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An imagined future should not take the place of your present reality and timeless being, easily accessed by witnessing what is happening in your body, your breath, and in this moment. It is best to read this article when you are feeling centered.
An imagined future should not take the place of your present reality and timeless being, easily accessed by witnessing what is happening in your body, your breath, and in this moment. It is best to read this article when you are feeling centered.
War, a global pandemic, food and energy shortages, economic challenges - it’s all happening in the 2020’s. How about throwing in some major revolutions by mid-decade? Of course, revolutions happen because of these challenges. The French Revolution was because of food shortages and an extreme wealth divide. Any extremes throws off the balance. A more extreme counterbalance is needed.
There’s nothing new here, only repeating patterns. Faces and places may change, but the themes remain the same. Anything that ever was, is once more. Anything that could be, already exists as a potential. The widening gap between the mega rich and the destitute, and the ways power is distributed, must one day lead to another revolution. It’s inevitable.
As the split increases, the centre can no longer hold.
This is the story of Rahu and Ketu, the lunar nodes. They churn things up, so we can evolve. But in doing so, they challenge the status quo, especially when it is out of kilter.
It’s a simple equation: Rahu + Ketu = Greed + Loss. Or, to put it another way, ‘The rich get richer and the poor get poorer’.
Rahu points us eagerly forward, blindly turning away from a past we think we are done with (Ketu). The more we turn away from the past, the more likely we are to repeat the same old mistakes.
Whatever the planets are doing, they are actors in the lunar nodes' play. Indian astrologers pays more attention to the nodes, giving them more importance than even the planets.
Actually, Vedic astrologers use them so much so that they often forgo using the 'outer planets', Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. They substitute attributes of the lunar nodes for them. Yet without observing the transit of the slower-moving Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, they miss bigger themes over longer time-periods.
I have focused more so on Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in this article, to show the potential for major revolutions in the 2020s. The visible planets may be seen as the small hand on the clock that time more immediate events, but it is these ‘outer’ planets that reflect the background hum.
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are not visible, of course. They mostly operate outside of our conscious awareness, which is perhaps one reason Vedic astrologers ignore them.
There are a few planetary configurations I think will set the timer for major revolutions - apart from those already begun - in the next few years. There are three countries in particular I am paying more attention to: America, China and Russia. Of course, there have been plenty of revolutions in several countries in recent years but the scale of the upcoming revolutions are likely to be off the chart.
The Saturn-Uranus square aspect in 2021 and 2022 is one signature of upheaval. But there are more to come in relation to the outer planets by mid-decade.
Revolutions in America, Russia and China would shake up the current world order. It's hard to imagine how it will happen. But then, I'm sure the Soviet Union didn't expect its expiry when it did, the last time Saturn conjoined with Neptune.
I've given more attention to Russia below, and the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, which plays a big part in its history.
America's Pluto and Uranus returns are other important milestones in its trajectory. Together with a cycle of Rahu, America is likely to go through major changes that may lead to further splits in the country.
Saturn-Neptune Conjunction
Saturn joins Neptune in sidereal Pisces by 2025-2027. The Saturn-Neptune configuration is likely to play a big role in the current Russian and Chinese leaders' lives, just because they were both born with this conjunction in the opposite sign, Virgo. We’re likely to see these countries, and their current structures, begin to break apart at this point. The centre cannot hold.
Jupiter enters Cancer in 2025. This is yet another timer for a revolution. The French Revolution began when Jupiter moved into sidereal Cancer, where it is exalted. Why would an exalted Jupiter show a revolution? Because no one is going to rise up unless they feel hopeful it will create more positive change.
The French Revolution occurred after a period of economic challenge, when Jupiter first met with Pluto in sidereal Capricorn, just as it did in 2020-21. Once Jupiter made it to Cancer in 1789, the revolution began.
After a prolonged transit of Jupiter in Capricorn in 2020 and 2021, conjunct Pluto AND Saturn, Jupiter makes it to Cancer by 2025, just as Saturn meets with Neptune. This is when revolutions are likely to take a firmer hold and change things in a big way, as structures that we counted on previously (Saturn) begin to dissolve completely (Neptune). I'll wager it if I was a gambling man. But I wouldn't bet on how this is all going to play out, what replaces the old structures.
There are many differing opinions as to the geopolitical landscape is likely reformed. While many speak of China and Russia as upcoming powers, pitted against the US and NATO powers, there are other commentators who point out the inherent problems Russia’s and China's populations face in the coming years. This is largely due to an aging population. Saturn’s involvement with all three outer planets in these years is another piece of the story, dismantling the current structures an older generation worked hard to install.
Although the French Revolution was because of systemic issues, extreme imbalances in wealth distribution we are seeing again, it was predated by an Icelandic volcano of all things, an ash cloud that wiped out entire European crops. It sometimes takes something catastrophic to create the necessary change.
When the chasm between the rich and poor is so wide, it becomes like an open wound that can no longer be ignored in our societies. When there is devastation, many feel they have nothing to lose.
All it needs to set things off is an event of catastrophic proportions, something that leads to further losses. Hmm, now what could that be? A pandemic and war in Ukraine perhaps?!
With Russia seemingly holding many of the cards, its invasion of Ukraine, a country that supplies a large percentage of crops to the whole world, is a big part of the uprisings that are likely to emerge in this country, and around the world, leading to a further escalation in the war by the 2030s.
Read an article here about the potential for world war.
Jinping and China
China's government's continues to attempt a crackdown on its people. Yet this reflects the failing system. This is part of the story of dissolution, of Pluto, and its transit through the rising sign of the People's Republic of China chart.
First, there is the story of Pluto's conjunction with Saturn, from 2017 until 2023. Then, Saturn-Neptune dissolves systems that were put in place to attempt control, from 2025. Finally, new systems are put in place once Saturn meets with Uranus, from 2031 to 2034.
Pluto's and Saturn’s transit through the rising sign of the People's Republic of China chart (South (left) and North Indian-Style charts below) is one reason we are seeing such crackdowns in the country. These are part of the dissolution story, too.
There’s nothing new here, only repeating patterns. Faces and places may change, but the themes remain the same. Anything that ever was, is once more. Anything that could be, already exists as a potential. The widening gap between the mega rich and the destitute, and the ways power is distributed, must one day lead to another revolution. It’s inevitable.
As the split increases, the centre can no longer hold.
This is the story of Rahu and Ketu, the lunar nodes. They churn things up, so we can evolve. But in doing so, they challenge the status quo, especially when it is out of kilter.
It’s a simple equation: Rahu + Ketu = Greed + Loss. Or, to put it another way, ‘The rich get richer and the poor get poorer’.
Rahu points us eagerly forward, blindly turning away from a past we think we are done with (Ketu). The more we turn away from the past, the more likely we are to repeat the same old mistakes.
Whatever the planets are doing, they are actors in the lunar nodes' play. Indian astrologers pays more attention to the nodes, giving them more importance than even the planets.
Actually, Vedic astrologers use them so much so that they often forgo using the 'outer planets', Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. They substitute attributes of the lunar nodes for them. Yet without observing the transit of the slower-moving Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, they miss bigger themes over longer time-periods.
I have focused more so on Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in this article, to show the potential for major revolutions in the 2020s. The visible planets may be seen as the small hand on the clock that time more immediate events, but it is these ‘outer’ planets that reflect the background hum.
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are not visible, of course. They mostly operate outside of our conscious awareness, which is perhaps one reason Vedic astrologers ignore them.
There are a few planetary configurations I think will set the timer for major revolutions - apart from those already begun - in the next few years. There are three countries in particular I am paying more attention to: America, China and Russia. Of course, there have been plenty of revolutions in several countries in recent years but the scale of the upcoming revolutions are likely to be off the chart.
The Saturn-Uranus square aspect in 2021 and 2022 is one signature of upheaval. But there are more to come in relation to the outer planets by mid-decade.
Revolutions in America, Russia and China would shake up the current world order. It's hard to imagine how it will happen. But then, I'm sure the Soviet Union didn't expect its expiry when it did, the last time Saturn conjoined with Neptune.
I've given more attention to Russia below, and the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, which plays a big part in its history.
America's Pluto and Uranus returns are other important milestones in its trajectory. Together with a cycle of Rahu, America is likely to go through major changes that may lead to further splits in the country.
Saturn-Neptune Conjunction
Saturn joins Neptune in sidereal Pisces by 2025-2027. The Saturn-Neptune configuration is likely to play a big role in the current Russian and Chinese leaders' lives, just because they were both born with this conjunction in the opposite sign, Virgo. We’re likely to see these countries, and their current structures, begin to break apart at this point. The centre cannot hold.
Jupiter enters Cancer in 2025. This is yet another timer for a revolution. The French Revolution began when Jupiter moved into sidereal Cancer, where it is exalted. Why would an exalted Jupiter show a revolution? Because no one is going to rise up unless they feel hopeful it will create more positive change.
The French Revolution occurred after a period of economic challenge, when Jupiter first met with Pluto in sidereal Capricorn, just as it did in 2020-21. Once Jupiter made it to Cancer in 1789, the revolution began.
After a prolonged transit of Jupiter in Capricorn in 2020 and 2021, conjunct Pluto AND Saturn, Jupiter makes it to Cancer by 2025, just as Saturn meets with Neptune. This is when revolutions are likely to take a firmer hold and change things in a big way, as structures that we counted on previously (Saturn) begin to dissolve completely (Neptune). I'll wager it if I was a gambling man. But I wouldn't bet on how this is all going to play out, what replaces the old structures.
There are many differing opinions as to the geopolitical landscape is likely reformed. While many speak of China and Russia as upcoming powers, pitted against the US and NATO powers, there are other commentators who point out the inherent problems Russia’s and China's populations face in the coming years. This is largely due to an aging population. Saturn’s involvement with all three outer planets in these years is another piece of the story, dismantling the current structures an older generation worked hard to install.
Although the French Revolution was because of systemic issues, extreme imbalances in wealth distribution we are seeing again, it was predated by an Icelandic volcano of all things, an ash cloud that wiped out entire European crops. It sometimes takes something catastrophic to create the necessary change.
When the chasm between the rich and poor is so wide, it becomes like an open wound that can no longer be ignored in our societies. When there is devastation, many feel they have nothing to lose.
All it needs to set things off is an event of catastrophic proportions, something that leads to further losses. Hmm, now what could that be? A pandemic and war in Ukraine perhaps?!
With Russia seemingly holding many of the cards, its invasion of Ukraine, a country that supplies a large percentage of crops to the whole world, is a big part of the uprisings that are likely to emerge in this country, and around the world, leading to a further escalation in the war by the 2030s.
Read an article here about the potential for world war.
Jinping and China
China's government's continues to attempt a crackdown on its people. Yet this reflects the failing system. This is part of the story of dissolution, of Pluto, and its transit through the rising sign of the People's Republic of China chart.
First, there is the story of Pluto's conjunction with Saturn, from 2017 until 2023. Then, Saturn-Neptune dissolves systems that were put in place to attempt control, from 2025. Finally, new systems are put in place once Saturn meets with Uranus, from 2031 to 2034.
Pluto's and Saturn’s transit through the rising sign of the People's Republic of China chart (South (left) and North Indian-Style charts below) is one reason we are seeing such crackdowns in the country. These are part of the dissolution story, too.
Why would any government attempt to control its people to such a degree if they felt all was well in hand? Nothing is in control, least of all in China's government. Pluto's transit here is dissolving China's identity from the inside out. The collapse may seem as if it happens all of a sudden, but like a tooth rotting from the inside-it has been festering for some time.
Below is Xi Jinping's birth chart based on his date of birth only. His time of birth is not known. Whatever time he was born, he was born when Saturn and Neptune were exactly conjunct in sidereal Virgo. Saturn and Neptune's conjunction in the opposite sign by mid-decade highlights the changes for China's leader and people.
Xi Jinping's South (left) and North Indian-Style Birth Charts
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Pisces will likely dissolve many systems and structures that have been built up through fear, systems that do not consider everyone, or ask too much of everyone.
We must be aware of the potential for being deluded or attempt to escape due to compassion burnout.
We must be aware of the potential for being deluded or attempt to escape due to compassion burnout.
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