Major
Planet Conjunctions Explained
Jupiter-Saturn conjunction—Jupiter represents
expansion and freedom. Saturn is restriction and law.
A celestial meeting of these two planets occurs every
twenty years (1960, 1980, 2000, etc.) and marks important
restructuring and new trends. Before the discoveries
of the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto), astrologers
relied on the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction to make predictions
about the fate of nations and rulers.
After being in earth signs for almost
200 years, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of 1980 was
in an air sign (Libra). In 2000, it went back into an
earth sign (Taurus). The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction will
return to an air sign in 2020 (Aquarius) and remain in
air sign for the better part of two centuries. Many of
the upsetting changes which are taking place in the world
today can be linked not just to the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction,
but to its transition from the earth element to the air
element.
Uranus-Neptune Conjunction--Uranus the
sky god represents freedom, invention, sudden change,
and rebellion. Neptune the sea god is illusion, expansion
of consciousness, merging, and spirituality. When these
two planets join, an event which only happens every 170
years, the result is a swelling new world and cultural
dynamic. The airy Uranian forces of freedom and rebellion
combine with the watery oceanic realms of Neptune. The
world changes in profound ways. There was a Uranus-Neptune
conjunction in about 1820 and another most recently in
1993. We will not experience another until well into the
22nd Century.
