Jupiter Transit in Cancer

Cancer is Jupiter's sign of exaltation. Parashara and Brihat Jataka place the highest point at the fifth degree, and the sign lord, the Moon, is Jupiter's friend. This is the finest Jupiter transit of the twelve-year cycle, and for about a year Jupiter gives wisdom, protection, prosperity and peace of mind through the home.

Cancer rules the mother, the house, land, vehicles, the mind and the heart's sense of belonging, and each of these prospers. Property is acquired, the family grows, and the mother's blessing is felt directly. Emotional life steadies. The person is more able to care for others.

The nakshatras are Punarvasu, Pushya and Ashlesha. Punarvasu, Jupiter's own nakshatra, opens the stay with renewal. Pushya, ruled by Saturn, is the most auspicious nakshatra for nourishment and dharma, and Jupiter exalted in Pushya is the peak of the transit. Ashlesha, ruled by Mercury, closes it with a more calculating quality.

From the Moon, Gemini, Pisces, Capricorn, Scorpio and Virgo hold Jupiter in the second, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh, the houses Phaladeepika favours. Cancer Moons and Cancer lagnas carry an exalted Jupiter in the first house, a rare grace for health, standing and marriage. Sagittarius Moons have it in the eighth and Leo Moons in the twelfth, where even an exalted Jupiter spends more than it earns.

The transit tests the capacity to receive grace and pass it on. Serving the mother and the home is the surest way to make the year kind.

Practise gratitude. Feed guests, honour the mother and the teacher, and give yellow cloth and turmeric on Thursday as Parashara prescribes. Recite Om Brihaspataye Namah, and set aside a portion of any gain for charity, since an exalted Jupiter rewards generosity above all.

Jupiter in Cancer for each Moon sign

Counted from the natal Moon. The grades follow Guru bal as used in North Indian and Nepali practice: favourable in the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th, mixed in the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 10th, where Guru puja is advised, and needing care in the 4th, 8th and 12th. Read the ascendant the same way. Vedha, Ashtakavarga and the birth chart can change the result.