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Jupiter Return dates for people born in 1978: May 23, 2025 to August 10, 2026 by birth month, solved from the Swiss Ephemeris. Jupiter in Gemini or Cancer or Leo, one or three passes, and your fifth return.
Transiting Jupiter re-crosses the natal Jupiter of 1978 births between May 23, 2025 and August 10, 2026. Each row gives the earliest and latest date for that birth month, solved from the Swiss Ephemeris for every birthday in the month at noon UTC (a birth time moves natal Jupiter by a fraction of a degree, so it can shift a pass by a day or two). 46 of the 365 birthdays in 1978 get the full three-pass return. The calculator above solves your own passes to the minute.
Jupiter changed sign during 1978, so 1978 births carry Jupiter in Gemini or Cancer or Leo depending on the birthday, and the month rows above mark the months that straddle the change. Astrologers read a Gemini Jupiter return as growth through learning and talk: more ideas, more contacts, more languages, and the discipline to pick one, and a Cancer Jupiter return as growth through belonging: home, family, roots and care, and the generosity that comes from feeling safe, and a Leo Jupiter return as growth through being seen: creative confidence, warmth, play and leadership, and the risk of performing instead of creating. The house it occupies in your own chart, which needs a birth time, is where the return shows up.
Jupiter spends about four months of every year retrograde. When the retrograde loop falls on your natal degree, transiting Jupiter crosses it three times: forward (the first exact pass), backward (the retrograde pass, which astrologers read as the review), and forward again (the final pass, when the new chapter settles). When the loop falls elsewhere, Jupiter crosses once and keeps going. Both are real Jupiter returns; the three-pass version stretches the opening across most of a year. The rows above say which kind each 1978 birth month gets.
The third return for 1978 births ran between June 8, 2013 and August 26, 2014, around age 36. The fifth lands between October 4, 2036 and July 25, 2038, around age 59. Jupiter's cycle is about 11.9 years on average but not a clock, so these are solved crossings rather than birth year plus a round number. Enter your birth details above and the calculator dates every return you will live through.
The fourth Jupiter return for 1978 births landed between May 23, 2025 and August 10, 2026, depending on the birthday: the earliest date is a first exact pass for February birthdays, the latest a final pass for November birthdays (Jupiter's retrograde loop means the order does not simply follow the calendar). The month table on this page narrows it to your birth month; the calculator above solves the exact passes for your birthday.
No. Jupiter moves about thirty degrees in a year, so a January and a December 1978 birthday carry natal Jupiter positions up to a sign apart, and transiting Jupiter reaches them months apart. Within one birth month the spread is usually a week or two, which is why each row shows an earliest and a latest date instead of one day.
It depends on the day: Jupiter changed sign during 1978, so 1978 births carry Jupiter in Gemini or Cancer or Leo. The month rows above note which months straddle the change; the calculator resolves it exactly from your birth date.
Not for the dates. Jupiter moves at most about a quarter of a degree a day, so the birth date alone fixes each exact pass to within a day or two. The birth time decides the house natal Jupiter sits in, which is the part astrologers use to say which area of life the return expands, so enter it if you have it and leave noon if you do not.
Counting from the day transiting Jupiter first comes within one degree of natal Jupiter to the last day it leaves a degree after the final pass, the fourth return for 1978 births spans May 19, 2025 to August 14, 2026 across the whole cohort; for one birthday it is a few weeks with a single pass and most of a year with three. 46 of the 365 birthdays in 1978 get the three-pass version.
The third return for 1978 births ran between June 8, 2013 and August 26, 2014 across the cohort, around age 36. The next one after this, the fifth, lands between October 4, 2036 and July 25, 2038, around age 59. These are solved crossings, not birth year plus a round number.