What Jupiter Retrograde 2025 Means, According to Your Sign

Jupiter retrograde creates a space for reconsidering and realigning, integrating and surpassing. As the planet of expansion retrogrades in the sign of Cancer, we operate not through our minds but our emotions. We rely on what is, intuited, and sensed. Jupiter retrograde isn’t loud. It is quiet, unseen, and nurturing. And it has the capacity to reshape not only what comes ahead but what has led us to respond to life in long-patterned ways.

When is Jupiter Retrograde 2025?

The annual backward spin of Jupiter begins on November 11, 2025, and will last until March 10, 2026.

What Does Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer Mean?

Known as the great benefic of the cosmos, Jupiter is our planet of expansion, growth, abundance, and hope. It invites us to expand our faith in the support of the Universe and the goodness in life. Wherever Jupiter travels in the zodiac, it brings this same vibration of expansion, growth, opportunity, and hope.

Earlier this year on June 9, 2025, Jupiter entered Cancer for the first time in 12 years. An introspective sign ruled by the Moon, Cancer focuses on the belonging and safety we feel within our bodies, our families, and whatever spaces we consider home.

Jupiter in Cancer has been trying to bring us the insight and intuition to come to know our innermoset needs, both internally and in relationship to others. It has been asking us to do so with acceptance as well as reverence. It has been trying to teach you not only to  understand your needs but to learn how to meet them without judgment.

Representing our formative years, Cancer is the inner waters holding all memories—conscious and unconscious, cherished and challenging—that seek an outlet. What exists within us moves through us. Childhood patterns reappear through longings, fears, emotional reactions, decisions, attachments, and the ways we open as well as the ways we withdraw. These stories echo throughout our bodies to shape our instincts and search for voice.

As Jupiter begins its retrograde, it’s energy turns inward. Here we begin to reflect on what we have been experiencing since June. It’s a space of questioning past beliefs, inherited patterns, and ways of being. We are questioning for the purpose of review and realignment rather than recrimination against ourselves. Our past feeds into our present which in turn feeds into our future.

What Jupiter Retrograde Means for Your Sign

Throughout this retrograde, the expansive aspects of Jupiter are brought into our very beings. We explore our sensitivities, our needs, and our comfort or discomfort with emotion and vulnerability. We review our stories around belonging, intuition, and our past. We ask, do these stories and ways of being serve us? Are they aligned with who we are now? What needs to be rewritten or released?

Along with its expansive nature, Jupiter offers the wisdom of a higher perspective. While it is retrograde, we are given the space to observe the memories and thought patterns—both conscious and unconscious—that exist within us from a vaster vantage. We are granted the awareness to peer into whatever has been longing to be expressed through us. We are given the opportunity to return to the beauty and wisdom of what we knew as the child version of ourselves.

Jupiter’s backward spin in Cancer helps us find the kind of nurturance that fundamentally changes our experience of being alive. It is safety. Belonging. Love. Permission to feel. And trust in what lies ahead.

With this awareness, we become what we need. Here we are both child and parent. As we learn to meet our needs, our actions ripple back in time yet also travel forward to reshape both our inheritance that we received and what we are able to pass along to ourselves and others. Read for your rising sign.

Aries Rising

This retrograde invites a reconnection with your emotional realm. It asks you to experience safety within your feelings, including situations that bring vulnerability. It’s a chance to revisit your past for the purpose of untangling memories, reorienting perspectives, and unleashing stuck thoughts and patterns. These coming months can be deeply medicinal when you allow them to be a homecoming. Let this time be a reclaiming of yourself.

Taurus Rising

Welcome to a nurturing experience of your mind. Jupiter retrograde is a review of stories that keep you living in the past. Narratives that were formed too young. Perspectives that were never yours but inherited through others. This review invites you to bring your current self into thought patterning that was formed in your past. Let yourself see more.

Gemini Rising

This isn’t a retrograde of the mind. It’s a retrograde of the body. It invites you to feel, to move, and to invite healing into your relationship with beauty and worthiness not as stories in your mind but truths living within every cell. Your mantras in the months ahead are worthiness, embodiment, safety, and belonging.

Cancer Rising

Welcome home to your emotions. This retrograde invites you to review the layers, identities, expressions, and perspectives that you’ve explored in the last year. Not with judgement but with awareness of and gratitude for of the understanding that it has offered you. There is still space to clear what doesn’t align in order to come back to the voice and self that has been waiting underneath it all.

Leo Rising

This retrograde asks you to swim within your own essence and find the medicine you seek within your own emotions. It brings you a review of past stories for the purpose of closure—the kind of closure in which memories, emotions, and unconscious beliefs and patterns are are cleared from body and spirit. Consider this release a long, slow breath out and a reconnection with what is sacred within you.

Virgo Rising

This is a retrograde to tune in to your forward direction, your effect on others, and your sense of purpose. But not through rigidity. Let yourself be guided by your inner compass as it communicates through intuition and emotion. Clear the noise, the expectations, and the narratives of what life should look like. Simply let yourself listen. And then let yourself be led by what you feel.

Libra Rising

This retrograde is personal. It travels into your innermost needs, your formative years, your sense of home, and your safety within yourself. It does so for the purpose of the life you are building and the effect you are making. This retrograde is a review and realignment in service to your fulfillment and your life’s work.

Scorpio Rising

This retrograde is a reminder of the power, creativity, and transformation inherent in your perspective. The beliefs that filter your experience of life and shape your experience of belonging, purpose, and meaning. These perspectives are too important to go unquestioned. Why are you here? What is your truth? Your purpose? What needs to shift in in your experience of the everyday for you to align with your answers?

Sagittarius Rising

Consider this Jupiter retrograde a loving collaboration with emotion, depth, vulnerability, and unconscious beliefs. It takes you by the hand as you explore your underworld and illuminates the fears and hurts waiting to be tended to with compassion, the different parts of yourself awaiting reclamation, and the unconscious patterns waiting to be made conscious. Your power here comes from your own self-love.

Capricorn Rising

The months ahead are a time to reorient your perspective, as if you are looking in a mirror. Here you can see your unmet needs and how they try to be met through your loved ones. Can you see how your younger self longed to be heard? Simply be patient as you observe how this plays out in your emotional reactions, unconscious patterns, and relationship dynamics.

Aquarius Rising

This retrograde invites your own version of reparenting. It’s a time for tending to yourself on all levels as if you are your own parent. Review your habits and routines, the way you speak to yourself and the way you treat your body. You are both inner child and compassionate parent. What needs to change?

Pisces Rising

This retrograde acts as a reclamation of your light. It’s a space to bring compassion to any fears and other emotions relating to being your light, living your truth, being seen, and creating with authenticity and enthusiasm. It asks you to provide yourself with the kind of safety that allows you to move through this world in a manner that’s entirely true to yourself.

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