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Saturn and Pluto

This decade opened with a conjunction of Saturn and Pluto and will close with a square of Saturn and Pluto so let us look at other examples. Hard aspects between Saturn and Pluto are notorious for the misfortunes that befall under such a combination. Here are a few examples of various hard Saturn-Pluto aspects — conjunctions, opposition, and square — and the way the results played out in the real world.

Maine Sunk

The first example is the Spanish-American War. America went into Cuba to fight the Spanish for whom Cuba was a colony. The casus belli in this case was the explosion on board the USS Maine in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. As a result of the war the United States, after defeating Spain, got several colonies that had belonged to Spain, such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. In addition the United States had a strong interest in Cuba until 1959 and the Cuban Revolution. The United states “acquired” Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in 1903 which the U.S. is still using. In this case the United States chart was strongly impacted by the Saturn Pluto opposition with Saturn on the Ascendant of the US and Pluto on the Descendant of the US. With this lineup the important action took place away from the country — the Descendant represents the other — while the home (Ascendant) was relatively calm. Most observers use the Spanish-America War as the start of the American Empire since this war allowed the US to acquire several oversea colonies. Many Americans, such as the psychologist William James (brother of novelist Henry), steel baron Andrew Carnegie, reformer Jane Addams, and author Mark Twain were strongly opposed to this imperialist action of the United States and formed the American Anti-Imperialist League.

First Tower Struck

Compare this to the chart of 9/11. This was a perilous time for the United States. The presidential election the previous year was stolen from the Democrats by a ruling of the Supreme Court, and no one seemed too upset. There were no charge of the Democrats by the Republicans that they were “election deniers”. Then in September of 2001 two planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and that event allowed the United States to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Notice in this case that Pluto is on the Ascendant of the United States, and that is indeed where the action took place, and Saturn is on the Descendant, where the action came from. This is the reverse of the chart for the Spanish American War. I refer to these two events as the Bookends of the American Empire — that started with the Spanish American War and the events of 9/11 were the beginning of the end of that empire.

If one were to invent an astrological chart for the 9/11 event one would be hard pressed to come up with something more appropriate than the actual transits to the Sibly natal chart of the United States.

Afghanistan Invaded

Note that Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded by the United States under the Saturn Pluto opposition: the Iraq invasion, which happened a year and a half after the invasion of Afghanistan, still had Saturn opposite Pluto with an orb of less than three degrees. Note that for Iraq Pluto was right on the MC at the time of the invasion, certainly an apt symbol for what happened to that country.

Iraq Invaded

Franz Ferdinand Assassination

Here is an example of what happens when the Saturn-Pluto conjunction occurs near the Cardinal Axis. In astrology the Cardinal Axis — 0 Aries, 0 Cancer, 0 Libra, and 0 Capricorn — represents a point in common to everyone in the world, and so that Cardinal Axis represents the World. In this chart for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which is the event that putatively started the First World War, we see that Pluto is at 0 Cancer and Saturn is closing on a conjunction with it at 23 Gemini. When the war was declared one month later Saturn had moved to 27 Gemini and the conjunction was much closer.

World War One Declared

Graphical Ephemeris for World War One

From the Graphical ephemeris that covers the whole period of World War 1 we see that the exact Saturn Pluto conjunction occurs in early October 1914, after which both planets go retrograde at the same time, and the final conjunction is in May of 1915. Pluto is close to the cardinal axis for most of the war. Pluto crosses the Cardinal Axis at 0 Caner at 1.

2019-2020 Graphical Ephemeris

For an example closer to the present, let us look at the most recent Saturn Pluto conjunction of January 2020. At the time I though there would be a war with Iran since the United States had just assassinated Qasen Solemani, an Iranian Major General who was in Iraq for talks on battling the terrorist association which was blamed for the 9/11 attacks. This event happened on January 3, 2020 when Saturn and Pluto were less than one degree apart. But that war didn’t happen. Rather, two months later the World Health Organization declared a pandemic and we all know how that turned out.

Pandemic Declared

In the graphical Ephemeris above we can see that the Saturn Pluto conjunction happened in early 2020 and they remained close for most of the year. In addition, Jupiter and Saturn conjoined at the end of the year, marking the beginning of the two decade Jupiter Saturn cycle, the equivalent of a New Moon in planetary cycle terminology.

The Other 9/11

Another example of a Saturn-Pluto hard aspect also occurred on September 11 and in fact the event is often called “the other 9/11”. In 1970 a socialist — Salvador Allende — was elected President of the South American country of Chile. This infuriated US President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. The US/CIA attempted a coup of the government of Chile which was unsuccessful. But the military in Chile overthrew the government in a bloody coup on September 11, 1973, creating a dictatorship in Chile that lasted decades. Notice in the chart within the US chart that Pluto was near the MC of the US. Several massive changes happened to the government of the US during this period, such as the Watergate crisis (named for the Washington, DC hotel where it took place and adding the suffix “-gate” to many other crises since) and President Nixon took the US off of the gold standard, an act which still has repercussions for the US and the world more than fifty years later. This episode of Chilean history is covered in the film Missing directed Costa-Gavras which came out in 1982 and book Chile In Their Hearts by John Dinges which was recently published.

National Security Act

The start of the (First?) Cold War is hard to date exactly. Perhaps it was when the atom bombing of Japan happened, which was not necessary to defeat Japan but served as a clear message to the Soviet Union — our partner in fighting World War II — that the United States had the super weapon that it was not afraid to use. Or it could be the “Long Telegram” from George Kennan — a US diplomat in the Soviet Union — recommending isolation of the Soviet Union, or it could be when a US President expounded the “Truman Doctrine”, but I think the best choice — right in the middle of it all — was the passing of National Security Act of 1947 which created the CIA and changed the name of the Department of War to the Department of Defense. Just once Uranus cycle after that the Department of Defense name was changed back to the Department of War. For the start of the Cold War, and especially the Nation Security Act on July 26, 1947 we see that Saturn and Pluto are conjunct.

New Cold War

There was also a Saturn-Pluto conjunction in 1982; this saw the start of Regan’s war in Central America: the US supported a rogue army called the Contras in an attempt to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. There was a book by Noam Chomsky called Toward a New Cold War published in 1982 whose title highlights what was happening. There was also a war between Iraq and Iran with the United States supporting Saddam Hussein who was the leader of Iraq. The United States was selling weapons to Iran (which was under an embargo because of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 which deposed the Shah of Iran who had been inserted into Iran in 1953 when the British and the US deposed the elected leader of Iran) and using the money thus gained to supply weapons for the Contras; supplying weapons directly to the Contras was prohibited by a U.S law.

Japan Invades Manchuria

When Japan invaded Manchuria in 9-18-1931, well before World War Two officially started, there was a Saturn opposite Pluto. This is not terribly obvious from the chart above, but when we look at a graphical ephemeris (below) for the surrounding period it is obvious. The exact oppositions happened in February, July, and December 1931. This invasion resulted in such things as the “Rape of Nanjing” in which case the Nazis were the good guys. Horrible things were done to the Chinese people by the Japanese. One book that covers this is The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang which discusses this incident which took place several years after the invasion.

Graphical Ephemeris for 1931

But hard aspects don’t just include the conjunction, square, and opposition. Here is a chart (below) for when Italy invaded Ethiopia, one of the many event that heralded the start of World War Two, even thought it was several years before the official start. If we look at the chart we don’t see a hard aspect between Saturn and Pluto; here is where looking at the graphical ephemeris comes in handy. This is in the eighth harmonic graphical ephemeris, which means the when lines cross it indicate a conjunction, opposition, square, semisquare or sesquiquadrate. Here we can see a sesquiquadrate occurred twice before — in May and June of 1935 — the actual invasion and once after — in February of 1936 — so the date of the invasion was sandwiched in between.

Italy Invades Ethiopia

Harmonic Eight Graphical Ephemeris for 1935

In a decade that began with a hard Saturn Pluto aspect and ended with a hard Saturn Pluto aspect, there was also one in the middle of the decade. There was a semisquare of these two planets in May of 2024, September of 2024, and finally on January 26, 2025. Less than a week before that last semmisquare occurred the second inauguration of Donald Trump, whose first year of his second term has been filled with disruption and chaos.

Saturn Semisquare Pluto January 2025

The next hard aspect of Saturn and Pluto will be coming up in 2028 and 2029; it happens three times and the third occurrence is just hours before the Full Moon. As you can see from the chart for this third Saturn-Pluto square many planets line up. One wonders what notable event will happen under this square. Stay tuned….

Third Saturn-Pluto Square in 2029

Saturn Pluto Square Within US Chart

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Inflection Point??

On February 20, 2026 Saturn will finally conjoin Neptune, the only exact conjunction of these two planets in this cycle; this conjunction is also conjunct the IC of the United States as well as the Aries Point.

Saturn Neptune Conjunction

Saturn-Neptune Conjunction and USA

I don’t know when this triple conjunction of Saturn, Neptune, and the Aries Point happened previously, but consider that the Saturn Neptune conjunction happens every 36 years, and assume every degree gets the conjunction once, then the last time this happened was 36 X 360 or almost 13000 years ago. Perhaps the significant event at that time was what is called the “Neolithic Revolution” where humans developed agriculture and a more settled lifestyle. Of course, some people argue that everything started to go downhill for humanity after the Neolithic Revolution. But in either case, this was a major turning point for humanity.

Magnified Graphical Ephemeris Saturn Neptune Conjunction

If we examine a magnified section of a graphical ephemeris we can see just how close this conjunction is to both the Aries Point (solid horizontal black line) and the Midheaven (dashed light grey line) of the United States. It is midway between those two points which are in fact close together. So not only do we have Saturn conjunct Neptune at the Aries point, incredibly significant to the world at large (which is represented by the Aries Point since everyone in the world has the Aries Point in common) but also this conjunction is directly opposite the MC of the US — conjunct the IC — and thus the base or foundation of the United States — which is what is represented by the IC — is directly hit by this conjunction. This will certainly shake up the foundations of the United States, which will affect the whole world, but you already can see that.

Saturn-Neptune Almost Exact Conjunction

In July of 2025 the Saturn and Neptune conjunction got within a quarter of a degree of exact and both went retrograde at the same time and thus the conjunction was never exact. In the magnified view you can see how both planets turned retrograde in unison.

Saturn-Neptune Almost Exact Conjunction

Saturn-Neptune Conjunction 1989

The last time this conjunction happened was in 1989. That year the conjunction happen three times; the most interesting was the third, on November 13, when Jupiter was closely opposite the conjunction. This Jupiter-Saturn opposition marked the midpoint — Full Jupiter so to speak — of the twenty year bi-decade that is the Eighties/Nineties. The fall on the Berlin Wall, which heralded the fall of the Soviet Union and other Communist Countries in Eastern Europe, happened on November 9, 1989. This supposedly marked the end of the Cold War (that had started at the end of the Second World War) and according to some this also marked the End of History (see The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama which was published in 1992). This also involved a big change in the Western powers (see Cold War Triumphalism edited by Ellen Schrecker and published 12 years later). The United States took victory laps after this happened and President Clinton even managed to determine who the leader of the newly-born Russia was, as a cover story entitled “Yanks to the Rescue” shows. One can easily imagine the uproar if the Russian President was accused of helping an American win the Presidency!!

“Yanks to the Rescue”

Let us look at some other examples of hard aspects between Saturn and Neptune:

U.S. Off Gold Standard

An August 15, 1971 speech by United States President Richard Nixon was a big event for the world economy, but most did not realize how big for many years after. This event is considered the end of the Bretton Woods System that was established after World War II, named after the town in New Hampshire where the agreement was reached. After this statement by President Nixon, dollars were no longer convertible to gold. Among the many ramification was that money was made not through making actual things but through financial manipulation. In the long run, this decision by Nixon shifted power from industry to finance, and so what was capitalism of the Sixties and Seventies is not what capitalism is now.

Nixon Shock Speech

When we look at the chart for August 15, 1971 we don’t see anything specific. But looking at the graphical ephemeris around that date reveals something interesting.

Nixon Shock Graphical Ephemeris

Saturn and Neptune made three oppositions — indicated by 2, 3, and 4 — once before and twice after the speech whose date is indicated by the center line. In addition, the Jupiter Saturn opposition (much like the Jupiter-Saturn opposition which occurred almost twenty years later at the fall of the Berlin Wall) occurred twice before the speech and once after.

But there is also Pluto crossing the Cardinal Axis at 0 Libra — indicated by 1 — and also conjoining the MC of the United States. The period of 1972 and 1973 is known in the United States as the Watergate crisis, which ultimately saw the only resignation of a US President in history. That event is certainly appropriate for Pluto on the Midheaven of the US; at the time many expressed disbelief at what was happening to the government of the country.

The “Great Recession” was a meltdown of the financial markets in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Unlike the Great Depression of 1929, which had an exact date — Dark Thursday (October 24, 1929) — when the stock market fell greatly after booming for much of the decade, we don’t have an exact date for the Great Recession. But by looking at the graphical ephemeris for that period we can see what happened.

The Great Recession

Saturn was opposite Neptune three times right before the “Great Recession” at 2, 3, and 4. In addition Pluto crossed the Cardinal Axis as it enters Capricorn, indicated by 1. Thus Pluto is square the MC/IC axis of the United States. This is similar to the Nixon Shock, where there was also Saturn opposite Neptune and Pluto making a hard aspect to the Cardinal Axis and the US MC. The midpoint of these two events was the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune marked by the fall of the Wall.

Notice that the event of note doesn’t always happen at the time of the exact aspect. It did for the fall of the Wall, but for both the Nixon Shock and the Great Recession there was a time delay. Thus whether or not a significant event happens close to February 2026 or is delayed months is something we will see. Stay tuned….

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Uranus Bats Last

In this decade we have the three outer planets changing from negative to positive signs all within a small amount of time. In this blog I have descriptions for those three planets and what they represent in the modern world. What follows is a brief recap of how I see these planets.

Moving from the outermost planet, Pluto represents the One-Percent, the Deep State, everything with “Big” in front of its name, such as Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, Big Oil, etc. And of course the Military industrial Complex or the National Security State or the Power Elite or whatever term you are most comfortable with. As I’ve mentioned in a previous entry (https://500yearparty.com/2025/07/) the conflict between the Pluto Class and the Uranus Class (described below) is the major conflict of our time, playing out in many different forms, though many people (especially those in the Pluto Class or their enablers) want you to ignore this or pretend that it really doesn’t matter.

Neptune is the Virtual World (that is the World Wide Web) and also confusion and deception and disinformation. It represents everything that is not natural but artificial, such as — most notably in this current time — artificial intelligence. Many have compared the development of this virtual world to the invention of the printing press 500 years earlier. The first major item printed with movable type is called the Gutenberg Bible, printed in the 1450s under a Uranus-Pluto conjunction. But of course — since things moved much slower then — it took many years for the effects of movable type to be felt in Europe. Consider the Internet — first used in 1969 — and the World Wide Web — which made the Internet accessible to the average person — developed in 1993 under the Uranus-Neptune conjunction. The printing press had enormous ramifications for the world at large in the last 500 year; the Neptune World Wide Web will have even more profound effects on the world over the next 500 years. This shows the potency of Neptune, but along with it comes the mass confusion, lying, and gas-lighting. Perhaps Neptune will even bring forth a new spiritual mindset, since spirituality is also a manifestation of Neptune, even though it is extremely difficult to observe in most people and especially in governments. In the composition The Planets by Gustav Holst — something ever astrologer should be familiar with — the term associated with Neptune is “The Mystic”.

Uranus represents the people, those who are not in the Pluto class, the common folk, the ” salt of the earth”. In our modern world the dichotomy of Right versus Left is being replaced by the dichotomy of Up versus Down, where Up is Pluto and Down is Uranus. As the poet Shelley wrote in the Masque of Anarchy “Ye are many — they are few” which could be rephrased as “Uranus is many, Pluto is few”. This is the conflict that will be animating the upcoming years — we already see it playing out in real time — even though certain people (hint: Pluto) will try hard to get other people to not believe this conflict, or make them side with Pluto.

Outer Planet Ingresses

Here is a graphical ephemeris for the period from May 10, 2022 to the beginning of April 2027. It is in the sixth harmonic, which means the 0 Aries line — black horizontal line half way down with the red Aries sign to the left of it — represents the start of all positive signs: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. Since Uranus goes into Gemini, Neptune goes into Aries, and Pluto goes into Aquarius all of those sign cusps are represent by that black line.

We see the first sign ingress is by Pluto (marked by the 1) in April of 2023. This indicates the rise of the Pluto Power. And looking at the real world you can see that happening on a daily basis. Pluto is finally permanently in Aquarius (at least for 250 years) in early November 2024, just in time for the United States election. Indeed the Pluto Class is riding high.

Pluto Final Ingress Into Aquarius

But for the United States we also see Pluto make a decisive turn: the Pluto Return — the first for a country since governments usually don’t last as long as one Pluto cycle before changing– which occurs in 2022 and 2023. Since this Pluto Return is unique for countries, what we are seeing now is also unique in history. Stand back and watch the Pluto Return plays out as you attempt to ignore it. Pluto first returned to its natal location in early 2022 (marked as 1) and the final brushing the natal position was late 2023.

United States Pluto Return

Then Neptune brushes with a change of sign (at 2 in Outer Planet Ingresses) in July of 2024 and then clearly moves into Aries in April of 2025, finally moving into the new sign for good (at least for 168 years) in February of 2026. And we can certainly see the signs of Neptune activity around us. Nothing is as it seems, we can not trust anything that is said or written or televised, not even your own senses. We have to check many sources. And the virtual world is getting overwhelming, with tales of people being swept up with these virtual events.

Final Neptune Ingress Into Aries

United States Neptune Demi-Return

For the United State we have a Neptune demi-return, which happens every 84 years, and in this position — opposite the natal Neptune — once every 168 years. This demi-return happens in in 2021 (at 2 above) and 2022. But there is also Neptune opposite the Midheaven of the United States and, something that will affect the world at large and not just the US, Neptune conjunct the Aries point. These happen in 2024, 2025, and 2026. So plenty of Neptunian confusion to go around.

Neptune At Aries Point and Opposite US MC

But Uranus has yet to fully change signs. That planet’s first ingress into Gemini took place in July 2025 (at 3 in Outer Planet Ingresses) but then retreats into Taurus. Uranus finally moves into its new sign in May of 2026 (at least for 84 years). Since Pluto and Neptune have been in their new signs for a time, it will take a while for the effects of Uranus to be clearly visible. There are already signs of its activities, but you have to be on the lookout to see them. Ultimately Uranus rules awakening and that is what humanity must do if it is to escape Pluto-Neptune trap that is engulfing the world.

Uranus Final Ingress Into Gemini

The United States will get heavy dose of Uranus in the second half of this decade. First we have Uranus square the Moon of the US in 2025 and 2026 (at 1 below). Then we have the Uranus Return for the United States, the third such since the birth of the country — in 2027 and 2028 (at 2). Finally we have Uranus crossing the Descendant of the United States in 2028 and 2029 (3) . Quite a bout of Uranus for the United States is coming up.

United States: Uranus Square Moon, Uranus Return, Uranus Conjunct Descendant

Notice that the final sign change of Neptune occurs just a few months before the final sign change of Uranus. Thus we will see all the Neptunian fog over the Uranian change and thus be unable to really see what is going on. Thus when the final Uranian awakening takes places it will come as a complete surprise to most people and to the mass media.

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This Decade As a Play in Three Acts

The play that is this decade can be divided into three acts astrologically. While you could also call this decade a novel with three chapters, a play with three acts is much more common than a novel with three chapters, so I’ll use the theater metaphor.

Just as in a play the first act sets up the characters that will drive the plot forward. In this case, as I’ve mentioned previously, there are three main events — Covid, Ukraine, Gaza (with the epiphenomenon of Donald J. Trump, who had appeared in the third act of a previous play) — that developed in the early years of this decade and will drive the plot of this decade forward. The third act is where the outcome is shown, the denouement (unraveling) of the play occurs. The middle act is where the plot develops and the characters/events introduced at the beginning behave in ways that will lead to the final outcomes. We are in Act Two now.

Neptune Demi-Return

The first act has as its highlights the Pluto return and the Neptune demi-return. The Pluto return has never occurred before in American history — the 250th anniversary of America is coming up in 2026 and the cycle of Pluto is approximately 250 years so you do the math. The Neptune demi-return occurred before in 1859. The previous Neptune Return was in 1940. The previous post summarized Act One in more detail.

Neptune Demi-Return 1859

Neptune Return

The second act consists of Uranus square the US Moon, Neptune opposite the U S Midheaven and also on the Aries point. As a special bonus we have Saturn conjunct Neptune when Neptune is at those points. This conjunction happened before in 1989 (without Aries Point involvement) which saw the fall of Communist countries in Europe and then the fall of the Soviet Union. This represented a major change in the Twentieth Century. Uranus made a previous opening square to the US Moon in 1941 and most Americans know what happened at that time. The previous Uranus conjunct the Moon happened in 2003 when the US attacked the country of Iraq in what is called the Second Gulf War. So the most likely scenario is a war starting, but already we have so many wars that is difficult to keep track. There is the most overt war between the United States and Russia since the end of the First World War, when President Wilson (along with many other countries) sent troops into Russia to defeat the Russian Revolution. We have a war, financed by the US, of Israel in Gaza. Other possible wars are with Iran and Venezuela. And of course there is always China. And more soon to come. This is not what were expecting by a “Peace President”.

Uranus Square US Moon

Saturn-Neptune Opposite US Midheaven

Uranus Square US Moon 1941

Uranus Conjunct US Moon 2003

During this act all three other planets change sign: Pluto goes into Aquarius (2023 and 2024) Neptune goes into Aries (2024, 2025, and 2026) and Uranus goes into Gemini (2025 and 2026).

Uranus Enters Gemini 2026

Neptune Enters Aries 2026

Pluto Enters Aquarius Late 2024

The last time these three outer planets changed into those signs was in the period 1523 through 1534, a much longer period than this time. which allowed Uranus to move into Cancer before Neptune went into Aries and Pluto into Aquarius.

Uranus Enters Gemini 1523

Neptune Enters Aries 1535

Pluto Enters Aquarius 1532

To mark the half way point in this 500 year party, we saw Pluto go into Aquarius in 1778, Uranus go into Gemini in 1774, and Neptune go into Libra — the sign opposite Aries– in 1778 and 1779. This was the height of the Enlightenment which also saw the birth of the U.S. Some people have called the period we are entering the “Endarkenment” since the lessons of 250 years ago seem to be forgotten.

Uranus Enters Gemini 1774

Neptune Enters Libra 1778

Pluto Enters Aquarius 1778

The last act is the Uranus Return and Uranus on the Descendant of the US. The previous Uranus Return was 1943, 1944, and 1945. The previous Uranus on the US Descendant was 1944, 1945, and 1946. That period, the last couple of years of the Second World War and the early postwar period saw tremendous changes to the Unites States, the United States government, and the world in general. We are still living in the world created at that time. We also have Pluto conjunct the South Node of the Moon and a trine of Uranus and Pluto, which will be dealt with separately.

US Uranus Return 2028

Uranus Conjunct Descendant 2029

US Uranus Return 1944

Uranus Conjunct Descendant 1945

At the end of the play or novel that is this decade we need to get ready for the sequel: This has been a waxing decade and the waning decade pair (after the Jupiter-Saturn opposition which take place at the end of 2029, end of April 2030, and about Thanksgiving (US) 2030) will come after. Being the second half of a Jupiter-Saturn cycle we will see things developed that were hinted at in the first decade of the cycle, much like sequels often do. For example think of the Seventies as a sequel to the Sixties or the Nineties as a sequel to the Eighties. Spoiler Alert: Even though we’ve seen plenty of Neptune so far in this decade, for the US the first three years of the next decade will see even more Neptune, with Neptune trine the Ascendant and square the Sun.

Jupiter Opposite Saturn 2030

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Two Down

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

I’ve previously talked about all the important astrological events taking place this decade. So far we’ve seen two of them already occur. The first item (#1) is the demi-return of Neptune to the US Neptune in 2021 and 2022. The three previous returns or demi-returns, happening about every 84 years, were in 1938 and 1939, 1857 and 1858, and 1774 and 1775. I think you can see a pattern.

This Decade

The second item was the Pluto Return 2021, 2022, 2023 (#4). This is Pluto returning to the position it had at the birth of the United States in 1776. Of note is the Pluto demi-return in 1936, 1937, and 1938, the “Roosevelt Depression” that followed the height of the New Deal as a response to the Great Depression. The opening square of Pluto corresponded to the Mexican-American War and especially the aftermath, which expanded the United States by adding California, most of Arizona and New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and some of Colorado. This was the biggest expansion of America in history, bigger than the Louisiana Purchase some forty years previously. This will be discussed further at a later time. This was a big expansion of the United States. The closing square of Pluto to its natal position was in 1982 and 1983 and the beginning onslaught of neo-liberalism under Ronald Reagan. One could see this period as the true end of the New Deal. This would change American for decades to come. Also note that there was a midpoint configuration of the three outer planets just before this Pluto square.

And we can already see the early results of this Pluto Return in the reshaping of America that we see now. In 2016 and the election of Donald Trump I described him as a farce. In the type of theater known as a farce, the main character often has a physical characteristic that sets him apart. In a farce everything is exaggerated so we can see what is really happening. Obviously in the first act of the Trump farce people did not pick up on what was happening so we have a rerun that is more farcical than ever — the farce level is turned up to 11. Donald Trump is not sui generis. He is just a continuation of Presidential actions that have gone on at least since Harry Truman right after World War II. As an example, billionaires have always run the government but they were usually wise enough to stay behind the scenes. Now we have a billionaire running the government right out in the open so all can see. All presidents, at least for several decades, have performed unconstitutional acts but they were wise enough to do so in secrecy. But now we have a president who trashes the Constitution out in the open. All government is corrupt, the higher the level the more corrupt, but now with Trump the corruption is so brazen one hardly knows where to begin pointing it out. All subtly is gone, the blatancy knows no bounds. One hopes that the audience figures out the corruption is wide-spread. A problem occurs when people think “my teams is good, they never do anything bad. Everything is the fault of the other team”.

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it

In the last decade we’ve seen the phenomenon know as Trump Derangement Syndrome – TDS. TDS 1.0 was better know as Russiagate – the belief that Donald Trump had been put into office with the nefarious schemes of Vladimer Putin, the evil dictator of Russia. After Trump’s first term there developed TDS 2.0. He was a lead insurrectionist, he was trying to overthrow the election!! He was a multiple felon. I’m sure all those charges made Team Blue members feel good but others might not be so sanguine. Now with his second term we see TDS 3.0 wherein Trump sold out the US to his boss Putin. Unfortunately this covers up the real crimes of Donald Trump. Class War has been practiced for a long time but Mister Trump has found a way to make it acceptable to other classes (not him or his associates). Now that other class believe he is fighting for them when he is actually fighting for his class. What a perfect con. In fact this is the best Presidential Con of all time.

We are also seeing another form of TDS. This is the belief among the supporters that Trump is almost perfect, he can do no wrong. In this case we have Trump Devotion Syndrome. It is if his devoted followers are a parody of the supporters of most other candidates. These followers are so devoted that whatever their leader does they will excuse it, even if it directly conflicts with what he told them before the election. He was going to drain the swamp even though it is clear he is a member of the swamp. He was going to get to the bottom of the Epstein case, even though he now says it is merely a Democrat made-up story. But still, to his supporters, Trump is the Man.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

This reminds one of the terms of President Obama. In 2009 we were impressed by the first African American president who was bringing “Hope and Change”, also known as hopium. One would hope that scenes like the following would disabuse his followers: The Secretary of State under his first term laughed when a leader of a foreign nation was homosexually raped and then killed. I guess rape is funny if it happens to someone we don’t like. Then the most prosperous nation in Africa was reduced by the action of the first AA President to having open air slave markets. And the response of people to this action: crickets. Obama was called the Deporter In Chief because he deported more people than all other presidents including Trump. Obama was going to save the middle class, but after his election he bailed out all the bankers whose rash actions caused the financial crisis of 2007-2009, while many people lost their homes as a result. But no one who voted for him got upset. No one was satisfied with the current state of healthcare so Obama put in place a health care plan that was conceived by the same organization that created Project 2025, and that had been previously used by a Republican governor, but no one seemed to care.

Strong Neptune During First Obama Term

Note the transits during the first Obama term: Neptune was conjunct (#1 below) the Moon of the United States — the people are living under illusion — and also sesquiquadrate the Sun (#2 below) of the US — the government is also suffering from illusion. Note that natally the Sun and the Moon are related by a hard aspect, a sesquiquadrate, suggesting that there is always a conflict between the government (Sun) and the People (Moon).

Eighth Harmonic Graphical Ephemeris First Obama Term

Now we have “Trump and Change” (not to be confused with Chump Change) which is seducing people. Neptune is opposite the Midheaven of the US so again Neptune is strong. Many believe that this time it will be different. People always say that when their favored candidate wins. Many think that since Donald Trump is a maverick he must be better than all those “conventional” presidents. They cheer everything he does. But Trump is basing his crimes on the crimes of previous Presidents that were never called out, but making them more obvious. Hopefully many in the United States will wake up and realize the travesty that recent Presidents have been. Trump 2.0 is a very big wake-up call. If people do not pay attention what will come after Trump will be much more deadly and gruesome.

Neptune Opposite US Midheaven First Time

The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats — simply put — is that the Republicans believe that control of life should be left to the corporations while the Democrats believe the control of life should be left to the government, which is controlled by the corporations, so this is a distinction without a difference. But the two parties can appeal to different groups of people.

Neptune Opposite US Midheaven 2025, 2026

Various radical groups, such as the Black Agenda Report, have long considered the Democrats as the more effective evil. Everyone with intelligence knew the Republican were evil, but the Democrats were smart enough to hide their evilness and pretend they were “for the people”. But the roles are now reversed. Everyone should know that the Democrats support the elite classes, but the Republicans under Donald Trump hide their evilness and pretend they are now “for the people”. The Republicans are now the more effective evil and so are especially dangerous. It’s all a con and Trump now is the biggest con.

Laugh about it, shout about it, When you’ve got to choose, Every way you look at it, you lose

All presidents oversee the transfer of money to corporations who pay for the political parties but Trump has made this transfer of money upward clear for all to see with what he has called (probably lacking irony) a Big Beautiful Bill. Everyone can, or should, be able to see

But the farce of Donald Trump is just one sign that the whole world has jumped on the farce bandwagon. Take for example Israel’s war on Gaza (which still doesn’t have a fixed name). This war is clearly Trumpian. It should be obvious to any living soul that it is a genocide and many major war crimes are being committed, but many many people expend energy trying to pretend it isn’t and looking the other way. So something that is way over the top in evilness is though by many to be just business as usual. And perhaps it is. And if that is so, perhaps we need to examine what normal business really is. Maybe that is the clear lesson of this decade: Everything is being revealed; we can no longer hide from the truth of what has been happening for a long time, it is so in-your-face obvious that you really have to work to not notice it. Even though this is ugly it will prove to be a good thing: The End of Illusion that Neptune is providing. People were shocked when they saw pictures of skeletal figures after the Holocaust during World War II, but by that time it was too late to do anything. Now we see live-streamed pictures of skeletal figures and look the other way. This is progress?

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist

But what Trump intends to do is shift even more money from the Uranus Class to the Pluto Class, Everyone wants to do this but Trump convinced people (the Uranus Class) that he is on their side. Another example of a big, beautiful con. And ultimately Trump wants to bring about the Pluto future I mentioned in the previous post. But he has managed to convince people he is the Deep State’s biggest enemy.

Perhaps the shouting by the TDS 3.0 group hides the true evilness of Donald J. Trump, our first billionaire President. To best describe this involves the use of Pluto and Uranus as outlined in the previous post. It appears that there are two things he really wants: To shift power and money, even more than it already is, from the Uranus Class to the Pluto Class. And ultimately to bring about the future that the Pluto Class desires. But he was very clever in convincing parts of the Uranus Class that he was really on their side. Certainly this was a Great Big Beautiful Con.

Sometimes Satan comes as a man of Peace

Note: The author of the first quotation wrote a book (or perhaps it was channeled by his wife) about the twenty-eight phases of the Moon.


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The Midpoint Cometh

The main indicator of the end of the 500 year party is the midpoint of the three outer planets happening now with Neptune at its crux, something that only happens every 500 years. This particular one goes on for a long time as you can see from the image below. This midpoint configuration lasts at least the ten years from 2021 to 2031 with the tightest midpoint in 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027. Notice that in 2025 this midpoint is on the Cardinal Axis making it even more potent.

Neptune = Uranus/Pluto

At the same time as this important midpoint is happening, those three planets also make up a mini-grand trine, which is a trine and two sextiles. This formation goes on for the four year 2025, 2026, 2027, and 2028 which is of course also crossing the Cardinal Axis in those first two years. The graphical ephemeris below is in the sixth harmonic which means that trines and sextiles appear as conjunctions.

Mini-Grand Trine

For the last 500 years, starting in the late Fifteenth Century, this party has been increasing in both a geographical and physical sense until by this time in the early Twenty-First Century more and more of what are called third world countries are joining the party. People seem to believe it can go on forever.

If you want as astrological date for when this started look at the chart for 11-18-1485 where the ten known planets (even though three were unknown at the time) were the closest for 500 years; the next time this tightness happened was on 11-16-1982 for this end of the party moment.

Tightest Planets 1485

But wait! There is a problem called anthropogenic climate change (ACC) that is going to end civilization as we know it. There is just too much carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuel powered automobiles and farming, especially of animals to produce meat and dairy. So we just have to eliminate those things and the world will be much better off.

Tightest Planets 1982

I’ve previously introduced the terms Uranus and Pluto to denote the two real classes that make up our society. Uranus is the people, the plebs, the proletariat. Pluto is the elite, the one percent, the global capitalists (or as satirist C.J. Hopkins calls them Global Cap), the Deep State.

The problems of ACC is something that must be solved by methods that don’t upset Pluto too much. That is why they promote that problem and that solution. But I would argue that the problems resulting from the 500 year party are much more difficult and far-reaching than what they want Uranus to believe, and solving these problems will require taming, if not eliminating, Pluto. And that is certainly not acceptable to them and so they promote the idea of climate change and get everyone exited about it, whether for or against the solutions that Pluto is promoting. It’s another instance of “Don’t look there, look over here”. But of course doing that, following the direction of Pluto, will only cause the problems to get worse. After all Pluto is the ones who are most enjoying the 500 year party, and they have the most to lose if the world really deals with the problems.

When a party is over you need to clean up the messes and replenish your supplies. After a party of 500 years, and especially after the Neptune-Pluto conjunction of the Eighteen-Nineties (to be dealt with in a separate post) there is a massive mess.

Neptune-Pluto Conjunction New Moon

To deal with all the problems created by the huge party civilization has been throwing for the last five centuries will involve first of all dealing with the Problem of Pluto which controls the media and the government which in turn sets the narrative of what is happening that we all believe. And of course Pluto does not want you looking at them, so they make you believe that the problem is something other then them. You would do the same thing if you were the problem. For example, if you beat your wife you must convince her the problem is the noisy neighbors in the apartment below.

The conflict in the world is between two opposing viewpoints: to make it more global, more a one world government or not. But the real solutions will involve more local (Uranus) that global (Pluto) and more natural (Uranus) rather than artificial (Pluto). But the world is moving towards the totally artificial with artificial food, artificial immunity, and the ultimate artificial intelligence. We need to move back towards natural food, natural immunity, and most of all natural intelligence, a characteristic that is becoming more and more scarce.

Over especially the last 100 years and more especially the last 30 years the people of the world, especially those in Western countries, have become more and more estranged from the natural world, and as a result the world has become more estranged from us. We need real solutions and those are not the solutions produced by Pluto.

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Change Of Sign

We will soon see the first of three major sign changes for outer planets. Anytime an outer planet changes sign it is considered significant. There are many articles available that describe what has happened throughout history when, say, Neptune goes into Pisces or Pluto goes into Capricorn. A few years ago I discussed what happened when Pluto entered Capricorn. That occurred in 2007 through 2009 and the world saw what is called the Great Recession (as opposed to the Great Reset which is coming up). The previous time that Pluto entered Capricorn saw Britain become the dominant power in the (unipolar) world, which lasted until World War I when the USA took the reins of power even though it took the country another world war to act on this and believe it. And the time before that saw the Reformation start after Martin Luther supposedly nailed his theses to the church door. We will soon see all three outer planets — Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto — change sign within a 3 year period. One can see that if one change of sign is important, then three changing at almost the same time will be very very important.

In the book Astrology of Sustainability the astrologer J.Lee Lehman, PhD. talks about the transits of outer planets and mention this while discussing Pluto moving from Capricorn : “…cluelessness is a general characteristic of a period with a change in outer planet sign: the people who have benefited from the Old Regime often are slow to notice that the rules have changed.” Imagine what three changes of signs in three years for the outer planets will mean to those members of the Old Regime, that is Pluto, in the upcoming years.

Signs are, like house systems, a way of dividing 360 degrees by that ever popular number twelve starting of course at zero Aries. So whenever a planet changes sign it is making a multiple of 30
degree aspect to the Aries point. Thus when Pluto goes into Aquarius it will be sextile the Aries Point; when Neptune goes into Aries it will be conjunct the Aries Point; and when Uranus goes into Gemini it will be also sextile the Aries Point. Uranus has a period of 84 years so few are still alive who remember when Uranus last went into Gemini which was in 1942. The period of Neptune is twice that of Uranus so the last time Neptune entered Aries was 1862. Note that at that time Uranus was also in Gemini having entered that sign 1858 and 1858. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius was in 1778 when the United States was fighting its Revolutionary War. It is fairly obvious the commonality of those three periods: both 1778, 1862 and 1942 saw the United States involved in a war. I wonder what will happen this time.

The last time all three planets changed sign at about the same time, and into the same signs as they are changing into now, was 500 years ago, as illustrated above. Uranus went into Gemini about 1524; Neptune went into Aries about 1534; and Pluto went into Aquarius about 1531 — the same three ingresses we are seeing now. Since Pluto has a period of 250 years we see that this upcoming entrance of Pluto into Aquarius is only the second time since 1531 that Pluto entered Aquarius. In the Sixteenth Century Uranus was the first to change sign and Pluto went into Aquarius seven years later; Neptune was the last to change sign. By the time Pluto entered Aquarius Uranus had moved into Cancer and shortly after Neptune entered Aries Uranus moved into Leo, two signs after Gemini. Not all three ingresses happened as close together as they do this time.

Thus 500 years ago the spread for all three ingresses was about 10 years so there was not much overlap. To say that the period 1524 to 1534 was important to the shaping of the modern world is not hyperbole. One can see that the three outer planets changing into the same three signs this decade is an echo of what happened 500 years ago. At the intermediate time 250 years after that early 16th century period, Uranus went into Gemini about 1775, Neptune went into Libra — opposite Aries — about 1779, and Pluto went into Aquarius about 1777. The timing of these sign changes with the birth of the United States is quite obvious. These three ingresses also mark the Enlightenment, though that had more to do with the grand trine of the three outer planets that century. The Enlightenment is that time when rationalism replaced religion as the dominant force in societies. I have predicted previously in this blog that we will see irrationalism (that is the opposite of rationalism) replace rationalism after this change the world is going through this decade. This may be hard if not impossible to believe if you were raised in the scientific paradigm that dominates this society and has seen the adulation of scientists after World War II (they gave us the atomic bomb that ended that war was a popular outlook in America at that time) and it has only grown since in our technically dominated world. And according to the rational mindset astrology is the ultimate in irrationalism.

One way to see when all three outer planets change sign visually is by using a graphical ephemeris in harmonic six because all three of the signs being changed into are positive: Pluto into Aquarius, Neptune into Aries, and Uranus into Gemini. The heavy horizontal line is 0 Aries or in this case the positive sign boundry. Looking at the image above we see that Pluto first moves into Aquarius in the Spring of 2023, just dipping its toe in so to speak and then goes back into the safer confines of Capricorn until late winter of 2024 when it moves seriously into Aquarius until it returns briefly to Capricorn in Fall of 2024 but finally moves into Aquarius for good at the start of 2025. Neptune goes stationary at the Aries point in Summer of 2024 (to be discussed in more depth in a later post) before returning to Pisces for winter of 2025-26, finally moving into Aries for good in early 2026. Finally Uranus moves into Gemini for late Summer, Fall and Winter of 2025 and finally moves into Gemini for good in Summer of 2026.

Summarizing, Pluto moves into Aquarius in 2023 and 2024, Neptune moves into Aries 2024, 2025, and Uranus moves into Gemini in 2025 and 2026.

As mentioned previously in this blog, the interpretations that I use of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in the current context can be laid out as follows: Note these planets have multi-variant meanings (I believe that term was used by Richard Tarnas) and so those planets have different meanings in different circumstances. But for the current crisis of this decade I think the following meanings are most useful. Uranus represents the individual people and the local and natural world as well as the desire and need for freedom. Neptune represents deception and illusion and propaganda as well as diseases and vaccines and that virtual world we call the “Internet” as well as a sense of a spiritual world. Pluto represent the opposite of Uranus in the current sense, big tech, big media, big pharma, global and the not natural — that is to say the technical and industrial.

With those meanings in mind we can see that these three different ingresses represent three different currents taking over the world . The first current will be of Plutonian energies, something that we can already see though the actual ingress won’t happen until the Vernal Equinox of 2023. The energy following that will be Neptunian which suggests there will be even more uncertainly about what is happening in the world and more propaganda supporting the narrative of Pluto so it will seem like the forces of Pluto will be all-powerful since it will appear at that time that that is the only energy available, but it will be hard to know for sure. But to paraphrase a common statement, Uranus bats last. The Uranian energies will finally come in after everyone is confused and believing that Pluto has triumphed. This will be discussed in a later post. This will see the biggest change in the direction of the world for a least 500 years. As the Romantic poet Shelly said a little over 200 years ago in the poem The Masque of Anarchy — “Ye are many, they are few” or to paraphrase Uranus is/are many and Pluto is/are few.

There is also a fourth change of sign at almost the same time as the first ingress of Pluto into Aquarius and so this should actually be considered the first of the many changes of sign in this short period, and this is one for a planet that for most of humankind’s existence was the outermost planet; Saturn is changing sign from Aquarius to Pisces in early March about two weeks before Pluto makes its first foray in Aquarius. This suggests a changed from the scientific viewpoint ruled by Aquarius to a more “non-scientific” viewpoint ruled by Pisces. In fact it has already started. The last two years have seen the popularity of the phrase “Trust Science”; I see it on lawn signs in richer neighborhoods above mine. This is a profoundly anti-science statement. You trust religion but science needs controversy and a variety of opinions in order to grow. I say this as someone who actually has a degree in science even though it is only BS. A more accurate statement would be Question Science since that is what scientists are suppose to do. But I guess that belief is so Twentieth Century.

So perhaps Science is dead but we just don’t realize it and may not realize it for many years.

Since Saturn is a relatively fast moving planet we will see it’s entrance into Aries within this decade also. And that time will be also important, but that is a subject for another post.