Friday: The Ten-Year Cycle of Jupiter-Saturn Mutations

The Ten-Year Cycle of Jupiter-Saturn Mutations

Yesterday I talked about the Jupiter-Saturn opposition occurring every 20 or 21 years. The conjunction of those two planets also occurs every 20 or 21 years, in fact 10 years from the opposition, so that every ten years there is either the opposition or the conjunction. To understand the difference between these two is not perhaps as important as to note them and ponder what they have meant in your own life, and thereby what the current one might mean.

The conjunction occurred from March 2000 through March 2001. (A thirteen-month span seems the norm.) We all know that that was the time of the extraordinary 2000 Presidential election, in which Bush defeated Gore not by the popular vote but by the disgraceful shenanigans of the Supreme Court, which permanently besmirched its reputation. Of course that was just one outward signal of this "mutation;" if you look back on your own life you might find what it meant for you.

In general I would say the conjunction is less of a strain than the opposition. It has the feel of a "beginning" of some sort, a fresh start. The opposition is the turning point at which one evaluates what one has been doing and must choose whether to continue in that mode or change direction. In a way this could apply to both "mutations," as for example: In 2000-01 Al Gore, faced with an unfair defeat in his presidential bid, had to decide on another career path, and did that with great success in his efforts to publicize global warming. Then this year, in the second month of the next "mutation" (the opposition) he and his wife announced the end of their 40-year marriage. I myself began these daily forecasts in 1999-2000 and at this point am beginning to ponder what direction is next for me. There is a feeling of ripeness for change in the air. What does that mean for you?

Yesterday I mentioned the August 1989-August 1990 mutation, an opposition. The preceding mutation, a conjunction, was from September 1980 through October 1981. At that point I left the city where I had lived for fourteen years and quite deliberately began a new life in the West. If you are old enough to remember that period you may note something comparable.

Astrology is more valuable for this sort of recognition and awareness of cycles than it is for exact predictions of what is likely to happen. The message to us now, through April 2011, is to examine our lives and make sure the changes we are welcoming or promoting are the changes we really want. The mutation is inevitable, but the exact direction it takes has a lot to do with your awareness and your choices. I believe that those in closest contact with their souls are those who will make the best choices.

{The Ten-Year Cycle of Jupiter-Saturn Mutations}

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