Jupiter in Pisces

[Jim Eshelman]

Jupiter entered Pisces today. I have done no analysis on this placement at all, so one thing we can do is watch what shifts in the news now occur. I'll also give the data everyone can use to look at this passage in history. (I don't know how much time I'll have for this in the immediate future.) Soon, Neptune will enter Pisces, too (and I have a separate thread on that where I simply have not been able to make any sense of it: Neptune in Pisces confuses me!).

Here are periods Jupiter has been in Pisces during U.S. history. (The new passage will be April 17, 2022 to April 25, 2023 without retrogradation back to Aquarius.)

Mar 14 1785 - Mar 23 1786
Feb 27 1797 - Mar 6 1798
Feb 12 1809 - Jul 2 1809
Sep 26 1809 - Feb 16 1810
Jun 17 1820 - Aug 7 1820
Jan 24 1821 - Jun 6 1821
Nov 11 1821 - Jan 18 1822
May 13 1832 - Sep 25 1832
Dec 31 1832 - May 17 1833
Apr 22 1844 - Apr 30 1845
Apr 5 1856 - Apr 14 1857
Mar 20 1868 - Mar 29 1869
Mar 4 1880 - Mar 13 1881
Feb 17 1892 - Jul 12 1892
Sep 15 1892 - Feb 21 1893
Jan 31 1904 - Jun 12 1904
Oct 31 1904 - Jan 28 1905
May 22 1915 - Sep 16 1915
Jan 9 1916 - May 23 1916
Apr 30 1927 - Nov 11 1927
Nov 27 1927 - May 6 1928
Apr 12 1939 - Apr 20 1940
Mar 26 1951 - Apr 4 1952
Mar 10 1963 - Mar 18 1964
Feb 23 1975 - Aug 1 1975
Aug 28 1975 - Feb 29 1976
Feb 6 1987 - Jun 21 1987
Oct 19 1987 - Feb 8 1988
Jun 1 1998 - Sep 3 1998
Jan 17 1999 - May 30 1999
May 6 2010 - Oct 20 2010
Dec 17 2010 - May 12 2011
Apr 17 2022 - Apr 25 2023

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May 6 2010 - Oct 20 2010
Dec 17 2010 - May 12 2011

I'll try to get at a least a start on this by examining periods in recent memory. I won't be doing this conscientiously - mostly just looking for things that fit the obvious symbolism.

May 6: The 2010 Flash Crash, a trillion-dollar stock market crash occurring in 36 minutes due to a series of automated computer trading programs that got stuck in a loop.

Various stories of important paintings - a mixture of stories about their display, theft, etc. (A lot of other stories about images in different forms.)

July 16 - Instagram begins with its first posts. (It officially launched in October before Jupiter left Pisces.)

July 25 - WIkiLeaks leaked 90,000 reports about the U.S.-led Afghanistan war. (Is this an espionage theme? It feels connected, but I'm not sure about any of this.)

Aug 10 - The WHO declared the H1N1 Influenza pandemic over.

Sep 22 - The hacktivist collective Anonymous began Operation Payback, a project of coordinated cyberattacks on multiple corporations and other parties, over banning various hacktivist-favored web sites. (I don't know if the cyberattacks are thematic of Jupiter in Pisces, but the name "Anonymous" is right on the mark!) - Anonymous launched another set of attacks (this time against Arab governments) January 5, 2011 as Arab Spring took off.

Dec 17 - Local events ignited the wave of Arab Spring across Arab world - which lasted well beyond Jupiter in Pisces. During this period, the biggest events included the Egyptian Revolution (Pres. Mubarak was forced out, handing control to the military), the First Libyan Civil War, the Syrian Civil War.

Mar 11 - Japanese 9.0 quake caused massive death and destruction, including the rupture of a critical power plant and consequent radioactive pollution.

Apr 24 - WikiLeaks and other organizations leaked confidential Guantanamo Bay files.

Apr 25-28 - A tornado "super outbreak" across the U.S. south, midwest, and east: Hundreds of tornadoes killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands.

May 1 - Osama bin Ladin killed by U.S. forces.

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Jun 1 1998 - Sep 3 1998
Jan 17 1999 - May 30 1999

Jun 25 - Microsoft releases Windows 98.

Jul 17 - 120 countries agreed to establish an International Criminal Court to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes against peace.

Jul 21 - Sep 5 - Sydney water crisis: Contamination of the city water supply by microscopic pathogens is suspected. (Final conclusions doubted the problem ever existed, but people were boiling water for weeks and there was a lot of murk and eventual scandal around it.)

Aug 7 - U.S. embassy bombings in parts of Africa (linked to bin Laden).

[Google was founded 9/4, the first day Jupiter was NOT in Pisces - it was back in Aquarius. This is a strong contrast.]

Feb 11 - In other astrology news, Pluto, which had been closer to the Sun than Neptune since 1979, passed back outside Neptune's orbit. (The 20 years 1979-99 are worth an important study on their own for this phenomenon. I remember at the time noting that "Millennial Fever," which had been building so strongly, suddenly broke and nearly evaporated in '99 before the century transition occurred.)

Feb 12 - The Senate acquitted Pres. Clinton on impeachment charges.

Mar 12 - Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic joined NATO.

Mar 24 - NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (the first time NATO attacked a sovereign state). The Kosovo War is underway (with many stories).

Mar 29 - DJIA closed above 10,000 for the first time.

Apr 20 - The Columbine massacre.

May 3 - The Oklahoma tornado outbreak striking part of Oklahoma City produced the highest winds ever recorded on Earth.

May 19 - The second (i.e., first) Star Wars trilogy opens with the appropriately named Phantom Menace.

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Some of the earlier periods have fewer events on record and may make it easy to see specific themes.

Mar 14 1785 - Mar 23 1786

Apr 26 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are appointed ambassadors to the UK and France, respectively.

May 20 - The Northwest Ordinance defined the rules for subdividing Northwest Territory (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin) - and was later used for the rest of the continent as well.

In general, much of the "setting up" of what will become the United States occurred, including many steps in establishing banks and currency, diplomatic exchanges, managing territories, and much more. Hot air balloons are the new big thing, with many firsts and records involving them.

Oct 17 - Virginia outlaws the importation of new slaves, limiting slavery to existing slaves and their descendants.

Feb 27 1797 - Mar 6 1798

Mar 4 - Adams administration begins (interesting Aquarius-to-Pisces shift from Washington to Adams).

May 10 - The first U.S. navy ship was commissioned.

In Europe, Napoleon is on the move, signing a treaty with the Holy Roman Empire (4/16), then conquering Venice. The "War of the First Coalition" against him gears up.

Oct 18 - The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic, espionage, and corruption crisis that marked the Adams administration.

Oct 21 - The USS Constitution (still commissioned in the 21st C) was launched to battle Barbary pirates.

Eli Whitney invented manufacturing through interchangeable parts, securing a federal contract to manufacture muskets in January 1798.

Feb 10 - The Pope is kidnapped and the Papacy "removed from power" by French military.

[Jim Eshelman]

Looking at these events and discussing elsewhere, I noted that these seem to be periods of passion, which often expresses as outrage.