Jupiter Transit to Aries - 2023

 On April 21, 2023, Jupiter leaves the sign of Pisces and enters Aries. It will remain there until May 1, 2024. When Jupiter changes signs, it sends waves of expansive energy in new directions. It brings knowledge, prosperity, opportunity and positive support wherever it transits and wherever it casts its glance. 

This Jupiter transit will be unique, since it enters the sign of Aires and the nakshatra of Ashwini one day after a solar eclipse in Aries. The fact that it begins its transit on the heels of an eclipse makes the twelve month period of this transit one that is saturated with spiritual energy. That means that the entire year tends to promote the development of intuition, introspection and deeper insights. It’s a great year for giving up some of your programing and stories and trade them for a more clear-headed look at your life.

During this time, Jupiter will also conjunct Rahu. This is a combination called Guru Chandala Yoga. In a natal chart, this yoga is said to make a person a heretic. Of course, in ancient times, and even in more recent history, a heretic was someone who didn’t believe or act according to the prevailing religious institutions. They were marked as outcasts and rejected by society. People who held a different belief were feared by the rest of society. They were marginalized, criticized, bullied, tortured and even burned at the stake.

In modern times, however, there is more toleration of various belief systems. Well, maybe that is true in developed countries where people are educated and where the laws protect religious freedom and individual expression, but that doesn’t mean that some people don’t still fear and hate others who aren’t part of the mainstream. In fact, with an eighteen year period of Rahu going on in the charts of the USA, UK, European Union, Israel, and (after December 22, 2023) Russia, a large percentage of the world is now in a period where xenophobia, intolerance, bullying and hatred are actually on the rise.

Jupiter’s conjunction with Rahu over the course of this next twelve months, will have two expressions. For some people, it will increase intolerance, xenophobia, religious fanaticism, and political extremism. For others, it will do the opposite, bringing more awareness to the need for promoting mutual acceptance and how to harmonize the many diverse groups in our world. In other words, this transit will probably further polarize the two different sides, and that will bring an increase in the public outcry for fairness and justice, as well as more demonstrations and heated disagreements.

 

That said, in the charts of individuals, Jupiter’s transit of Aries will give a variety of results. Here is a brief description of how the transit might affect you, based on the house Jupiter is transiting in your horoscope. Remember, we use a different zodiac in Vedic astrology, so you have to look at the birth date ranges for each of the Sun signs carefully. If you happen to know your Vedic Moon sign, Lagna (Ascendant)sign or Arudha Lagna sign, then you can read the results for those signs as well. If you happen to know all of those signs, you could potentially read the predictions given for four signs. That may seem confusing, but each of the descriptions reflects a different perspective on Jupiter’s transit, and will tend to manifest in its own way.