Pisces is one of the two signs that belong to Jupiter. Ptolemy said so in the second century, and William Lilly said it again in 1647. So you might think the planet would linger here. It does the reverse. Pisces is one of the signs Jupiter crosses fastest.
There is a second surprise, and it is the one this page is built on. A visit of Jupiter to Pisces comes in two sizes. In a clean year, the planet stays a year and about ten days, then moves on. In a broken year, it steps in and out, and the time it spends inside adds up to about nine months. There is almost nothing in between. The last visit, in 2021 and 2022, was a broken one. It came in three pieces, not two, and it gave Pisces just 262 days.
I measured all of this over 800 years of sky, and checked it against the planet tables of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The method is on this page, so you can check it too. Here first is the part most people come for: the dates.
Do you have Jupiter in Pisces? Every stay from 1900 to 2100
Your Jupiter sign is the sign the planet stood in at the moment you were born. It changes about once a year, so it goes by birth year more than by birthday. Jupiter comes back to Pisces about every twelve years.
Some visits are one clean run. Others are cut up by retrograde motion. Retrograde means the planet seems to slide backwards against the stars for a few months. Nothing turns round in space. Earth, on the inside lane, simply passes Jupiter, the way a slow car seems to slip back as you overtake it. When that backward slide happens near the edge of a sign, Jupiter steps out of the sign and comes back.
The table lists every stretch of time with Jupiter in Pisces from 1900 to 2100. The second and third columns are in UTC, the world clock used by astronomers. The last column gives the same moments on the New York clock, with EST for winter time and EDT for summer time. All times are rounded to the minute.
| Visit | Jupiter enters Pisces, in UTC | Jupiter leaves Pisces, in UTC | The same moments in New York. |
| 1903 to 1904 | 20 Feb 1903, 08:35 | 1 Mar 1904, 03:00 | 20 Feb, 3:35 am EST to 29 Feb, 10:00 pm EST. |
| 1915 to 1916 | 4 Feb 1915, 00:43 | 12 Feb 1916, 07:11 | 3 Feb, 7:43 pm EST to 12 Feb, 2:11 am EST. |
| 1927 to 1928, part 1 of 2 | 18 Jan 1927, 11:43 | 6 Jun 1927, 10:14 | 18 Jan, 6:43 am EST to 6 Jun, 6:14 am EDT. |
| 1927 to 1928, part 2 of 2 | 11 Sep 1927, 03:43 | 23 Jan 1928, 02:54 | 10 Sep, 11:43 pm EDT to 22 Jan, 9:54 pm EST. |
| 1938 to 1939, part 1 of 3 | 14 May 1938, 07:46 | 30 Jul 1938, 03:02 | 14 May, 3:46 am EDT to 29 Jul, 11:02 pm EDT. |
| 1938 to 1939, part 2 of 3 | 29 Dec 1938, 18:34 | 11 May 1939, 14:08 | 29 Dec, 1:34 pm EST to 11 May, 10:08 am EDT. |
| 1938 to 1939, part 3 of 3 | 30 Oct 1939, 00:45 | 20 Dec 1939, 17:03 | 29 Oct, 7:45 pm EST to 20 Dec, 12:03 pm EST. |
| 1950 to 1951, part 1 of 2 | 15 Apr 1950, 08:58 | 15 Sep 1950, 02:23 | 15 Apr, 3:58 am EST to 14 Sep, 10:23 pm EDT. |
| 1950 to 1951, part 2 of 2 | 1 Dec 1950, 19:57 | 21 Apr 1951, 14:57 | 1 Dec, 2:57 pm EST to 21 Apr, 9:57 am EST. |
| 1962 to 1963 | 25 Mar 1962, 22:07 | 4 Apr 1963, 03:19 | 25 Mar, 5:07 pm EST to 3 Apr, 10:19 pm EST. |
| 1974 to 1975 | 8 Mar 1974, 11:11 | 18 Mar 1975, 16:47 | 8 Mar, 7:11 am EDT to 18 Mar, 12:47 pm EDT. |
| 1986 to 1987 | 20 Feb 1986, 16:05 | 2 Mar 1987, 18:41 | 20 Feb, 11:05 am EST to 2 Mar, 1:41 pm EST. |
| 1998 to 1999 | 4 Feb 1998, 10:52 | 13 Feb 1999, 01:23 | 4 Feb, 5:52 am EST to 12 Feb, 8:23 pm EST. |
| 2010 to 2011, part 1 of 2 | 18 Jan 2010, 02:11 | 6 Jun 2010, 06:28 | 17 Jan, 9:11 pm EST to 6 Jun, 2:28 am EDT. |
| 2010 to 2011, part 2 of 2 | 9 Sep 2010, 04:49 | 22 Jan 2011, 17:12 | 9 Sep, 12:49 am EDT to 22 Jan, 12:12 pm EST. |
| 2021 to 2022, part 1 of 3 | 13 May 2021, 22:36 | 28 Jul 2021, 12:42 | 13 May, 6:36 pm EDT to 28 Jul, 8:42 am EDT. |
| 2021 to 2022, part 2 of 3 | 29 Dec 2021, 04:10 | 10 May 2022, 23:22 | 28 Dec, 11:10 pm EST to 10 May, 7:22 pm EDT. |
| 2021 to 2022, part 3 of 3 | 28 Oct 2022, 05:10 | 20 Dec 2022, 14:33 | 28 Oct, 1:10 am EDT to 20 Dec, 9:33 am EST. |
| 2033 to 2034, part 1 of 2 | 14 Apr 2033, 22:45 | 12 Sep 2033, 22:28 | 14 Apr, 6:45 pm EDT to 12 Sep, 6:28 pm EDT. |
| 2033 to 2034, part 2 of 2 | 1 Dec 2033, 22:35 | 21 Apr 2034, 09:40 | 1 Dec, 5:35 pm EST to 21 Apr, 5:40 am EDT. |
| 2045 to 2046 | 26 Mar 2045, 05:08 | 4 Apr 2046, 16:11 | 26 Mar, 1:08 am EDT to 4 Apr, 12:11 pm EDT. |
| 2057 to 2058 | 8 Mar 2057, 20:52 | 19 Mar 2058, 06:18 | 8 Mar, 3:52 pm EST to 19 Mar, 2:18 am EDT. |
| 2069 to 2070 | 20 Feb 2069, 09:12 | 2 Mar 2070, 08:59 | 20 Feb, 4:12 am EST to 2 Mar, 3:59 am EST. |
| 2081 to 2082 | 3 Feb 2081, 19:34 | 12 Feb 2082, 09:09 | 3 Feb, 2:34 pm EST to 12 Feb, 4:09 am EST. |
| 2093 to 2094, part 1 of 2 | 17 Jan 2093, 14:38 | 6 Jun 2093, 10:42 | 17 Jan, 9:38 am EST to 6 Jun, 6:42 am EDT. |
| 2093 to 2094, part 2 of 2 | 6 Sep 2093, 16:51 | 22 Jan 2094, 16:49 | 6 Sep, 12:51 pm EDT to 22 Jan, 11:49 am EST. |
To use the table, find your birth year. Then check that your birth moment falls between an entry and the exit on the same line. If you were born on one of the border days, the hour matters. A baby born in New York at 10 pm on 28 December 2021 has Jupiter in Aquarius. A baby born there at 11:30 pm the same night has Jupiter in Pisces.
From 1900 to 2100 there are 17 visits. Ten are clean. Seven are broken, and three of those come in three pieces.
2021 and 2022: one visit in three pieces
Many people remember the last visit as a two-part event. Jupiter came into Pisces in the spring of 2021, slipped back into Aquarius in the summer, and returned at the end of the year. That much is right. But the story did not end in May 2022. Jupiter went on into Aries, turned backward there, and fell back into Pisces for a last visit of 53 days in the autumn of 2022.
| Piece | In, UTC and New York | Out, UTC and New York | Days inside Pisces. |
| First piece, 2021 | 13 May 2021, 22:36 UTC. In New York, 6:36 pm EDT. | 28 Jul 2021, 12:42 UTC. In New York, 8:42 am EDT. | 76 days, then back into Aquarius. |
| Second piece, 2021 to 2022 | 29 Dec 2021, 04:10 UTC. In New York, 11:10 pm EST on 28 Dec. | 10 May 2022, 23:22 UTC. In New York, 7:22 pm EDT. | 133 days, then on into Aries. |
| Third piece, 2022 | 28 Oct 2022, 05:10 UTC. In New York, 1:10 am EDT. | 20 Dec 2022, 14:33 UTC. In New York, 9:33 am EST. | 53 days, then into Aries for good. |
Add the three pieces and you get 262 days. Yet the whole visit, from first entry to last exit, runs 586 days, well over a year and a half. For most of that time the planet was somewhere else.
So who was born with Jupiter in Pisces in those two years? Only the babies born inside one of the three pieces. A child born in September 2021 has Jupiter in Aquarius. A child born in the summer of 2022 has Jupiter in Aries. A child born on 1 December 2022 has Jupiter in Pisces again.
Four turning points shaped this visit. Jupiter stood still and turned backward on 20 June 2021, at 2 degrees of Pisces. It turned forward again on 18 October 2021, at 22 degrees of Aquarius. It turned backward on 28 July 2022, at 8 degrees of Aries. Its last forward turn came on 23 November 2022, at 28 degrees and 48 minutes of Pisces. These dates are the same in UTC and in New York. A degree is one thirtieth of a sign, and a minute of arc is one sixtieth of a degree.
Those turns tell you one more thing about your chart. Babies born from 20 June to 28 July 2021 have Jupiter in Pisces and moving backward. So do babies born from 28 October to 23 November 2022. Babies born from 23 November to 20 December 2022 have it in Pisces and moving forward again, in the last 1.2 degrees of the sign.
A full year, or nine months
Here is the full count over 800 years, from 1600 to 2400. In that span Jupiter made 67 complete visits to Pisces.
| Kind of visit | How many, 1600 to 2400 | Days inside Pisces, summed over the pieces. |
| One clean run | 38 visits | From 373 to 376 days. |
| Two pieces | 19 visits | From 265 to 301 days. |
| Three pieces | 10 visits | From 254 to 267 days. |
Look at the gap. No visit lands between 301 and 373 days. A clean visit gives Pisces a year and a week or more. A broken one gives it eight to ten months. The same sign, the same planet, and a gap of about three months between the two kinds.
The shortest piece of any sort lasted about 38 days, at the end of 1773. That was a return from Aries, like the one in late 2022. It was a short dip, not a full crossing. The shortest full crossing, one clean run from Aquarius to Aries, lasted 373 days. The longest spread, from first entry to last exit, was 588 days.
Why would a broken visit give Pisces less time, and not just the same time in pieces? The answer lies in the backward loops. Each year, Jupiter spends about four months drifting back through ten degrees or so, then covers the same ground again going forward. That is slow ground. Whichever sign holds the loop collects all that slow time.
In a clean visit, the whole loop sits inside Pisces. In 1998, for example, Jupiter turned backward at 28 degrees of Pisces and forward at 18 degrees of Pisces. Pisces kept every slow day. In a broken visit, the loop crosses a border. In 2021 it began in Pisces and ended in Aquarius, so Aquarius got part of the slow time. In 2022 a second loop began in Aries and ended in Pisces, and Aries got a share.
There is a neat reason why this has to happen. Jupiter takes 11.86 years to go round the zodiac. Earth passes it about once every 13 months. So in one trip round the twelve signs, Jupiter makes only ten or eleven backward loops. Twelve signs, eleven loops: at least one sign misses out on a whole loop every trip. Pisces misses out on about four visits in ten.
A pattern that repeats every 83 years
The clean and broken visits do not come at random. Over the whole 800 years they follow one strict order. First come four clean visits. Then come three broken ones: two pieces, then three, then two. Then the cycle starts again.
That block of seven visits lasts about 83 years. Seven trips of Jupiter round the Sun take 83.0 years. In the same time Earth passes Jupiter 76 times. Both clocks line up again, so the sky repeats the same dance. The visits in three pieces fall in 1606, 1689, 1772, 1855, 1938, 2021 and 2104. Each is 83 years after the last.
If you were born in 1938 or 1939, your Jupiter story looks like your grandchild’s in 2021 and 2022. The dates shift by a few days. The shape stays the same.
The next visit starts on 14 April 2033, at 22:45 UTC, which is 6:45 pm EDT. It comes in two pieces. Jupiter slips back into Aquarius on 12 September 2033 and returns on 1 December 2033. It leaves for Aries on 21 April 2034. After that come four clean visits, starting in March 2045.
One of the shortest signs for Jupiter
If Jupiter shared its time out fairly, each sign would get one part in twelve. That is 8.33 percent. Over 67 full laps of Jupiter, 1607 to 2402, Pisces gets 7.71 percent. Only Aries, at 7.57 percent, and Taurus, at 7.68 percent, get less. At the top, Libra gets 9.14 percent.
Averaged over those 67 laps, Jupiter spends about 334 days in Pisces for each trip round the zodiac. My count agrees with the figure in our guide to the planet Jupiter. But no single visit lasts 334 days. It is the mean of two kinds of visit, one near 374 days and one near 270. It describes the sky well. It describes no real visit at all.
Why is Pisces so short? Jupiter’s path round the Sun is a slight oval. The planet moves fastest at its closest point to the Sun, which astronomers call the perihelion. In our era that point lies near 15 degrees of Aries. Pisces sits just before it, on the fast side of the orbit. Libra sits on the far side, where the planet moves slowest. The sign itself has nothing to do with it. It is a matter of speed along the orbit.
How I measured it
A result you cannot check is worth little, so here is the method.
First route. I used the open source code library Astronomy Engine. For every day from 1600 to 2410, it gave me Jupiter’s place along the zodiac, seen from Earth. The zodiac here is the tropical one, which starts at the spring equinox. Each time the planet changed sign, I cut the gap in half, again and again. That pins the moment to within a fraction of a second. Then I added up the time in each sign over 67 full laps, from Jupiter’s entry into Aries in May 1607 to the same entry in March 2402. I checked the daily scan against a scan every three hours from 1900 to 2100. It found the same 303 sign changes at the same moments.
Second route. Horizons, NASA’s service, serves Jupiter itself only from 1600 to 2200. So for the share of time, I asked it for the place of Jupiter’s system as a whole, the planet and its moons. I took one reading every three days over the same 67 laps. Both routes give Pisces 7.711 percent of the time, to the third decimal. Then, for each Pisces border crossing from 1900 to 2100, I asked Horizons for Jupiter’s place minute by minute. The two routes agree to within half an hour. The times in the tables are the Horizons ones, rounded to the minute. The four turning points of 2021 and 2022 match to within the hour.
One warning if you check your own chart. Near a border, a few minutes of birth time can change the answer. Software that rounds its planet tables can put a border birth on the wrong side.
Jupiter at home: what the old books say
In the old scheme, every planet other than the Sun and Moon owns two signs. Ptolemy set this out in the Tetrabiblos. That is his handbook of astrology, from the second century. He gave each planet one sign on the side of the Sun and one on the side of the Moon. For Jupiter, those are Sagittarius and Pisces. Pisces is its home on the night side.
Vettius Valens, writing in the same century, gives Pisces to Jupiter in his Anthologies. William Lilly does the same in 1647, in Christian Astrology. He calls Sagittarius the day house of Jupiter and Pisces its night house. A house, in this old sense, is a sign a planet owns. The Latin word is domicile.
Lilly gives Jupiter one more small claim here. He splits each sign into three faces of ten degrees each. The middle face of Pisces, from 10 to 20 degrees, belongs to Jupiter. So a Jupiter in that stretch holds two of his marks of rank at once.
Two other planets have a stake in Pisces. Venus is exalted here, which means it is an honored guest, strongest in its own way. Mercury is at its weakest in Pisces. It sits opposite its own home, Virgo, and opposite the degree where it is honored most.
Planets with no rank in Pisces live there as guests of Jupiter. For a planet of action, see Mars in Pisces. Jupiter owns this sign, which is why a guest like Mars holds no rank of its own there.
Then came Neptune. After its discovery in 1846, most modern writers handed Pisces to Neptune. Liz Greene’s long study of Neptune works in that frame. Chris Brennan and Demetra George, who work from the Greek sources, keep Jupiter as the lord of Pisces. You do not have to pick one. Many readers now name both.
Home does not mean more time
It is easy to think that a planet at home spends more time there. It does not. Rank is a matter of meaning. Time is a matter of speed along the orbit. Jupiter owns Pisces and Sagittarius. It crosses Pisces in 7.71 percent of the time and Sagittarius in 8.76 percent. The two homes sit on different parts of the orbit, so they get very different shares.
There is a second way to ask the question. Out of people born with the Sun in Pisces, how many also have Jupiter there? That is a different count, limited to one season of the year. The answer is 9.26 percent of Pisces Suns, over the same 67 laps. It comes from our guide to the Pisces sign. Do not compare it with my 7.71 percent. One counts all births. The other counts only births in the Pisces season.
What the placement means
Jupiter is the planet of growth, trust and good fortune. The old books call it the greater benefic, the planet that helps most. Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac. It is a water sign, with the feel of the sea: wide, deep, and hard to fence in.
With Jupiter at home here, the planet can do its work without borrowing. It grows what Pisces already holds: care, faith, and a strong inner life. In the old texts, a planet in its own sign behaves like a host in his own house. It can be generous, because it has the means.
Modern writers read the same pairing through belief. Stephen Arroyo links Jupiter to faith and to a sense of a wider order. Robert Hand links it to growth and to the urge to join with something larger. In Pisces, that growth runs toward kindness and a sense that everyone is in the same boat. People with this placement can find their luck by helping. A nurse, a teacher, a musician or a volunteer can all fit the pattern.
The risk is the same wide feeling with no edge. A Jupiter here can give too much, trust too fast, or drift. The fix is not to shrink the kindness. It is to give it a shape: a set time, a set budget, a clear yes and a clear no.
There is one more point from the Greek sources. Jupiter belongs to the day team of planets, with the Sun and Saturn. Pisces is its home on the night side. So Jupiter in Pisces is a day planet in a night house. In a chart cast by day, it belongs to the team in charge. In a chart cast at night, it is off duty, and the Greek authors rated its help as milder. Brennan and George both explain this rule of teams, called sect.
Reading your own Jupiter in Pisces
The sign is only the start. Three more things change how this Jupiter shows up.
The house. Your birth chart splits the sky into twelve houses, each one a part of life, such as home, work or friends. The house tells you where this Jupiter does its work. In the whole sign method, each house is one full sign, counted from your rising sign.
The turning points. If you were born while Jupiter was moving backward, its growth turns inward. It favors review, study and second chances over new starts. The dates above tell you which births in 2021 and 2022 fall in that group.
The degree. A Jupiter born in the last degree or two of Pisces, as in late 2022, sits on the edge of Aries. Some readers treat such a planet as eager to move on. A Jupiter in the middle ten degrees also holds its face, as Lilly counted it.
Your Jupiter return
About every twelve years, Jupiter comes back to the place it held at your birth. Astrologers call this your Jupiter return. For people born with Jupiter in Pisces, the returns fall in the years of the table above. A child born in 2021 or 2022 will have a first return in 2033 or 2034, the next broken visit.
Because that visit is broken too, the return comes in three passes. Take a child born on 20 May 2021, with Jupiter just past the start of Pisces. The planet crosses that point on 19 April 2033. It slides back over it on 8 September 2033, and crosses it a last time on 7 December 2033. In a clean year, the planet crosses your degree once, or three times if a loop falls right on it.
Where this fits with the signs next door
Your Jupiter sign comes from your birth year, and your Sun sign from your birthday. The two can differ. For Jupiter at its other home, see Jupiter in Sagittarius. There the planet runs on ideas and open roads.
One sign back sits Jupiter in Aquarius. It places growth under distance and principle. One sign on sits Jupiter in Aries. There, raw drive pulls the planet its own way. Aries and Taurus are the only signs Jupiter crosses faster than Pisces.
Frequently asked questions
When was Jupiter last in Pisces?
In three pieces. From 13 May to 28 July 2021, from 29 December 2021 to 10 May 2022, and from 28 October to 20 December 2022. These are UTC dates. In New York the second piece starts on the evening of 28 December 2021.
When does Jupiter return to Pisces?
On 14 April 2033, at 22:45 UTC, or 6:45 pm EDT in New York. That visit comes in two pieces and ends on 21 April 2034.
How long does Jupiter stay in Pisces?
From 373 to 376 days in a clean visit. From 254 to 301 days, summed over the pieces, in a broken one. The mean over 67 full laps of Jupiter, 1607 to 2402, is 334 days per trip round the zodiac, but no single visit lasts that long.
Is Jupiter strong in Pisces?
By the old rules, yes. Pisces is one of its two homes, in Ptolemy, Valens and Lilly alike. Modern writers who give Pisces to Neptune still treat Jupiter as at ease here.
Is Jupiter in Pisces rare?
A little rarer than average. Jupiter spends 7.71 percent of its time in Pisces over 67 full laps of Jupiter, 1607 to 2402, against 8.33 percent for a fair share. Only Aries and Taurus get less.
I was born in 2022. Do I have Jupiter in Pisces?
Only if you were born before 10 May or from 28 October to 20 December, in UTC. Births from 10 May to 28 October 2022, and after 20 December, have Jupiter in Aries.
Go deeper with your own chart
Dates are a start. Your chart is the rest. An Astrovision report reads your Jupiter with its sign, its house, its turning points and the planets it meets. It comes as a written guide and as a personal podcast you can play on a walk.