The Past Lives of Jupiter in Leo

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today we're going to take a look back at all of the previous Jupiter in Leo eras that have happened every 12 years, going back to the late 1970s. I'm going to show you a way that you can use this exercise in order to track and compare time periods and archetypal themes in your birth chart. I'll give you some tips for doing that.

I'll share with you some of the fun results I found in doing my own, and give you some things to watch for when it comes to this upcoming Jupiter in Leo period, which we're entering in late June. So, I'll give you the timeline for that Jupiter in Leo transit. We'll go back in time, and I'll give you all the previous years and eras that you could look back on.

We'll talk a little bit about Jupiter and Leo in general. So, I hope this will be useful. It's one of the biggest outer planetary shifts yet to come this year. We've had a lot of shifts already. We've had Saturn and Neptune change signs. We've had Pluto recently, in late 2025, enter Aquarius to stay.

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So anyway, check them out. Here we go. Jupiter's in Leo on June 30. How long does it stay there? It stays there for quite some time. If I move this forward one full year, and then take it forward some days to June 30, 2027, we're going to see that it enters Virgo right here around July, late July of 2027.

It spends about a year in each sign, give or take, with some retrogrades, but about a year per sign, 12 years to get through the whole zodiac. So we are looking at a year of Jupiter in Leo. What I want to do for you today, to start with, is I want to give you a list of five things to watch for that are very basic given Jupiter in Leo in general.

Then I want to give you some prior periods in which Jupiter was in Leo historically, and some tips for tracking, and I'll just show you my results, and how basic and easy it can be. I think this is a really, really fun and helpful way to track transits, especially if you're a student of astrology, or someone who's trying to learn more about astrology and become more fluent.

You know, able to articulate and work with this language in your own life, or maybe people around you. An exercise like this is very, very helpful when it comes to your learning process. So, I hope everyone will find this helpful. All right, let's start with five things to watch for.

This is just basically five things to watch for for Jupiter in Leo. We're talking about Jupiter, a planet that is associated in the broadest philosophical sense with wisdom, with coherence and unity, and any systems in the human realm that are meant to unify and present truth, justice, order, and cohesion.

So religion, education, philosophy, ethics, morality, all of those things, the justice system, a democracy, whatever, any ideal system that is supposed to represent order, truth, justice, balance, fairness, and societal cohesion, those are all Jupiter's domains. Insofar as any of them become outworn, expired, outdated, and crusty, they could be thought of as Saturnian.

Then we have the great Jupiter-Saturn cycles, in which those expiration dates of systems happen and new systems are created. We recently had a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in air, signaling that we're now in a long era of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions in air. Surprise, surprise, we are entering a highly technological era of human history, and the systems and structures are going to change along airy lines.

Jupiter in Leo is now reaching the opposition point from the initial conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the sign of Aquarius that dates back to 2020. So let me just see here. Yeah, we had it was what, December of 2020. Sorry, my memory sometimes I go like, do I know? I do. Oh, good. Okay, so anyway, the opposition point in the cycle is very important.

Because air, especially Aquarian air, tends to focus on collectivity. Not surprisingly, at the outset of Jupiter in Leo, we're going to see an opposition from Jupiter in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius, that Jupiter-Saturn opening in December 2020 around the solstice, when the two planets got together, Saturn and Jupiter formed a conjunction at the very beginning of Aquarius.

That set the stage for the Pluto in Aquarius era, that was like a precursor to it. We're now squarely in an oppositional moment from the starting point of that cycle on Jupiter's level. Anyway, what that means is that we are very likely to see inflection points where polarization, creative tension, resistance, and change to the base of the cycle are occurring.

Meaning the things that began or started forming around 2020 for Jupiter in particular are now reaching a point of polarization and oppositional tension, which can be very creative, also very destructive. This is a very powerful Jupiter cycle, in other words, that we're about to enter into with Jupiter in Leo.

A lot of it will have to do with calling into question authority structures, who has it, how it's wielded, how it operates in systems and structures, how authority carries the weight of ethically enacting systems and structures, or not. A lot of things like that. We'll get into all of that later this summer when we get closer to the Jupiter-Pluto opposition.

But what I want to talk about today are just some broader themes that you can notice. For example, when Jupiter's in Leo, psychologically, archetypally, we can think about what is healthy pride. What does it look like to feel good, to feel confident, to feel sort of full of yourself, but in a way that's not pretentious or arrogant.

Full of yourself, meaning full of your own light. Your light is a great source of happiness, so you better be full of it, you know, but you don't want to be someone who's annoying or obnoxious with the light you carry. What are you becoming? What are you in the process of?

Think of the sun, its trajectory: it is born in the east, we see it rise, and then it culminates up to the top of the sky. Jupiter in Leo periods are often periods where something is culminating. It's like the sun is moving toward its royal position at high noon, so there's that sense of things rising into a space of becoming what they were born to become.

That's a very Leonic theme. Solar radiance is another way of putting it, just that need to be radiant and to shine. Now, each one of us has that right. How do we also enact this archetype without the constant thought that the only way to do it is for someone else to be worse than me or for me to win or be dominant?

That's a tricky thing for the ego, for all of us. Number two would be destiny, royalty, and chosenness. Jupiter in Leo brings to mind things like kings and fame and rising stars, and people who are destined for something special or great, a feeling that you're chosen or unique. But what does it mean to live with that in a very ordinary way?

What does it mean to step into the light of our most special and authentic nature, without having to be anything but a humble little person? The two things don't have to cancel each other out. I feel like there's a lot of talk about personal empowerment in new age communities. I see it all the time, because astrology is closely connected to new age movements.

And yet we hardly ever talk about humility. What does it mean to be a humble servant of something higher than ourselves? To be honest with you, the ideal of a king or a queen or a ruler or a leader is that they're chosen specifically because they have that capacity to put the main thing above themselves.

That's what qualifies them for the crown, and I know that's not the way it's gone historically, it's a game of thrones, you know, or whatever, but that's what it's really about. It's really about saying the mantle of authority is passed on to people in any sense of cosmic dharma, because they don't think of themselves as deserving it, because they don't want to hold it or possess it, right.

So, what does destiny, royalty, or chosenness look like in the light of humility, which is not self-degradation, it's not self-hatred or self-diminishment, it's just not thinking you're that big of a deal? And how does that work alongside of having tremendous power or responsibility or authority or leadership in some little domain of our lives?

Things like this will come up. Number three, legacy. What am I living for that's beyond the setting of my lifetime? The setting sun of my lifetime will come. Am I living for something that lives beyond the setting of my ego? Constant Leo concern, a spiritual lesson for Leo. How do I handle the spotlight when it's on me?

Do I desire fame or do I desire being a servant of the thing that's famous? Let's say, for example, you are someone who has an eye for beauty, an artist or a fashion designer, or even someone just has really good taste. There's a quite clear difference between someone who has, I'm thinking in particular of a hair stylist that did my wife's hair for our wedding.

He was an astrology friend of mine, and he lived in New York City, and he was like one of Vogue's top stylists of the year, many years ago, I think it was like the 80s or the 90s or something, and he just had such an eye for beauty, and yet talking to him, you could tell that what he loved was beauty, not that he was trying to take credit for having great taste.

It was like he loved beauty more than he wanted credit for having a good eye for it, to the point that he actually turned down a lot of very public things, some of these fashion shows where they rate people and judge people, and he didn't want to be a part of it, not because he had any judgment against those shows, but because the way he put it to me was like, I just like my craft.

But I don't consider myself some special judge, you know. But that's specifically why certain people have success, and you know what I'm talking about, specifically because they're like that, and they love the thing that they love more than they want any attention for it. How do we deal with the spotlight? How do we deal with the desire for fame?

Well, the I Ching, one of my favorites, has a hexagram number 22 called Adornment, and it really says, fame is a quality that's inside of you. The fame is the fame of your character, and it's inside of you, and you hide it, and you don't try to look like fame externally. You're known for your fame because of who you are internally, your substance.

The reason that it can stay that way is because it's who you are, not who you're trying to be. Number four, ego, pride, and individuation. Well, there's a lot of lessons about the ego, a lot of lessons about pride comes before a fall, and there's themes with the sun's sign in Leo of individuating. Who am I meant to become? What is my destiny?

Also, what goes along with this are karma around fathers, leaders, and authority, how it's wielded, who has it, how it's structured, and so forth. We're going to see a lot of that collectively, especially when Jupiter in Aquarius opposes, or Jupiter in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius. All right, I am going to now take you back in time.

We're going to go back, back, back, the way back machine, so that we can look at what was happening now in July of 2014 to August of 2015. Jupiter was in the sign of Leo. Now, what I want you to do, and this is optional, it's optional homework, you can take it or leave it. Optional homework here is to think about the whole sign house that Leo occupies in your chart.

Or if you use Placidus or whatever, that's fine. You just locate Leo by house, and I want you to think about what was happening in your life, and think about all of the Leonic themes we just mentioned, and think about the topics related to the house. So, mine is the fourth house, so I start by thinking home, family roots, property, parents, father, family, karma, etc.

Now, between July of 2014 and August of 2015, what was happening? My parents had just divorced, and I was just about to be married, and within that year I was married. My wife and I got pregnant with our first daughter, and we bought our first home, and that was coming right after my parents divorced.

So in June of 2014 they divorced. October 2014 I was married. We conceived in the spring of 2015, and by August we had just purchased our first home, and we were in the process of moving into our first home. So that's fourth house karma. Now, Jupiter in Leo themes for me was like becoming a dad, becoming a husband, family karma, and a new cycle of activity and wisdom relative to the topics of home and family.

It's pretty big that year, right? So that's an obvious one. So look at your life between August 2014 and August 2015. What were the Jupiter in Leo themes? Where is it located in your chart? What kind of things were happening? Think about it. Do some journaling, do some free writing. This will help you tremendously, because you're going to see there's connective tissue between these periods and the upcoming period.

All right, let's get into the one previous to this. 12 years earlier, August 2002 to August 2003. What was happening around that time? So for me at that time, I moved off campus. I was in college. I moved off campus into my own first apartment, so there's that fourth house, having my own first living environment.

I graduated. I had one semester left that fall. I graduated, and in December of 2003 took my first job as a youth pastor at a Methodist church, and moved away from my home and family to a different state to become a youth pastor. Now, my father was a minister, so I moved, and I had a roommate out of college.

Then I moved to my own apartment, where it was just me living. I had my first job, and I was following in the footsteps of my father being a minister, albeit a youth minister. So the theme of family karma, of becoming what I meant to become, like graduating college, moving into my own first space, getting a job as a preacher, which is what my dad did.

The family karma was again very powerful during that time. It was also during that exact same period that the first seeds of my parents' divorce and my dad's eventual leaving of the ministry altogether were taking place, and so that came a little bit later, but that had its roots around that time as well.

So a lot of, for me, again, fourth house stuff was coming up. But what was happening for you? Think back to August 2002 to August 2003 around that time. Think about themes of legacy, think about your dad, think about what you were trying to create as a legacy for yourself. What were you in the process of becoming?

I remember how proud I felt of myself. I'm on my own, I'm a pastor like my dad. I've got my own church congregation. I'm fulfilling a legacy in my family. It was very Jupiter in Leo, the whole thing. I've got my own place, the whole thing. All right, let's go back in time. So you do that work, look at the whole sign house of your chart, see what you come up with.

Let's go back, back, back, back, back, 1990 to 1991. So I want you to think back around this time, do the exact same work now. Maybe some of you, this is before you were born, or some of you were too young to remember. So, I was nine to ten years old around this time, so start there. Well, nine to ten years old for me coincided with my dad getting this new church in a new community.

I was getting established as a new kid in a new community with a new church that my dad had. It was a big promotion for my dad, so there were a lot of things happening then as a kid that had to do with my dad's rising status as a minister, his increasing role and reputation, leadership increasing, a larger church, stepping into a lot of new social expectations.

Because I was starting to become preteen or whatever, and I was expected to be the preacher's boy. You can see some stories about this period of my life in my book that are really fun to recapture, some real magic during that time. But at that same time, a ritual started forming in my life, and I won't give it away, but trying to figure out where am I in all of this faith that my family is a part of?

Like, how does it make any sense to me? There was a critical period of my life, and I know it sounds weird because I was nine and ten years old, but I was really trying to figure out, like, what does this mean to me? This is my dad's job, this is my dad's church, I'm the preacher's kid, but what am I? Who am I? What do I want from my life?

Do I have a faith? Is this even real to me? There was a lot of questions around my faith and my family at that time. The other thing that happened toward the end of this period was my dad received enough of a promotion to be able to have what's called a housing allowance, which meant we could move out of a parsonage and move into our own home.

He had a certain amount of money that would have been allotted to pay for the parsonage that the church decided to let the minister use toward the mortgage of a house, so that was the first time my family had our own house. How Jupiter in Leo in the fourth house is that. So notice the themes: first house, first apartment as a family, first house, first apartment when I was a little bit older, first house as a married couple as an adult, like first actual house.

A lot of that's all fourth house, for fourth house of home and property. But what was happening for you from 1990 to 1991? What were you going through? I want to hear your stories, so I hope you'll drop them in the comment section, because I think it's really fascinating to do this kind of work.

All right, let's go back to the last one. Well, guys, I wasn't alive. I was born in '81, so this is for those of you who came a little prior to me. My wife is a Jupiter in Leo native, so she was born in '79 with this placement. She was born under this one. But even, you know, my wife and I are in our mid 40s, so you're going to be late 40s to 50s, 60s and above to really remember this one.

This is as far back as I chose to go, but look at '78 to '79, September. What was happening in your life around that time? Track the exact same themes. What I find interesting is that you can even do this in your own birth chart. So, if I go to this period, guess what was happening during this period.

My dad and mom moved to Kentucky, where I was to be born, and he started going to seminary, which is the kind of school you go to to become a minister. So he was going to seminary at a place called Asbury in Lexington, Kentucky, where I would end up being born, and they made the shift to move here and start school there, where I would be born, and he would get the credentials to become a Methodist minister while Jupiter was in Leo.

So I could even go back before my birth in my birth chart and see some connection to my family during that time, which is fascinating. During that time, my dad also became the resident director of a juvenile boys' home for troubled youth, so the place that he occupied was as kind of manager, resident director, leadership in a home for troubled youth.

So the theme of residency continues even prior to my birth, which is totally fascinating. I'm going to leave you there, because I think you've got enough to play with. Later, we will do horoscopes when we get closer to June 30. We'll do a deep dive with Jupiter and Pluto, lots of things to cover, but I thought it'd be a good one to introduce.

This week's astrology has a few key moments, but there's a little bit of space to do some other work this week, so I thought we would. That's what I've got for you. Stick around, I'm going to tell you about your one next. Don't forget, my book is out. Check it out, The Oracle Speaks. Can't wait to hear from you guys, and what stories stood out to you, which ones you really liked.

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