If in the world according to Saturn, one gets exactly what one deserves and positive outcomes are only afforded through hard work and perseverance, then in the world according to Jupiter, waiting for the right moment and relying upon fortune gets equal—if not better—results. As Jupiter crossed Madonna's Sun in 1979, she answered a random want ad—several of the ads she would answer in the previous year without avail—and her luck would change. Auditioning for a production company that called for a back-up dancer, Madonna not only landed a job but so impressed the producers that they wanted to turn her into a touring disco star. Her lucked reversed.

However, the want ad would also display facets of Jupiter that went beyond mere luck and opportunity. Madonna's horizons would expand again. As a young twentysomething, Madonna was flown over to Europe where disco was growing in popularity as it was waning in the United States. Here we again see Jupiter's proclivity toward culture, travel, and the inclusion of other ways of life to expand one's worldview. Moreover, while in Europe, she could rest comfortably in two other dimensions of Jupiter—luxury and excessive indulgence. The disco production company catered to her needs and satisfied her every material desire. She was transported from life of want and scarcity in New York to a life of extravagance and comfort while in Paris. Food, money, chauffeuring, and alcohol were Madonna's in exchange for her services as pre-made disco star.

But Madonna did not rest easily in Jupiter's excess and luxury. She quickly realized that the abundance she was receiving didn't feed her in the way that her life in New York had. As Madonna exclaims, "I missed struggling…they wanted to spoil me and they wanted me to dress a certain way. So they dragged me to restaurants and no one would speak English to me. So once again I was playing the part of the rebel. I didn't want to do anything they wanted me to do." (6) If Madonna was to be famous and be in the spotlight, it had to be on her terms, in her unique way, and with the element of power and control that she desired. Although she received a tremendous boost of confidence from the experience, she was still wanting more. Astrologically, the needs symbolized by her Sun-Uranus conjunction and her Sun-Pluto conjunction were not being met or fed by Jupiter's lap of luxury. Uranus demanded her own uniqueness be manifested and Pluto yearned for struggle, control, and intensity that a being superficial disco tart was not granting.

Although some accuse Madonna of over accentuating this period of frustration—of turning the process of rejection and testing normal for any star into an overblown, media-ready Mein Kampf—there is little doubt that these were the years that forged Madonna into a war-hardened woman taking knocks from the greatest of all urban jungles, New York. An individual lacking Madonna's confidence and ambition would have been knocked out from this severe testing from Saturn. On the positive side, because of Madonna's birth chart configuration and because of the relative slowness of Saturn's orbit (29.5 years), she would be able to take the most difficult passage of Saturn in one large dosage. However, of greater value, it was this period that matured Madonna, forcing her to take her ambitions seriously, to adjust her dreams and confidence to the reality of the world, and to thicken her skin.