What Jupiter in Cancer means
Exaltation casts a planet as a guest of honor. Cancer belongs to the Moon, but Jupiter is the visitor it treats best, with the peak at 15 degrees, and generosity and trust, the planet's gifts, move through the sign with unusual ease. In a life this looks like faith that grew out of belonging. People with it trust the world about as far as they trusted the kitchen table they grew up around, and they spend their luck on setting a table like that for someone else. Jupiter's typical stay here is 385 days.
Cancer, the Moon's cardinal water sign, governs home and memory, and Jupiter's wish to give more than is needed finds something to feed on there. You offer the couch before anyone asks and keep the freezer stocked for visitors. Other people bring you their troubles, and now and then you give too much. The cost shows up as a household that leans on you and a heart that bruises easily.
Put Jupiter in the 4th house, where Cancer is at home, and the placement reads as a childhood that felt secure or a house that holds a family together. In the 7th it points to a warm partner, and in the 10th to a career that looks after people.
In the 2020s, 9.4% of births carry it, all of them since June 10, 2025. Jupiter left Cancer after June 29, 2026 and entered Leo the next day, so a baby born today does not have it.
Jupiter in Cancer in love
Early on you notice what your partner eats when they're stressed, and a supply of it appears in your cupboard. You invite their mother over before they do, and you keep the family traditions going, from the Sunday call to the holiday recipe nobody else remembers how to make. You text to ask whether they got home, and you don't mean it as control. Care can still slide into management, though. You've rearranged their week before they asked, and a partner who needs space reads your hurt as rejection. When you feel safe you're warm and funny, and when you feel threatened you go silent. What works is a partner who accepts the care, returns it in their own style and says plainly when they need a night alone.
Where they find luck and growth
You keep in touch with the people nearby, so news of the house coming up for sale or the cousin who needs a tenant reaches you in conversation and not through an ad. A house bought with relatives' help is the kind of move this Jupiter makes. Over-giving is where it frays. Let your time be the generous part, and when a relative asks for money, decide the amount after a night's sleep. Real estate and caregiving suit this Jupiter, since both run on people trusting you with their home or their family.
Men and women with this placement
Jupiter in Cancer man
A man with this Jupiter keeps the family group chat alive and knows which cousin is between jobs. A Jupiter in Cancer husband labels the photo albums by year and calls his mother on Sundays, and he goes silent when he's tired.
Jupiter in Cancer woman
A woman with this Jupiter becomes the center of a family's routines, and she can turn a rented apartment into a home within a week. She cooks from recipe cards in her grandmother's handwriting, and when a friend's marriage ends, the friend stays in her spare room for a month. Her own needs come up last, usually once she is already worn out.
Find your Jupiter sign
Enter your birth date. The calculator places every planet on the zodiac wheel for that day and tells you whether your Jupiter is in Cancer. If Jupiter changed signs on your birthday, add your birth time.
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Stands for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | ♉︎ Taurus | 27°29′ | core identity |
| ☽ Moon | ♓︎ Pisces | 8°23′ | emotional needs |
| ☿ Mercury | ♉︎ Taurus | 8°01′ | how you think and talk |
| ♀ Venus | ♈︎ Aries | 16°29′ | love and taste |
| ♂ Mars | ♓︎ Pisces | 20°42′ | drive and anger |
| ♃ Jupiter | ♋︎ Cancer | 10°09′ | growth and luck |
| ♄ Saturn | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 25°11′ | duty and limits |
| ♅ Uranus | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 9°06′ | change and rebellion |
| ♆ Neptune | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 14°18′ | dreams and ideals |
| ♇ Pluto | ♏︎ Scorpio ℞ | 16°04′ | power and renewal |
| ☊ North Node | ♒︎ Aquarius | 11°09′ | life direction |
| ⚸ Black Moon Lilith | ♏︎ Scorpio | 21°50′ | what you refuse to tame |
Without a birth time we check the whole day in US time zones. If a planet changed sign that day, both signs are shown; add your time to settle it. ℞ marks a planet that looked like it was moving backward (retrograde). North Node and Lilith are the mean positions.
Jupiter in Cancer in numbers
- Share of birth dates
- 9.04%
- Typical stay in Cancer
- 13 months
- Retrograde at birth
- 30% of them
- Element · quality
- Water · Cardinal
Our count of all 35,064 birth dates, January 1, 1930 to December 31, 2025, at noon UTC.
Work, money and beliefs
Nursing and social work fit, and so does anything tied to home, from real estate to a family bakery. Trust builds slowly with the people you serve. Your team knows whose kid has a recital on Thursday because you asked, and you cover the shift. Money goes first to the household and then generously to others, and a stable home gives your finances something to stand on. Your beliefs come from family, from what your grandparents did and what Sunday dinners taught, and you don't skip the rituals.
Your Jupiter and your Sun sign
A Gemini Sun brings talk to a warm Jupiter, and a Leo Sun brings pride. Under a Cancer Sun, home and feeling run through the whole person, and the hard part is letting someone else do the cooking. Capricorn, the opposite sign, is Jupiter's fall and sets ambition against family. The best versions of that pairing build a career with a home inside it.
When Jupiter is in Cancer: dates and Jupiter return
The latest stay ended on June 29, 2026, and Jupiter entered Leo the next day. Earlier stays ran June 27, 1930 to July 16, 1931, June 10, 1942 to June 30, 1943 and May 24, 1954 to June 12, 1955. The 1960s brought pieces: September 21 to November 16, 1965, May 6 to September 27, 1966 and January 16 to May 22, 1967. The late 1970s brought three more, August 21 to December 30, 1977, April 12 to September 4, 1978 and March 1 to April 19, 1979. Single stays came after that. They ran July 31, 1989 to August 17, 1990, July 13, 2001 to August 1, 2002, June 26, 2013 to July 15, 2014 and, most recently, June 10, 2025 to June 29, 2026. Our data holds no later stay. Births from June 26, 2013 to July 15, 2014 had their return in the stay that just closed. Births from July 13, 2001 to August 1, 2002 had theirs from June 26, 2013 to July 15, 2014, and births from July 31, 1989 to August 17, 1990 had theirs from July 13, 2001 to August 1, 2002.
| Entered Cancer | Left Cancer | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2025 | Jun 29, 2026 |
Dates in UTC: days when Jupiter stood in Cancer at noon UTC. In US time zones a change can fall a day earlier; on the first and last day the exact time matters, and the calculator above checks it for your birthday.
Share by decade of birth. It rises and falls with the planet's cycle, not with fashion.
Jupiter in Cancer compatibility
Someone whose Moon or Sun is in Cancer finds their care amplified by your Jupiter. Capricorn, across the chart, adds structure, and a person whose Jupiter sits there, born from January 20, 1984 to February 6, 1985 or from January 3, 1996 to January 21, 1997, supplies discipline for your generosity.
Both partners with the Sun in Cancer: Cancer and Cancer compatibility.
Famous people and celebrities with Jupiter in Cancer
- Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc.Feb 24, 1955
- Sean Connery, Scottish actorAug 25, 1930
- Kazuo Ishiguro, British novelistNov 8, 1954
- Kobe Bryant, American basketball playerAug 23, 1978
- Alice Munro, Canadian writerJul 10, 1931
- Warren Buffett, American investor, entrepreneur and businessmanAug 30, 1930
- Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriterDec 13, 1989
- Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor, producer and television personalityNov 2, 1965
- Toni Morrison, African American novelist, essayist, and academicFeb 18, 1931
- Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and lunar explorerAug 5, 1930
- Jimi Hendrix, American guitaristNov 27, 1942
- Kurt Cobain, American rock musician, singer and songwriterFeb 20, 1967
- Emma Watson, English actressApr 15, 1990
- Paul McCartney, English musician and member of the BeatlesJun 18, 1942
- Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and criticNov 16, 1930
- Roger Ebert, American film critic and authorJun 18, 1942
- Salma Hayek, Mexican and American actressSep 2, 1966
Birth dates from Wikidata, only entries with a single sourced date. We list a person only if Jupiter was in Cancer for the whole of their birthday in every time zone. A placement describes a style in the astrological tradition; it does not explain anyone's success.
More Jupiter signs
How common each Jupiter sign is, and where Jupiter is today: Jupiter signs.
In tarot, the Golden Dawn gave Jupiter the card Wheel of Fortune: its meaning upright, reversed and in love.
Other planets in Cancer: ☽ Moon in Cancer · ☿ Mercury in Cancer · ♀ Venus in Cancer · ♂ Mars in Cancer · ♄ Saturn in Cancer · ♅ Uranus in Cancer · ♇ Pluto in Cancer · ☊ North Node in Cancer · ⚸ Black Moon Lilith in Cancer. Three or more of them together: stellium calculator.
Cancer elsewhere on the site: Cancer zodiac sign (the Sun in Cancer: traits, dates, love) · Midheaven in Cancer · Cancer compatibility by birth date · Moon sign calculator · water signs · The Hanged Man (the tarot card of water) · in tarot, The Chariot (the Cancer card) · The High Priestess (the tarot card of the Moon, ruler of Cancer).
Jupiter in the sky now: where every planet is today · transit chart calculator (today's planets against your birth chart) · Cancer horoscope 2027 (the year ahead for the Sun sign) · all planet sign calculators.
Jupiter in Cancer in a full chart with a birth time on record: Kurt Cobain's birth chart · Billie Eilish's birth chart · Steve Jobs's birth chart · Kristen Stewart's birth chart · Jennifer Lawrence's birth chart · SZA's birth chart · Kourtney Kardashian's birth chart · Paul McCartney's birth chart · Travis Kelce's birth chart · Margot Robbie's birth chart · The Weeknd's birth chart · Dakota Johnson's birth chart · Frida Kahlo's birth chart · Jimi Hendrix's birth chart · Emma Watson's birth chart · Hozier's birth chart · James Dean's birth chart.
Questions people ask
What does Jupiter in Cancer mean?
A person who grows by looking after others, family first and then the street. You give generously, and the care mostly reaches the people closest to you.
Why is Jupiter exalted in Cancer?
The list of exaltations comes down from ancient astrology, and it gives Cancer to Jupiter, with the peak at 15 degrees. The fit is easy to see: a planet of abundance in a sign built around nurture and trust.
Is a Cancer Jupiter a good placement?
Yes. Exaltation is one of the strongest positions Jupiter can have. Its weak spot is giving more than you have.
Does a Cancer Jupiter make you lucky?
The placement points toward people close to you, relatives and neighbors, so that is where you'll look for help and where you'll be asked for it.
How common is Jupiter in Cancer?
It covers 9.04% of the dates in our data, second only to Libra, and 9.4% of the births in the 2020s, all of them since June 10, 2025.
When was Jupiter in Cancer?
1930 to 1931, 1942 to 1943, 1954 to 1955, 1965 to 1967, 1977 to 1979, 1989 to 1990, 2001 to 2002, 2013 to 2014 and June 10, 2025 to June 29, 2026.
When is my Jupiter return?
Cancer Jupiter births of 2013 to 2014 had theirs from June 10, 2025 to June 29, 2026. The 2001 to 2002 births had theirs in 2013 and 2014, and the 1989 to 1990 births in 2001 and 2002. Our data holds no Cancer stay after 2026, so the babies of 2025 and 2026 meet theirs after it ends.
Is Jupiter still in Cancer?
No. Jupiter left Cancer after June 29, 2026 and entered Leo the next day. It stays in Leo until July 25, 2027.
How does a Cancer Jupiter differ from a Cancer Sun?
A Cancer Sun means a birthday in early summer, between late June and late July. A Cancer Jupiter means a birth year, roughly, so it belongs to every Sun sign born in that stretch.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Wikidata: birth dates of the famous people listed
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Planet positions come from the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac), and the statistics from our own run of every birth date from 1930 to 2025. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science; read a placement as a set of questions about yourself.