| No doubt there will be a
thousand manifestations after the line-up of
many planets in the sign of Taurus early May
2000. At the end of May there will be a
conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn in
Taurus once more for the first time in 20
years. This recurring conjunction - once
every 20 years - was the most important cycle
known to the ancients, before the planets
beyond Saturn were discovered. But still
today the cycle of Jupiter and Saturn
determines political structure, and also
often the organization of your own life. Each
5 years there is a next aspect in this cycle.
Think back to 1981, when the previous
Jupiter/Saturn conjunction took place, and
than 1986 (the first square), 1991 (the
opposition) , and 1996 (the last square).
Maybe you moved, or decided on another
career. Because something is definitely
happening in the structure of your own life
when Jupiter and Saturn conjoin, even if this
takes place somewhere in your chart where it
does not transit anything. Of course the
conjunction will occur in one house or the
other, and this will be the area in your
life, where this aspect will finally work out
(in combination with the houses that have
Capricorn and Sagittarius on the cusp and to
make it nicely complicated, in combination
with where Jupiter and Saturn are in your
natal chart). But what will this concretely
mean? What really does happen, when Jupiter
and Saturn conjoin?
It means that all Saturnian principles and
all Jupiterian principles will join up for a
moment in space, they make love as it were,
or at the very least agree amongst each other
and start to cooperate! Imagine how strange
it will be, if in your chart Saturn will
suddenly feel like Jupiter and Jupiter will
suddenly feel like Saturn, as if they merge
into each other, at such a special moment in
time. Because this is precisely what will
happen! (With thanks to Alexander Ruperti for
this very illustrative idea about how
conjunctions really feel).
Imagine that
the house where Capricorn is situated
suddenly feels like Sagittarius and the house
where Sagittarius is, suddenly feels like
Capricorn! Because these are the things you
may expect! The consequences of this are that
there simply will be enormous changes in your
attitudes towards certain things in your
life, and towards certain people.
Planetary
conjunctions are enormous movements of two
principles which before this time did not
agree. This will give rise to an enormous
amount of take-overs, where firms will
cooperate in the future. Banks are already
joining up (the conjunction being in Taurus),
but there is also as of this writing
(September 1999) talk about a kind of
economic (Taurus) United States of Africa,
and this might be one of the more really
concrete and wonderful results of not only
Jupiter and Saturn conjunct in Taurus May
2000, but many other planets there as well (7
in total around May 2-3).
Oftentimes
people do not live these conjunctions only
within themselves but together with someone
else. So if you are roleplaying
"Saturn" in certain situations in
your life, you will meet mr. Jupiter and
vice-versa. And the two of you will agree
when you meet up with a third party
disagreeing with you, wanting to keep his or
her freedom (Uranus in square to the
conjunction). I am going to cooperate with
two massage therapists with my astrology
practice in Amsterdam from 2000 onwards, and
I can just see myself playing this
Uranus-role, and not wanting my independence
taken away from me.
So, many of
the meetings you will have with people in the
times to come (and most especialy in May of
2000) will be meetings reflective of these
conjunction(s) in the sky. Because cosmic
forces are being lived out, acted out, by
humans as otherwise they cannot manifest. And
these cosmic forces manifest large scale, but
also small scale in our own lives, in your
meeting up with a neighbour, a politician,
whom-ever, a person you would have regarded
prior to these times pretty unpractical,
boring, or plain irresponsible (the Jupiter
one for instance).
Of course in
general, it is to be expected that Real
Things or Real Life will catch up with us
too, after the hype in Virtual Realities.
There may be a renewed interested in things
of this planet Earth, ecology, and nature.
And we may understand that cows have "5
stomachs", and they they produce Quality
Stuff, simply because they digest their
intake 5 times over. With all the information
available today, we are not digesting any
input. It may be time to do so next year.
Five times over:-) It may result in getting
something "Real" manifested in this
timespace continuum, after all the ideas that
stayed only ideas in the previous years.
Anyway, if you
want to figure out how the conjunction of
Jupiter and Saturn will feel in your life, I
suggest you exchange Jupiter for Saturn and
vice versa, and see what comes up! All those
things you thought you were pretty good at
before, now may need some more effort, and
all those things that cost you a lot of
effort before, now may have become easy!
Another thing
will happen after the conjunction. For a long
time, Jupiter was behind Saturn: we first did
the responsible thing and then enjoyed its
succes or result. We may get into stages
where we will spend first, as Jupiter will
walk ahead of Saturn in the future, and for
which we will have to pay up later. You may
want to take a little care in your life, and
just allow your Jupiter to become responsible
from May 2000 onwards, and just accept that
all those things you were afraid of or
thought you could not do or did not want to
do really have become easy and a joy to
do....
On a social
scale, and in fact Jupiter/Saturn does refer
to social circumstances, it is extremely
interesting and even mindblowing to tabulate
the Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions of the 20th
Century together with their symbolic
degree-meanings, as given in ane Rudhyar's
Astrological Mandala (Vintage Books, 1974)
- 1901:
(November 28th) the 14th degree (13+)
of Capricorn:
The 20th Century started out with the
following symbolic undertone: The
will to unearth what has permanent
value and to let go of nonessentials.
A historical perspective is needed in
a time where nearly all countries and
people question and challenge the
validity of traditional beliefs.
Freeing ideals from personal and
class selfishness. (I.e. a more
classless, democratic society).
- 1921:
(September 10th) the 27th degree
(26+) of Virgo:
The roaring twenties started with the
following symbolic undertone: "A
group of aristocratic ladies meet
ceremonally. Learning Refinement.
- 1940:
(August 8th) 14.27 Taurus:
Around the beginning of Worldwar II a
new cycle started of which its
symbolism was: The courage needed to
meet the crises precipitated by
social ambition. What is revealed
here is Character under adverse
circumstances. For some these
difficult circumstances was the soil
upon which a higher kind of
consciousness could develop.
- 1961:
(February 19th) 25.12 Capricorn:
We think of the 60ķes as revolution,
but the notion: "There is more
between Heaven and Earth" also
was implanted in our social
beliefsystems as an undertone: The
ability to perceive the hidden and
creative spirit of natural phenomena.
The consciousness becomes sensitized
to the downward flow of Occult Energy
in its bountiful aspect. Maybe the
import of softdrugs for the first
time in the Western world was also
physical reflection of this symbol.
- 1981:
(March 4) 8.11 Libra
The final years of the 20th Century
had an undertone which most of us
will recognize (think of the
environmental movement and "back
to Mother Earth"): The need to
return to source during a confused
search for new values in a chaotic
society. new and sound rebeginnings.
A change of forms.
- 2000:
(May 28th) 22.43 Taurus
The symbolic undertone for the next
20 years then: The social
confirmation of natural excellence.
Social processe which bring about
certicification of personal
worth.(Commentary: personal dignity
and worth, respect, may be precisely
that which has been born in
potentiality already. I would imagine
that the Pluto in Leo generation, who
will approx. be 50-70 years of age
during this cycle, will make sure
that belonging to the generation of
the elderly, is something that
deserves respect too.
© Joyce Hoen 2000
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