Being anything less than 100% yourself is unacceptable — that’s the message Jupiter has for you the moment it moves into Leo.
In this episode, Nicole unpacks one of the biggest transits of the year: Jupiter’s move into Leo, the sign of boldness, creativity, and center stage. This kind of expansion only comes around once every 12 years, and Nicole gives you a simple exercise to find the clues for exactly what’s about to unfold in your own life.
She also gets personal, sharing what this same transit stirred up in her own business the last time it rolled around — and how a moment of frustration turned into one of the biggest pivots of her career.
Nicole connects this transit to the bigger astrological picture headed our way, including a major shift that’s already reshaping the themes of authenticity, individuality, and what it really means to stop hiding behind a mask. Then she goes sign by sign through the rising signs, breaking down exactly where in your chart this expansion is going to show up and what kind of assignment it’s handing you this year.
Tune in to find out what this Jupiter in Leo transit means for your rising sign — and how to actually work with it this year instead of against it.
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Transcript
Nicole Laino (00:30)
Hello and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design. I’m your host, Nicole Laino And we are talking today about a specific transit. We’re gonna get into the details of it because we’re gonna talk about Jupiter moving into Leo. And this is a really big transit because Leo is the sign of boldness, of being yourself, of being playful, being creative. You know, it really does take center stage.
And then we have Jupiter, the planet of expansion and abundance and more. We have them coming together for the first time. Jupiter transits a sign for an entire year every 12 years. So the last time that Jupiter was in the sign of Leo was 2014. So something interesting that you can do is you can take a look and say, like, what was I doing in 2014? What expanded in my life?
In 2014, what changed in my life? Where did things get bigger? Because that’s how we can start to see how these things play out in our lives. Because, and you know this if you listen to the the transit episodes that I do with Christina Luna every month, that what we’re looking at with the transits, and hopefully what you’re getting from this, whether it’s a human design transit or
It is a astrological transit, whatever it is. I hope that you’re seeing them as assignments. So we have we’re all under Jupiter and Leo right now. But your chart is gonna have a very specific way of interacting with that energy. I’m gonna give you kind of the overall global thing that we are going to be experiencing.
And then I’ll actually break it down by house. So we’ll break it down by the rising sign. So if you know your rising sign, I’ll kind of tell you where this might show up. And that that’s kind of a clue for you to go back to 2014. Take a look at what was happening in 2014. And did this area of my life that I’m gonna kind of highlight here, did this area of my life expand or change in some way? How did I change and what did that cause in my life? Because when I go back to 2014.
I think about that was when I started really my entrepreneurial journey. I was living in Los Angeles. I was trying to be an actor. I wasn’t finding that to be a very fruitful endeavor. It was very frustrating. And I wasn’t making any money. So I started to look at other opportunities to try to make money. Now Leo’s in a very specific place in my chart as well. So it expanded me in my business. And how did it expand me in my business?
Well, if you look at Leo and my chart, you know, and and what I was doing at that time, that was when I started my CRM company. I built a I built a software with my husband. I built a software back in twenty fifteen we started building it. And so this twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen. So it’d be summer of twenty fourteen to summer of twenty fifteen. And it was during that year that we planned and built this piece of software that was alive up until
This last year we did sunset that that software, but it was up and running and it actually supported us for a long time. It was really successful and and wonderful for a period. And then we just decided that it was no longer aligned with what we were doing and it became more of a distraction. And so much had changed in technology in those, you know, ten plus years that it felt like the right time to let it go.
But we started it during this period. And of course, I had no idea about this stuff back then. I, you know, outside of a general horoscope, I had no idea about astrology or what any of this stuff meant. But what we get is these astrological movements, these aspects that they make to our charts, the collective themes, they give us assignments. They tell us where there’s work to be done.
So sometimes we get healthy, helpful aspects where something comes right on to a placement that we have in our own chart and it helps support it in some way to do what it needs to do. That part of us suddenly gets a little boost. And sometimes they make harsher or more challenging aspects, and that’s showing us where we have work to be done. So if you’re somebody who approaches life from a strong personal development.
mindset where you look at things where nothing is happening to me, it’s only happening for me, and you use everything to your advantage to grow, then I personally don’t really feel like the challenging aspects feel all that horrible. I mean, there’s lots of uncomfortable ones, but I also know that we come out on the other side of those transform.
If you have that type of attitude, if you do the work, if you pay attention, if you don’t get sucked into the despair of how difficult things are, and you start to shift them. But now generally Jupiter is a very positive planet. It is one of the benefic planets. It is one that does nice things to us. It expands things. And based on the house that you have it in, it tells you like what area of your life.
Is going to get that expansion or going to be the focus of that expansion. But from a general standpoint, Leo in Jupiter, what that means is, and this is something that has been coming to me, God, over the last few weeks, but I absolutely felt it the strongest right before Jupiter moved into Leo, where it started to be this just refrain in my head that was saying.
Being anything less than a hundred percent yourself is unacceptable. Unacceptable. And that is what Jupiter and Leo is saying, because Jupiter is saying, like, you get to turn the dial up on who you are, no matter where this shows up in your chart. It’s going to challenge us. We’re going to have a year where I think we are going to be challenged to step more and more and more into our authenticity. Now
pair that with the fact that halfway through this transit, we are going to get the obviously the shift from the cross of planning to the cross of the sleeping phoenix, which cross of the sleeping phoenix, if you’ve been listening to this show for any period of time, you know has a it has an individual theme to it, that it is suddenly going to be the age of the individual, and it’s also going to be the age of authenticity.
You know, gate fifty-nine, that is part of this ⁓ of this new cross that we have. It doesn’t allow for masks or you are completely trapped behind them. That’s the shadow. But the challenge is to be absolutely unguarded and completely open to yourself and to others.
So I think that the assignment right now, what we are getting for this year going forward, and of course, this summer is going to be probably the easiest time that we have with this energy. There are the most positive aspects to it. It might get a little bit more challenging as time goes on, but I also think that again, we use these to our advantage, right? But this is a year where we are in a training ground right now for
Really allowing all of us to be seen, warts and all, and being so freaking proud of it. Cause that is, you know, Leo gets a rep for being egotistical or too much. But the truth is is that a really aligned Leo, like the best of that sign, is just unapologetically themselves, because they love themselves and they love you and they want you to be the best version of yourself. Because wouldn’t that just be so much fun and so awesome?
So that’s like, can we take some of that into our businesses this year? Can we take some of that into our lessons to say, like, this is a year? Again, we had the year of the fire horse, like we’re still in it. Year of the fire horse about passion, about creativity, about being yourself, about being an unbridled free animal out there and just allowing yourself to be seen. I think that this Leo in Jupiter is adding to it, and of course, next year.
February, when we shift over into the cross of the sleeping phoenix, that’s going to be our theme, our background frequency, which is going to be calling us to this more and more every day. Okay? So let’s go through this through the houses or through the rising signs will be the easiest thing for you. So you don’t have to, if you know what your rising sign is, you’re going to be listening for that. Because that’s just telling you the area that this expansion is going to be calling you to. Okay? So the first
The first one is Leo Rising. We’ll start with the Leo Risings and we’ll say personal reinvention and maximum visibility. This is gonna be about you. Leo sits in the house of you and your body and who you are. It’s gonna be about confidence, charisma, leadership, really stepping into this is this one’s gonna be all about being seen.
And it’s gonna call you to take up more space. Then we have cancer rising. So if you are a cancer rising, this sits in your second house. That is the house of finances and stability and income, like that type of thing. So it might be new rev revenue streams. It might be an expansion of your finances. It could be an expansion of your income. It could be an expansion of investments or
you know, anything anywhere where Jupiter is could also be overindulgences. So if you’re overindulging in your first house Jupiter placement, then you might be egoic. You might be ⁓ I think it’s still gonna be calling you to be too much and challenge yourself to allow yourself to be too much. Just don’t let it go to your head. And second house it’s going to be, you know, you’re gonna have expansion of your income, expansion of your revenue extremes. It’s going to be an expansion of your
Of your finances and investments and all these very material things, just don’t overindulge because that Jupiter’s also the planet of overindulgence. You know, we can eat too much, we can buy too much. I have that pretty much all the time. But that is that that’s something that you want to be watching out for. if you are a Gemini rising.
Then this is gonna be about communications. about getting your voice out there, writing more or teaching more, or building your audience and growing your following, and really just starting to hone your voice. it could be launching a podcast, but really it’s gonna be around your voice.
around communications, around your ideas. Gemini is all about ideas and crafting those into something that can be communicated. So really diving into that and making that something where you give yourself permission to play in that area and really get down to what do I think about this? What do I really want to share and putting that out in the world? So this is going to be an area for you to expand your voice. So is this the year that you launch your podcast?
Is this the year that you get on a hundred podcasts as a guest? Is this a year that you write your book? Now, if you’re a Taurus rising, Leo will sit in your fourth house. This is upgrades to your home, your family, what you consider
your safe place, your sanctuary. That will be maybe you’re doing an expansion on your home. Maybe you move to a new home, maybe you move to a new place. but really expanding what feels good for you and feels like like this would be about an expansion or, you know, improvements to where you live, where your family is, home, what is home to you, and just expanding that.
If you are in Aries rising, this is your fifth house. this is a really natural home for Leo. This is Leo’s home house. this is going to be about creativity and romance and pure joy. And wherever this is, ⁓ wherever your creativity goes, you might find that there just seems to be more creative sparks or you feel more joyful in your life. This is just a really fun, beautiful.
House that is all about inspiration. You might feel really inspired. You might feel really artistic. You might, you know, this might be a year your specific creative heart. And it isn’t about making it.
Perfect. It isn’t about making it, it’s just about doing it. This is the one that just says, like, have you ever thought about painting? Like maybe this is where you go and you paint and you find your joy in that. Now, if you’re a Pisces rising, then this is transiting your sixth house. And this is the house of routines and getting things just so and your work environment, your habits. So
you might see that your physical health improves. You might see that your routines feel like they are getting kind of extra juice. This might be the year that you really get into your physical well being. You might get really into, going to the gym or swimming every day or something like that where
you want to do it more. And it finally starts. This might be the year you lose those last five pounds because you put the work in and you enjoyed it so much. Seventh house, if you’re in Aquarius rising, then where you can look for this expansion might be in partnerships. It might be in, in your relationship, it might be the year that you meet someone if you’re single.
It might be a year that you kind of rekindle something if you are with a partner that relationship starts to flourish and have a really fun year of expansion. this is the this is, you know, a really lovely house to have Jupiter transiting. and ⁓ and you might just see this come out in your committed relationships and the people that you are close to.
if you are a Capricorn rising, then this will be transiting your eighth house. This is the house of other people’s money. This is the house of psychological breakthroughs. So you might have a lot of aha moments. I challenge you to actually share those. this could be a year of passive income.
For you too. This could be a year of just found money, other people’s money, money coming that you didn’t have to earn necessarily, which could be really nice. but this house, you know, if you have Jupiter transiting this house, I encourage you to pay a lot of attention to those psychological breakthroughs that you have. indulge in them a little bit.
share them with people. Your assignment is going to be maybe to go deep into yourself. This might be a year of introspection, but turn that into something. Can you turn that into something that is passive income? If you’re a SAG rising, this transits your ninth house, this is going to be
about travel and broadening your horizons, getting out of your hovel and developing your wisdom. you might take a course, you might get certifications. This might be a year that if you feel like you wanna go deeper with your teachings or you have something that’s coming together and you don’t have all the knowledge that you need yet, this might be the year that you invest in something like that.
This is also the house of publishing. So maybe this is the year that you write your book. Maybe this is the year that you publish your book. Maybe this is the year that you go and you travel and experience other places. That could be a really good use for this. I always think that it’s interesting when people travel to other places and work from those places and seeing how that affects you. This might be a year where you’re finding that.
A vacation might be part of your ⁓ work plan for this year. That might be part of your strategic plan is to get out of the house and move and go someplace else. And maybe you’re having meetings there or you’re hosting a retreat someplace.
this is the house of long distance travel. So where could you go? What’s calling to you? And don’t say that you don’t have enough time because this is what we mean. When you work with the energies that we have and you don’t fight it because your mind is telling you, no, I don’t have time, I can’t do that, I don’t have the money, you miss out on the benefit that could have been there if you just did what felt right.
So follow your strategy and authority. If it’s calling you and you feel like doing it, then go. If you are a Scorpio rising like moi, then this sits in your 10th house. this is gonna be about career advancements. This is going to be about really being seen, highly visible if you work in a corporation, then it’s going to be, you really raising
your image within the company. If you are an entrepreneur like me, this is going to be about visibility. This is going to be about promoting yourself. This is going to be about meeting other people and really starting to elevate your image. And it’s just a big year for your career. So this is going to be a year of you and again where this sits, this is Leo in the 10th house.
this is going to be about you being fully seen for who you are. And this is going to be through your business specifically. So if you are a Scorpio rising, this is the year that you really let the the boundaries go. You release the chains and you allow yourself to really be seen and take up a lot of space on the
Business and career stage. So this is the year you pitch yourself for things that feel crazy to you. This is where you really step out and you allow people that you wish have seen you, you show up like you deserve to be seen. Okay? And have fun. If you’re a Libra rising, this is in your 11th house, this is gonna be about social circles, networking, social media.
⁓ networks growing. This is gonna be your year of really connecting with people. So finding supportive friends, finding a supportive community, really going all in on relationships. It might be a year that you join a mastermind where you’re really connecting with people. it might be a year that you go all in on your social media presence where you are starting to grow your following. It might be a year where you grow it on Substack or something like that,
it has to be the right community for you and the right place. But this is a year where your network grows. It’s a year where your influence grows. So the eleventh house, that is the house of social circles, of networking, of your social impact. Could be activism
Maybe you’re donating some of your proceeds from your revenue to causes that you care about. Now if you’re a Virgo rising, if you have Leo in the 12th house,
This is this could be a spiritual awakening. This could be a really behind the scenes inner year for you with so much to show for it at the end. this is a year for you to tune into your intuition, to tune into your dreams that you don’t let anybody else see. To this is a year for you to be journaling, to be really going deep on yourself.
And building something up, getting ready for this to enter into your first house next year. So this is like that inner work year for you, where you’re going to discover things about you. Discover things about the things that maybe you haven’t been looking at. And those things might get really big and be impossible for you to not look at. But then come next summer when
Jupiter moves into your first house, it’s gonna be game on. You’re going to be ready if you do all that work this year. You will be so ready to step out onto that stage and to take up space as yourself. And it’s gonna be impeccable because you’re a Virgo rising. All right. So
I hope that this gave you a little bit of a window into how you can pay attention to this particular area of your life. How if we were talking about this, if it were your social circles, then you are really giving in to the pull towards social circles. If different people start reaching out to you, really building those relationships, allowing them. Don’t allow them to pass by.
Don’t be apathetic about it. Don’t be too scared to reach out to people that you that feel out of reach for you. This is the year where what this is saying is the energy is supporting this aspect of your life. It wants to help you expand, but you do have to meet it halfway. It isn’t guaranteed. None of this stuff is. It’s potential. So you can work with this energy. This is a partner that’s going to come in.
it’s like you get an agent in this particular area of your life that is saying, I’m gonna help you get bigger here. So if like the 12th house, if you’re a Virgo rising, then it’s like a spiritual guru is moving in with you and they’re gonna show you your stuff and they’re going to help you work through it, and they are going to be supportive to you having a spiritual awaking awakening. That is what this means. But you have to do that work. They’re not gonna do it all for you.
So I hope this inspired you to put a focus on this area of your life, to have fun with it, to get excited about it, to think about what expansion in this area could actually look like for you. It’s a great thing to journal on and go look at 2020. What expanded for you, or what was the area of impact that year from 2014 in the summer, from July till July of 2015?
what expanded or changed or was an area of tremendous focus. What was shown to you that year and how that that’ll help you understand how it might show up for you now. You’ll see of course you have will have grown in the last 12 years, of course. But this is where you can really have an interesting way of looking at this.
⁓ of of seeing the evidence from the past and have a little bit of an inkling about where this might be going now. So I hope that this inspired you. I wish you a wonderful rest of your day. And remember, in order to have an unshakable business, you must first become an unshakable human. So thanks for letting us help you become unshakable with human design. We’ll see you next time.