Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the Astrology podcast. Joining me today is Astrologer Nick Digg and Best and we're going to be talking about a technique known as recurrence transits and doing an introductory workshop on this topic and on this otherwise not very well-known technique in the English-speaking world. So hey, Nick, welcome. Thanks for joining me. Hey Chris, thanks for having me back. It's great to be here.
Yeah, so this is a big technique. This is a technique that you have actually been talking about for a while for many years now that I've just been finally starting to come around to over the past few years and I finally feel confident about the technique and ready to talk about and give a workshop on it and I'm excited to do this with you. So let's start by defining the technique really quickly at the beginning just to give people an idea of what we're going to be talking about.
So a recurrence transit, the premise of a recurrence transit is that when there's an aspect between two planets in a person's birth chart that at some point in the future when that aspect repeats in the sky between two those same two planets that an important event or moment will happen in that person's life. So for example, let's say if a person was born with a Venus Jupiter conjunction in their birth chart, then at some point in the future when Venus and Jupiter align in a conjunction in the sky that will coincide with an important moment or an important turning point in that person's life and this can apply to other aspects as well so that there's this repeat or replication or recurrence of a natal planetary alignment in a mundane aspect in the sky.
Is that a good definition of it? Yeah, that's pretty good. It's yeah, if you have a given aspect in your chart and on any given day that same aspect is repeated by the same two planets, even if those two bodies aren't making any kind of a diacol or spectral type of contact to the natal chart, just that repetition of having the same two bodies in the same configuration in your birth chart and on a given day, that is still a transit of sorts. It's not something that's true. It's not something you read about much in astrology texts or what have you not in the English world, but they are trans. It's just as much as the ones that we do learn and study and use the ones that do, you know, with Saturn makes a trying to your son and that kind of thing.
We understand transits at that level. These are no less or more important, but they're just it's really a matter of the geometry between these two bodies being repeated, being echoed or mirrored on a given day. Right. So it's like there's a transiting aspect that mirrors an aspect that was found in a given nativity or the way I was formulating it last night was if a person is born under a specific celestial alignment that important moments in their life will happen when the same celestial alignment reoccurs in the sky.
And that kind of covers like a very broad category of this technique and some of the like subsets of it, I think that we've been working on over the past few years. And one of the things you said that's important about this is this is really different than how we're used to thinking about transits and how transits are usually defined because strictly speaking usually a transit is when a planet in the sky makes an aspect to a planet or a point in the birth chart. But in this instance, we're talking about an alignment in the birth chart being repeated in the sky.
So that's quite different than how like contemporary transit theory is usually conceptualized at least in the English speaking world. Yeah, yeah, it's certainly it's something that I've never come across in any text whatsoever. Well, until earlier today when you shared a German one with me that I didn't know existed until you shared it. But yeah, it's not something anyone reads about. The only reason I learned about them was my teacher Michael Luton when I was taking a class with him in 1999 2000.
So one of the things that you said because you lectured on this back in you act in 2012 and you said that these transits can be extremely powerful even if they don't make a zodiacal contact to any point in a given chart. And I think that's so crucial and that's one of the disconnects and one of the issues I had for years because I've been aware of this technique through you since the mid to late 2000s. But my understanding and grounding in transit theory it's always been very strong that it's like for a transit to be relevant for something in the sky in the present to be relevant to an individual. It has to be aspecting something in their birth chart and if it's not then it's not going to be personally relevant.
But in this technique it actually shows a way in which the alignment of the planets in the sky currently if it's repeating an aspect in the birth chart can actually still be relevant in the life of the individual even if there's no natal contact. Yeah, so that's different and one of the points then is that it creates a model where there's like a resonance between the alignment in the birth chart and the alignment of the planets at some point in the future when that same alignment repeats in the sky.
And I've been thinking about this and one of the analogies that came up with recently was that it's kind of like music that's playing at the moment of a person's birth and then it's what happens when that same music starts playing again at some critical point in their life in the in the future when the same two planets align. And I kind of thought about how like you know in the HBO series Game of Thrones they actually had a professional composer like design a song that was specific to each character and each character had like a rousing emotional song that over the course of the series when it would start playing when that character was doing like really important moments when like Daenerys would do something or when John Snow would do something and this technique in applying to charts it reminds me of that because it's almost like a person is born with a certain alignment.
And then that alignment happens at some point later in the life in the future and then like your theme song that theme song starts playing again all of a sudden you start doing important stuff around that time. That's one of the ways that I've conceptualized it. How do you conceptualize it? Yeah no that's a good one. I never watched Game of Thrones but I you know I remember Darth Vader had his own theme you know whenever he comes on screen in any of the Star Wars movies there's a very specific theme music that comes on that lets you know he's you're about to have a Darth Vader scene even if you don't see him yet.
Yeah no that's a good way of putting it. I think they're almost like harmonies to the melody the like the the the natal chart is the the original melody and then these recurrence transits are like harmonies the same rhythm pattern the same you know but but maybe in a different key i.e. maybe in a different sign and you know so that that also accounts that that analogy accounts for what is the same but also what is different about a recurrence transit relative to the natal aspect.
Right because you bring up an important point that for example we're talking about conjunctions or recurrence of conjunctions it doesn't have to be in like the same sign it may be more powerful if it if it happens to be in the same sign but a recurrence transit is just a realignment or recurrence of the aspect between the two planets wherever they are in the zodiac or wherever they are in the sky.
Yeah and they're just I mean again going to a musical analogy there is a theme in the life not necessarily a musical theme but a combination of two planets an aspect in a person's chart that it means something you know it's it's it represents certain experiences or certain innate traits or or what have you and whenever a recurrence transit happens it's sort of it it's it's a recurrence of that theme so that's another way that that musical analogy works because it is sort of like oh here's that melody again um the context might be different it might be in a different key or or what have you but it's it's that melody unmistakable it's it's that person's moment.
Yeah because like right now for example there's a mercury Mars conjunction in the sky and mercury has just stationed retrograde we're recording this on what Sunday in November 9th 2025 and we started what 10 minutes ago sort of like 1143 am with Capricorn rising and I've noticed in the in the news in the past few weeks that people that were born with mercury Mars conjunctions in their birth chart are suddenly becoming prominent and like popping up in the news like for example one of them who's born with mercury Mars conjunction which was Charlie Kirk and that aspect occurred after his assassination when he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom like the following month basically very close to to the mercury Mars conjunction in Scorpio which repeated his natal mercury Mars conjunction in Scorpio or alternatively just a few days ago Zorhan Mandani was became the mayor of New York he won the the New York mayor race and he was born with a mercury Mars conjunction in Scorpio as well and a completely different year from Charlie Kirk and yet both of them become prominent around this time when mercury and Mars are forming this close conjunction in the sky that's getting elongated because mercury is slowing down and stationing retrograde at the same time so that's kind of an example of what we mean when we say that you know important moments can start happening when people have that that in their birth chart right right yeah perfect examples perfect recent examples yeah um okay so that's the initial introduction um so I do want to talk about the history and we have a little piece on that so sorry for delaying that until later but I just wanted to make sure we did it my apologies that's okay my apology for cutting you off.
So in the English speaking world this is at the present time this is not a very common or well-known technique and that's kind of why our purpose here today is to introduce the technique and give a workshop on it so I learned the technique first from you as I said around when we became friends around you know 2004 2005 in the mid 2000s and you learned it from an astrologer named Michael Luton in the late 1990s and you've given lectures on the topic and our friend Patrick Watson learned the technique from you and he's also talked about it a lot over the years although you're really the primary proponent of it that I know at least that I'm familiar with in the English speaking world and for some reason it's not well known as a technique and so we were trying to research this week and trying to figure out like where did Michael Luton learn it from and sort of research those threads but maybe first let's hear what's the story of how you learned the technique from Michael.
Yeah um I took a course with Michael Luton in astrology class from January of 99 until the spring or early summer of 2000 when I left New York for good and um during you know it was a wonderful class I learned so much um not just astrology but about how to be an astrologer in so many different ways um but I would I would often sort of pastor him for astrological nuggets I was a very hungry student you know I wanted to know more and Michael started talking about recurrence transits and then I would go often and research things and then come back to the next class and rattle off whatever research I had done over the course of the week and that that conversation would keep going um and indeed I mean he really was the only person I the the only astrologer I studied with many different astrologers during that period he was the only one I I met who knew anything about this technique and I had never read it about it in any books.
In discussing it with astrologers the only time I ever discussed it with astrologers who seemed to know what I was talking about before I had to explain it to them um where some French speaking astrologers I knew in Montreal which is interesting because Michael Luton spoke French and lived in Paris for a stretch of his life so you and I surmised because um because Michael spoke French and had lived in Paris and because the only astrologers I ever met who knew about this technique were also French speaking we're like oh well maybe this is something that's more common in the French speaking astrological world or in the European astrological world or what have you and it's just something that has literally hasn't you know been translated I suppose.
Right yeah I um I always just I assumed Michael got it for some reason I I was under the assumption he got it from like Uranian astrologers or cosmobiology or something like that because it sounds almost typically like something a Uranian or cosmobiology astrologer would use but a few nights ago I asked um my Uranian astrology friends got silverman about it and he happened to be talking to Gary Christian over zoom at the time that I emailed him who's one of the main Uranian astrologers in the US and Gary said no it's it's not a Uranian or cosmobiology technique as far as I'm aware.
So one of the things I did remember though is that on astro.com they have for many years they've had something in their personal daily horoscope where it lets you know when the natal moon aspect that the moon has to the sun in your birth chart recurs in your personal daily transits each month which happens once a month the natal moon phase is is is occurred so I emailed aloe strendle the founder of astro deans to ask him about this and he said that he had incorporated that from like an earlier Czech medical astrologer who did it in the context of some discussions about fertility and astrological fertility but he also said that he had heard of this technique since like the late 1970s or early 80s in the German speaking world.
And aloeists specifically pointed out a passage in the 1929 book Cursister astrology from an astrologer named Herbert Frieher von Klocker volume three of his work page 123 and he sent me the passage and it does seem to be talking about this technique of what we're calling recurrence transits he called it a zodiacal or a what is a constellation recurrence or something like that I wrote it down elsewhere but it does seem like you said constellation recurrence constellation that's what it was that's that's what you told me you read.
芦荟学者特别指出了一段文字,来自1929年由占星家Herbert Frieher von Klocker撰写的《Cursister Astrology》一书中的第三卷第123页。他把这段文字发给了我,它确实似乎在讨论一种我们称为"回归过境"的技术。他称之为"黄道带回归"或"星座回归"之类的。我把它记在别处,但确实像你说的那样是"星座回归",对,就是你告诉我你读到的。
Yeah yeah okay so so that means the technique did exist at least in the German speaking astrological community from 1929 forward and that his book was influential somewhat influential so it would have been known for others so it may just be one of those things that exists in German or in European astrological circles that didn't really make it into English at least as far as the text that you and I have studied for the most part when we were when I was coming up at least in terms of transits we did know you know you and I interacted with another astrologer named Robert Blaschky years ago on the Myspace astrology forums.
He said that he had like a somewhat similar technique similar to his work on holographic transits but I just called Jen Zart who recently republished his works today and the way that she explained it to me it didn't really sound exactly like recurrence transits because there was a lot of other stuff going on involving the sun and the synotics like with the sun and other things like that like Sabian symbols so I'm not sure that it was really recurrence transits as we're focusing on it here that he was necessarily a proponent of.
So the technique is kind of similar it does remind me of a technique in Ptolemy it's somewhat like reminiscent of it that he calls proper face from the second century and the premise of this is he he talks about in the context of a discussion about dignity of the planets and he. says that a planet is stronger or or sort of like dignified when it repeats the aspect with one of the luminaries that that planet had in the Thee Mammundi so for example like a sex tile with the sun for Venus or with Venus in the moon or a square between Mars and the Sun or a square between Mars and the moon from the same side it has to be the same phase relationship as well so that's something that's not an exact parallel but because we're applying this more to like transits rather than a natal aspect to the like mythical birth chart for the creation of the world but there is like an almost like similarity there going back to that second century text in some ways.
Yeah I would say that's adjacent anyway as a concept to what we're talking about um my feeling about the minute from what I understand a Robert Blaschke's work yeah it's sort of like a recurrence transit with a lot of other sort of ideas mixed in my sort of view of recurrence transits is more in line with the kind of neo-babolonian thing I do you know very simple just like the you know two planets coming together same two bodies and the same configuration and they can be anywhere it's very it's a visual you know like a lot of astrology used to be anyway it's a it's a visual key to you know a pattern that's found in the natal chart and I really do think of them in the same way that that you know with with the the synodic cycles that you and I have talked about in other episodes um these are very sort of basic astronomical manifestations of astrology like much simpler than than Horus anything in Horus' topic astrology and even though you know I learned about recurrence transits from Michael just like I learned about synodic cycles really first from Robert Schmidt I'd say studying Hellenistic astrology.
I think even if they hadn't told me about them because of the kind of work that I've done over 20 30 years where I've just been making these chart files and looking at a lot of transits of different people's lives and really studying them closely I can easily imagine anyone sort of rediscovering them for themselves like you if you just go out and study astrology for a good long time especially like transits and lifetimes and that the kind of thing I've been doing yeah someone wouldn't necessarily have to tell you I think if you you worked out it long enough you would just discover it yourself you know um and and my suspicion is that these are actually quite old and and well-worn astrological techniques that just don't happen to have made it into the 20th century English astrological lexicon which we can think of as being this really big thing but but you know it's yet another branch on this very big tree.
Yeah totally yeah I mean to the extent that the technique works it's possible that it's been rediscovered independently at different times in the long history of astrology but it's hard to say and and ultimately more historical research is needed to trace the origins and and who's been using it at different times because we're just barely scratching the surface here but I hope that gives people some leads and if people know more information about who's used it in the past contemporary or further back let us know in the YouTube comments and that'll help contribute to that research.
Hey so quick addendum as I'm editing this episode in post but I was rereading through the 2nd century astrologer Vadeus Valens the other day and his work the Envology uh because I had this suspicion like I'd seen this technique before somewhere and it was driving me crazy trying to find it and I stumbled across this passage in Valens in book 5 chapter 7 where I'm pretty sure he actually refers to the concept of recurrence transits in this passage using different language.
So here's the passage so Valens says forecasts will be quite definite with respect to actions and critical points when the same stars come into the same configuration that they had at the nativity as the divine creditemus reminds us we append his system to the following chart and the accompanying directions and then he puts this table it's like this simple table that you're supposed to use for the technique and then he says the preceding table is the table of the stars mutual return to the same intervals and configurations then he gives this chart example to demonstrate the technique and it's actually using the birth chart of the emperor Nero and a specific event in his life.
So after the chart example he summarizes this entire section by saying the chronocraters or the time lords found by using these intervals will be incontrovertibly active and operative when their rulers at the nativity have the same intervals in their transits. at the timing question as they had at the nativity so when the rulers at the nativity have the same intervals in their transits at the timing question as they had at the nativity and this is from Mark Riley's translation of Vides' Valens book 5 chapter 7 sentences 17 through 36 so this passage is there's a few things it's within the context of discussion about valens's advanced method of perfections and a particularly complicated approach to perfections that he got from the work of creditemus.
I think it's especially interesting that he cites creditemus at this point because it means that he's drawing on an earlier astrologer for this concept and technique so it's not something that valens invented himself. so creditemus probably lived around the first century BCE and valens may have been drawing on a commentary that was written on creditemus's work sometime around the late first century CE or at least that's the speculation of some of the editors of valens's texts like David Pingri who believed that creditemus wrote earlier and then that valens was drawing on some commentary on creditemus that was written around the late first century and that's why it was able to use Nero's chart and to use a specific date in Nero's chart.
Anyway to make a long story short what I get from this is it means that the concept of recurrence transits did exist in the earlier Hellenistic tradition and at least we have this passing reference to it and there may be other references to the concept at other points in the tradition as well. So it's worth researching a lot further Nick and I had said that we only skimmed the surface and we were just giving people some ideas of like where we got the technique from or what we were aware of up to that point but I suspect that the technique may have showed up at different points in history like we said either through tradition or simply through being rediscovered at different points independently.
So I hope this passage though at least gives you some idea that there's a little bit more traditional grounding in this technique and ancient astrology than it might seem like at first. So briefly because we mentioned Michael I just want to mention briefly a little bit about him because Michael Luton was a fixture of the New York City astrological community for many years and he was perhaps like most famous because he was the in-house astrologer for Vanity Fair magazine for about 25 years which made him very prominent with some of the articles he wrote including his famous article about like Pluto and Capricorn that he wrote ahead of the the ingress of that that transit and then ended up being very accurate in terms of some its predictions.
He would also through Vanity Fair like end up at like the Oscar parties and stuff like that and like sort of hop-knobbing with famous celebrities and stuff for many years and he was also known to put on these elaborate plays at astrological conferences ended a number of those over the years but I wanted to mention him because as I was preparing this was rushing to finish this last night and try to trace the origins of the technique I realized he actually passed away a year ago tomorrow so pretty much to the day on November 10th 2024 and he was born at the time of a Mercury Mars conjunction and there's a Mercury Mars conjunction that's happening in the sky right now.
So there's actually recurrence transit as we're you know the relates to him as we're talking about recurrence transit and we just happened to accidentally be doing this on the anniversary of his passing away so I wanted to give him a shout out and give him thanks for that and and respect for that especially because like I'd always wanted to interview him over the years but then we tried to sit up towards the end of his life but it didn't end up happening and then he got ill and he passed away. So I'm glad that we could like accidentally do something like remember him like a year after his passing yeah yeah it's I mean it's a pity too because he was such a fascinating guy with this always with a million stories to tell and very funny as anyone who ever you know encountered him in person and live on stage he was he was as talented as any stand-up comedian.
But I can tell you just being in his weekly astrology class in his little office library um he was you know top shelf funny all the time and interesting and despite being this you know pop astrologer who wrote the Sun sign column for Vanity Fair a really knowledgeable sophisticated astrologer um and uh I used to I used to read his Vanity Fair column in the magazine store a block away from his office before going to class and I'd always wonder like is he spying on me is he talking to my friends about me how does he know what's going on it was really spooky and then I'd go sit in that classroom um and and you know wonder these things and of course he didn't know anything he was just you know being an astrologer but he was that good at it and um yeah you know all these stories the Oscar parties because Vanity Fair hosted the the biggest Oscar party and so as a staff member you got a free ticket he was there every year for years um so yeah very you know the astrologers life we all would would love to have and um you know it is a pity you didn't have him on the show because he would have been a real um fantastic guest but um yeah remembering him a year after his passing is this is very fitting I want to thank him too um you know everything he gave me as a teacher is really stayed with me yeah definitely um
and there's a great interview I did find this morning I was watching over breakfast where the Kepler College YouTube channel did an interview with him a few years ago I think in 2022 he was interviewed by Caleb Wilkinson and it's a it's a great interview so I'd recommend people search for that and check it out if they'd like more about his life story and like a sense of humor and his some of his techniques and views on astrology it's really it's the interview I would have wanted to do if I if we had worked it out but it didn't didn't end up happening um okay I think that's good um so I want to move on now to really briefly before we jump into the examples um my relationship with the technique which is like I said I've known about the technique for years to like you in Patrick but I never did that much with it and I was honestly like kind of skeptical because it's so foreign from the way we usually work with transits and the way that it's it's like an axiom that like a transit to be important it has to aspect a natal planet in the chart uh was so ingrained in me from my early transit studies of like you know Rob Hans work planets and transit and like following my personal daily horoscope on astro.com every day for many many years and so it sounds weird I think and for many listeners today it may sound weird compared to how you know contemporary transit doctrine works but over the past year or two I've really started to come around and especially as you and I have been doing some of our research our historical research about different mundane planetary recurrences like first with our series on eclipses and history that coincided with major turning points that we did a couple of years ago at the end of 2023 that was like a major game changer at first I think that was at the end of three right?
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今天早上,我在吃早餐时观看了Kepler College YouTube频道的一个采访,这是几年前的视频,可能是在2022年,由Caleb Wilkinson采访了一位被访者。这是一个很棒的采访,我建议大家去搜索并观看,如果他们想了解更多关于他的生活故事、幽默感以及他在占星学上使用的某些技术和观点。这是我本来希望进行的采访,但没能实现。
接下来,我想简要谈谈我与这个技术的关系。就像你和Patrick一样,我已经知道这个技术很多年了,但一直没有深入运用。起初我持怀疑态度,因为这与我们平时处理行星过渡(transits)的方法完全不同。传统上,我们认为重要的过渡必须与本命盘中的行星产生相位。这一观念深深植根于我早期行星过渡研究中,比如参考Rob Hand的著作《Planets in Transit》以及多年来每天在astro.com查看我的个人每日星座运势。所以听起来可能有些奇怪,对于很多今天的听众来说,这种方法可能也不同寻常。但在过去一两年间,尤其是我们进行了一些历史研究及对不同时期行星运动的研究后,我开始改变看法。尤其是在我们关于日食与历史重大转折点系列研究之后,这个研究在2023年年尾发展成为一个重大的突破。
I believe so um yeah ironically this is a timeline I haven't absorbed as well as others but I believe that's right that's like a that's like a Greek mythological figure like of the astrologer who who can memorize everyone's timeline but but his own yeah yeah I am a walking Greek tragedy absolutely absolutely me too um all right so we started doing that work with eclipses and that kind of came up because one of the principles that we really that I got out of that research that became very clear was that if a person was born on an eclipse then future eclipses in their timeline are going to coincide with some of the most important events in their life and that it really stands out that eclipses stand out as even more important for people that were born on eclipses and that's basically the same principle of a recurrence transit because you know if a person was born on a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse then any future time that there's a solar lunar eclipse that's going to be a recurrence transit for that person and the principle is that it's more important for them personally because they were born on one so it's like we did we did that work um two years ago and then um you and I also did the um Saturn Neptune episode earlier this year on Saturn Neptune conjunctions and that also like necessarily led to some similar things of seeing like especially in the long timeline of like countries that there were certain countries that were probably like born under Saturn Neptune conjunction or had an important foundation date and then recurrence of Saturn Neptune conjunctions would mark really important turning points.
Like for example in the history of Russia that was a really major one but also other countries and then finally also some of our work on the Venus retrograde cycle over the course of the past three years um but especially this most recent one earlier this year the Venus retrograde in areas where we could see that especially people that were born under Venus retrograde in areas when that would repeat again in the future like some very defining like turning points in their life would tend to occur and that's also sort of like similar thinking to like the recurrence transit idea I think right?
Yeah yeah they do all um the rologues into each other in the sense that it really is about the visual astrology on its own like as if you're looking it in the sky you're not necessarily at the point where you're projecting it onto you know the zodiac or anything like that it's just the sort of the raw combination of two planets I mean when you think about it like synotic cycles and recurrence transits are you know they're astrological phenomena that could be used in any style of astrology you know it's what like I've discussed I've given talks on synotic cycles to Vedic astrologers in India because hey you know it it it it moves it travels you don't you know it it transcends the the system and there's something about it in its own right that has um yeah an astrological message even before you get to the horoscopic level and these might have been the kind of things that astrologers were doing as horoscopic astrology was being developed however that was done this is these are the kinds of things that they would have had to have known you know they they probably knew recurrence transits and synotic cycles before they they were really you know drawing up the whole horoscopic system.
It's thanks to reason this is all inference but it seems very very likely to me that that you know it would come about in that kind of way yeah because that was the other research that led me this way slowly over the past couple of years as well was on the Babylonian planetary long term planetary periods called goal year periods and that's an episode I'm still working on with Patrick on putting together an episode on those um but but you're right that this technique can be zodiac independent like a piece of it is really independent of what zodiac you use whether it's like tropical or sidereal which is one of the interesting things about it.
Yeah yeah so the other clencher though that made me like stand up and start paying more attention finally was last year in the run up to the 2024 US presidential election when we were having some like private discussions as astrologers about like the outcome of the presidential election and the different arguments in favor for the two candidates for like Trump and Harris and who would win based on their birth chart um you had long predicted that you thought Trump would win for different reasons especially um the prominence of Uranus in Gemini and his chart conjunct his son the ruler of his ascendant and and other things like that and then Uranus moving back into Gemini as it did in July of this year for the next seven or eight years.
But one of your other arguments that you made strongly last year um that I remember standing out because I was kind of like nervous about whether that was really a strong enough argument was you said um that Trump has a natal Venus Saturn conjunction and cancer in the 12th house and you notice that on an auguration day on January 20th 2025 that Venus and Saturn would again be conjoined in the sky and Pisces and to you with your long background with occurrence transits that was actually a strong argument that something very important would be happening for him on that day that he'd be having an important turning point moment which by extension meant if he was having that then then it may mean that he won the presidential election and I remember being like thinking you're almost like putting too much emphasis on that aspect.
But then you know sure enough like that that happened and you know that's where we're at I think. I think how I put it was I said it looks like his day you like I literally I put it like that and when you think I mean you know no matter what you you know where where you stand on the person it certainly was his day you know what I mean like like the there is a sort of a bear accuracy to that statement it wasn't merely that he had won but and you know it was his day and and that was the thing the Venus Saturn conjunction and Pisces the thing about presidential inaugurations they happen every four years so Venus is only ever in one of two places on presidential inaugurations and that one in Pisces that was conjunct Saturn.
If you go back to 2008 when Obama's first inauguration Venus was at that same position in Pisces conjunct Uranus and there was also just that symbolic contrast between Obama no weight being inaugurated under Venus Uranus and Trump in 25 being. inaugurated under Venus Saturn but yeah it was very much like the you know the inauguration is the final word you know winning an election obviously is the is the deciding thing but the the inauguration is the the final word that you know it's done he is now president as of this moment and so seeing that recurrence there on tia there were other supporting things like Uranus and Gemini but that really was the thing that just sort of pointed not only did I think he's going to be president but look at that inauguration it's his day you know it's not just that he's being inaugurated like he's he's won something a little more than an election and you know I think any armchairs armchair psychologists would agree with that.
You know sure yeah and it's like and it's not it's like there are other techniques as well like one of the things was going back years you know one of the things that tripped me up way back in 2016 is we could always see that InzaDyke releasing which is like my one of my primary predictive techniques that he would be going into a level one peak period shortly after inauguration day in 2025 and so that was one of the things back in 2020 2016 that didn't make sense to us because we're like how's he going to win 2016 if his peak period is still in the future so we thought his greatest sort of days were still yet to come and then he wins 20 there was no scenario back in 2016 where we could have imagined that he like wins 2016 he loses 2020 and they makes this comeback in 2024 so it's like there were other but but ultimately the Zodiac releasing was cracked.
It's like we should you know that was cracked but so it's not like there weren't there many other arguments in favor of him winning at that time but it was just it was one of those things that caught my eye that you were right about in terms of that recurrence and then as we got further into seeing other recurrences and I started like being more open to paying attention to that I started seeing it everywhere this year and as a result of that I've been working on other charts especially in like the houses series there are a bunch of charts that came up like for example with Chaz Bono that was a really good example I mentioned in the Fifth House episodes and you know what it where it's led me is is you know I think a good way to adopt a technique which I've been sort of like reluctantly dragged into accepting that this is really a technique that's working and it's working in very interesting ways and doing something different approaching things from a different perspective than I'm used to.
But I can no longer I've gotten the point of the past year I can no longer sort of like ignore what it's doing and it was time to take it seriously and start researching extensively so that is what I have done and we're going to go through a bunch of example charts today and in the remainder of this this workshop and the bulk of this workshop basically once we finish this introduction yes this lengthy introduction but it needed to be fantastic I'm so glad you you know you've come around this is a a long time coming this episode we've got some really dynamite examples so yeah let's let's jump in yeah once again you were light years ahead of the game having lecture on this like I said in like you act 2012 going way back we'll we'll mention some of your examples from your you act lecture back then.
I do want to mention the plan for today so because this is I think it'd be many people's first introduction to the technique this is my first time really outlining it in detail on the podcast even though we've had references to it for years and I've explained it at different points in passing I want to make a compelling case for it today and one of the ways I want to do that is by simplifying things so that today we're only going to focus on conjunctions and recurrence transits involving conjunctions for the most part where a person's born on a conjunction between two planets and then we'll show how an important event in their life happened when the same two planets were conjunct or forming a conjunction in the sky because I think that that simplifies the technique and we'll make it more straightforward and easy to understand as an introduction to it as well as hopefully more compelling to actually you know show people that this might actually be a thing and to like make the case for it.
So in that way we are going to be limiting the technique somewhat because as you shown in your lecture the technique applies to any aspect especially if it's like a close aspect between two planets in a person's chart in their birth chart when that aspect repeats in the sky even if it's like a trine or an opposition or what have you that's when an important event will happen in that person's life but for our purposes we're going to restrict it to conjunctions just for the sake of clarity and compellingness and then maybe we can do like follow-ups in the future to go into more detail sounds good okay cool but yeah you do work normally with like all of the aspects oh yeah absolutely like any yeah you know if you have Venus sextile Saturn and there's a Venus sextile Saturn transit in the sky and even if it's not making any other aspect to your natal chart that's a recurrence transit it can be any aspect absolutely.
Okay awesome all right so and then we'll continue like inserting some more things about like the theory of the technique and other things along the way but let's finish up this introduction let's get into example charts and begin looking at how the technique works in practice all right all right so my very first example is one I've really been thinking about over the past year ever since doing the year ahead forecast episode for 2025 which we released last December because one of the things we had to focus on was Uranus moving into Gemini and that becoming being the Uranus return finally of the United States which is another technique you've been talking about for years where you've been way ahead of the curve.
But one of the things that made me nervous about Uranus going into Gemini this time as I realized at one point in preparing that forecast it would also be a return back to where Uranus was during World War II when the US first developed the atomic bomb and the only time that the atomic bomb has been actually deployed and used in warfare when they used it to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki and realizing that the return of Uranus back to that could potentially I predicted last December could bring back issues not just with nuclear power since that marked the beginning of the nuclear age an important turning point with nuclear power but also potentially a return to and a recurrence in some ways of some of those things with nuclear weapons as well and that's already started to play out of the past few months where Trump just announced in the past few weeks on a mercury or in a supposition that the US is going to begin testing nuclear weapons again.
So one of the things that that made me realize though as I was thinking about that is that in the birth chart of the United States for let's say the Sibli chart or just the chart for July 4th 1776 for the Declaration of Independence that summer as the Declaration of Independence was being put together and was signed no matter what chart you use that summer whether it's the Sibli chart or some other chart for around that time there was a Mars Uranus conjunction that moved into alignment at the time of the Declaration of Independence and the birth chart for the United States that most astrologers use so that there was this needle signature for Mars conjunct Uranus sort of baked into the birth chart of the United States and Mars has always traditionally represented like war and weapons and explosions and even death and Uranus has represented technology technological advancements sudden things and when you put Mars and Uranus together it can be a sudden accident or like a sudden violent event or something like that.
And what happened so that that was a needle signature built into the birth chart of the US which is Mars conjunct Uranus and then in August of 1945 when the US developed and used the atomic bomb in war for the first time to bomb Hiroshima Mars was again closely conjunct Uranus in the sky and I think actually at the moment of that bombing Uranus was like right on the mid-heaven or close to it so to me I was thinking about this as a recurrence transit example because it's one of the most stunning if you just think of the entirety of human history and you realize that the country that developed the atomic bomb first had a Mars Uranus conjunction and then the first and only time that they've used it in war and the first time it was used in the entirety of human history in war happened on a Mars Uranus conjunction that's like a stunning example of a recurrence transit in a country chart to me.
Yeah it absolutely is and yeah you know when you really look into US history you see that pop up quite a bit that Mars Uranus and particularly obviously Uranus and Gemini has an existing relationship on its own in US history but whenever Mars does join it in Gemini yeah the things are volatile and the nuclear bomb you know bombings of the Japanese cities just being the most extreme of really a chain of events over the centuries that have occurred in US history involving war and that combination right.
So here's the chart so this is let's say this is the civilly chart for the US which has Sagittarius rising honestly you know the birth even I use the civilly chart oftentimes that the house placements don't even matter but just look at where Mars and Uranus are where Mars is at 21 degrees of Gemini and Uranus is at 8 degrees of Gemini so they're forming certainly like a sign based conjunction it's a little wide as a degree based conjunction but it's still actually a conjunction between those two planets.
And so now look at the chart for the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima which is August 6 1945 we see this is actually a time chart it was 8 15 a.m. with the Virgo rising and at that time in the sky the mid-heaven was at the degree of the mid-heaven was at 16 degrees of Gemini conjunct Uranus at 16 Gemini and Mars was at 9 degrees of Gemini so it's just this perfect recurrence of that natal aspect between Mars and Uranus at the time of this bombing.
And if you just think of the long scope of human history I can't think of anything more compelling in terms of just like a singular moment or time and a turning point in human history where suddenly the development of this weapon was the point at which humanity could destroy itself and like there was a country that developed it first and deployed it and it happened to coincide with this alignment.
Yeah um just a little FYI that that occurs to me is when Mars and Uranus were in Gemini in August of 1945 and and the bombs were dropped on those cities the interesting thing about that Mars and Gemini is that in the the last months of 1943 you know less than two years earlier the last Mars retrograde had been Mars in Gemini and so this is Mars coming back into the sign where it had most recently been retrograde and it's joining Uranus in that sign.
I think that's you know that that's another sort of um um factor in that in in that you know this really unique phenomenon this you know in human history at least so far and hopefully forever um but yeah it's it it absolutely resonates with with the the you know with with the country's creation when it was also under war right yeah so and that's August 6 1945 and then a few days later the bombing atomic bombing of Nagasaki was on August 9 1945 and here the Mars Uranus conjunction has grown even closer where Mars is at 11 Gemini and Uranus is at 16 Gemini.
So just imagine yeah that turning point in like world history under that conjunction and that it was something that was built into the birth chart of the US since the very beginning since like the signing of the Declaration of Independence and as you said I think that's the most stunning time in which that's come up although Mars Uranus conjunctions and Gemini have also historically been relevant to the US at other important turning points like even the start of the civil war like Mars and Uranus were joining in Gemini right yeah the the attack on Fort Sumptu occurred when Mars and it was conjoining Uranus and Gemini um and and when Mars would be in Gemini over the course of that civil war like in World War II um that they would be some of the the crazier times whenever Mars was in Gemini with Uranus during the civil war or during the Second World War these could be some of the bloodier you know more destructive periods of those wars in 1864 when Mars went retrograde in Gemini with Uranus that was when Sherman was burning down at Atlanta and you know doing his march through the south a lot of destruction as close as you could make an analogy between the civil war and the Second World War obviously nothing is like the the bombing of the Japanese cities with the atomic bomb but Sherman's march on on Atlanta and the south is about as close as you come to the idea of like this total destruction of of of a place in order to bring the enemy totally to their knees um so that yeah it's it's very you know when Mars joins Uranus that is and that tends to be what you get right.
So here's the um birth chart or not birth chart this is the event chart for um Confederate forces attacking for someter and the beginning of the civil war on April 12 1861 and we see Mars at six degrees of Gemini moving into a conjunction very soon with Uranus at three degrees of Gemini so that's just a stunning correlation again with just like the civil war beginning very closely on a Mars Uranus conjunction exactly yeah and then it'll it'll come close to ending with it with one as well you know because like I said Mars is retrograde in the last months of the civil war in Gemini um I guess by the time they get to to to April and and and Lincoln it's it has finally moved in I think to um to cancer but only just moved into cancer um you know shortly before apomattoche the murder of Lincoln so like the last most of the last six eight months of the civil war um pomattoche's notwithstanding what had Mars in Gemini because he had the retrograde and Mars always spends about six months in a sign during a retrograde so that also just sort of like when you when you think about it in that terms that that's an extending of the recurrence transit in its own way certainly extending the co-presence yeah for sure.
And um I talked about this on the last forecast episode for what was it for no November of 2025 but I made this diagram because I'll have thinking about all of this made me you know want to pay attention to then what are the ones coming up and there's going to be four Mars Uranus conjunctions coming up in Gemini over the next several years while Uranus is transiting through that sign and the first one the next one comes up on July 4th 2026 at three degrees of Gemini right on the birthday of the United States which is pretty startling that conjunction that that coincidence the next one will happen June 23rd 2028 at 11 Gemini then June 15th 2030 at 19 Gemini and June 6th 2032 at 26 Gemini so we'll be paying attention to the time period around those dates and in the probably the month or two leading up to and after them especially while Mars and Uranus are co-present in the same sign will be a really potent period for that energy and some of the the troubling potential of it all right all right so that was my first example and that's you know that's a big country one obviously we're going to focus on natal recurrence transits but I wanted to start there to give you know one.
that's going to be a test case not just for the past but the future and we'll see how that goes over the next several years one of the ones though that was really impressive to me that I found let me see where to start here to go in terms of examples one of the ones that I found in the 5th house series when I was just researching 5th house placements for that big series that it for the houses series that I just released over the past a couple of months one of the ones that I found is the birth chart of Chaz Bono who was born with Sagittarius rising and a exact or very close Venus Saturn conjunction in the 5th house of you know sex and sexuality and Venus is at 23 Aries and Saturn is at 23 Aries in a night chart and what I found fascinating about this when I was doing my research and I was researching Chaz's like history with this is that what happened is in the early 1990s Chaz was was gay and was forcibly outed by like a tabloid magazine who published basically and outed them as being gay I think it was in 1990 and it was right on a Venus Saturn conjunction that was like occurring in the sky at that time and let me find the my notes so that I can give you the actual date so it was outed in 1990 it was on February 13th 1990 the star tabloid published an article outing Chaz on a on a Venus Saturn conjunction by transit where one of them was at 20 and the other was at 21 cap so it was like a very close conjunction replicating the natal conjunction in the birth chart and then get this five years later on April 18th 1995 Chaz decided to come out deliberately in a cover story in the advocate magazine which was like a queer magazine that was really important especially in the 1990s and when Chaz deliberately made the decision to come out at that time Venus was at 25 degrees of Pisces conjunct Saturn at 20 degrees of Pisces so it was an exact another recurrence of the natal aspect of Venus Saturn happening at the same time and I thought this was one of the examples that I came across this month that again just sort of like forcibly like forced me to like you know my eyes my ears to perk up and to take that seriously because it was obviously a very important turning point in the life to important turning lives and tied into also the natal position of like Venus and Saturn being in the fifth whole sign house which is the place of sex and sexuality and can also sometimes relate to a person's like sexual orientation or sometimes when things involving sexual orientation become important to a person sometimes we can see the fifth house becoming relevant and yeah that was that was the case here.
Yeah that was a fantastic example Chaz's Venus the natal Venus was about two weeks before it went retrograde so Chaz's Venus is moving probably slower than Saturn is in that conjunction ironically and that first example when they were outed in 1990 February 13th 1990 that was Venus stationing direct with Saturn so there are Venus stations also worked into this recurrence along with the conjunction in Saturn yeah I think that's really important in his case Chaz is nat now a trans man but that was something I saw coming up over and over again myself is that when there was also when one of the planets was also stationing that tended to mark that let's say conjunction in that instance or that recurrence as being as standing out as being even more important especially in terms of the overall chronology so there's there's additional like modifying factors that can help to either filter out or to further specify like which conjunctions will be more or less important during the course of the life as well yeah yeah all right so that's a good example let's see so moving on to my next example my next example let's do one of my favorites that I've used in another lot of other contexts but it's Vincent Van Gogh.
So Vincent Van Gogh the famous Dutch painter there's several different recurrences but one of the ones I thought was the most interesting is that he was born with a natal conjunction and co-presence of Mars and Neptune and Pisces where in his birth chart he had cancer rising and Neptune at 12 degrees of Pisces and Mars at 26 degrees of Pisces and they're very close to the mid-heaven which was around 22 degrees of Pisces or so so Mars Neptune co-presence being in the same sign and conjunction functionally basically in his birth chart and what I found recently in researching his biography is that I think it was in the year 1890 right do you have the yeah yeah yeah so so in the year 1890 in the late spring van Gogh had been suffering with mental health issues and had famously 1889 sorry 1889 okay in the spring of 1889 he was suffering with mental health issues that famously had led him to self-mutilate like earlier late the previous year or early the same year.
And at the time of a Mars Neptune conjunction he checked himself into a mental health asylum to a mental asylum and like voluntarily committed himself basically and it was a Mars Neptune conjunction was closely forming at the time that he checked himself in and in the following month while Mars and Neptune were still in the same sign the sign of Gemini which is actually his 12th house which is interesting because the 12th is associated with mental health and also asylums and prisons and things like that as Mars and Neptune were still in the same sign van Gogh actually painted his most famous painting called the Starry Night and it was partially based on the view of him looking out his window at the asylum and the the sky and the stars that he could see so he painted his most famous work at a mental health asylum while the Mars Neptune conjunction was in the sky which was replicating his natal Mars Neptune conjunction in the mid heaven in the 9th whole sign house and I thought that was just an incredibly brilliant and compelling example of this idea of recurrence transits absolutely yeah yeah his chart has a lot of them but that's that's a really good one.
Yeah right so I had found others I'm trying to remember really quickly so he also has like a Venus Mars conjunction in his birth chart and his brother Theo van Gogh whose younger was born on a Mars Venus conjunction in Taurus and then you would notice that he quit his art dealer job and decided to become a painter full time on a Venus Mars conjunction in March 30th of 1876 right yeah correct as he's turning 24 yeah he quit this is like him suddenly deciding he wants to be a painter and and it was his brother Theo who had gotten him that job so they're both having that Venus Mars recurrence when when you know he takes off and does that and also this like him and his brother yeah exactly.
And then in you know and then their father dies years later during another conjunction which impacts them both obviously and it's right when the father does it dies that Vincent paints the first painting that people consider a major work of his the potato weaters which he does around that spring of 1885 as he's turning 32 and 32 was always excuse me 32 was always a synodic Venus and Mars return and and his their father died the same week he was turning 32 and he was painting the potato weaters and a lot of things were coming together under that one recurrence transit in 1885 that's incredible.
And then one final one that I found is that his brother Theo van Gogh married his wife Joe van Gogh Banger on April 17th 1889 and this was Venus retrograde conjunct Mars and Taurus so it's replicating the Venus Venus Mars conjunction of both van Gogh himself as well as Theo the brother and then this would become important this wasn't just like a random thing for van Gogh but this for the brother but this is actually personally important for van Gogh.
Because what happened is that van Gogh suffered with mental health issues towards the end of his life he painted like some of his greatest works towards the end when he was at the mental health asylum and towards the end of his life but then he ends up taking his own life at the end without ever selling like a single painting and then all of his paintings then went to his brother but his brother is so distraught and depressed at the at the death of Vincent that Theo himself dies like like two years later and then all of the paintings as well as I'm sorry I'm sure he dies less than a year later if I remember correctly.
Okay well all of the paintings are left to Theo's wife Joe and then Joe becomes the one who promotes Vincent's work and paintings and eventually sets up art shows and the largest eventually exhibition in 1905 over like 15 years later that of Vincent's works ever and eventually she's the one that's successful in promoting his work and essentially making Vincent become a household name and widely recognized as one of the most important painters in the past century.
And so this this conjunction when Theo Vincent's brother marries her of Venus conjunct Mars replicating Vincent's needle Venus Mars conjuncted on his mid-heaven was actually super super important yeah um but you know the funny thing is Theo was also born with that Venus retrograde because Vino Theo married Joe when he was turning 32 he was a few years younger than Vincent and so he turned 32 years a few years later and just as Vincent was turning through and having it turning 32 when he had that Venus Mars recurrence and their father died and he painted the potato wheaters.
Theo turned 32 as he married Joe and he had that Venus retrograde with Mars and yeah that totally signifies that she would wind up being this default you know archivist of the van Gogh legacy so yeah that's that's another great one. There is one other Venus Mars because we wouldn't hold on because we wouldn't know we wouldn't basically we wouldn't we wouldn't know about Vincent except if not for her and one one of the ways that I've I've been it was blown away by finding this as I was doing this research is because I've always used like going back like 10 years in my Hellenistic astrology course I used this as an example of derived houses because I could see that that Venus Mars conjunction was so prominent in Vincent's chart on the mid degree of the mid-heaven but it's in the ninth whole sign house.
And the ninth whole sign house is the seventh house from the third house of siblings so it's like you know Vincent is cancer rising that's him Virgo is his third whole sign house that's his brother Theo and then the seventh sign from Virgo is Pisces and that is Joe where Vincent has this important cluster of Venus Mars mid-heaven Neptune and then it's the recurrence of those Venus Mars when Joe and and Theo marry and then Mars Neptune when Vincent paints starry night as well as a bunch of other paintings around that time like lilies for example.
Yeah exactly so it's a it's also a good example like derived houses basically yeah yeah absolutely did we want to cover that one other Venus Mars in his life it's it's the one that even people who don't know nothing about art when they hear the name Vincent Van Gogh they think of one thing not about what he did as a painter but something he did to himself on a certain night after he had an argument with Paul Gogan.
Okay sure what was the example oh on December 23rd 1888 just before he wound up you know being committed and in a few months painting the the sunflowers there was a Venus Mars conjunction in Aquarius and he got a got into an argument with Paul Gogan who stormed off and then Van Gogh apparently cut off his own ear and would later offer it to a a prostitute at a brothel that that the two of them frequented.
So yeah a lot of people know about Van Gogh in the ear and even that happened on a Venus. Mars recurrence transit got it okay so it's like Venus Mars several months earlier conjunction when he cuts off his ear and then later that year it's Mars Neptune when he commits himself to the asylum and paint story night that's really exactly yeah okay so so this is great just because it's a complex example showing that it's not just like one planet recurrences but sometimes there's different alignments in a person's chart that are overlapping or happening at other times that are bringing in this other element yeah incredible all right well that is good um let's go ahead and move on to our next example.
So do you know the max plank example this is actually one that Patrick found but I wasn't sure how familiar you are with it rings a bell I it's funny I just was thumbing through a biography of max plank not long ago but hum a few bars and I'll fake it so you know this one I'm not as strong with but basically max plank was one of the founders of quantum theory and he was born on April 23rd 1858 and he had this Jupiter Uranus conjunction in his chart with Jupiter 22 Taurus and Uranus at 27 degrees of Taurus there was there was like a bunch of other stuff there as well because he had a whole Taurus stellium of like Sun Pluto Venus Mercury Jupiter Uranus as well but one of the important outer planet alignments that's pretty close in his chart is Jupiter conjunct Uranus and one of the examples that Patrick our friend Patrick Watson who's also done a lot of work with recurrence transits over the past 15 20 years now after learning it from you and the you know important influence you played on his work.
But Patrick noted that in the year 1900 there was a recurrence of a Jupiter Uranus conjunction in Sagittarius that year at different points and in that year he worked out and he developed the idea he introduced his groundbreaking hypothesis that radiant energy is emitted or absorbed in discrete quanta which basically initiated the entire quantum physics revolution and he's basically the originator of quantum theory and he first delivered his landmark paper to the German physical society with the concept of energy quanta at the time at December 14th 1900 when Jupiter was at 21 and Uranus was at 13 degrees of Sagittarius so this was basically like the birth of quantum theory and even though his work was originally met with skepticism it marked the beginning of that and then his theories got influenced and got incorporated or allowed and were incorporated in important ways by like Einstein and a number of other scientists over the course of the next decade or so.
So that it's a really good example of like a Jupiter Uranus conjunction especially in this in the way that it like contradicts classical physics where energy is believed to be continuous so it was like a major scientific advancement and discovery yeah and this is you know the the the the great thing is again Max Planck we don't know what time he's born we don't know where it fits into the house scheme but this is another example of how looking at recurrence transits this way can help you look at a chart that might be otherwise you know vague to you because you don't have a time at birth there was still astrological information that you can glean from a given person's date of birth using a simple idea like like recurrence transits so it's yeah I mean it it also sort of emphasizes that angle as well yeah absolutely um okay let's do some should we do one that goes along with that which is jobs.
or should we do two depressing ones and then jobs in order to like break it up no let's do jobs so the jobs is kind of depressing as well in in the you know spoiler already dies in the end but um yeah let's do jobs it works as a companion piece I think right I was gonna make a joke that you're like a windows guy not a mac guy but you're actually all right mac mac guy I am I am a mac guy okay but I do I do run windows on my mac guys so you know there you go I'm trader I'm platform curious okay I appreciate that I appreciate your openness um all right Steve jobs do you this is chart up this is the birth chart of Steve jobs can you see it yep I sure can all right just making sure I have a right window up so Steve jobs is born February 24th 1955 and like Max Planck Steve jobs was born under a very close Jupiter Uranus conjunction which is associated with like advancements in technology like Jupiter traditionally represents like growth and affirmation and expansion and Uranus represents technology and technological advancements and so Steve jobs is born under this Jupiter Uranus conjunction.
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或者我们该做两个令人沮丧的话题,然后再谈工作来调节一下氛围?不,我们直接谈工作吧,不过工作这一块其实也有点让人沮丧,因为已经剧透了,最后的结局是他去世了。但我们还是来谈谈他的工作,我认为这可以作为一个补充。我原本想开个玩笑说你更像是一个 Windows 用户而不是 Mac 用户,但实际上你完全是个 Mac 用户。
是的,我是个 Mac 用户,不过我在 Mac 上也跑 Windows 系统,所以算是个变节者,或者说我对不同操作系统都很好奇。我很欣赏这一点,欣赏你的开放态度。那么,关于史蒂夫·乔布斯,你看这幅图表,这就是史蒂夫·乔布斯的出生星图,你能看到吗?能,我确实能看到。
只是想确认一下我打开的是正确的窗口。史蒂夫·乔布斯出生于1955年2月24日,像马克斯·普朗克一样,他出生时太阳系中木星和天王星紧密相合,这通常被认为是与科技进步相关的相位。传统上,木星代表增长、肯定和扩展,而天王星则代表技术和科技进步,所以史蒂夫·乔布斯出生在这么一个木星和天王星相合的时间点。
This Jupiter Uranus conjunction shows up at like at least three major turning points in his life right yeah um yeah I would say there's three or four but it it really outlines the chapters of his life in this really discernible way um you could take the Jupiter Uranus conjunctions that Steve jobs had every 14 years in his lifetime and they could make up the five chapters of a book about him and and those conjunctions would be these perfect sort of new chapter headings in in that book they have that kind of feel that they just sort of they feel very organic when you're looking at a person's lifetime this way um yeah I think people will and if they don't understand what I'm saying now they'll understand as we go through the example it really it illustrates itself nicely okay well let's let's do it quickly with the highlights and then we'll get into more details.
So the first one is in the late 1960s there was a Jupiter Uranus conjunction and he had a recurrence and this is when he gets his first tech job famously working for Bill Huitt who he like cold called and got a job from um then because these conjunctions only happen like every 14 years and that's one of the things that makes them additionally impressive is like then the next time there was a Jupiter Uranus conjunction it was in Sagittarius in 1993 this is when jobs introduced the Lisa 33 sorry yeah 83 1983 1983 Jupiter Uranus in Sagittarius and jobs introduced with Apple he was the founder of Apple computers the Lisa computer which was revolutionary because it introduced the graphical user interface as well as the use of a mouse to interact with the computer to the public and these would become core concepts that would define the macintosh and really all personal computing at the same time he successfully recruited John Scully to become that head of Apple and to become the CEO but then unfortunately Scully later would end up being the one who would fire jobs not that long after that like a few years later ousting jobs from Apple.
Um and then there's one other ball skip to the next one because it ties in so well then you jump forward to 1997 and there's another Jupiter Uranus conjunction and Aquarius and this is when jobs who was ousted from Apple in like the 1980s he ended up going and founding another computer computer company called next and that company um ended up being bought by Apple in 1997 and this brought Steve Jobs back to Apple initially as an advisor but then he would eventually basically take over the company eventually again so it marks his return to Apple under the 1997 Jupiter Uranus conjunction and then finally you jump forward to the next conjunction which is happening around 2011 it was that there was a series of conjunctions in like what 2020 2011 and at this time he ends up announcing his medical leave of absence from Apple and it effectively marked the end of his career leading Apple computer which he founded because he would then die um later that year and later in 2011 so it marks the end of his career as well as the beginning and these important turning points in the middle.
Sorry that I think it froze again so pretty good yeah it did yeah yeah um yeah I was gonna I just wanted to summarize you know when you think about it he's born under the conjunction the next conjunction is he discovers computers you know really like starts working with them the next conjunction is like sort of Apple at its peak at its first peak before he leaves and is fired and then the next one is when he comes back to Apple and then the next one is when he dies like you see what I mean it really is just like the chapters of a book if if his life could be a you know five chapters in a book you would you would sort of divide them that way it's very it it it it it it goes with the scenes of his timeline I there's no I don't know putting it right but um it's just a very natural way to to break down his life into those parts.
Yeah absolutely and um you know one of the other things there's other interesting things like in the 1983 conjunction he gave this famous speech in Aspen Colorado where he um uncannily predicted the future of technology including concepts that would become the iPad the App Store and wireless networking and what's crazy about that is that speech was on the conjunction in 1983 on the conjunction in uh 2011 around that time that's when that the iPad itself is being released it was released in 2010 under the earlier conjunction so it's like he even is talking about this concept on a conjunction in 83 that's so forward looking that eventually he would release the very product that he was giving intimations about later like two conjunctions later.
Yeah um I even remember you know I covered Steve Jobs when I did that talk on recurrence transits in New Orleans in 2012 um and he had he'd been he'd only been dead about nine. ten months by that point but um my friend who I drove to New Orleans with had a brand new iPhone and um I remember we're driving through Kentucky she was a vegetarian she wanted to find a vegetarian restaurant and for the first time we could use this phone as we're driving across America to tell us where to find a vegetarian restaurant off the highway in Kentucky and gosh darn it it did it and in 2012 that seemed like some like huge you know um like jump ahead technologically today it sounds quite mundane but at the time it seemed like really amazing that we could do that um and just as and that was brand new just as he left like these things were still coming out yeah yeah exactly um yeah so that's uh another great example of like scientists and innovators which we've always associated with Jupiter Uranus conjunctions for example and you get people like max plank or or Steve Jobs but it's like then for jobs and for plank that cycle continues to be important every time those two planets come together in terms of their innovations with technology as well as their their person and science as well as their personal story that's tied in with that and how it impacts the world in general.
Well yep yep in a big big way you again it's that theme that that idea of there being a theme like whenever Jupiter Uranus was making a conjunction it's like Steve's you know theme music was playing again it was time for him to uh show us what Jupiter Uranus conjunction meant to him exactly yeah that's what I think it's like that that idea of theme music you know I came up with the idea of like zodiac releasing being the chapters of a person's life like the chapters and the paragraphs and the sentences which is how the technique always struck me but yeah there's something about this in this idea of like resonances or um music or like sound and it sort of invokes that ancient concept of the music of the spheres but there's something to it and I don't know if this is an access point but you know the fact that these are mundane aspects maybe because obviously it's a very personal and personally relevant for the person but for a lot of these also we're seeing the ways in which they impacted the world in different ways so maybe that's part of the crossover as well in terms of these being mundane aspects that are happening in the sky at the same time.
Yeah I mean obviously when it comes to Max Planck and Steve Jobs these are you know two individuals who unambiguously did things that that have changed our lives I mean the jobs in particular with regard to you and I but um yeah you know it's it's not always world changing but it's always going to be Jupiter, Uranus, whatever the combination is it's always going to be true to the planetary combination yeah and that's been something that's really really interesting is that these examples have really clued me in sometimes on or it's given me a different perspective for understanding some of those planetary combinations and what they mean in very concrete ways by looking at these recurrences in the life of people that have them and then sometimes you get a much more stark example of what that combination is all about like in these these two instances.
Yeah yeah and the the whole sort of chapters in a book feeling I mean particularly when you get these recurrence transits between slower moving planets that only like Jupiter, Uranus I think is every 14 years so things like that that's where you get the real chapter breakdown feeling from these you'll you'll see it again when we get to Michael Jackson later yeah it does it is like reminiscent of some of the time-lure techniques in the way like the slower moving ones can break up these really large parts of the life but that's what's interesting it's so variable based on the planetary cycles because some of them are very quick inner planet cycles like let's say mercury in Mars or or Sun and Saturn which is like a every year versus medium-sized ones like Venus and Mars or Mars and Jupiter or you get like longer ones like Saturn Uranus Saturn Pluto Jupiter Saturn which is every 20 years and so on and so forth.
Exactly like it with with my chart ironically being something of a pioneer or whatever in the in-pite in recurrence transits my chart is mostly a stelium I have a the biggest aspect of my chart really is a Sun Neptune square and once a year there's a Sun Neptune square and but I have looked at my life in every week when that Sun Neptune square occurs there is something in my life that that does resonate with that transit even though it's this very fast moving annual one there is something there I've learned to identify it you know kind of like getting the flu once a year or something like oh here we go again you know like that kind of reliable rhythm yeah is that do you have any other examples of recurrence transits and so on if this is a good exam time to like mention ours or if we save those for later I don't remember if you had other ones
Oh I mean you know not really I mean that's the thing about my chart I don't have many you know the Venus Mars conjunction or Moon Mars sorry Venus Jupiter conjunction or Moon Mars square but that's just it with my chart there aren't that many I really learned them looking at other people's charts I don't know if I would have learned them if I was only looking at my life because of the layout of my chart got it okay um I and I've been focused on learning the others and I only started recently applying it and seeing it to my own and then being impressed by some of the alignments
Um let me wonder I do that real quick just for the sake of making sure I include it includes some of my best examples like early on oh yeah you and I both have Venus Jupiter don't we I don't but it's been an important one and that's one of the interesting questions I have for other reasons is like it almost becomes important for me by secondary progression which is weird and but I don't know if that's really it I have some I have some open questions
All right so here's my chart and I have a few different combinations that I was looking at um but one of them maybe I should do it with an anime I haven't been using the buy wheel because because I know it's gonna slow us down if we do and I try to look up the transits but maybe I should for this example for the sake of um showing what I'm actually talking about which I haven't been doing we've been doing it with just the natal chart in order to make this quicker but March all right so one of the things actually now let's start with the natal chart and the natal chart itself I have a Mars Jupiter conjunction it's in the 12th house
12th house is not a great house it's often associated with like illness or like chronic illness especially long-term illness opposite to the sixth house which is more acute illnesses typically or injuries so that Mars Jupiter conjunction um I had a recurrence of that actually in Capricorn in March of 2020 and that was when I got sick famously with COVID uh right at the very beginning of the pandemic so March 15 2020 and because that was famously like when the lockdowns happened in the US was March of 2020 and I just kind of barely missed that and got COVID like right before the lockdown set it in place which really sucked is unfortunate timing for me
But one of the things that you can see was that was happening that week the week that I got really like seriously ill um is that Mars and Jupiter were forming a conjunction in the sky which went exact March 19th so it was really under that exact conjunction that I'm like deathly ill for like a week or not for like a month and then after that I developed um it hit my system in some sort of weird way that the doctors don't understand where it created some sort of permanent damage that people call long COVID nowadays but it's a persistent chronic illness with a chronic fatigue and memory loss and I can't exert myself very much because when I do I fall into a deep energy hole for like a week after that
And it's created all sorts of health issues for the past five years which I've slowly come to understand our permanent and potentially irreversible in my life and has limited me so that I don't I can't travel because I get sick so easily and I have gotten sick with COVID subsequent times which has made it worse over the past several years I've had to stop going to conferences and giving lectures for example where I traveled all over the world in the decade leading up to that like giving lectures and speaking at conferences
And I would be like headlining most conferences right now if I was able to but I can't and it leads back to this Mars Jupiter conjunction which was our occurrence for me in my 12th house in March of 2020 that time to getting sick on top of that I also had a Saturn Pluto co presence in Scorpio which is like a Saturn Pluto conjunction basically where Pluto is at two degrees of Scorpio and Saturn's at 17 degrees of Scorpio and that was also a occurrence that year because famously in January right when the World Health Organization was recognizing COVID as an upcoming pandemic basically Saturn and Pluto exactly conjoined at that time and we're still very in a very very close conjunction which happened to be also in my 12th house at that time so I was having multiple recurrences happening in my 12th house at that time I got really sick you can go back and watch the forecast videos for that time where I look and sound absolutely terrible yeah but it was a huge turning point in my life that happened to coincide with those two recurrences so pretty good grim well yeah pretty grim but you're still with us think God.
Yeah well that's the thing about this we've had some positive ones but these do not always coincide with good good good things you know obviously there can be there can be bad alignments as well and the insight that this gives us can give us some some helpful things for understanding and contextualizing some of the most important albeit difficult times in our life so yeah yeah I guess you were also you were 35 at this point weren't you and that's a 12th house perfection year as well just to like throw it all on even more yeah it was like it was a 12th house perfection year everything was hitting that Mars which is always my most problematic planet in the 12th house because the day chart some Mars is contrary to the sect yeah so it's a lot of stuff.
So more positively another one that I found in my own chronology that I was really impressed by just in the past few days as I was working on this is I also have a mercury Pluto co presence in the same sign which is a sign-based conjunction with mercury at 23 Scorpio and Pluto at two degrees of Scorpio and this is one of my aspects I associate with that I really like to investigate like dig down deep into things and research things really extensively like when I get focused on something I want to research it's like my you know what was it like a who was it that had that writer of like Sherlock Holmes I think had that that conjunction as well Arthur are there Conan Doyle.
Yeah so interestingly I looked back and I found when I first started studying Hellenistic astrology was in 2004 and I looked up in the I started studying Hellenistic astrology with Demetra George in a class that she was teaching at Kepler College and I was able to find with the help of my friend who I took that class with at the time Laura Machetti she was able to find the start of that term and it was December 8th 2004 and at that time mercury had recently stationed retrograde conjunct Pluto and on that day mercury was at 20 degrees of Sagittarius conjunct Pluto at 21 degrees of Sagittarius in my 11 pole sign house but also co-present with my the degree of my mid-heaven that's importing 10,000 significations into that sign.
So this is a replication of my natal mercury Pluto sign-based conjunction in a very close degree based conjunction essentially the day or the week that I started studying ancient astrology which would eventually become my my thing that would write a book about over a decade later so yeah I met you about three months after this I met you in March of 2025 online so one thing led to another yeah nice yeah.
Um so what are things it was funny about that though with it being like a mercury retrograde conjunct Pluto that I remembered and laughed about that I'd forgotten was at the beginning of that term I got a book that was like a collection of excerpts of translations of the different Hellenistic astrologers that came with the course that was put together by Robert Schmidt and then Dimitra also had an extensive write-up and commentary and like her actual teachings on the material that was also supposed to be emailed out or sent out at the same time but there was a a snafu and I didn't receive like her notes and her lessons basically so for the first like three weeks of the class like starting at this point I only focused on just the translations and like really I had to try very hard and read them very carefully and like deeply to truly understand what they were saying when I didn't have any other um help or commentary or anything else to do so.
So that um I had this early experience for the first three weeks while mercury is retrograde basically until the end of the month of trying to just read the texts on their own terms and coming to my own conclusions about them without anybody else's commentary not not you know Dimitra's and not Schmidt's or anyone else's and then at the end of the month when mercury station direct um like I was giving like answers that were not quite what Dimitra was expecting on the homework and we realized that I hadn't gotten her notes and so then she sent it to me and it was like rectified and then I caught up in everything but it was an interesting early experience in terms of that and just in terms of then like foundational experience of how then I've always approached Hellenistic astrology and trying to read the texts on their own and coming to my own conclusions about what they what they said or what they meant.
That's a brilliant story and yeah like it's funny how sometimes a seeming deficit actually helps you exercise some muscle that um becomes unique to you you know you're own um unique set of skills. Right yeah exactly and then you know then that was the purpose of my book later on is that it's actually really hard to do that to just pick up the Hellenistic texts on their own and read them and understand them especially without they commonly use like technical terms that they don't define and so it's actually kind of tough to do that um and that was the purpose of me publishing my book over a decade later in in 2017 is giving people like a primer so that they can have an overview of the Hellenistic tradition and then that would make it easier for them to read and understand the texts themselves and I always encourage people to do that and read them on their own terms and not just take what I say about them for granted.
So get this though this leads to one other weird recurrence and weird um facet of the technique that I keep seeing coming up which is look at this chart one of the other things that's happening in this chart when literally the week I'm studying at first starting Hellenistic astrology is there's a Venus Mars conjunction that's happening in Scorpio in my 10 pole sign house where Venus on this day is at 20 degrees of Scorpio and Mars is at 18 degrees of Scorpio. Look at what happens over a decade later where I spend over 10 years I started in 2007 writing a book on Hellenistic astrology and basically researching a book on Hellenistic astrology and after 10 years I finally published the book on February 10th 2017 so that Venus Mars conjunction Scorpio in my 10th house when I the day I start studying Hellenistic astrology and then look at this the day I publish my book on Hellenistic astrology February 10th 2017 there's a very close Venus Mars conjunction in areas in my third whole sign house the place of writing and communication with Venus at five degrees of areas and Mars at 10 degrees of areas.
So what I took for them this and what's a little bizarre about it is it set it up so that me starting to study Hellenistic astrology created almost like a foundation chart of its own with its own signature of like a Venus conjunct Mars in Scorpio and then that signature was repeated when the culmination of that starting to study Hellenistic astrology happened with me publishing the book on it and then Venus Mars again repeats. Yeah pretty amazing it also explains that South node but that's for another conversation like in terms of like the eclipses because there was a eclipse repetition as well but I don't know if that's what you mean. Oh sorry um in terms of you want me to repeat that? In terms of the eclipse repetition or what do you mean because there was a eclipse interesting like recurrence as well.
Yeah no I mean you have the South node with with you know all those Scorpio planets including the Mercury Pluto and in December of 2004 when you were first taking the class because you were 20 years old that South node was again in Scorpio although the the other end of the sign and the South node is very much about learning things the way you learned without that book sort of learning by process as opposed to like learning by method which is more North node but yeah I didn't want to drag you too far into this but it was just a little that really to my mind explains that that South node in the overall stellium and your chart and the fact that it was occurring at that time as well.
Yeah I mean I think that's really interesting because there were I was looking at you know because a few months before I started studying Hellenic astrology I moved to Seattle to study at Kepler and that was basically happening under this Mars Jupiter conjunction and co-presence that was happening in my 9th house so there was another recurrence there but I wasn't going to go into that but it was also there were eclipses happening at that time and it was this eclipse in late October and I ended up moving around that time and I had known about the concept of whole sign houses for a year up to that point but I rejected it I mean ironically just like with this technique I often like start out kind of like skeptical and not easily picking something up so I knew about whole sign houses from like a Rob Hand article or something from a year before this and it rejected it but then I noticed that I ended up moving like right like events constilated so I ended up moving very close to this eclipse that happened in Taurus in my fourth whole sign house and that was one of my early instances that made me like perk up and start like paying attention that whole sign houses could be a legitimate thing because otherwise it was weird for that lunation to take place that the nation to take place there around the time of my move absolutely.
And the other thing that's interesting about it when you have a birthday like that when the sun is with the south node something else that happened to you in that year is very south node is this was the year you would be invited to come live in Cumberland this is a very sort of south node you know sun kind of experience where yeah the south node is chosen or invited or offered things as opposed to the north node which has to seek out or you know be proactive in in you know achieving what it needs to achieve or getting what it wants the south node is very much like you know that that all sort of happen I met you online then we met in person with with Bill we went to dinner Bill invited you to come live in Cumberland next thing you knew you were living in Cumberland studying Hellenistic astrology right by the end of August.
So yeah that all sort of that's all very south node like where it's not so much about what you're putting into place but how things are are conspiring around you and how you go with the flow and accept opportunities right yeah so that's incredible and then just to briefly mention a few others from my chronology you know one that I mentioned this summer over the summer when there's a Venus Jupiter conjunction is like I have this weird Venus that Venus Jupiter one and it's not a signature in my birth chart so I've often been a little curious about why that shows up in in my stuff but my partner Lisa first emailed me in 2006 about something like some question and it was our first contact and it was like the day of the Venus Jupiter conjunction in Scorpio and then in my chart by secondary progression her and I ended up getting together in a relationship a few years later when Venus and Jupiter exactly joined by secondary progression in my secondary progress chart.
And then later we spent some time apart and we got back together on a Venus Jupiter conjunction in 2015 and then over the summer this summer under the Venus Jupiter conjunction in cancer in my sixth house she had just had surgery for breast cancer and I was taking care of her under that conjunction so there's this weird history behind that that's almost tied in with the first contact chart between us which is a Venus Jupiter conjunction which I find fascinating because it's not necessarily a recurrence in my chart but it's something there that sometimes just like how I started studying Hellenistic astrology on Venus Mars conjunction and then the book was published in a Venus Mars conjunction sometimes events in our life can almost set up a new foundation chart for subsequent recurrences absolutely but I do also think there's something to be said for the fact that the progress Venus was coming to Jupiter and sometimes that can also you know you've a secondary progressed aspect as an aspect that you've sort of arrived at over the course of life and then the recurrence transits can you know I'd be recurring a recurrence of a progressed aspect as opposed to a natal one you know is that what it is because I've been puzzling about that yeah I think so to me I always for me secondary progressions are transits on a different you know on an internal clock but they are transits essentially and so yeah there's there's it's that element of you you have this kind of this transit on the inside and then it manifests on the outside with a you know whenever recurrence transit happens.
I've used this example before but just to show people what we're talking about because it's just stunning because you imagine it's like this is my birth chart where I have Venus at 15 degrees of Sagittarius and Jupiter is at 8 degrees of Capricorn so it's like they're not in the same sign and this wouldn't be considered a co-presence but they are if you were to look out that day like in roughly the same region of the sky let's say so that Venus is moving towards Jupiter and it's you know little less than than 30 degrees away but then if you start animating my chart by secondary progressions like one day per year you see Venus moving through the rest of Sagittarius starting at 15 and moving through the end going into Capricorn in the mid 90s to early 2000s and then it comes up right on Jupiter and joins it and then the moon actually swoops through and joins Venus and Jupiter at the same time when like the longest and most significant relationship of my life begins so I thought that was a stunning example but then it's also been weird that these Venus Jupiter conjunctions also recur at other important times in the relationship yeah yeah but I mean to my mind that that explains it beautifully yeah secondary progressions do that they interact with the other transits with the real-time transits okay I think I treat them as being the same technique in a way you know like I don't use secondary progressions without transits okay well let's bookmark that sort of the long regression but yeah come back very interesting we'll come back to that another episode.
Okay so you know I've mentioned now in my example for example Mars Jupiter was like a tough one or Saturn Pluto conjunction was a tough one there's other examples that can be really tough so I want to mention a few of those that I came across which are like other chart examples that I've used at different points and one of the chart examples I've used in the past was rock Hudson who was a famous actor in the middle of the 20th century he was born November 17th 1925 and he was born with a Mars Saturn co-presence with Mars at two degrees of Scorpio in a sign-based conjunction with Saturn at 17 degrees of Scorpio in a night chart and rock Hudson was a famous actor but one of the things about him is that he was he was gay and he was closeted at a time when you know being a gay man could have cost him his job as an actor basically so he had to stay in the closet for the majority of his life but then what happened is on June 5th 1984 he was diagnosed with AIDS like a very early on in the AIDS epidemic and pandemic and this happened this his diagnosis happened under a very close Mars Saturn conjunction in Scorpio within three degrees with Mars retrograde applying to Saturn and he was diagnosed with AIDS and then later they announced it as publicist and him announced it and it was one of the early things that really shocked people in the United States and make people start taking the AIDS pandemic more seriously basically that this a very famous actor got sick with it and then subsequently died not that long after yeah and and I remember it at the time
he went to the White House because of course he was friends with Ronnie and Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan they came from the same Hollywood milieu and but it was you know suddenly Ronald and Nancy Reagan were sort of looking awkward and embarrassed standing next. to the old friend because he was kind of amaciated and sick and and essentially you know it was only because yeah he was the first celebrity to become to be diagnosed with AIDS and to die of it and and you know it sort of it collided with the the image that the Reagan's had been cultivating during the presidency and yeah you know Reagan didn't didn't do much for for AIDS research during his term and you know even with his friend dying so it was it was all very powerful all happening it really was you know that that moment when everyone was really starting to understand what this this new disease was all about and what it was doing
yeah yeah so one of the important things from this example I really want to emphasize because I know some people might initially it might be different than how some astrologers are used to practicing but one of the things I've really revived from from Hellenistic astrology and ancient astrologers the use of both sign-based aspects as well as degree-based aspects and both being important and relevant and this is a good example of this and partially how this technique works which is that you know Mars and Saturn and his birth chart are in a co-presence or sign-based conjunction by sign but by degree they're pretty far apart where Mars is at two degrees of Scorpio and Saturn is at 17 degrees of Scorpio but what I would say and what I think this example shows is that nonetheless when two planets are either in the same sign or when they're close in degrees it does create that signature in the birth chart and then when that conjunction happens in the future either by sign both by sign as well as by degree because here at the actual time of the event the conjunction was extremely close you know a significant event happens and actually takes place so that's something I want to emphasize here is is both the sign-based aspect as well as degree-based aspects are important and relevant when it comes to this technique
yeah absolutely um you know what's what's funny is um rock Hudson's wife I mean you know he was gay but he he had a a wife to as a beard that he married when he was 30 in 1955 she her name was Phyllis Hudson she was three weeks younger than him and she had the Mars Saturn conjunction in her chart um and when he and he married her as his progress Mars was just going past his you know progress Saturn because he was uh you know just turning 30 and he was a few weeks older than her so yeah it's like he married her she had the natal conjunction and um and and he was having that progressed conjunction not unlike you meeting Lisa so there's there's something to that as well okay and it was and it was a Mars Saturn marriage it wasn't you know it was a funny marriage um
okay yeah so um that's a heavy example but an important one um another heavy one that I found in my research is Malcolm X who was born May 19 19 25 and he had this Mars Pluto conjunction in cancer that was pretty close with Mars uh in the 7th whole sign house at six degrees of cancer conjunct Pluto at 11 degrees of cancer and um what I found is that when he was uh murdered when he was assassinated there was a Mars Pluto conjunction in the sky at that time so there was an exact recurrence of the same you know pretty difficult like Mars Pluto is a is a pretty violent signature natally um in the signature in the birth chart and then it recurs at the time when he was assassinated yeah that's a very good example um the the Mars wretched the Mars in when he was murdered was just coming out of a retrograde so it was a very slow Mars with that Pluto as well.
okay let me pull up so here's the actual date when he was murdered February 21st 1965 and we see Mars is actually retrograde at 20 this is correct right Mars at 24 degrees of Virgo and uh Pluto at 15 degrees of Virgo uh in his no sorry this is Hudson's chart on the wrong this is the right transits but it's looking at the wrong inner chart and we do sorry do that but yeah but it is true that he was shot yeah the Mars was retrograde with the plurid I thought it was a little before the station but no it was after the station yeah that's what I was wondering um okay here it is so it's like um this is Malcolm actually chart in the middle and then the Mars Pluto conjunction was happening is 9th whole sign house with Mars at 24 Virgo yeah like you said having stations retrograde recently so this is another one of those examples that we were talking about when one of the planets especially when the um faster moving planet has stationed recently either retrograded direct that makes it that makes the recurrence even more important and part of the reason for that is because it means then that it was that the conjunction in this instance was extended over like a long period of time.
so it both extends the transit but it also intensifies the transit and therefore oftentimes we'll make it stand out more in the person's chronology and you know if somebody was skeptical about the technique and skeptical about the frequency of some of the recurrences especially of inner planets are faster moving planets this is one of the filtering factors that you can use in order to try to um differentiate and create more hierarchy of which recurrences in some instances will be more important than others yeah absolutely and you know in in the case of Malcolm and his murder you know the that Mars retrograde it really was this drawn out of fair seven days before he was shot his house was blown up by a bomb you know he knew they were on his on his tail he knew his days were numbered essentially that whole period the last few months of his life were very sort of frantic but very you know the very prolific in terms of everything that was happening.
um but yeah that that Mars um um really hovered over him for those last few months and and you know right up until that last moment when he was he was murdered as he was doing a talk he was giving um um you know one of his yeah speeches and he was murdered by people in the audience right somebody came up in like shot him yeah okay all right yeah so that is another heavy example but again sometimes I guess we've seen that a couple of times now where sometimes a natal signature in the birth chart can can happen or recur again towards the end of a person's life in some instances which which can be an important bookend in it of itself.
all right we're back from break uh let's go through some more examples quickly because I want to jam a bunch more in before we wrap up uh we actually some ways to go at least an hour but on a packet as many examples as we can during that section especially of some of the really great ones that I found so the first one I'd like to show you is a cool cool part of the technique that taught me something new that I thought was really fascinating so this is the birth chart of Kurt Cobain so this is the birth chart of Kurt Cobain Kurt Cobain was born February 20th 1967 he had a venous Saturn conjunction in his chart that was very close in the seventh whole sign house with venous at 26 degrees of Pisces conjunct Saturn at 28 degrees of Pisces so Kurt Cobain was the frontman of Nirvana and in the 1990s Kurt Cobain famously got together with Courtney Love who was another musician and rock star now Courtney Love look at her chart was born on July 9th 1964 with a venous Mars conjunction so venous is retrograde at 20 degrees of Gemini conjunct Mars at 15 degrees of Gemini okay so that means you know he has a venous Saturn signature and she has a venous Mars signature.
look at what happened the day that they got married which is February 24th 1992 there was a triple conjunction of venous Mars and Saturn in the sign of Aquarius so it replicates. both his natal venous Saturn conjunction and her natal venous Mars conjunction to create this perfect triple conjunction which is like a recurrence transit for both of them involving their natal venous on the day that they're married I thought that was just absolutely astounding what do you what do you think yeah no it is it is astounding it's even slightly wilder when they they apparently first locked eyes on each other January 12th 1990 at a club called Satiracan in Portland Courtney was there with a friend Nirvana were playing a gig they they interacted briefly but when they met venous and Saturn had recently been conjunct in Capricorn then Venus had gone into Aquarius and it was retrograde and Aquarius heading back into Capricorn to make another conjunction with Saturn when the two of them met so even though they didn't meet like technically under under a recurrence it was like really like sandwiched in between a couple of venous Saturn conjunction recurrences that Kurt had at that time he had he had had a hard time during the conjunction prior to meeting Courtney the Nirvana were on tour in Europe and he kind of had a bit of a breakdown there and well and then he he met his his future wife as that recurrence was gearing up to come back.
so yeah but the the combination of their two charts and in one big happy marriage of recurrences is also yeah really really very interesting brilliant yeah so that's a principle then that that could be extrapolated elsewhere in terms of the combined recurrences for two people one of the really fascinating one that I found with respect to them is their relationship began on October 12th 1991 and here's the chart for that where there was a venous Jupiter conjunction in Virgo that was very close at that time so here's Venus at like four degrees of Virgo conjoining Jupiter at six degrees of Virgo so this is reportedly the day that they got together it's the beginning of their relationship and then or sorry their relationship began with a venous Jupiter conjunction and then get this the following year their daughter Francis Vincobain is born and she's born August 18th 1992 at 748 AM with 13 degrees of Virgo rising and Venus is conjunct Jupiter and Virgo with Venus at 13 degrees of Virgo conjunct Jupiter at 18 degrees of Virgo.
so basically they started their relationship on a Venus Jupiter conjunction Virgo and then the result of their union was the birth of their first and only daughter who was born with Virgo rising and Venus conjunct Jupiter in her own birth chart that's again just like uncanny to me and just it's astounding and what's even wild there is about seven weeks earlier in late August of 1991 Venus was retrograde in Leo conjunct Jupiter in Leo and that we can Nirvana played the Reading Festival in England then another another festival on Sunday in Belgium and Courtney and Kurt did meet up there there's a movie that Sonic Youth made called the the Year Punk Broke and you can see Courtney loved backstage at those shows telling the camera that Kurt Cobain makes her heart melt even though they were still a you know more than a month away from actually becoming a couple so there's there's already that electricity is charged between the two of them and once you know that Sunday that concert in Belgium I was there but I didn't see Courtney but I did see Nirvana open eleven in the morning nice yeah I like I like that and you're Leo rising which is funny.
基本上,他们的关系是在金星与木星相合于处女座时开始的,而他们结合的结果就是他们的第一个也是唯一的女儿的出生。这位女儿出生时上升星座是处女座,金星再次与木星相合在她自己的星盘中。对我来说,这是不可思议的,简直令人惊叹。更有趣的是,大约七周前,1991年8月底,金星在狮子座逆行并与木星相合,正是在那段时间,Nirvana乐队在英国参加了Reading音乐节,然后在星期天在比利时的另一个音乐节上演出。就在那时候,科特尼和科特见面了。Sonic Youth制作了一部电影叫做《The Year Punk Broke》,你可以看到科特尼在演出后台对着镜头说,即使他们还没有真正成为情侣,科特·柯本让她心动不已。所以他们之间已经有了一种电光火石的感觉。至于那个星期天的比利时演出,我也去了,但我没看到科特尼。不过,我看到了Nirvana在上午十一点的开场演出。是啊,我喜欢那场演出,而且你是狮子座上升,这很有趣。
yeah well that's a good point that I'm glad you made which is that I saw come up as well and it's an important point which is that oftentimes while we're focused on singular events sometimes in this instance oftentimes around these dates there's like an unfolding of a series of events during the course of the two planets passing through the same sign together especially if one of them is retrograde and if there's like an extended retrograde going on I'll actually have a really good example of that with like Edward Snowden later but that would be a good example of that then where one of your points or one of the things we can take from that is even though there was this singular date in which they officially got together which is very close to the exact conjunction in Virgo there was a build up to that when Venus was retrograde and co-present are conjoining Jupiter by sign over the lead up to that basically right?
Right exactly I guess the other thing in that is the day before I saw them they played the Reading Festival as an opening act at eleven in the morning with the Venus Retrograde and Leo Conjunct Jupiter and a year and five days later they played the Reading Festival again but this time as the headliner as like a major international rock band was exactly a year earlier they had been the opening act it really just pointed toward the sort of the meteoric rise how fast it all happened my point being they were both Venus both Venus was conjunct Jupiter in Virgo when they played Reading in 92 it wasn't long after Francis Bean was born so it also ties into there sorry I left out that part to make it relevant got it okay yeah but so to take the main takeaway from this and what I gained from this though besides the triple conjunction which is a blend of their two needle signatures was it which was incredible on the date of their marriage again we see an example where the start of their relationship itself created a foundation chart and then subsequent recurrences of the signature of the relationship chart itself end up in important turning points in the relationship in that instance the birth of their child or which you know then Harkins back to like you know Lisa emailing me on a Venus Jupiter conjunction and then that keeps recurring at important times in our relationship yeah yeah very well put
yeah all right so let's move on to I mentioned yeah I guess I already mentioned it so we don't have to like show the charts but I was impressed by the Charlie Kirk one and the the Zorhan Zorhan Mamdani one recently were just really impressive where it's like let me see if I have those charts actually they do have those charts okay so here's Charlie Kirk who famously was born in October 14th 1993 with a Mercury at 16 Scorpio Conjunct Mars at 12 Scorpio in Pluto at 14 and he famously was known for like going around college campuses and like debating politics with a college students which was fitting in terms of that conjunction but then he was killed he was assassinated in September of 2025 and then the following month I think it was on his birthday what would have been his what 30 second birthday right Trump awarded him the presidential medal of freedom which is like the highest let me pull up the chart the highest civilian honor basically that you can receive in the United States to your 14th 2025 and my point here is that look at what was happening in the sky at that time Mercury was at 11 degrees of Scorpio Conjunct Mars at 15 Scorpio in the sky so there was like this perfect repetition of his natal Mercury Mars Conjunction happening in the sky at the time that he posthumously received the highest civilian recognition that a person in the United States could possibly receive so this is an example of what I call posthumous astrology which I want to do an episode on because I find it really fascinating but that the person a person's birth chart continues to work after they die especially at an important moment in which they come up again because the birth time is it's like a signature in time that echoes through time as long as that person's memory still lives yep it sure does
yeah so that is fascinating and then by contrast recently this is the New York Meryl election yeah yeah which which just happened so this is and I've only read his name in print I haven't actually I don't watch the cable news I haven't heard it pronounced I think it's Zora on Mamdani right yeah so he was born October 18th 1991 so completely different year than Charlie Kirk two years earlier and he has Mercury at three degrees of Scorpio conjunct Mars at zero degrees of Scorpio so he also has a Mercury Mars conjunction although it's interesting because it's a night chart in his case whereas it's a it's a day chart in Charlie Kirk's case and he just won in the past week the New York mayor race and became the mayor of New York do you know what day that was like how long this is just like days ago basically it was Tuesday I believe okay what day is that uh this is Sunday because today's Sunday the fourth fourth okay so here's the fourth because Mars changed signs that that day on November 4th.
好的,这真是令人着迷,然后相比之下,最近是纽约市长选举,这场选举刚刚结束。我只是从印刷品上看到过他的名字,其实我不看有线电视新闻,所以没听过他的名字怎么念。我觉得应该是Zora on Mamdani,对吧?他出生于1991年10月18日,所以与Charlie Kirk的出生年份完全不同,比他早了两年。他的水星在天蝎座三度,与天蝎座零度的火星相合。所以他也有水星和火星的合相,不过很有趣的是,他的星盘是夜盘,而Charlie Kirk的是日盘。在过去的一周,他赢得了纽约市长选举,成为了纽约市长。你知道那是哪一天吗?这就是几天前的事情,对吧?我相信是星期二。今天是星期天,11月4日,所以应该是星期二,因为那天火星改了星座。
So November 4th 2025 Mars moves into zero degrees of Sagittarius and it's in this conjunction with Mercury at five degrees of Sagittarius and this is actually more important because Mercury several days later would slow down in station Retrograde which is what it's doing right now like as we're recording this on um November 9th here I'll put the chart for now this is now where Mercury's like stationing Retrograde right now at six Sagittarius and Mars is going to come up and can join it over the course of the next week but um it means that he also had this natal signature of Mercury Mars and then he just had this crucial turning point in terms of his life and career and becoming um you know the the mayor of one of the biggest cities in the United States under the same conjunction that basically replicates his birth chart and it's weird because it's almost replicating the same sequence in like angular distance with Mars natally at zero and Mercury at three and then here it's like Mars is at zero and Mercury's at five and then over the next few days it would it would close that distance.
Okay there we go um so November 4th here it is for those watching the video version again just um Mars changes signs and moves into Sagittarius at zero Sagittarius conjoining Mercury at five but Mercury's like slowing down to station Retrograde so it's one of those instances again where one of the planets stationing really emphasizes it and raises the significance of the conjunction which is important for Mercury conjunct Mars because Mercury conjunct Mars happens pretty frequently like once a year at least um but Mercury stationing Retrograde conjunct Mars does not happen as frequently and therefore it raises the importance of this conjunction for him and therefore this conjunction which happens you know once a year let's say this is arguably and certainly going to be one of the most important of those conjunctions of his life of coinciding with like the the week he became mayor of.
New York City yeah so I just think that's a fascinating example because it's two people from extremely different ends of the political spectrum um born two years apart but both of them with with Mercury Mars conjunctions and around the same few month time period both of them are like thrust into the spotlight and become national figures basically in the news in the in the news reporting today and I know like I don't know five or ten years from now that's not going to be as important but like right now for those of us living at this point of the time the last few months like this is a very compelling example of two people that have been plastered all over the news for months now as we've been having these successive conjunctions of Mercury and Mars these two conjunctions right next to each other due to Mercury slowing down and stationing retrograde yeah yeah all right.
So that's an example that brings me to another example of that that I want to mention of another Mercury Mars one that's more clear and relevant and that's the birth chart of Edward Snowden we have a time chart for Edward Snowden and I've always used him as an example because yes he was born with Gemini rising and Mercury at 10 degrees of Gemini conjunct Mars at 24 degrees of Gemini so they're conjunct by sign and Mercury's like applying to that that conjunction with Mars and he was famous because in what was like 2013 2014 he was like a tech guy who worked for the US government and then he famously disclosed that the US government was spying on network communications well on American citizens and citizens and people around the world basically through monitoring of like the internet and of like phones and and basically everything through these vast networks that the public didn't know about and him like leaking that he became known as like a leaker or something that leaked something was very fitting in terms of Mercury Mars as an aspect.
But it turns out that what I found is that when that happened there was this series of Mercury Mars conjunctions that was happening around that time that really tied in with his story like very closely this was all happening between January and August of 2013 so let me do I'm trying to decide if I should maybe do although a by-wheel just to keep his needle chart relevant. So the point that I wanted to make with this example is that Snowden you know I was like reading up in his biography and like refreshing myself on it because it's been what like 12 years now since all of this happened but early in 2013 Snowden started getting annoyed with US government and like not liking what he was seeing and started formulating the idea of leaking things I think starting in January and February.
And Mercury we can see in the transit you can see the transit's right yep okay so Mercury moved into Aquarius and joined Mars there at 19 degrees of Aquarius around January 18th January wait no I can't I can't switch it over okay well let me know yeah no all right so here's Mars at 19 degrees of Aquarius in like mid-January of 2013 and here's Mercury moving into Aquarius in the middle of that month so basically there was a succession because of retrogrades that year of Mercury Mars conjunctions that were replicating his needle Mercury Mars conjunction during the course of the year and the co-presence like kicks off in mid-January when Mercury moves into Aquarius with Mars and then the first conjunction happens exactly around here around February of 2013.
And then Mercury and Mars continued to be co-present over the course of the next month and into March somewhere in there from what I understand Snowden made the decision to start gathering all of the data in order to leak it and he started gathering it up during the course of that spring basically sort of like covertly amassing all of this information with the future plan to like leak it to the press and then eventually um so Mercury and Mars keeps moving there's a Mercury retrograde some Mercury falls back into Pisces and then while Mars moves on and goes into Aries and then Mercury catches up with Mars again. um in the May time frame and then there's this long co-presence between Mercury and Mars in May and this is when Snowden leaks the um starts leaking the files basically to reporters and this begins the entire Snowden thing in May of 2013 and June of 2013 do you remember all that?
Yep so the Mercury Mars and he's turning 30 of course in June as well right yeah so the Mercury Mars co-presences and conjunctions are coinciding with him making the decision gathering the data leaking the data and then eventually he flees and over the summer there's this long drawn out drama about um him getting like stuck in transit and like seeking asylum and um it coincides with this Mars retrograde during the course of the summer in June and June is basically when he gets stuck in like an airport for most of the summer Mercury stations retrograde here around June 26 27th and then it retrogrades back to early cancer where Mars catches up to it and moves from Gemini to Cancer July 13th then Mercury eventually stations direct while conjunct Mars in mid to late July and then eventually um by August Mercury gets into Leo and breaks the sign based co-presence with Mars completely and moves on on its own and it's in August when Russia grants him asylum and he he moves there where he's still there to this day what like 12 years later so the entire it's like this this unfolding of a sequence of events that's playing out with Mars degree-based conjunctions and sign based conjunctions over the course of like the first eight months of 2013 and it's because it's like perfectly replicating his natal um Mercury Mars conjunction of you know of leaking something or of releasing um information or secrets let's say to the press that the US government didn't want released
yeah yeah it's well it's going to be interesting to see what Uranus and Gemini does in his life um okay yeah that's true it's also as you're in a opposition we'll see all right um so that's important though because it's kind of similar to your example right with like a retrograde where retrogrades can extend these recurrences over a much longer period of time than they would otherwise have and so that creates a unique class of things that elevates the importance yeah it really sort of draws out and extends the the experience of the recurrence
yeah um what we were saying about the the Mars retrogrades in Gemini during the Civil War in the Second World War or the you know the the whole thing with Curtin Courtney prior to them dating they're being a previous Venus Jupiter when they're just flirting during the Venus retrograde and the Venus goes direct makes another conjunction that's when they actually start dating so there's all that kind of stuff that that um yeah you know draws draws these things out and is worth focusing on right totally
um okay so i'm trying to think of where we should go next and what we haven't covered i know you had a really good example with Venus Williams right would this be a good time to introduce that yeah let's let's let's bring in Venus Williams um okay so Venus and Serena need no introduction well they're both tennis players there's sisters and their tennis players um they're they're born just over a year apart and Venus is the older sister and Venus was already like a rising tennis champion and then Serena came on the scene at 17 and really dazzled people and um today Serena's record sort of far outshines Venus's although Venus was you know no no slatch and was very impressive
um right i think i think go ahead it was there was like Venus was the older sister who they were both raised and trained together by their father and mother to play tennis and to become world champion tennis players but Venus was the older sister who was able to start competing first and then Serena was the younger sister that came up afterwards and then they started battling each other for the top spot as the top tennis player in the world and ultimately Serena kind of edged out Venus it seems like
yeah i'm not a i'm not a big like tennis you know follower but i am i've always been interested in their charts but um Serena i believe has something like 23 grand slam wins and grand slam meaning you win like all the major tournaments in a given year so she's done that 23 times um whereas Venus did that what like twice three five times sorry she did Venus had five grand slams and the the um i just want to double check that fifth when fifth Wimbledon singles crown and her seventh major of the singles okay um only the second time that she defeated Serena in a grand slam final so basically sorry i'm just getting lost in a bit of the tennis scores Venus is the older sister Serena is really rising up and over shadowing her but there's this one last Wimbledon final that Venus does beat Serena the fact that Serena is really ascendant and is out shining her and it's sort of it's it's the crowning glory for Venus in terms of her own record.
um so this is the Wimbledon game in 2008 Venus beats Serena seven to five and six to four to defender title and capture a fifth Wimbledon singles crown um it was only the second time Venus defeated Serena in a grand slam final and uh this was Venus's final final singles major so last time she played the singles major effectively the peak book end of her grand slam singles career and um what is the technical example it's a Mars Saturn conjunction? oh yes i'm sorry i didn't get it i get lost in the in the in the tennis square because i want to get the details right but the you get the idea i mean it really is like this sort of this last hara for the older sister to beat the younger sister so Venus was born with Mars Saturn conjunct in Virgo and on the day of the the game Mars was again conjunct Saturn in Virgo nice okay so i like this also because um when i was using Serena's chart in the fifth house example and i actually i was focused on Serena's chart but this is Venus's chart and um Venus has liberating Sagittarius is the third house of siblings and the ruler of the third house of siblings is Jupiter which is in the 12th house of enemies and even though they're not like enemies i think it's amazing that her sister became like her primary competition in a way.
and this event that you're talking about the Mars Saturn conjunction was happening at um you know four and five degrees of Virgo in the actual chart itself Mars is at two Virgo and Saturn's at four but they're conjoining her needle Jupiter which is the ruler of the third house of siblings and it's amazing that this was the you know the the tri this is her trium thing over her sister in that instance yeah but what's even funnier given what you just said three hours after they played this match they teamed up in a doubles match and won the doubles winbilt in a competition against two other tennis players so Venus beat Serena but then of course like your classic William sister situation yeah they were adversaries they fought to win they played to win and then they came together as a team and beat the the other doubles and and won that category so um yeah that also accounts for that Jupiter.
yeah so and it's like there's other transits going out as well it's like one of the things we the this like goes without saying but I guess it's worth saying at this point which applies to all of our examples this doesn't the the presence of the recurrence transit is obviously not the only thing going on there we can see from other transits there's other ways of approaching that this was a very important day for her it's like the sun is conjoining her mid-heaven exactly Venus is conjoining her mercury almost exactly um her she's having a needle lunar return in Leo mercuries conjoining the ruler of her ascendant almost exactly it's like she has a lot of very important transits that are going on it's just that there's this one transit that you otherwise might overlook of the fact that Mars and Saturn in the sky just happened to be repeating uh the same exact combination that they were in on the day that she was born.
yep she had also she had just turned 28 and 28 is always a nodal half return which you can see there as well but yeah indeed it's the whole picture there's a lot of stuff going on at once but that recurrence is very clear and it points toward um this being a really important game for Venus you know relative to her career relative to you know even the friendly rivalry with her little sister it's it's um sort of the last great hurrah on her on her end nice that's brilliant really good example um so i i didn't originally tie these together but this is a perfect exam perfect time to bring in my one of my Jupiter Neptune examples um which is weirdly it's jaded pink it smith so let me keep will smith's wife's name out of your damn mouth no sorry yeah um yourself you're you're incorrigible uh so here is um the birth chart of jaded pink at smith and this seems like it's like a completely out of left field so i understand just stay with.
me for a few moments and we'll see i'll bring this around so um um this is jaded pink at smith she was born september 18th 1971 at 12 38 pm in Baltimore Maryland with three degrees of Sagittarius rising so her ascendance at three degrees of Sagittarius and she has Jupiter conjunct Neptune like very close to the ascendant that was rising over the eastern horizon at the moment that she was born with Jupiter at zero degrees of Sagittarius and Neptune at zero degrees of Sagittarius in fact you know Neptune is at zero 40 degrees of Sagittarius and Jupiter is at zero 58 so they're extremely extremely close conjunction at the moment of her birth but also rising over the eastern horizon on the ascendant at that moment.
so weirdly i noticed this weird repetition that happened in her life just a few years ago during what is probably one of the more notable things that has happened in her life which is that a few years ago um will smith did a movie where he played the father who trained Venus and serena williams and then he won an Oscar for that role but that night at the Oscars famously um the host who's the comedian Chris rock came out and he made a joke about Will Smith's wife and her hair that she had a shaved head and he made a joke about jada pink at smith and that night there was a very close Jupiter Neptune conjunction that was happening in the sky that was replicating jada pink at smith's needle Jupiter Neptune conjunction.
and at first it seemed like when Chris rock made the joke Will Smith was laughing but then the camera cuts away and it cuts back and suddenly he's going up on the stage uh people speculate after looking at his wife who was offended by the joke and he goes up on the stage and he hits he slaps Chris rock and then it creates this entire fire storm and this entire really difficult moment after he assaults Chris rock because then later that night Will Smith goes on to win the Oscar but he gets up and he accepts the award but he cries he's like in tears because he realizes that he's kind of like ruined the moment in some ways it was like otherwise a high point of his career but um it kind of gets marred by by having just like assaulted this comedian basically um in what he says is partially like defensive his wife.
so there's obviously like a lot of different things going on with that story but for some reason it was it also became a very important turning point for jada pink at smith because then a lot of the like commentary and stuff was about their relationship and um whether whether they were dysfunctional and all these other things and um I thought it was very interesting that for some reason it was partially like a replication for her of that Jupiter Neptune conjunction yeah very much if I'm not mistaken the hair situation it's not that her head is shaved she has a condition right alopee share or something like like the hair I don't know too much about it but my understanding it's it's a medical condition it isn't merely that she chose to cut her hair short and that was part of the sensitivity.
right that's actually I'm glad you said that that's really good point because that actually probably maybe that ties in the needle component for her where it's like a Jupiter Neptune conjunction on the degree of her ascendant and the ascendant to the first house can sometimes relate to a person's body and physical appearance so maybe that's part of why this was somehow relevant for her here's the let me put the actual transit chart up and make sure you can see it where that night it was um March 27th 2022 Jupiter was at 20 degrees of Pisces conjunct Neptune at 23 degrees of Pisces and those conjunctions don't happen very often at all right uh no no no um every 14 years yeah so um yeah no it's it's it's it's a brilliant example and yeah it's it's very much like that's how it all came about it wasn't you know it's it's one thing if you make fun of someone's haircut the haircut will grow back but it was more sort of you know but what effect what it was effectively body shaming I guess but um yeah crazy night at the Oscars right well and it was like that was you know part of their defense is as they said like that they tried to say that it was due to her sensitivity or body shaming and will not wanting her to feel that way and then they tried to claim also that Chris Rock had been maybe harassing her for years but then it's like but then also everyone was like but you don't assault a comedian for a joke and that's there's there's no like good defense of that basically is where uh I think most people came came down in the end and the other thing we learned is that Chris Rock's last name is very well earned because he just stood there like a rock and took it.
so yeah Chris Rock indeed yeah he did um show remarkable restraint and yeah so anyways um that is a weird one that ties in because of course he was he then went one the Oscar for the movie with Venus and Serena Williams and I think they were actually there at the time or they were watching or something so there's a lot of weird tension and everything else um very very excellent segue though Chris very thank you yeah thank you yeah well that's why we didn't really finalize our list for sequence of things but I thought we would find it as we went by finding the examples that are like appropriate as we go yep all right largely we'll see we'll see how it goes what the rest is.
um smallly working what kind of example do we need that we haven't filled in yet I have a I guess I have a quick one um with Amelia Earhart this one is cool because I found I was looking I've looked at her chart for a long time but I was looking at it recently for the Fifth House example because she has this Mars Jupiter conjunction just Taurus rising and Mars conjunct Jupiter and Virgo in the Fifth Hall sign house and I was kind of associating that with um the Fifth House is where you have fun and you find pleasure in things and I think Mars conjunct Jupiter is partially enjoying being adventurous and like risk taking and things like that and Amelia Earhart famously was a woman like very early in the history of aviation that was like setting records for flights at different points like early in the history of aviation but.
what I found is that when she got her pilots license um there was a Mars Jupiter conjunction happening in the sky that was replicating her natal Mars Jupiter conjunction that's amazing pretty good yeah yeah um and then do you remember what I'm trying to remember all like the the records and stuff that she said oh I mean there's there's a whole uh litany of I mean when you you know she died trying to circumnavigate the globe but there were a bunch bunch of achievements I have a book on her somewhere I can look um well here's the transits just to like confirm roughly my um argument so here's the Mars at 23 degrees of Libra conjunct Jupiter at um 15 degrees of of Libra so it's like coming off of that conjunction um that would have been forming then and would have gone exact as she's like building up to and training and getting ready to like to do this major thing to get her flight license um but I just loved seeing the repetition of that then at such a crucial moment where she gets that.
license and then she immediately like starts starts using it in really impressive ways yeah all right so that was a good one um moving on other examples an adjacent one actually if we so we just did Mars Jupiter and adjacent one is one you found which is Richard Nixon oh yeah yeah another Mars Jupiter so this is a good one because um it shows a really important point just technically that I meant to mention which is the sign boundaries so Nixon was born January I'll let you take the example I just want to make the point that he was born January 9th 1913 Mars is at 29 degrees as Sagittarius and Jupiter is at one degree of Capricorn so there's a sign boundary there but they're just like two degrees apart and in the sky those two planets would be almost literally right on top of each other regardless of the sign boundary and I found a number of examples where even if they're in different signs if they're still relatively close especially depending on what planets we're talking about the alignment is still true because functionally like in the sky those two planets are right next to each other as stars um even if it's across a sign boundary.
so I did want to state that and make that clear where I'm both frameworks matter like there's an iql framework and the sign-based co-presence is matter then we've seen several instances of the conjunctions being an effect for the entirety of the sign-based conjunction or co-presence even when one planets very early in the sign and when plans very late but the degree-based alignments also matter with you know like some standard orbs of like let's say like seven degrees or something like that give or take um still matter across sign boundaries as well and this instance you're about to show a very great example of it as a Mars Jupiter conjunction in the birth chart of Richard Nixon yeah yeah we'll have another one soon with Michael Jackson and his Jupiter Neptune and adjacent signs but yeah it's a very close Mars Jupiter despite the fact that the you know that there are different signs and when Nixon was elected president in November of 1968 there was a Mars Jupiter conjunction happening in Virgo.
in Nixon's first house um so so this was November 6th 1968 I believe so is that what's on the note here here it is so I've met the transit chart up as long as you can see it yeah so we see yeah that's incredible so it's to the degree Mars is at 28 degrees of Virgo conjunct Jupiter at 28 degrees of Virgo so the day he was elected was an exact conjunction of those planets yeah that's that's repeating a natal recurrence of a natal conjunction that's only literally like two degrees away with Mars at 29 and Jupiter at one Capricorn exactly yeah and this was a comeback for him you know he had he had lost the the election to John F Kennedy eight years earlier so there is an element of like you know rising back up it's it's Pluto along with Mars and Jupiter in the in that recurrence and so there's you know that's coming into play right and he thought he was finished after losing to Kennedy in the 1960 election right yeah he absolutely thought well he ran for governor in 62 and lost and that's when he told the press they wouldn't have Nixon to kick around him or he thought he was finished um or at least he gave people the impression he was finished some people thought he never thought he was finished um but yeah it's it's it's it's um so there is this element of like coming back from nothing coming back from losing and it's a Mars it's a Mars Jupiter conjunction.
The transit is Mars Jupiter with Pluto whereas in his natal chart he is Mars Jupiter opposite Pluto so you're there's even there's this extension of you know Pluto does find its way you know I know we're only talking about conjunctions in this podcast but you see this happens sometimes too um where yeah you know a triple planet combination will be a conjunction of two opposite a third and then something like this those those same three planets come together and and so it's there's an exception that like this is a good exact or good excuse for that digression briefly yeah it's not you pay attention to when there's an alignment of like let's say a conjunction that sometimes that conjunctions and oppositions can be relevant as well right oh yeah absolutely absolutely there's some other good ones like Frida Kahlo's death chart and things like that different combinations of two planets can junct opposite another one that's opposite and then you could on a transit chart you might have you know those same three planets but the ones can junct where it was opposite in the nativity and vice versa um so yeah this is an injury tart her injury chart as well you sing that is like she she's born with a Mars Uranus conjunction very close that's the one I met thank you yeah so she's born with a Mars Uranus conjunction in her sixth house natally and then the day of her terrible bus accident that altered her life uh was a Mars Uranus opposition correct yeah thank you okay so the principle to extrapolate the principle really even though we're artificially limiting it and maybe in some sense like hobbling the technique in order to make it more compelling for the purpose of this but the more advanced levels of the technique as you could take it to when a person has an atle signature in the chart of let's say a conjunction then the recurrence of not just that conjunction between those two planets but also sometimes oppositions between those two planets can be important as well absolutely absolutely you see that a lot um you know like for instance right now Saturn's making conjunction to Neptune but I'm having clients who were born in 1980 who have Saturn square Neptune and you can see how the upcoming Saturn Neptune conjunction still like lights up their natal square because there is a relationship between those two planets there are a lot of different variants on what you can do with this so yeah I thought it was worth pointing out since Pluto this is a reasonably simple one nonetheless remind me to do by the next next then because we'll that'll that'll be the one example where we'll demonstrate what you're talking about of other aspects besides the conjunction sounds good.
Okay so yeah Nixon was born with Mars conjunct Jupiter opposite Pluto and when he's elected all three of those planets are conjunct in his first house got it so that was not the only Mars Jupiter conjunction that was important for him though right right there's another one that happens in 1973 April 6 1973 there's a conjunction in Aquarius and this is the day that his attorney John Dean who has been sort of doing all the dirty work behind the scenes with Watergate on Nixon's behalf uh John Dean starts cooperating with the Watergate um investigators because there's an investigation going on and this began scandal has broken out and it's been going on for how long now the Watergate break in was about nine months before this and the burglars have already been to trial and been convicted and then one of the burglars has told the judge that they um um uh uh what's the word when you lie in court they perjured.
Them say he they perjured themselves by covering up you know the real reasons for the breakup and right as that's happening um John Dean who's who really was sort of like a major player in this whole cover up until up until this point um he starts cooperating with the investigators which is the beginning of the cracks happening in in you know Nixon's own staff and within a couple of weeks Dean and two of of Nixon's closest aides will all be fired and the beginning of like the really unraveling you can say like this moment when Dean is on April 6th when this recurrence happens the Mars Jupiter this is the first thread being pulled that's going to tear apart the the uh Nixon administration over Watergate this is the first thing that goes wrong um that that really is going lead to Nixon being hurt.
Dean was giving testimony on television so it's like Nixon is protected in many ways even though this whole thing has become a firestorm but all of a sudden on this conjunction his lawyer flips on him and this is the beginning of the end of Nixon's presidency in really tangible ways it's interesting that this Mars Jupiter conjunction at seven degrees of a quarry is that's exact this day takes place in his sixth house and it's like somebody that worked for him it's people that worked for him his lawyer that flips on him and that's the beginning of the end yeah his lawyer flips on him and then he like the the two guys his literal his two right hand men Erlichman and and uh Haldeman uh he has to fire them too so he's really like he's like this leads to him having none of the people he's been trusting you know um and confiding in up until this point they're suddenly they're gone.
So you know everyone else is sort more to more um more remote to him and and you know he does he's he's suddenly without his sort of his security team the people who've kept him safe so that really does bring up something we're seeing over and over again but it's worth just mentioning for a moment that the house that the recurrence takes place in often seems to play a major component in describing the the quality and the nature of the event that occurs at the recurrence and it's you it should be obvious it's pretty straightforward because those two planets are transiting that house in the person's chart at that time so of course they're going to be bringing up in his instance like six house topics of those that work for you um but it's worth stating as an additional interpretive principle for how you interpret these things yeah yeah so this is the beginning of the end and then eventually Nixon ends up having to resign and be the first president in history to to resign as president and in disgrace for watergate and this was the turning point.
Yeah yeah nice all right well those are two amazing literally Mars Jupiter conjunction and you have literally the day of Nixon's becoming president basically at least winning the election and then you have the day that he would start his downfall to lose the presidency in some ways that's right brilliant all right good example thank you so Biden Biden thank you for reminding me okay so here's the birth chart of Joe Biden and he was famously born on November 2nd 1942 November 20th November 20th 1942 at 8 30 am in Scranton, Pennsylvania with Sagittarius rising and he has this Saturn Neptune conjunction on the descendant with Uranus Saturn Uranus Saturn man so I'm starting to get tired and my mind starting to know where it's so he has Uranus at two degrees of Gemini and Saturn at nine degrees of Gemini conjunct the descendant at around let's say three degrees of Gemini so Saturn Neptune conjunctions in his seventh house and you had noticed a major recurrence transit that happened in the late 1980s when he ran for president and Saturn and Neptune conjoined in the sky right Saturn Uranus Saturn Uranus Saturn I'm talking about Saturn Neptune I have to yeah Saturn Neptune is very I'll let you take I'll let you take the example from here okay I'll try not to say Saturn Neptune so yeah Joe so Saturn Uranus conjunctions only happen every 44 years or so so there's one in 1942 43 went and and Biden's born at the end of 42 and then the next conjunction happens in 1987 to early 88 and during that period in 87 88 there's basically I mean two things go terribly wrong in Biden's life.
He announced his candidacy for the presidency in June of 87 so by this point he'd been a congressman first you know starting in 72 and now he was a senator and he wanted to run for president so he announces his candidacy in June of 87 and he's already having the Saturn Uranus recurrence Saturn and Uranus are about eight degrees apart seven eight degrees apart at this point but about two weeks two sorry three months into his campaign in September of 87 on September 1737 Biden is forced to admit that he plagiarized some of his work when he was in loss school and this within a few days this is a big scandal he has to withdraw his bid for president and this probably means that poor Joe Biden will never get to be president he's missed his chance and he'll never get another one I'm kidding of course but then after this something else terrible happens he is diagnosed with having an aneurysm and he undergoes two surgeries in early 1988 while the conjunction is still happening one in February of 1988 and the next in May of 1988 so yeah you know that's that's sort of the the extent that sorry the second one is like May 4th 88 if you're looking for an exact date yeah just so much you know yeah it's amazing that this one's happening and it's like first house and as rising signs it's like so yeah prominent but this is literally the next Saturn Uranus conjunction after his birth like that's right you know 40 years early over 40 years earlier and he has it and he runs for president but he fails he has to pull out of the race and then he like immediately has an aneurysm and like a major medical issue at the same time.
Yeah yeah it probably what it hurt is helped his political career if he had the aneurysm before the plagiarism was discovered but either way it ruined his shot at the presidency right so then so you were talking about the example and then when I was thinking about it it immediately made me remember what happened when he did first get into office though which is famously what was the night of the presidential on the night of the US presidential election in 2008 when Joe Biden was elected vice president and Barack Obama was elected as president there was famously an exact Saturn Uranus opposition at the time do I have the date there 2008 do you know the date um so it'll be it'll be the fourth it's a Tuesday you know yes November 4th okay so here's the chart so look at this Saturn that day and November 5th 2008 was at 19 degrees of Virgo and it's opposite to Uranus at 18 degrees of Virgo so they actually right on his mid heaven right on his mid heaven I see too that's angular right yeah because his mid heavens at 19 degrees of Virgo so this is that principle we were talking you were talking about earlier where sometimes if a person is born with a natal conjunction in this instance he has Saturn and Uranus conjunct in his birth chart it's not just the conjunctions that are important to recurrences like that one in 1988 was 87 was a conjunction his rising sign but it's also the oppositions in this instance literally like the date within 24 hours of him becoming vice president there's a Saturn Uranus opposition exactly on his MCIC axis.
Yeah yeah yeah that's how it works I remember that at the time because it was such a um a moment of having Saturn opposite Uranus in this sudden like break from the past with Obama being elected and um yeah I always associated. with that Saturn Uranus opposition as being the main aspect of that day but it's fascinating that part of that was replicating Biden's own Saturn Uranus conjunction yeah totally and then you know of course that Uranus in Pisces as we know at inauguration two months later Venus would be conjunct that Uranus and you know someone opposite that Saturn still so that's also you know pulling into the reference we made earlier talking about making good segways and so far as the Venus Uranus at Obama Biden's inauguration in 2009 being a sort of a counterpoint to Trump in 2025 with his Venus Saturn but indeed in 2009 it's Venus Uranus basically opposite Saturn so that really reinforces that mirror of the the 2024 25 result as well.
Well and look at his needle Venus it's at like 28 so it's actually applying to an opposition with Uranus pretty closely so that's almost in a way another example of that where he's born at the needle Venus Uranus opposition and then there's a Venus Uranus conjunction when he is inaugurated vice president yeah and that is not the end of his story because of course then we jump forward to January 20th 2001 which is inauguration day and this is the day that Biden is inaugurated president and on this day Saturn is at three degrees of Aquarius in the sky and it's applying to a square with Uranus at six degrees of Taurus in the sky so there's a very very close Saturn Uranus square the moment he actually becomes president so that's just absolutely uncanny so he has just to summarize he was born on a Saturn Uranus conjunction he ran for president and had to drop out on a Saturn Uranus conjunction he is elected vice president on a Saturn Uranus opposition and then he becomes president on a Saturn Uranus square yeah and you know in 2024 there was no Saturn Uranus configuration going on so it didn't work out.
Yeah so it's like well I mean that's actually a whole interesting thing on itself because it was the Saturn Saturn empaisies stations in his fourth actually ended up being really important for that but so this is our one more or less example of this because I was worried about the technique getting muddied and I deliberately restricted us to conjunctions but the more advanced form of the technique can actually work like this where you know the needle signature in the chart can set up a signature for all sorts of recurrences of other aspects between those two planets as being important at critical turning points in the life and you know at some point we'll have to do a follow-up on that where we go deeper or we can do a workshop on that or something to go into the more advanced application of the technique but this is just to give people like a taste of that that's right yeah there's all kinds of fantastic examples with other aspects that we could have included and maybe we will in another in a follow-up.
Yeah let us know in the YouTube comments if you'd like to see us do a follow-up on the more advanced things and we'll we'll see what people think if they want want that and then maybe we'll do a follow-up oh you got to want this people no one else has given it to you all right I want to take another break okay if you're really looking to deepen your studies of astrology the no I'd recommend signing up for my Hellenistic astrology course which is an online course in ancient astrology where I take people from basic concepts up through intermediate and advanced techniques for reading birth charts there's over a hundred hours of video lectures plus monthly webinars and Q&A sessions and then at the end of the course you get a certificate of completion saying that you studied with me if you pass the final written test find out more information at the astrologyschool.com.
All right we're back from break and this is going a little bit longer than I expected as usual like anytime I say something it's going to be a little bit it's called the Brennan constant I think is what what Austin called it after I last forecast is if I say it's going to be two hours there's some equation that projects it out to be like three or four but this feels really good it's a Fibonacci it's a Fibonacci exponential kind of yeah right there's like a diagram of like my head and like a golden ratio being projected projected from it that's like some chisel chisel in an ancient stone somewhere so this is good though this feels like important like life's work contribution type thing that we're we're doing right now and like introducing this to everybody and trying to lay a solid foundation for this technique to grow and flourish after this point so I'm willing to do the do what it takes to to make this good and and I think anybody who sticks with us and watches this it's sort of like a self filtering mechanism.
It's like those who are meant to like get this information will receive it and those who you know don't want to sit for for a few hours to hear a workshop on like the one of the most amazing techniques ever that you've never heard of will not receive that information and that's it Tom Pete all right so one of the examples I want to get into is a really good one that you found that's an impressive new development of the technique that I thought was cool is the Beatles example of a Saturn Uranus conjunction yeah I mean two of the Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison born right around the same time as Joe Biden Paul is a few months older than Joe and George is a few months younger than Joe but they're both born with that same Saturn Uranus and Gemini.
There's further setup because the the full setup is like all four of the Beatles have a Saturn Neptune conjunction by co-presence Saturn Uranus oh my god um sorry my when I started getting tired like my it's part of the long COVID I do that yeah yeah I'm just telling the audience that that's part of the thing I struggle with is my mental facilities start fading um so all right let me let me focus this because I want to be really clear on this exam because it's so good all four of the Beatles functionally were born on a Saturn Uranus conjunction in the 1940s and two of them were born with the Saturn Uranus conjunction very close in their birth charts but by sign all four of the Beatles have a Saturn Uranus conjunction and the example is that in the 19 just like Joe Biden you said because they were born with the same Saturn Uranus conjunction as Joe Biden in the 1980s when all four of them had their first Saturn Uranus conjunction return they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame correct.
The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January of 1988 when there was a Saturn Uranus conjunction in the sky um by this point of course John Lennon had been dead for over seven years Ringo and John were born with Saturn and Uranus co-present in Taurus they they have more like the Jupiter Saturn you know the Zadaiical conjunction with Uranus co-present in Taurus but Paul McCartney and George Hathon let me show them so who's the first who's the first one who's the first sign based one to start with who did you just mention Ringo just start with Ringo and then John okay so for those watching the video version here's the birth chart of Ringo star who was born with Saturn at 12 degrees of Taurus and Uranus at 24 degrees of Taurus in the third whole sign house and you know that's not I mean I know you're you're more focused on two of them in particular who come into conflict during the the recurrence but that's that's a you know so pretty close conjunction to me of Saturn at 12 and Uranus at 24 it's certainly a co-presence by sign.
Yeah I mean I certainly agree and think about it these are the Beatles the Beatles um sort of that they're central to the 1960s culturally um but the period of 1965 to 66 when Saturn and Uranus were opposite um was a real sort of like um that that's a period where the Beatles really sort of shot ahead in terms of their use of uh you know recording technology and innovation when they stopped touring and became a studio band um and also and also when yeah like a generation generation defining talent and like a in a shift in terms of music and ushering in that like era of rock and roll yeah I mean literally changing the culture with every little you know uh uh thing they did you know George Harrison picks up a sitar out of curiosity and suddenly sitars are you know a thing in western music and uh a lot of things like that so yeah really just having there being in the middle of the whole culture um uh you know spurt and and everything that's happening in in that period right.
So this is Ringo born July 7th 1940 with Saturn at 12 tourists and Uranus at 22 tourists and then the next one is Lenin John Lenin yeah okay. so this is John Lenin born October 9th 1940 with Saturn at 13 tourists and Uranus at 25 tourists again still very co-present and if you looked at them up in the sky those two planets at night would be well you could see Saturn Uranus can only be seen under certain conditions but nonetheless they would be like right next to each other yeah all right so that's Lenin and then the other two are um here's George Harrison who was born February 24th 1943 with Saturn at 5 Gemini and Uranus at 0 Gemini so that's a much closer conjunction we've now changed signs but it's even closer in degree and then finally the fourth beetle is Imann in Paul McCartney who was born July 18th 1942 with Saturn at 5 degrees of Gemini and Uranus at 1 degree of Gemini so all of them have this this Saturn Uranus conjunction and then I just think what is the date of their induction into the rock and roll hall of fame uh January sorry I don't have the let me go to the document uh beetles there it is January 20th 1988 that's it.
So I'm gonna share it as a as a transit chart and we see Saturn at 27 degrees of Sagittarius and Uranus at 28 degrees of Sagittarius so like some of our earlier examples of like faster moving inner planets this is something all four of them sharing common and then it's like very closely exact at this when they're inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame which is like one of those you know obviously they didn't need it or like um they already had made a huge impact and whatever but still for many bands this is like a singular thing when you're like inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame and it's a real like landmark moment typically in like uh let's say a musician's career.
It is now this was the third annual rock and roll hall of fame I mean it was still a fairly new thing yeah um you know they inducted Elvis or whoever in the first one Bill Haley in the comments and probably Buddy Holly and and uh little Richard you know by the second or third uh but yeah with the third it's the beetles are being inducted and of course John Lennon is dead by this point but only two of the beetles arrive on this evening uh George Ringo and Yoko Ono come to the rock and roll hall of fame but Paul McCartney doesn't attend which is very um you know there were some legal uh battles still going on between the different beetles and Paul didn't feel like going up and and making a fake play of them being um you know friendly at a time when they weren't and there were all kinds of ironies in this.
Um George Harrison enthusiastically participated uh he had a new album out the in the in the past year um called cloud nine and he was really sort of George Harrison usually was the beetle who issued the the beetles in his post beetle life he didn't really like to talk about them or didn't he didn't have the same kind of um Rosie you know uh Rose colored view of the beetle years that the other guys did and uh but for the rock and roll hall of fame thing he was very present and a real sort of participant and happy and and what have you were his Paul who usually was the one who was uh more keen to like put on a happy front even if things weren't entirely happy behind the scenes and who was always enthusiastic about the beetles and their legacy he was the one who um didn't feel right about participating for you know a variety of of interpersonal reasons at the time.
So there's even kind of like a role reversal between George and Paul when they're both having this I mean I mean to some extent they're all having the recurrence transit like you say but since Paul and George are the beetles who have them zedically very close in the conjunction the it really sort of sparks that the um you know the hard feelings between the two of them I guess right so this is because especially because the legal issue where they were um Paul McCartney was in a legal battle with the others that this was like the worst their relationship was post right the break the breakup of the beetles anytime after and then even up till now because they would eventually patch things up yeah yeah um when the beetles broke up in 1970 they were you know really mad at each other Paul sued the other guys but eventually they worked it out by 1973-74 they were all friends.
Um they had signed a legal document to end their partnership so they weren't locked up that way and they became friends for a while you know they didn't need to worry about being in a band together but uh they were friendly for a bit but then things did go a little select John Lennon of course was murdered in 1980 and then in the 80s there were some residual or new sort of legal issues that they were battling over um Yoko no of course was now in charge of John Lennon's estate and that made things complicated and so yeah so this this very specific period 1987-88 is the one period apart from when the beetles actually broke up and you know freshly were mad at each other this is the one time like the hardest that the darkest it got between them the the roughest the their their relationship was in in what were generally you know good host beetle years right it's interesting just you even just all of them having saturday naptune or saturday nearness as a signature and just the instability of the group and the fact that their breakup would be such a their eventual breakup and demise would itself be such a legendary part of their entire story because the beetles weren't actually together or famous for like a very long amount of time when you added up right.
Yeah I mean they they they were incredibly prolific and productive so it makes it seem like it was epic length but from the first recording session to the last it's um it's eight years you know uh love me do recorded in september of 1962 and abbey road finishes recording in august of um uh 69 sorry seven years not not eight seven years um from beginning to be beginning think of every single beetle song you've ever heard or beetles recording and it was recorded in this very short seven year period of time these days some bands take longer than seven years to release uh a follow up album so it was really you know they did a lot in that short period of time um yeah that's crazy I mean it just speaks to the um the because they also during that time went through a lot of different like phases and like eras and constantly reinventing themselves and like pushing the limits or pushing the edge I'm thinking about the nature of saturday conjunct conjunct ureness but then also the inherent instability of that is that it's something that's hard to to hold together with saturday ureness and all so prominent in all of their charts.
是啊,我的意思是,他们真的非常高产和多产,所以让人觉得他们的音乐历程非常辉煌。实际上,从他们第一次录音到最后一次,只用了八年。比如,《Love Me Do》是在1962年9月录制的,而《Abbey Road》是1969年8月完成的,所以准确来说是七年而不是八年。想想所有你听过的披头士的歌曲或录音,这些作品都在这短短的七年里完成。如今,有些乐队甚至需要超过七年来发布一张新专辑。所以,他们在那段短暂的时间内完成了大量工作。这真的很不可思议,我想这也说明了他们在这段时间里经历了各种不同的阶段和时代,不断地自我创新和突破极限。我想到土星的相合特性,但是也注意到了这种性质本身的不稳定性,因为这种土星特质在他们的星座图上都非常明显。
Yeah well I mean what's funny is during the beetle years the four of them were like always together um and so when they did break up it really was like like if you've ever had a romantic partner that you were just with constantly and then there's a breakup it's like like it goes from intense closeness to intense separation um but there was a lot about them that was saturday ureness you know they were um counter cultural and challenging the status quo but to like real culture counter culture types they seemed to kind of safe and manufactured you know they were they were always sort of like a polar opposite to whoever um was was looking at them you know to to rebellious for the real straight arrows and to straight for the really rebellious people in a way um and of course I just want to just little things you know imagine imagine you get a new haircut and then the rest of the world wants to have your haircut.
Yeah well that's what I'm thinking in terms of like the saturday net saturday ureness conjunction and just being trendsetters and setting the standard for like an entire generation and for an entire genre of like rock music. I mean you looking at this conjunction and then starting the rock and roll hall of fame and then having you know two other years of inductees first but then like you know as soon as they could basically inducting the beetles into that as such um genre defining and and the reason that there probably even was a rock and roll hall of fame to begin with in some sense um inducting them into that at that time. There's something about that that's really striking to me yeah yeah it's it's a really curious year to choose them no doubt and um yeah just the way it all played out you know like like with George like I said George being really uh involved and and keen and Paul being reluctant and and a bit sour it was kind of like they were taking on each other's role in that bit.
Yeah all right I think that's good why don't we move on um let me hit some do we go do we go to Michael after we've been talking about Paul is that another segue going to the guy who own their music at one point oh right yeah I actually tried looking up that incident um to see if that was around the same time but it wasn't um let's do Michael because then that'll go along well with the other one I found which is Madonna okay yeah what so time there we don't have a confirmed time for Michael Jackson I think we have to state from the outside right well I mean we do use I haven't looked at it yeah what we do Iaral pull it up when he died his nephew did say he spoke to Michael's mom and they got um the birth time and it is um 7.33 pm with a Pisces rising Pisces moon but wasn't there is 7.33 pm 7.33 pm there was there was another chart um quoted by Basil Farrington for 11.53 pm that gave him Gemini rising right that was the one I was just showing so I just I just I just remember there was something in the Astro data bank notes about the Pisces chart that's still expressed a doubt of skepticism about the yeah yeah I'm I'm not gonna swear by anything I mean I don't I wouldn't find it hard to believe he was Pisces rising but yeah it was it was when he died what I think his nephew went on Twitter or something like that as my as I read right well let's just say for the sake of this um I don't know because I haven't I've looked it up a research in a long time so I don't know.
Okay we don't I mean again we don't have to swear by it you know yeah no I mean that's what I'm saying it's just for our purpose it's not relevant because we're just looking at his Jupiter Neptune conjunction where in his birth chart Jupiter was at 28 degrees of Libra and Neptune was at two degrees of Scorpio so in the sky they were very close together even though it's across a sign boundary yeah yeah and definitely you know this the Michael Jackson example is also kind of a nice companion to the Steve Jobs one because it's another one of these examples where we look at the the regular Jupiter Neptune conjunctions every single one that Michael lived through and much like Steve Jobs with Jupiter Uranus for Michael Jupiter Neptune the the conjunctions sort of make these chapters of a book that you could you know if you wrote a book about Michael's life you could start the the sections at the different Jupiter Neptune transits and it would kind of make sense.
So the first one obviously he's born yeah he's born in 1958 and that's the conjunction and then the first transity has is in 1971 in 1971 Jupiter and Neptune come together in a conjunction in Sagittarius and you know the while there there there are a few things that that happened the family moves to California for instance things like that but the main thing for Michael just the one takeaway is that it's in 1971 that he makes his first solo TV appearance and his and records his first solo single and so it's the beginning of course Michael Jackson is eventually going to be a solo artist the Jackson five and and later the Jackson's these are you know this is the group with his brother that helps him rise to start him but ultimately he's going to be just too big a star to be you know tied down to his brothers and that starts to that solo artist career starts in 1971 first he's on a Diana Ross TV special and he sings a song without his brothers being you know on stage or what have you and then later that year he releases his first solo single a song called got to be there in October of 71 so here's the chart for that on October 7th 1971 Neptune's at one degree of Sagittarius and Jupiter's at two degrees of Sagittarius right and like I said there yeah there've been a lot of things in his life this year that are that signify that Jupiter Neptune but certainly breaking out as a solo artist is the most the single most important one so because that's one of the things about once you start getting into the slower moving out or.
所以,首先,他显然出生了,他出生于1958年。那时有个重要的星相,然后他第一次遇到这种星象是在1971年。在1971年,木星和海王星在射手座相合。家人搬到了加利福尼亚,这些都是小事,但对于迈克尔来说,最重要的是他在1971年首次以个人身份在电视上亮相,并录制了他的第一支个人单曲。这是他作为独立艺人的开端。当然,迈克尔·杰克逊最终会成为一名独立艺人。杰克逊五人组及其后来的杰克逊乐队与他的兄弟们一起帮助他成名,但最终他将成为一个大到不能被兄弟们束缚的巨星,而独立艺人之路始于1971年。首先,他在戴安娜·罗斯的电视特别节目中登台,独自演唱,无需兄弟们。他在那年晚些时候发行了他的第一首个人单曲,这首歌曲名为《Got to Be There》,在1971年10月发行。这一天,也就是1971年10月7日,海王星位于射手座1度,木星位于射手座2度。正如我所说,他今年生活中发生了很多事情,这些都和木星海王星有关,但以独立艺人出道是最重要的一个标志。这就是当你开始研究那些运行缓慢的行星时所发现的事情之一。
Planet ones is conjunctions like this you know are sometimes in effect for like a year but certainly this one's very close by degree at the time when he records his first single yeah exactly he releases it. So then jumping ahead to January 27th 1984 on this day Jupiter was conjunct Neptune at the beginning of Capricorn. They had just been conjunct, Jupiter's just passed Neptune and Capricorn. It was on January 27th 84 that Michael was burned badly because of an accident that happened when he was taping a Pepsi commercial. His hair caught fire and because of this accident he wound up taking painkillers and basically beginning his, you know, that the drug problem that would ultimately contribute to his passing in 2009. He'd been very strictly anti-drug up until this point but hey, as one does when you're a burn victim, you want painkillers and one thing led to another and what were the degrees again the internet cut out oh Neptune was at zero Capricorn and Jupiter was at one Capricorn okay very close nice.
Yeah okay next so then we jump ahead another 13 years to 1997 on February 13th 1997 117 am in Los Angeles a baby nor named prince Michael Jackson the first was born. This was Michael Jackson's first of three children that he had with Debbie Rowe his second wife and it was sort of announced very suddenly. Now Neptune and Jupiter were in different signs but they had Jupiter's on the day the kids born Jupiter is at five Aquarius and Neptune's at 28 Capricorn but this was all done you know with a lot of secrecy and the yeah you know the conjunction would have been within a few weeks before the birth and it was one of these things like no one knew a baby was coming until like the thing actually happened. Was this his first child yeah his first child okay got it yeah all right next and then there's just one more is is the fact that 13 years after this in 2009 Michael Jackson was declared dead on the 25th of June 2009 at 2.26 pm in Los Angeles and Jupiter and Neptune were conjunct at 26 Aquarius like exactly conjunct yeah both of them at 26 Aquarius that's crazy yeah.
Yeah he really is like just Jupiter Neptune again much like Steve Jobs where it's so like you we've almost just told the story of his life in a fairly complete way. I mean okay we didn't talk about thriller or this or that but a lot of those big markers you can really see how they just sort of outline the contours of his timeline sure yeah. I mean especially the accident under the Jupiter Neptune conjunction in 84 that led him to start having to take painkillers and then the recurrence in 2009 of that exact conjunction in his death and the fact that he died partially through complications through some of the drugs that he was taking right yeah yeah well he was he was using the same drug that surgeons use you know to invest the size people for surgery. He was using that like as a sleeping aid which is insane it's interesting when he died Pluto was at one degree of Capricorn which is where that Jupiter Neptune conjunction had been when he got burned so there's you know little things like that you can look at as well.
But yeah it basically Michael before the burning accident never would have used a drug to help him sleep or anything like that but then after the accident and the painkillers it just you know he starts to and of course he's trying to keep up with being Michael Jackson so he starts to use things to help him sleep to help him be awake the old Elvis you know strategy. Okay yeah that's really striking and yeah that he just he dies from a freak sort of like medical accident through overdosing basically on drugs and painkillers. Yeah yeah I noticed recently that they just dropped the first trailer for that like new biopic that they're releasing of him which is interesting so there's going to be a new surgeons about his life so to be interesting to see how that goes and yeah how they cover everything.
Yeah yeah so in adjacent one because Michael Jackson was born August 29th 1958 and Madonna weirdly was born very close to him right yeah 12 13 days earlier Madonna I think 13 days earlier because Madonna is 10 years minus two days older than me yeah there she is and it's funny and then Prince is born like a few months before Madonna you know so like all those the three biggest pop stars of the eighties were all born in that summer of 58 with that Jupiter Neptune.
Yeah exactly that's what I was thinking so Madonna has Jupiter 26 Libra conjunct Neptune at two degrees of Scorpio and there were two main ones that I found about Madonna that I thought were really impressive how her life was tied into these Jupiter Neptune conjunctions. There's basically three or four of them but the first one is that there was a series of conjunctions in 1984 and that was when she first became a big hit and released her first big album that made her like a worldwide sensation basically at that time right yeah yeah that was when like a virgin came out and the very first MTV video awards.
对,正是我在想的。麦当娜在天秤座26度有木星,与天蝎座2度的海王星相合。我发现了两个关于麦当娜的主要相位,觉得非常令人印象深刻,她的生活与这些木星海王星的合相紧密相连。基本上有三个或四个这样的合相,第一个是在1984年,那时正是她第一次大红大紫,推出了让她成为全球瞩目焦点的首张大专辑。是的,那时候《Like a Virgin》发行了,还有第一次MTV音乐录像带大奖。
In September of 84 was when she was rolling around on the stage in a wedding dress and everyone was very shocked and yeah that was that was a now to sign Jupiter Neptune conjunction Neptune at the first MTV video awards in September of 84 Neptune was at 28 sages in Jupiter at three Capricorn so yeah very much all the the the whole like a virgin ascendancy to start him because it did she did she became famous pretty pretty fast with that one when was that first MTV video words the the first the first MTV video awards were September 14th 1984 and it was like the shocking thing that she's wearing a wedding dress and singing the song in a wedding dress and then rolling around on the floor in the wedding dress the 80s I got to tell you man of like you know I was edgy edgy at the time right no I mean not because I was I was 16 when this is coming out and I'm thinking you know the 1970s were just a few years ago why is this freaking people out but for some reason it was right well yeah and so I was I used to a chart was and maybe it was like one of the houses episodes but I thought it was really interesting how this one of the things she got a lot of flack for earlier in her career was the use of some like religious imagery or the perception of of doing things that was like blasphemy or or things like that are being accused of and there's some debate about her time I use this a Virgo rising chart where it has Mars in her 9th house in a day chart and I think it's it's really solid but back to your point here at the MTV Music Awards we see Jupiter at three degrees of Capricorn can jump Neptune at 28 degrees of Capricorn so it's a really interesting replication of her Nadel you know Jupiter at 26 Libra and Neptune at two degrees of Scorpio and that entire year basically is the year that Madonna blows up and becomes Madonna.
Yeah yeah and you know I was in high school at the time and like overnight all the girls were wearing you know Madonna hair style Madonna clothes you know fishnet everywhere 15 year old girls and fishnet stuff yeah it was it was 1984 lot of hair gel yeah nice nice so jumping forward to the next conjunction which happened in 1997 January 9th 1997 that same month of that conjunction just 10 days later she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in the movie Aveda and this marked like a major career high point for her in her highest critical acclaim as an actress which is also coming just three months after the birth of her first child which is also an important turning point but we can see when she wins that Golden Globe that like Jupiter is at 29 degrees of Capricorn conjunct Neptune at 27 degrees of Capricorn yeah excuse me the movie was still pretty new it premiered in the US Christmas of 96 so it was still in theaters when she won that Golden Globe I believe yeah and that's kind of like the pinnacle of her 1990s acting career because I remember like earlier in the 90s you had like a League of Their Own the baseball movie with Gina Davis where she played a pretty significant role in that but this is her winning like actual awards.
Yeah yeah no I don't think her her acting career ever really topped this one you know in terms of the claim or reviews or what have you there was a movie when she was first becoming famous called desperately seeking Susan that was kind of popular but she didn't she wasn't gonna win a Golden Globe for that but a lot of her movies had been sort of hit and miss yeah League of Their Own was a bigger was more popular than some of her others but yeah this really did she never got you know got higher with her acting career than what she did with Aveda sure well yeah because I don't I don't remember her doing many acting roles after this like the 2000s I don't do you remember it no no she married she married Guy Richie after this the film director who did you know lock stock into smoking barrels and things like that but yeah no it's true she actually what she did do after Aveda is the following year she made what I think is by far her best album um Ray of Light which is just excellent and you know this from someone who had never been that into her music you know I I liked some of her singles but Ray of Light was a really solid work of of art you know like like she really made a great great album there right um do you remember when it's funny that you mentioned Guy Richie and her getting together with them because that actually brings us to our next conjunction where we jump to January of 2009 and unfortunately in January of 2009 she gets divorced from Guy Richie so Neptune's in early Aquarius and Jupiter's in early Aquarius and Neptune is later on in Aquarius at like 23 but this marked um the finalization of that divorce for her which is an important turning point it also um the conjunctions later that year bracketed the finalization of her adoption of her daughter Mercy James and she also had a major tour that made her the highest grossing tour by a solo artist at that time in 2009.
So then finally we jump forward to the next conjunction, which is April 12th 2022, and this was the Jupiter Neptune conjunction in Pisces and um that year, the year of this conjunction, she released a major career retrospective album that was titled "Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones." Um, yeah, so she does basically like a career retrospective in this year of the Jupiter Neptune conjunction in Pisces, which I thought was brilliant because it kind of like bookends her career in this pretty significant and notable way, which began under under Jupiter Neptune conjunction.
Yeah, well, it's certainly it took off under one, yet that were absolutely yeah yeah yeah or well done Madonna. Yeah, all right, um what where should we go from here? What conjunctions have we not covered or what alignments have we not covered that would be good to, that are in our research list?
Well, you you have the Charles Manson Mars Neptune. Yeah, Mars Neptune, that would be a good one. Okay, so let me pull up Charles Manson's chart. I just um found this one's the tricky, of course, for dealing with the noted murder or people that instructed people to murder other people. I had used him, I think I mentioned him maybe in the fifth house example recently as a Mars Neptune conjunction in the fifth house, and I was really fascinated by that partially because one of the ways I was interpreting it before I looked at his recurrence transits was as somebody who he started a cult but it was like a cult of like younger people and you you often find younger people in the fifth house.
That was part of how I was interpreting that I think in one of the recent fifth house episodes but then when I was researching this episode, I actually found that he responded a lot to Mars Neptune conjunctions uh at different points in his career but um maybe you can help to verify this for me because I don't want to do his entire like chronology or something but basically there were three conjunctions I think that were important for him and one of them is that he gets out of prison in early 1967 and he ends up going to San Francisco and that summer which is famously known as like the summer of love, right? In the middle of that there's this Mars Neptune conjunction in like August of 1967 and this is when he's first gathering together his so-called family, his cult basically the Manson family in San Francisco, right?
Yeah, yeah, so what's interesting um talking you know seeing how these things can be extended when you have a retrograde, Manson's release from prison is March 21st 1967 and Mars has just gone retrograde at two degrees of Scorpio, so it's already co-present with Neptune even though it's on the other end of the sign that Mars retrogrades. We release from prison Mars is co-present with Neptune in Scorpio. The Mars retrograde is going to wander back into Libra and then go back into Scorpio. So that by the end of July, July 28th, Manson's actually arrested um for um you know having a teenage girl with. him basically but you know there's something about Manson's life at this time which we don't need to get into now but um he he keeps getting away with stuff that he you know legally shouldn't be getting away with and and people have theories about why that is but yeah certainly by July and August he's putting together that family as Mars is now back in Scorpio you know even by the end of July and throughout the summer that summer of love Mars is back co-present with Neptune so again it's that matter of like you know Mars after a retrograde moving slowly spending a lot of time in the same sign so that that co-presence with Neptune is really drawn out and yeah over a short period of time he assembles what people call his family a rag tag gang of runaways and other counter-cultural you know wanderers and um yeah you know um and this is this is the crew of people that he'll be with over the next two three years as he goes on to become this um cultural icon of of murder and terror right because he eventually instructs his followers to murder people and they go off and do it and um one thing about his his Mars Neptune conjunction I didn't know until like last night when I was researching this and his biography is that um prior to this point he was involved in um like the wicked pede of biography says it was involved in pimping basically in like um having women prostitutes that he was like in charge of and was putting on the streets and that this is like a significant part of his biography and he actually married one one of the the prostitutes that he was working with at a certain point.
I thought that was a striking manifestation of his Mars Neptune conjunction in the fifth house that I didn't know about until yesterday yeah yeah no he um um I know he was arrested for pimping in 1954 a couple of times um and um you know even even with the Manson family like the the runaway girls in the in the Manson family um I mean he more or less pimped them out as well he would have them working in in strip bars and bringing him the money um the the ranch that they stayed in was you know basically their rent was paid to the old guy who owned the rent uh the ranch you know through through favors from the the girls in the Manson family most likely squeaky from um so yeah I mean he was he was always kind of pimping even like the the whole thing about the Manson family was it was Manson's hold over the women that made the family enticing to the men who hung out in the family you know the men wanted the women Charlie Charlie can control the women so even within the family there was an element of him being a pimp of sorts got it okay that makes so much more sense of just I had always seen just his birth chart in this like emphasis on the seventh house with like that whole stelium of like mercury Jupiter Venus Sun all in the seventh house and then because he has a day chart he was born a little bit before sunset the ruler of the seventh house of relationships and other people being that Mars in Virgo in the fifth house of sex and sexuality can junk Neptune and that being the most difficult planet in his chart but I had never fully understood why that was until I was reading that about his biography but suddenly it makes just like a ton of sense.
So right all right so so to jump forward it goes to not dwell on that to jump okay no yeah but I just wanted to say there's one other thing is he was a very talented musician and songwriter so there is that that Mars Neptune is there just you know as you would expect he was good you know people people like Neil Young or whoever I've said you know yeah he's a crazy killer but you know he wrote some good songs which is objectively true you know despite what one thinks of his character.
Okay I'm glad you mentioned that because that is the setup for the next Mars Neptune conjunction after this one in 1967 which occurs two years later in 1969 and the context for that ties in what you're just saying because he was a musician and he was trying to get there was a music producer that he was trying to work with and that this music producer like almost like signed a deal with him but ended up like backing out at some point right correct yeah the beach boys did record one of men's and songs they rewrote some of the lyrics but the and and it was this producer Terry Melcher who produced that record got it so yeah.
You know he even had a song on a beach voice record so that's something so but so two years later it's February 22nd 1969 there's another conjunction that month of Mars and Neptune in Scorpio this time and he instructs one of the things he he's going to end up doing later that year is he instructs his followers and his cult to go and kill the music producer because he knows where the guy lives and he knows his house but what happens at the conjunction in February of 1969 is the music producer moves out of his house which Manson doesn't know and this other couple which is Roman Planski and Sharon Tate move into the house in February of 1969 at the time of this Mars Neptune conjunction and then they will famously later be murdered when Manson sends his crazed followers to murder them in this like grizzly murder later that summer but that's what's so crazy about this conjunction to me is that the primary event there may be other events but the primary event that I noticed is that Sharon Tate and Planski move into that house at that time and there's a Mars Neptune component to that because it's like they literally get murdered almost on.
Absolutely yeah well yeah Tate gets murdered and the others take it's brutally murdered while she's pregnant because of a mixup basically because they didn't know that they would be there and they thought they were going after this other guy yeah yeah that's basically that's basically what happened yeah okay and so that happens later that summer and then get this Manson and his family are arrested and put on trial and then two years later because these Mars Jupiter conjunctions happen or Mars sorry Mars Neptune conjunctions happen at about that rate two years later on January 25th 1971 there's a recurrence and Manson and his co-defendants on this date are found guilty and this begins this marks basically the end of his career and the end of his life as a free man because he would then spend the rest of his life in prison from this point forward.
And on this date Mars is at one degree of Sagittarius conjunct Neptune at two degrees of Sagittarius so he ends up having again this recurrence of Mars and Neptune when him and his cultist basically are sentenced to life in prison yeah and think about it he's got the Mars Neptune conjunction and Manson's conviction is very unusual in law it is incredibly and it is very very hard to convict someone of murder if they weren't even in the house or the vicinity of where the murder occurred what they proved was that he instigated it and he had an influence so it's very Mars Neptune like he didn't he didn't personally kill anyone he just sort of you know yeah entranced these followers into doing it so it's even interesting on that regard you know and that's that that was acknowledged like no one no one no one thought he was there it's very well established he wasn't he brought them there he told them what to do and then he left right yeah.
That's I think on this that this there was a follow-up murder the next night or two nights later and for that one he did tie up the people but even then he left and the other people went in and killed him so yeah you know it's a very hard thing to do to convict someone of murder when they're not even in the in the you know vicinity but that's what you get with him yeah totally and this is that's a good example for another digression of like what of things we learn from this which is that sometimes by doing this recurrence transit work you learn more about the specific manifestations of certain planetary combinations and like right here we're seeing a really good example of what Mars and Neptune can mean when they come together in some instances and it's it's a really great empirical way of learning with the planetary alignments actually mean and what do different planetary energies mean when they're blended together.
Yeah there's there's one you miss can you just go to his chart in September 24th 1984 on this day so you see Mars and Neptune or again in a in a recurrence in Sagittarius but at the opposite end of Sagittarius as to when he was convicted on this day he was assaulted by another inmate at prison and set on fire he came close to dying okay well it's yeah it's in the whole sign eighth house and and you know yeah just thought I'd throw it in there right yeah that's a really good good point good example um yeah that's crazy so that is you know and that's such a weird combination because I don't think we have we looked at Mars Neptune before I think this is our first one right yeah it is our first one yeah okay um yeah so just all of sorts of different combinations work for different people in these unique ways that's like symbolically resonant with the nature of the combination indeed a couple other combinations that we haven't covered yet that I want to make sure that we do briefly one of them is yeah one of them is Saturn conjunct Pluto and with this one I have a really good example where you found the Megan Markle one right I was looking at that too I was glad you found that exactly because I was thinking about Saturn Neptune and one of the news stories I remember because that conjunction went exact at the beginning of 2020 and before COVID really ramped up one of the news stories I remembered about that year there was very close to the Saturn Pluto conjunction is that Prince Harry and Megan Markle announced that they were leaving the royal family at that time or that they were stepping down for from official duties.
And what's fascinating about that is that both of them were born with a needle Saturn Pluto conjunction and different signs and it in adjacent signs so Megan was literally born like a lesson a week after Harry's parents were married just to wow okay yeah a little spin on that they were married in July 29th 31 and she's born August 4th 81 so here's her chart so she has Saturn at five degrees of Libra co-present with Pluto at 21 degrees of Libra in the fourth whole sign house and you know Saturn rules the seventh house of relationships it's in the fourth house of family and parents so it's and let's actually you're kind of there's also she's got Saturn Jupiter co-present with Pluto and really when we get to this period in 2020 that's really relevant again that's a good point also Saturn Saturn Jupiter co-present in the same sign and Jupiter Pluto co-present because of course all of those would recur in 2020 and in in early 2020 so that's her chart and then Prince Harry's chart is here September 15th 1984 and he has Pluto at zero degrees of Scorpio co-present with Saturn at 12 degrees of Scorpio.
So again like a sign based co-present really not that far off in terms of degrees but so both of them have that signature of Saturn Pluto needily and then what happened is at the beginning of 2020 on January 8th 2020 they made their first public announcement basically that they were starting to pull back from doing official like royal duties and things as part of the like the royal the British royal family which Harry was part of and and and Megan married married into of course so here's the chart for that because what's so striking about that date is it's extremely close to the Saturn Pluto conjunction that that went exact just a few days later but here we see Saturn at 22 degrees of Capricorn conjunct Pluto at 22 degrees of Capricorn so it's on the same degree and then all of a sudden they begin this process basically of starting to remove themselves from the royal family and over the course of the next several months there's this increasingly public and increasingly tenuous like break between Megan and Harry and the royal family including Harry's brother William and his father Prince Prince or was he King Charles at that I guess just Prince Charles no you still he was still Prince Charles at that point yeah yeah so I thought this was incredible just because then the Saturn Pluto recurrence for them is this huge break between them as a couple in the royal family and then there's all sorts of like accusations lobbed back and forth from both sides eventually about why this happened or whose fault it was and etc but we don't have to go into all of that so much as just noting that this very public rift in this family came about during the Saturn Pluto recurrence yeah yeah simple as that yeah so that's pretty good so you know this this brings us back to the 2021 which is just this huge pile up of planets that happened in the first few months of 2020 this stellium and Capricorn that was like you know Jupiter Saturn Pluto at different points there were different outer planets and this reminds me of a point I meant to make which is that this is why stelliums in the sky in Mandena astrology or in world astrology are important because when a stellium happens in a certain sign when there's a cluster of a bunch of planets that move together into conjunction by degree or by sign all of a sudden a bunch of people are going to start having recurrence trans it's all at the same time and it starts drawing in everybody's chart to this like weird energy vortex that's almost like a black hole because it like the mass of all of those planets being together is causing a bunch of people to start having recurrence trans it's if they have those planets in close alignments of their own birth chart especially conjunctions.
You know what looking at this chart reminds me of Chris actually this is this is going to be worth it um so going back to 2016 and we're and we're predicting the election you mentioned how well you know why you didn't think of of Trump then in 2016 um I'm thinking well Trump is a 2024 guy's not a 2016 guy so I don't think he's going to win I thought Hillary was going to win and um I even when I when I predicted Hillary would win my reasoning and this is where this can uh bite you in the ass I was looking at this this this cluster of planets in 2020 I was talking about it in 2016 and I was thinking oh something bad is going to happen in early 2020 and Hillary has a Saturn Pluto conjunction and she's going to have a recurrence transit and so this is going to be this big moment in her presidency that's what I'm thinking in 2016 and being hilariously wrong while also you know sort of bearing the lead I a lot of astrologers we knew that early 2020 looked really crazy even if we didn't know what to make of it.
Um but I I did think something big was coming but I thought it would be president Hillary Clinton who'd be dealing with it because she had that native natal Saturn Pluto so it's it's interesting it's just you can learn when you get things wrong as well I think everyone who's been listening to this episode can fathom why I would have thought something like why I would have used that reasoning it wasn't necessarily unsound even if it was ultimately wrong but looking at this reminds me now of like like since we're on the subject of recurrence transits um I was thinking oh well Hillary if she wins this will be her big moment you know and it probably would have been um that thing's been different right yeah well and it was in mundane astrology of course this was the recurrence you know the 2020 COVID pandemic on the Saturn Pluto conjunction the last time there had been a Saturn Pluto conjunction was in the early 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was was breaking out.
Yeah so good good times but stellions are important because then as the point you were making was like you know Harry was getting a recurrence but um Megan especially was getting a recurrence because she didn't just have um Saturn Pluto but she also had a Jupiter. Pluto recurrence um later that year of course well that actually already there's already co-president the Jupiter Saturn recurrence so she's having like three major outer planet recurrences by conjunction in her chart and in her particular chart the the chart ruler is locked in with those planets as well she's got the moon she's cancer rising the moon in Libra is a degree from conjunct Saturn and two from Jupiter etc etc so it really is like it's a big part of her chart even more than your average person born in 1981 a lot of people born in 1981 have that Jupiter Saturn in Pluto hello Beyonce hello um Britney Spears many others you know the a lot of them would have been having recurrence transits like that.
But even in Megan's case because the moon is there and it's a chart ruler it's just that much more the case for her even relative to her peers absolutely one and to take that a step further it's like look at what house this recurrence of planets is falling in that entire Capricorn stelium in 2020 is falling in her seventh house of relationships and you know of course squaring her fourth fourth house stelium of like family and she's having they're having this huge falling out with her partners family yeah and her partners family are part of like a millennia long institution you know that that once ruled the world so it's not just anyone's family.
Yeah I mean it's the royal family give me a break it's it's you know yeah an institution in many senses the senses of the word there are all these people behind the scenes who you know actually decide what's acceptable and what's not right yeah yeah so that is my example of that of like Saturn Pluto because then it became nass like it became really like dark and in terms of the tension in terms of being Saturn Pluto it was a major um major thing it was it was not it seemed like not pleasant from the reports that I I saw yeah yeah the the only thing that was going to make this story go away was for something even worse to happen to another British royal so there you go.
Yeah all right so um you mentioned somebody you mentioned Beyoncé and that actually brought up because she was um a Jupiter Saturn one that I noticed um and this one's good because we recently got Beyoncé's time not too long ago and she has Aries rising and so that Libra Stellium in her chart is actually in the Seventh Hole Sign house because even though the ascendance at like 29 Aries um the descendant is at 29 Libra but she has this whole Libra Stellium then that's in the Seventh Hole Sign house which is like Mercury Saturn Jupiter Venus Pluto so absolutely packed Seventh House and part of that Seventh House is that she has a very close Jupiter Saturn conjunction with Saturn at nine degrees of Libra conjunct Jupiter at 12 degrees of Libra.
And the primary thing I want to point out about this that I thought was fascinating is we of course famously had um after she was born the next time that Jupiter and Saturn would conjoin and replicate her natal conjunction as Jupiter and Saturn do that every 20 years so around the ages of like 1920 she there's there's a replication when there's a Saturn Jupiter conjunction that takes place in Taurus if you go to February 15th of 2000 is is when Destiny's Child announced their lineup change because there there was the original four piece that recorded the first the first album and then half the group left and they brought in a third singer and that was the classic Destiny's Child lineup and that was announced on February 15th 2000 the Destiny's Child we know with Michelle Williams okay yeah the three piece.
So and that's the the major thing that I noticed about this time frame of like you know around a year of this Saturn Jupiter conjunction for Beyonce is that basically this is when the group that she was in Destiny's Child releases two major albums which really make them like a huge hit so there's like one that's released in the middle of 1999 that had that hit say my name the writings on the wall yeah the writing song wall and then the next one and Bill's Bill's right classic and then in May of 2001 Survivor is released and this eventually wins Beyonce her first Grammy as a songwriter for the title track so basically like around this time Beyonce's becoming a huge superstar as part of her as part of the group that she's in Destiny's Child but also sometime around this time I believe is when her and Jay Z get together and Jay Z's like a famous rapper and they got together and became like this power couple with Beyonce being a huge superstar and Jay Z being a huge superstar.
在这个时期,我注意到关于碧昂丝的一件重要事情,就是大约在土星与木星相合的一年里,她所在的组合“命运之子”发行了两张重要的专辑,奠定了他们的大热地位。1999年中期,他们发布了一张专辑,里面有热门单曲《Say My Name》(《不敢相信》(The Writing's On The Wall)),然后还有《Bill's, Bills, Bills》这首经典歌曲。接着在2001年5月,他们又发布了专辑《Survivor》,这张专辑让碧昂丝首次以词曲作者的身份获得了格莱美奖。因此,在这个时间段,碧昂丝作为“命运之子”中的一员,开始成为超级明星。此外,我相信大约在这个时候,她和知名说唱歌手Jay-Z开始交往,他们组成了一对炙手可热的明星情侣,碧昂丝和Jay-Z各自在音乐界都有巨大的影响力。
And that's the other piece that I think is important that was happening around this conjunction is just that that relationship that famous relationship that she was in was starting to get going at some point around that Saturn Jupiter conjunction and yeah I've a chart I have a chart of Destiny's Child and Jay Z performing together at the hot 97 summer jam 2001 at Nassau Colosseum in Union Dale New York on Long Island so they certainly were hanging out on that night and that was still Jupiter and Saturn co-president Gemini and what day was that June 28th 2001 yeah there we go because right because the co-presence gets extended not just in Saturn and Jupiter and Taurus but also Saturn Jupiter and Gemini for a little while.
Yeah I it was really great back in the day the MTV website would report every little thing about these celebrities and so you could it was really great for the astrology and I would you know just save these these these events and things like this and they come in handy 25 years later right um yeah so that was the main thing I want to point out there's other recurrences with her with like Venus Uranus stuff because her and Jay Z end up getting married on April 4th 2008 near Venus Uranus conjunction and then the like for example Venus and Uranus move into a co-presence very close to the famous incident with like Salange attacking her sister attacking Jay Z and some of the stuff surrounding their relationship and then she releases the lemonade album April 23rd 2016 on a close Venus Uranus conjunction and the album partially focuses on issues with like Jay Z's and infidelity and stuff like that so it's like replicating the needle Venus Uranus conjunction of their wedding chart basically.
Yeah so that was that example but I just wanted to mention it because you mentioned Megan Markle in that Jupiter Saturn conjunction in her chart now that gets partially replicated in 2020 but for Beyonce that first Jupiter Saturn conjunction was it was a really defining turning point she'll be that wedding chart again sure so let me animate the chart I don't have a time or anything so I'm just gonna approximate it but the date that I wrote down is April 4th 2008 what I have on April 4th 2008 is Venus at like 28 degrees of Pisces conjunct Uranus at 28 degrees at 28 degrees of Pisces right right I was just I I had a brain fart but Jay Z was born with Venus Neptune conjunct out of sign not Venus Uranus so I was thinking for a second maybe he had a recurrence in there but he doesn't no it's one of those like you know an event creating a new foundation chart in this instance it's like their marriage beginning on a Venus Uranus in Pisces and we see that Venus Uranus conjunction.
And then here this is the release of the lemonade album and on April 23rd 2016 we see Venus like right it like 22 Aries conjunct Uranus at 21 Aries and it was like a high point for her artistically in terms of most people's regard at that album but it was also dealing with some pretty heavy stuff in terms of their relationship right right that was also that was right when Mars had just stationed retrograde in Sagittarius co-present with Saturn very rare double retrograde in a sign okay nice all right um what have we not covered at this point my friend oh my man um I'm not sure I mean we can go on and on um if we I don't know if we've demonstrated every demonstrate the point I don't know if we've demonstrated it at this point what the that recurrence there might be something the whole recurrence transit thing yeah maybe maybe not I don't know I'm kind of on the fence I'm kind of on the fence with this all astrology thing I don't know if I believe any of it anymore.
Um can you imagine me I mean I'm sure statistically there's going to be somebody at this point that's like I'm not buying it but I I cannot if I if you're not buying it at this point I can't there's nothing else we could do at this point to to convince anyone I believe right no no um but it's it's there for for people to find for themselves like I'm saying I think you know recurrence transits if Michael hadn't told me about him doing the work I do I might have just stumbled across them anyway they're really obvious if you're really if you're paying attention and you're thinking just a little outside the box they creep up everywhere you know um and and even someone like you who was resisting them eventually you know you see a astrology that you just you know it's it's it becomes really clear that that transits do operate this way.
Yeah absolutely it's um because it's a different way of thinking about transits and thinking about what's possible in at first there's naturally going to be a resistance to that from those that are used to thinking about transits in a certain way and it forces you to expand your conception of what it what a transit is or can be and um you know I I understand having some resistance to that there there may be some people have resistance to that I don't know but for me it's been very valuable learning this technique and really diving into it and starting to get a sense for how it works because it has expanded my understanding of transits and my conceptualizations of transits in a really constructive way that's giving more information without necessarily like messing up something or or changing things in a significant way it's just adding additional information of something that that's there that you could overlook pretty easily if you're not aware of it.
Yep yeah yeah be paying attention okay well I think then instead of killing myself trying to share like the rest of the examples that we found I'm going to save these for a follow-up episode probably of the secret astrology podcast. I'll record that as like a bonus that maybe you and I will record that as a bonus episode just for just for patrons at the end of this month that people want to work yeah and we should mention to people you know we do we do these secret episodes I'm often I'm not always doing them with you but you do them every month I'm often a guest on them and that's where the really juicy astrology is done folks I mean this podcast thing you know for the general public you get the the general problem the real stuff is on the the secret astrology episodes that are for patrons only so pony up folks if you want the real stuff the the high octane astrology coming yeah.
I mean I appreciate your promotion of me but I do want to say I actually put all of the best stuff out in the public episodes which is why they're so long because I get so excited about like doing all the research and then wanting to share as much of it as possible and to contribute to the astrological tradition and a genuine excitement about our findings and passion for astrology and love for the subject and for advancing the field and expanding the knowledge of the astrological community actually put way too much out for free just to the public episodes and then when we have other leftovers we do put those in the secret astrology podcast or other things for patrons which there's like going to be like some really good examples there that I actually am struggling not to like spend another hour recording today likewise likewise yeah.
Not to mention doing other aspects like we've only done conjunctions I you know I'd love to do one on just trines or just squares you know and and and what happy I mean it's all doable there's enough yeah absolutely so we're going to go into some conclusions here but we'll just say that yeah this is this is the foundation and we're going to we'll save some of our other episodes for the secret astrology podcast that will record probably later this month.
Hey so quick interjection while I'm editing this episode in post but Nick and I did end up recording a follow-up episode on the secret astrology podcast where we ended up covering 16 extra chart examples that ended up being cut from this episode so in that episode ended up being a great follow-up because we covered a bunch of planetary combinations that we weren't able to make it to in this episode we also covered multiple planet recurrences with a couple of example charts that I actually meant to include in this episode but I forgot to and then we even covered one intergenerational recurrence transit example which was really amazing to cap off that episode so it ended up being a two hour and 40 minute follow-up discussion.
So if you'd like to get access to that episode you can sign up for the secret astrology podcast at patreon.com slash astrology podcast and that's one of the ways that we help to support and fund this work is through the paying subscribers that sign up for our patreon and help us to fund this research so yeah check it out at patreon.com slash astrology podcast all right thanks and then if people would like us to do some follow-up episodes on other aspects if this creates enough excitement in the astrological community let us know in the comment section on youtube because that's the main place to get feedback at this point to get this feedback if you like to this and let us know if you'd like to see that episode because then if we if you do we'll do a follow-up on other aspects in the future for the public podcast and I do want to say if anybody has a good example that's another one that I'd like to do is I want to put out a survey and ask people let's say especially for conjunctions let's keep it more restricted to conjunctions at this point to keep with our theme but if people have a good example of a recurrence transit either in their own birth chart or in a celebrity chart that they've found let us know in the comments below this video on youtube because I'd like to do a follow-up where we share some stories of submissions that we've received from listeners because I think that would really help to flesh out some of the celebrity examples that we've been getting where you know we focus oftentimes on the surface level of like major visible events in a person's life but this technique is actually even more impressive when you know the behind-the-scenes story and you know the like the emotional and other things that were going on surrounding some of these alignments were actually it's actually much more powerful when you have that behind-the-scenes experience of them and I'd love to hear from some of those stories from people and then we could do a follow-up on those as well.
And another follow-up episode we could do on this theme is Sinistry recurrence transits for instance when I met you in 2005 that was right when Saturn came into Leo my son's sign and you are someone who has the son and Saturn co-present in a sign and my experience of Saturn being co-present with my son I recognize I said to you at the time of course you didn't believe in recurrence transits but I was like yeah look I got I got the Saturn son and you have Saturn son in your natal chart and so sometimes transits are like that you're having a certain kind of transit and someone comes into your life or it becomes the central in your daily life who has that same the same combination that you're having as a transit they have that as a natal configuration if you have Mars is suddenly or let's say yeah Mars is conjunct your Neptune you start dating someone who has natal Mars conjunct Neptune that kind of thing happens so often and is another really sort of un-sung uncovered facet of this I'd say it's a Jason to what we've been covering in this episode but it really gets into the the weeds of Sinistry so that's another interesting one if folks wanted us to talk about that as well.
Yeah that would be really amazing to do as well as just you know I've seen that one of the examples I left out was like Francis Ford Coppola being born on a Sun Saturn conjunction like you mentioned and then his daughter is most famous daughter Sophia Coppola being born on a Sun Saturn conjunction in his fifth house so that's like another variation of what you're just talking about sort of yeah yeah Sophia Coppola was born while Francis was filming the godfather and she even appears as a baby in the movie in the final scene with the babies being baptized and you know there's all the shooting going on so there's even like this she has the Sun Saturn conjunction in his fifth house and his wife is having a baby while he's filming this film that's very consequential to his career.
11 that's perfect all right um so let's wrap up and let's summarize let's restate some points but let's also summarize some things that we've learned that are important so to restate my premise that I said at the beginning my formulation of what we're seeing here is that if a person is born under a specific celestial alignment then important moments in their life will happen when the same celestial alignment reoccurs in the sky so that's what I said at the beginning and now I think we've demonstrated why I said that and that that premise is actually true that like scientific principle and premise um I hope now we we've made a compelling case to show people that that is true and that that's like a valuable very core astrological principle that you can use in practice in different ways.
All right um let's see other things uh one of the cool things is that the technique is birth time independent while knowing the time and house placement and sect and other things provides additional info as well as like what house the recurrence will land in which we've seen to be important several times it's still like theoretically something you could use and get some information from even if you don't have a birth time so that's very good news for like you know a significant portion of the population that doesn't know their birth time that there is a predictive technique that you can use that's pretty useful in terms of still making predictions about important events in the future.
Yep yeah so that's true um by extension this is also while the co-presences are really important and that's been something really core I think that we've seen consistently there's also another level where this technique works independent of zodiac and so to some extent you could use it so ideally for example you could also use it um even if you're not using a zodiac for example there's things about this technique that while you can layer additional things like the zodiac in ways that I think are important and useful there's also a certain way in which you could use this technique even independent of of what zodiac or any zodiac and I think there's something compelling about that as well from a from a practical and conceptual standpoint.
Yeah yeah like with synodic cycles it's it's part of this sort of proto astrology you know proto-horoscopic astrology anyway you know before there was horoscopic astrology there was just that sort of omen type of astrology and things like recurrence transits and synodic cycles were probably part of how that was done you know it's a reasonable inference to make.
Yeah absolutely and that you know retrogrades for example especially with visible planets are something that they were paying attention to in the sky because you literally see one of the planets like let's just say especially a fast moving one like mercury or Venus or Mars slows down and then suddenly spends an inordinate amount of time let's say in a conjunction with a slower moving planet like Jupiter or Saturn. or what have you it extends extends and emphasizes that transit which in this context we understand why that can be even more important because of how it can relate back to the natal signature that different people have in their birth charts yeah there was a great example of that at the end of last year 2024 mercury went retrograde in Sagittarius while Jupiter was in Gemini which makes a mutual reception but because mercury went retrograde in Sagittarius you had like six seven weeks like from late November to early January of mercury in Sagittarius Jupiter in Gemini and that that a really extended mutual reception between those two planets and it was interesting to watch yeah definitely.
Let's see this a lot of this I've said a few times but it's been teaching me things about the nature of certain planets individually but also especially certain planetary combinations which I found fascinating and I found educational because it's giving an access point for understanding what the planets mean which is independent of other conceptual or like mythological or other types of things that astrologers sometimes use as access points to understand the planets this is a much more direct empirical way of understanding planetary combinations and the significations and symbolism of the planets like almost anything I've ever seen before there's something about it that just feels different and gives me a much more empirical and direct sense of the planetary meaning and that's something that that excites me from a research and studying standpoint yeah.
I've often said this to clients when I'm pointing things like this out you know when we're learning astrology we learn a language we learn the archetypal language that is it gives us the the ability to communicate a universal idea but make it feel very personal to everyone at once but when you when you start getting into this kind of astrology you're really transcending that level of universality and you're really getting down to what a particular planetary combination means to the individual you know it becomes something very specific there's nothing symbolic about it it'll happen to fit itself into this larger symbolic scheme but for that individual person these combinations mean real things real experiences real people real aspirations all that stuff and and that's exactly I mean you're right when you're looking at them this way it allows you to get past that that archetypal level where you're trying to look at something that applies to everyone at once and and you know narrowing it down to what does this combination mean to this person right.
And it's like who has this natal combination of planets in their birth chart and then what happened to those people when those combinations re-occurred as a filtering mechanism and then you could filter it further by saying what happened when that recurred and there was also a retrograde and so on and so forth but it starts getting very you could you could rebuild your entire understanding of what the planets mean in astrology just from using this technique and you would get to the same or a very similar place to where astrologers already have gotten just from their own empirical understanding of the planets in certain planetary alignments but it's a fascinating way where you could rebuild everything from scratch if you needed to with just basic basic principles yeah.
Yeah and and yeah you can fathom like for instance the you know Jupiter Saturn Pluto for a Megan Markle or Beyonce can mean wildly different things we we have a sort of code where we can attribute a certain number of traits or descriptions to both but ultimately they're they're these very specific individual meanings and it's really like the life itself delineates the chart and this is where the recurrence trends it's really do that the you know it's the transit that tells you what the planetary combination means not what some astrologer interpreting it says it is it's like the thing itself you know whatever it was a car accident a wedding that's what that combination means right absolutely.
Yeah and it's like you could you could bypass even the entire long two three thousand four thousand year tradition of astrology of accumulated astrologers contributing observations of what they think the planets mean and you could like rebuild everything from scratch if you wanted to get a fresh understanding and in some ways that would be valuable but in other ways you'd actually end up coming back to where you started which is that astrologers have been doing this for such a long time we actually have figured out the planetary meanings pretty well and this technique actually demonstrates that in pretty concrete ways yeah I agree I agree.
Yeah so you mentioned consultations and before I forget I wanted to mention that because you do consultations using this technique and I really want to if people are curious about it or want to see it applied in their chart or need some help understanding the application that's something you're available to do for consultations and I definitely recommend you for consultations because I don't know anybody you know obviously there's nobody else that I know in the world who's been using this technique as extensively and knows how to use it in a consulting setting as effectively as you because you're the one that's been working on this for most of your career at this point isn't astrologer.
Yeah yeah I have I mean that class with Michael was in 1999 and I just got right down to researching them you know a lot and yeah I gave that talk at UAC in 2012 I think in 2016 because of the whole Hillary thing I got a bit like you know I got I burned myself obviously I redeemed that a bit but you know this last one since then yeah but yeah you know you got to lose to know how to win I suppose but there you go I mean even that that's what's actually really important to me you know the the the shame of getting a prediction wrong is fairly minor because what's really important is for you and your viewers to understand what I was thinking when I made the mistake.
Like like they're what you know like oh you you made the wrong call but you know everyone understands why or hopefully understands you know what my thinking was in doing that so that to my mind is just as as far as getting something everyone understands why I made the call I did you know right yeah that it was it's like we learn from every prediction that we make I mean if you're if you're good astrologer if you're like conscious you recognize mistakes and you learn something from them and that's the only way you grow and learn as astrologers by doing that and having that self-reflection and then building on that which is is really cool.
So but you do consultations your website is niktiginvestestrologer.com right niktiginvestestrologer.com absolutely I'm available for consultations rectification and yeah I mean recurrence trans it's it's they're not something I you know look out for specifically they just they present themselves all the time all the time in any number of you know consultation circumstances yeah it's one of those things that goes to a point that's like recurring less than about like if you know what to look for there's things in astrology that are doing like crazy impressive things but sometimes you have to know what to look for like your eyes have to be open to something.
And if there can be things where if it doesn't fit like your paradigm of how you think things work you can not quite get it and I think that was one of the blocks that I had for a long time is it not quite fitting the paradigm of how I learned what transits are but one of the things that we've done here today is sort of expand the definition of what transits are in a sense and what they can be and I hope yeah I think that'll be a useful contribution to contemporary transit theory and contemporary predictive work using transits in astrology from this point forward.
Yeah absolutely I it's funny to me you know when I was taking that class with Michael Michael had this fantastic library the Joanna Shannon library in his office and in New York City and I was reading all these astrology books during that time I was with him because you know that library was there I could take new books out every week and I most certainly did but when I left Michael's class and I left New York I basically put you know largely put reading astrology books behind me you're fine work of course notwithstanding from that point on from 2000 onward I really made a point to just work on my database do my own research do make my own observations and and build my knowledge base from from what I was finding rather like I felt I had just I had exhausted what I could get from books you know and I really needed to if I wanted to grow as an astrologer I had to go out there and see these you know see see the astrology myself.
Yeah absolutely and yeah shout out again once again to Michael and yeah to think of him and to give him credit as your original teacher who passed this down to you. and yeah to give a shout out to him in terms of his memory and commemorating him on this day you know one one year since he passed away tomorrow it's a credit to him where I was rewatching like a workshop that he did from 2017 on like predictive techniques and I was reminded where that he was a he was more he was he was oriented towards psychological astrology and he thought that was very important and that was where his emphasis was but I was surprised in rewatching this predictive techniques workshop that he was also very grounded in you know real predictive astrology as well and that there's elements of modern astrology of 20th century astrology that had some very strong predictive elements.
And while a lot of the emphasis of my career and a lot of the excitement over the past 20 or 30 years has been around going back to ancient astrology and recovering a more let's say pure form of predictive astrology you know there's a lot of great stuff from from modern contemporary astrology as well that needs to be reunited with the ancient traditions and you know arguably this is probably something that's that's been in some of the ancient traditions potentially or could have been conceivably that others have noticed stuff like this long ago and like maybe there's some Babylonian astrology from like 3000 years ago that's like rolling our eyes at us right now saying like you're just rediscovering this now like this is this is a new thing to you.
But I think it's just important that there there there was good work done in 20th century astrology just like there was good work done in ancient astrology and that's one of the reasons why in the conclusion to my book and the final page of my book I encourage people not to give into fundamentalism because there's something valuable to be learned from all of the different traditions whether it's like ancient astrology versus modern astrology whether it's you know whatever other divisions that we have in the astrological community like whole sign versus quadrant houses there's validity to both tropical versus sidereal astrology like there's things to be drawn from both there's all these different ways in which I've tried to emphasize in that work.
And even though my passion became ancient astrology I've also tried to demonstrate through this podcast the usefulness and validity and the importance of being open to all different styles of astrology to learn something from and I hope this is another instance of that where we've learned some valuable things today in this interesting fusion of like modern and ancient astrology that we've kind of demonstrated here.
Yeah I no matter what if you know even if you're really set on a certain kind of path with your study of astrology I encourage anyone to always branch out as much as possible even just in a casual curious you know absorbing kind of probing investigation into what other people are doing you know don't don't get stuck in your lane even if you have a lane that you always go back to you know get out there and and look at things in different ways it is important especially you know to be able to break out of certain sort of systemic ways of thinking.
You know like like yeah and and challenge every preconception you have. I mean that's a big part of developing your astrological mind is you know having some pet idea of getting really enthusiastic about it and then destroying it it doesn't work and moving on or trying to destroy it and it doesn't and then you know you've got something more robust so yeah you're meant to keep growing if you're going to get good at this yeah and it's okay to research widely and then to pick a lane and to really specialize in something and be able to be proficient in that but also feel like you can defend that as this is my approach and I think this really works.
It's just valuable also I think it's really important to also be able to be able to recognize the the assumptions or the paradigms that you have adopted and how sometimes you can you can step outside of that and understand you know what is the paradigm that another astrologer is adopted and to be able to look at that and step outside of that sometimes to understand where different astrologers are coming from and even if you don't agree or even if you're not on board with certain techniques or what have you understanding the the value in different approaches and different ways of speaking this language of astrology that we all speak even if we use different like dialects or different versions of that language.
Yeah I mean ultimately this is what astrology represents is the greatest generalizations until the the most minute individual you know uh uh uh uh uh slices of that you know like everything from the macro the very macro to the very micro um and and so with that in mind yeah you know it no matter how much you know about astrology you still just know this like sort of one version of it, this one perspective of it. You know, it really is something that virtually, certainly every ancient culture had some form of astrology, not everyone devised it into a horoscopic system or what have you, but everyone had some kind of astrology.
And it always spoke to them and it was always true in the way that astrology is. So there is something, you, I'm always trying to get to that universal thing. And maybe that's part of what drew me into the Babylonian ideas to be able to look at things in that really essential way. Yeah, absolutely. Well, and it's like, there's this code that is underlying our universe and it's underlying our reality. And it's like out there doing stuff.
And I saw like this discussion very briefly is watching like that, Neil deGrasse Tyson video briefly where they dis astrology. And they make that like the thumbnail and stuff to draw in viewers. But like earlier in the discussion before they got to astrology, they had this brief digression about like simulation theory and the idea of like the idea, the theory, like what if this is like a very advanced simulation that we're all living in? And that was so funny because like he was treating that as a possibility.
It was like, you know, we can't rule that out. That's actually possible that we're living in a simulation. And he's like, but unfortunately, it's like there's no way to know that because there's no way to see we'd have to see the code underlying reality. And ironically, I was just thinking the irony that astrology, which he later would reject because of different reasons, but he rejects just sort of out of hand.
And I've never in interviews seen him to have more than a passing surface level familiarity with it. So of course, you would reject the surface level of what you're not that familiar with. But I always think it's so fascinating that in instances like that, like astrology would be like one of the most compelling arguments of something like simulation theory because it's literally showing this like code that's operating underlying the events and everybody's lives and world events and interrelationships between people. And it's showing that things are more interconnected.
And there is, you know, the ancient word for describing this, let's say, quote unquote, using modern language, this code or this, let's say, language is fate. Like that was the ancient way of conceptualizing that was the term fate, which meant like an ordering and sequence and interconnection of events. And it's the reason underlying why certain events are interconnected in this very strange and mysterious but but important way. And that's what ancient astrologers always conceptualize themselves doing with astrology is that they were studying fate and that fate is the interconnections underlying our reality that's connecting together events that appear disconnected, but are actually connected in these very interesting ways.
And so I'm not like fully advocating for simulation theory necessarily. I want to do a separate episode talking about at some point and just talking about different ways that you could conceptualize astrology. If you wanted to try to like put a broader philosophical model on it. And I think that's one that you could use, but there's also of course others. But you know, I think there's no way. You know what I find funny about what I find funny about that is the reason he can't see astrology as being that code.
It's the same thing we had this conversation in that secret episode, secret astrology podcast episode we did. The scientists can't they think that we think that the planets are making us do things. They think astrologers believe that planets influence us. I don't think I've met an astrologer who thinks planets influence us. Or I mean maybe you know people have random theories, but no hard conviction. The planets are mirroring what we do, but I don't know any astrologer who actually thinks that we're being compelled to act by the planets.
If there is some kind of mechanism involved, it would be a mechanism that is turning the planets and turning us, but it isn't the planets turning us so to speak. Yeah, no, just simply that. If there is a mechanism involved, the planets aren't the mechanism. The planets are also you know being turned by the mechanism as we are if that is in fact what's going on. But that's why he can't see it as code because he doesn't think of it as being. If he could, if someone could just you know point that out, then it could be more you know feasible for them to consider.
But I think they just can never get over that hump of they think we think the planets are making us do these things. Right. Yeah, I think that's really that's true. That's a good point. That is the stumbling block that causes a lot of people to reject astrology outright rather than looking to see what astrologers actually are doing and thinking and the majority of contemporary Western astrologers for the past century do believe that the planets are coinciding with or correlating with the celestial movements are correlating with earthly events, but not that they're directly causing it.
And you know there are I try to remain I've tried to remain more open because that's my conceptualization of astrologers you're describing and has been for a long time now. I still I try to remain open because of the mercurial nature of astrology of mercury being the ancient ruler of astrology that usually when there is a dichotomy between two sides of astrology that usually it's like a both situation like I was explaining before.
So I've tried to remain more open in recent years that perhaps there are different some like causal mechanisms at play that could be relevant. But for the most part I'm on the same pages you that that it's happening more through something like synchronicity or through a correlation and that it's more like a code that's underlying reality where the planets are like mirror mirroring things that are happening down here in this mysterious way that astrologers don't you know frankly don't fully understand yet and haven't worked out the entire system in terms of the like broader cosmological implications of what this means.
But we have like found a lot of very compelling techniques that show the result of whatever it is that's behind the astrology that's doing that and this is one of those techniques where you can use it and operate this weird like advanced technology in order to see things in the future that you shouldn't otherwise be able to see. But we actually do need help from other smart individuals like you. know Neil deGrasse Tyson who I wish we could have those conversations with in order to get more help integrating the implications of astrology into the broader cosmological frameworks that have been developed you know by contemporary scientists and physicists and things like that and you know that's what people like Ptolemy were like back in the day or people like Kepler or Galileo or other people like that is like these very smart scientists but that we're also seeing astrology working and operating and we're doing their best to reconcile it with the contemporary scientific paradigms at the time and that's part of what the next step is going to be for us and for the astrological community is to do that with the prevailing scientific paradigms of our time but we have to do the groundwork first in understanding how astrology works and this is a key key moment in that because it's really getting to the heart of one of the most important techniques in astrology which is transits and expanding our understanding of how it can work and what it can do.
Yeah very well said. Yeah and it's like I've always thought that transits was the most compelling way to demonstrate astrology in the first place that I wish more skeptics of astrology looked into because I think it's the part where astrology gets really compelling and doesn't become... Yeah it's not as like subjective in terms of subjective you know character analysis or what have you where you have this element of subjectivity with this there is this much more objective component I think that's much more compelling. Yeah it gets it gets more to the the idea of astrology being this map of time once you're looking at transits that's really you know coming alive as opposed to if you just have the nativity well that's just this one slice of time it's like a photograph as opposed to you know a nepec movie so that's yeah that's always been from day one transits were what drew me into astrology what proved astrology to me so to speak it was looking through an ephemeral and really piecing that together that was really how it spoke to me so yeah it always astonishes me when I've come across astrologers who say yeah transits man's it's you know it's all in the natal chart just you look at the natal chart I'm sure that's true at some level but I've always just been too compelled to think otherwise I guess.
Yeah absolutely um all right my friend I was looking at my other points but they're just reiterations of things we've said many times here so I think we might be good and I think we are coming towards the end of this so thank you so think we have like a five-hour episode or something don't worry okay let's turn into another epic legendary episode but I'm okay with that because this is like you know our life's work and and this especially I say this a lot I've said there's a lot over the past couple of years of episodes you and I have done but I think this is one of the most important episodes in the history of the podcast and um yeah I think I I stand by that because this is really good thank you for teaching me this technique you're my my teacher of this technique thank you also for your your patience with me as a um you know reluctant student of of this technique over the years but I have I came along I caught up eventually it just took 20 years I think of us us talking and everything but I hope I've made it up to you by us today putting this together and you know putting my own research of charts into this to help share this technique with the world together it feels really special to me and I'm glad we we got a chance to do this.
I couldn't agree more brother um you know it's the funny thing it's true 20 years ago you and I were were parallel you know we we were both like on these on our own path and we were both like oh yeah you're good I like your path you you enjoy that path I'm on my path um and now it's 20 years later and we're both very like far more familiar with the other guys path with what was the other guys paths 20 years ago we're we're far more like each other than we were when we first met as a as astrologers in terms of what our focus is yeah sure that back in the day Patrick was you know kind of amazing because he knew all your stuff and all my stuff and so he was this sort of like Liebren bridge between it all our love child we used to call him but um and and you know Patrick has still dazzling me to this day with with you know where he goes with his his that that mind of his but you and I have caught up to where Patrick was where you know there's more of a sort. of a broader grasp of things and it's not just this one little wheelhouse that uh we we keep you know um tinkering with obsessively so yeah we're it's it's really the speaking to you this way also it helps me gauge like my growth your growth um you know where we where we've come in these 20 years yeah absolutely I love that you're right what because Patrick took had like my love of like Sadiq releasing and like your love of recurrence transits and and synodic cycles and things like that and he's been synthesizing that for years and now the two of you have been two of us have been catching up and coming back to the the same place yeah exactly you and I are becoming more Patrick like in that way uh yeah yeah yeah totally right on well um thank you brother it's been fantastic.
Yeah these episodes really um the yeah they they just making them helps uh um helps me grow and get to the next level that I'm trying to get to so thank you always for having me back yeah thank you um all right everybody check out um our two episodes we did on eclipses two years ago eclipses in history check out our Venus retrograde in areas episode and check out our Saturn conjunctum episode because all of those go into other recurrence transits that we didn't hear today but otherwise I think that's it for this episode of the astrology podcast so thanks everyone for watching our listening and we'll see you again next time.
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