With an eclipse on December 14th, Saturn entering Aquarius on the 17th, Jupiter entering Aquarius on the 19th, we arrive at the Winter Solstice, which coincides with the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn: a remarkable confluence of events to conclude a remarkable year.
2020 saw the start of three major cycles with Saturn-Pluto (January 12, It was at this time also that a worldwide coronavirus pandemic began to manifest itself, escalating over the next couple of months), Jupiter-Pluto, and the Jupiter-Saturn shift into 200 years of air transits.
One facet of this aspect can be seen in the rise of tensions with autocratic governments, according to Kenneth Roth:
The conventional wisdom these days is that autocracy is ascendent, democracy on the decline. That view gains currency from the intensifying crackdown on opposition voices in China, Russia, Belarus, Myanmar, Turkey, Thailand, Egypt, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. It finds support in military takeovers in Myanmar, Sudan, Mali, and Guinea, and undemocratic transfers of power in Tunisia and Chad. And it gains sustenance from the emergence of leaders with autocratic tendencies in once- or still-established democracies such as Hungary, Poland, Brazil, El Salvador, India, the Philippines, and, until a year ago, the United States. (Can Democrats Rise to the Occasion? Human Rights Watch World Report 2022)
Around the Summer Solstice, also in the United States, ten mass shootings happened across the nation leaving at least seven people dead and more than 40 injured. It was the latest in a streak of violent weekends in America. The weekend before this, there were also 10 mass shootings that left 12 people dead across seven states. On June 25 A Minnesota judge sentenced Derek Chauvin to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.
Another interesting event that illustrates this tension and also coincides closely with the 20-year Jupiter-Saturn cycle has been the end of United States military occupation of Afghanistan with the ensuing return of Taliban rule around August 14. The September 11, 2000 destruction of the World Trade Center occurred six months after an exact Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, the latest Taliban takeover, eight months after the most recent conjunction.
With Saturn-Uranus square (December 24, 2021) difficulties arrived, with a highly contagious Omicron Covid wave beginning during the holiday season, and with mounting frustrations, a remarkable Canadian trucker vaccine mandate protest occurring by the end of January.
Jupiter
sextile Uranus, February 17, 2022 and
the US Pluto return on February 20, coincided quite closely with the Russian invasion, see my analysis of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The two powerful stellia in the Spring Equinox chart indicate a strong humanistic, compassionate, social, global solidarity against the invasion. This moment coincided with a record United Nations vote supporting a resolution against Russian aggression in Ukraine and also a strong vote to end plastic pollution.
As an example of the positive Piscean (Mars, Venus, Saturn in Aquarius) and Aquarian (Jupiter, Neptune in Pisces) energies, on April 2nd, Pope Francis gave an apology to Canadian Indigenous people for the Catholic Churche’s role in the forced assimilation and abuse of the residential school program
Jupiter-Neptune conjunction, April 12 Jupiter sextile Pluto, May 3rd
The Summer quarter had two very volatile aspects, with Mars in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn going exact on July 1st and Mars square Saturn, exact on August 7. Below are some events occurring around the time of the Mars-Pluto square:
Amid that rather tumultuous period, the UNGA adopted the resolution on 28 July 2022, recognizing the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right.
On the Oct 25 Solar Eclipse and also the November 7 Lunar Eclipse, some unexplained incidents occurred, such as a bridge in Crimea being sabotaged, and in Russia, Darya Dugina, daughter of Russian traditionalist, Aleksandr Dugin, was assassinated.
Although not as numerous and dramatic as the previous semester, there were still a few significant protests, notably in Peru (over deposition of former president Castillo), Israel (over 80,000 Israelis protest against Supreme Court reform), Brazil (Bolsonaro supporters), France (retirement age pension eligibility), and Greece (major train derailment). In Canada, the results of an inquiry into the Ottawa trucker convoy occupation revealed a comedy of errors.
A rare 50, 000 year-cycle comet appeared in the skies and a major earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria. As Saturn entered Pisces on March 7, 200 countries agreed to a legally-binding treaty, the UN High Seas Treaty, to protect marine life in international waters, which cover around half of the planet’s surface, have long been essentially lawless.
Near the Spring equinox, March 21, Russia and China had an important meeting, Xi,Putin reaffirm partnership in 2nd day of talks. and there was an earthquake in Pakistan and Afghanistan. For March 24, Pluto entered Aquarius, there were major tornadoes in midwestern, southern U.S, and ex-US president Donald Trump was arrested.
June 11 Pluto Retrograde re-enters Capricorn We've seen an escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war and an indictment of an ex-US president. Some spectacular water disasters, a Greek migrant boat sinking with 700 casualties on June 14, and a Sub-Marine exploring the Titanic wreckage had an accident causing five fatalities, June 18
June 19 Jupiter in Taurus sextiles Saturn in Pisces -Nato works on first defense plans since Cold War. Another Saturn in Pisces related-theme of water regulation awareness occurred on July 11 when a growing list of countries have also called for a halt to deep-sea mining, at a key moment for the fledgling industry as the International Seabed Authority (ISA) meets to determine rules for mining
On July 17, Russia suspended its participation in a crucial deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian grain, once again raising fears over global food supplies and scuppering a rare diplomatic breakthrough to emerge from Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Record Forest Fire outbreaks in Canada were announced, July 24. There was a military coup in Niger on July 25.
October 8 Mars square Pluto Oct 14 New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra
Although
the Hamas attack occurred a day before an
exact Mars square Pluto on October 8, a
volatile aspect where pretty much anything can happen, and so the Israel-Palestine war begins.
Also in this amazing two-week period, elections in Poland, Switzerland and New Zealand brought in right-wing governments, with a left-wing candidate coming in in Argentina. The COP 28 meeting was marked by controversy and confusion as, although a last-minute breakthrough agreement was achieved, with "nearly every country in the world has agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the main driver of climate change.'
December 13 as Mercury goes retrograge, coincidentally, at the same time, US Congress voted to launch an impeachment inquiry against the president.
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Pluto returned to Aquarius on January 21st, and there was a major earthquake in China, snowstorms in the US, and a new temple for Ram in India was inaugurated. A difficult Mars square Uranus aspect occurred on March 9 and Haiti’s PM Ariel Henry tenders resignation as country descends into gang-faction chaos, Sudan is being reprimanded for blocking Humanitarian Aid amidst a hunger crisis, with Sweden officially becoming a member of Nato.
Perhaps to underscore this big shift, the eclipse season , March 25-April 8, was quite powerful. On April 3 Taiwan Earthquake. The quake was the strongest to hit Taiwan since a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in 1999 that killed 2,400 people. April 4 Earthquake in New York The U.S. Geological Survey said over 42 million people might have felt the midmorning quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, centered near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, or about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of New York City and 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Philadelphia. Apr 8 – Solar Eclipse in Aries- Total Solar New Moon Eclipse in Aries Mon April 8 2024 'Great American' Leslie Hale Apr 05, 2024. '2017 was the year US became ‘divided’ politically and it was a period of drastic change & beginning of 7 years of political upheaval in US that continues today
Apr 20– Jupiter conjunct Uranus
May 10- Powerful Solar Storm, a rare G5 geomagnetic storm not seen since Halloween 2003 is supercharging the northern lights around the world.
May 23 – Jupiter sextile Neptune - On May 20, the chief prosecutor of the InternationalCriminal Court sought arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war . On May 24 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued new provisional measures that order Israel to immediately end military operations in Rafah in southern Gaza and to open the governate’s border crossing for urgent aid deliveries.
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