Previewing Jupiter in Gemini’s Long Upcoming Square to Saturn in Pisces

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we're going to take a look at Jupiter in the sign of Gemini and the long-standing square that Jupiter is going to make with Saturn and Pisces over the course of the next year. This is really important because this is the opening square in the Jupiter-Saturn cycle that dates back to their recent conjunction, which occurred in December 2020. We're going to look at where we've been since the cycle opened. The fact that Pluto is reactivating the degree point of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in early Aquarius. Jupiter in Gemini will trine that Pluto as it opens into the long year-long square with Saturn in Pisces.

So it's a really interesting thing to track Jupiter and Saturn cycles. They take place at really pivotal times in our lives. They have their own cyclical intelligence and symbolic nature. So we're going to kind of explore all of that today and talk about why Jupiter Saturn's square in the year ahead is an important thing to be aware of and start prepping for now. Now, you might be saying to yourself there's a full moon today; what are we doing full moon video was yesterday. If you're like Venus is conjoining Jupiter, why are we talking about that? Earlier in the week, we looked at Venus and Jupiter. So, some of the events that are happening this week we have already gotten out in front of, so to speak, and so today, we're going to be looking forward to Jupiter's entrance into Gemini a little bit more. But if you're looking for coverage of those events that are happening today or as this week goes on, check back earlier on my previous videos this week, and you'll see that we covered some of those events and can give you some insight if you're looking for it. Anyway, that's our agenda for today.

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Here, if we look, today is the day of the full moon. You can see the Full Moon in Sagittarius on the screen. You can also see that Venus is just separating from Jupiter, and a conjunction is about to enter Gemini later today. So again, if you're looking for more information about the full moon or the Venus-Jupiter conjunction, we covered those earlier in this week's video, so you could go back and look at that. What I want to take a look at is this: on the 25th, Jupiter will enter the sign of Gemini.

So, as soon as Jupiter enters Gemini, here's what everyone is going to notice. Now Jupiter is in a whole sign square with Saturn. This is of major significance because the two planets are now moving into the square, which is the opening heart aspect of their cycle with one another. That cycle started at the very first degree of Aquarius back in December of 2020.

So we are now as Jupiter enters Gemini. In other words, for the next year, we are in the window of the first heart aspect in the new Jupiter Saturn cycle that began in December 2020. What's interesting about this is that just as Jupiter enters Gemini, you will notice that Pluto in Aquarius is hovering within about a degree of the meeting place that Jupiter the meeting place of Jupiter and Saturn at their most recent conjunction at the beginning of Aquarius and what happens is pretty shortly after the two planets enter or as excuse me pretty soon pretty shortly after Jupiter enters Gemini now it can talk Jupiter will make a trine to Pluto in Aquarius and it will be doing so again as Pluto was sitting just off from the meeting place that Jupiter and Saturn had at zero Aquarius let's look back at this to make more sense of it. We're going to go back to 2020, and here is May of 2020. Let me speed this up to July or December.

What we're going to do is back the two of these planets up so that we can see here, right about at the winter solstice of December 2020, Jupiter and Saturn conjoined at zero Aquarius now at that time, Pluto was not yet in the sign of Aquarius. So, if we bring this up to the present moment, we can run this forward just a little bit. As soon as Jupiter enters Gemini, one of the very first things that it does is it crosses as it crosses into Gemini is it makes a trine to Pluto, who was sitting just a degree off from that zero-degree marker of Aquarius, where Jupiter and Saturn met.

So, all of that is really important background information for us to consider in interpreting the upcoming square between Jupiter and Saturn. Now, let's take a look at how the cycle unfolds. From this moment forward, these places, in other words, have a great deal of importance on the upcoming Jupiter Pluto trine. It's not just any trine; Jupiter is now squaring Saturn and activating the trine to Pluto right off from the meeting point that Jupiter and Saturn shared in December 2020. So, to see that context means everything here. And then we're going to advance this by some weeks. And we're going to see that Saturn is, by the way, Saturn is in Pisces, which is Jupiter's sign. So now we have reception between Saturn and Jupiter.

Although a square is of the nature of Mars, it will often mean that there are different kinds of obstacles or hurdles or effort and action that have to be taken to overcome the early tensions of a cycle as something is developing. There are often, you know, there are times when the tension of the cycle, even if it's a fruitful one, is something that has to be dealt with and overcome. That's what a first quarter square is, whether it's a moon or any moon, first quarter moon, or any other cycle; the first quarter square is about a kind of a moment of creative tension; let's call it that has to be overcome. You have to, you know, persevere to get through it.

There are things that have to be done. And there's a kind of intensity of focus, a need for work and action to impress through this critical stage of the cycle's development. So we can see that this is going to be a little bit better than an average square because Saturn is in Jupiter's sign. Now Saturn is in the overcoming or superior position to Jupiter, which means that Saturn will be exerting a lot of pressure on Jupiter. But with Jupiter being the host, Jupiter can accommodate.

Now Jupiter may try to accommodate Saturn's needs and Pisces through many different avenues and through a kind of creative chaos implied by Jupiter being in mercury sign for a whole year. But things are working towards some kind of synthesis. The best way of understanding what that synthesis means is to look at the whole sign houses of Gemini and Pisces in your birth chart, which we will be doing when we get to horoscopes. And we'll be reiterating as the Jupiter-Saturn squares come through in certain months of the year as well. So there's a lot to be preparing for.

Today, I just want to get a glimpse of the overall cycle before we start personalizing it with horoscopes. But, if we move forward a little bit, we're going to see that in August, the two planets are coming together. This is about the middle of August. Right now, I've got August 18 on the screen. If I go forward, just a touch more, we can see that it's between August 19 and 20th.

The two planets are exactly squaring one another, while Saturn is retrograde. And then we're going to go forward. And what's going to happen is Saturn is going to turn direct, Jupiter is going to turn retrograde, and then they're going to come back to meet in December. So here they are, meeting on December 24. Like right around Christmas, the two planets get together again through this time, Jupiter being retrograde. Now, Saturn is direct.

So you see, they're working things out; they're negotiating a deal. You could say they're; they have a very specific Jupiter and Saturn-like agenda, which we'll discuss in a moment. But these are the two critical moments of their exact degree-based aspects, one in mid to late August and the other in late December. From this point forward, we'll see that they make one more aspect. This is toward the very end. I think I just said that they would only make two. No, they make one more, but the thing with their next aspect is that it will occur after the two planets have entered new signs.

So, in June of 2025, we will get Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Aries, which is very intense because now we have an exalted Jupiter and a fall in Saturn. So, the last dynamic I'm almost not including because the signs change, and so the conversation really shifts next June with their final square. Now, after this, we're going to see that Jupiter just keeps scooting right along, and then this is kind of nice by the time we get to November of 2025. Jupiter and Saturn will be entering their first trine with one another, which is sort of as if the square represents a period of tension in their cycle.

The trine, which is like a waxing gibbous moon, is effectively starting to unite and bring things together that were maybe a little bit more difficult to work through during the square period. So we have about a full year of the square, in other words, with one big shift of signs from Jupiter and Saturn next summer, but we're getting today we're just going to focus on the Gemini Pisces connection in August and December of this year.

So now, let's just move forward a little bit again here. I want to mention some things about this cycle that I think are important. These are the most important things to watch for and keep in mind. One is that over the course of the next year, we are moving through a decisive turning point in a story that really began around December 2020.

Now, that could pertain to geopolitical and collective events as well as personal events. I am not someone who focuses a lot on mundane astrology, as you guys know, but certainly, there's a story in the collective that is pertinent. Now, the other thing here is that for each of us, this story began in the whole sign house of Aquarius. So what we're going to start doing in the month of June is weaving together the house placement of Gemini and Aquarius, which is really the way in which we're going to see the most basic connection between the Jupiter Saturn square and the opening conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn, and Aquarius it's through the Jupiter Pluto trine that we're going to start to see the connections being made.

For example, the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction in Aquarius took place in my 10th house of career when we first started visualizing and conceptualizing our need-based reading service. And as Jupiter and Saturn come into square and Jupiter trines Pluto, we're starting the summer to build it out. That's a very simple example of how those planets are at work in my own natal chart right now, with Aquarius being the 10th house of my natal chart, which is a place of career, but we're going to do this kind of tracking point is with horoscopes over the next couple of months. So, you'll have plenty of opportunities to start tracking these connections. The most important thing here is that we are reaching a critical turning point, a place you could call it. Sometimes, the first quarters of any cycle are called a crisis of action.

So you're reaching a place where the need to take action in order to enact changes that were seated back in December of 2020 will be a very strong, obvious theme for many people that this year will be a time when the story that began around that time is reaching this critical turning point. So that's the most basic thing we can say.

Number two is that Pluto is reactivating the starting point of that story right now by virtue of sitting right around that zero-degree marker of Aquarius. And so one of the first major waves of the activation that we're talking about will happen as Jupiter trines Pluto, and that is going to take place really in the late part of May here in the early part of June like that trine is already done by June 5. Right, so you know the exact trine. Let's track it down here: the exact trine between Jupiter and Pluto takes place. Here we go. It's between June 2 And June 3. Okay, so now what that trine is doing is starting to create the connection between Aquarius and Gemini.

Broadly speaking, what that means is the biggest ideas and structural visions of progress in any area of our life, which Aquarius almost always represents is finding support and activation and sort of energy and momentum from Jupiter in Gemini, which will typically mean the implementation of ideas, new people, places and things, energy of busy stimulation, a bunch of irons going into the fire at the same time, a kind of magical mercurial chaos that comes in and starts whipping things up in the name of those bigger visions and pictures that started in December of 2020 that are now being reactivated and amplified. So that's the connection between Pluto and Gemini. And again, we're going to be looking at that under a microscope here in the coming weeks.

Number three is that, in general, what happens with Jupiter and Saturn? Let's just talk about how Jupiter and Saturn are connected because we always get this wrong. You guys have heard me labor this point before, but it's worth making again right now, which is that the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic has to do with reaching the end of the viability of structures that are rooted in ideas. Like sort of like the blueprints on the table, we've been referring to that a lot that image a lot since Pluto entered Aquarius.

It's like, okay, here, here are the blueprints that have been informing, literally creating the forms of our life. And now they're going through some kind of death and rebirth. They're going through some kind of transformation. Because Pluto implies that kind of transformation, it implies that the scaffolding of the architecture of a world or worlds in our lives is ready to be taken apart. But they're also new ones that are ready to be put in place. And that is precisely the meaning of Jupiter and Saturn as well.

We aren't always aware of the fact that prior to the advent of the outer planets, the traditional planets and their cycles in relationships with one another often carry the exact same meanings that we give to a planet like Pluto. So, for example, while Jupiter represents, broadly speaking, the things that grant coherence to our civic lives, the courts, the justice system, voting rights systems of government like democracy, or competing systems of government that have existed historically, communism, socialism, anarchy, whatever, there are all sorts of, there's all sorts of political theories and modes or ways of trying to shape and guide human life.

Those are all sorts of, broadly speaking, Jupiterian: the courts, the education system, the legal system, all Jupiterian. When we combine Jupiter with Saturn, we always get to the limits of a system. So when those two planets come together, it is as though we're reaching the end of the viability of a system, and you will see evidence of the system either breaking down or of people trying to break it down or people demanding that it change or have their there's like, you know, think about Zeus and Kronos, right? A kind of father-son dynamic that represents the old order and the new order.

We tend to villainize Saturn, and we tend to celebrate Zeus within that dynamic, but the truth is there. Think about it more energetically. And archetypically, Saturn is winter. Jupiter is spring; whenever you get Jupiter and Saturn together, you're often talking about the things that have given life coherence and meaning in order to our social experiences. Jupiter grants a sense of sensibility and harmony and, like that, a broader sense of Harmonia. That's all Zeus, that's Jupiter in the ancient world, it's archetype. We don't think about the literal god Zeus. And then you have Saturn, which is like winter decay, breakdown, limitation, and what exists beyond. And so anytime Jupiter and Saturn interact, you're talking about the breakdown of structures and their recreation.

That cycle of Jupiter and Saturn is exactly about that. So when the two planets get together, you're talking about a kind of revolutionary seeding point that's taking place where the viability of various structures in our personal lives or collectively are being called into question or the ceding point of new structures, new cycles of building and developing structures socially, scientifically, in all arenas of life starts to happen. It often happens specifically because certain things are falling apart, and new things are being introduced at the exact same time. That's the kind of chaos and confusion of the conjunction space.

Well, now we have reached this first quarter moment for a full year; Jupiter and Saturn are square. Now again, what's really nice is that Saturn is in Jupiter's sign. And Jupiter is trining Pluto and Aquarius, hovering around that zero-degree marker. So the potential for some really smooth implementation and harmonization of new systems and structures in our lives, new orders, is there like there's a real possibility that this not be some Titanic clash this year, but that there'll be a nice smooth ability for things to cooperate and harmonize as various systems are being dismantled and new ones are being put in place. But you have to think about it in terms of the Jupiterian set of values, those beliefs and structures that are coming from your philosophy, your beliefs, your convictions, and how that informs the shape of your life, personally.

So, with that in mind, it's really important to just note that, you know, in a year where Jupiter and Saturn are square to one another after the conjunction, now we are talking about a critical point where these new structures have to be implemented, but it's coming through the tension of the death or the limits or reaching spaces of things and their finality. It's like, you know, Jupiter can only move forward right now because it's getting super real about what's not working, the negatives, and the limits of Saturn. Jupiter is blossoming, and something new is developing specifically because Saturn is saying the same old thing will not work. That's what we call a crisis of action.

New orders and new systems based on new or improved beliefs, visions, or philosophies are going to be implemented, but they are going to be implemented because we're reaching this first critical juncture of old things that really won't work anymore. You know. And, again, if that all sounds really abstract, remember that the key to understanding the specifics of this and where it's going to show up in your life has to do with tracking the place of Aquarius, where everything started, and then the two houses that are now cooperating in Gemini and Pisces in the first quarter square. And again, we'll track all that out in horoscopes. So, there are two critical moments when this will occur: in August and December.

Those two periods are as far as the Gemini and Aquarius space is concerned. Because when there's going to be a tiny little one last square between cancer and Aries, too. But this square between these two places will play out mostly, and the most intense moments will be in August and December. It is really interesting to see all of this.

Remember that Saturn is not the enemy. In this case, Saturn is like the natural contractive pressure of things, not being able to hold up under the old order any longer, that there has to be some implementation of a new guiding vision or philosophy or set of beliefs or values or something like that. I want you to think about this like a good analogy would be in the city of your life.

Structurally, governmental reforms are needed in some particular areas. And again, if you want to think about the place where it all started, think about the whole sign house of Aquarius. This is also where Pluto is sitting at that zero-degree mark a few times this year. Right, right. It's interesting because here, check this out; you go back to the entire overview of the year and look at what happens when we get to, like, late November.

So, once we get to late November, Here we go. So there it is, the two planets are coming into a square with one another, as you said by late December, right around Christmas. And what's happening at the exact same time is Pluto entering Aquarius and triggering the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction point all over again? And it does so look; it doesn't move off that zero-degree marker until December 30, just days after Jupiter and Saturn have squared. Exactly, again, see what I mean.

So, if you are yet again, it's like if you want to get started on this today, look at the whole sign house of Aquarius and think about the cyclical; the new cycle began there in my life with those topics. And then think to yourself, now the continuation of that square is moving between the house the whole sign houses of Gemini and Pisces. Well, the old versus the new tradition versus progress. These are ways that people astrologers have had other ways of conceptualizing the relationship between Jupiter and Saturn for ages.

So when you think about this, don't just think the new is always better than the old. Think to yourself. How do I take the best from what has been while letting go of what is no longer working? How do I implement the best new ideas without being so dismissive of the things that have worked in the past? You know, you don't want to become someone that you aren't in the name of progress. But you also don't want to keep yourself from becoming more than you could be in the name of tradition. You know, and that's the tension that we're going to feel throughout the next year. And if you're thinking to yourself again, like, well, was that going to show up in my love life or my life? Where will that show up? Start the analysis in the house of Aquarius.

Alright, number five, themes of emotional versus mental intelligence. Throughout the year, one of the underlying themes will be between Gemini and Pisces, which, broadly speaking, is a sign of Jupiter versus Mercury. I am surprised that that tension is very much in the air this year. Water and air will require that for this bridge to be created for new orders and structures and visions and philosophies to be implemented, we will need a balance of emotional, essential embodied sort of feminine intelligence Yin, alongside having very rational, clear, logical and like well-organized thoughts and plans that we could call more rent, mental or rational.

But the marriage between those two is so important this year. Oh, Gemini loves new ideas, change, and experimentation. But does it come with a heart and soul? Does it come with care or concern for the heart of humanity, which is so much the concern of Jupiter in Pisces, which is so much the concern of Venus's exultation, and Pisces is like, Yeah, but does it connect people in love? Does it? Does it reflect the need for compassion and universal sensitivity? So, those kinds of questions are also amplified by these two signs.

So, themes of emotional versus mental intelligence are also very much at play in this square for the year ahead. Alright, well, I hope that wasn't too Galaxy brain. And again, if you're seeking a more practical implementation of all of this, we will be doing horoscopes. So I say that because inevitably, there are ten comments. I don't know where this was happening in my chart. It's like, Yeah, that wasn't the point of today's video. So, let's hang with the process; we unpack these things in layers and stages.

Otherwise, try to pack it all in at once; you don't get as deep a treatment as you do if you take it in stages. So that's the idea behind this. Anyway, stick around for a sign-off if you want to learn more about the horary program, which starts in June. It's a fantastic form of predictive astrology. And remember, our new course first-year course in Hellenistic astrology also starts in June, a fantastic transit to start your studies under Jupiter trining. Trining Pluto and Aquarius, as well as that airy combination, is really very, very conducive to learning and studying anything. Okay, that's it for today. We'll see you guys again soon. Bye.