Olivia Rodrigo and Tate McRae were born four and a half months apart in 2003, and both have Jupiter in Leo. That sounds like a shared Jupiter return. It isn't. As of October 5, 2026, one of them is in the middle of hers, and the other's next one isn't until 2038.
The two birth dates
- Olivia Rodrigo: born February 20, 2003, an American singer-songwriter and actress, per Wikipedia. Her birthplace in our catalogue is Murrieta, California.
- Tate McRae: born July 1, 2003, a Canadian singer, songwriter and dancer, per Wikipedia. Her birthplace in our catalogue is Calgary.
That's the only public context used here. The rest is astronomy and symbolism.
What a Jupiter return is
Jupiter takes about 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun (NASA). A Jupiter return is when it comes back to the zodiac degree it held when you were born. Because Jupiter sometimes appears to move backwards from Earth, a return can happen as one pass or as three: forward, back, then forward again.
The exact dates come from Jupiter's actual motion, not from adding 12 years to a birthday. That's why two people with Jupiter in the same sign can get very different windows.
How these dates were calculated
We ran Lunara's Jupiter return solver, the same one behind the Jupiter return calculator, once for each person, as of October 5, 2026. It uses one fixed convention:
- Natal Jupiter is taken at 12:00 UTC on the birth date, not at a personal birth time. Both catalogue profiles store a time, but neither is used here.
- Pass dates are UTC days, estimated by the tropical, geocentric Swiss Ephemeris.
- The solver reports the current or next return that still has a pass ahead of the reference date.
Under that convention, Olivia's Jupiter is at about 10.8° Leo and Tate's at about 18.0° Leo. That's the same sign, seven degrees apart.
Tate McRae: a three-pass return, under way
The solver reports Tate's second Jupiter return, with three passes:
- September 22, 2026, moving forward. That's already past.
- March 18, 2027, while Jupiter appears to move backwards.
- May 9, 2027, moving forward again.
So as of October 5, 2026, this is a return in progress. Jupiter has reached 18° Leo once and will double back over it twice more.
Olivia Rodrigo: the next one is the third
For Olivia, the solver skips straight to her third Jupiter return: a single forward pass on August 2, 2038.
That tells us something about the second. Under this convention it has no pass left after October 5, 2026. Jupiter's loop through Leo in 2026–27 doubles back over 18° but, according to the solver, not over 10.8°. This article doesn't give a date for her second return, because the published computation only lists the current or next episode and we haven't added extra calls to find it.
Why the windows differ
The difference is the seven degrees, not the sign. Jupiter's backward loop in this cycle happens to cover Tate's degree and miss Olivia's. Same sign and same birth year, but different timing.
What a Jupiter return is read as
Astrologers read Jupiter as growth, perspective and the wish to widen what you're doing. A Jupiter return is often treated as a checkpoint: a moment to look at what has grown since the last one, and what you'd like to expand next.
That's a symbolic frame, not a promise. A return doesn't bring luck, money or a career result, and it says nothing about either artist's plans or work. A three-pass return is often read as a longer conversation, an idea raised, revisited and settled. A single pass is read as a cleaner moment.
Find your own window
If you were born around 2003, your Jupiter may be in Leo too, and your window could look like either of these, or neither. The Jupiter return calculator uses the same 12:00 UTC convention and lists your current or next passes.
For the rest of your chart, start with the free natal chart calculator. Both full profiles are here: Olivia Rodrigo's natal chart and Tate McRae's natal chart.
Computation receipts are saved with our research notes for October 5, 2026 (Jupiter cohort). Dates are estimates under the stated convention, not personal birth-time degrees.
Text written with AI assistance. The dates come from a published computation and are estimates under the stated convention.