We can find many interpretations of the current quadratic aspect between Saturn and Uranus this year, 2021. These interpretations tend to isolate the astrological signs that both planets are occupying, along with their essential qualities and make predictions and offer orientation based on planet, sign and aspect. .
But I’d like us to go back for a minute and consider something that Buz Meyers, one of my astrology mentors in Virginia Beach, taught us: watch the beginning of the dance between planets to understand the global issues really involved in whatever aspect of the planets are involved. they make each other as they go around the zodiac.
What he was referring to was the time of conjunction, that is, when the planets are aligned in the same sign and in the same degree. This is the beginning of the dance and it puts all future contacts between them in proper context … how they conflict, how they mix, how they work together or oppose each other.
For example, every year Mercury and Venus join all the other planets because they circle the zodiac once a year, contacting or joining all the other planets. Each of these ‘little dances’ between the inner and outer planets denotes certain themes, although none of them are as momentous as the 2020 Saturn-Pluto conjunction. Future “at EzineArticles.com for more information.) The meeting of these two big hitters in the sky in January 2020 and then again in the summer, indicated the potential for massive world changes in the coming decades. They met in Capricorn, ruler of the world and if you don’t see that the world is undergoing some massive changes now, you are not paying attention.
The Saturn-Uranus square that occurs this year occupies a particular place in the dance between these two powers, a dance that began in February 1988. If you can visualize a clock with these two energies meeting at noon, then observe how the most Fast moving Saturn follows around 9pm, now you can see how long this dance takes to complete three-quarters of its journey. This three-quarter mark is a test point and is where we are now in 2021. February, June and December are the exact square times to test. But what is being tested?
Going back to 1988, we find the conjunction in a fascinating degree and minute, 29 Sagittarius 55. Think about that for a moment … there are 30 degrees in each sign, a kind of progression or development or maturation through a particular energy, culminating just before 30th degree, before entering the next sign for an entirely new phase of development. 29 degrees 55 minutes is as close as possible to the completion of a cycle.
As the degrees are marked and near their fulfillment, the last three degrees of any sign are called “critical degrees.” This indicates that the energy is culminating, fulfilling, but also floating in its shift to the next sign. A lot of tension here at the end of a phase. Another way of thinking about critical degrees is to see if the full cycle of positive development has been completed through 30 degrees. Critical. Tests. Approve or suspend.
We also want to consider that the sign of Sagittarius presents some very high challenges for any planet that crosses its span. We read about Sagittarius governing areas of human endeavor such as religion, higher education, law, foreign countries, the higher or superconscious mind, growth, expansion, opportunity, blessings, protection, great endeavors, among others. .
Now we can put the Saturn-Uranus chart in context. Their dance began in the critical Sagittarius degrees in February 1988. Due to the retrograde movement, they found themselves again at 28 degrees and finally 27 degrees before parting ways to complete the cycle that began then, culminating in 2032 (when their next dance it will be about Gemini and the issues he governs). This screams at me that we on earth made a commitment to experience a high order of challenge (they ‘met’ in three critical degrees) in a high sign (Sag) between two planets that don’t play well together, which means a cycle of 44 years of conflict and hopefully some very promising and positive resolution.
What is fascinating about taking a global view of the dance of the planets is how August 1987 marked the Harmonic Convergence, a time that promised a combination of superior human thought and action on earth. This was a consciously celebrated and assumed stamp that was echoed again in 2012, marked by the end of the Mayan calendar and the beginning of the conscious choice to co-create a better world for all.
Harmonic Convergence was followed by this energetic assignment in February 1988 to put that promise into action. Saturn is conservative, does not like changes, restricts and slows down. Uranus rebels, seeks freedom, tries new things. The way these energies conflicted and occasionally mixed since 1988 can be seen in world events, but more especially in forward-thinking and progressive movements based on principles that echo our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, principles that are being tested hard these days.
The task before us in 2020 – the restructuring of government, banking, business, etc., with the new Saturn-Pluto dance – is combined with the Saturn-Uranus of 1988 in Sagittarius challenging us to come out on the high side, keep going. with the highest ideals, the purest motivations, the truest hearts and the clearest minds, guided by the heavenly forces that govern evolution on earth. The next 11 years will show us how well we have shed this light on our rebuilding of the world as we know it.
Perhaps we are not doing as well as the great potential of 1988 encouraged? But perhaps, in fact, what we are seeing these days is actually the end of every low-level human characteristic that has gotten in the way of fostering human potential, equality, spiritual maturity, and the unity of the whole. precious life in this precious land. . It is up to each of us to assume the elevation of vibration necessary to restore the best of all possible worlds between us and the planet, and the time is now. The next few years will see us, hopefully, completing this task on the high side in all areas of life.