The Great Jupiter/Saturn Earth Conjuctions May 2000

[Edmond Wollmann]

The Universe does not have built-in meaning. Things within the Universe
are given meaning by what we believe, or are taught to believe they
mean. The "knowledge of good and evil" was the symbolic forbidden fruit
that Adam and Eve were deceived into taking a bite of-the judgement of
paradise. The installation of value judgement. Values (Taurus) give
birth to judgement (Virgo). Judgement gives birth to status (Capricorn),
status to inequality. What special thing must we do in order to deserve
to exist? Nothing. These ideas are the effect of the illusions of the
physical world (Saturn=to sow/Satan=to oppose or the adversary of
spirit, of Neptune). There is only positive (unifying) and negative
(separating) energy. The concepts of good and bad are subjective value
judgements, and are relative. White light is composed of all colors, and
all colors are required to make white light. The unifying effect of
positive energy. The experience of the colors or the white light is
neither good or bad, just different.

In the natural horoscope the Earth signs represent the need for
functional adequacy in the material world. The experience of Earth is a
spiritual experience. The Earth element formed by the three signs
Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn reflect the spiritual experience of
materiality as the trinity of physicality. They are an aspect of being
not a separation from it. The material world is not something to be
overcome, but a different spiritual experience. Our belief that it must
be difficult is a definition choice. Much of this definition has arisen
from "deus ex machina"(diety separate from the machine) when we lost our
recognition that God and nature were one and the same. The end of the
native American tribes was the beginning of the industrial/territorial
perspectives in the Americas and the reflection of this "delusion of
grandeur" wherein manipulation is considered to be the only signature of
intelligence.
"It is the end of living and the beginning of survival." Chief Seattle

In reference to the spring issue of Horoscope yearbook I stated in the
article entitled "Uranus/Neptune Conjunction Of 1993: A Collective
Unconscious Awakening", that "Refusal to awaken to unconscious aspects
of ourselves promotes the catalyst of earthquakes.", The 6.6 1 San
Fernando California quake occurred 6 days after the Capricorn new moon
which was sandwiched between the Uranus/Neptune conjunction and was
triggered by Mars to the new moon point!(later upgraded to 6.8)

Functional adequacy when taken to extremes becomes empiricism. We need
to wake up our connection to nature. When we focus on the material at
the expense of the spiritual we lose sight of the bigger picture
(Saturn=the focused dream), you cannot serve two masters. This major
conjunction (the last Uranus/Neptune) reflects the peak of our immersion
in the physical world. Empiricism has become the deity. The word hell is
derived from the root word in old English helan, meaning to cover over
or to hide. It is our own unconscious (and other aspects of our psyche)
that we collectively hide. Therefore dis-covery leads us to heaven. This
is why the planet Uranus is outside of Saturn's orbit and before
Neptune's. The farther into space we go, (or the further from our center
of reality, the sun) the more expanded aspects of ourselves we discover.

The Jupiter/Saturn conjunction which occurs on May 28, 2000, reflects
dramatic economic, and consequently value judgement de-structurization.
Natural disasters have a way of quickly dissolving status (Capricorn)
barriers, which is necessary for the next mutation of conjunctions
(Jupiter/Saturn) in the air signs (the trinity of idea interaction).
This country cannot fulfill it's founding premise with such a
separation of classes. With Capricorn on the 9th cusp, this country's
philosophical profile is one of materialism. As Uranus and Neptune enter
the 9th and transit Pluto, the public perspective has made a radical
shift (Pluto rules the 6th, which is the 12th of the public 7th) to
philosophic and religious issues, as transit Pluto's coincident entrance
into Sagittarius reflects. This will come about through the recognition
of the true seat of power in our government, or through citizens of
unusual power or uniqueness (Uranus rules the country's 10th) which
began in February 1995.

Note that the Sun and Venus at the time of the Northridge California
quake were conjunct the U.S. Pluto in 9. The Sun rules 4 and Venus rules
12 and 5. The Capricorn stellium primarily emphasized the need for
another base for economic stability other than manufacturing.

The information superhighway and the computer age in general have
brought to light the fact that a) people can be replaced by high tech
efficient machinery, b) If you are not computer literate you will, if
not already fall into a lower class, and c) that we must learn to follow
what it excites us to do (with integrity-please see my posts on integral
definitions) as an extension of our identity and individuality in order
to prosper (Capricorn is the 12th house of Aquarius) as a nation, and as
a world.
On 3/6/94 the UN reported that 1 out of 3 people on the planet were
unemployed. Taking responsibility for our own creations is the only way
to take back power from governmental structures.

The stellium of Capricorn has produced some great people such as Louis
Pasteur (Dec 27,1822), Clara Barton (Dec 25,1821, founder of the
American Red Cross) and Benjamin Franklin, are proof on the positive
side that the greatest among us, are indeed our servants. Severity
produces accomplishment because the sense of purpose is heightened. We
should take these opportunities to overcome the limitations of physical
reality as these individuals have done.

The Jupiter (Mind) and Saturn (Matter) Conjunction

Since the beginning of the twentieth century this aspect has occurred
in 14 Capricorn (November 28, 1901), 26 Virgo (September 9, 1921), 14,
12, 9, degrees Taurus (August 7, 1940, October 20, 1940, February 15,
1941), again in 25 Capricorn (February 18, 1961), and curiously at 9, 8,
and 5 Libra, a grand mutation (December 31, 1980, March 4, 1981, July
24, 1981). All of them co-incide with major priority restructuring
(socially), economic restructuring, and eras of focus upon the archetype
(sign) in which the conjunction occurs and either conflict or ease with
these Archetypes (aspects).
In this century the focus has been upon the Earth family or the
archetype of physicality. Our entire day and even our life revolves
around the material aspect of living.
The first conjunction in 1901 in Capricorn, launched the industrial
revolution with automobiles as the base (Uranus opposes Pluto from
Sagittarius to Gemini). The Moon opposes the conjunction from the
natural fourth to tenth houses, and trines Mercury in eight, reflecting
a change in not only status (fourth and tenth axis), but that it would
be fulfilled through locomotion (Mercury). Mars' opposition to Neptune
reflects the little acknowledged dependence upon oil and our resulting
pollutants. Mars opposition Neptune is an easy rational of the untrue
with little reliance or concern for foresight. Ego (Mars) separates
itself (opposition) from spirit (Neptune).

In 1921 the conjunction occurred at 26 degrees Virgo. Here the
saturation (Saturn) of mind (Jupiter) was focused upon the archetype or
aspect of material reality having to do with analytical discernment. A
need to efficiently organize our material proliferation, and was a
strong catalyst to judgment of the material haves and have nots. This
conjunction is square the Moon at critical accelerative degree in the
ninth house and sign of Sagittarius, the belief the mind holds
(Sagittarius), it physically makes manifest (Capricorn). This tension
was meant to broaden perspectives and not become so involved and
dependent upon new found material comforts (Pluto in Cancer). We
continue to tighten our material focus, and let go of spiritual trust,
hence a great and limiting depression. The opposition of the Sun to
Uranus shows that perspective (6th and 12th axis) is what we needed to
wake up and change.

The conjunction in August of 1940 reflects powerful developmental
energies with regard to material resources (conjunct in Taurus), the
creative extension or use of those resources (square the Sun in Leo in
the natural fifth) and the powerful adjustments with regard to world
relationships that would have to be made to ensure security (Moon in
Libra inconjunct the conjunction, and in mutual reception with Venus).
Events could be very explosive (Mars square Uranus). The attack on Pearl
Harbor, the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, world war is written
all over this chart as the effect of profoundly charged material focus.
This conjunction occurred in the twelfth house (the need for
introspection) of the United States inconjunct the national Saturn,
square the Sun in four (national security).

The last Capricorn conjunction in February of 1961 shows strong
developmental tension between the need for pioneering (the Moon and
Venus in Aries) and physical manifestation and status (the conjunction
in Capricorn). Mars is in four and disposes of the Moon and Venus.
Emotional security is dependent upon this tension, a mountain is made
out of a molehill. John F. Kennedy announces a goal of putting a man on
thMoon. The cold war gets colder and the first space explorations are
made as the effect of this competitive Jupiter/Saturn conjunction. There
are unexpected events. Uranus in the sign of Leo (the younger
generation) inconjuncts the conjunction. The Vietnam effort fails and
the first attempt at rejection of the industrial/territorial perspective
is seen as the conjunctions occur in late degrees of the Earth trinity.
Mobilizing
resources for war and defense of territory are about to undergo rapid
changes and by the mutation conjunction of 1980, 5 this shift
accelerates to the trinity of idea interaction (Air sign emphasis).
Relationships will now be more important than material. The children
born during this mutation represent a quantum leap in understanding, and
a preparation towards interaction with other worlds. The square of the
conjunction to the tenth house Sun/Mercury conjunction, reflects our
current era of conflict between social issues of unemployment,
homelessness, "family values", fatherless children, and in general the
effects of our extreme focus upon material as the determinant of status
(Capricorn) as a requirement for identity (Libra). Mars at 0 degree
Aquarius, reflects the direction of energy application until our final
encounter with the effects of our preoccupation and illusions of the
material world. Social application. When Uranus enters Aquarius in April
of 1995 it's conjunction to this Mars position will usher in dramatic
social, scientific, and extraterrestrial discoveries. The debate will be
about what constitutes consciousness.

The Jupiter/Saturn conjunction of May 28, 2000, is the last Earth
conjunction. It is dramatic, and alarming. Jupiter and Saturn are the
only planets in Earth and are squared by Uranus in Aquarius. Unexpected
social changes shatter every resource base. Venus, the dispositor of the
conjunction, the Sun, and Mars, all oppose Pluto, the asteroids and
Chiron from the information signs of Gemini/Sagittarius. Jupiter
disposes of the Sagittarius planets (and planetoids) and Mercury, which
is squared by the Moon in Aries disposes of the Gemini planets. Pioneers
discover information that dramatically alters world perspective (Pluto).
There will be great economic destructurization which will neccessitate
power decentralization. Our greatest difficulties will come from
governmental dissaray and the final recognition that we have given far
to much power to those in authority. New aspects of the higher self and
mind will have to be put to use by each individual as the current
collision of the comet Shoemaker/Levy into Jupiter reflected as well as
Hale-Bopp.(please see my post on Halleys and other Comets).

Our philosophical and religious beliefs will be shattered (Uranus
square Jupiter) and business will not be "as usual" (Uranus square
Saturn). The unsoundness of our values (Taurus) and economic structures
leads to destruction (Saturn square Uranus) through power struggles
and war (Sun/Mars opposition Pluto, Pluto opposing Sun/Mars midpoint.
The information/perspective age (Sagittarius/Gemini) is obviously
accelerating and creates a new arena for crime and enlightenment. The
trine of the Sun to Neptune in the Air element promises some marvelous
and exciting artistic and spiritual enlightenment and is the way out of
some difficult dilemmas. Issues must be resolved in this period because
the next 40 years look very dangerous. Discovery of alien life
accelarates.

As the mutation into Air signs begins in earnest in 2020, the children
of the Grand Mutation begin to assume positions of authority. This
conjunction is conjunct the star Altair (the flyer) at 0 Aquarius. The
world begins a much more idealistic, altruistic, and metaphysically
oriented point of view. This marks the true beginning of the age.
Astrology finds a home. Again the conjunction is square Uranus. Mars is
square Pluto in Capricorn from Aries. This reflects a power struggle of
dramatic proportions, and a divergence of dissimilar realities.

The conjunction of 2040 contains the Sun square Uranus! We are about
to enter 60 years of waking up to profound creativity, and in this
Jupiter/Saturn conjunction the square between the Sun in Scorpio and
Uranus in Leo, issues of life and it's creation-or annihilation are
obviously and powerfully explored (Mars in Scorpio also squares Pluto in
Aquarius) and with treacherous results (Neptune forms a T-square with
the Uranus/Sun square). The children of the 80's face dire relationship
decisions as this is their 2nd Saturn return. The square of the Moon in
Virgo to Venus in Sagittarius (the dispositor of the conjunction)
reflects strong conflicts between technological discernment (Virgo) and
spiritual recognitions (Sagittarius).

The challenges of the future look strong indeed. The Earth conjunctions
of the past (especially 1940) were strong as well, but not as
developmental as these in the future seem to be. A word to the wise is
sufficient.
The Earth conjunctions have been our test and temptation of believing
that the material world is all that matters, or that it is all that
there is. Fortunately many of us have done this before, and have
recognized that the beast spoken of in Revelations,6 is wrestled with in
our minds alone, even when it appears to be empirically real, and
externally oppositional (Saturn, helan).
--
"Every compromise was surrender and invited new demands" Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A.
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