The two time-keepers Jupiter and
Saturn are in the process of forming the waxing square of their 20 year cycle,
indicating a struggle between expansion and contraction; between growth and
keeping a steady pace.
Jupiter – Saturn 20 year cycle,
from one conjunction to the next, correlates with a base rise and fall of the
global socio-economic balance. This like all cycles passes through 4 critical
or choice making phases. The last quarter of the current cycle is being
demonstrated in the retraction of the Chinese economic growth and the growing
problems associated with mass migrations of displaced people. Both problems are
making huge global impact. On the one hand, over expansion of production, on
the other, severe contraction due to wars.
Zeus/Jupiter
Kronos/Saturn
The waning square began late 2014
between Jupiter at the end of Leo
and a retrograde Saturn at the end of Scorpio. [November 14; July 15].
Leo is the pride of people and
nations in maintaining control and prestige. Scorpio is the unseen energy
behind the life force that keeps the planet turning. These two considerations
were at logger heads during the initial square formation, and continue to be so
for the present.
The square of Jupiter and Saturn
continues till mid 2016 between Jupiter at mid Virgo and Saturn at mid
Sagittarius [March-June16]. Sagittarius has much to do with international
movement of people, both as tourists and as migrants/refugees. Virgo has much
to do with business, commerce and trade. Both areas of concern are suffering.
After the square aspect has
petered out, there will be the sextile aspect to help us find resolve and
solution before beginning the next Jupiter-Saturn cycle.
The next important socio-economic
marker is when Jupiter and Saturn form their next conjunction in 2020-2021,
complicated by the interference of Pluto. Until
then, there is more than likely to be a slow decline of our current global
situation as previously reigning structures breakdown in the chaos before
reinventing themselves for a new 20 year cycle.
The previous conjunction of the
two great time-keepers was in the year 2000 in the sign Taurus, indicating that
we had entered a 20 year period of learning to handle material wealth and
property.
The coming conjunction and new
cycle of Jupiter and Saturn will be in the sign Aquarius, meaning that from
2021 we will enter a 20 year period of learning more about human values on a
global scale. Perhaps this will be the true beginning of the ‘Age of Aquarius’.
This new 20 year cycle could be the beginning of true humanitarianism or
alternatively it could mean wiping out all individuality for the “common good”
of the whole, and we become a world of flat robots.
True to all natural cycles, that
of Jupiter and Saturn is not that simplistic or as clear-cut as the above would
indicate. Before settling into Aquarius, Jupiter and Saturn play tag between
the end of Capricorn and the beginning of Aquarius throughout the year 2020, a
rocking back and forth between the old guard of Capricorn and the new revolutionary
thinking of Aquarius.