dane rudhyar - the jupiter-neptune cycle

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On September 24, 1958 Jupiter and Neptune reached their conjunction at 3° 18'

Scorpio. Such a conjunction occurs every 13 years, each time (or nearly each time) taking

place in a di erent !odiacal sign. "he complete cycle o such conjunctions around the !odiac

takes a#out 1$$ years to occur. %s 13 times 13 e&uals 1$ , e are con ronted ith a cycle

o 13 conjunctions occurring at almost e actly 13*year intervals."his emphasis on the num#er 13 is signi icant, and + shall presently discuss its

signi icance. ut irst let us list the dates at hich these conjunctions occur during the 18th

to -1st centuries, as this is the #est ay to sho at a glance ho the cyclic pattern o

relationship #et een the t o planets operate. "his pattern is &uite regular the three*times*

repeated conjunctions occurring hen /upiter is 0stationary retrograde0 near the place o

conjunction.

n looking at this data e can notice at once that the conjunctions preceding the 1 28

instance occurred at very important times in terms o social and international developments.

"he 1 2 conjunction ollo ed #y a e eeks the atom*#om# e plosions over /apan, and it

marked the #eginning o the post* ar period o reconstruction and o vast social*political

readjustments all over the orld. "he 1 3- conjunction can #e directly related to the rise to

po er o 4. 5. 6oosevelt and %dol 7itler, the e 5eal and a!ism 9 t o opposite

solutions to the socio*economic pro#lems o our age.



"he 1 1 *1 -: conjunctions are to #e linked ith the spread o the so*called /a!! %ge,

ith the start o the period o #asic social*spiritual reorientation ( hich actually ailed to ind

its true 0orient,0 its true da n;) a ter the lugu#rious "reaty o <ersailles and =oodro

=ilson's tragic de eat.

+ncidentally, it as during the months covered #y the 1 1 *1 -: conjunctions that>alestine and ?esopotamia (+ra&) ere made ritish, and Syria a 4rench, mandates 9 thus

esta#lishing the #ackground o the present ear @ast trou#les. "hen, also, the support #y

the allies o counterrevolutionary movements in 6ussia ( hich made the chasm #et een the

Soviet and the =est ar stronger and more #itter) inally collapsed (Aolchak's de eat in

/anuary, 1 -:).

+ , then, e consider the greater /upiter* eptune cycle and study the conjunctions

hich occurred in the same !odiacal signs some 1$$ years earlier, e reali!e that the period

marked #y the conjunctions paralleling the recent ones itnessed the development o the

revolutionary spirit hich #rought the old eudal and classical @uropean culture to an end

and impelled the %merican colonies to seek their independence rom @ngland.

"he ork o the great 4rench thinkers ho colla#orated on the amous 0@ncyclopedia0

#egan just #e ore the 1B23 /upiter* eptune conjunction in CeoD and it as then that the

struggle #et een 4rance and the %merican colonies or the entire ?iddle =est reached its

critical stage. "hen, also, Eeorge =ashington irst came into prominenceD and in 1B2 , in

%l#any, at a con erence o colonial delegates ith the Si ations (the great +ndian

4ederation hich, in a sense, as a prototype or the %merican ederal impulse;) a plan as

dra n, at 4ranklin's suggestion, or a union o the colonies (under a president appointed #y

the @nglish Fro n). "he plan had no success, #ut it as de initely a 0seed0 o hat as to

come."he ollo ing 1B$$ conjunction in <irgo came a year a ter the passage o the Stamp

%ctD rom then on, the struggle against ta ation gre in intensity. %t the 1BB conjunction,

the =ar o +ndependence as in ull s ing. eptune had then entered Ci#ra. =hen, a ter a

ull !odiacal revolution, eptune once more reached Ci#ra, the 0%tomic %ge0 #egan

(5ecem#er, 1 -), ith the irst controlled atomic reaction in Fhicago. "he second degree

o Ci#ra constitutes, in my opinion, the midheaven o the most signi icant 0#irth*chart0 o

the %merican people as a people ( Sagittarius-rising chart , /uly , 1BB$)D and the passage

o eptune over this midheaven produced periods that ere politically con used ar de eats

9 and ho kno s e actly hat the era that #egan ith this control over the atom's

energies ill do to our political system and, deeper still , our political consciousness.

=hen e come to the year 1B - and its three successive conjunctions o /upiter and

eptune, e see in %merica the gro th o the crucial and #asic opposition #et een

/e erson's party and 7amilton's 4ederalists hich has had deep repercussions in %merican

political li e ever since. +n 4rance, on Septem#er -1, 1B -, the monarchy as a#olished and

4rance declared a repu#lic, a #asic date in @urope's history. "he e ecution o Couis G<+, the

revolutionary ar, the 0"error0 ollo ed promptly.

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=ith the ne t conjunction in 18: , e ind onaparte enthroned as 0@mperor o the

4rench0 (?ay 18, 18: ) 9 all o hich may indeed provide us ith signi icant clues,

considering hat is occurring in 4rance today, as eptune de initely settles in Scorpio. =e

are no #eginning a 13 period hich parallels, in this sense, the period 1B - to 18: .

7o ever one ishes to interpret the parallelism o these t o periods, it is &uite clearthat e are living through years as signi icant in the history o man's social, political and

religious consciousness as those hich stretched #et een, let us say, 1B$$ and 18: . "hen

the +ndustrial 6evolution, #ased on the use o coal and steam, as gradually #eing initiated.

o , the @lectronic 6evolution and the uclear 6evolution are like ise in their initial stages.

"his present 0revolution0 is assuredly no less important than the irstD indeed, there are

many reasons or #elieving that it may #e ar more #asic and crucial;

=e are passing through a revolutionary era, the magnitude o hich is pro#a#ly

unprecedented in its implications or total social, political, cultural and religious changes. +t

is ell that e recogni!e and ace all that such implications mean. "he &uestion is no longer

hether there shall #e a idespread and perhaps total trans ormation o our ay o li e and

social*political consciousness, but what ind o! trans!ormation it sha"" be .

The Meaning of Jupiter-Neptune Conjunctions+t takes a little less than 1- years or /upiter to revolve around the Sun, and during these

1- years, eptune moves nearly one hole !odiacal signD thus, the conjunction o these t o

planets occurs in each sign successively at intervals o a#out 13 years. "he situation

parallels rather strikingly the case o the lunation cycle 9 or hile the ?oon revolves in its

or#it in less than -8 days, the Sun moves a#out one hole !odiacal sign. "hus, the ?oon

has to move on another t o days #e ore it catches up ith the Sun at 0 e ?oon0 time. +n

this analogy, eptune acts as the Sun, /upiter as the ?oonD and just as every sign o the

!odiac is vitali!ed each month #y a Sun*?oon conjunction ( e ?oon), like ise every sign

o the !odiac is energi!ed every 13*year period #y /upiter* eptune conjunction.

#he on"$ c$c"e which gi%es us a %er$ regu"ar se&uence o! two p"anets'

conjunction in e%er$ successi%e sign o! the (odiac is Jupiter-Neptune c$c"e o! 1))

$ears 9 thus its importance, i or no other reason. +t is one o the most logical small

cycles to #e used or historical purposes, other ones #eing the $:*year complete cycle o

/upiter*Saturn conjunctions ( hich includes 9 three conjunctions spaced at a#out 1-:°

rom each other) and the eclipse cycles.

+n other ords, the /upiter* eptune cycle ena#les us to state that every 13 years one!odiacal sign a ter another ill #e energi!ed #y a /upiter* eptune conjunction. @ach o

these 13*year periods carries, thus, as it ere, something o the &uality o the energi!ed

sign. 4or instance, e are just completing a Ci#ra period ( ith a Ci#ra president;) and

starting a Scorpio period. "he 4irst =orld =ar #egan during a Fancer period ( ith >luto

entering Fancer, signi icantly enough)D and the Second =orld =ar as #eing prepared and

ought during a <irgo period, ending as this period as #eing closed.



=hat does this actually mean, one ill naturally ask. +n order to give a consistent

ans er, e must consider the separate meanings o /upiter and eptune, then study the

characteristic eatures and purpose o the relationship #et een the /upiterian and eptunian

types o unctions or activities.

Jupiter , ho ever, can hardly #e understood ithout #racketing this planet ithSaturn. /upiter and Saturn are the t o astrological sym#ols o the social realm o human

e perience using the ord 0social0 in its most e tended sense and making it include the

transcendental aspect o social togetherness and social sharing, hich is the core o any

kind o organi!ed religion. +n contrast to the pair /upiter and Saturn, ?ars and <enus deal

essentially ith the personal actors in li e 9 that is, ith all e periences hich normally are

immediately and spontaneously re erred to the living center o the total human organism

(#ody and psyche), thus ith hat e actually mean hen e say 0+,0 >aul, or /ane.

/upiter and Saturn re er to all e periences hich are primarily dependent upon the act

that human #eings live in groups o various kinds and or various types o purposes 9 i.e.,

in the state o! societ$ and cu"ture . "his state o community living produces a sharing o

needs, o values, ideals and memories, o goods and o victories over ature. +t produced

language, culture, religion, la s, institutions. +t gives to every person the sense that he

0#elongs0 in a community (/upiter)D in this community he has a place, unction and name

(Saturn).

/upiter deals particularly ith social*cultural*religious eelings and the e pansion that

comes to the individual ho operates armly in terms o these eelings, reciprocated

(usually) #y others, either emotionally (happiness) or in terms o concrete values ( ealth).

Saturn, on the other hand, de ines the place and the #oundaries o the individual's

participation in his group. "hus, hile Saturn guarantees place, name, property, it alsolimits #y de ining and esta#lishing set categories, procedures, rites, techni&ues, marks o

identi ication, and so on.

Neptune , together ith Hranus and >luto, #elongs to an altogether di erent level o

reality. "hey are hardly to #e considered as integral parts o the solar system i the latter is

understood as a closely de ined and limited cosmic entity. "hey represent the stage o

transition #et een the solar system unit and the vaster cosmic hole, the gala yD more

precisely, they re er to certain #asic modes o activity #y hich this galactic hole

constantly impresses its po ers upon our tiny solar system, 0 eeds0 (in a sense) this solar

system and orks to ard its closer integration into the galactic ield.

Hranus challenges, distur#s, #reaks do n at times and illumines ith lashes o

reali!ation the Saturnian 0place0 and name an individual has in society. Hranus says to the

person ho has identi ied himsel ith a de inite tradition, culture, social class, jo# and ego

( or the ego is mostly molded #y social actors), 0Iou are more than that; reak a ay rom

your jail o narro sel hood; @ perience your uture, your 'galactic' #eing;0 % ter Hranus has

done this jo#, eptune moves on, dissolving the su#stance o the alls or shells Hranus has

shattered loose, releasing the stunned or enthralled consciousness.



Such dissolving po er is the aspect o eptune most amiliar to students o astrologyD

eptune is, thus, related to everything that is vast, immeasura#le, inde inite, universalistic,

#ut also loose, un ocused, misty, glamorous, unreal, escapist. eptune, ho ever, also has a

positive aspect. % ter all, it is an 0agent0 o the vast galactic ield o cosmic e istence; +t is

an emissary o the greater to the lesser. + it dissolves the o#solete narro ness o theSaturnian ocus, it is #ecause o deep, vast 0compassion.0 Eod #ecomes man so that man

may soon gro into the likeness o the divine orm ithin the 0galactic0 #eing.

"his 0divine orm0 is the shape o things to come or the individual, and especially or

collective humanity as a participant in the 0ne 0 society al ays in the making #ecause

humanity is al ays moving on collectively 9 evolving, reaching closer to an ever* uller

actuali!ation o the all*human potential. "he uture repeatedly comes to meet the present at

every turn o the evolutionary road so as to save this present rom automatically repeating

the past. eptune is the uture in relation to /upiter, hich represents the traditional ay o

meeting, o eeling and sharing ith other people, hether at the economic or the religious*

cultural level.

%strologers are haunted ith the idea that /upiter is 0the greater ortune0 and a sym#ol

o all that is 0good.0 ut good and ortunate or hat* or the easy ay o complacent and

nearly automatic repetition o the past; /upiter gives good ortune to those ho con orm,

ho ollo the rules o the social game, the political game, the religious ritual, the ay o

the 0classical0 great masters in the arts. "ruly, there is nothing rong in con ormingD and

there are vast practical #ene its in doing so. ut con orming is not taking the ne

evolutionary step. "his step 9 this ne trans ormation or 0mutation0 9 re&uires, like the

taking o any alking step, an initial loss o #alance, a 0 all,0 immediately ollo ed #y a

0recovery.0 "o alk is constantly to lose one's #alance, then recover it as the oot againtouches the ground a yard or so ahead.

"he /upiter* eptune cycle is very much like a alking process. @very 13 years*and,

even more, every 1$$ years 9 mankind should take a step or ard, even i only a tiny one.

+t should #e a step ahead o our past traditional social, cultural and religious sense o

human relationship. Hn ortunately, such a step tends to lead at irst to con usion, disarray,

dismay, perhaps temporary #lindness and panicky escape 0#ack to the om#0 o hat may

#e thought to #e a secure and amiliar institution or religious organi!ation. 7o ever,

progress is only through the con usion and the glo ing mist over the hills, yonder. "here is

no ay ever o going ahead, e cept through;

"hrough eptune the great moment or this transcendence (literally, this 0stepping

through0) is hen eptune meets /upiter, or it is, theoretically at least, the moment hen

the 0 orm0 o our uture #ecomes visi#le, ho ever dimly, to our consciousness. %las, the

great majority o people re use to seeD or, i they see, to understandD or, i they understand

ith their mind, to act according to their understanding ( hich re ers, then, to >luto)D or, i

they act, to have the dynamic aith and perseverance to sustain the action.



"he cycles o /upiter and eptune constitute the essential small steps e should take in

the trans ormation o our traditional social senseD #ut they do not necessarily re er to

startling events, or hat is implied is a change o attitude or 0 eeling* ith0 9 a ne

a areness o hat human relationship can mean. ut it is the accumulation o these small

changes hich at last allo s the great revolutionary events to happenD and these are#asically timed #y the a#out 5**-$ear c$c"e o! Neptune and +"uto and spurred on #y the

various kinds o Hranus cycles 9 particularly, it seems, the 1B1*year cycle o Hranus and

Saturn (the t o great antagonists in the solar system;).

The Scorpio Cycleeptune already crossed the Scorpio threshold very #rie ly on Fhristmas 1 22, and rom

cto#er 1 2$, to /une 1 2B, then rom %ugust 2, 1 2B on it #ecame de initely settled in

Scorpio. %ll this constituted the prelude to the /upiter* eptune conjunction at 3°1 ' Scorpio

on Septem#er - , 1 28, just a ter the all e&uino 9 a time o particularly strong planetary

aspects this year. "his conjunction #egins a period hich ill end in early 4e#ruary 1 B1,hen the irst o three conjunctions occurs. "his irst conjunction ill #e in the irst degree

o Sagittarius very close to ?ars.

+n Ci#ra, e see group activity operating. ut in Scorpio, mere activity is not enoughD it

has to #ecome trans ormed and trans igured #y a total sense o identi ication o the doer

and the deed. nly such a sense o identi ication makes mature action possi#le that is, an

action in hich the actor pours himsel unreservedly or (as 4rench philosophers ould no

say) 0engages0 himsel totally 9 as one gear is engaged ith another gear. "hus, or

instance, Scorpio is not really re erring to se as a merely natural, instinctive unctionD this

unction, as such, #elongs to "aurus' animal ruit ulness. Scorpio is se at the level o a

conscious, personal, all*inclusive human sharing o vital and psychic energies 9 a sharing

not too re&uent today, alas, or not carried to a point o psychic trans ormation hich

makes the participants in its ritual.

evertheless, herever there is ritual and conscious activity, there can #e, #ack o it, a

constructive or a destructive purpose. 7uman #eings can share in terms o evil as ell as o

good. >o er is, o itsel , neither good nor #ad. +t is the use o it hich determines its moral

or spiritual &uality. "hus, people can #e identi ied in disintegration and death, as ell as in

re#irth and joint trans iguration. Iet there is great hope or mankind at this time in the act

that eptune and >luto are, or several decades still, in constructive se tile aspect.

"he relationship #et een the /upiter* eptune conjunction and >luto is, indeed, a veryimportant actor 9 as is also their relationship ith Hranus. =hile Hranus has #een s&uaring

(mercilessly, it seems;) eptune during the last e years, this s&uare is no past 9 the

last e ective appro imation to this old s&uare having occurred at the last spring e&uino

(1 28). "heoretically, thus, the tension #et een Hranian shatterings and eptunian

dissolutions has done its orkD no the trans iguration #y eptune o the /upiterian

unction in humanity can truly proceed, though assuredly ith occasional periods o stress

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and strain. +n 1 3- (the depression and the 6oosevelt*7itler polar ascendancy), the /upiter*

eptune conjunction as, in semi*s&uare to >luto, an aspect o mo#ili!ation o energiesD

and see hat happened; ut since the 1 2 conjunction, and until the %ries conjunction o

the year -:32, the conjunction ill remain in more or less close se tile to >luto. "he process

o social, cultural and religious trans ormation may not #e easyD #ut it should un oldgradually. J7o ever, the eptune*>luto 0long*se tile0 oscillated in and out o e act Septile

aspect annually rom -::1 to -:11, see #he a"" to #rans!ormation or detailsK.

+n the last 1$$*year cycle o /upiter and eptune, the conjunction occurred trine >luto,

rom 1B:- to 1B -D and e had the slo emergence o =estern humanity rom centuries o

con ining dogmatism and #rutal eudalism through hat has #een called 0"he %ge o

@nlightenment.0 +t as the time hen the seer S eden#org sa 0the descent o the e

/erusalem0 upon the earth. ut around 181B, eptune as s&uare >luto in late >iscesD and

the apoleonic @mpire, hich had perverted the revolutionary impact o 4rance upon

@urope (yet spread its concepts), had collapsed. "he trine aspect re ers to the ideal stage o

any evolutionary process. Hnder the eptune*>luto trine a#stract concepts and ormulas are

producedD and the patterns o our 18th*century democracy, the 6ights o ?an and the

slogan 0Ci#erty, @&uality, 4raternity0 ere ormulated. ut the se tile re ers to practical and

concrete action and technical changes, hich e have #egun to itness, especially since

1 -. "hey no must #e deepened, made more 0human0 #y the impact o a Scorpio type o

sharing in the depths, #y the reali!ation that at the root o all cultures and all societies is to

#e ound our 0common humanity.0

+t is this reali!ation alone that can eradicate the horrors o 0man's inhumanity to man.0

o is our chance to #egin ane on this path o glo#al understanding and communion and

or each o us to participate in the great cele#ration o a resurgent and mature humanity,hose mani old racial and cultural variations can and must #e integrated in one vast and

harmonic theme.

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