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Originally written January 2000 | pp. 1 2 3
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Prior to the discovery
of the outer three planets, the Jupiter-Saturn
conjunctions were of earth-shattering significance to the medieval astrologer,
marking a time of tremendous cultural upheaval and profound change. Now,
with greater knowledge of the Solar System, the modern astrologer sees
the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction as the steady conductor tweaking and adjusting
the cultural ramifications of configurations of the outer planets.
The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction
usually correlates with the adjustment of social, political, and economic
interrelationships. These transits do not bring about sweeping change but
tend to stabilize changes which have occurred in previous years. Often the
Jupiter-Saturn conjunction correlates with a pendulum shift of the political
orientation of nations.
If we look at the
planetary archetypes, we can see why these planets act as stabilizers.
Both planets are involved in social relationships, residing neither in
the purely personal or the purely transpersonal. Jupiter represents the
quality of expansion and uninhibited growth. Jupiter’s presence is big,
bold, jubilant, and celebratory, if not obtrusive and offensive if left
unchecked.
Saturn, on the other
hand, is restrictive, confining, limiting. Saturn enervates and inhibits--it
is the quality of lacking something.
In terms of quantity
and growth, Saturn and Jupiter represent opposite archetypes. To get an idea
of what happens when the two planets meet in conjunction, imagine a trash
compactor (Saturn) squeezing in upon a rising loaf of bread (Jupiter).
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