In 1993, inspired by Rick Tarnas, I started investigating the coming Uranus-Neptune-Jupiter conjunction on my computer. Rick had pointed out that the sixties were a decade-long expression of the slow-moving conjunction of Uranus and Pluto, but that when Jupiter joined them in 1968-69, it was as if the volume were suddenly turned up and everything which marked the 60's came to a head. While the 60's represented the Promethean principle of Uranus liberating the Dionysian energy of Pluto giving rise to violent cathartic revolution, the 90's embody a very different, but perhaps equally potent energy. Uranus is now in conjunction with Neptune, liberating a boundary-dissolving spirituality, and certainly already revolution by dissolution. Rick pointed out that in 1997 Jupiter will join Uranus and Neptune in a triple conjunction which may parallel the importance, though certainly not the content, of what we saw in 1969.
I noticed that there should be a day in early 1997 when Jupiter would be almost exactly half way between Neptune and Uranus, and on which Jupiter will move into Aquarius. This change of sign of Jupiter by itself is not something I would be inclined to attach tremendous importance to, but I couldn't escape some conditioning by the song from "Hair," in the 60's, about the dawning of the age of Aquarius. So, I went looking for the exact day. When I did, I was astounded! Not only are the three big planets in conjunction, but on that day the Sun joins them, with the Moon opposite. Saturn and Pluto are in trine to each other and in sextiles to the multiple conjunction. But what is more, Mars and the North Node are conjoined opposite Saturn, and so in trine to the multiple conjunction! Thus by setting the time of day correctly the Ascendent completes a triple mystic rectangle! A perfect hexagon. A star of David in the sky naming a moment in time for each place on the Earth.
I was awed by the perfection of the geometric pattern. But what does the pattern mean? Perhaps that depends entirely on us all. In so far as there has been a noticeable correlation throughout history between the alignments of the outer planets and human affairs, it suggests a precise moment on one day, out of one year, out of one decade, which can already be seen in terms of revolution by dissolution. Don't blink or you will miss it and yet it seems difficult to say what changed or when. The Berlin Wall did not so much come down as dissolve - overnight. But there is also another major theme implied by Uranus and Neptune, that of sudden spiritual revolution. In that sense this might represent an opportunity for collective spiritual transformation of consciousness - if for no other reason than the fact that the precision of this pattern defines a moment in time when we might all go into meditation together knowing that we are all of one larger mind, knowing that we are in some sense the mind of Gaia. The ponderous cycles of the outer planets tell us that such an event might be likely in that year of this decade. This pattern might provide the timing for an event which is more internal than external, in a sense invisible, and yet potentially more powerful in its long term consequences than much of what bombards our outer senses every day.
Jim Fournier
The file from the first discovery of this pattern is dated:
November 5, 1993 at 5:59 pm EST in North Bennington, Vermont.
Uranus and Neptune were exactly conjoined on October 25, 1993.
They were still within eight minutes of each other on November 5th.