I haven’t been paying much attention to all the focus astrologers have been putting on Jupiter going into Cancer, but watching Chani’s video this morning prompted me to remember last time Jupiter was in Cancer (2013-2014) and it really hit me today that I should be way more excited. Jupiter (expansion) just entered its exaltation sign (Cancer) this morning, and although the first aspect it receives is a square to Saturn (constriction), that tension will fade away soon enough over the summer, and by September, we should be feeling the full effects of its generosity and luck in whatever house Cancer rules in our respective charts.
Cancer rules a different house for everyone depending on their chart, so it could be any one of the 12 houses for you. Cancer rules my 9th house so my experiences are related to other cultures, higher learning, philosophy, and religion.
- June 2013 to July, 2014- I was dating a guy who swung the doors of the world open to me. He was a worldly older man from New York with political experience; I was a small town girl from the prairies, and neither of us had met people like each other before. Meeting each other was a completely new experience. For both of us, our two years together were a life-changing watershed moment. Over a decade later, we still talk regularly.
- July, 2001 to August, 2002- This wasn’t necessarily as great, but I got a job at the local university and I always look back fondly at the years that I worked there. They were some of my happiest work years. I was also teaching Sunday School at the Korean church and was involved in the Korean community (those were my “Korean years”.) Today, I am still absolutely in love with the food and the language, and I’ve retained a few of the relationships.
Thank goodness Jupiter is out of my 8th house- the 8th house represents other peoples’ resources and it often benefits our significant others instead of us! I only say this tongue in cheek because this transit brought good luck to him, albeit under difficult circumstances.
If you want to know which house Jupiter is going to bless for you, you can go to astro.com, and under the top left menu,
- Select “Horoscope Drawings and Data”,
- Select “Extended Chart Selection”,
- Under Chart type, select “Natal Chart and Transits”
- Scroll down a bit. Under House system, select “Whole Signs”
- Input your birth data
- Click “Show the Chart >>”
- Find the little green Jupiter glyph hanging out at 0 degrees outside one of your twelve houses.
Or just e-mail me and I’ll look it up for you. Here’s to a great Jupiter in Cancer year.