Social Planets: Jupiter and Saturn, Expansion and Restraint

Personal planets describe everyday details. Jupiter and Saturn address larger questions: where do you grow and find opportunity, and where must you work and take responsibility? Together these social planets act like an accelerator and a brake.

Following the personal planets, Jupiter changes signs roughly yearly and Saturn about every two and a half years. People of similar ages often share their signs. Their themes bridge individual experience and the wider social context, hence the name social planets. See the ten planets for the whole picture.

Move through twelve years: Jupiter travels roughly one sign per year and completes a circuit, while Saturn crosses only about five signs: