What this period actually is
Between November 11, 2025 and March 11, 2026 Jupiter moves back through 10.1 degrees of the zodiac, from 25°09' Cancer to 15°05' Cancer, without changing its own direction at any point. Jupiter is further out than Earth, so the 119 days between November 11, 2025 and March 11, 2026 are the stretch in which Earth overtakes it on the inside track and the planet appears to fall behind.
The mechanism behind the Jupiter station of November 11, 2025 is the same one described in what retrograde motion is. Read astrologically, the convention is that Jupiter — scale, belief, growth and the appetite for more — turns inward between November 11, 2025 and March 11, 2026, which is a habit of reading rather than a claim about the sky.
The dates in full
Station retrograde: November 11, 2025 at 25°09' Cancer, 16:42 UTC. Station direct: March 11, 2026 at 15°05' Cancer, 03:30 UTC. The whole retrograde stays inside Cancer: the band from 25°09' Cancer back to 15°05' Cancer is the stretch Jupiter crosses three times.
Jupiter first reaches 15°05' Cancer — the degree it will retrograde back to — on August 17, 2025, and does not clear 25°09' Cancer, the degree it stationed at, until June 6, 2026, so counting both shadows the passage runs 293 days rather than 119.
What the period is good for
For the 119 days between November 11, 2025 and March 11, 2026 the workable version of the advice is narrow: take stock of what you actually believe before enlarging anything.
If one thing is worth timing around the stretch that ends March 11, 2026, it is over-committing on the strength of a forecast — not because the sky forbids it, but because a marked period is a reasonable prompt to check work you would otherwise wave through. Treating the whole of November 11, 2025 to March 11, 2026 as a general curse is the version worth ignoring.
Which house it falls in for your sign
Counted from each sign as the first house, this Jupiter retrograde, stationing at 25°09' Cancer falls here:
| Sign | House | What that house covers |
|---|---|---|
| Aries | 4th house | home, family, roots and private ground |
| Taurus | 3rd house | conversation, short trips, siblings and daily information |
| Gemini | 2nd house | money, possessions and what you consider yours |
| Cancer | 1st house | your own bearing, appearance and the first move |
| Leo | 12th house | rest, solitude, what is behind you and what runs unattended |
| Virgo | 11th house | friends, groups, networks and what you are aiming at |
| Libra | 10th house | career, public standing and what you are known for |
| Scorpio | 9th house | distance, study, belief, travel and the long view |
| Sagittarius | 8th house | shared money, debt, intimacy and what is not said out loud |
| Capricorn | 7th house | partners, opponents and anyone you deal with one to one |
| Aquarius | 6th house | work, routine, health and the small maintenance of a life |
| Pisces | 5th house | play, romance, children and anything you make for its own sake |
The cycle either side of this one
The previous Jupiter retrograde ended 280 days before this one began, and the next station comes 277 days after March 11, 2026.
- Previous: October 9, 2024 to February 4, 2025
- Next: December 13, 2026 to April 13, 2027
- All Jupiter retrograde periods: the full list
Questions people ask about this
When does Jupiter go retrograde in 2025?
On November 11, 2025 at 16:42 UTC, at 25°09' Cancer.
When does it end?
The direct station falls on March 11, 2026 at 15°05' Cancer, 119 days after the turn.
What is the shadow period?
For this passage it runs August 17, 2025 to June 6, 2026: the stretch in which Jupiter crosses the same degrees it covers three times in all.
Does Jupiter retrograde break things?
No. Between November 11, 2025 and March 11, 2026 the planet only appears to reverse, and the tradition reads that as a stretch better suited to review than to launch.