By Francesca Oddie
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has just moved to Cancer and astrologers everywhere are delighted because he is blessing us all with a little more luck, love and confidence.
Jupiter is associated with growth, luck, expansion, generosity, wisdom, over-promising, over-committing, joy, healing, higher education and travel. He (Jupiter) rules Sagittarius and is known as the “greater benefic.” Everyone has their own flavour of Jupiter (he changes signs every 11.8 years.) The sign of your Jupiter is where you are gifted. Pro tip: always be grateful for the gifts you’ve been given.
My Jupiter in Capricorn gift is caution, organisational ability and slow progress. It’s actually the least favourite place in the sky for Jupiter to pass through, but as with all astrological placements, it’s what you do with it that counts!
To explain to someone what a Jupiter transit FEELS like, I’ll tell them to think of a “pinch me” moment. Think back to a time where life felt so generous, miraculous and lucky. When you simply couldn’t quite believe your good fortune or that your path led you to this epic moment.
These happy days are usually synchronous with a Jupiter transit. It’s so BIG and ZINGING, a heady moment of joy and a big grin on your face. It sparkles. You know days like that where you simply cannot believe your luck? I bet you Jupiter was involved. Jupiter is the greater benefic and what he evokes can feel MAGICAL. Just so lucky. I’m a big fan of his work!
I’ve also been guilty of hubris and EXPECTED these GIFTS of Jupiter to land with a sparkle but seen them land with an EXPLOSION. You can have too much of a good thing, you really can!
In 2021 when Jupiter in Aquarius passing through the “career sector” of my birth chart I thought great things were coming! I was fortunate to be working with so many brands and doing so much press work that I nearly died of eye strain. Relentless typing, Zoom meetings, emails, client work. It was lockdown and astrology was HOT CONTENT. I said yes to everything, because? Because it was lockdown and I felt there was nothing else to be doing? The WHY and the JOY factor had gone out the window.
I was acting out of something else. Greed? ‘Greedy for work’ doesn’t quite land but you know what I mean. I wasn’t writing inspiring astrology, I was writing tenuous PR pitches for anyone who asked me. I lost all sense of MEANING. I forgot to treasure my time and work.
I expected big work and I got big work… but not the satisfying sort, just the busy sort with lots of emails. However, the EDUCATION that gave me the power of the media to manipulate anything into a story lit my inner fire. I was also EDUCATED on the power of knowing your values before you take something on.
I’m CAPITALISING all the JUPITER related words. Something I have always done. All my emails since 2000 have been FULL OF CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE I AM JUST SO PASSIONATE CAN YOU TELL!??!!!
Jupiter HEALS – but sometimes the way he delivers the gift is a bit too much. Jupiter is about WHAT IS POSSIBLE. Find me a life coach who isn’t strong in Jupiter and Sagittarius. You cannot! I’d be willing to bet that the founder of Confidence Magazine has a very strong Jupiter!
The life coaches are the people who know there is more. Your boring life could be so much better if you just ALTERED YOUR MINDSET and believed that you could have the body, the house, the job.
When I bounce around the world living my Sagittarius best life and mingling with the “expats” I hear them all talk about how great their lives are and“how do people in England do it?” How do we live with the rain and the jobs and the commutes? It’s so banal to the Jupiter person who sits in the sun and socialises everyday.
Coronation Street and wine on a Friday is not for the Jupiter person who LIVES THE DREAM. Jupiter wants you to believe that there is more out there.
Personally, I rate drinking a cup of tea in bed, in peace, in the UK, listening to BBC radio. Ideally it will be raining and I won’t have a pressing urge to go outside and exercise. But as a Sagittarius I know that feeling of joyous smugness when you know you’ve sort of stepped out of what is mundane and into something EXTRA, FREE and INSPIRING. “What a day to be alive!” It is perhaps sometimes the TRUTH for a Sagittarius. They find such bliss in going beyond and at a certain point and we all have these Jupiter opportunities.
There are lots of ways to access this energy – so if you’re seeking more confidence and abundance… go for it! Every planet and every cycle has its place.
What goes down, must come up. Jupiter spends nearly a year in each sign so when we are 12, 24, 36, 48, 60 we have what’s called a Jupiter Return and a cosmic boost, a natural increase in opportunity.
My Second Jupiter Return living in Italy, working at the Vatican and learning to speak Italian was truly expansive and changed my entire personality. Working as a tour guide pushed me into public speaking – a skill that was NEVER going to be mine because I was so intensely shy. However, with Jupiter back at the place he was when I was born, I did it.
Teaching Astrology has only been possible because of that transformation and that leap of faith that I made when I was 23.5 years of age.
The wealth of Jupiter isn’t always literal cash in your hands or a baby in your belly. Jupiter represents the INNER GROWTH that facilitates change and with Jupiter in Cancer we are exploring the realm of emotions. Jupiter is about MEANING, your WHY, your BELIEFS and IDEALS. Your big DREAM and VISION.
Who or what could you be if you let things be different?
We overlook Jupiter in the birth chart sometimes because he’s just there, being benign. Astrologers solve problems and we look at what’s being bashed up more than where you might TRULY FLOURISH.
So with Jupiter going to a sign he LOVES, the sign of Cancer, we are invited to find nourishment in simple love. In the exploration of FEELINGS of love and affection. In NOURISHING ourselves with food and habits that support growth.
It is so Dolce Vita. A slow afternoon with people you love, eating a tomato salad in the shade. “Isn’t this nice?” It’s nice because it is. But also because you FEEL it.
You don’t have something in the background stressing you out, because you’ve meditated and are IN THE MOMENT. Because you’re accepting your annoying uncle for being himself and because you are comfortable in what you are wearing and don’t feel the need to perform. Because you’re not nailing the wine out of anxiety and you’re not worried that someone is about to jellyfish you with a competitive comment.
There’s so much background stuff that has to happen for you to feel the bliss of the moment. So much emotional healing and boundary refinement. Knowing who you are and who you want to be with.
With Jupiter in Cancer in 2025 we are able to focus on what matters and feel bolstered enough emotionally to take that leap of faith and do the thing that matters with Confidence and dedication to building your dream life!
I love that for us and with you all the focus, synchronicity and joy that Jupiter in Cancer has on offer.
With love,
Francesca
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