The Great Conjunction (Part Four: A Weird Encore)

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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today I'm doing a little fun, zany encore presentation in my great conjunction series on Jupiter and Saturn's upcoming conjunction and Aquarius. Just by chance I had a friend who told me about the fact that HBO had done this series on the Heaven's Gate cult from the 1990s. And he asked, is there anything there that you can see connected with the planets moving into Aquarius? And especially Pluto coming into Aquarius in 2023? Do you think there's gonna be an upsurge in cults? And I was like, yeah, I mean, that actually had come up in my mind, as I was planning the series, and I sort of didn't want to touch it. Sometimes you start talking about certain subjects, and you just attract the weirdness that surrounds the subject. But after I actually took a look at the first episode of The Heaven's Gate, documentary that just came out, and it spurred all of this research that I ended up doing over the course of the past few days, just for fun and thinking I might throw together a video looking at two different interesting topics that definitely have a correlation with the sign of Aquarius, which are the topics of UFOs, alien abductions, and sort of starry cults. So that's what we're gonna do today. This is just for fun. And just to show you how zany and weird the sign of Aquarius can be sometimes in all the best ways and sometimes in really kind of crazy ways. And why is that? Why is Aquarius associated sometimes with with cults, and obviously, not all cults are a bad thing either. Let's, let's talk about that a little bit as well today.

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So cult, where does the word come from? A particular form or system of worship. That's the definition and etymology from Latin, labour, cultivation, culture, worship, reverence, tended or cultivated as a part of that as well. And also it can have this connotations of there being certain rites and rituals that are performed as a part of a religious or spiritual group or community. The occult, another word that is really important, a secret not divulged, or something hidden, concealed or secretive. Both of these words in the history of you know, human religion and spirituality don't necessarily have a negative connotation. They do, maybe through some of the popularisation of, you know, the more destructive or infamous cults, cults of personality, maybe some of the ones we're going to talk about today where people took their own lives or all sorts of things, but throughout history people have used the word cult and occult really to just signify religious sects or groups, maybe the occult being religious sects or groups that contain certain kinds of hidden or more esoteric teachings or dimensions.

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So, by no means do I want to say that Aquarius's association with the occult or with cult matters is some kind of dark, heavy charge against people who have Aquarius energy in their charts, right? Like, I have an Aquarian midheaven in my birth chart in my 10th house. And, you know, I grew up in a church, I grew up as a youth minister in all sorts of different religious and spiritual organisations. And I was part of several different groups, ayahuasca communities, obviously, now I'm part of a Bhakti community. And I think, you know, all of the things that I'm going to talk about with Aquarius today can easily be applied to things that are generally speaking healthy and good and normal, that we all participate in. So I want to say that first so that everyone knows this is not a like dump on Aquarians for being like weird and culty in a really negative sense. So it just struck me as a really fun and kind of zany topic to, to dive into. But there's real correlation with it, which is why I think it's so fascinating.

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Let's refresh on why Aquarius may have something to do with these weird topics that I'm going to talk about today, UFO and alien abduction stories, I'm going to talk about cults and famous cults and cult leaders. And then I'm just generally I'm going to mention a variety of different people in both positive and maybe more weird ways that have some association with either Jupiter or Saturn in Aquarius, just again, all for fun today. So one thing that I think is really interesting is that one of the most famous alien abduction stories, sometimes called the Hill abduction story, from Barney and Betty Hill, which was an interracial couple and the 60s, and on September 19, and 20th of 1961, they claimed that they were abducted by aliens. One of the reasons that this story is cited so regularly is because it's sort of starts to popularise the alien abduction experience, or it starts to become more noticed or recognised in popular culture from this moment forward. And what I find really interesting about it is that on this day, September 1961. I want you to notice which two planets were in the same sign together. Oh, look, there's Jupiter and Saturn and Capricorn together again. Jupiter is just about to ingress into the sign of Aquarius. And on the day that this all happened September 19th and 20th the moon was also in the sign of Aquarius passed over that Saturn Jupiter conjunction went into the sign of Aquarius. This is again, one of the iconic cultural moments around the the modern history of the story of alien abductions, right? I just think that that that was like, wow, you know, you you, you know, that's a very interesting coincidence. To find that that's that that's that sequence of events was happening, then, and it's happening again. Now, the reason I say this, of course, one of the points that I'd like to make over and over again today is that if we see the same kinds of recurring stories, themes or patterns, it shouldn't be totally surprising.

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In April of 2020, and probably a lot of you guys already know this but right as Saturn and Mars together, we're ingressing into the sign of Aquarius, surprise, surprise, there was a the Pentagon releases this information into the public about UFO sightings. So there you have Saturn entering Aquarius ingressing and suddenly there is this big story in the news about the Pentagon releasing previously classified information if I understand this correctly. They released information about all these different UFO sightings, I think a number of which were already known or the footage from some of these were already out there. But I think that's not a coincidence again. So another interesting moment in the history of aliens and UFOs that's relevant to what's going on right now. So there's this connection there with this otherworldly alien UFO thing. Carl Sagan had Saturn in the sign of Aquarius. One thing that is interesting is that Cosmos the show that started popularising space travel and, you know, astrophysics and black holes and all sorts of kind of almost sci fi physics, information or ideas. That show came out in 1980. Right as the new Jupiter Saturn, you know, conjunction and air signs was beginning. It's like this iconic show that couldn't be spacier and airier. Right and that's happening as the new Jupiter Saturn conjunctions in air signs are happening. And I didn't put that together at first even though I had in previous talk, you might have heard me mention him as a Saturn in Aquarius figure. So that's interesting. Also Carl Sagan had a very famous movie that came out based on his work called Contact. And this was about contact with aliens. It starred Jodie Foster who I believe has Saturn or Jupiter in Aquarius as well. And Jupiter and Uranus were in 1997 in Aquarius that year, they were copresent with one another when contact was released. And that 1997 date is going to come up again a bunch in this presentation. There's that that airy, spacey quality. In fact, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute came about in November 20th 1984. Let's go there for a second November 20 1984. And check this out. Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute. SETI. Very interesting that the day that it came out came out they founded the LLC paperwork that afternoon. And isn't it interesting that the moon was going into a conjunction with Pluto in in Scorpio and squaring Mars who had just ingressed into Aquarius? Isn't that fascinating. I just you can't make this stuff up that there's continues to be these really important connections with Aquarius, surrounding important milestones or iconic moments, historically around aliens a search for structure extraterrestrial life, Carl Sagan cosmos, the alien abduction story that I mentioned earlier. And this theme repeats and repeats and repeats, I tried to narrow my focus just to make the point. And if you guys find more connections, interesting dates, or birth charts, or you know found incorporation charts like this one, please put it in the comment section.

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Why would Aquarius be associated with alien alien abduction stories UFOs and things like that? Well, it goes back to this idea of let's just for the sake of making it a little simple. Let's just talk about Ganymede again, the water pourer. This is the bright shining example of humankind who is abducted by a higher being, a god. So Zeus, this higher God slash demigod abducts a human being because they're fascinated by them. You know, Zeus is fascinated by Ganymede and there's a lust, desire a coveting and remember covet. We talked about the etymology of that word in a previous part of this series. Covet means also to want something perhaps at the detriment of that beings rights. I think that's really interesting because there's this weird way in both alien abduction stories where a person seems to lose their rights like they're taken against their own will. Or there's also this sense of whether or not the alien life is hospitable to the safety or concern of the individual. For example, in the movie Contact, the aliens appear in a form that won't scare or that will be peaceful to Jodie Foster. I think that's really super interesting. So this question about hospitable foreign life of and things like that. Interestingly, one of the things that psychiatrists claimed, their explanation for why Barney and Betty Hill had this alien abduction experience whether they had or not, I don't know. But one of the things that they said was that well, it must have been the pressure of being this kind of alienated interracial couple, in the early 60s when the civil rights movement was building such a tonne of momentum around that time. You know, so there is this this theme of alienation of abduction of coveting or desiring something that's beautiful, but taking it and also the special or chosen one that has some connection to the stars or the gods. These are all themes that sort of permeate Aquarius in general on an archetypal mythological and even pop cultural level.

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So let's talk about cults and cult leaders that have that, but I will redeem it at the end by going through light examples that show us that you know, it's not all crazy sauce and Aquarius. Cults and cult leaders, Bonnie Nettles was an Aquarius rising. She is the one who teamed up with Marshall Applewhite to form the Heaven's Gate group. And those are the ones that they if I'm not mistaken, Bonnie Nettles was an Aquarius rising. And she was thought to be the one that really kind of harnessed Marshall Applewhite's bizarre personality in order to form the Heaven's Gate group, she kind of empowered him in his delusions of grandeur. There's a lot of other interesting dimensions to the timeline, for example, on March 26 1997, this is the day that they found the bodies of the Heaven's Gate cult members who had taken their lives and hoping to catch a spaceship to the next level to heaven. And what do you know there's a there's a cameo in all of these from Scorpio by the way, but the Moon is in Scorpio that day squaring Uranus and Jupiter in Aquarius and remember, this is right around the same time that that iconic Carl Sagan movie contact comes out. Isn't that fascinating? I mean, just an interesting and obviously a tragic story, but an interesting connection. Charles Manson, another famous cult leader had the Moon and Saturn in Aquarius as well as squaring planets in Scorpio. That Scorpio combination seems to be part of it. And I think that might be a little bit more of the occult nature that might add some of the hidden darker and more violent aspects of those dynamics. I've noticed that when you plug in the square from Aquarius to Scorpio, you often get that like I've actually I've literally had sessions with people in my 10 year career who were actually part of some of some really famous cults. And one pattern that I've noticed has been the square between the sign of Aquarius and Scorpio, where the the sense of something angelic, otherworldly special, divine, chosen, that Ganymede myth, celestial meets something that might be a little bit darker or more malicious and that's the kind of watery Mars influence a Scorpio. Again, are these signs. Is there anything wrong with these signs? No, not at all. We're just we're highlighting one of the weirder dimensions of Aquarius. And you'll notice that Scorpio comes up in a lot of these two. There's one that's I throw this in, not because it fits the same bill as the rest of them. But the Rastafarians for example, Bob Marley, born with the Sun and Aquarius and the Moon in Scorpio. And he was of course involved in the, you know, the Rastafarian cult, and that is it's a religious cult. So I say cult respectfully. And you know, it's not like, again, it's not like necessarily an evil word. But if you've ever looked into what Rastafarians believed like they had some really unique beliefs, obviously, some of them are really sort of peace loving, and others are really weird. Like, I don't know if you've ever really looked into it and no disrespect, because my own religious community, the Bhakti community has a really bizarre past as well. And actually the, the founder of the Hari Krishna movement, when it was brought to the United States, he was just a monk who came over and got it going. He had an Aquarius rising, right? It was a by and large for a lot of people around the 60s, many people considered it a cult, and it's had to evolve and grow into, you know, kind of carrying the mantle of being a like a responsible religious community, it's had to weed out certain elements of fanaticism over the years and stuff like that. So you'll see that Aquarion thing in a lot of different religious and spiritual groups and organisations in general, and not all of them are necessarily bad a lot of them are, by and large, that you might see a lot of themes of pacifism, peace, it's not all murderous, it doesn't all end in suicide, or you know what I mean? So anyway, the another one that comes from the 90s that has this weird history is David Koresh. You guys remember the Waco Texas compound, David Koresh had the moon in Aquarius and while Saturn was in Aquarius in the early 90s, the Branch Dividians or whatever they were called. They were found dead after a blaze that there Waco Texas compound, all of that started to be triggered. I think it was pretty close to Aquarius season, it was like in February of what 90 to 90 I can't remember. But any rate at any rate when they found everyone dead in the compound that was a Saturn in Aquarius moment in the early 90s. There are some interesting connections with the Jim Jones timeline, the Jim Jones cult if you know about that one, but not his birth chart, per se. I'm not going to go into those because they're a little scattered. There's another one another guy named Joseph Di Mambro, who's the leader of the order of the Solar Temple? He had an Aquarius midheaven and rose to power while Saturn was in his mid heaven prior to another suicide murder spree that ended that cult.

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Elron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology was born just as Mars and Uranus were ingressing into Aquarius. I think that's interesting. I pay a lot of attention to planetary ingresses at the time of birth. So even if a person isn't born with planets in Aquarius, if they were born as planets were just about to enter Aquarius. I'll tend to read that chart as that the the Aquarian themes and that those planets and the Aquarian themes will rise to prominence as the life goes on. I think that's really interesting. Not only that, but on May 9 1950. On the day that Dianetics was published, the Moon had engrossed into Aquarius. Dianetics becomes the book that ends up launching the entire Church of Scientology. Not only that, but you can see for example, Tom Cruise big into Scientology, Saturn in Aquarius. Okay, so that that's just you know, again, a scattershot of interesting parallels and what are those cults have in common? Oh, a lot of them involve trips to the stars. A lot of them involve the sense of a special kind of chosen Messiah like figure which Ganymede is definitely associated with. It's not really the Christ motif, which I personally tend to when people say that Jesus has a lot to do with Pisces or Aries those signs especially Aries seems to me to be a really good one for Jesus and I could do a different talk on that sometimes because people are always like Aries why, but there's some really interesting reasons for that. Anyway, that's an aside but Ganymede has a messianic quality to it. But there's also this kind of starry, airy, ascending to Olympus quality that's very otherworldly. It's not like the consecration of a martyr which is connected to the word Mars. And that's why I tend to like Aries for Jesus kind of a shepherd figure which is connected with Aries too, but at any rate, but these are kind of like other worldly, Saviour or Messiah, you know, hop on the spaceship. And depending on what it's combining with in the chart, it's not usually just that Aquarian quality, but there's something maybe connected with it. And again if I look at my own life, I have an Aquarius midheaven and I had a really charismatic father who was a preacher. My life changed dramatically when I had the position of being the president of a youth organisation in high school, I was this kind of charismatic leader and I was the kind of charismatic youth pastor and then met really charismatic shamans in the Amazon drinking crazy potions, and of course, now I'm into bhakti yoga and astrology and I've had really interesting, charismatic, kind of otherworldly teachers in my life and a lot of that has fit with transits to Aquarius in my 10th house. When Neptune ingressed into Aquarius in my 10th house, I met some of the most important and other worldly philosophy teachers in my life who just inspired me to be thinking about things in very esoteric and multi dimensional ways. I had my first Eastern philosophy teacher when Neptune ingressed into Aquarius and the 10th I got really into the underlying Taoist philosophy of Star Wars when Neptune ingressed into Aquarius in the 10th. So you'll see that that Aquarian nature is pretty broad, but there's often this kind of spacey otherworldly messianic quality to it. I consider those things to tone my work. If you listen to my channel, you'll notice that I'm always talking about this kind of the need for this kind of otherworldly spiritual focus. So I think that all of those things can express themselves in a range of ways and it's not always going to be you know, David Koresh, or, you know, the Heaven's Gate people or whatever. Again, just to redeem some of the Aquarians who are listening to this.

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Let's talk a little bit about Jupiter and Aquarius, you've got Albert Einstein, there's a gifted genius space child, right? Barack Obama who was seen as this kind of cultural icon. Diana, Princess of Wales. You do have dark examples as well, like Joseph Stalin. You have Helena Blavatsky, who is really a leader, a luminary in the Theosophical Society and that is also another one of these really interesting kind of spiritual, esoteric cults that has this kind of starry dimension to it. You have dark figures though, like Pablo Escobar, Fidel Castro, you have Playboys that have a weird cult following like Hugh Hefner. You have the chosen child of Michael Phelps this like like Olympian athlete and there's a real there's a weird way in which he has this kind of Ganymede status. He's like one of the most decorated phenoms of all time as a swimmer. You have Dave Chappelle, who was a wonder kid when he first came out, right? And you also have people who are kind of the weird alien otherness like Dennis Rodman, Boy George, HP Lovecraft, Miles Davis, Enya. How about Alan Watts as a philosopher, right so really interesting figures with Jupiter and Aquarius and Saturn in Aquarius, you know, I already went over some of these but Tom Cruise, Charles Manson. Michael Jordan, if there has ever been a cult surrounding a sports figure, it might be Michael Jordan. In fact, they were saying that the Air Jordan logo was at one point, the most recognised symbol in the world next to the cross. You just think about that for a second. There's Nietzsche, there's Salvador Dali, there's Alistair Crowley, these are all Saturn and Aquarius figures, Carl Jung, who also by the way and no one ever wants to say this, but the Jungian world is a cult. And I'm not saying that in a negative sense. I'm just saying he was a cult leader. Now he was a cult leader, again, that I would say is on the on the side of being really interesting, really intelligent, very progressive, revolutionising astrology, again, to kind of bring astrology back. But he also he's into some really weird shit like just to be totally honest. Like, you know, think about the red book, or just think about the Red Book for a while if you've ever read it. Carl Jung is occult, and he's got a fascination and he develops a cult following a school that comes out in his name a whole style of work that comes about in his own mode. So, again, I don't mean that negatively, but the people that like to paint Carl Jung as this kind of pioneering intellectual who's like well respected and academic in the academic canonical sense. No, he has this dimension to him that's well respected academically and intellectually, but he's also into the I Ching. He's into astrology, he's into esoteric things. He's into the, the realm of the unconscious and going into these bizarre altered states. And he develops in some ways, a crowd around him that worships him. And one of the things I loved about James Hillman, who was one of his students was that James Hellman said, there's a cult of people around Carl Jung that are following him, like he's the letter of the law coming down from the mountain with Moses. And actually, what we should be doing is taking the best ideas, but living the way he lived, he led a psychological life.He didn't want us to be clones of him, he wanted us to think and learn and live with psychological depth and meaning and keep going. But you also have this phenomenon where a lot of times what happens with great teachers, as we know, over the over time is that rather than emulating the way they lived, and doing it in our own way, we end up doing exactly what they do and sort of becoming clones of someone. And that also gets into this weird dimension of Aquarius that has to do with like, teachings, but then they can get kind of robotic and mechanical and they can start to get like cloned and hard and that's kind of part of the Saturnine dimension of Aquarius, where there's a rigidity around something that is very beautiful and almost like ethereal and then somehow it becomes like mechanical and sort of artificial. So you have to watch for that a little bit as well.

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So I hope that you enjoyed this today. Please leave other connections that you see or you can make in the comment section. Keep it kind, keep it civil. I delete comments that are jerky, you know, even if you make a good point, if you do it in a jerky way I tend to delete it. In the meantime, my Kickstarter is doing pretty well. We're moving towards 691 backers, that's our goal. I really appreciate your support. If you're able to donate, feel free to pitch in pick up a reward reading or one of the gift lectures that I give that's totally exclusive to the Kickstarter or 50% off one of my astrology programmes in 2021. So I hope you guys are having a great Friday. Hope you have a great weekend here. And thank you guys again for your support. And I hope you enjoyed this little encore Jupiter Saturn talk. Alright, take it easy, everyone. Bye.