The Great Conjunction 2020
By: Adjust Your Sails
Tags: Saturn, Jupiter, Astrology, Evolution

I had it in mind to write about this, but I dreamed about it all throughout my last sleep. So, I’m writing it sooner than planned. I want to go over what Saturn and Jupiter have been teaching us in Capricorn as a collective, and how you can learn what it’s been teaching you as an individual. Then we’ll discuss what happens when they move to Aquarius on December 21, 2020.

As of December 19, 2017 Saturn entered the sign of Capricorn. To figure out where this has been relevant in your individual life you need to look at your birth chart to see which house Capricorn is in. For me that has been the sixth house of health, work, and routine.

Saturn exposes us to things that are challenging in order to make us more accountable. I had no knowledge of transits until toward the end of this year, however, looking back it was the end of 2017 when I decided to take care of my health. January of 2018 I began meal prepping and eating healthier.

By April of 2018 I had Mars and Saturn conjunct in the fifth house, both on top of my Venus. I was diagnosed with diabetes, fatty liver, and my liver markers were abnormal. I had been on Lisinopril for high blood pressure for years, and was taking Gabapentin for my nerve pain, which affects the liver.

I still had no idea about the transits, but I went even further. I switched to a ketogenic lifestyle. I lost over fifty pounds, was taken off all my medication, and felt better than I probably ever had. It was a frustrating journey at times, as I’m human and fell off and on again, but ultimately I progressed.

Now, collectively, Saturn was bringing our attention to corruption all over the world in our government structures. Exposing us to challenges we need to face and be accountable for in some way. We were exposed to how they use things like classism, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc to divide us. It’s the oldest playbook in the world honestly.

Now that Saturn is moving on to Aquarius it’s time for us to come together and solve these problems we’ve been exposed to. You’ve heard a lot of talk about revolution, and that’s exactly what this is. Aquarius shakes things up. It’s all about the collective and humanitarianism. It’s changing the world for the better. Learning to honor diversity and problem solve creatively.

Look to where Aquarius is in your chart to see how this will affect you on a personal level. See, Saturn exposed me to the importance of taking care of myself. I had already understood from previous transits my relationship to self had to be healthy if I was going to form healthy relationships with others, but I had to learn if my relationship to self is going to be truly healthy it meant I had to take care of all aspects of my health, including the physical.

Saturn will be moving to my 7th house next, which is all about one-on-one partnerships. I have learned some valuable lessons about my relationship to self, my structure and routine, how to be accountable for my triggers and emotions, and now I get to apply what I learned to relationships with others.

As Saturn moves into Aquarius we have lessons to take with us. I am still not perfect about taking care of my health, but we’re going to discuss that when I speak about Jupiter and the gifts he brought us in Capricorn. However, I am highly aware and do better than I ever did. We are equipped with knowledge.

This is not about perfection. As we move into the new sign we are still going to have the same problems we always did. This is about us finally coming together and having a vision to solve them. In my personal example I am aware that I am accountable for my life and no one else. They can trigger me, but my reaction is my responsibility.

This will come in beautiful in relationships as Saturn moves into that house for me. Any relationships that are not healthy I will remove from my life. I won’t waste time building resentment and blaming the other person when it is my choice to stay and put up with it. I won’t force them to be accountable for my wounds and triggers because I’ve spent time healing those.

Technology is likely going to surge over the next few years. This will make it easier for humanity to remain connected. Keep in mind Saturn deals with limitations as well. So, on the more unevolved side we could see more restriction and limitation trying to be installed or forced upon us.

With Jupiter in Capricorn as of December 2, 2019 it was asking us to tame our motivation and enthusiasm. It wants us to learn, grow, and expand, but to understand our own limitations. For example, many of us felt compelled to change the corruption we had been exposed to, especially since Jupiter amplified that corruption.

However, realistically we cannot change it overnight. We can’t reach that long-term goal of a better world without a vision that sets smaller goals in the day-to-day. We will burn ourselves out and not make any progress that way. Jupiter was asking us to have integrity and develop a mature and ethical approach to change the world. Or your personal life depending where it was.

With the example of my sixth house the long-term goal for me is living a healthy lifestyle, having a decent routine, and finding work I enjoy doing. I burnt out prior to Jupiter entering Capricorn because I felt like I needed to do it all and do it all now. This led to constant falling down.

What Jupiter taught me is that in order to reach that long-term goal I have to be realistic. I have to tackle one thing at a time. I became aware that failure didn’t have to become an excuse, but rather something I could learn from. That I could accept that I am human and not let that derail me long-term. It brought more joy to the tasks I was committed to.

In Aquarius Jupiter is about enlightenment for humanity, greater discovery, better knowledge and understanding of the bigger picture. It will add to our desire to improve the world and our shared experiences. Rebellion will have a vision moving forward. That doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy.

We do still have to contend with Uranus in Taurus. This is where a lot of our shock and insecurity to our everyday lives has come from. It’s been asking us to let go, to break free from traditions and mindsets that do not serve us. To leave the matrix behind. Disregard for the past is likely to grow.

The past is only useful in terms of what we can learn from it. Jupiter in Aquarius wants us to grow together toward the greater good. For us to learn how to honor diversity and work together creating a better world. To understand independence and interdependence, and how they differ from the codependence of the past.

As Jupiter moves into my 7th house this is critical for my relationships. I am likely going to be tasked with taking my relationships more seriously using the lessons I’ve learned from the past. To not expect perfection, but to also not make excuses for myself or others to cause one another pain and trauma, while remaining codependent on the other for some sense of normalcy.

It’s highly likely I will be committing myself to a partner, or developing business partnerships I’m committed to going forward. I have to maintain the lessons Saturn and Jupiter taught me about myself, my health, my routine, and my work going forward, so I don’t repeat lessons of the past with others.

This great conjunction is happening on December 21, 2020, right on the winter solstice. It will be at zero degrees Aquarius. This is all about a new beginning wherever it happens in your chart. A seed that will grow for the next two decades of your life.

What I would say about the degree is that while it is spontaneous I do feel we will still have some of the stability brought to us by Capricorn. It’s going to be about us finding balance. We cannot simply run with a lack of direction here. We will experience growing insight, but we must temper it with what we know is practical and realistic.

I am of the belief that our evolution isn’t about forgetting the past completely. Yes, we should let go of what didn’t work, but we should hold on to what does. This isn’t about us moving out of Capricorn forgetting all the lessons it has taught us. It’s about applying those lessons to another part of our life.

Make no mistake, this conjunction is going to push us into a new era collectively and personally. As this conjunction has been happening every twenty years in Earth signs it had us more focused on the self, the tangible, the material world. Now, it’s time to focus on space and time, the digital world, the collective whole.

Rather than us simply being a pull yourselves up by the bootstraps society we will become more compassionate and concerned with others. I feel this is fitting because if you don’t put yourself first (Earth energy) you don’t have much to offer others (Air energy). There is a lesson here about independence and interdependence that I feel we are going to learn.

What I love about Saturn and Jupiter being together is that we can still dream big, but we are also able to tap into the discipline and structure we need to achieve those dreams as a reality. Jupiter left to his own devices can lead us to burnout, greed, delusions of grandeur. With Saturn there it cuts the fat. We will have to balance our fear of limitations with our excitement and goals.

To remember what Jupiter in Capricorn taught us about having long-term visions, but creating short-term realistic goals to get us there. For us to be rooted in integrity and following our moral compass. To allow our growth to be slow and steady at times, and know that’s okay.

It is a good idea going forward not to focus on the matrix and what you see going on in the world. Understand, this is the end of a 200 year era where these two planets met in Earth signs. Where the focus was material security, resistance to change, the individual.

Now we are entering Air sign conjunctions, and this is going to bring disruption to the established order. We have already been experiencing this. This year nothing has felt “normal”. Changes are likely in collective ideas and even in the way we communicate with one another.

All of next year, for the most part, Jupiter and Saturn will be forming a square to Uranus in Taurus. This is likely to bring down societal structures and compel us to release any old drama or outdated dreams from our own lives. It’s a very liberating energy that can be intense and cause fear.

The truth is there is a deep lesson in it all. One that I think I finally learned just last month. No amount of material anything makes us safe or secure. Yes, if you have money you won’t be food insecure, you can take care of yourself better, but at the end of the day you’re subject to the same unknowns we all are. Money doesn’t stop death or destruction from coming for you.

Real safety and security does not exist. When we cling to the past, to people, to outdated beliefs it is our shadow and ego trying to feel safe and secure. We do this even as we know those old comfort zones aren’t comfortable. They are simply familiar. This energy wants you to break free and take a risk.

Ultimately this is going to be about small steps toward big change, whether we’re talking about the collective, or your personal life. I love this energy for us being able to find hope and envision a brighter future, but tempering that with the realism it’s going to take to get us there.

Keep in mind that we also have Neptune still squaring the North and South Nodes. This is all about your past squaring off with your future. It’s about the collective past squaring off with the collective future. Learn more here:

If you want to know more about where this is happening in your chart I did do a December astrology post, where I included how this month’s astrology will affect you based on your rising sign. Feel free to check that out.

You can find it here:

For those who ask here are the energetic exchange and tips jars. I appreciate them all so much. They are truly a blessing to me and my family.

They are never ever required, but always and forever appreciated.

Namaste!