Light fixture at the Copenhagen Opera House

We have three significant conjunctions in 2020 that will lay the groundwork for the next 200 years. A conjunction is when two planets come together. These are new births, like the new moon, and represent the beginning of a cycle. The coming year has three powerful conjunctions: Saturn and Pluto will meet on 12 January, then on 5 April 2020 Jupiter will be conjunct Pluto and finally, Jupiter will and Saturn will conjoin on 21 December.

The Saturn Pluto conjunction is a generational marker which occurs every 32-37 years. When these two planets get together there is going to be some bone crushing, consolidation of power, separation, war, institution of boundaries and division. There are significant statements of independence and authority. During previous conjunctions we experienced: November 1982: AT&T breakup, Canadian Sovereign Statehood, Falkland War, Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

August 1947: Roswell, New Mexico incident, Sound Barrier broken, Cold War Begins, Israel, India and Pakistan independence. October 1914: Government of Ireland Act, Arch Duke Ferdinand assassinated, WWI begins, Battle of Falkland Islands (interesting theme), Gandhi gains title of Mahatma. While we have just one pass for this conjunction, we are already feeling the tension building over here in 2019! The 1% will be scrambling to purchase more as the 99% simply sell to survive. Until the majority of the people realize that power in numbers is not just a multitude of zeroes in a bank account, the one percent will continue to grow.

The Jupiter Pluto conjunction occurs every 11-13 years. We will experience it three times: 5 April, 1 July (when they will both be retrograde – great time for internal review) and the final conjunction on 13 November. These two often show themes of union, masses of money, global terrorism to claim power, space exploration, fantasy. What has occurred during previous conjunctions are: 2007:Housing Bubble bursts, First iPhone, Rupert Murdoch acquires Dow Jones & Co WSJ, Mitchell Report steroids in Baseball, First Tesla introduced, NASA to Mars and Jupiter. 1994: Early Civil Unions for same-sex couples, first multi-racial elections in South Africa – Nelson Mandela elected President, OJ Simpson incident, UK Lottery £7m, NAFTA, The Chunnel, World Trade Organization created (1995). 1981: UK Church voted to admit women as vicars (was in Libra), Maastricht Treaty, First Space Shuttle Columbia, The DeLorean, Lady Di marries Prince Charles of Wales.

And last, but not least, is the Jupiter Saturn conjunction that will only happen once on 22 December. These two planets represent the great accordion of expansion and contraction in astrology. Their cycle is known as the great Chronocrator cycle as they were the major markers of time and the outermost planets in the ancient world. Conjunctions between Jupiter and Saturn occur in the same element for about two hundred years. We have just completed the earth cycle. On 21 December these two will begin their new relationship in air in the sign of Aquarius. The themes of these two planets have to do with taking something that is already large and making it larger and more formidable, dealing with justice that comes about in the end, and the ways in which we have taken Jupiter’s ideas and given it Saturnian form as in electronics and programming code. As these two planets move into air, we will see a huge shift in the ways in which ideas, data and privacy are seen, appreciated and resolved for the common good. The last two conjunctions in earth resulted in the following experiences: May 2000: Vermont legalizes same-sex Union, The Tate Modern Museum opens, Bill Gates leaves Microsoft CEO, First International Space Station Crew, AOL/Time Warner “largest merger to date”. July 1981 (also a Pluto Jupiter year) Adam Walsh’s son is abducted and murdered, goes onto create television series – America’s Most Wanted, DOS bought by Microsoft, 750 million people watched Lady Di marry Prince Charles, 8/1 MTV goes on the air, 8/3 Air Traffic Controllers went on strike -starting with over 16,000  to just over 4,000 after President Ronald Reagan fired them,  8/4 DuPont Chemical and Conoco “largest merger to date”. 8/12 IBM PC introduced.

This will indeed be a most fascinating year on many levels. I also have to wonder if this might be the year for a pandemic. With the rising number of homeless individuals in major cities, especially the west coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle), the conditions are rife for something that will affect the world population https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/typhus-tuberculosis-medieval-diseases-spreading-homeless/584380/ I am surprised there isn’t more press about this . . .

On 8 December Merrylin Leblanc, Daniel Fiverson, Jason Holley and I spoke on 2020 Vision. Feel free to email me at michael@beta.coremichael.com if you would like a copy of my talk as well as the pdf.

Wishing you and yours a most loving, compassionate and peaceful holiday season,

Michael