Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have never exactly played it low-key. From stadium sing-alongs to skybox PDA, their romance has been a spectacle from the start. So it’s only fitting that when Kelce got down on one knee, the stars were in on the action, too. Both Swift and Kelce are in the middle of their Jupiter return—a once-every-12-years cycle that showers you with opportunities and just enough luck to make a leap of faith feel like the right move.
You’ve heard of the Saturn return, that three-year boot-camp-style cycle that hits every 29 years, when the planets put you through your paces. The Jupiter return, though, is a very different story. Instead of cosmic drills, you get wave after wave of abundance. Jupiter is the galactic gambler, daring you to take a risk that could pay off big. For Kelce, that gamble was dropping down to one knee in front of the world’s most famous woman.
Both Swift and Kelce were born in 1989, when the planet of good fortune was circling through Cancer. This June 9, Jupiter settled back into the sign of the Crab until June 30, 2026—its first visit here since 2014. Translation? The NFL star and music mogul are experiencing a full year of cosmic expansion, filled with breathtaking adventures, groundbreaking decisions, and opportunities too good to pass up. Here’s hoping their wedding is televised, because this could be better than a Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Their engagement announcement was also perfectly timed with Venus strutting into Leo, the sign of flamboyant romance and grand gestures. If you’re going to tell the world you’re hard-launching for a lifetime, why not do it when the planet of love is dressed like a showgirl?
Astrologers raised eyebrows at the timing, wondering if Mercury retrograde had snuck into the storyline. But the proposal actually happened after Mercury turned direct. The cosmic mischief-maker was no longer in reverse—a good omen for when, as Swift jokingly wrote on Instagram, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
Still, Jupiter doesn’t just sprinkle cosmic confetti. The maximizer planet magnifies everything, good and bad. Engagements under this transit can feel like a fairy tale—and sometimes a circus. Already, the couple has felt both sides. One day after announcing his engagement to Miss Americana, Kelce launched his Tru Kolors campaign with American Eagle.
On her side of the aisle, Swift’s revealing photo shoot for her October 3 The Life of a Showgirl album release generated its own swirl of commentary. And with the couple’s big day approaching, there are surely more hot takes to come. Under Jupiter’s watch, adoration and criticism come in equally supersized doses. Overexposure is as much a gift of Jupiter as luck itself.
But the beauty of the Jupiter return is that it often ushers in milestones that feel fated. For Swift, this cycle coincides with her evolution into an even more global force: sold-out tours, record-shattering albums, and now, an engagement that ties her personal life to one of football’s reigning stars. For Kelce, Jupiter may have emboldened him to trade the locker room spotlight for a different kind of stage—one shared with a woman who has rewritten the rules of fame itself.
So will this Jupiter return be their cosmic blessing, or their cautionary tale? The truth is, it will probably be both. They’ll ride a wave of good fortune all year long, but they’ll also have to manage the glare of nonstop attention. That’s Jupiter’s paradox: it gives, it expands, but it doesn’t discriminate between the applause and the gossip.
For now, though, their engagement is a textbook Jupiter return moment: romantic, high-visibility, and larger-than-life. After all, when Jupiter is the dealer, the only winning move is to go all in.
And if you’re wondering about Tayvis’s compatibility—and, of course, you are—it ticks many of the right astrological boxes. She’s a fiery Sagittarius, unafraid to heat up any room. As an air-sign Libra, he fans her flames.
Both have one of the love planets in sultry Scorpio. What we love even more is the configuration: Travis has demure Venus (the classically femme planet) and Taylor has assertive Mars (the archetypal masculine planet) in the sign of the Scorpion.
While Swift recently described her hobbies on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast as “from the 1700s,” her dynamic with her fiancé is the opposite of trad wife. We love to see a powerful woman being celebrated by her partner, whether her fans are breaking the sound barrier at a stadium show or she’s at home perfecting her sourdough recipe.
You can read our full breakdown of Tayvis’s astrological compatibility here, along with a complete analysis of Taylor Swift’s and Travis Kelce’s birth charts.
