The End is the Beginning (On the Great Conjunction)
“The Great Conjunction is the end of the world…or the beginning. End, begin. All the same! Big change! Sometimes good, sometimes bad!”
Aughra
Fans of the Dark Crystal will know of the importance of the Great Conjunction. The alignment of multiple Suns isn’t possible in our solar system, unfortunately, but the meeting of the giants of our world is. When Jupiter and Saturn come together every twenty years, culture begins to mutate, Kings consult Magi in a panic, and the promise of a better world is up in the air. When the two protectors of the outer reach come together, the zeitgeist gets a new hashtag.
There are some astronomers saying this is the closest one since 1623, others saying it’s the tightest since 1226; it’s the latter I find more interesting because it was in Air, not Fire (it was also a time when Ghengis Khan looked up and realized that not only Jupiter and Saturn are aligning, but all the other planets as well in Aquarius. So, after killing off 10% of the world’s population, he called it quits and died shortly after). The Great Mutation Cycle as Kepler called it has a pattern in which it moves through the elements (triplicities or trigons) counterclockwise, changing from one to the other about every 240 years. For instance, this conjunction on the Winter Solstice of 2020 is in Air (Aquarius) and for the next 200 plus years, every 20 years, will remain in Air. Looking back, with the exception of the conjunction in 81' in Libra, we were living through Earth times (when they change elements, there is a transition period; a back n’ forth). So, what does it mean to be moving into Air?
One interesting way of understanding where we are going is by looking back. Since the early 19th century, all the conjunctions were in Earth signs, and we have completely reshaped the planet, sucked nearly all we can from her, chopped, burned, poisoned, and polluted her body in trade for the modern world we live in today. Without the raping and pillaging of Earth, we would not be engaging with this material today. And so, looking forward to Air we have space and life to encounter out there, virtual realities and life to encounter in there, and we also have some remembering to do. Music. Language. Stories. Oral traditions. And the healing powers embedded in each. All of which need Air to travel in.
The two will come together at 1º of Aquarius on the Solstice. The Chandra Symbol for this degree is: A two-headed calf. It’s the coincidentia oppositorum-the path Parsival walks between two peaks or polarities. In a world dreadfully divided on nearly everything except our need for the machine, it’s a prayer of the resolution of opposites. An understanding of paradox and tolerance. And out of this calves poo grows something that I predict will also play a massive role in the next twenty years, and when it does, many glorious things will grow out of us as well.
In essence, we are dealing with an alignment that has fascinated and scared sky-gazers throughout the ages. You don’t need a wizard to know the world is changing, yet it’s helpful to have one around to help make the connections. It’s our personal responsibility to change with this alignment. It challenges us to look at the world we inhabit and ask the question: How can I improve it? How can I bring clarity to my language, to my stories, to my relationship with the machine? Also, how can music assist in this healing?
We are the music of the spheres. Musica Universalis. Singing and dancing, humming and vibrating, whistling that eternal song to the end of time. Don’t be afraid. Just change your language. Tell better stories. Listen to better music. And try not to listen to fear flinging ‘star tooters’ about this being the end. This is only another beginning.
Eudaimonia,
Adam
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