Looking at Jupiter-Saturn from Several Angles

Several Angles on The JUPITER SATURN Cycle

The Jupiter-Saturn dynamic we refer to 

as a conjunction

 has an evolutionary purpose in general 

and this is reflected within society:

systems structures practices and knowledge bases

are prone to stasis or stagnation if not refreshed.

Jupiter and Saturn working to achieve balance 

provide the processes

 whereby a point of crisis arises 

out of the failure inadequacy ineffectiveness 

of the old ways

Past ways and past beliefs have to be reassessed in order for more integrated structures to arise.

The essential approach to integration needs to contain the qualities of wholism.

Practices that are coherent with the balancing patterns shown in nature and in the larger cosmos are able to build more functional structures into society

Update 2025: this work since 2022 has expanded into a book length study of multiple chapters in two parts. Completion of Part 2 remains in a holding pattern at the finalising state with momentum having been stalled by multiple personal transits though 2023 and 2024 and into 2025.

 

Part One was originally fully posted here but ongoing issues with the blog host's templates have been problematic. 

Hoping to proceed to publish/make accessible the full work in some other format in 2025

Meanwhile the foundations of the work continue to be affirmed by relevant examples encountered.

THIS POST PROVIDES AN INTRODUCTORY EXTRACT

Anyone wanting access to the complete Part One can enquire via:
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Part One A Work in 9+ Sections:

Introduction

Societal impacts of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction

Chapter 1    Jupiter-Saturn cycle basics and complexities

Chapter 2    Jupiter-Saturn and Weather

Chapter 3    Jupiter and Saturn contrasting qualities

Chapter 4    Two eras of Jupiter-Saturn in Aquarius :

                      Plague and Pandemic Astrological Factors

Chapter 5    Echoes and Shades - a comparison in eras

Chapter 6    Solar Science and Embracing the Planets

Chapter 7    Looking at Jupiter-Saturn using Rudhyar

Chapter 8   Jupiter-Saturn and Chinese Divination


Extra Notes

References



Introduction

Societal impacts of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction

The almost 20 year Jupiter-Saturn cycle plays a key role in urging the mindset and consciousness of humanity towards rectifying our ignorance. 

The conjunction of these planets triggers a reset according to the themes in place related to zodiac signs their elemental mode and any influential factors within range at the point of conjunction.

Slow progress which summarises Jupiter-Saturn means century upon century of humans succeeding only partially in the quest for stable functional existence.

 

Whatever is ripe for reconfiguring is likely to be at crisis level by the time the new cycle is underway. 

As societies are managed or controlled by the political will of their elected or dictatorial leaders - progress for humanity relies on the quality of leadership.

Politicians in democratic nations have for too long tended to be too Saturnian [conservative cautious austere stingy slow] in all the worst ways and too Jupiterian [wasteful hyperbolic loose] in all the worst ways to be able to assist us in our collective progress.

To achieve more successful effective outcomes [Jupiter] the structuring of new forms models or paradigms [Saturn] aims to build upon extend expand or broaden [Jupiter ] the fundamentals of the societal framework [Saturn]

This in turn can require the abandonment shedding or rejection of a number of old ways traditions habits and beliefs.

A continual mix of Jupiter and Saturn in dynamic acts of balancing is what is required through the new cycle to achieve a distinct level of refinement of the status quo as encountered at the onset of the cycle.

This refinement involves matching human endeavour to the underlying law of the cosmos which is total connectedness - a connection readily lost in human consciousness -our essential sameness and interdependency being denied by our multiplicity of forms both as a species and across the full realm of animal vegetable and mineral categorisations. 

The following chapters traverse various qualities and expressions of the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic -from basic human traits to the dynamics of solar-planetary activations. 

2020 Jupiter-Saturn cycle dates from conjunction to 2029 opposition
    

This graphic is a preview of Chapter 7 where Rudhyar’s solar-lunar cycle template is used to take a closer look at contemporary Jupiter-Saturn

in a graphic format from the “New Moon” equivalent start of the cycle December 2020 to “Full Moon” 9 years into the future - December 2029 

Venus Mars Pluto -the Capricorn triple synergy at March New Moon 2022

 Today my astro-neurons fired when I read a reference to:

the economy overheating

I pulled up a sequence of latest bulletins when I saw this was a zeitgeist:

and the players in this are immediately clear and worth noting.

Economy is one of those old Capricornian concepts and Venus is the physical/material manifestations of money/cash/assets.

Venus has been in Capricorn since Nov 5 2021 [London time]

Heating has a strong association with Mars. 

Mars has brought further heat into the global economy once it entered Capricorn on January 24 2022.

Overheating is a combination of Jupiter added to Mars and this occurs by sextile on February 4 2022

So it seems likely that energies are locked into this pattern by February 4 - a week after Venus reached a return to Direct -outward emphasis - and soon to be pursued by a now pumped-up Mars running at a hotter temperature - and the pair reach their exact conjunction - on February 18 2022...but this isn't the end point - the 2 are so closely magnetically bound at a subatomic level during February 2022 that they maintain a very unusual long duration synergy in Capricorn for weeks.

The force field of these two begins its build up at the very least by the point of one degree of separation - February 12 - and lasts - with tight close contact - into March - week one - when the capacity for implosion/explosion nuclear-grade fallout has high potential. This will be a bit of a shocker in various contexts - but equally intensely structural in others. Personal and collective resonances always factor into which way the energy morphs into manifestation. The Capricorn conjunction shifts from dual to triple in week one of March and that's much more manageable if you're going with the flow of late Capricorn by conjunction trine or sextile to your own energy points in Capricorn Earth or Water signs - but late Libra Aries and late Cancer have much more of a challenge to their level of unfoldment during this Earth stay.

On a collective level we know that the political restructuring of economies is still long overdue - because Pluto [long in Capricorn] has not yet executed the primary job of fundamental economic restructuring from the ground upwards. Why? Because this isn't a process that those invested in the system will welcome - so there's no overwhelming collective will amongst them or the billions who benefit from the status quo. 

But come it eventually will... and in March 2022 when Pluto approaches 28 Capricorn we know the Capricorn effects must be set in place at a structural level: it's not long till 30 degrees Capricorn manifests as 0 degrees Aquarius - that transitory point is reached in 2023 and completed in 2024. The clock is ticking loudly in the countdown so expect some more wheels to start falling off in 2022 [ assisted by the other nuclear force -Uranus in Taurus]

Whether or not a major signifier of structural economic change being underway is signalled in March  [in advance of another buildup of energy ] or outrightly occurs in March - the energy of change is clearly in process and very due for the dominoes to fall. 

Covid has clearly been part of the Capricornian reformation and begun to undermine the structure of the world as the West has known it -as well as in other non-western nations pursuing the same cancerous mantras of greed and endless growth. 

An additional global event in the same time frame - such as military conflict or a market downturn would be hugely wounding for the economic system of multiple nations. 

[update February 28 2022: Russian President Putin ordered the systemic invasion of Ukraine on February 24 under the guises of "peace-keeping" and "military operation" ]

March 2022 sees Venus quickly get to 26'29 Capricorn [March 2] - Venus is now fully "out of shadow" of the retrograde as it repeats the degree point at the December full moon when this planet went stationary retrograde. Pluto was a degree away then -at 25'32 Capricorn.

On March 3... boom! Venus Mars and Pluto all cluster in the 27th degree of Capricorn. 

This chart for London compared to New York when Venus-Mars-Pluto are in range of most intense -as well as a big buildup in Pisces and Saturn conjunct Mercury.

Note that all this occurs under the seeding energy of the Pisces New Moon [London early evening on March 2 at 12 Pisces] so Neptune has a big influence

For London: 2 fire energies - Mars and the Sun activate the main axes. Mars with the Venus-Pluto synergy and Sun has Jupiter conjunct.

Uranus is most elevated.

The Pisces bubble has some intensity too with the Sun-Moon midpoint being the same as the Jupiter-Neptune midpoint. These 4 big-hitters all sit in the 8th and have a reflex effect directly into the 2nd - money/assets

Maximum Neptune is in the room -whatever/wherever.

When Neptune is good it's very good. When its bad its very bad and this pileup has both extremes on offer: transcendental bliss the experience of spiritual connection of Oneness peace joy -great empathy compassion and service to humanity - versus mental overload confusion incoherence - whether substance-related or not the spirit in a bottle or in a mid-altering chemical can deliver very similar cognitive wipeouts. Delusion re a divine mission is another option on the table -and this misread devotion has inspired great carnage in human history as we know. 

In the London chart Venus-Mars-Pluto are triple squaring the Aries axis very tightly so Mars is doubly involved in an Aries versus Capricorn conflict. Speed and aggresion versus slow caution - both will be on offer

If Covid is a big factor in your location at the time of the March 2-March 3 New Moon the Pisces energy is enlarged in a way that corresponds to spread of contagion which will make restrictions distancing and isolation more necessary again.

If the pandemic or some other infectious outbreak is not in your location then the Neptunian energies have the capacity to morph into a different expression as indicated during this post.

For New York: Mercury and Uranus activate the main axes. If Saturn is taken for Aquarius then the 2 axis rulers are conjunct and most elevated.
Taken for the equivalent time the layout instead offers an 11th-5th house polarity for the Pisces planets but the layout is very external and public.

The US Pluto return is underway having reached exact in February 2022 at 27'33 Capricorn. 

With the Ukraine situation intensifying the potential here is military engagement unfolding with economic consequences. The Pisces energy can manifest as "divine mission" "on behalf of humanity".

update February 28 2022:

The Pisces energy has globally manifested already as "collective compassion" for the people of Ukraine being held under seige or compelled to seek refuge in neighbouring nations

update February 28 2022:

the New Moon chart for the city of Kiev Ukraine is added to show the buildup of planets in Capricorn Aquarius and Pisces - the total solar system bounded within  the axis of the moons nodes. This type of accumulation is regarded as having extreme potentials.

Impacts upon homes families and the nation state as a whole are signified by the Capricorn trio but Jupiter's protective capacity is also significant

Given the right context the intense Capricorn synergy can lead to a quadrupolar Cardinal outpouring through Capricorn Cancer Aries and Libra. expressions. 

The 9th house referencing offshore overseas places of relevance.

So too the Pisces mutable group is all potentially evoked - Virgo Gemini Sagittarius all signifiers of where the Neptunian energy may focus - work/employment/movements of people and foreign lands

There is sober-mindedness with Saturn conjuct Mercury. 

Serious communications. 

Aside from overheated markets and overheated political leaders [both with potentials for economic suppression]  with the full buildup of energies considered in March the aftermath comes late March into april when Venus passes in conjunction with Saturn in Aquarius then Mars does the same. This is when social economic deprivation has a point of intensification and by late march into April the Sun in Aries gives the Mars-Saturn Conjunction extra weight. Frustration/anger re social restrictions re contact being limited.

Pisces returns to prominence in April with the exact conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune  -again bringing that potential for extremes as noted above re Pisces expressions. 

Elementally lots of water from pots of sources in lots of places.

In terms of state of mind/consciousness -very much with the programme or off the planet in a non-coping way. 

Such a strong emphasis is likely to see mass movement = evacuation relocation of people due to the powerful flowing river and big tide energy of the mutable planets and the mass scale indications of Jupiter.

update February 28 2022:

The tide of humanity is already flowing out of Ukraine. An event causing such a mass movement was anticipated as well as military activity. Sadly Ukraine has become the location for both energies to already be expressing. Compassion - globally - is being strongly expressed

Humanity is not ready for an en masse shift in consciousness to an elevated spiritual level so only a few will be blessed to have that on offer: escaping the delusions and illusions that apply in the Saturnian dimension of earth life and being able to see clearly what is real beyond the sensory layer. 

Nice paradoxes in the engagement of Saturn-Neptune in both contexts.

Aside from the political and collective of course these energies have real life applications for individuals.

All us us will experience this buildup of 3 sets of planets and probably sequentially in 3 houses -which is a signifier of developmental energy flowing from late Capricorn through Aquarius and to late Pisces. Potentially 3 houses revealing a theme that Captures both the sign and the house energies. And with lots of scope for exciting growth ready to be plucked - if you can reach for that.

[Since I am very much under focus of the 3 sets of planets noted for early March....am expecting some outward manifestations of all the inner processes... maybe a tell-all later...]

Also scroll down in Diary Post for some prior entries which mention Venus and Pluto

Saturn Pluto & Covid-19 Coronavirus

On November 9 2015 the virology lab in Wuhan announced a new virus identified as derivative of SARS-CoV -( which had been named in 2003 after a 2002 respiratory contagion)
Around December 8 2019 a man in China displaying symptoms related to coronavirus infection was identified as an early case of a novel coronavirus, later to be named Covid-19.
There were multiple planetary factors of interest on Nov 9 2015 including the prominent number of cardinal sign placements - Venus on nodal axis, Uranus Pluto and mutable placements: Mars Jupiter Saturn Neptune  -as these 2 energy types have featured strongly during the 2020 Covid-19 global pandemic due to placements of Saturn Jupiter Pluto in cardinal and Neptune & Venus in mutable signs.

With Saturn at 5 Sagittarius and Neptune at 7 Pisces on Nov 9 2015 they were close to an exact square, (arising within a few weeks) Neptune Pisces and Sagittarius all want to spread, cross boundaries, join up, expand. But Saturn is intent on opposing all that by restraining restricting limiting controlling growth.

In November 2015 these look to have been the primary forces in battle -cardinal versus mutable.

The surface layer placements tell us some things but the subtle layer where the 24th harmonic angles [such as semisquare & sesquiquadrate] occur is often the most informative.

Looking at the semisquares of Saturn and Neptune at those mutable positions the results are 20 and 22 cardinal.

Pluto reached
20 cardinal in February 2018, October 2019
22 cardinal Feb July & Dec 2019

Saturn reached
20 cardinal April and Dec 2019
22 cardinal Jan 2020

Famously these two forces conjoined on January 12 2020 at 22'45 Capricorn after both were active at the relevant degrees in late 2019.

Jupiter added amplification to the above  reaching 20-22 cardinal in weeks one and three of March 2020

[March 7 saw milestone one - 100,000 global cases - taking around 90 days from the Dec 8 "first" case.
March 19 gave a 200,000 global total; March 22 gave a 300,000 global total; March 24 saw 400,000; March 28 600,000 - from March 7-April 1st totals ticked over at 100,000 global cases daily from March 28-April 1st. - figures since then April-to early May seem to show a decline to around 70,000 daily]

Understanding Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn is highly important in terms of understanding how these planets function in that sign.

Saturn is at its peak mastery of control and influence in Capricorn allowing displays of superior management skills based on maintaining a structure as a solid functional entity.

Pluto in Capricorn wears a very different face. Pluto and Capricorn are both very interested in control - but for Pluto it is readily construed as a green light for totalitarian control ultimate and extreme control and power.

With these 2 converging in January 2020 in the wake of the potent January 10 eclipse such forces were simultaneously released - but they had been alive covertly since February 2018 [Pluto] and repeatedly during 2019 when Pluto then Saturn traversed 20 -22 Capricorn.

If Saturn alone had featured in this saga then the most effective cautious and protective use of Capricorn would have emerged.

With Pluto in the picture it points to a titanic battle between these 2 forces regarding doing the right thing.
The potential for a true good versus evil scenario seems very plausible in a global context where totalitarian forces are strengthening - and showing their true colours in various nation states under the guise of protecting their communities.

Saturn has passed 20-22 Capricorn and does not return for 30 years.
Pluto however transits slowly at 22'30 through much of September and October 2020 and also moves away.

Those months could reveal Pluto's far reaching social agendas