The Great Jupiter-Saturn Mutation
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The Great Jupiter-Saturn Mutation
Marion D. March
Luncheon speech for SWAC
October 17, 1980
Astrology can be a tool for understanding a world in transition. We are in transition and who
better than astrologers to understand the truth of this statement. Nothing is ever static and
as the Earth turns, we enter a continuous circle and within this circle are continuous
cycles, ever new and always slightly different. Water rises from the oceans and lakes to
evaporate and condense, to become clouds and fall back on the land in the form of
raindrops or snowflakes. Yet no raindrop looks like the other and each snowflake is
different in shape and design. So Saturn returns to its position approximately every 29
years, but by then Uranus is in a different sign, so are Neptune and Pluto. Though cycles
repeat and repeat, nothing stands still, nothing is the same and each of us is unique.
But we also need to realize that nothing stands by itself, and even the Great Mutation does
not function alone. With its cycle go other cycles. Affecting us right now for example is the
seven year Uranus cycle. In February of 1981 Uranus will slip into 0° Sagittarius, only to
retrograde back into Scorpio and then finally in November 1981 it really enters Sagittarius
to stay there until February 1988 when it moves into 0° Capricorn. Uranus was last in
Sagittarius from 1897 to 1904. As always we had a few wars: the Boer War, the
Spanish/American War and the Russo/Japanese War putting Japan on the map as a world
power. We also had a few discoveries: Graf Zeppelin invented the airship, the Wright
Brothers made their first airplane flight, Marconi invented wireless telegraphy, the Curies
discover radium and the Persians discovered petroleum. Maybe we in the next seven years
will embrace new religious concepts, or discover new ways of travel and learn to use not
only our higher mind, but maybe even our superconscious.
But what about the other cycle, that ‘dreaded’ 20 year cycle when Jupiter and Saturn
conjunct and supposedly bring about the death of a president elected in such a year. After
all, hadn’t Presidents Harrison (elected 1840), Lincoln (elected 1860), Garfield (elected
1880), McKinley (elected 1900), Harding (elected 1920), Roosevelt (elected 1940) and
Kennedy (elected 1960) died or been assassinated while in office? True enough. But what
about Zachary Taylor (elected 1848) who died in office in 1850? And how come Roosevelt
was re-elected in 1944 and only died in 1945? Whereas the conjunction occurred in 1940.
And what about Harrison who died in April of 1841 while the great conjunction didn’t take
place until 1842? And how come Monroe, elected in 1820, did not die in office?
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Let’s lay a few old wives’ tales to rest. Yes, we live in a fairly violent world and a rather
violent country, so many a president or other famous personality may be assassinated. We
also demand a lot of our leaders and unless their health is fantastic and their stamina the
best, we may wear them down into eventual sickness and even death. But can we only
blame Jupiter and Saturn? Kelsey Richfield in CAO Times, Volume 4, No. 2, wrote a most
interesting article showing that all the presidents who died since 1840 had strong
Moon/Mars afflictions in their natal charts all relating to the United States chart and many
other important and difficult aspects.
What really is this great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn? Jupiter takes approximately 12
years to circle the zodiac while Saturn needs about 28½ years. Every 20 years or so, the two
giant planets meet to form a great conjunction. And it is ‘great’ when not only the longitude
but also the latitude of the planets is the same. It then looks like one enormous star in the
sky and many scholars believe that Christ was born under a Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in
Pisces around 6 or 7 B.C. They also think that the Star of Bethlehem seen by the wise men
was really Jupiter conjuncting Saturn in the heavens. In fact supposedly the great religious
leaders of the world have all been born under this great conjunction. Mohammed when
Jupiter and Saturn conjuncted in Scorpio about 571 A.D., Buddha when the conjunction
occurred in Taurus around 581 B.C. and Moses about 1296 B.C. when the planets also met
in Taurus. This would make good sense since Jupiter stands for religion and Saturn for form
and tradition; the two together thus representing all great traditional religions. This great
conjunction is also called a Great Mutation, because for about 200 years the two planets
keep conjuncting in the same element; then they all of a sudden change and a mutation
occurs in a different element; they move backwards as the years progress.
For example, the last Great Mutation started in Earth in January of 1842 in the sign of
Capricorn. Nearly 20 years later, October 1861, the two planets met in Virgo and in April of
1881 in Taurus. November 1901 saw them back together in Capricorn, September 1921 in
Virgo. In 1940/41 we had three conjunctions: the first in August 1940, the second in
retrograde motion in October of 1940 and the third in direct motion in February 1941, all
were in Taurus. February 1961 saw Jupiter and Saturn together in Capricorn. Now in 1981,
they really should meet in Virgo, but there seems to be a ‘slip-up’, except that in nature
there are no slip-ups and everything progresses as it should. Instead of Virgo, Jupiter and
Saturn will conjunct in Libra. This will be the first change (a mutation) from the earth
conjunctions since 1842. But it is only a break, because in May of 2000 the two planets will
meet again in an Earth sign, namely Taurus. Only then is the cycle truly broken and in
December of 2020 the Great Mutation begins in the Air sign Aquarius. In November 2040
the meeting takes place in Libra, in 2060 in Gemini and goes on to continue in air for
another 120 years or so. The next Great Mutation after that will be in Water.
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What can we expect from this new element in our lives? The last Great Air Mutation
occurred in 1127 A.D. in Libra and ended in 1405 in Aquarius. The Air cycle before that
started in 332 A.D. also in Libra, and went through the 6th century. So this will be the first
time since the birth of the United States that Jupiter and Saturn conjoin in Air. We all know
what Earth meant: reality, matter, tangible and touchable things such as money and status
and real estate and agriculture. Property, material possessions and financial
considerations assumed greater importance in our lives, whereas the artistic and creative
nature, even the romantic and pioneering side of man has been pushed into the
background. But now we are ready to enter the Air cycle, and although not permanently, we
should start to feel the impact, feel a difference of attitude.
Air is free and flowing and can’t be contained. Air is intellectual, social, communicative,
idea oriented and able to conceptualize. Air is the strategist and the artist, the person who
needs to relate to others, in fact fears to be alone, but stays emotionally detached (Libra),
and Air is the wish and need to understand the abstracts of tomorrow, to help others
through uninvolved humanitarianism (Aquarius). All these qualities should slowly seek
prominence in our lives. New and even more involvement through the media and through
computers; novel approaches to education, more space explorations bringing us new
awareness and understanding of the universe; the family as a new and more solid unit
since on the way to starting the lofty Air cycle, we will find Saturn and Uranus and Neptune
in Capricorn. And when the Great Mutation really starts in Aquarius in 2020, Pluto will be in
Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus, a solid base for airy ideas. Neptune then will be in Pisces,
adding spiritual understanding and compassion.
But what about now? What will this particular great conjunction, which occurs three times,
mean to us? The first conjunction takes place at 9:19 pm UT (Universal Time) at 9 Libra 30
on December 31, 1980. We end the year with a bang. That would equate to 1:19 pm PST
(Pacific Standard Time), 2:19 pm MST, 3:19 pm CST and 4:19 pm EST. The second
conjunction takes place sometime on March 4, 1981. The exact time is hard to determine
on the retrograde motion that both planets experience, but astrologically this will be at 8
Libra 07. The third conjunction happens on July 24, 1981; both planets are in direct motion
at 4 Libra 57 and meet at 8:14 am UT which translates to 1:14 am PDT (Pacific Daylight
Time), 2:14 am MDT, 3:14 am CDT and 4:14 am EDT.
Besides the afore mentioned religious connotation of Jupiter conjunct Saturn and the
possibility of another great religious leader being born into our age (or maybe the
‘Antichrist’ predicted in the bible), Jupiter and Saturn have very practical applications. They
represent the economics (Jupiter) and politics (Saturn) of the world. Together they become
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the institutional level of organized society. So this conjunction also affects us all on a very
mundane level, the way we run our economy and our governments.
With the invaluable help of Joanna Koch, Bette Travis and the DR 70 of Angel Thompson, I
have gathered much factual information to enable all of you to judge for yourselves [see
Table with explanatory notes and Astro*Carto*Graphy graph appended at end]. First we
collected the horoscopes of all the independent countries of the world. Of those
horoscopes I have selected all planets that are within reasonable orb, from 4 Libra to 12
Libra, of the three great conjunctions, and aspect by either conjunction, square or
opposition. Jim Lewis, inventor of Astro*Carto*Graphy, has drawn a fantastic graph which
shows exactly where the conjunctions are angular. It shows graphically which countries are
affected and also if other planets happen to be on the same angle simultaneously. In
column 3 of the table I give all the angle data for the conjunctions of December 31, 1980
and July 24, 1981. Last but not least we collected the birthdates of the leaders of those
countries which have either a planet in aspect (column 2) or are affected by the great
conjunction being angular (column 3). The planets of those leaders who are in aspect to
either of the three conjunctions are shown in column 4.
Some facts are quickly obvious: of 168 countries, 91 have some cardinal planets in aspect
to the great conjunction; of those 91, 56 of their leaders also have cardinal planets in
aspect. 37 countries have the conjunction on angles and 22 countries have aspects, the
conjunction angular and leaders with planetary aspects. Seven countries, namely the U.S.,
Brazil, France, Russia, Turkey, China and Australia have both great conjunctions on angles.
Of these countries the U.S., France, USSR and Turkey also have other planets on the angles
at the same time, that is Mercury, the Sun, Mars and Uranus making the great conjunction
more powerful yet. All seven countries and their leaders have planets in aspect to the
conjunction (China to be checked out once the data of the new leader is available). In the
United States Reagan’s Mars at 4 Capricorn would be a bit more combative than Carter’s
Sun at 8 Libra or Anderson’s Saturn at 7 Libra and Pluto at 8 Cancer. But Carter’s Sun and
Anderson’s Saturn are conjunct Jupiter and Saturn and the conjunction is always
considered stronger than the square. The setting and rising position of the great
conjunction in the U.S. is stronger than Brazil’s where it occurs at its lowest point. In France
the great conjunction is also rising and setting, but both the country and its leader Giscard
d’Estaing have the Moon in aspect, showing unrest & fluctuations rather than violence. The
Soviet Union has the conjunction of December culminating and the one of July 24th setting
in one area and at its lowest point in another. This is powerful indeed, so is the fact that
Brezhnev has 3 planets in aspect, including Uranus which always brings unexpected
results. Turkey has both conjunctions angular and both the country and one of its leaders
have Mars aspects, aggressive to say the least. Turkey’s coup put General Kenan Evran in
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charge – no date, only a year available so far. But the Pluto of that year is in aspect. China’s
Sun and Uranus are involved, again promising important yet unpredictable changes,
whereas Australia has Saturnian involvements, probably imposing some limitations and/or
new responsibilities. But do remember that Brazil, China and Australia have no other
planets on the angles together with the great conjunction.
It is also interesting to note that of 12 South American countries the great conjunction
culminates in 6 of them; but only 3, Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela, have the country and
the leader also in aspect.
Worth observing will be Africa. Of the so-called “Hunger Belt” involving 17 countries and 23
Million people, only 4 seem really affected: Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia. That does
not mean that these 4 countries will have terrible problems and the other 13 will not. It
could mean the contrary, that the 4 countries will have the strength to overcome their
problems, the conjunction giving them the impetus necessary to fight for survival.
Other points of interest may be that Queen Elizabeth II is still “Queen” to all Commonwealth countries and that her Mercury is at 4 Aries 45; that Yasir Arafat has no official
country, only a ‘cause’, but he has his Moon at 11 Aries, conjunct Uranus at 10 Aries 45 and
Mercury at 8 Libra. That states and cities also have charts: Los Angeles for example has its
Venus at 12 Aries, New York’s Sun is at 11 Capricorn 30 and Jupiter at 9 Libra 30. You can
check your own state or city for aspects.
To show you how transitional everything is, since this speech was written (mid September)
Poland’s Edward Gierek is out and Stanislaw Kania is in, Chile voted a new constitution,
Italy just terminated its 40th government since World War II, China & Turkey have new
leaders.
What does all this tell us? I’ll leave the mundane interpretation to each of you, but the first
and most obvious conclusion is that all of us on this earth are inter-connected. If the great
conjunction affects Jimmy Carter because his Sun is at 8 Libra, it will also affect 55 other
leaders who have aspects. And if it involves Austria or Guinea whose Suns are at 8 Libra, so
will it involve 89 other countries in some way, shape or form. We are all linked and no man
or country is an island anymore.
The second and even more important conclusion is that a Great Mutation is the beginning
of a new cycle, not necessarily a specific event. There will always be wars and earthquakes
and uprisings and hurricanes. If you look at history in capsule fashion, you know that
something is always happening somewhere. There is never a year or month or week or day
when nothing is recorded. Life goes on, and as some people or some ideas die, new ones
are born. The Great Mutation is just one of the great cycles of history, and as such it should
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awaken us, the world, to the best and the worst that Gemini, Libra and Aquarius can offer.
The leaders who happen to be in charge at this time will all, in their way, play a part in the
larger scope of destiny.
In the cycle of history very few things will be remembered. If you look at any encyclopedia
or history book for what happened between 1100 and 1400 AD, the last time the Great
Mutation took place in air, here’s what has lasted more than 800 years: The Aristotelian
philosophy was introduced, the Arthurian legend is put into writing, Zen Buddhism is
preached, the Magna Carta becomes the basis of English constitution, St. Thomas Aquinas
completes his Summa Theologica and Dante his Divine Comedy, the Incas build an empire
in Peru and the Aztecs enter Mexico, Oxford and Cambridge are founded and the University
of Paris is born. Notre Dame is built, so are the Reims and Chartres cathedrals and London
Bridge. St. Francis of Assisi founds the Franciscan order, Marco Polo leaves Venice for the
far East, Black Death strikes and kills ¾ of the population of Europe.
Very few names of so-called leaders are remembered, one country has blended into
another, only thoughts, philosophies, religions, works of art in all forms really stay for a few
years. All of us can lay some cornerstones for the future, and each little stone laid can lead
to some new concept, religion, or masterpiece.
You, we, all of us in Astrology are some of the chosen people, because we can see when a
cycle will affect a chart, when action becomes constructive, when it becomes a building
stone. So don’t run away from it, no – look at it, work with it, grow through it and enjoy it. It’s
a great task, an exciting time for all of us.
THANK YOU
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INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD (168 as of Se p tember 1980)
LEADERS WITH PLANETS IN ASPECT
GREAT CONJUNCTION ON ANGLE
NORTIi AMERICA: (3) PLANETS BETW. 4°-12° CARDINAL
Canada
Pluto 745
Sun 930 Moon 6430 Uranus 8430 7/24 culminating (Nova Scotia)
Mexico
United States
12/31 setting (Alaska)(+ 5in 4. rc1flun 800 (Carter)
Jupiter 5445
7/24 rising (Alaska &Hawaii4cui4Mars 41500 (Reagan)
Saturn 700 Pluto 800 (Andersor)
SOUTH AMERICA:(11)
Moon ll00
Argentina
7/24 culminating
(coipotA4)
Bolivia
7/24 culminating
Pluto 400
Brazil
Jupiter 7030
12/31 lowest point
7/24 culminating
Chile
Colombia
Mercury 715 Venus 11415
Ecuador
Venus 6'I00 Pluto 9,400
Mercury 430 Pluto 4900
Guyana
Uranus 800
7/24 culminating
Paraguay
7/24 culminating
Peru
Mars 930
Suriname
Neptune 7'30
Uruguay
Neptune 915
Pluto 11'30
Venezuela
7/24 culminating
Mars 400
CENTRAL AMERICA :6)
Costa Rica
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El Salvador
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Moon 5O0 Venus/Mars 9S30
Guatemala
Honduras
Jupiter 8t15
Nicaragua
Venus 7500 Moon ll.00
Panama
Neptune 5445
CARIBBEAN REGION: (10)
Bahamas
Jupiter 4I15 Saturn 10W0
Barbados
7/24 culminating
Cuba
Sun 10øO
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Sun 10.45 Uranus 9445
Haiti
Sun 930
Jamaica
St. Lucia
Trinidad & Tobago
EUROPE: (34)
Albania
Neptune 80
Andorra
Austria
Sun 8D0 Pluto 900
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany, East
Germany, West
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Liechtenstein
Luxenbourg
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
USSR
United Kingdom
Vatican City
Yugoslavia
Mercury 645 Mars 6915
Pluto 8915
Sun 1015 Jupiter 9000
Uranus 1000
Saturn 6v15
Moon 8900
12/31 lowest point (Greenland)
7/24 setting (-I- t1APS)
12/31 setting (TahitiX4
7/24 rising (Tahiti)(+
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Jupiter l]OO Pluto 9c145
Pluto 1200
l) Moon 600
Moon 1130 Mercury 700
Pluto 6O
Moon/Neptune 1000
Moon 900
Sun 1000 Mercury 8045
Venus 8'115 Pluto 9530
Uranus 7V00
Moon 7±,00
Mercury 8O0 Pluto 745
Jupiter 6ab15
Saturn 9&00
Mars 10000 Pluto 10
Mercury 445 Sun 730
7/24 setting (+- riAP4)
Venus 7t30
Neptune 630
Sun 7±30
Sun l030
Pluto 515
Sun l0l5
Venus 8'(30 Uranus 00
Saturn 1l.130
Sun 5000
Moon 80
Mercury 11T00 Pluto 4900
Jupiter 700 Uranus 800
12/31 culminating (Siberia)
7/24 setting (main Russia)(+ rA ) Neptune 8€?00
7/24 lowest point (Siberia)
Mars 9&30
Pluto 6'0O
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Bahrain
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
Venus 4945 Neptune 1030
Neptune 600
Mercury 10900
Sun 11900
Uranus 800
Sun 9S.00
Venus 11900
Venus 4,3O
Saturn 4v'30
Uranus 50
Moon l0O0
Moon 5900
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Uranus l5
Venus 6k45
12/31 rising(kS'It11uA1Qt'1)
Sun 430
Mars 700
12/31
12/31
12/31
7/24
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rising
rising
rising
setting
Neptune 8'00
Jupiter 830
Saturn l000 Uranus lOVOO
Mars 11915
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United Arab Emirates
Yeme,n, People's Rep. Saturn 5'45
Yemen , Arab Rep.
Jupiter 8145
ASIA: (U)
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Burma
Cambodia
China
India
Indonesia
Japan
Korea, North
Korea, South
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
Mars 13O
Mercury 1100 Neptune 645
Jupiter 7100 Pluto 7t30
Sun 7115 Uranus 500
12/31 culminating (Manchuria)
7/24 lowest point
Mars 9415
Uranus 4C'45
Mercury 111'30 Saturn 915
Uranus 1c.'30
7/24 lowest point
12/31 culminating
Venus 7-30 Neptune 110
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Mercury 8945 Pluto 7'45
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Jupiter 415
Saturn 700 Pluto 8c)30
Moon 1645 Uranus 5945
Merc.11v'OO Venus lOvOO Sat.71/00
Sun ll00 Neptune E00
Moon 6$00
Venus 4 .f15 Mars 6000 Jup.7il5
Mars 15
Venus 10)30
Sun 10900 Pluto atOO
7/24 lowest point
Pluto 5cl5
Mars 7s00 Uranus 915
Jupiter 815 Uranus 430
Moon 4'00 Jupiter 1100
Pluto 8c00
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OCEANIA: (ii)
Saturn 111,500
Australia
Sun 1000 Saturn 745
Fiji
Kiribati
Nauru
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Island
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Western Samoa
Uranus 90
Pluto 6400
Venus 4\30 Saturn 8100
Mars 7t00 Sat.930 Pluto l]900
12/31 culminating
7/24 lowest point
12/31 culminating
Uranus 4&45
Sun/Mercury 700
Mars 110
Sun 1030 Venus 430 Mars 6,600
Saturn 530
Venus 8i30 Sat. WO Pluto 900
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AFRICA: (gii)
Algeria
'Angola
Benin
Saturn 1O?30
Bophuthatswana
Moon 830 Sun f30
Botswana
Moon 5'(:3O Merc.4430 Sat.9€45 'oM
Burundi
Sun/Saturn 9r30
Cameron
Cape Verde
Central African Rep.
Moon 91130
Chad
Comoro Island
Congo
Djibouti
Sun 530
7/24
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
12/31
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Sun 85 Mercury 5O
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
12/31
Kenya
Merc.4i00 Mars 9O Jup 9V10
7/24
Lesotho
Sun 1I5
Moon 630 Jupiter 6C,30
Liberia
Libya
Jupiter 5v15
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Moon llJO
Mauritania
Moon 5130 Jupiter 6,630
Mauritius
Morocco
12/31
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Sun 745 Mars 500
Nigeria
Sun 9915 Moon 5,00
Rwanda
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal
Sun 7915 Venus 10900 Pluto 900
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Sun 9500 Venus 11415
Somalia
7/24
South Africa
7/24
Sudan
Sun 930
Swaziland
Venus 40 Mercury fOO
12/31
Tanzania
Sun 9900 Mars/Pluto 8430
Neptune 7OO Moon 8&O0
setting
Venus 103O Pluto 6900
rising
Venus llOO Sat.730 Pluto 9500
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setting
Mars 4V00
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Pluto 11930
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Saturn 5V00
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Sun 1030 Sat.4WO Uranus 7V30
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Saturn 00 Pluto 8ç00
Togo
Transkei
Tunisia
Uganda
Upper Volta
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Pluto 630
Mercury 45
Saturn 11/3O
Mercury 5100
7/24 setting
7/24 setting
7/24 setting
Moon 11500 Merc.445 Sat. 6115
Pluto 7c,00
Venus 10.100 Pluto 10930
Explanation for the above table: (or following if you prefer to put the explanation first)
As of September 1980 there are 168 independent nations. The birthday for each was determined by using the last
officially adapted constitution. France for example would not be 'born' at the time of Charlemagne but on October 5,
1958 when the 5th Republic, under de Gaulle, was officially voted in. In South America this presented quite a few
problems, since there are coup d'etats or military take-overs every month. But until a new constitution is voted in,
the old one is still in effect. El Salvador for example is still using the constitution of January 5, 1962, though
they had a few government revolutions since and are now governed by a junta. This just to explain where the planets
used in column 2 are taken from.
Column 3 shows whae the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is angular, in other words where it rises, culimates,
sets or is found on the lowest point. Jim Lewis Astro*Carto*Graphy map shows this very plainly. It also shows if
some other planet happens to be angular at the same time. I have marked this with a + (plus) sign in column 3.
The usual mundane explanation for the angles is that rising and culminating are more aggressive, whereas setting or
at its lowest point is considered passive - sometimes ready to be attacked.
Column 4 indicates if any of the leaders of these countries have planets in aspect to the great conjunction. The
leaders were the ones in charge as of September 1980. For the United STates I have marked Carter's, Reagan's & Andersoth
aspects. Where there is a junta or a committee of 3, there obviously is no one person in charge. In Bolivia there
had just been a coup and the General's birthday was unknown, also he was not as yet truly in charge. China was just
changing leadership and had not officially elected anyone. South Korea had a military takeover and noone knew General
Chufto Hwan's birthday. Vietnam's Ton Duc Thang could only be determined as 1888. Vanuatu, one of the newest
countries has a Prime Minister called Walter Lini but no representation in the United States to give any information.
Some Middle Eastern countries and especially some of the African countries don't keep any birthdata. But all told we
are only missing 16 leaders, which is not going to make a major change in the picture. (See Question Marks in column 4.)
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Luncheon speech for SWAC
October 17, 1980
Astrology can be a tool for understanding a world in transition. We are in transition and who
better than astrologers to understand the truth of this statement. Nothing is ever static and
as the Earth turns, we enter a continuous circle and within this circle are continuous
cycles, ever new and always slightly different. Water rises from the oceans and lakes to
evaporate and condense, to become clouds and fall back on the land in the form of
raindrops or snowflakes. Yet no raindrop looks like the other and each snowflake is
different in shape and design. So Saturn returns to its position approximately every 29
years, but by then Uranus is in a different sign, so are Neptune and Pluto. Though cycles
repeat and repeat, nothing stands still, nothing is the same and each of us is unique.
But we also need to realize that nothing stands by itself, and even the Great Mutation does
not function alone. With its cycle go other cycles. Affecting us right now for example is the
seven year Uranus cycle. In February of 1981 Uranus will slip into 0° Sagittarius, only to
retrograde back into Scorpio and then finally in November 1981 it really enters Sagittarius
to stay there until February 1988 when it moves into 0° Capricorn. Uranus was last in
Sagittarius from 1897 to 1904. As always we had a few wars: the Boer War, the
Spanish/American War and the Russo/Japanese War putting Japan on the map as a world
power. We also had a few discoveries: Graf Zeppelin invented the airship, the Wright
Brothers made their first airplane flight, Marconi invented wireless telegraphy, the Curies
discover radium and the Persians discovered petroleum. Maybe we in the next seven years
will embrace new religious concepts, or discover new ways of travel and learn to use not
only our higher mind, but maybe even our superconscious.
But what about the other cycle, that ‘dreaded’ 20 year cycle when Jupiter and Saturn
conjunct and supposedly bring about the death of a president elected in such a year. After
all, hadn’t Presidents Harrison (elected 1840), Lincoln (elected 1860), Garfield (elected
1880), McKinley (elected 1900), Harding (elected 1920), Roosevelt (elected 1940) and
Kennedy (elected 1960) died or been assassinated while in office? True enough. But what
about Zachary Taylor (elected 1848) who died in office in 1850? And how come Roosevelt
was re-elected in 1944 and only died in 1945? Whereas the conjunction occurred in 1940.
And what about Harrison who died in April of 1841 while the great conjunction didn’t take
place until 1842? And how come Monroe, elected in 1820, did not die in office?
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Let’s lay a few old wives’ tales to rest. Yes, we live in a fairly violent world and a rather
violent country, so many a president or other famous personality may be assassinated. We
also demand a lot of our leaders and unless their health is fantastic and their stamina the
best, we may wear them down into eventual sickness and even death. But can we only
blame Jupiter and Saturn? Kelsey Richfield in CAO Times, Volume 4, No. 2, wrote a most
interesting article showing that all the presidents who died since 1840 had strong
Moon/Mars afflictions in their natal charts all relating to the United States chart and many
other important and difficult aspects.
What really is this great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn? Jupiter takes approximately 12
years to circle the zodiac while Saturn needs about 28½ years. Every 20 years or so, the two
giant planets meet to form a great conjunction. And it is ‘great’ when not only the longitude
but also the latitude of the planets is the same. It then looks like one enormous star in the
sky and many scholars believe that Christ was born under a Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in
Pisces around 6 or 7 B.C. They also think that the Star of Bethlehem seen by the wise men
was really Jupiter conjuncting Saturn in the heavens. In fact supposedly the great religious
leaders of the world have all been born under this great conjunction. Mohammed when
Jupiter and Saturn conjuncted in Scorpio about 571 A.D., Buddha when the conjunction
occurred in Taurus around 581 B.C. and Moses about 1296 B.C. when the planets also met
in Taurus. This would make good sense since Jupiter stands for religion and Saturn for form
and tradition; the two together thus representing all great traditional religions. This great
conjunction is also called a Great Mutation, because for about 200 years the two planets
keep conjuncting in the same element; then they all of a sudden change and a mutation
occurs in a different element; they move backwards as the years progress.
For example, the last Great Mutation started in Earth in January of 1842 in the sign of
Capricorn. Nearly 20 years later, October 1861, the two planets met in Virgo and in April of
1881 in Taurus. November 1901 saw them back together in Capricorn, September 1921 in
Virgo. In 1940/41 we had three conjunctions: the first in August 1940, the second in
retrograde motion in October of 1940 and the third in direct motion in February 1941, all
were in Taurus. February 1961 saw Jupiter and Saturn together in Capricorn. Now in 1981,
they really should meet in Virgo, but there seems to be a ‘slip-up’, except that in nature
there are no slip-ups and everything progresses as it should. Instead of Virgo, Jupiter and
Saturn will conjunct in Libra. This will be the first change (a mutation) from the earth
conjunctions since 1842. But it is only a break, because in May of 2000 the two planets will
meet again in an Earth sign, namely Taurus. Only then is the cycle truly broken and in
December of 2020 the Great Mutation begins in the Air sign Aquarius. In November 2040
the meeting takes place in Libra, in 2060 in Gemini and goes on to continue in air for
another 120 years or so. The next Great Mutation after that will be in Water.
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What can we expect from this new element in our lives? The last Great Air Mutation
occurred in 1127 A.D. in Libra and ended in 1405 in Aquarius. The Air cycle before that
started in 332 A.D. also in Libra, and went through the 6th century. So this will be the first
time since the birth of the United States that Jupiter and Saturn conjoin in Air. We all know
what Earth meant: reality, matter, tangible and touchable things such as money and status
and real estate and agriculture. Property, material possessions and financial
considerations assumed greater importance in our lives, whereas the artistic and creative
nature, even the romantic and pioneering side of man has been pushed into the
background. But now we are ready to enter the Air cycle, and although not permanently, we
should start to feel the impact, feel a difference of attitude.
Air is free and flowing and can’t be contained. Air is intellectual, social, communicative,
idea oriented and able to conceptualize. Air is the strategist and the artist, the person who
needs to relate to others, in fact fears to be alone, but stays emotionally detached (Libra),
and Air is the wish and need to understand the abstracts of tomorrow, to help others
through uninvolved humanitarianism (Aquarius). All these qualities should slowly seek
prominence in our lives. New and even more involvement through the media and through
computers; novel approaches to education, more space explorations bringing us new
awareness and understanding of the universe; the family as a new and more solid unit
since on the way to starting the lofty Air cycle, we will find Saturn and Uranus and Neptune
in Capricorn. And when the Great Mutation really starts in Aquarius in 2020, Pluto will be in
Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus, a solid base for airy ideas. Neptune then will be in Pisces,
adding spiritual understanding and compassion.
But what about now? What will this particular great conjunction, which occurs three times,
mean to us? The first conjunction takes place at 9:19 pm UT (Universal Time) at 9 Libra 30
on December 31, 1980. We end the year with a bang. That would equate to 1:19 pm PST
(Pacific Standard Time), 2:19 pm MST, 3:19 pm CST and 4:19 pm EST. The second
conjunction takes place sometime on March 4, 1981. The exact time is hard to determine
on the retrograde motion that both planets experience, but astrologically this will be at 8
Libra 07. The third conjunction happens on July 24, 1981; both planets are in direct motion
at 4 Libra 57 and meet at 8:14 am UT which translates to 1:14 am PDT (Pacific Daylight
Time), 2:14 am MDT, 3:14 am CDT and 4:14 am EDT.
Besides the afore mentioned religious connotation of Jupiter conjunct Saturn and the
possibility of another great religious leader being born into our age (or maybe the
‘Antichrist’ predicted in the bible), Jupiter and Saturn have very practical applications. They
represent the economics (Jupiter) and politics (Saturn) of the world. Together they become
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the institutional level of organized society. So this conjunction also affects us all on a very
mundane level, the way we run our economy and our governments.
With the invaluable help of Joanna Koch, Bette Travis and the DR 70 of Angel Thompson, I
have gathered much factual information to enable all of you to judge for yourselves [see
Table with explanatory notes and Astro*Carto*Graphy graph appended at end]. First we
collected the horoscopes of all the independent countries of the world. Of those
horoscopes I have selected all planets that are within reasonable orb, from 4 Libra to 12
Libra, of the three great conjunctions, and aspect by either conjunction, square or
opposition. Jim Lewis, inventor of Astro*Carto*Graphy, has drawn a fantastic graph which
shows exactly where the conjunctions are angular. It shows graphically which countries are
affected and also if other planets happen to be on the same angle simultaneously. In
column 3 of the table I give all the angle data for the conjunctions of December 31, 1980
and July 24, 1981. Last but not least we collected the birthdates of the leaders of those
countries which have either a planet in aspect (column 2) or are affected by the great
conjunction being angular (column 3). The planets of those leaders who are in aspect to
either of the three conjunctions are shown in column 4.
Some facts are quickly obvious: of 168 countries, 91 have some cardinal planets in aspect
to the great conjunction; of those 91, 56 of their leaders also have cardinal planets in
aspect. 37 countries have the conjunction on angles and 22 countries have aspects, the
conjunction angular and leaders with planetary aspects. Seven countries, namely the U.S.,
Brazil, France, Russia, Turkey, China and Australia have both great conjunctions on angles.
Of these countries the U.S., France, USSR and Turkey also have other planets on the angles
at the same time, that is Mercury, the Sun, Mars and Uranus making the great conjunction
more powerful yet. All seven countries and their leaders have planets in aspect to the
conjunction (China to be checked out once the data of the new leader is available). In the
United States Reagan’s Mars at 4 Capricorn would be a bit more combative than Carter’s
Sun at 8 Libra or Anderson’s Saturn at 7 Libra and Pluto at 8 Cancer. But Carter’s Sun and
Anderson’s Saturn are conjunct Jupiter and Saturn and the conjunction is always
considered stronger than the square. The setting and rising position of the great
conjunction in the U.S. is stronger than Brazil’s where it occurs at its lowest point. In France
the great conjunction is also rising and setting, but both the country and its leader Giscard
d’Estaing have the Moon in aspect, showing unrest & fluctuations rather than violence. The
Soviet Union has the conjunction of December culminating and the one of July 24th setting
in one area and at its lowest point in another. This is powerful indeed, so is the fact that
Brezhnev has 3 planets in aspect, including Uranus which always brings unexpected
results. Turkey has both conjunctions angular and both the country and one of its leaders
have Mars aspects, aggressive to say the least. Turkey’s coup put General Kenan Evran in
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charge – no date, only a year available so far. But the Pluto of that year is in aspect. China’s
Sun and Uranus are involved, again promising important yet unpredictable changes,
whereas Australia has Saturnian involvements, probably imposing some limitations and/or
new responsibilities. But do remember that Brazil, China and Australia have no other
planets on the angles together with the great conjunction.
It is also interesting to note that of 12 South American countries the great conjunction
culminates in 6 of them; but only 3, Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela, have the country and
the leader also in aspect.
Worth observing will be Africa. Of the so-called “Hunger Belt” involving 17 countries and 23
Million people, only 4 seem really affected: Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia. That does
not mean that these 4 countries will have terrible problems and the other 13 will not. It
could mean the contrary, that the 4 countries will have the strength to overcome their
problems, the conjunction giving them the impetus necessary to fight for survival.
Other points of interest may be that Queen Elizabeth II is still “Queen” to all Commonwealth countries and that her Mercury is at 4 Aries 45; that Yasir Arafat has no official
country, only a ‘cause’, but he has his Moon at 11 Aries, conjunct Uranus at 10 Aries 45 and
Mercury at 8 Libra. That states and cities also have charts: Los Angeles for example has its
Venus at 12 Aries, New York’s Sun is at 11 Capricorn 30 and Jupiter at 9 Libra 30. You can
check your own state or city for aspects.
To show you how transitional everything is, since this speech was written (mid September)
Poland’s Edward Gierek is out and Stanislaw Kania is in, Chile voted a new constitution,
Italy just terminated its 40th government since World War II, China & Turkey have new
leaders.
What does all this tell us? I’ll leave the mundane interpretation to each of you, but the first
and most obvious conclusion is that all of us on this earth are inter-connected. If the great
conjunction affects Jimmy Carter because his Sun is at 8 Libra, it will also affect 55 other
leaders who have aspects. And if it involves Austria or Guinea whose Suns are at 8 Libra, so
will it involve 89 other countries in some way, shape or form. We are all linked and no man
or country is an island anymore.
The second and even more important conclusion is that a Great Mutation is the beginning
of a new cycle, not necessarily a specific event. There will always be wars and earthquakes
and uprisings and hurricanes. If you look at history in capsule fashion, you know that
something is always happening somewhere. There is never a year or month or week or day
when nothing is recorded. Life goes on, and as some people or some ideas die, new ones
are born. The Great Mutation is just one of the great cycles of history, and as such it should
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awaken us, the world, to the best and the worst that Gemini, Libra and Aquarius can offer.
The leaders who happen to be in charge at this time will all, in their way, play a part in the
larger scope of destiny.
In the cycle of history very few things will be remembered. If you look at any encyclopedia
or history book for what happened between 1100 and 1400 AD, the last time the Great
Mutation took place in air, here’s what has lasted more than 800 years: The Aristotelian
philosophy was introduced, the Arthurian legend is put into writing, Zen Buddhism is
preached, the Magna Carta becomes the basis of English constitution, St. Thomas Aquinas
completes his Summa Theologica and Dante his Divine Comedy, the Incas build an empire
in Peru and the Aztecs enter Mexico, Oxford and Cambridge are founded and the University
of Paris is born. Notre Dame is built, so are the Reims and Chartres cathedrals and London
Bridge. St. Francis of Assisi founds the Franciscan order, Marco Polo leaves Venice for the
far East, Black Death strikes and kills ¾ of the population of Europe.
Very few names of so-called leaders are remembered, one country has blended into
another, only thoughts, philosophies, religions, works of art in all forms really stay for a few
years. All of us can lay some cornerstones for the future, and each little stone laid can lead
to some new concept, religion, or masterpiece.
You, we, all of us in Astrology are some of the chosen people, because we can see when a
cycle will affect a chart, when action becomes constructive, when it becomes a building
stone. So don’t run away from it, no – look at it, work with it, grow through it and enjoy it. It’s
a great task, an exciting time for all of us.
THANK YOU
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INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD (168 as of Se p tember 1980)
LEADERS WITH PLANETS IN ASPECT
GREAT CONJUNCTION ON ANGLE
NORTIi AMERICA: (3) PLANETS BETW. 4°-12° CARDINAL
Canada
Pluto 745
Sun 930 Moon 6430 Uranus 8430 7/24 culminating (Nova Scotia)
Mexico
United States
12/31 setting (Alaska)(+ 5in 4. rc1flun 800 (Carter)
Jupiter 5445
7/24 rising (Alaska &Hawaii4cui4Mars 41500 (Reagan)
Saturn 700 Pluto 800 (Andersor)
SOUTH AMERICA:(11)
Moon ll00
Argentina
7/24 culminating
(coipotA4)
Bolivia
7/24 culminating
Pluto 400
Brazil
Jupiter 7030
12/31 lowest point
7/24 culminating
Chile
Colombia
Mercury 715 Venus 11415
Ecuador
Venus 6'I00 Pluto 9,400
Mercury 430 Pluto 4900
Guyana
Uranus 800
7/24 culminating
Paraguay
7/24 culminating
Peru
Mars 930
Suriname
Neptune 7'30
Uruguay
Neptune 915
Pluto 11'30
Venezuela
7/24 culminating
Mars 400
CENTRAL AMERICA :6)
Costa Rica
(3jnt9 oc)
El Salvador
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Moon 5O0 Venus/Mars 9S30
Guatemala
Honduras
Jupiter 8t15
Nicaragua
Venus 7500 Moon ll.00
Panama
Neptune 5445
CARIBBEAN REGION: (10)
Bahamas
Jupiter 4I15 Saturn 10W0
Barbados
7/24 culminating
Cuba
Sun 10øO
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Sun 10.45 Uranus 9445
Haiti
Sun 930
Jamaica
St. Lucia
Trinidad & Tobago
EUROPE: (34)
Albania
Neptune 80
Andorra
Austria
Sun 8D0 Pluto 900
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany, East
Germany, West
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Liechtenstein
Luxenbourg
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
USSR
United Kingdom
Vatican City
Yugoslavia
Mercury 645 Mars 6915
Pluto 8915
Sun 1015 Jupiter 9000
Uranus 1000
Saturn 6v15
Moon 8900
12/31 lowest point (Greenland)
7/24 setting (-I- t1APS)
12/31 setting (TahitiX4
7/24 rising (Tahiti)(+
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Jupiter l]OO Pluto 9c145
Pluto 1200
l) Moon 600
Moon 1130 Mercury 700
Pluto 6O
Moon/Neptune 1000
Moon 900
Sun 1000 Mercury 8045
Venus 8'115 Pluto 9530
Uranus 7V00
Moon 7±,00
Mercury 8O0 Pluto 745
Jupiter 6ab15
Saturn 9&00
Mars 10000 Pluto 10
Mercury 445 Sun 730
7/24 setting (+- riAP4)
Venus 7t30
Neptune 630
Sun 7±30
Sun l030
Pluto 515
Sun l0l5
Venus 8'(30 Uranus 00
Saturn 1l.130
Sun 5000
Moon 80
Mercury 11T00 Pluto 4900
Jupiter 700 Uranus 800
12/31 culminating (Siberia)
7/24 setting (main Russia)(+ rA ) Neptune 8€?00
7/24 lowest point (Siberia)
Mars 9&30
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Bahrain
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
Venus 4945 Neptune 1030
Neptune 600
Mercury 10900
Sun 11900
Uranus 800
Sun 9S.00
Venus 11900
Venus 4,3O
Saturn 4v'30
Uranus 50
Moon l0O0
Moon 5900
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Uranus l5
Venus 6k45
12/31 rising(kS'It11uA1Qt'1)
Sun 430
Mars 700
12/31
12/31
12/31
7/24
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rising
rising
rising
setting
Neptune 8'00
Jupiter 830
Saturn l000 Uranus lOVOO
Mars 11915
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United Arab Emirates
Yeme,n, People's Rep. Saturn 5'45
Yemen , Arab Rep.
Jupiter 8145
ASIA: (U)
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Burma
Cambodia
China
India
Indonesia
Japan
Korea, North
Korea, South
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
Mars 13O
Mercury 1100 Neptune 645
Jupiter 7100 Pluto 7t30
Sun 7115 Uranus 500
12/31 culminating (Manchuria)
7/24 lowest point
Mars 9415
Uranus 4C'45
Mercury 111'30 Saturn 915
Uranus 1c.'30
7/24 lowest point
12/31 culminating
Venus 7-30 Neptune 110
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Mercury 8945 Pluto 7'45
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Jupiter 415
Saturn 700 Pluto 8c)30
Moon 1645 Uranus 5945
Merc.11v'OO Venus lOvOO Sat.71/00
Sun ll00 Neptune E00
Moon 6$00
Venus 4 .f15 Mars 6000 Jup.7il5
Mars 15
Venus 10)30
Sun 10900 Pluto atOO
7/24 lowest point
Pluto 5cl5
Mars 7s00 Uranus 915
Jupiter 815 Uranus 430
Moon 4'00 Jupiter 1100
Pluto 8c00
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OCEANIA: (ii)
Saturn 111,500
Australia
Sun 1000 Saturn 745
Fiji
Kiribati
Nauru
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Island
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Western Samoa
Uranus 90
Pluto 6400
Venus 4\30 Saturn 8100
Mars 7t00 Sat.930 Pluto l]900
12/31 culminating
7/24 lowest point
12/31 culminating
Uranus 4&45
Sun/Mercury 700
Mars 110
Sun 1030 Venus 430 Mars 6,600
Saturn 530
Venus 8i30 Sat. WO Pluto 900
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AFRICA: (gii)
Algeria
'Angola
Benin
Saturn 1O?30
Bophuthatswana
Moon 830 Sun f30
Botswana
Moon 5'(:3O Merc.4430 Sat.9€45 'oM
Burundi
Sun/Saturn 9r30
Cameron
Cape Verde
Central African Rep.
Moon 91130
Chad
Comoro Island
Congo
Djibouti
Sun 530
7/24
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
12/31
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Sun 85 Mercury 5O
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
12/31
Kenya
Merc.4i00 Mars 9O Jup 9V10
7/24
Lesotho
Sun 1I5
Moon 630 Jupiter 6C,30
Liberia
Libya
Jupiter 5v15
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Moon llJO
Mauritania
Moon 5130 Jupiter 6,630
Mauritius
Morocco
12/31
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Sun 745 Mars 500
Nigeria
Sun 9915 Moon 5,00
Rwanda
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal
Sun 7915 Venus 10900 Pluto 900
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Sun 9500 Venus 11415
Somalia
7/24
South Africa
7/24
Sudan
Sun 930
Swaziland
Venus 40 Mercury fOO
12/31
Tanzania
Sun 9900 Mars/Pluto 8430
Neptune 7OO Moon 8&O0
setting
Venus 103O Pluto 6900
rising
Venus llOO Sat.730 Pluto 9500
rising
setting
Mars 4V00
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Pluto 11930
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Saturn 5V00
Venus €3O
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Sun 1030 Sat.4WO Uranus 7V30
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Saturn 00 Pluto 8ç00
Togo
Transkei
Tunisia
Uganda
Upper Volta
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Pluto 630
Mercury 45
Saturn 11/3O
Mercury 5100
7/24 setting
7/24 setting
7/24 setting
Moon 11500 Merc.445 Sat. 6115
Pluto 7c,00
Venus 10.100 Pluto 10930
Explanation for the above table: (or following if you prefer to put the explanation first)
As of September 1980 there are 168 independent nations. The birthday for each was determined by using the last
officially adapted constitution. France for example would not be 'born' at the time of Charlemagne but on October 5,
1958 when the 5th Republic, under de Gaulle, was officially voted in. In South America this presented quite a few
problems, since there are coup d'etats or military take-overs every month. But until a new constitution is voted in,
the old one is still in effect. El Salvador for example is still using the constitution of January 5, 1962, though
they had a few government revolutions since and are now governed by a junta. This just to explain where the planets
used in column 2 are taken from.
Column 3 shows whae the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is angular, in other words where it rises, culimates,
sets or is found on the lowest point. Jim Lewis Astro*Carto*Graphy map shows this very plainly. It also shows if
some other planet happens to be angular at the same time. I have marked this with a + (plus) sign in column 3.
The usual mundane explanation for the angles is that rising and culminating are more aggressive, whereas setting or
at its lowest point is considered passive - sometimes ready to be attacked.
Column 4 indicates if any of the leaders of these countries have planets in aspect to the great conjunction. The
leaders were the ones in charge as of September 1980. For the United STates I have marked Carter's, Reagan's & Andersoth
aspects. Where there is a junta or a committee of 3, there obviously is no one person in charge. In Bolivia there
had just been a coup and the General's birthday was unknown, also he was not as yet truly in charge. China was just
changing leadership and had not officially elected anyone. South Korea had a military takeover and noone knew General
Chufto Hwan's birthday. Vietnam's Ton Duc Thang could only be determined as 1888. Vanuatu, one of the newest
countries has a Prime Minister called Walter Lini but no representation in the United States to give any information.
Some Middle Eastern countries and especially some of the African countries don't keep any birthdata. But all told we
are only missing 16 leaders, which is not going to make a major change in the picture. (See Question Marks in column 4.)
All other empty spaces are because the country or the leader have no aspects to the great conjunction.
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“The Great Jupiter-Saturn Mutation,” AIP Special Collections, accessed September 13, 2025, http://special-collections.alexandriaibase.org/items/show/63.