2020 was host to a significant set of astrological events. On Jan 12th 2020, Pluto and Saturn conjoined in Capricorn, culminating a cycle relating to the evolution of society and its structures, which began 38 years before. This conjunction in Capricorn is of seismic significance to global cultures because it initiated a crumbling of realities. It symbolises the end of society as we know it; a transition to something new over a period of the next 33 years.
As we know, a great deal of societal change has already occurred; we are witnessing the breakdown of the old structures, now obsolete, corrupted, and inadequate. The preparation for this moment started already in 2008, when Pluto first entered Capricorn, punctuated by a financial crisis and near collapse. From 2008-2020, Pluto revealed the hidden corruption and failure of our existing systems.
In the same year, exactly on the 2020 Dec Solstice (a powerful cardinal/initiating point in time), another conjunction occurred, this time it was Saturn and Jupiter at 0˚ Aquarius, and these two events came to be called the Great Conjunction because it initiated the birth of new society.
Both Pluto/Saturn and Saturn/Jupiter cycles collectively pertain to how society develops and evolves. The passage of Pluto itself reflects the evolution of human consciousness. When Saturn and Jupiter conjoined at 0˚ Aquarius, it represented a shift in the Saturn-Jupiter cycle from the element of earth to air. For the most part (with some exceptions) the 20-year cycles of this planetary pair have been rebirthing in earth signs for the last 200 years. From now onward, these 20-year cycles will rebirth for the most part in air signs over the next 200 years. This shift from earth to air is going to change things a lot. If we track back to 1802 when the earth cycle first began, we can see that society became focused on material pursuits on the whole; the industrial revolution and changes in technology have lead to a consumerist society dominated by corporate powers. Now that the cycle is shifting to the air element, we can expect the centre of gravity of society to move away from materialism toward ideas, inventions, new understandings, ideals and so on - the air cycle will be much more dynamic and changeable.
The 2020 Saturn-Jupiter cycle in Aquarius, kicks off with a decidedly humanitarian/equality/freedom orientation. This is significant because it fuels a speedy revolutionary momentum for change, functioning within the Pluto-Saturn cycle that also began in 2020, initiating a potent death and rebirth of society itself.
2024 sees the beginning of the first Saturn-Jupiter squares - there will be 3 from Aug 19th this year until June 15th 2025. This means that a process, relative to a shift in society, is now entering a period of energised momentum and readiness to take some form of action. Or put another way, whatever was seeded in 2020 is now ready to be acted on in the world, and so we can expect the period from now until 2026 to be a time of ongoing disruptions to the old societal structures, driven by an emergent need to change. This cycle of course operates both collectively and personally; individually, 2020 ushered in the crumbling of personal realities, and the seeding of new potential futures, as we now break away from old restrictive patterns and habits of being, toward entirely new forms and lifestyles.
Since 2020, we have all be gestating the new impulses. Some of us have been resisting, and some of us have been ready to actively support the process through sincere inner-work and healing. Two consecutive Aries new moons in 2023 (Mar 21st and April 20th - a rare event) - the first occurring exactly at the March equinox at 0˚ Aries, symbolised significant energy within all of us to break free from the patterns of the past and venture forward into new experiences, and the movement of the North Node into Aries in July the same year, carries the theme of breaking patterns forward until late July 2026. We are in a time period of rapid change.
This year the first of the Saturn-Jupiter squares occurs at the full moon on Aug 19th, while Pluto at 0˚ Aquarius now activates the Saturn-Jupiter cycle adding potent evolutionary energy to the mix. Remember the cycle initiated at 0˚ Aquarius, and Pluto will be intensifying the energy impulse toward freedom, change, revolution, and equality within systems until late 2026.
In personal terms this means we can expect some significant breakthroughs or life changes to arise in the next year. Collectively this will energise more disruptions as the new future forward energies now begin to exert themselves, but this is a process, and I think given that the last Saturn-Jupiter square in June 2025 will be when Saturn is at 1˚ Aries and Jupiter at 1˚ Cancer on the world-axis, this will be the most likely timing for significant outer world events to occur that reveal where we are headed.
Personal considerations
With Jupiter in Gemini, the Saturn-Jupiter squares can involve challenges over what we think is true, especially when perceived authorities are either distracting us from paying attention to truth, or confusing us with information overwhelm and misinformation. The lessons of these times are built on the issue of whether we will dare to use our intuitional birthright to sense what is true for us and use it to navigate in these intense times. The nature of the False Matrix entrains us toward the masculine mode, and actively disconnects us from inner knowing; liberation is part of the Great Awakening.
Chart cast for the 1st Saturn-Jupiter square 19th Aug 2024 19.25 BST / 14.25 EDT (20th Aug in Australia and NZ)
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On Aug 19th when the 1st Saturn-Jupiter square occurs at the full moon, Uranus in Taurus is also highly energised in the mix, since it is in exact T-square to the Sun-Moon opposition, suggesting that shocks and surprises will continue to feature in world events, and possibly in personal ones. Uranus in Taurus is one of the drivers of the polarised trans-gender issue; it is an expression of the unusual and the different in terms of procreative sexuality - transgenderism can be seen in part as a rebellion or rejection of the binary nature of human biology. This issue is already highly energised with recent events such as the Paris olympics opening ceremony featuring a high number of drag artists and emphasised gender ambiguity, as well as the controversy over Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.
For those flowing with their evolutionary soul intent, Uranus can manifest as sudden surprises that open up doors, as well as sudden insights and revelations that liberate us from the past and move us forward. If there is resistance to facing truth, or in other words we’ve been hiding key issues under the rug and not dealing with them directly, then sudden karmic events can take place that force us to deal with things we’ve been putting off. With Mars conjunct Jupiter in Gemini, and Mercury retrograde conjunct the Sun and Vesta in Leo, theres going to be a challenge over the impulse to react and take action versus really thinking things through, internalising thought processes, and running things through the heart in order to know what is true for us individually. This is a time to prioritise heart-knowing, self-realisation and creative joy. With a T-Square featuring Saturn opposing Venus and Jupiter & Mars at the apex, this month may find us feeling out of sorts with our current reality, while we try to figure out what is true for us and what change we want to bring into our lives in response.
Since this first Saturn-Jupiter square takes place during the Leo new moon wave of unfolding, I think the pattern will connect back to whatever was really being seeded at the last Aries equinox. The Leo lunation represents a time of creative consolidation of that which is desired at the soul level of being (an aspect of which would have arisen in our personal awareness last equinox), and the Saturn-Jupiter square coinciding with this part of the moon cycle, adds a degree of energy to birth something in our lives that ties back to an evolutionary directive to become more future forward, and to liberate even more from the False Matrix reality-prison, to break free from socially engineered expectations and obligations, and to begin to dream about the life we truly want to live.
General collective overview
What is emergent now is the first real movement toward new realities; they will be raw and under-developed, but we will begin to see the beginnings of something new in both our personal lives and the world at large. Saturn and Jupiter as a pair, represent the dichotomy between freedom and responsibility; between what we already know and what we could know; between limiting structure and limitless expansion.
At the birthing point at 0˚ Aquarius, we have collectively received seed impulses toward expansion beyond what has already been. The Sabian symbol for the 1st degree of Aquarius is “An old adobe mission in California” - this symbol offers us a more nuanced understanding of what these seed impulses were about. In essence, it speaks to the concretisation of an ideal - to bring a new life orientation into form within an environment that is very different. My sense is that what was being collectively birthed in 2020, was the vision of a New Earth; a rejection of the old misaligned patriarchal legacy, in favour of something more noble, more advanced, and reaching for a higher, more organised, creative, and fulfilling way of life. Whatever is being seeded and birthed now is going to endure far beyond this time.
The first 2 squares occur in the mutable signs; Saturn in Pisces and Jupiter in Gemini - old structures dissolve and give way to new intuitive ideas about what can be. Through mutable energy we adapt and adjust the way we see reality, fuelled by new information and ideas that we intuitively come across that expand our vision of what we accept as possible. As we do this we energise new probable realities. This means that during this time, most of us will be making constant adjustments to what we believe and think is real and true. The 3rd square on 15th June 2025 as already mentioned, occurs in cardinal signs on the world axis, and at this final stage of the birthing process, if nothing major has yet happened, we can expect a real push forward into manifest new directions, pathways of development, or significant life changes, in keeping with the new inner desire impulses for a better way of life.
The general trend in the collective energy has been toward initiating changes, and these upcoming Saturn-Jupiter squares are going to give us more energy and incentive to let go of the old and step more into something new in our lives. The next key transit with regard to this cycle will be the 1st Pluto-Saturn square in June 2028, when we can expect more significant societal change to arise.
What we are seeing in astrological terms are the very beginnings of radical world change, toward an entirely new societal structure; we are now entering the process of change away from the old order. The dark players as we know, would like to use this opportunity to install their cherished dream of a New World Order, but this dystopian nightmare is entirely dependent on collective frequency, and the odds of them achieving this are against them, since the solar system is now entering a cycle of light and a consequent elevation into higher frequencies, beyond the possibility of an elite controlled society. Nevertheless they will keep trying, and it us up to us to put our attention on what we want the world to be; to hold on to our co-creative ‘vote’ and use it wisely.
Saturn in Pisces is throwing up a lot of different themes:
The dissolution of obsolete realities and personal patterns
The established power hierarchies using lies and deception to engineer desired outcomes
A desire or temptation to avoid reality through escapism e.g. addictions or delusions
An evolutionary impulse to cooperate with the times and take responsibility for our own spiritual nature - self discipline on a spiritual path
The healing of pain and suffering rooted in patriarchy (especially with Nessus currently in conjunction) - can we really forgive the old passing structures and see the universal unfolding picture?
Finally…
The 2nd Saturn-Jupiter square will occur on Christmas Eve, just a few days after the Dec Solstice, and so it will be riding on the solstice wave for 3 months. It's important to grasp that these cycles represent processes, which have phases and stages of expression; we are challenged to bring something new forward into our lives that resonates with the future. We all dream, and we all have some conscious awareness of what these dreams are. If you follow the new moon cycle as a spiritual practise, it becomes easier to align with the unfolding energy on the planet, and to support personal awareness of what is arising within us and meant to be lived.
We are part of something bigger, and we don’t always see the bigger picture, but we were born to participate in order to fulfil a higher potential. If you feel out of touch with your own pattern of unfolding, don’t despair or put yourself down. We are all enduring a psycho-spiritual and energetic battlefield, and its not easy staying balanced and centred. Now more than ever we each need to stabilise our own personal truth independent of the social distortion-whirlwind, and we can listen to Saturn (currently in Pisces) in this regard - if we align with spiritual practices that tune us to the ordering principle within all things, we will find ourselves more stable, more in tune, and more inwardly informed.
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