A fun spin on serious cosmic stuff! Wendell C. Perry has 40 years experience studying astrology and how it impacts personalities & relationships. He's written two books & published articles in astrology magazines. He's happy to share this website so that you, too, can have fun with astrology to help you in everyday life!
Back in the day, before the discovery of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, astrologers few options when it came to long term cycles that could help them understand gradual shifts in matters like politics, the economy and the weather. All they had was Jupiter and Saturn. So they start paying close attention to the cyclic nature of the conjunctions of these two planets.
Jupiter and Saturn align with one another every twenty years or so. Each conjunction tends to occur in a sign belonging to the same element as the previous conjunction, until it doesn’t. For example, between 1842 and 1961 there have been seven conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, all in Earth signs. When these conjunctions shift to a new element, that is considered a significant event, but it comes with a bit of a stutter. In 1981 the conjunction occurred in Libra, an Air sign, but in 2000 it was back in an Earth sign, Taurus. The next conjunction will occur on December 21. It will begin a long series of conjunctions in Air signs.
Of course, these days we have lots of slower moving celestial bodies with which we can track long term changes in world events and generational shifts. Nonetheless, our fascination with the cycle of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions persists. The one in December is of particular interest because it will occur on the winter solstice. The pandemic along with the continued controversy over the election and Trump’s refusal to admit defeat is another reason why astrologers are looking at this conjunction with special interest.
When the President released the money to fund Biden’s transition team several days ago, I felt that that was as close as we would ever get to a concession speech from Donald Trump. Despite this move, and in the face of repeated failures to establish proof of impropriety in the November election and several unproductive recounts, the President has continued to claim that he was cheated out of a victory.
That claim took a major blow a couple of days ago when Attorney General William Barr announced that the Dept. of Justice had no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the November election. Coming from the same guy who misquoted the Mueller report and had just appointed a special prosecutor to continue the (so far) hopeless investigation into the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in 2016, this was a turn of events that sent Trump’s minions scrambling.
Of course, what’s of interest to astrologers is the fact that Barr’s announcement came on the day after a Full Moon. The Full Moon is supposed to bring us the completion of things. It’s rarely that simple and Barr’s statement is not going to have much effect on those true believers convinced that Democrats stole the 2020 election. Still, there is a certain degree of closure in it.
I thought that the placement of the Sun and Moon near the I.C. of the New Moon chart for Nov. 15 (click here to see the article and the chart) indicated a significant event would occur. It did. Even though President Trump hasn’t stop claiming victory and his hopeless legal assault on the vote continues, the fact that he released the transition funds was a big step toward the peaceful transfer of power which has been the great miracle of our democratic system since its inception.
I also predicted that the opposition to Mercury in that chart by Uranus would bring us a shocking court decision. Even though it wasn’t really surprising, the ruling by the Supreme Court to override New York’s ban on religious gatherings shows us that this new, conservative Supreme Court will put the principles laid out in the Constitution above science and human life. Whether you think that’s a good thing or a bad thing, it is something we are going to have to live with for the next several decades.
I had hoped that the positive aspect between the three planets in Capricorn and the Sun and Moon in the Nov. 15 chart indicated a let up in the surge of COVID-19 cases. No such luck. Instead, this sextile seems to have produced an increase in public complacency which, in turn, led to way too many people traveling to be with (and spread illness to) relatives and loved ones across the country.
Yesterday, Donald Trump put on his big boy pants and freed the transition money that will allow the Biden team to move forward with their preparation to take over the White House. This happened just as transiting Jupiter moved within a one degree orb of an opposition to Trump’s natal Venus. I had expected this change in attitude to take a bit longer, but I did predict that a shift would come with Jupiter moved into this opposition aspect.
Of course, Trump has been liberating himself from the job of being President for a while now. He more or less skipped the G7 meeting and has been spending the majority of his time on the golf course. What the Jupiter aspect brings him is a more open view of future. It is a future in which he still owns the Republican Party and can continue to exert tremendous power without onerous duties of the presidency.
