2020: When the world changes – the triple conjunction in Capricorn

Words RICHARD GILES

We are presently immersed in an event of planetary proportions; we are in the midst of a pandemic. The planet has had them before but not like this one, occurring in our complex, interrelated global economy. The event was expected by some, but it has taken most of us by surprise.

For many years, astrologers have been writing on the coming effects of a line-up of three major planets – Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn – the sign of business, governments, authority and the administration of states and countries. One astrologer I follow predicted this for 2020 as far back as 10 years ago.

In the words of Ed Tamplin, another long-time financial and world astrologer, “2020 represents the birth of new directions, symbolised by the meeting of three of the most important predictive hands on the planetary cosmic clocks – Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto. All three planets will begin a new cycle with each other, indicating a year of enormous global changes,” – (Wellbeing Astrology, 2020).

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and is associated with growth and liberal ideas. It is a visionary for the greater expansion of progressive ideas. Saturn is the Lord of Time and the planet of traditions and elders. At its essence, Saturn is form and seeks to give us a structure that lays down rules and regulations. Pluto is the planet of the underworld, transformation and the fundamental evolution of the soul, and represents the transfer from life to death and back again.

An English astrologer said of the 2020 line-up, “Things will never be the same again. We can expect some major crisis which will intensify the demise of the current systems and bring societychanging upheaval.” The combination’s energy this year is different each time they align, as we had a Saturn/Pluto conjunction on 12-13 January; Jupiter/ Pluto on 5 April, which comes again on 30 June and finally 12 November; and Jupiter/Saturn together on 22 December. As Mars goes into Aries, it squares Jupiter on 5 August, Pluto on 13 August and Saturn on 25 August. All of these together create huge shift patterns that will transform the way we look at finance, government, business and all systems we currently take for granted.

The January Capricorn line-up has planets Mercury, Pluto and Saturn, asteroid Ceres and the Sun. Ceres is the mother who looks after the Earth and harvests. Ceres here means we are now going to have to deal on a vast scale with what doesn’t work sustainably and will involve a massive overhaul that takes us to the brinks – a makeover of our attitudes to the Earth. Interestingly, the shutdown of most societies has caused a massive drop in pollution around the globe and changed the pace of life everywhere. From an esoteric point of view, Ceres, among other things, rules the ancient rites involved in the death passage. In the words of Demetra George (author of Asteroid Goddesses), “Ceres as the Goddess of Death functions as the matrix which receives the dead for rebirth, and the entrance to rebirth is through the womb.” We are in the midst of the death and rebirth of a selfish global materialist system currently ruling the planet. So it’s no coincidence Earth Mother Ceres is involved.

The Year of the Metal Rat began on 25 January 2020 and goes through until February 2021. The Rat year is one of change and reform. In traditional mythology, the Rat bears and assists the Indian god Ganesha. Ganesha is the remover of obstacles, the elephantheaded Hindu god of beginnings who is traditionally worshipped before any major new enterprise.

In other cultures, the rat appears as the bearer of illness and our history is full of images of rats as mankind’s worst fear, detested and reviled as a creature of the plague and disease. We now have a ‘plague’ of a virus that seems to have no current mainstream cure, having already taken the lives of some 300,000 people at the time of this writing. One thing about the rat is that it takes items and stores them in its nest. What did us humans do when confronted with the virus? We went out and bought bulk toilet paper and stored it in our nests!

A final planetary mention is important. Saturn, in its 28-year cycle, soon moves from Capricorn into Aquarius, the sign of humanity and inventive changes. It shifts during part of 2020 (from March to June), then in midDecember both Saturn and Jupiter move into Aquarius together. They jointly rule financial cycles. In Aquarius, Jupiter opens a broader vision for humanity, while Saturn asks how we can make a better and more equal future for all. We will look back to older traditions to salvage what works. Aquarius wants systems and laws to be equitable for everyone, so expect great reforms from 2021.

RICHARD GILES is an Astrologer, Feng Shui consultant and has Shungite, the healing and protective mineral available. Email: ricgiles@powerup.com.au