Jupiter-Uranus

Jupiter-Uranus combines the leaps of Jupiter with the unexpected nature of Uranus, and the expansiveness of Jupiter with the innovation of Uranus.

This combination is often referred to as the big leap of freedom, or the breakthrough combination, connoting Jupiter’s association with success and expansion, with Uranus association with emancipation and resolution. Another term used for this combination is the “get out of jail free card.” Those born with this combination may experience episodes in which they easily experience happy endings and resolutions. Another way this combination may show up in life involves sudden unexpected (Uranus) openings to larger vistas (Jupiter) of understanding, abundance, and growth (Jupiter).

Below are examples of famous people born with this combination in their natal charts (natal chart is another word for astrological birth chart, or pictographic representation of the sky when they were born). When we witness how this combination shows up in the lives of others, we can become more self-aware of how this combination shows up in our own lives. The more we are conscious of the ways astrological alignments (otherwise known as “aspects”) show up in our lives, the more the archetypal tensions involved can become integrated in our lives, thus revealing inherent strengths to us.

Please note that the tension of this archetypal combination, as illustrated in the lives and creations of the famous people in the examples below, may be demonstrated in ways that are more integrated or less integrated.

  • The Jupiter-Uranus combination is associated with fortuitous (Jupiter) escapes (Uranus). The fortuitous escape is a trope often seen the James Bond movie franchise. Actor Roger Moore, born with the Jupiter-Uranus combination in his birth chart, can be seen enacting the fortuitous escape as James Bond here and here. Similarly actor Sean Connery, who was also born with the Jupiter-Uranus combination in his birth chart, can be seen enacting a fortuitous escape here. Similarly, the Jupiter-Uranus combination in the birth chart of author Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton can be seen in his novel “Paul Clifford.” The main character in the novel is sentenced to death. Yet in the end he experiences the fortuitous (Jupiter) escape (Uranus) and finds freedom (Uranus) abroad (Jupiter) in America with his cousin. Rapper Ice Cube, also born with this combination in his natal chart, is known for his song “It Was a Good Day,” in which he narrates in the following lines a fortuitous day which was free from violence, including the final two lines he is known for, which refer to an AK assault rifle:

“Today was like one of those fly dreams

Didn't even see a berry flashin' those high beams

No helicopter lookin' for a murder

Two in the mornin', got the Fatburger

Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp

And it read, "Ice Cube's a Pimp!"

Drunk as hell, but no throwin' up

Halfway home, and my pager's still blowin' up

Today, I didn't even have to use my AK

I gotta say it was a good day”

  • The Jupiter-Uranus combination often shows up as the big (Jupiter) leap of innovation or freedom (Uranus). We can see this quality in the life of Albert Einstein, born with the Jupiter/Uranus combination in his natal chart. When he postulated the theory of relativity, he allowed the human race to take a huge leap in the way we perceive of time, space, light, and gravity, by perceiving how gravity is due to curvature in the time/space continuum. Similarly Orville Wright, born with the Jupiter-Uranus combination in his birth chart, created flight, which was a huge leap of innovation that released the human race from the limitation of only being able to move about on the surface of the planet. In the field of technology, we can see the Jupiter-Uranus combination present in the life of Steve Jobs, born with this combination in his natal chart, who pushed the field of technology and personal computing by making big leaps of innovation.

  • The Jupiter-Uranus combination can be symbolized as the big (Jupiter) rebel (Uranus), the lucky (Jupiter) rebel (Uranus), or the just (Jupiter) rebel (Uranus). We can see such a characteristic demonstrated in the life of actor James Dean, who was born with this combination in his natal chart. Similary, whistle blower Edward Snowden, also born with this combination in his natal chart, represents a rebelliousness (Uranus) on the side of what he perceives to be the just and fair (Jupiter).

  • As fortuitous and exciting as the Jupiter-Uanus combination can be, a challenging side can involve an inflationary aspect in which the exciting Uranian rebel energy becomes associated with the ego in an overblown Jupiterian style, as humorously demonstrated here by actor Jack Black, who was born with this combination in his natal chart: https://youtu.be/D_lDW7mnLO8?t=69