Jupiter in Capricorn

[Jim Eshelman]

Dates of Jupiter in Capricorn since 1900:

Jan 9 1902 - Jan 23 1903
Dec 24 1913 - Jan 6 1915
Dec 8 1925 - Apr 29 1926
Aug 4 1926 - Dec 18 1926
Mar 28 1937 - Jul 3 1937
Nov 19 1937 - Apr 4 1938
Sep 18 1938 - Nov 18 1938
Mar 4 1949 - Aug 16 1949
Oct 21 1949 - Mar 16 1950
Feb 14 1961 - Feb 28 1962
Jan 28 1973 - Feb 12 1974
Jan 13 1985 - Jan 28 1986
Dec 29 1996 - Jan 12 1998
Dec 13 2008 - May 8 2009
Jul 22 2009 - Dec 24 2009
Apr 6 2020 - Jun 22 2020
Nov 24 2020 - Apr 10 2021
Sep 6 2021 - Nov 28 2021

[Jim Eshelman]

Several major, deadly volcanoes including Mount Pelee 5/8 and La Soufriere 5/7. Imoted Mine Workers strike May to October.

Feb 18. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Co. for violations of the Sherman Act.
Mar 10. Edison's monopoly on 35 mm movie film technology is terminated by a Circuit Court.
Apr 2. First movie theater in U.S. opens.
Apr 19. Guatemala earthquake (mag. 7.5).
May 5. Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
May 13. King Alfonso XIII of Spain begins his reign.
May 20. Cuba becomes independent from the U.S.
May 29. London School of Economics opens.
Jun 24. Target Corp. is founded.
Jul 8. U.S. Geological Survey creates the Bureau of Reclamation to oversee water conservation.
Jul 22. Gold discovered in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Aug 9. King Edward VII of U.K. etc. is crowned.
Jan 17. El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the U.S. National Forest System.

[Jim Eshelman]

The Mexican Revolution is ongoing much of the year. World War I gears up and launches. Because of the emerging war, the New York Stock Exchange closed August 1 until Decemer 12 (bond trading opened two weeks earlier).

Jan 5, 1914. Ford Motor Co. announces an eight-hour work day with a daily wage of $5. (Adjusted for inflation to 2020, that's $129/day.)
Feb 13. ASCAP is founded to protect musical composers' copyrights. [Notice a theme: Value earned for honest labor.]
Mar 27. First successful non-direct blood transfusion (using anticoagulants) performed by a Belgian physician.
Apr 20. Ludlow Massacre. (This is part of an ongoing Colorado coalfield war lasting several months.)
May 25. House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Act.
Jun 12. Greek genocide by Turkish irregular troops.
Jun 28. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is murdered in Sarajevo, starting the dominoes falling that quickly led to WW I.
Jul 11. U.S. Navy launches USS Nevada, its first super-dreadnought battleship.
Aug 4. With German troops mobilized and several dominoes fallen, England declares war on Germany.
Aug 12. Panama Canal opens (first ship passes).
Dec 18. Egypt became a British protectorate.

[Jim Eshelman]

Numerous coronations, assumptions of power, general head of state shift (which seemed to me, on casual observation, to be more monarchical in feel) during this time. I've only listed outstanding examples below.

Dec 26. Communist party founded in India.
Feb 4. Ireland's Minister for Justice appoints a Committee on Evil Literature to address censorship. [Clue: Is this a time of willingly accepting restrictions?]
Feb 25. Francisco Franco became General of Spain.
Apr 17. Bandit & warlord Zhang Zuolin's army captures Beijing.
Apr 24. Treaty of Berlin: Germany & USSR pledge mutual neutrality for five years.
Apr 25. Reza Khan crowned Shah of Iran, beginning Pahlevi dynasty.

Sep 1. Lebanon gets a constitution and becomes a republic.
Sep 8. Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations.
Sep 25. League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.
Oct 14. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne is published.
Nov 11. U.S. numbered highway system (including Route 66) is established.
Dec 17. Coup d'etat in Lithuania overthrows the democratically elected government.

[Jim Eshelman]

This is the year before WW II started. There are tensions world wide but the stream of events see, to show these quieted or held back (if I'm not reading them poorly). A friendly Japanese plane called the Kamikaze lands in London, Daffy Duck & Dr. Seuss debut, and more. But the Spanish Civil War is raging and violent.

May 1. A general strike starts in Paris. (12 years earlier there was one in England that I forgot to mention.)
May 6. Hindenburg disaster in New Jersey.
May 12. Coronation of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth.
May 27. Golden Gate Bridge opens to foot traffic first, then vehicle traffic a day later.
May 28. Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister.
June 3. The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
July 1. Irish referndum accepts a new constitution.
July 2. Amelia Erahart & Fred Noonan disappear.

Dec 11. Italy leaves the League of Nations.
Dec 21. Disney's Snow White premieres, the world's first feature-length animated film.
Dec 21. Dr. Seuss' first children's book is published.
Dec 22. Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic.

Jan 1, 1938. New Estonian constitution enters into force.
Jan 3. March of Dimes established by FDR to combat infant polio.
Feb 4. Hitler makes key structural changes in German military structures, including abolishing the War Ministry and creating a successor entity that he controls, dismissing from office his political enemies, and more. [Cf. this to the observation above concerning voluntary restrictions, voluntary accepting controls.]
Feb 10. Carol II of Romania assumes dictatorial power.
Mar 30. Mussolini is granted control over the Italian military equal to that of the king.

[Jim Eshelman]

It was a time of reorganization, alliance, and healing, with much reorganization of the relationship nations had to each other, and especially of establishing security in various ways.

Mar 17. Shamrock Hotel grand opening in Houston, one of the city's largest social events ever.
Apr 4. Treaty signed creating NATO.
Apr 18. Ireland officially became a republic and left the British Commonwealth.
Apr 28. British Commonwealth renamed to Commonwealth of Nations with declaration that nations may remain in it even if they become republics.
May 5. Council of Europe founded to uphold human rights and democracy.
May 11. Israel admitted to United Nations.
May 16. Tokyo Stock Exchange resumes after a four-year shutdown.
May 22. James Forrestal committed suicide.
May 23. West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) established.
May 31. Alger Hiss perjury trial began.
Jun 7-25. Dock workers' strike in UK.
Jun 8. McCarthyism rises ("Second Red Scare"), leveraging political repression and fear, fueled by an FBI investigation report into alleged Communist Party members that named several top-rank celebrities.
Jun 8. Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four published.
Jun 29. South Africa bans mixed marriages and inaugurates other apartheid policies.
Jul 30. Legal Aid begins in England and Wales.
Aug 14. Military coup d'etat in Syria removes its president.

Oct 24. Cornerstone laid for United Nations headquarters on Manhattan.
Nov 17. Second Alger Hiss perjury trial began.
Dec 8. Republic of China completes its evacuation to Taiwan and declares Taipei its temporary capital. This starts weeks of many nations (including India, Israel, and UK) recognizing the People's Republic of China.
Dec 13. The Knesset votes to move the Israeli capital to Jerusalem.

Jan 5, 1949. Senate resolution introduced calling for an investigation into organized crime. (Four days earlier, what became the largest international police organization in the world was founded.)
Jan 12. Sec. of State Dean Acheson speech outlined boundaries of U.S. security guarantees.
Jan 17. Great Brink's Robbery: Over $2 million stolen from their Boston headquarter.
Jan 21. Alger Hiss convicted on two counts of perjury.
Jan 24. Klaus Fuchs confesses to being a Soviet spy for seven years. (Convicted Mar 1.)
Jan 26. India promulgated its constitution, becoming a republic.
Feb. 6-Mar 3. West Virginia's 372,000 coal miners strike.
Feb 8. First payment made on a charge card (it was Diners Club).
Feb 14. USSR and China sign a mutual defense treaty.

[Jim Eshelman]

Jupiter enters Capricorn today. We're off and running. It does not return to Sagittarius this time and will occupy Capricorn (on and off) for the next year.

Therefore, it is excellent symbolism that today is the first day that the new administration can seriously get down to work. They've been doing what they can to move forward, but yesterday the General Services Administration gave the green light for the transfer of transition funding to the Biden transition organization and for communication between the transition team and current executive officers.

This has been the basic pattern of every election year with Jupiter in Sagittarius for the election: After the idealism etc. of the campaign (one might call it the theory phase), when Jupiter leaves Sagittarius and moves into Capricorn the nuts-and-bolts work begins.

[Jim Eshelman]

Several major, deadly volcanoes including Mount Pelee 5/8 and La Soufriere 5/7. Imoted Mine Workers strike May to October.

Feb 18. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Co. for violations of the Sherman Act.
Mar 10. Edison's monopoly on 35 mm movie film technology is terminated by a Circuit Court.
May 5. Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
May 20. Cuba becomes independent from the U.S.
May 29. London School of Economics opens.
Jul 8. U.S. Geological Survey creates the Bureau of Reclamation to oversee water conservation.
Jan 17. El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the U.S. National Forest System.

The Mexican Revolution is ongoing much of the year. World War I gears up and launches. Because of the emerging war, the New York Stock Exchange closed August 1 until December 12 (bond trading opened two weeks earlier).

Jan 5, 1914. Ford Motor Co. announces an eight-hour work day with a daily wage of $5. (Adjusted for inflation to 2020, that's $129/day.)
Feb 13. ASCAP is founded to protect musical composers' copyrights. [Notice a theme: Value earned for honest labor.]
Apr 20. Ludlow Massacre. (This is part of an ongoing Colorado coalfield war lasting several months.)
Jun 28. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is murdered in Sarajevo, starting the dominoes falling that quickly led to WW I.
Aug 4. With German troops mobilized and several dominoes fallen, England declares war on Germany.
Aug 12. Panama Canal opens (first ship passes).
Dec 18. Egypt became a British protectorate.

Numerous coronations, assumptions of power, general head of state shift (which seemed to me, on casual observation, to be more monarchical in feel) during this time. I've only listed outstanding examples below.

Feb 4. Ireland's Minister for Justice appoints a Committee on Evil Literature to address censorship. [Clue: Is this a time of willingly accepting restrictions?]
Feb 25. Francisco Franco became General of Spain.
Apr 25. Reza Khan crowned Shah of Iran, beginning Pahlevi dynasty.

Sep 1. Lebanon gets a constitution and becomes a republic.
Sep 25. League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery. [back to "earn for honest labor" theme]
Nov 11. U.S. numbered highway system (including Route 66) is established.

This is the year before WW II started. There are tensions world wide but the stream of events see, to show these quieted or held back (if I'm not reading them poorly). A friendly Japanese plane called the Kamikaze lands in London, Daffy Duck & Dr. Seuss debut, and more. But the Spanish Civil War is raging and violent.

May 1. A general strike starts in Paris. (12 years earlier there was one in England that I forgot to mention.)
May 12. Coronation of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth.
May 27. Golden Gate Bridge opens
July 1. Irish referendum accepts a new constitution.
Dec 22. Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic.

Jan 1, 1938. New Estonian constitution enters into force.
Jan 3. March of Dimes established by FDR to combat infant polio.
Feb 4. Hitler makes key structural changes in German military structures, including abolishing the War Ministry and creating a successor entity that he controls, dismissing from office his political enemies, and more. [Cf. this to the observation above concerning voluntary restrictions, voluntary accepting controls.]
Feb 10. Carol II of Romania assumes dictatorial power.
Mar 30. Mussolini is granted control over the Italian military equal to that of the king.

It was a time of reorganization, alliance, and healing, with much reorganization of the relationship nations had to each other, and especially of establishing security in various ways.

Apr 4. Treaty signed creating NATO.
Apr 18. Ireland officially became a republic and left the British Commonwealth.
May 5. Council of Europe founded to uphold human rights and democracy.
May 16. Tokyo Stock Exchange resumes after a four-year shutdown.
May 23. West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) established.
May 31. Alger Hiss perjury trial began.
Jun 7-25. Dock workers' strike in UK.
Jun 8. McCarthyism rises ("Second Red Scare"), leveraging political repression and fear, fueled by an FBI investigation report into alleged Communist Party members that named several top-rank celebrities.
Jun 8. Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four published.
Jun 29. South Africa bans mixed marriages and inaugurates other apartheid policies.
Oct 24. Cornerstone laid for United Nations headquarters on Manhattan.
Nov 17. Second Alger Hiss perjury trial began.

Jan 12. Sec. of State Dean Acheson speech outlined boundaries of U.S. security guarantees.
Jan 17. Great Brink's Robbery: Over $2 million stolen from their Boston headquarter.
Jan 26. India promulgated its constitution, becoming a republic.
Feb. 6-Mar 3. West Virginia's 372,000 coal miners strike.
Feb 8. First payment made on a charge card (it was Diners Club).
Feb 14. USSR and China sign a mutual defense treaty.

[Jim Eshelman]

Jupiter enters Capricorn today. We're off and running.

And speaking of recovery, the Dow just crossed 30,000 for the first time.

[Jim Eshelman]

Jupiter retrograded back into Capricorn today for the last pass this orbit. It will remain until November 28. This is usually a "roll up your shirt sleeves and get to work" kind of passage. I expect that this will be the tone of the next (almost) three months, with focus on economic stabilization and reduction of suffering.

The history of Jupiter in (Sidereal) Capricorn is easiest to read from one kind of phenomenon. For over half a century, Jupiter has been in Sagittarius every three presidential elections (every 12 years). Win or lose, this has usually come with one candidate riding an idealistic, enthusiastic wave of great social passion. The campaign, if won, if won on idealism, hope, and great promise. - Then, early in the term of office, Jupiter enters Capricorn and "roll up your shirt sleeves and get practical" replaces the idealism. Until 2008, this came after inauguration - but Obama faced it in IIRC December and had to get in motion faster, working with the outgoing president over a month before taking office. Biden got it even faster - November 24, about the time it was certain that he'd won the election. Jupiter raced through Capricorn during the most effective, concretely productive weeks of Biden's presidency until entering Aquarius April 10. We now have a retrograde loop through Cap: I'm optimistic about making good use of it. (Think code words like "infrastructure" and "back to work.")

[Jim Eshelman]

Biden his this hard in his live address occurring right now. It looks like the trend is on!

Jupiter retrograded back into Capricorn today for the last pass this orbit. It will remain until November 28. This is usually a "roll up your shirt sleeves and get to work" kind of passage. I expect that this will be the tone of the next (almost) three months, with focus on economic stabilization and reduction of suffering.

The history of Jupiter in (Sidereal) Capricorn is easiest to read from one kind of phenomenon. For over half a century, Jupiter has been in Sagittarius every three presidential elections (every 12 years). Win or lose, this has usually come with one candidate riding an idealistic, enthusiastic wave of great social passion. The campaign, if won, if won on idealism, hope, and great promise. - Then, early in the term of office, Jupiter enters Capricorn and "roll up your shirt sleeves and get practical" replaces the idealism. Until 2008, this came after inauguration - but Obama faced it in IIRC December and had to get in motion faster, working with the outgoing president over a month before taking office. Biden got it even faster - November 24, about the time it was certain that he'd won the election. Jupiter raced through Capricorn during the most effective, concretely productive weeks of Biden's presidency until entering Aquarius April 10. We now have a retrograde loop through Cap: I'm optimistic about making good use of it. (Think code words like "infrastructure" and "back to work.")