Jupiter and Saturn: Harmonizing and Why It’s So Important

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to kick off the week by looking at Jupiter and Saturn, who are coming together through a sextile. This is actually a really significant connection for Jupiter and Saturn because their connections don't happen all the time. This is their first connection since we had their great conjunction a couple of years ago.

So today, we're going to look at the archetypal Jupiter and Saturn, and then, we're going to talk about the great cycles of Jupiter and Saturn and how we measure them, and where we are at in the current cycle and why this is significant as the first meeting point between the two planets since their conjunction in Aquarius.

We're then going to talk a little bit about what makes this sextile interesting; breaking down some of the features of the signs that they're in and the type of aspect that they share gives you some hints as to what you might notice. And then we'll end with just rapidly going through the house pairings, kind of like a horoscope just giving you some keywords to work with as a way of grounding the Jupiter Saturn sextile into your own birth chart based on your rising sign. So that is our agenda for today. I think it's a good way to start the week.

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So this is, I think, a really exciting moment, and it's kind of a fly under the radar type of transit that I think we could easily miss because we don't always think of sextiles as that big of a deal. But when it's a sextile between Jupiter and Saturn, it's not a normal sextile that might pass in a couple of days if it were faster moving planets.

So let's take a look at this on the real-time clock so that you can get a feel for it. So here you can see, this is Monday, June 19, and we are looking at Jupiter in Taurus connecting with Saturn, who's now retrograde in the sign of Pisces. You can see the two are connecting through a sextile, and the sextile is pretty brief. It's been building already. So if we want to see the total build of this, let's actually remove everything from the picture, except for let's move everything except for Jupiter and Saturn.

So if we go back, we get about a three-degree range for this transit. So if we look at it from that perspective, we're looking at it right around the beginning of June, this is June 4, when the two come into that three-degree engagement range that ancient astrologers paid a lot of attention to, if we speed it up, they are coming again, Monday, June 19, they come into their exact sextile. That's today, and then if we keep rolling it forward and get that three-degree range of separation, then we're talking about till about July 4, that the two of them are still connected in that three-degree range.

Now, ancient astrologers would have paid attention to that three-degree range in terms of the important moments of more concrete manifestations. But the two are witnessing each other from the whole sign sextile as long as Jupiter is in Taurus and as long as Saturn at the same time is in the sign of Pisces, which will take us all the way through next spring, let's take a look.

If we go month by month, you'll see that the two planets stay configured to one another the entire time, and if we go back just a little bit, they get really close to one another at the beginning of the year. Let me just go forward just so you can see through Jupiter stationing and then turning direct; they get to within about two degrees of one another in January of 2024, and then, if we keep rolling them forward, they're staying configured to one another all the way up until Jupiter leaves Taurus in May of 2023, at which point then they enter a square.

So the dynamic will shift, and we will talk about that, you know, when we get there, but for the next year, they're configured by sextile. So we have a very important connection between now and early July that's been building since early June to get about a full month of their degree-based connection, and then we have them connected by whole sign all the way until May of 2024.

So before we say a whole lot more about this, I want to start by just talking about the archetypal Jupiter and Saturn and what can you expect from these two planets when they get together. The great cycles of Jupiter and Saturn were very important to ancient astrologers as they were part of their system of mundane astrology that was really concerned with developments in what you may now call the collective. So, you know, when we think about what's Pluto in Aquarius going to do for the collective over the next 20 plus years, we're thinking of mundane astrology, and mundane Astrology can have a personal and collective dimension.

Now more than ever, that's the way we tend to look at mundane transits like, well, Pluto and Aquarius; what does it mean for you? What does it mean for all of us? Right?

So a lot of what my youtube channel consists of is the exploration of mundane astrology applied both personally and collectively; we're talking about, you know, big transits that sort of everyone is experiencing and this sort of collective archetype of weather that's in the air, but also how is it affecting us personally, I tend, I guess, on this channel, probably, I tend to be a lot more personal than collective, we look at the collective stuff sometimes.

So the archetypal combination of Jupiter and Saturn for ancient astrologers was really important because it was a way of measuring tremendous changes happening in the collective for a civilization or a kingdom, or a ruling class or whatever, which might include looking at things like agriculture, or you know, warfare, or the ruling class and important births and deaths in the ruling families and stuff like that.

Of course, nowadays, we can look at it in a much more democratic way, where mundane Astrology can be looked at in terms of the Zeitgeist and the changes happening that we all see in the news and that we all experience in you know, the development of something like AI or whatever, with Pluto moving into an Air sign, everyone's been talking about that.

But long ago, before we had outer planets that move very, very slowly, which have become the main planets that are used to talk about mundane collective developments in modern astrology, there were things like Jupiter and Saturn cycles, and we'll talk more about their site, the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn, in a minute. But their archetypal combination is really interesting.

If you think about them mythologically, it can really help distill the essence of the cycle. So you have Jupiter and Saturn as a father-son duo that have a relationship to an old order and a new way of living or a new order. Saturn represents the Golden Age and a time that was very fruitful and beautiful but also represents a kind of tyrannical inability to let go and let the youth bring something new about, as evidenced in the story between Kronos and Zeus.

Kronos becomes this sort of this clutching, possessive, tyrannical, oppressive, or suppressive father figure and has a lot of sort of patriarchal connotations. Zeus comes in as the sort of youthful, new leader and overthrows the old order, especially at the time when it needs to be something, needs to transform, and there's an inability or reluctance to let go of power to let the younger generation come up.

Now, this is archetypal. This is true with, you know, mothers and daughters and fathers and sons and parents and kids in general, as well as institutions and traditions in our world, that the thing that is good and healthy eventually becomes kind of crusty and sometimes has a hard time letting go in order to make way for something new and it's not only a part of our experience socially, but it's actually something that we observe in nature, as well; we have decay that creeps in the youthful vibrancy that I look outside and see, you know, I can see outside of my window right here.

I live in Minnesota; I guarantee you, you know, six months from now, you know what will be happening, the leaves will be falling off the trees or have fallen off the trees, and winter will be setting in. So then, as winter takes hold, everything becomes kind of crusty, you know, and then icy and cold. And then, eventually, winter gives way to spring. Not surprisingly, Saturn was associated with winter, and Jupiter with spring.

But also, Saturn is associated with not just the crusty, old stuff that won't let go but also the wisdom of things that are old and sort of time-tested. So if you think about things that have stood the test of time and shown that they are reliable and trustworthy, whether that's a tradition or like the offerings that you have as a business that have stood the test of time, the products that you offer that people just love and come back for, you know, it's like Saturn also represents things that have stood the test of time and show enduring value, the things that we have committed to over time that have developed into something truly beautiful because of consistent, mature effort and devotion and tending. Saturn is also the process that leads, you know, a bottle of wine over many years to become its perfect flavor.

So Jupiter, on the other hand, can be the arrogance of thinking that everything new is always better than everything old. There's a problem of we've said this before on my channel when we worship at the altar of the future, or we worship at the altar of the past with a kind of extreme or a zealousness that condemns or polarizes itself with the other, all the good stuff exists back there. You know, like the people who enjoy traditional astrology will sometimes take this attitude that all the good astrology existed 2000 years ago, and all this modern stuff is crap, you know?

Sometimes you'll have modern astrologers who will say, why can't we evolve beyond the past and all of its ignorance? It's 2000 years old; are we beyond all of that? So we can throw out the past in favor of always being progressive and new. Right, so this is Jupiter and Saturn having a dialogue. Jupiter is, in a way, associated with things like the Puer, which is the spirit of eternal youth.

Whereas Saturn can be the cynics, this spirit of old age and time, sort of time-tested maturity. Saturn will clip Jupiter's wings and say, you know, don't fly too high, don't do anything new, and Jupiter will sometimes say to Saturn; I'm not going to look before I leap, or you know, or Jupiter will fly too close to the sun, and its wings will burn off. So the two planets are always checking each other, one with a kind of grizzled wise realism, the other with the spirit of youthful enthusiasm.

The two planets, when they work together, especially are producing of wisdom that is both grounded and mature and well-defined and structured but also flexible, useful, aspirational, imaginative, and romantic. There should be a feeling of moisture and wetness and growth in the air, like a spring or summer day. It's not too hot and dry. You know, that's Jupiter, a planet of abundance and fertility.

On the other hand, we need to always keep in touch, like a daily Taoist meditation my wife and I do in the morning, and one of the things that you'll hear time and again is like, when you're in the midst of that summer day, carry with you in your pocket, like a little, a little, you know, almost like a little rock that reminds you of winter, you know, like carry, don't forget the opposite in the presence of what you're doing that you're getting so absorbed in because that allows for us to see opposites in and through one another.

By doing that, then we start to live in harmony with the different facets of nature of our own being, and we find that our way through every situation is a little bit more intelligent spiritually; this is sometimes say like you're following the Tao or you're learning the way.

So Jupiter and Saturn, when they come together, especially in conjunctions, great conjunctions, will often signal the need to develop a new way of doing things that is rooted in respect and appreciation for the old or letting go of the old in favor of the new but with a kind of maturity and realistic understanding of what is required to make something new last.

So any way that you can think of positively fusing Jupiter and Saturn together at the start of a cycle, you can think of that as a seeding moment that will bear fruit in time. So, Jupiter and Saturn, in their great cycles, have just like a moon cycle, a way that the two planets tell a story, and they weave that story from the beginning of the cycle to the end. So bringing this full circle to where we are right now with Jupiter and Saturn meeting in a sextile, the sextile is their first hello to one another since the conjunction because they have been in a hole sign aversion to one another without aspect without a line of sight.

So they've been busy starting the process of what the, of what was planted at their great conjunction recently, and now they're starting to pull threads together, they're starting to work together in harmony to bring about the earliest stages of what was promised. That's why this is so exciting and so archetypally; we think of them bringing a new way, a new form of wisdom, new systems, and structures that are both wise and yet new.

So if you can think of that archetypal as taking place in your life over a very long period of time, 20 years between every cycle, then you can start to hone in on the key stages of their process and learn to see the story unfolding, it takes a little time, because one of the ways that you usually are able to do this is by looking at what's happened. Okay, at a time, and then how is what's happening right now a continuation of what was happening right then? For some people, that's hard work because you have to do some memory and some reflecting. It can really help to journal in order to see the connections, which I highly recommend doing. If you don't have a good memory, it can sort of jog your memory. So that's good.

But anyway, before we talk more about this cycle, let's just remind you of some key features of the Jupiter and Saturn cycle. So the great cycles of Jupiter and Saturn. First of all, the cyclical conjunctions happen about every 20 years, and so we've just had one recently; we'll talk about that. Then, every 200 years, those great conjunctions move through the signs of the same triplicity or the same element.

So right now, we're in an airy Trigun, and we're just starting in an airy Trigun that will last about 200 years with the great conjunction just recently happening in Aquarius; interesting that Pluto's entering Aquarius just after that too. And then, in 2025, in the summer, Uranus will also enter Gemini, and then Uranus and Pluto will be in a trine in air signs, and all of that points to sort of like a movement toward the element of air that's happening. Very interesting, especially considering some of the big developments in technology that are happening. But anyway, more than that, another time.

Every 800 years, the great conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn will then move through all four elements, and then, every 2400 years, the great conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn will move through the entire zodiac and return to the same starting point. So you've got like nesting dolls 2400. Below that is 800. Below that is 200. Below that is 20. So let's take a look at our latest cycle and let's take a look at where they've been.

So the two planets were co-present for a long time in Capricorn though they didn't come together by degree, and so you can see this is throughout 2020, they're getting closer. Saturn enters Aquarius, and then they're almost getting together, and then they both retrograde, and then Saturn goes back into Capricorn. Jupiter's in Capricorn; the two; now here they come together, right? This is November 2020. But look what's going to happen Saturn changes signs, and then shortly after that, Jupiter changes signs, so they actually met at that zero-degree marker of Aquarius. This is also on the winter solstice of 2020.

So we are, you know, two and a half years; two years in? Yeah, so we're a little over two years in two and a half. I think I am right about that. So doing math in my head. Alright, so watch what happens now if we take these two planets forward, December of 2020. They come together in Aquarius now. That's the beginning or the seeding of a cycle, and it points toward the development of some really new and exciting things happening in Aquarius, followed, of course, this year in 2023, by Pluto entering Aquarius and their conjunction; you could look at the whole sign house of Aquarius in your birth chart.

To look at the area of life in which this great cycle of Jupiter and Saturn is playing out. Where, in a sense, a new way, new systems, new structures, new ideas, new thoughts, and new paradigms are growing through the combination the wise but exciting combination of Saturn and Jupiter. Then, if we pull it forward a little bit in May of 2021, Jupiter goes into Pisces. Now, the two planets, when it enters Pisces, don't see each other. Now here they are back in Aquarius a little bit toward the end of 2021 and then in the very beginning.

Let's go back just a little bit here, at the very beginning of 2022, Jupiter's entered Pisces again, and now they're rolling along, and here they're like they're configured a little bit in May of 2022, by whole sign sextile, but they're not going to come together by degree, and so we just kind of see, and then Jupiter Retrogrades back into Pisces, and now here they're configured to in a sextile by sign but not by degree and then we get into March of 2023. And now they're in aversion again, and Saturn is in Pisces, and Jupiter is in Aries.

Now this all shifts in, and the sextile comes back into play in late May of 2023 when Jupiter enters Taurus and Saturn is in Pisces; now, we finally get them coming together. The fact that they come together means that they are now kind of dancing through the next part of their cycle. It's been hinted at; we've had little periods where they were configured by whole sign sextile but far apart by degree.

Now they're configured by whole sign sextile and by degree, and that takes us into the first next big part of the cycle since the conjunction. So there are some features of this connection that make it really interesting. First is that Saturn is now in Jupiter's sign of Pisces and therefore has what we call reception with Jupiter, which means that because Saturn is in Jupiter's sign, it is acting and behaving according to the ways of Jupiter.

It's like I'm a guest of pilgrimage in the temple of Jupiter in the temple of the fish and also the exultation of Pisces, so I'm in the temple of Jupiter Pisces double bodied water sign, I'm a guest here, and I'm going to act and behave in a way that is conducive to the archetypal nature of the sign that I'm in. So Saturn's, behaving in a Pisces Jupiter Venus-like way, and because of that, wherever Jupiter is, and whatever aspectual dynamic it has with Jupiter, has to be paid attention to, and this is how we look at what's called reception.

When the two come together in a degree-based aspect, Saturn thus has reception with its host. It'd be like if I was at your house, and all of a sudden you came home, and you were there, and suddenly now everything changes because the host of the house is there with me, the guest.

Now, the other thing that's interesting is that they're in a sextile to one another; sextiles for ancient astrologers were of the nature of Venus, which means the two planets are harmonizing while also having reception. Another interesting feature of this connection is the fact that Pisces is the exultation of Venus, whereas Taurus is the domicile of Venus.

So not only are the two planets connecting, but you also have two signs that one of the things that they have in common is that both temples are very Venusian. And so we're getting hints as to what this is about. This is about Saturn, being in a Venus and Jupiter-ruled water sign and doing those kinds of things while connecting positively and harmoniously with its host, and both planets being in Venus-ruled signs.

Now, we add into this that there is a combination of earth and water at work, earth, and water. So let's try to put this all together in order. When we look at the fact that Saturn is in a Jupiter-ruled sign, we think about Saturn starting to lend itself and its love of structure, and order and discipline and maturity, and regularity and consistency, and perseverance, all things that are Saturnine, all the best things really about Saturn.

We say that Saturn is willing to lend those qualities to Jupiter's ambitions. And what is Jupiter trying to do? Well, in an earthy Venus sign, it is trying to build and develop solid things that will last and endure things that contribute to joy, happiness, comfort, ease, harmony, flow, and maybe even wealth or abundance on some level. Taurean things may contribute to the feeling of peaceful easy, secure, simple, luxurious, and so forth, and Saturn is basically saying, hey, I can contribute.

How can I contribute? I can contribute in ways that are romantic. Being in a watery sign of Venus is exultation. I can contribute in ways that are emotional, in ways that are faithful, in ways that are enduring, in ways that are mature, and in ways that are rooted in the hard emotional work that I've done to grow. So you could see, for example, with the earth and water pairing, the Venus emphasis in the positive harmonizing of these two planets, the building and developing of things that are meant to enhance the joy, pleasure, relational depth, and happiness of things in your life.

Whether that's at work, or in your family, or with friends, or within yourself or your inner life, that there is something about these two planets working together that says we can make things more intelligent, more wise, happier, more beautiful, more stable, more luxurious, more emotionally intelligent and mature.

Earth and water also point to the idea that things can be both practical and malleable, that we're reshaping and, you know, touching things up, or making sort of adaptive changes that reflect a new kind of intelligence and a need for happier or more stable experiences and that we're essentially looking at two planets that are a little bit like the clay on the potter's wheel; it's like we can shape things into something really beautiful and useful at the same time.

We can do so with a sense of sober, deep emotional intelligence that's been born of old suffering and old work. But we can also mold things in a way that makes sure that the things aren't just practical; they don't just represent some kind of linear growth, but they also represent an aesthetic transformation, a transformation of value, a transformation of pleasure, a transformation of our relationships.

Now, to me, the combination of these two planets is pretty positive. But we also should combine it with the fact that we had this airy conjunction, the airy conjunction if we go back in time to December 2020. It was the winter solstice there.

So the airy combination of their starting point; points to new ideals in Aquarius; it's almost like architectural, ideological play tonic; it has a sense of being somewhat abstract and lofty and like new paradigms and new ways of doing things that are rooted in higher ideals or ideas. New ways of using the mind, new ways of conceptualizing life. So that's where it started. But isn't it interesting that where things are at now, we get this sense of earth and water coming out of the conjunction in air.

So the first positive harm harmonizing development, it's kind of at this stage, it's almost like they're in; it's like an early waxing moon; the two of them are starting to build and develop things; things are just stating and the way in which they're just stating right now is very earthy; it's very embodied. It's very sensual. It's very feminine, as opposed to the sort of abstract Aquarian idealizations. So there are some ways, some early part of the cycle, that's asking us to get our hands in the soil of our life, and to feel and move things around and to be adaptive, adaptable.

All right, well, the last thing that I want to do is just remind you of some house keywords based on the rising signs, and I'm going to do this pretty quickly.

If you're an Aries rising 12th and second, for Saturn and Jupiter, the place of the unconscious, the blind spot, as well as the place of resources, money, developing things that were things that were developing or growing as resources.

If you're a Taurus rising, this is your first and 11th self and community or self-development, and allies and social alignments.

If you're a Gemini, it falls into the place of the unconscious, the blind spot, and the career house.

If you are Cancer, it goes into the place of religion, spirituality, higher knowledge, and groups and communities.

If you're a Leo, you get the two in the 10th and the eighth, which is the place of career and the place of what is shared, owed, or how we are bound and obligated to other people both positively and negatively.

If you're a Virgo, the place of beliefs, religion, spirituality, and the place of love and relationships.

If you're a Libra, then the place of what is shared or owed, the way we are bound to one another, positively or negatively, and the place of work, sacrifice, and service.

The seventh and the fifth for Scorpios, the place of love and relationships, the place of joy, creativity, pleasure, also pregnancy, and children.

If you're a Sagittarius, the sixth and the fourth home and family karma, as well as the place of sacrifice and service, and hard work.

For Capricorns the third in the fifth place of creativity, creative fulfillment, romance, pleasure, joy, pregnancy, and children, as well as the place of the local environment, the everyday environment siblings, in the mind,

We take Aquarius rising; we get the second house of money, finances, resources, and maybe the things that you're cultivating as resources as well as the place of home, family property, and your living environment.

Then, for Pisces, we take it around to the first place of identity, body, and health and the place of environment in mind.

So that's just a little crash course through the 12 houses based on your rising signs so that you can get a sense of where this harmonization and this early part of the Jupiter Saturn cycle is taking place in your birth chart. I hope that this has been a useful kind of refresh on the Jupiter Saturn cycle and that you're able to see and feel through these little exercises where things have been moving and where things are at now.

The other piece to include would be to go back to that starting point in Aquarius, whereas Aquarius in your whole sign house, you can look at that and look at these houses and see a narrative thread being developed as well. So that might be something to take some time with if you like doing that kind of journaling work.

At any rate, we'll leave it there for today. This has been a fun one, and I would love to hear your comments, your thoughts your reflections if you have a story to tell based on the Jupiter-Saturn connection that's happening right now. Use the hashtag #grabbed, tell us your story, or email it to us at grabbed@nightlightastrology.com We look forward to seeing what you guys have to share. And we will see you again tomorrow. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.