Saturn and Jupiter meet up in the sky approximately every 20 years. The Great Chronocator, the Markers of Time, Saturn and Jupiter conjunct represent a societal changing of the guard. The last Great Conjunction was in the year 2000 in the sign of Taurus at 22 degrees, and symbolically marked a 20-year period of enhanced focus on the world economy, conglomeration of banks and corporations, making money and achieving material stability. Jupiter and Saturn have teamed up in earth signs for the last 200 years and will enter a 200-year period of meeting up in air signs. In earth, worth was/is derived quite literally from earth via agriculture, oil, coal. Taking base metal and materials and turning them into vehicles and buildings. Humanity has been in a cycle of material building, even in smaller ways like the establishment of the eight-hour work week, labor unions, law and policy around financial reform and regulation. This is all earth—the slow plod to structure a society, to structure things, plan around wealth and resource, work and reorganize, and fundamentally move in practical ways that produce tangible results. Caste, class, color, order, tradition and hierarchy are also tenets of earth, as they also aim to structure. This theme of taking from the earth and making from the earth has left us in dire straits: our trigger-haired economy, deteriorating environments and ecosystems. Demoralizing and high-stress work environments all for the check. Hustle culture. With a conjunction in the air sign of Aquarius we will (and already have) begin to see a society moving towards humanitarian causes, towards diversity of thought and idea, towards focus on fraternity, toward freedom and independence, and structure derived from a more high-minded and considered place. The demolishing and rebuilding of industries and practices that currently disenfranchise. The move towards electronic (think: solar panels, Tesla) and wind energy is a manifestation of Aquarius. So is telework, the 4-day workweek and other work/life emancipations. And with Uranus currently in the sign of Taurus, a symbolic resonance is occurring cosmically: how we value and what we value is being revolutionized, decentralized, and radicalized.
Anyway, all this high-level poetic stuff is interesting, but what does this great conjunction mean for you? The archetype of Jupiter is expansion, ease, opportunity. The road of least resistance. The archetype of Saturn is restriction, challenge, hard work. The road of most resistance. When these two planets form a conjunction two things can happen: One, Jupiter allows you to exploit and expand within given Saturnian structures and paradigms. Two, Jupiter makes very clear that you must break free of said structures and paradigms. In the former case, Jupiter works under the tutelage of Saturn’s malefic energy by providing some scope and space: you may be a cog in the machine, but you’ll be the best cog ever! And maybe even become your own machine one day. That’s the hope. In the latter case, the machine is worn, torn, broken, and hard to maneuver. It simply doesn’t work anymore but it’s all you know. Jupiter provides a method of escape, like being pulled from a wrecked car with the jaws of life. Either way, you’re making progress. And the foundation of this progress, its tools, lessons, successes and hardships will be a 20-yearlong theme.
Find the house that the sign of Aquarius occupies for you.
First House: This conjunction marks a pivotal period of identity growth for you. But don’t call it a comeback. Saturn will strip away artifice, introduce you to isolation, pessimism, lack or exhaust. A building under construction often looks bare, haunted, grotesque. We see its bones and are reminded of the painstaking process of fleshing out something correctly, not quickly. Taking a deeper look at your own scaffolding, where it is weak, where it is strong, where it serves, where it doesn’t…is what will make your personal growth a feat worth building, something to admire from afar. With Jupiter around, don’t limit yourself to the familiar blueprints. You can bend a little, you can create anew, you can paint a wall hot pink because it makes you smile. You can abandon old plots of land and start again somewhere else and will likely bump up against opportunities to do so. The selfhood you build, while requiring a hardhat and work boots, while exposing weak drywall and leaks, can also be an exercise in passion, in hope, and in personal accomplishment. You may be under construction, but you are far from over.
I am my eighth world wonder.
Second House: This conjunction presents the opportunity to create a life of true value. In defining the things that make you feel substantial, wealthy in ways that are material and immaterial, you will become sorely aware of the ways you have squandered your value, your worth, even your belongings. Aware of where you hold too close to the chest, where scarcity mindsets make you feel small and play small. Aware also of the mismanagement of what life has entrusted to you. It is fitting that the word currency is synonymous with money, because it hints that behind every transaction is energy. Jupiter can spark this energy, preparing buffets of riches from which you can pick and choose. But the energy behind any all-you-can-eat/spend/do/make is…lack or greed. In the end you are a bloated little thing. Saturn is the wisdom to pick and choose the things that are in alignment with your value systems, that match your energy, that are becoming of what you are becoming. And if necessary, Saturn will pick for you, introducing impossibly tight circumstances that can align you, once and for all, with the things that truly matter.
I am aligned with what truly matters and gives meaning.
Third House: This conjunction is working on your perceptions of the world, the situations that create them, and how you communicate them. Saturn creates a maturation of those little thoughts and events and comings and goings that hammer grooves into your neuropathways. Flits of this and that are to be taken seriously now. To become an expert in anything—a field of study, a creative path, your mind, your voice—is to be regularly tested. Do you know what you think you know? Did you say what you think you said? Your mind is being restructured, and like the first house above, the mental scaffolding laid bare invites in some chilly winds—depression, discouragement, the nagging feeling of stupidity. You are no longer being insulated and comforted by patterned and habitual thought. You need to extend deeper, to say things of integrity and purpose. Jupiter can provide fill between these new structural beams by enlightening you, making higher-minded concepts a function of everyday thinking and processing. Jupiter gives you scope and space, an ability to get out of rote mental functioning and reach for something more inspiring. Jupiter is the gift of neuroplasticity, and with Saturn around, you emerge master of your message.
I am master of my message.
Fourth House: This conjunction is repotting you. To come into the fullest glory of yourself, you need environments that grow as you grow. A plant held hostage to a pot where its roots cannot fully extend is dwarfed in potential. Saturn transiting your fourth house feels like being uprooted, like the ground beneath your feet is shifting. Your home, your family, your tribe—all various pots you hoped could contain your growth may prove cracked, worn, small. The happenings below the surface—your soil, your network of roots—all affect the viability of your bloom. You must tend to any garden with discipline, ready to get dirty, to encounter subterranean critters and pests. The state of your soul, your home, your domestic and private life may call for some uncomfortable pruning or caretaking. That is Saturn. But like any garden, the fruits of your labor are delicious and nutritious. Your foliage becomes wonderous. Small, cracked pots give way to larger and more nurturing environments where you can expand fully into that glory. With Jupiter around, there will be no shortage of beautiful new pots. And the discernment to know where to be planted will prove to be the greatest crop you could grow.
I am blooming into sacred spaces that support my growth.
Fifth House: This conjunction is all about how you show up in the world as your authentic self. You will learn that being able to claim your humanness, and the unique expression therein, will rely upon your ability to become master of craft and character. Superfluous avenues of joy and creation is the domain of Jupiter but painting the town red with abandon belies the depth of color and spectrum you contain, your dimensionality, your light. The energy of Saturn feels antithetical to the fifth house. But in restricting the paths of pleasure you take, in looking upon your work with a critical eye, in forcing humility out of you, Saturn aligns you with true masterpiece, with the complete and utter dedication to create a work of heart that can echo through eons. And there is joy in the process if you allow Jupiter not to just indiscriminately indulge for sake of entertainment, but to bolster the confidence with which you fight against the dying of your light.
My talents, creations, and authenticity light up the world.
Sixth House: This conjunction begins a reckoning with your service to the world and to yourself. Now is the time to lean into work that fulfills you but that also fulfills a social requirement. Does the work that you do get to work on behalf of others? Any fulfilling venture requires a heavy lift. The satisfaction of a job well done never comes from an easy solution, from coasting. You will be asked to roll up your sleeves. The heavy burden of responsibility will be passed off to you like a baton. And how you run with it will determine if you win, and how. Ambition without day-to-day effort is poorly disguised hubris. Jupiter can activate your upward mobility; it can create great pride in what you do, it may improve your station. But only work-ethic will make it stick. The service you offer yourself, how you care for your body, the routines and systems that keep your physical incarnation afloat may hit a Saturnian ice burg. And like the behemoth Titanic itself, Jupiter’s energy can expand upon the unwise ways you commandeer your vessel, but also make available to you the life rafts that can ensure a way out of choppy water.
I am fulfilled and fill my own cup.
Seventh House: This conjunction will feel like a fun house mirror because it will make you question how your relationships show up as gross distortions and reflections, and how that subverts true understanding of another and of yourself. It will make you question the diversions, distractions, and displacement of commitment in your life, where you shrink from it, where others don’t rise to the occasion of it. It will test relationships and your ability to circumvent the maze of mirrors until you land on a reflection, an other, that can see you in full, and reflect you back with some honesty and accuracy. And setting this stage in a metaphorical circus is fitting, as Jupiter transiting the 7th is all about expanded choices and offerings in your relationships, a carnival of connections to be made! It is time, though, to set boundaries, to make realistic and mature evaluations, perhaps to break free from partnerships that have no long-term viability, or to form and bolster ones that truly do. The idea you have of yourself, the respect you hold for yourself, is a direct reflection of the partners you choose. In this circus, place your efforts not on games where you must earn a prize, but on an understanding that you are the prize.
I am committed to the people who are committed to me.
Eighth House: This conjunction will enable you to move more wisely within your entanglements. Where you are jointly bound to another, to a contract, to an entity, to an obligation, to a fear response. You can move into deeper understanding of yourself through intimacy and vulnerability, or you can move deeper into debt. It is time to get serious about how you share yourself, and how others share with you. Where you overextend your precious resources, and where others overextend with you. Maybe it’s even time to see your resources as precious to begin with. Like with the second house, resources, your currency, reflects mundane transactional life but also a deeper felt bond with where you are bound. And that binding can be to your own faults and flaws, to the precarious preciousness of your humanity. Saturn can crack this open, crystalizing where you feel indebted and disquiet, making more complex your relationship to complexity. But with Jupiter, you can inherit: more assets, more forgiveness, and more understanding. Jupiter allows flexibility as you examine these entanglements, allowing greater freedom within the economy of your soul.
I am worth the investment.
Ninth House: This conjunction creates the beginnings of a curriculum that will give your life farer-reaching meaning. In opposition to the third house, here is where you become messiah of your message, elevating its importance by rigorously learning, teaching and expanding it until you are anointed not just with rote knowledge, but wisdom and experience, secure in what you believe. Dedicating yourself to secondary studies, certifications, and immersion in foreignness will expand your vistas in life, your opportunity to make a name for yourself, and to define a path forward. Ask anyone who has been to university—course loads, tests, failures, studying, sleepless nights, successes. But also--celebrations, new people, new mindsets, travel and a maturation of selfhood. It all culminates in the sublime experience of graduation, of crossing over the proverbial line from student to master. Life feels open and vast. Saturn is that exhaust in quest of greater understanding. It is losing sleep pouring over text in the great libraries of life. Jupiter is the joyful expansion into a galaxy-brained orientation, launching you into an endless space of consciousness, of perspectives unknown, wider, and wiser.
I am always learning and growing.
Tenth House: This conjunction represents a pinnacle of purpose. Your development has risen into the highest part of your chart, where kings and queens are made, where legacy is established, where reputation giveth and taketh. Up until now, if you have felt small and underappreciated, these mammoth energies will introduce to you the burden of success. They will test what you are made of and ask: can you carry the weight of the crown? It is harvest season now, and you must look unflinchingly at the projects you’ve tended to, the work you put in, and deal with a bounty that mirrors it. Will these successes ring hollow? Now is when empires are made, and also when empires fall. With any star turn there is loss—of a small self, of private life, of personal affairs. Responsibility and ambition can be bitter pills if we are ill-prepared. While this conjunction can thrust you into previously unanticipated heights, it can also extend you so far into the world of renown and achievement that you become a caricature of yourself. You may need to reign in how you reign: the world is watching.
I am successful and move with dignity and poise.
Eleventh House: This conjunction plays upon the power of numbers. A singular voice in the world may go unheard, but when it aligns with similarly tuned and trained voices, a choir of camaraderie rings out demanding an audience. Personal ambitions and solo successes are nothing if they can’t rearrange the societies you belong to. You are being called to transition into group projects, to align yourself with people who share a vision, and who need your active participation. You can be introduced to many allies at this time, benefactors that move you along in the world, fans and followers who feed upon your work. You are no longer creating in a vacuum, and your ability to get along, go along, and work alongside coconspirators and collaborators will define a path of least resistance, or difficultly. Sometimes awakening to the people and groups you have outgrown and that no longer serve you pushes you into isolation. Maybe friends and peers walk away from you, exposing a latent ugliness with how you relate to others. Throwing your offering into the alphabet soup of society can feel dizzying or daunting, like you’re losing control. But you must integrate yourself into these chambers or create them from scratch. It is no longer about you, but about the groups you align with. A star shines brightly on its own, sure, but a galaxy of stars shining together is arresting and awe-inspiring. That is what will move humanity.
As I contribute to the world, it contributes back to me.
Twelfth House: This conjunction is reading to you from Goodnight Moon. There is a satisfaction in rest and retreat, yet also a nagging melancholy in saying goodbye, saying goodnight. But in acknowledging that you must close your eyes, in saying goodbye to familiar things, you teach yourself an enlightened lesson of object permanence: that just because things are gone for now doesn’t mean they will be gone forever. Jupiter can align you with this gift of surrender, of calling it a night, of leaning more into a metaphysical understanding of life and its losses. You are being moved and rearranged by wise forces beyond your control. Saturn in the twelfth is like father time looking back on what it has done and seeing only failure, seeing the clock tick into eternity, wondering how to make use of what is left. The lump in your throat that accompanies this depressing epilogue can feel life-threatening, but dwelling is hardly ever productive, and Saturn is a productive force. While Jupiter is urging you not to judge yourself too harshly, to lean into compassion and magic, Saturn’s dry appraisal of where you didn’t quite hit the mark sets the stage for a comeback. To know where you have failed and made mistakes is a remarkable gift of insight. To stand within the debris of your life and dare to rebuild is testament to the strength of human spirit. But now, rest, and let what dreams may come, come.
I surrender to the wisdom of life.