This article assembles the work delivered in three slightly different lectures in the same month of November 2020, on the verge of the Great Mutation. The lectures covered the same fundamental work, with variations in duration and emphasis, and were presented in three different languages, for different online astrological events, being the first one in Portuguese for CINASTRO (Brazil, Nov 19), the second one in Spanish for the FEVA Conference (Caracas, Venezuela – Nov 22), and the third one in English for the Brave New World Symposium of the Cosmic Intelligence Agency (Melbourne, Australia – Nov 28).
The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0º Aquarius, in December 2020, marks what we call in astrology the Great Mutation, indicating important socioeconomic changes approximately every 200 years. Adding to it, other significant aspects in the 2020s reinforce a major transition of the World-System. Through a Dystopian Renaissance, all that is solid mutates into air and the very structures of our world are reconfigured.
There is a whole astrological choreography to the dance of this major change taking place in the decade. In this work, I focus on three of the key aspects indicating major changes. Two of the selected are the ones taking place in 2020, which mark the END of the world as we knew it and the BEGINNING of the transition to a new world-system. Each of these 2020 aspects relates to an 800-year cycle. The third selected aspect happens in a few years from now and is impressively rare and peculiar, interestingly pointing to what to come into being in times ahead.
These three key major aspects are:
* JUPITER-SATURN-PLUTO in CAPRICORN (2020)
Profound economic and social RESTRUCTURING. Unmistakably a new cycle in POWER. At the beginning of 2020, the END. And the foundation, the deeply placed cornerstone for a new world about to emerge.
* JUPITER-SATURN in AIR – GREAT MUTATION (2020)
Shared ideas and ideals become even more important. Sharing – collaboration and cooperation are now, more than ever, what makes the world go around. End of 2020, the BEGINNING. A new world is in the Air.
* SATURN-NEPTUNE at ARIES (2026)
2026 – A New Conception of Reality. A new reality is conceived and brought into existence.
We are undergoing a major transition of the very world-system, as conceived in the works of Emmanuel Wallerstein:
“Our historical system is the modern world-system. Its form is that of a capitalist world-economy. It came into existence in the sixteenth century in a geographic zone that encompassed large parts of Europe and some parts of the Americas. By the late nineteenth century, the system’s internal drive for constant geographical expansion led it to encompass the entire earth and thereby create for the first time in human history a single global system.”(Beijing, 2016)
A world-system has three moments in time: when it comes into existence and has its flourishing; its normal life when there is stability; and the structural crisis, when the system is no longer working so well, which is then a time of great instability.
According to Wallerstein (2016), “we are living in the midst of a structural crisis of our historical system. This is not a mere cyclical downturn that can be remedied by some kind of adjustment to our collective policies. Rather, it is the kind of crisis that comes only once every 500 years or so.” Emmanuel settles the destiny vs. free will dilemma in a very interesting way, which I strongly agree, from an astrological perspective as well. He says both exist. During the stable period of the system’s normal life, it is very hard to make changes in the system, it takes a lot of effort – it is the time of destiny. During the structural crisis, however, there is great instability and little moves can have strong effects – it is the time of free will. Every little move during the structural crisis does count.
Right in the Structural Crisis of the World-System
All the many institutions of the modern world-system operate to promote the infinite accumulation of capital. There is an increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, while many and many do not have the basics to live. Lack of work and livelihood means that many are also unable to consume. Therefore, they do not contribute to profit and to generate more accumulation of capital.
According to Oxfam’s report of 20 January 2020, Time to Care, the number of billionaires has doubled in the last decade: “Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, who number just 2,153 individuals, held more wealth than 4.6 billion people.”
Up to 12,000 people may die of hunger daily, by the end of 2020, due to the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic – more than to the disease itself -, warns Oxfam in the report The Hunger Virus: how COVID-19 is fuelling hunger in a hungry world, July 8, 2020. The document reveals how 122 million people can be brought to the brink of hunger this year as a result of the social and economic impacts caused by the pandemic.
According to the UN World Social Report 2020, Inequality in a Rapidly Changing World, international cooperation is more important than ever. Global challenges call for strengthening the multilateral order, rather than discarding its value.
When Pluto ingressed into Capricorn in 2008, foreshadowing what would now come with the stellium in this sign, banks were saved by the government – that is, by the population that pays taxes. How can banks continue to be the concentrators of wealth to which more and more people are indebted and enslaved? The Capricorn stellium we now have reached begs the question.
The endless accumulation of capital is not really endless and, no matter how many twists and turns the system makes, it is no longer functioning. More and more people in the world are living in an extremely precarious situation and the revolts are increasing.
It is a 500 years old system that is coming to an end. It is a system based on the endless accumulation of capital and has gotten to the point where it doesn’t work anymore.
In addition to the unhappiness of the people below – the poor – also for the main capitalists – the billionaires, the corporations – the current situation is unsettling. So they want to “RESET” it. As Wallerstein put it in 2016:
“The question for them now is finding some alternative mechanism of maintaining their wealth, their power, their privilege. So we have a situation where no one wants the continuation of the system – for different kinds of reasons. The question before us is not “do we like the system or do we not like the system”, but what system should replace this system?”
Structural Crisis – The Transitional Phase
We’re in a systemic transition, in a systemic crisis of the capitalist world-system, such that it’s falling apart and will, in fact, go out of existence. We’re in a transitional phase, that’s a long transitional phase, 60-80 years, we’re in the middle of that.
And that is characterised by these chaotic fluctuations that are enormous – in the economy, in geopolitics, in everyday life, in everything. (…) Chaotic disturbances that are uncontrollable, very frightening to people… Because it’s a very risky situation at an individual level, as well as at systemic levels.
“Yes, we are in a crisis, it’s getting worst and it’s not going to get better until it is resolved in one way or the other, by tilting in one direction or the other of the bifurcation in which we find our selves.” Wallerstein, 2016
Possibilities? Great Reset or Great Mutation? Let us look into the astrological aspects.
JUPITER-SATURN-PLUTO in CAPRICORN
The Capricorn stellium had its strongest concentration in the month of March, 2020: Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto were joined by the planet Mars, Pallas (asteroid of the polis and of geopolitics), and the Moon (on days 17 to 19).
What happened in March?
Stock Market Crash – short, but a dramatic historical crash, the fastest and the most devastating since the Wall Street collapse in 1929; the “COVID-19 recession”; the WHO declares the COVID-19 Pandemic; historical oil price crash. From January (Saturn-Pluto conjunction) to March 2020 (intensified stellium) we experienced the end of the world as we knew it.
Right at the total peak of the concentration of astrological points in Capricorn, China’s Jupiter return also began to take place.
Digital Yuan
Ready on March 24, 2020 – only yet to define its final regulation. Effective and published in April 2020, already being tested in 4 cities. This occurs during China’s Jupiter Return (first out of three hits), the Capricorn super stellium, and the ingress of Saturn in Aquarius.
Eight centuries ago, a similar sky
Venetian Marco Polo (1254-1324), traveler of the Ancient Silk Roads, when back in Europe after many years in China, brings the news from the East and describes the use of paper money throughout Kublai Khan’s Yuan Dynasty:
“…these pieces of paper… everybody takes them readily, for wheresoever a person may go throughout the Great Khan’s dominions he shall find these pieces of paper current, and shall be able to transact all sales and purchases of goods by means of them just as well as if they were coins of pure gold. And all the while they are so light that ten bezants’ [coins] worth does not weigh one golden bezant.”
Eight centuries ago, a similar sky… From Capricorn to Aquarius – from matter into air… Sublimed money! Then into paper, now digital.
As the third and final hit of China’s Jupiter Return was approaching, during the final Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in the heavens as well, we hear more news on the digital yuan:
“Yi Gang, governor of the People’s Bank of China, said a pilot program on the rollout of a digital currency in four cities has been smooth. There have been more than 4 million transactions, totaling over 2 billion yuan ($299 million) in the digital currency so far, Yi said at the Hong Kong Fintech Week conference on Monday.” (Bloomberg on November 1, 2020).
Jupiter rules prosperity. For a Jupiter Return to take place in exact conjunction to Pluto, it also speaks of expansion of power.
The emergence of a strong currency
In 1284, La Serenissima Republic of Venice began issuing the Ducat in gold, against the Florin, from its rival Florence, and in response to the devaluation of the Byzantine Hyperpyron, which until then was used to pay for goods from the East that the Venetians brought to Europe.
A new coin emerged, containing 3.5 grams of 99% fine gold, of the highest purity that the medieval metallurgy could produce, and becomes the standard European coin for the next centuries, being imitated by other states.
The ducat comes with Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn: credibility and durability. With the blessings of the goddess of geopolitics Pallas, present in the partile (exact by degree) conjunction, in addition to the stellium, comes the digital yuan.
It is rather interesting to observe a couple of summits happening at the time of this configuration. The first was an annual assembly, no big deal, but indeed marking its significance at the time of the Jupiter-Pluto 3/3 conjunction; and the second marked an important advancement in economic relations and is quite symbolic of the changes taking place:
1) SCO
On November 10, 2020, the SCO Anual Assembly. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is an Eurasian political, economic and security alliance.
2) RCEP
On November 15, 2020, the RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) is sign and sealed – A free trade agreement between 15 countries of Asia and Oceania, representing nearly a third of the world’s population and a third of the world’s GDP – the largest trade agreement in the world. It does not include the USA. It is a key agreement towards a multipolar world not subjected to United States’ impositions.
JUPITER-SATURN at 0º AQUARIUS – THE GREAT MUTATION
The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0º Aquarius in December 2020 marks what we call in astrology Great Mutation, indicating important socioeconomic changes when it marks the passage from one element to another – as now from Earth to Air.
This conjunction occurs in the same element for about 200 years, with possibly 40 more years 40 years of transition.
When their conjunction starts to happen effectively in the next element, we call it the Great Mutation, as it indicates important socioeconomic changes.
In AIR: Shared ideas and ideals become more important. Sharing, collaboration and cooperation are now, more than ever, what makes the world go around. The Air element is where we open the space and make room for the other.
In AQUARIUS, which is opposite to Leo: It is not the time for a single star to rule the world, but of MANY STARS illuminating an entire sky.
Which brings us to China’s astrological chart, where the sign of Aquarius is highlighted by the Ascendant and the Moon at the beginning of the sign, in conjunction to the Great Mutation degree. Not just China’s natal astrological chart has this highlight, but also the moment in time for the people’s republic, because of the progressions taking place there as well.
China’s Progressed Venus and Jupiter were in exact conjunction with each other and China’s Ascendant in 2015:
At the UN Assembly, both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping delivered long, strong and synchronized speeches, affirming the multipolarity of the world, thus expliciting the Russia-China strategic partnership and its stand for the respect of sovereignty and MULTIPOLARITY.
THE MULTIPOLAR WORLD
On the Importance of Russia
Whilst an empire collapses – not without a fight, or multiple ongoing wars – and another empire emerges, we are all better of, especially in such Aquarian times, with the presence of more than one power – or two. Neither Unipolarity, nor Bipolarity. It is time for “friendship between people” and real “fraternity between nations.”
There can be “empires”, if plural. A Multipolar World.
Millenary Civilizations
Civilized international relations can be observed in the partnerships and alliances we see emerging and being nourished in the East. Millenary civilizations such as the Persians, the Rus, and the Han and other Chinese ethnicities, from such long collective history, are aware of the importance of mutual respect. Countries such as Iran, Russia and China treat each other as equals, trade in a win-win perspective and become allies in defending each nation’s right to sovereignty.
Winds are blowing from the East
Those who challenge the empire, must be demonized. Therefore, the censorship in the western main stream media intensifies more and more, and the news are often distorted when referring to countries such as Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia, North Korea, Russia and, the flavor of the month, China.
Are Eastern countries perfect in every sense? No. And neither is the current empire. Nonetheless, the former present a certain coherence in their words/commitments and deeds to other nations and their own, not so easily found in Western powers nowadays. Arguably, a more decent and civilized treatment of each other and the world can be witnessed on the part of Eastern powers.
Eurasian Integration
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
On September 7, 2013, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech entitled Promoting friendship between peoples and creating a better future at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University, in which he first revealed the Belt and Road Initiative (formerly One Belt One Road) – One Belt One Route).
Recalling the Ancient Silk Road, Xi Jinping noted that:
“The 2,000-plus-year history of exchanges had proved that countries with differences in race, belief and cultural background can absolutely share peace and development as long as they persist in unity and mutual trust, equality and mutual benefit, mutual tolerance and learning from each other, as well as cooperation and win-win outcomes.”
Xi underscored that over the recent 20-plus years, the ancient Silk Road is becoming full of new vitality with the rapid development of China’s relations with Asian and European countries:
“We hope to work with Central Asian countries to unceasingly enhance mutual trust, to consolidate friendship, to strengthen cooperation, so as to push forward the common development and prosperity, and work for the happiness and well-being of the people in the regional countries.”
Upholding the friendship from generation to generation, as harmonious good neighbors for each other.
President Xi Jinping’s Proposal: “A community for shared future for mankind.”
JUPITER-SATURN at 0º AQUARIUS, a projected and planned economy: 5-year plan – Made in China 2025; 15-year plan – 2035; having the year of 2049 on the horizon, the Chinese Dream: The modernization goal is for the country to become a fully developed nation by 2049, the year of the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic. A great social project (Aquarius) to be able to sustain life and meet the needs of the people.
Bridges… Technological advancements
The Importance of PARTNERS
RUSSIA-CHINA strategic alliance
* RUSSIA-CHINA-IRAN
The EURASIAN INTEGRATION proposed by Vladimir Putin in 2007 blows in the same direction as the BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE proposed by Xi Jinping in 2013.
CHINA AND THE GREAT MUTATION
Conjoin China’s Ascendant 5 times, throughout 2024 and 2025.
It conjuncts the Moon of China 3 times, in 2025 and 2026.
In 2025 and 2026 China’s Progressed Jupiter also conjoins the country’s Moon.
In 2026 it is the Saturn-Neptune conjunction.
URANUS IN TAURUS as the Great Mutation’s dispositor
being in conjunction to BLACK MOON LILITH
URANUS IN TAURUS: Changes in the way we conceive matter and material things. Detachment from matter. Sublimation of Matter (solid into gas). Digitalization of money – crypto currencies. Automation. Technological advancements which are materialized. Technology altering matter. Technology Vs. Organicity.
…with BLACK MOON LILITH: The Organic having to deal with the Technological,
But the Technological also having to deal with the Organic; there is no way to prevent technological advancements; but neither should technological advances disregard the organic dimension of life. Although much is increasingly digital and virtual, our life here on Earth does not do without the body.
We will advance a lot technologically, but there is an organic dimension that cannot be ignored. That’s what Black Moon Lilith tells us by being exactly in conjunction with Uranus, the dispositor of the Great Mutation, right there at the very moment of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction.
Our BODIES better now be “bodies of Desire”, in the psychoanalytic sense, as in, bodies filled with life force, with libido, the creative force of life; not mere objectified pieces of flash, managed through and by technology.
Pluto in Aquarius
It is interesting to note the interpretation given by Solar Fire astrology software to Pluto in Aquarius: “This is the generation of world cooperation. People in this generation have the ability to make scientific breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, and may be forced to change the way science is viewed.”
Notwithstanding, the nefarious potential of the Aquarian emphasis is the control of society through technology.
Great Reset or Great Mutation?
“the WEF is stating that corporate globalization, the hegemonic modus operandi since the 1990s, is dead. Now it’s time for “sustainable development” – with “sustainable” defined by a select group of “stakeholders”, ideally integrated into a “community of common interest, purpose and action.”
Sharp Global South observers will not fail to compare the WEF’s rhetoric of “community of common interest” with the Chinese “community of shared interests” as applied to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is a de facto continental trade / development project .
The Great Reset presupposes that all stakeholders – as in the whole planet – must toe the line. Otherwise, as Schwab stresses, we will have “more polarization, nationalism, racism, increased social unrest and conflicts”.
So this is – once again – a “you’re with us or against us” ultimatum, eerily reminiscent of our old 9/11 world. Either the Great Reset is peacefully established, with whole nations dutifully obeying the new guidelines designed by a bunch of self-appointed neo-Platonic Republic sages, or it’s chaos.
Whether Covid-19’s ultimate “window of opportunity” presented itself as a mere coincidence or by design, will always remain a very juicy question.”
De 11/Set ao Grande Reset, Pepe Escobar para Asia Times, Set/2020.
USA’s Pluto Return
Return
SATURN-NEPTUNE at 0º ARIES
These two planets conjunct every 36 years, which is not a long historical cycle. However, as with the Great Mutation (Jupiter-Saturn), the way it occurs and where in occurs in the Zodiac can in fact lead us to broader historical perspectives and point to more expressive historical moments.
Aspects between Saturn and Neptune – and fundamentally the conjunction – by historical observation, are associated with Socialism and Communism – these movements on Earth coincide with the contacts between these two planets in the sky. It is already a known fact in mundane astrology that it has been so. Moreover, of course, that does not just tell us about the past. I say that this now begins – or we can put it this way: it now upgrades and advances, reconfiguring itself in still new forms of socialism.
It’s time for Socialism. New forms.
According to Professor of Economic Sciences at UERJ, Elias Jabbour (2020): “The Projectment Economy, conceived by Ignácio Rangel in 1959 (Saturn-Neptune sextile), is reborn in China as the most advanced face of contemporary socialism”.
Projecting is an Aquarian verb. China is a projected and planned economy, in short, medium and long terms. A social project (Aquarius) to sustain life and meet the needs of the people.
This can’t be done in isolation or alone. COOPERATION is necessary. At local and national levels, as well as between nations and peoples. The Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Integration are calls in this direction. The winds of the new-world-system are blowing from the East…
In 2026, a auspicious configuration of a trine and two sextiles is formed by Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, the 3 generational planets, that speak of greater cycles.
WE’RE DANCING AT THE VERY TURNING POINT OF THE WORLD-SYSTEM.
It can’t be done alone! Many little stars are needed to illuminate the whole vast sky. There may be empires… in plural. China has an inevitable prominence, marked in the Mandates of Heaven. But it is not alone. Russia is also ancestrally connected to this historical moment in time. When considering the present Russian Federation, troth these Asian giant countries have the Moon at early degrees of Aquarius, conjuncting with each other: friendship between peoples is a strong tendency. Even with challenges, Eurasia does present this possibility, and has been aiming in this direction. Partnerships matter, including with Iran, and others – in a multipolar world.
We are dancing at the very turning point of the world-system.
