Originally published on September 9, 2019 @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/527533154653378 Updated with graphics and addenda.

INTRO

When I learned that the State of California moved their 2020 primary election date from June to March 3, my first thought was, “Who is doing California’s astrology?”

The reason for my thought is that March 3 of 2020 ties into a planetary “combination” that makes the succeeding vicennial conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn an exceedingly powerful astro-event, perhaps the most important of our lifetimes.

It’s not Jupiter and Saturn alone, or the signs and houses, that makes this a doozy. It is a host of factors, and most of them are associated with Pluto, which is nearby for the 2020 Jupiter/Saturn conjunction.

This article will divide the whole shebang into four sections so we can analyze 2020 from various angles:

• 1) Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto in Mundane Astrology;
• 2) Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto in Midpoint-Combination theory;
• 3) The nodes of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto;
• 4) Historical analysis.

As I hope to show, 2020 offers a critical cyclic marker for these three planets that may be central to cycles that span thousands of years, in which case the unfolding of events will reverberate through the centuries, and the millennia. (Yes, it’s a big deal!)

This contention is not made lightly; a rigorous investigation of many astrological parameters suggests that many cycles are coming to important moments almost simultaneously, with the years 2020 and 2021 being “ground zero,” or more accurately, a return to “Time Zero.”

MUNDANE JUPITER & SATURN

The major drivers in astrology that are not luminaries are Jupiter and Saturn. While it could be argued that the other outer planets have more to do with very long-term astrological influences on our species, it is Jupiter and Saturn that basically “run the show” in numerous ways.

Jupiter and Saturn work in tandem, as a pairing. They are counterparts to each other in influence, and, as such, perform a balancing act in the mundane astrological evolution we directly experience in the general world around us, mostly in the realm of political powers and cultural trends.

Much of the solar system operates in this binary counterpart scheme: Sun/Moon, Venus/Mars, Jupiter/Saturn, and Uranus/Neptune. The first three pairings were understood to operate as such from antiquity, with Mercury, the seventh planet, acting alone, with no discernible polarity. Uranus and Neptune, discovered during the scientific age, were found by astrologers, looking retroactively, to present a more subconscious, intergenerational influence over cultural trends, such as religions and ethnic identities.

With the discovery and astrological codification of Pluto, another planet with no apparent polarity entered our astro-lexicon, and seemed to operate with a brutal and fatalistic influence, ruling over death itself, the underworld, so to speak, and the ending of any human endeavor or system that came about with either good or evil intentions. Pluto is, like it or not, a dealer in the end of things, though with that comes also the beginning of things. This can, and does, express itself in revolutions of all kinds.

The cycle of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions is well-explored in the history of astrology, and are thought to be connected to both generational cycles, as in the “changing of the guard,” so to speak, and also the cycles of great empires. The most influential work on Jupiter and Saturn’s mundane influences is by the Arab scholar Abū Maʿšar (called Albumasar in Medieval Latin, Apomasar in Byzantine Greek), who penned The Book on Religions and Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions), which appeared in the 9th Century in the Arab world, and finally seeped into European astrology at the end of the Middle Ages.

In Maʿšar’s reckoning, the Jupiter/Saturn cycle of conjunctions take just under 1,000 years to traverse all the triplicities of the zodiac, and within that large span of time, astrology could be used to chart the rises and falls of political entities. The qualities of each Jupiter/Saturn conjunction would depend on the nature of the chart cast for the partile, but the “gist” of the matter would depend on where one is in the larger cycle.

This cycle was, at that time, the largest astrological planetary cycle in terms of time. The notion of this “Great Chronocrator” cycle, as discussed by Nicholas DeVore in his “Encyclopedia of Astrology”, did not come from the Ptolemaic school, but had some roots in the Persian and Chaldean realms, and from there it was explored in depth by the Arabs.

Therefore, when it comes to revolutions in our political systems and regimes, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto play a central role, and when we place these three planets in combination, we are looking at a basic revolutionary “trigger.” This is generational energy, so the balance of energy of the culture notches ahead, though with Pluto, the impetus is amplified. People change things and some of them die.

In terms of the Cosmobiological, or “combination theory” perspective on the planets, where we look at pairings of planets, the combination of Jupiter/Saturn, or JU/SA, and its attendant midpoint, are defined as the “point” where the counteractive energies of the two planets meet, and are “balanced,” or at least at a sort of astro-truce, and working in tandem.

NODES OF JUPITER, SATURN, AND PLUTO

These three planets have an affinity in terms of their own nodes, or where their orbits cross the plane of the ecliptic. The nodes of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto are all the same neighborhood “currently.”

In the heliocentric view, they are as follows:

• Jupiter: 10°35’ Cancer / Capricorn (S)
• Pluto: 20°27’ Cancer / Capricorn (S)
• Saturn: 23°48’ Cancer / Capricorn (S)

They haven’t always been this snug; the nodes of Jupiter and Saturn are drifting retrograde, ever so gradually, though they do maintain a nearly static distance between each other, but getting slightly closer over the millennia. Pluto’s nodes, on the other hand, are nearly fixed, moving about 2 minutes of arc per century, also retrograde.

These motions reveal that Jupiter’s nodes conjoined Pluto’s around 1000 BCE, and Saturn’s nodes will conjoin Pluto’s in around 2700 AD. Thus, Pluto’s nodes have been “contained” between Jupiter’s and Saturn’s for about 3000 years, and will be for another 700.

When we view these planets’ nodes geocentrically, they do move prograde and retrograde, and at times we find conjunctions of Pluto’s nodes with Jupiter’s and Saturn’s, though never do Jupiter’s nodes conjoin Saturn’s.

The point of all this is that, in much of recorded history, Jupiter and Saturn are interacting with Pluto in a general sense. But, what do planetary nodes mean astrologically?

Fitzwalter and Henry, writing in Dark Stars: Invisible Focal Points in Astrology, state that planetary nodes offer insights to the general “expression” of a planet, showing where and when planets move above and below the ecliptic, offering new cyclic periods: “… they could be taken to represent points in time and space where an opportunity occurs for a change of direction.” Nodes are, in reality, an axis where planets are balanced with the Sun/Earth plane, which we might infer that a “reset” of planetary influence happens; when we have nodes that are very close to one another, we might infer that those planets are sharing, or even collectivizing, influence.

All three of these planets will cross their own south node in a relatively short time:

• Pluto: October 24, 2018
• Saturn: February 13, 2020
• Jupiter: February 25, 2020

A listing of relevant astrological conjunction (geocentric) event dates – “sn” stands for south node:

• Feb 23 2017 — PL = JUsn Pluto conjunct Jupiter’s south node.
• Mar 19 2017 — PL = JUsn
• Mar 21 2018 — PL = JUsn
• Apr 28 2018 — PL = JUsn
• Sep 05 2018 — SAsn = PLsn
• Aug 06 2018 — SA = JUsn
• Oct 24 2018 — PL = PLsn
• Nov 15 2018 — SAsn = PLsn
• Jan 22 2019 — SA = JUsn
• May 09 2019 — SA = JUsn
• Aug 10 2019 — PL = SAsn
• Sep 05 2019 — PLsn = SAsn
• Nov 15 2019 — PLsn = SAsn
• Dec 18 2019 — SA = PLsn
• Dec 27 2019 — SO eclipse JU
• Jan 11 2020 — SA = PL
• Jan 13 2020 — SO eclipse SA
• Feb 13 2020 — SA = SAsn
• Feb 25 2020 — JU = JUsn
• Mar 04 2020 — JU/SA = PL
• Mar 15 2020 — JU = PLsn
• Mar 23 2020 — MA = PL (0°00’42” separation)
• Apr 06 2020 — JU = PL
• Jun 29 2020 — JU = PL
• Jun 16 2020 — PL = SAsn
• Aug 01 2020 — JU = PLsn
• Aug 10 2020 — JU/SA = PL
• Oct 04 2020 — JU = SAsn
• Oct 13 2020 — JU = PLsn
• Oct 18 2020 — JU/SA = PL
• Nov 12 2020 — JU = PL
• Dec 21 2020 — JU = SA (0*06” separation)
• Jan 26 2021 — PL = SAsn
• Jun 24 2021 — PL = SAsn
• Sep 04 2021 — SAsn = PLsn
• Nov 16 2021 — SAsn = PLsn

The Midpoint

In parts I and II, I tried to lay out a basic thesis of why Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto act together in a special way that has a high impact on our mundane world. This included the special arrangement of their planetary nodes, as well as the sheer cyclic control over the whole solar system that Jupiter and Saturn exert, thus defining generational shifts and evolution itself.

In this part, I will explain the cycle on more detail.

Remembering that in combo/midpoint theory, astrology becomes equations, and we express our alignments of planets and points as sums. I this case, we are interested in this sum:

JU/SA = PL

In the table of events I posted last time, we see that the upcoming dates for this equation to become “partile” are:

• Mar 04 2020 — JU/SA = PL
• Aug 10 2020 — JU/SA = PL
• Oct 18 2020 — JU/SA = PL

The alignment will be within our standard 1° orb during these periods:

< 1° orb:

• Feb 24 – Mar 13,
• Jul 27 – Sep 2,
• Sep 25 – Nov 1

As you can see, this encapsulates nearly the entire span of elections in the USA.

Many of you will notice that these dates are after the SA -0- PL of January 12, and it is my suspicion that the real shitstorm will take much of the year to coagulate and then explode in December.

But, what can we make of this, and what kind of stuff can we expect to happen? Looking back through history, it becomes evident that JU/SA = PL is all about coups and revolutions — the undermining of established orders. This is big-time, high-stakes stuff, and in my estimation, we are in for the mother of all revolutions, as the sheer close proximity of the stellium of the three planets so tight with their own nodes has NEVER HAPPENED TO THIS DEGREE IN RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY.

But, you might ask, how would we go about studying such a complex three-body cycle throughout history? That is a good question, but here is how I did it.

Knowing midpoints are actually axes, I used Solar Fire to run a routine that searched for all alignments of that JU/SA axis to Pluto, meaning that I only searched for these alignments:

• a) JU/SA -0- PL
• b) JU/SA -180- PL

After compiling that list, I then went through every event to see if any major aspects were in force at the time. For instance, the JU/SA = PL Of 2010 was a T-square, and the actual partile was on December 3; the Arab Spring began two weeks later (within one lunation – about the time we expect outer planet waves to inundate the collective mind and express in human behavior), and much of the Middle East was seriously upended.

Because of Pluto’s variable orbital speed, along with the variability of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s combined gradational motions, and thus the variable periods of their midpoint’s gradational motions, we end up with a partile-to-partile periods that range from about 8.5 years to about 10 years if we factor in triple conjunctions, with a mean of about 9.3 years (your results may vary).

I’ll end this here, to give everyone a chance to digest this and, hopefully, run the data on their own. We can’t really learn astrology unless we repeat the charts and routines that are being communicated, so, please, check my work!! I am trying to relate ideas – ideas rooted in a mathematics unique to astrology – and your understanding of these ideas need your active participation.

In Part IV, I will lay out the historical event-situation with this alignment, and you will be unable to sleep for days when you realize that so much historical fuckery is about to bubble up to the surface, all while we still have these creepy sociopaths with their fingers on the buttons, so to speak.

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