January 12, 2020 Great Conjunction - Part VI

Great Stellium in Capricorn
The 10th House

Mine is an attempt to read the Great Conjunction chart as the Birth of a New Era for the World. The series starts HERE. I will explain the meaning of each Zodiac House using some of the methods I use to read any Birth Chart. This way the reader will also have a sense of how I work. I start here a series of posts revealing the meanings through the houses rulership.

Saturn and Pluto

Following the rulership of every cosmic body in the chart, they all come back to Saturn rulership. The theme is Saturn! He is the Lord of this Chart, the Lord of Karma and Time (Chronos), societal conventions and structures, and its political institutions that ensure people's security through civilization. 

Saturn is the natural ruler of the 10th house, and is the host of the other five planets. Saturn likes to keep things as they are, always dwelling in the past. Remember that he ate his children because he didn’t want anything to change. Especially, he wanted to avoid being overthrown by them. In, Capricorn, his own house, Saturn loves his own structures and walls.

Chronos and his child - by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610-1662) public commons

But, Pluto, one of his children and enemy, came to show Saturn the crumbling chambers of his ancient house. Pluto brings to the surface the decadence, the rot, the decomposing pieces that don’t work anymore in society, and political structures, and need replacement. 

The cycle Saturn Pluto revolves around destruction and reconstruction, dissolution and redistribution of power, and the rise and fall of divisions, walls and empires. Because without them, without leaving behind what doesn’t serve us any longer, human evolution and progress cannot take place.

During the balsamic phase, in 2018-2019, we witnessed the decomposition proper of the end of an era. We witnessed the corruption, malfunction, deficiencies and unsustainability of the global economic establishment. Since Capricorn rules public material security, it is important to realize that the hunger for power is always motivated by economic reasons. Countries and other entities of power seek resources to maintain themselves, and the need for expansion arises when the resources are scarce or only available in other places; then they have to fight to gain access to them. 

In that regard, this New Era is not different from previous ones. Today's economy is so competitive because there are many power players, and each one is looking after their own interests. Resources like energy sources, water, agricultural land and food are at stake in the modern world. But with the technology boom of the last few decades, the hidden riches of the earth (Pluto), like minerals, metals, and chemicals are most coveted. This Chart shows that those who are in possession of the resources are the ones dominating the rest. They will risk war if necessary to appropriate the coveted resources. 

How can the common people help to deescalate those economic wars? We need to change the materialist consumerism mentality. If people don't buy useless and unnecessary commodities, the markets will not strive to keep up. Then Humanity can evolve towards a world of being instead of having. 

The Sun and Mercury

The blueprint of the January 12, 2020 chart, with the Sun, Saturn, Pluto and Mercury in Capricorn, however, doesn’t seem to show but the strengthening of the dominant powers. Even though, the power may be redistributed, it will continue to be concentrated in the hands of a very centralized oligarchic elite, possible a unipersonal authoritarian head of state. Most probably, a powerful (Pluto) centralized entity (Sun) with a regulated structure (Saturn), that also monopolizes communication, planification, agreements, business markets, work and services (all Mercury matters) will manage and administrate the Earth resources and wealth (Pluto).

Communication, publicity and propaganda (associated with Mercury) is already used to manipulate the masses towards consumerism. People will need to develop a higher level of discrimination and critical thinking to sort out what is true and what is just fabricated information with a marketing agenda. 

Ceres

The Asteroid Ceres is part of the conjunction at 22º. Ceres is the Roman equivalent of Demeter, daughter of Chronos (Saturn), Greek Goddess of agriculture.  "Ceres is the goddess of the harvest and presides over grains (cereals) and the fertility of the earth. Although she was most often referred to as the goddess of the harvest, she was also goddess of sacred law and the cycle of life and death, because she nourishes life" (wikipedia).

Her virgin daughter Persephone was abducted by the god of the underworld riches, Hades (Pluto). In grief, Ceres endlessly searched for her daughter.  Because of her loss, the seasons halted and living things stopped growing and died. At this point, Jupiter, intervened and sent his messenger Mercury, to the underworld to bring Persephone back and prevent the extinction of all life on Earth. Hades agreed to Persephone’s relief but she was bound to him for one third of the year.

Frederic Leighton - The Return of Persephone (1891) public commons

Capricorn offers a barren soil for Ceres, Mother Earth, to nurture her children. Ceres conjunction with Pluto reflects in our consciousness the Earth trauma of being deprived of its fertility and abundance due to human irreverence, misuse, and pollution. The dryness, coldness, sterility and impassible materiality of methods imposed by Saturn withers the agriculture’s ability to fructify and nurture.  Ceres in Capricorn confuses nurturance with acquisition of goods, and mothering with achieving goals and taking responsibility. By believing ourselves to be the masters and owners of Nature, Human beings invented the concept of property and have defiled and plunder Mother Earth almost irreversibly.  Many are still blind to the Earth transmutation that is taking place at this time. However, she makes us well aware of the destructive consequences of the industrial revolution pushed to the extreme of 'raping' the Earth to extract her substance. We need to realize the need to transform our relationship with our planet, and create a sustainable economic system. Ceres demands protection, care, support and proper nourishment in order to survive.

Jupiter

Even though Jupiter (9º♑️20’) is far from the exact multiple conjunction, he contributes his expanding energy to the Sign of Capricorn. Being just a few minutes away from his conjunction with his own planetary South Node (9º♑️37’), though, denotes a process of releasing past and obsolete religious, cultural, ideological, and legal historical ideas and beliefs. It could nonetheless, exacerbate the clinging to traditional forms of dominance using dogma, fanaticism, extreme ideologies, cultural discrimination or harsh injustice. Read more about Jupiter in Capricorn.

Let’s not forget that Jupiter is still in orb to the square to Chiron. It looks that the extreme use and imposition of a uniform ideology, be it political, religious, cultural, or other,  presents a serious threat to people’s right to exist, to their identities, and to the cultural and ethnic diversity which has ensured so far the survival of our species through adaptation to each geographic location. 

Chiron in Aries has the perception that his right to occupy a space, a time, or a body of existence and act upon it is threatened or hindered somehow. All 2019, the world has heard protest in different regions and countries, of people reclaiming their own right to be, to survive. Their voices claim as well the right to think for themselves. For example, young people in Taiwan are not seduced by the old ideology of the mainland. They think that they know what they want and are willing to die for it.

Chiron's wound manifests also through the massive displacements and migrations of entire identity groups (Jupiter), that just for being who they are, are suffering rejection, abandonment and persecution. Examples of xenophobia for this reason abound anywhere one turns in the world. However, Rumi's saying goes: 'The wound is the place where the light enters you'. Hopefully, the pain awakens us to build a better tomorrow. 

Chiron, the Wounded Healer

Jupiter has an applying septile to Venus that can prove to be stressful due to important changes in the value system, read also ‘financial system’. Venus in Aquarius on the anaretic degree, in turn has an applying sextile to Uranus in Taurus, her own zodiac home. This provides an opportunity to adopt innovative values, develop technological resources, to serve the Jupiterian influence on the overall beliefs that may be imposed to people by the centralized power. Venus in Aquarius is about to complete her job of attracting scientific discoveries, networking in the development of cutting-edge revolutionary technologies, shaking the stock market, and setting goals for the adoption of future values. 

The Capricorn conjunction squares Eris

Saturn, Pluto, the Sun, Mercury and Ceres square the dwarf planet Eris. With a Golden Apple offered to the fairest, Eris triggered the discord among the most beautiful Greek women and their suitors, which provoked the Trojan War.  It was a conflict of passions, vanity, self-glorification, and unbridled desire for power. 

Golden Apple of Discord - Jacob Jordaens public commons

Eris in Aries, the rebellious Goddess in the home of the impetuous warrior, her own brother, turned direct just one day before, and is now exactly square the Capricorn stellium. Her rebellion has already been shown for a couple of years of protest in the streets of the world. What do the people want? They claim their right to exist. The tighter the powerful fist, the stronger the rebellion. 

Even though Saturn and the other planets are moving on, Pluto, the relentless pressure of political power, is digging his heels at 23º Capricorn, back and forth for one more year. When Mars takes his retrograde period (end August 2020 to January 2021) in Aries (square Pluto), we can be sure to see armed conflicts.

Finding Meaning

Yes, as Leonard Cohen signs "there is a crack in everything".  Apparently only when people goes through deep suffering, are they able to awake to the spiritual dimension of life. At this time, we are become aware of the need to have a different kind of social, economic, political system, with pure intentions and compassion towards life.  We should embrace the inexorable transmutation and regeneration that this historical astrological configuration is operating individually and collectively. Humanity is to evolve through the material experience in order to merge back to its Source, because 'we are a way for the cosmos to know itself" (Carl Sagan). 

The January 12, 2020 Great Conjunction - Part I

Saturn, Pluto, the Sun, Mercury & Jupiter

in Capricorn

This is the chart of the Birth of a New Saturn Pluto in Capricorn cycle,  the end of the Era started in 1518, and the start a New 700 year Era until they meet again in 2754. The chart shows how Humanity will be evolving during that period. 

Next time Saturn and Pluto will conjunct at 14º ♑️December 14, 2754

Much has been spoken and written about this historical conjunction in 2020. Some astrologers, referring to a thorough study of historical events related to the Saturn Pluto cycle, talk about the rising and falling of empires, the building and destruction of walls, prisons and forteresses. Others give advice on how it can affect you personally. Some others offer an intuitive or psychological insight. Others yet focus on the present time events and developments.

To add my grain of sand to this 'castle', I previously wrote about some previous ominus historical events triggered by the hard aspects between Saturn and Pluto. Please feel free to read about it HERE.

Now, I will focus on the January 12, 2020 chart as the Birth Blueprint of a New Era (written in several installments). I would like to reflect on the next step of Humanity's evolution as a collective unit, and as a reflection of the process by which the Infinite Creative Consciousness realizes itself. 

"We are the way for the Cosmos to know itself" Carl Sagan

All around the world there is a polarizing tendency. People are divided into factions fighting against each other, as if there were only two options to choose from, or as if we were not all the same. It seems to me that Humanity has maximized its separating desires, thus falling in complete chaos. People seem to believe that the solution resides in winning over the opposite faction. The mistake is to look for change in the other, or outside of ourselves, when the only way to resolve the present crisis is to change from within, and come back to our human nature. Let us remember that 'the other person is you' (Yogi Bhajan) therefore, fighting against the other is trying to annihilate ourselves. 

The historical conjunction of 5 planets in Capricorn demands maturity, it's the call for Humanity to enter adulthood. However, there is great resistance to change, especially because the powers that be, the socio-economic-political establishment doesn't want to give. However, some people, especially those in power, might want to entrench themselves, to grip harder to what they believe to be 'real', in an attempt to control and dominate the whole world, which will cause much suffering for everybody for a while. But the chart indicates that no matter how much Humanity resists, even kicking and screaming, there will be a powerful transformation. 

Chart Rulership

The chart is ruled by Saturn because following the rulership of each planet, one ends up always on Saturn. The Lord of Time, Karma and Maturity is seating on its own South Node, indicating the release of ancestral karma, or having the past come to the surface to be acknowledged and resolved. Whatever good deeds and atrocities Humanity has done, it has come back for its final reckoning. 

According to 'Cosmos and Psyche' by Richard Tarnas, (pg.91 excerpt) Saturn in Astrology represents the "principle of limits", boundaries, dryness, structures, obstacles, restrain, imprisonment, time, the past, karma, contraction, concretion, necessity, tradition, constraint, materiality, mortality, age, maturity, mortality, the ending of things, gravity. Saturn burdens, challenges, hardens, fortifies, confines, divides, defines,  shortens, cuts, negates, opposes, strengthens, forges through tension and resistance, regidifies, represses, maintains conservative and strict authority, declines, deprives. Saturn represents deficit, the labor of existence, suffering, defeat, failure, loss, alienation, old age, death, etc, etc, etc. The list goes longer, but this is enough to get the idea of an Era ruled by Saturn!

Pluto adds intensity and darkness to all Saturn traits. Even though the Saturn Pluto cycle lasts between 33 and 38 years, meeting in different Signs every time, their meeting in Capricorn will not happen for another 700 years, which leaves us with the beginning of a long long long period. 

Hernán Cortez and Montezuma 1519

The accumulated karma encompasses the history since 1518 (please read my blogpost). What was the most significant event the developed during the sixteenth century, starting around that year? Many say it's the Martin Luther King revolutionary rebellion against the religious authority of the times, namely, the Catholic Church. It may be part of it. However, I sustain that the most dramatic transformation for Humanity was the so called 'Discovery' and Conquest of the American Continent. Starting then, the world powers were redistributed, with blood and horror, domination and submission, discrimination and genocide. The motivation? Christianizing the 'savages'? Or rather load the Church with the gold they extracted -again- with blood and horror from the aboriginal peoples land? The motivation for that invasion was economical and with it, the hunger for power and control of the resources. Then, the aboriginal ‘American’ empires were falling and new ‘European’ empires were rising. The West and the East started again fighting for power as they did in the previous Saturn Pluto conjunction in 1284, that timed the seed of the subsequent rise of the Ottoman Empire.

Is there anything new today? The world will certainly see new empires taking over the decadent ones.

The only news today is that Mother Earth, our Pacha Mama, is exhausted, and on the verge of agony. Soon enough, we, insignificant human beings, will deeply regret having raped Mother Earth, because we will need food and we will not find it so easily, we will need water, and there will be none. 

It is my belief, (and I respect that the reader may not share it), that people alive today are reincarnations of all those who lived through those Ages. Personally, we should pay attention to whom we cross paths with, because most likely is someone with whom one has a story to resolve. Yes, Saturn makes us grow up, advance to maturity, behave responsibly with perfect integrity. Even if we don't want to grow up and take responsibility, we will be held accountable.

Moreover, Jeffrey Wolf Green, one of the pioneers of Evolutionary Astrologer, states in his book Pluto, " The natal position of Pluto describes the preexisting patterns in identity association that the individual naturally gravitates to in this life. The South Node [of the Moon] describes, from a prior-life point of view, the mode of operation that allowed the individual to actualize or fulfill the desires or intentions described in the natal position of Pluto." 

Having Pluto conjunct its ruler Saturn, and in the same sign of the Moon's South Node, may cause Humanity to repeat or relive the karmic past, "because of failure to deal with or resolve successfully, the issues described by the house and sign where Pluto and South Node fall in." Although, J. W. Green states that this condition is rare. Phew! However, and at least at the beginning of the New Era, there could be a tendency to resist changes, and repeat the power struggles, crimes and manipulations of the past, with the intent to cling to what is known and feels comfortable in the face of the unknown. 

On the other hand, it could be a time to receive what was previously sought. In the past, Humanity, feeling vulnerable, has had a strong tendency to trust its social and political security in the hands of a few who held a centralized power, or patriarchal feudalism. This had ended up in a huge gap in the distribution of power. Some are absolutely empowered, others absolutely disempowered. This might be an Era where a redistribution of power is possible, only if we consciously focus in the right direction, but not without struggles, conflicts, scarcity, and pain.

Both those possibilities could coexist for some time, and there could be a future rebalance of power  and possessions between the haves and havenots, between people who have invaded and stolen lands from others and the peoples who have been deprived of it. This may not be achieved without major conflicts as we already see around the world.

The ball is already rolling, what is supposed to happen will happen. These are the natural consequences of 500 years of history. Trying to avoid them is like trying to stop the ocean with the hands. However, what role do you, do I want to play? What is the part you and I will play? Do we still think this is about 'us against them'? I am certain that through the events that will develop during the next 5 years we will finally understand that the other people are us. When we pollute the ocean, we are polluting ourselves, when we hate something or someone, we are only hating ourselves. Peace and harmony can only be achieved when we finally learn to LOVE OURSELVES, as individuals and as a species. (continues in Part II)

Much love to you! Sat Nam.

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