Jupiter governs growth, wisdom & fortune. A Jupiter transit is its movement through the sidereal zodiac — each sign change, retrograde and combustion colours how growth, wisdom & fortune plays out for everyone. Below are Jupiter's 6 moves in 2026; pick another year to the right.
| Date | Planet | Transit | Rāśi (sign) | Nakshatra · pada | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | ||||||
| Wed11Mar | Jupiter | Direct | Gemini | Punarvasu · 1 | — | Jupiter turns direct — growth, wisdom & fortune picks the thread back up and moves forward. |
| June | ||||||
| Tue2Jun | Jupiter | Sign change | ♊︎ Gemini♋︎ Cancer | Punarvasu · 4 | — | A fresh chapter for growth, wisdom & fortune — Jupiter leaves Gemini for Cancer. |
| July | ||||||
| Tue14Jul | Jupiter | Combust begins | Cancer | Pushya · 2 | ☀ Combust | Jupiter slips into the Sun's glare — its themes dim and turn erratic for a while. |
| August | ||||||
| Thu13Aug | Jupiter | Combust clears | Cancer | Pushya · 4 | — | Jupiter steps clear of the Sun — its light, and its significations, return. |
| October | ||||||
| Sat31Oct | Jupiter | Sign change | ♋︎ Cancer♌︎ Leo | Magha · 1 | — | A fresh chapter for growth, wisdom & fortune — Jupiter leaves Cancer for Leo. |
| December | ||||||
| Sun13Dec | Jupiter | Retrograde | Leo | Magha · 1 | ℞ Retro | Jupiter turns retrograde — a spell to revisit and refine growth, wisdom & fortune, not to begin. |
Every ingress (from → to), retrograde/direct station and combustion begin/end — computed from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The Status column carries a planet's ongoing retrograde / combustion until it changes. Dates are IST and may shift a day for your timezone.
The live transit board shows where every planet — the Moon included — is right now, on a gochar chart, and lets you step to any month or year.
Open the live transit board →It's Jupiter moving from one rāśi (and nakshatra) to the next in the sky. Because Jupiter rules growth, wisdom & fortune, its transits time shifts in those areas for everyone — sharpened when it stations retrograde or direct, or moves in and out of the Sun's combustion.
A transit is where a planet is in the sky at a given time, as opposed to where it was at your birth. Vedic astrology reads these moving positions — which sign and nakshatra each graha occupies, and whether it is retrograde or combust — to time the texture of a period.
A planet stays retrograde from its retrograde station until its direct station, and combust while it is within a few degrees of the Sun. The Status column flags that ongoing state on every event in between — so a sign change that happens while a planet is still retrograde is marked as such.
Positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides. The eight non-Moon grahas are listed (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu); the Moon changes sign every ~2¼ days, so it is shown on the live board instead.