Starcodes Dec 11, 2020 Heather Roan Robbins

On any clear evening, in the west, just after sunset look for Jupiter and Saturn as they grow closer together. Pluto still hovers invisibly nearby, between them and the western horizon, but they are finally pulling away from Pluto after a year-long square-dance. Saturn enters Aquarius this week, Jupiter enters Aquarius next week, and they conjunct on the winter solstice.

These two planets conjunct every 20 years and are associated with turning points in socio-political eras. Jupiter and Saturn are the largest of the planets by far, and they are associated with the big social political tensions, they represent two poles that we balance between. Like every other aspect of astrology, each planet has its gift and challenge. Saturn with its rings is connected to maturity, restriction, conservativism, what we grow over time, our bones, teeth, and our relationship to authority. Jupiter is connected to expansion, gratitude, abundance, enabling, privilege, overwhelm. When these two elements balance each other out, our society holds a healthy center.

Between 1840 and 1960, while this conjunction occurred in an earth sign, every president elected in the year of the conjunction died in office. In 1980 this aspect shifted to the air sign Libra; Pres. Reagan did not die in office, though he was shot through the lung. In 2000 this conjunction occurred again in an earth sign, and the…