaves the house out rather than guessing it from noon.
Jupiter retrograde at birth
Jupiter is retrograde for about four months of every thirteen, so around three people in ten are born with it retrograde. Seen from Earth it appears to move backwards through the zodiac, as Earth overtakes it on the inside track.
Astrologers read a retrograde Jupiter as growth turned inward: a personal philosophy built from your own experience rather than borrowed, and generosity that shows up in quieter ways. It is common, and it is not a weakness.
Your Jupiter returns
Every 11.86 years Jupiter comes back to the degree it held when you were born: at about 12, 24, 36, 48, 59, 71 and 83. Each Jupiter return is read as the start of a new twelve-year cycle of growth, and many people look back on the year around one as a time when their horizons opened.
Sometimes Jupiter crosses the birth degree once; when a return falls near one of its retrograde loops it crosses three times over several months, forward, back and forward again. The calculator lists every pass with its date, from your first return to your nineties, and marks the next one.
How to use the Jupiter sign calculator
- 1Enter your birth date and placeThe date and place are enough for the sign in almost every case. Add your birth time to get Jupiter's house and the full chart.
- 2Read your Jupiter sign and houseThe result gives the sign and exact degree, the house, whether Jupiter was retrograde, its dignity in that sign, and a reading for each.
- 3See your Jupiter returnsBelow the reading, every Jupiter return in your life is dated, with the next one marked.
Jupiter is one planet in your chart
The free birth chart shows it with every planet, house and aspect, to the minute.