Jupiter (Guru · गुरु)

Dignity and Friendships

Nature

The greatest benefic — Jupiter expands whatever it touches, which is not always a favour

Own sign(s)

Sagittarius and Pisces

Exalted in

Cancer, deepest at 5°

Debilitated in

Capricorn

Moolatrikona

Sagittarius 0°–10°

Friends

Sun, Moon, Mars

Enemies

Mercury, Venus

Neutral

Saturn

This is the natural (naisargika) friendship table, which never changes. Temporary friendship based on the two planets’ positions in a specific chart is calculated separately and can override it.

Jupiter in Each of the 12 Rashis

The dignity above is the summary; each rashi changes what Jupiter can actually do in it. These twelve pages carry the verdict with its degree, the two-way relationship with the sign lord, the signs Jupiter aspects from there, the nine nakshatra padas it crosses, and — computed from the ephemeris — the dates it occupies that sign.

Technical Profile

Aspects (drishti)

The 5th, 7th and 9th houses — the trinal aspect, the most benevolent in the system

Directional strength

1st house, shared with Mercury

Combustion

Within 11° of the Sun

Vimshottari dasha

16 years

Nakshatras ruled

Punarvasu, Vishakha, Purva Bhadrapada

Body

Liver, fat and fat metabolism, the arterial system, thighs and hips

Karaka for

Children, teachers and gurus, higher learning, dharma, wealth, and the husband in a woman's chart

Weekday

Thursday

When Jupiter Is Strong

A strong Jupiter is protection. It does not remove difficulty but it consistently arranges for the native to be helped at the point of difficulty — a teacher appears, a loan is forgiven, an opportunity arrives through someone else's goodwill. It gives a sound moral compass that does not require effort, genuine respect from students and juniors, children who do well, and a relationship with learning that lasts past formal education. It is the single best graha to have aspecting the ascendant, and the 5th and 9th aspects mean one well-placed Jupiter can support three houses at once.

When Jupiter Is Weak or Afflicted

A weak Jupiter shows as bad judgement in slow motion. Advice is taken from the wrong people, opportunities are declined for reasons that later look foolish, and generosity is misdirected. Debilitated in Capricorn it produces a rigid, transactional morality; afflicted it produces the opposite, a moral looseness the native rationalises. Physically it governs fat and the liver, so affliction shows as weight gain, liver and gall bladder trouble and diabetes — the classical Kapha diseases. Delayed marriage in a woman's chart and difficulty with children in either are the two most-cited effects.

The 16-Year Guru Mahadasha

The sixteen-year Guru mahadasha is the one most people hope for. Well-placed it delivers education, marriage, children, property, promotion and a general widening of the life — and it delivers them without the friction that Saturn's periods demand. Badly placed it expands the wrong things: weight, debt, complacency and commitments the native cannot meet. Jupiter never simply blocks; it enlarges, so the question in a Guru dasha is always what exactly is being enlarged.

Best and Worst Houses for Jupiter

House placement is only half of it — the sign, the house lord’s condition and the aspects on Jupiter decide the outcome. The dignity shown above is under Kaal Purush, the natural zodiac laid on the bhavas; in a real chart the sign depends on the ascendant, which each of those pages works out for all twelve. See the 12 houses for what each one governs.

Remedies for Jupiter

• Fast on Thursdays and take a single yellow meal — chana dal, turmeric rice. Jupiter is the most responsive of the nine to a simple observed fast.
• Recite Om Guruve Namah or the Guru Brihaspati mantra; the classical japa count for Jupiter is 19,000.
• Donate chana dal, turmeric, yellow cloth, ghee or books on a Thursday, and feed a cow.
• Serve a teacher, a priest or an elder who taught you something, and never accept a fee for advice you were not qualified to give. Jupiter is the graha of the guru and it responds to being one honestly.

Mantra

Om Guruve Namah

Deity

Brihaspati, Dakshinamurthy, and Vishnu

Gemstone

Yellow Sapphire (Pukhraj)

The gemstone is the last remedy to reach for, not the first — it strengthens Jupiter unconditionally, which is the wrong outcome if Jupiter rules a difficult house from your ascendant. Confirm against the chart. See gemstones by rashi.

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