June 29, 2026 – July 25, 2027
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The night of July 24th, 1943, the Fascist Grand Council of Italy voted to strip Benito Mussolini of power. The following afternoon he met with King Victor Emmanuel III, was arrested as he left, and was driven away in an ambulance to avoid detection. Twenty-one years closed in an afternoon.
Jupiter was at 05°, the Leo degree, in Leo.
There was a time when the desire was real. Mussolini had come to power on a genuine conviction, a vision of what Italy could be, and a capacity for the kind of sovereign expression that moves people. The reaching began there. And it kept going. For two decades the desire pushed past what it had been given to carry, the power accumulating past the point of modesty, the extravagance compounding, the gap between the vision and the reality widening until the body of the state could no longer bridge it.
Jupiter entered Leo and reached 05°, the degree where Leo’s energy concentrates into its own pure signal. Whatever the desire had been at its origin, what Jupiter found at 05° was the distance between what the degree required and where twenty-one years of reaching had arrived.
Pluto was at 06° Leo, the Virgo degree. The Virgo degree governs the intestines, the organs that determine what the body absorbs and what it expels. Pluto, the Planet of transformation through dismantling, sat at the precise degree of Mussolini’s natal Sun. His identity, his life force, his claim to sovereign power all lived at 06° Leo. The planet that dismantles sat on top of them, at the degree of the body’s mechanism for rejection.
The state expelled him the way a body expels what it can no longer process.
His natal Moon sat at 09° Gemini, the Sagittarius degree. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter. The Sagittarius degree carries the frequency of truth, honesty, and righteousness. That frequency had been in him at the beginning. Something in him had, at some point, genuinely carried it. Jupiter at the Leo degree arrived to measure the distance between where the Moon’s frequency started and where the reaching had taken it.
Uranus, the Planet of the unexpected, was at 07° Gemini, the Libra degree, the kidneys, the organs of filtration. Uranus moved through the organs of discernment toward his Moon. The unexpected arrived through the body’s filtering system and traveled toward the gap.
Jupiter does not punish. The Gods gave the hammer to Thor because they trusted Thor to carry it honestly. When the reaching goes past what the hammer was given to carry, Jupiter in Leo, the righteous frequency at the degree of Leo’s concentrated sovereignty, arrives to collect what has been spent beyond its means.
On July 25th, 1943, Jupiter arrived to collect.
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Jupiter is the Planet of truth, honesty, and righteousness. In the Old Norse traditions, Jupiter is Thor, and Thor carried the hammer of the Gods because the Gods trusted that he would use it for a righteous cause. The other side of that trust is extravagance, the indulgence of luck that curdles when the appetite it feeds cannot be satisfied. When you bite off more than you can chew, you choke on the very power the Gods granted. Luck must be met with appreciation and modesty, or it becomes the instrument of your own undoing.
Leo is the Fixed Fire Sign ruled by the Sun and symbolized by the Lion. Leo governs joy, laughter, playfulness, and creative expression through the heart. Living from the heart center, expression is bold and fear is not in the equation. The Lion, the King, sits at the top of the food chain without the need to prove it, because the open heart radiates rather than performs its sovereignty. The question Leo always carries is whether the King is benevolent or a tyrant. The benevolent King’s joy lights the room. It creates. It gives. The tyrant’s heart is closed, driven by fear, and a closed Leo heart becomes a black hole: the antithesis of the Sun, drawing the room’s light inward rather than adding to it.
Jupiter in Leo amplifies whatever is in the heart. It does not sort. It does not choose.
What it does is tear the chest open. Whatever is living inside comes out. And in every human heart, what lives there is not simple. The courage and the capacity for devastating overreach occupy the same chest. The desire for something genuine and the extravagance that pushes past every limit live in the same person. Jupiter in Leo expands all of it simultaneously, past what any individual heart was built to contain.
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Twelve years before the transit that expelled Mussolini, Jupiter entered Leo on July 16th, 1931. The Depression had already gutted the global economy. Banks across Germany were collapsing. Unemployment was climbing toward thirty percent. The political center had no gravity left. Into that fracture, the transit sent its amplification in every direction at once.
Franklin Roosevelt ran on the conviction that the scale of the crisis demanded an equal scale of response. He won the presidency in November 1932, Jupiter in Leo’s final weeks. What Jupiter expanded in Roosevelt was the reach itself: the ambition, the willingness to move the machinery of government past what it had ever done before.
In the same window, Adolf Hitler moved into the same fracture. What Jupiter in Leo expanded in him was also a reach: the absolute conviction that he alone understood what was required, the desire amplified past what any person or nation could carry, the extravagance that kept reaching past every limit until the limits gave way.
The 1931-32 transit amplified what was in the room without sorting it. The resolution of what that amplification would produce came twelve years later, under the transit that shares its precise astronomical arc with what is coming.
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Jupiter entered Leo on June 30th, 1943. Mussolini fell on July 25th. The transit then moved into its retrograde, from 27°, the Gemini degree, back toward 17°, the Leo degree itself. The energy turned inward. The Allied commanders gathered. The Tehran Conference of November 1943 brought Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin together for the first time. The retrograde gathered the energy at the Leo degree and waited. The planning moved through the winter.
On June 6th, 1944, the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. The men on those beaches were afraid. Fear was on every landing craft. The open heart is the heart that has found something it loves more than it fears the cost of protecting it. Fearlessness is not the requirement. What Jupiter in Leo calls for is the presence of something worth more than the fear.
In the same transit, Churchill’s wartime decisions contributed to a famine in Bengal. Between two and three million people died. The same man. The same window. Jupiter in Leo expanding everything in every heart it touched: the capacity for collective sacrifice and the capacity for vast, uncounted harm, from the same leaders, in the same year.
On July 25th, 1944, Jupiter’s final day in Leo, the Allied forces broke out of the Normandy beachhead and raced east toward Paris. The transit opened with a king’s expulsion and closed with liberation in motion and a famine that would not end for another year. Jupiter in Leo held all of it. It always does.
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Not all of Jupiter in Leo’s amplifications arrive through the collapse of kings. The 1966-67 transit produced its own revelations, and they came through sound.
By the spring of 1967, The Beatles had retreated from touring entirely and were pouring the unguarded capacity of four open hearts into a recording studio. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on June 1st, 1967. The transit had not called them to make a masterpiece. It opened the chest and the contents arranged themselves.
Three weeks later, the Monterey Pop Festival opened in California. An eruption of undefended creative joy: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, a generation choosing expression as though it were oxygen and they had been holding their breath.
The Vietnam War was simultaneously in peak escalation. 1967 saw some of the highest American casualty rates of the entire conflict. The United States was swinging the hammer in a theater it could not win, biting off more than it could chew, spending luck it had not earned. Jupiter in Leo held both realities in the same window: the open heart flooding the culture with creative expression, and the overreach spending other people’s lives on a war it could not justify.
The Summer of Love is what 1966-67 is remembered for. The war was real. History tends to hold onto what carried something true in it. The reach that went past what it was given eventually exhausts itself.
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The pattern holds at the same frequency across every transit in this record. Jupiter in Leo arrives as amplifier. Whatever the desire was at its origin, whatever the heart was carrying when the transit opened, Jupiter expands it past what any single person or moment could contain.
In 1919-20, women claiming the right to vote were the heart’s desire for recognition and dignity asserting itself through the body politic. The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, Jupiter’s final month in Leo. In 1955-56, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in December 1955, inside Jupiter’s transit of Leo, and what followed was a community choosing to love the dignity of its own existence more than it feared the cost of protecting it.
Jupiter in Leo guarantees one thing: whatever is in the heart gets bigger. The desire that carried something genuine finds more room. The reach that went past what it was given to carry finds its limit.
The Lion comes back for whoever pushed too far.
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Jupiter enters Leo on June 29th, 2026, and transits through July 25th, 2027. It will retrograde from 27°01’, the Gemini degree, back to 16°59’, the Cancer degree, before stationing direct and completing the arc.
The last time Jupiter traced this precise arc, entering Leo in late June, retrograding from the Gemini degree back to the Cancer degree before exiting Leo on July 25th, was 1943 to 1944.
In the window between then and now, Jupiter has moved through Leo eight more times. The pattern has appeared in each one, in different forms, at different scales. The arc is consistent. What changes is the specific hearts the transit opens and what those hearts are carrying.
The sky shows you a frequency and shows you what that frequency has done to human beings before. This is the second time Jupiter has traced this particular arc through Leo at these particular degrees. The first time, the transit held D-Day and the Bengal Famine in the same year. It held Mussolini’s expulsion and the liberation of Western Europe in motion. It held the full range of what human beings carry, amplified past what any individual could contain.
Jupiter is going to open the chest. What it finds there will not be simple. It never has been. The courage and the capacity for overreach live in the same place.
The question this transit has posed in every window across the last century is the same question it will pose again. Is what you are doing with the hammer what the Gods would trust you to do with it? And when the reaching goes past what you were given to carry, will you recognize the weight before the Lion arrives?
The pattern is information. The transit is the opportunity.
