All the outer planet conjunctions are a big deal. It's not a surprise that these two are doing a retrograde dance together -- that's normal, given the relationship between the Earth's orbit (which generates retrogrades) and the much greater orbits of the outer planets -- but the fact that they're conjunct the first time at 0° Aries is a huge deal.
0° Aries is the beginning of the zodiac, the reset button on all the greater and lesser cycles of time. Any outer planet conjunction within the first four degrees of Aries punches that button. Jupiter and Saturn conjoin there every 960 years or so, and that's the beginning of one of the great cycles of history -- the last one was in 1604, so we have another five or six centuries to wait until it happens again. As for a Saturn-Neptune conjunction at dead-on 0° Aries...that hasn't happened before in recorded history. The closest match I can find is a conjunction at 2° Aries in 593 BC, which marked the birth of philosophy and scriptural religions, the transformation of literacy from the prerogative of a small class of scribes to something that many people learned, the invention of democracy, and a cascade of other changes all through human society and culture.
That makes sense. Saturn represents the ground rules, the basic framework of hard limits and proven structures on which society rests. Neptune represents the deep mind, the realm of dreams, visions, and the collective unconscious, and it has a dissolving and transforming effect. So we can expect significant shifts in those basic ground rules after the conjunction in 2026. That doesn't mean utopia is about to arrive, and it doesn't even mean those changes will be fast -- Saturn and Neptune are both very slow-moving planets -- but changes there will be.
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Re: Astrological dance
Date: 2025-01-13 03:22 pm (UTC)0° Aries is the beginning of the zodiac, the reset button on all the greater and lesser cycles of time. Any outer planet conjunction within the first four degrees of Aries punches that button. Jupiter and Saturn conjoin there every 960 years or so, and that's the beginning of one of the great cycles of history -- the last one was in 1604, so we have another five or six centuries to wait until it happens again. As for a Saturn-Neptune conjunction at dead-on 0° Aries...that hasn't happened before in recorded history. The closest match I can find is a conjunction at 2° Aries in 593 BC, which marked the birth of philosophy and scriptural religions, the transformation of literacy from the prerogative of a small class of scribes to something that many people learned, the invention of democracy, and a cascade of other changes all through human society and culture.
That makes sense. Saturn represents the ground rules, the basic framework of hard limits and proven structures on which society rests. Neptune represents the deep mind, the realm of dreams, visions, and the collective unconscious, and it has a dissolving and transforming effect. So we can expect significant shifts in those basic ground rules after the conjunction in 2026. That doesn't mean utopia is about to arrive, and it doesn't even mean those changes will be fast -- Saturn and Neptune are both very slow-moving planets -- but changes there will be.