Restoration: Jupiter in Exaltation

Jupiter enters Cancer

This is a general reading. If you’d like to know more about how this Jupiter ingress into Cancer might affect you, please consider booking a reading.

Jupiter enters Cancer on June 9. This is one of the most anticipated ingresses of 2025.

Jupiter hasn’t been in Cancer since Summer 2014, and this time around promises to be a much more abundant period than the last.

Typically, you’d see the two benefics conjoin at some point during Jupiter’s stay in any sign, at least once. But in 2013-14, Venus never made it into Cancer due to a retrograde in Saturn’s sign of Capricorn. This held her back.

This time around though, Venus and Jupiter form two conjunctions. One on August 11, 2025 and another on June 9, 2026.

This is definitely something to look forward to.

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But first, we need to talk about Mars.

Mars brutalized the Cancer part of our charts in some way off-and-on September through March. There’s probably some burning wreckage there and a lot has been cleared away.

It’s as if Mars hurled his blood-stained spear and it pierced through your sense of security, belonging and safety; and then he pulled and dragged them back over the sharp, jagged rocks and salty, crab-filled tidal pools you just walked through, forcing you to take a deeper look at an issue.

Emotions you thought were over and dealt with, perhaps from childhood or early home-life, might’ve resurfaced due to some outside event or realization in the Cancerian area of your life. Difficult experiences involving home, family, emotional support or past wounds were likely opened up raw or relived in some way during this time.

But now, after twelve years around the zodiac, Jupiter arrives in Cancer and is immediately raised up, crowned and exalted.

With Venus already in her beloved sign of Taurus, both benefics are in very dignified positions. This is a welcome salve to the chaos, turmoil and confusion of the first half of the year and should help gradually restore the scorched gardens of our Cancer house until Summer 2026.

Look back to 2013-14 to the last time Jupiter was in Cancer. What was going on then? This could help you get a sense of what the themes might be this go around.

For example, if Cancer aligns with your tenth house, perhaps your career, reputation, status or authority grew in some way during that period, for better or worse. If Cancer is in your fifth house, did your creativity or business blossom; did romance blossom; did you have a child or benefit from a risky undertaking of some kind? If it falls in your 8th house, did any investments you made grow and your tax bill along with them; did anyone extremely close to you pass away; did you receive a large loan or inheritance?

When Jupiter enters this part of our chart, growth, increase, optimism and an overall feeling of lift and support can emerge over the course of the year. It will likely build over the months, and depending on how it is handled, can be either a positive or negative experience. Growth and abundance can also have their downsides.

The 2013 Jupiter ingress into Cancer is a twelve-year cycle that is renewing with this year’s ingress on June 9. Consider what has grown for you over the last twelve years.

For example, I have Cancer in the fourth house. Over the last twelve years my living conditions greatly improved year by year. I slowly created a very comfortable living space and atmosphere where my sense of peace and emotional security ballooned. My wife-to-be and I met, moved in together, married. We got new pets and our little family grew. We moved into a larger home and sold our old one. And now, as the cycle is ending, I find myself decreasing the amount of things in my home and down-sizing our living space as the cycle approaches its end. Can you relate to anything similar in the Cancer part of your chart?

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Cancer signifies The Great Goddess, The Waters of Creation, fertility, nurturance, the voluptuous garden, mom. Cancer is cardinal water; an initiatory force and the first corner the Sun turns toward autumn.

Jupiter is the Sky Father, god of the great expanse under which all life is governed by divine law and unfolding purpose. Jupiter signifies the dome of the sky without which nothing beneath it can grow. It is that which enthusiastically pushes life outward, gaining, exploring, seeking. Faith, knowledge, inner wisdom and The Good are all of the essence of Jupiter. However, over-indulgence, arrogance, loud moral judgement, religious hypocrisy and philosophical god-complexes are also possible when Jupiter is poorly aspected.

Jupiter rules the realms of religion, higher education, ethics, law, justice, and the large societal institutions that have, over time and through accumulation, formed the over-arching ideological totality of any culture, for better or worse.

It’s inside this vast Jupiterian atrium that the inner planets operate and interact within our psyches. Like a benevolent father, Jupiter aims to provide and protect. Even in the face of inevitable suffering and the limits of time Saturn relentlessly tightens around us just beyond Jupiter’s orbit, The King of the Gods defiantly buffers the Saturnian realities of death and impermanence with hope, faith, optimism and sometimes luck.

Jupiter is “exalted” in Cancer because the beginning of the sign marks the Summer Solstice, where The Light shines longest atop the solar mountain. When entering Cancer, Jupiter passes over this degree, and so too is aligned with this highest point in the ecliptic, if only symbolically. By virtue of its own exaltation, Jupiter exalts the significance of this part of solar year.

The ruler of Cancer is the Moon. The Moon symbolizes the material world; the body, personal experience, emotions, physical connection, ebb and flow, the subjective mind and fertility. With Jupiter exalted here in the temple of the Moon, the intimate relationship between divine father and divine mother becomes illuminated.

When the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky and moves into Cancer —womb of life and Great Mother — a symbolic, immaculate conception occurs, a celestial insemination if you will.

All the rising energy and Light accumulating since the Winter Solstice finally reaches its apex and seeds The Great Goddess with the potential of new consciousness and Light. Here, the spring sun is conceived and a new light begins to grow at the exact same time the Light begins to decrease through the coming seasons. Metaphorically, the seed of new consciousness develops even as darkness gathers.

Nine months after the Summer Solstice, the Sun is reborn at the Spring Equinox and exalted in Aries. Spirit awakens embodied in matter.

The process of seeding solar consciousness (Sun/Jupiter) into a material, maternal vessel (Cancer/Moon) that then starts to grow and expand (Jupiter) more and more within deepening darkness (Saturn) until finally the water breaks (Pisces) and the Fire of Life emerges (Aries) dramatically mirrors the human gestation cycle.

Light grows out of darkness. And darkness out of light.

The opposite and counterpart of Cancer is Capricorn, which is ruled by Saturn, or Time. In the above metaphor, The Winter Solstice marks the beginning of the solar third trimester, so to speak. As the Summer Solstice represents the seeding moment of spirit into Mother, The Winter Solstice represents the seeding moment of spirit into Matter. Here, the gestating Light is fused with Time (Saturn) in the pitch-black of the holy, celestial womb. Now, the Light begins to increase again, up through the darkest season until finally it breaches the waters of the Great Mother and rises again.

After spirit is made manifest in matter, and lives among us, it must dwell and grow within the realm of Time. Where spirit was once eternal, it is now encapsulated and bound by the laws of Saturn and the material world. Yet, at the same time, internally, spirit defies Saturn and roams free by the laws of Jupiter. When it’s time for the cycle to repeat, spirit (Jupiter) is released from the body (Saturn) and returns to eternity — Life having conquered Death for now.

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So to bring it back to earth a little bit:

Jupiter in Cancer represents a renewed belief that the most intimate parts of ourselves are fertile and ready for growth now. Even in the darkest nights when there is no moon and the house is cold and empty, Jupiter in Cancer guides us toward hope and the knowledge that the Sun burning and shining beneath us in the underworld — and the Spirit burning and shining within us, though confined to the boundaries of our bodies — will rise in our lives again — as it has before — so we can renew ourselves, and then nurture and tend to what needs it most: each other.

Wherever Cancer falls in your chart, what is ready for new growth there? What was cleared away or reduced and is now thirsty for water and eager for the fire of new life?

Expect opportunities to arise in the Cancer area of your chart that will help you grow; expand what is already in process; increase your sense of security; nourish emotional wounds; improve inner peace; and then seize them when they arrive.

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In a previous article, I mentioned that Jupiter enters Cancer this year on its back foot.

Jupiter will square Saturn and Neptune in a very direct way as soon as it ingresses, placing pressure and strain on all three. This a cardinal dilemma and must be resolved with cardinal energies of initiation and forward motion. Perhaps conflicts between self and family, futures and origins, autonomy and dependency, or advancement and nostalgia are at play. This tension between the Aries and Cancer parts of our charts will force a new way forward once action is taken (cardinality), agreed upon (Libra) and made real (Capricorn).

I’ll write about this more as time gets closer.

If you’d like to know more about how this Jupiter ingress into Cancer might affect you, please consider booking a reading.