Jupiter square Ascendant natal gives versatility, enthusiasm and generosity. However, it can also indicate a struggle to develop your personality, which can lead to insecurities and relationship issues. Inner restlessness can lead to extensive travel and numerous life changes.

You have the motivation, enthusiasm and competitive spirit to grow, experience all you can, and succeed. Always looking for possibilities to expand, you tend to push the boundaries, go too far, then have to back off. The resulting changes in personality, behavior or beliefs can make you appear superficial, unstable, irresponsible, controversial or untrustworthy.

If you have low self-esteem and self-belief, you may try to improve yourself by consciously becoming more confident and outgoing. But one of the main effects of Jupiter square Ascendant is going too far and not knowing when to stop. This can lead to overconfidence, excessive pride and boastfulness. You may then experience conflict with others, embarrassment or personal crisis.

The same extremes may be experienced between pessimism and over-optimism, laziness and hyperactivity, modesty and showing off, or prudishness and immorality. You may struggle to resolve contradictory feelings of faith and skepticism. Such shifts in behavior and belief may stem from a fear of mediocrity, as well as a desire to avoid being unnoticed or undervalued.

Personal growth is essential, especially if you are easily influenced and susceptible to domination. You need to have a high regard for yourself so that others will do the same, and you can enjoy healthy relationships. Moderation is the key to avoiding the pitfall of extremes. Opportunities for learning to moderate your personality, behavior, beliefs, morals and philosophy will come most often through one-to-one relationships.

Learning moderation will enable you to be generous without being taken advantage of. You have an acute understanding of fairness and equity, but can sometimes take this too far in close relationships. Use your enthusiasm and sense of right and wrong to fight for victims of injustice and the underprivileged.

Jupiter Square Ascendant Transit

Jupiter square Ascendant transit gives you the motivation, enthusiasm and competitive spirit to experience all you can, find a partner, make more money or become successful. It does bring opportunities for personal, material and spiritual growth, but they may seem more like tests of faith.

These opportunities will often reveal themselves through one-to-one interactions. The test of faith comes in knowing how much is enough. A tendency to greed, selfishness, extravagance and excess brings the risk of lost opportunities or worse. Taking too much or not giving enough could result in disappointment, loss, embarrassment or scandal.

Moderation is the key to success. Extremes in behavior or belief must be avoided by finding the middle ground. In relationships, it is essential to share and cooperate. But over-optimism and blind faith must also be avoided. If dating, there is an increased risk of being taken advantage of. The same applies to business transactions.

This Direction stirs up in the Body some unequall Distempers, according to the Signe wherein Jupiter is.
      It brings along with it Hatred, Emnities, Deceptions, Controversies, especially with Lawyers, Church-Men and Gentlemen, who under pretext of Friendship, shall insinuate with the Native to betray him, so that he may suffer thereby; however, he shall not undergoe much losse in Estate.
      In moyst Signes, this Direction threatens the small Pocks or measles unto Youth; unto men of more years an intemperancy and wretchlesnesse in living, viz. carelesse of their Patrimony, subject to receive damage by Suretiship, having no care how to live or support their Family; contention about Tithes or with spirituall persons, in danger for some strange Tenants in Religion: the house or houses whereof Jupiter is Lord, or wherein he is posited, will shew the cause or originall of Troubles: if it be an opposition and in Aquarius or Leo, it usually threatens a Pleurisie or defect in the Liver, or the Blood distemptered; emission thereof is good. [Christian Astrology, William Lilly, 1647, p.658-659.]

Jupiter Square Ascendant Celebrities

Seann William Scott 0°00′, Jon-Erik Hexum 0°01′, Robert Ambelain 0°02′, Anne, Queen of Great Britain 0°07′, Joan Miró 0°08′, Maxim Gorky 0°10′, Ethan Coen 0°18′, Steffi Graf 0°19′, Gene Simmons 0°24′, Peter Cook 0°27′, Oscar De La Hoya 0°30′, Orlando Bloom 0°30′, James Callaghan 0°32′, Immanuel Kant 0°33′, James Dean 0°37′, Arthur Rimbaud 0°39′, John Galsworthy 0°47′, Jessica Adams 0°47′, Francis I of France 0°53′, Gwen Stefani 0°54′, George Michael 0°55′, Jim Carrey 1°01′, Lana Del Rey 1°02′, Camila Cabello 1°09′, Nicole Kidman 1°10′, Joseph I, Holy Roam Emperor 1°11′, Alex Ferrari 1°11′, Dan Rather 1°11′, Alan Jardine 1°14′, Neymar 1°16′, George Lucas 1°17′, Lee Miller 1°23′, Olivia Newton-John 1°25′, Christopher Reeve 1°29′, Meat Loaf 1°30′.