Waiting for Jupiter/Uranus 3 as the old year wanes….

The third and final conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus - at 27 Pisces - takes place on the 4th January 2011. On 22.1.11 , Jupiter re-enters Aries, with Uranus re-entering Aries on 13.3.11. From an applying orb of 10 degrees in March 2010, to the separating orb of 10 degrees in mid March 2011 when Uranus will be at 0 deg Aries and Jupiter 10 deg Aries, it will have been some year, both for our world and for individuals ‘plugged-in’ to the conjunction’s 27 Pisces – 0 Aries “Hot spot”!

Jupiter meets Uranus - from http://www.cainer.com

Check out the link below to read my brief post  setting the scene for the next phase of the exploration of “Tales from the Wild Ride” which follows the lives of ten brave volunteers throughout an unforgettable year.

How was it for you, in 2010 dominated by this uniquely disruptive planetary duo and  the attendant Grand Cross Of Jupiter/Uranus, Saturn and Pluto? How are things right now?

All of today, I have been grabbed by a manic fit of energy (yes, I am also ‘plugged in’ to the Hot Spot!) which has seen me completely reorganise the layout of this site into what is a much more accessible form. Scroll down the Home Page on the left, and I hope you will agree. Enjoy your browse! And a Happy New Year!

Jupiter Meets Uranus: next up, 4th January 2011….

ps. I am still hoping that that Purple Person from Planet Zog will appear before the Spring….

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Introducing “Jupiter Meets Uranus”(published AFA 2009)

I am currently re-ordering this site , to turn it into a more user-friendly Jupiter/Uranus research archive, in preparation for when the study I have been running since Spring 2010 comes to its conclusion – in Spring 2011 as the new Jupiter/Uranus cycle in Aries gets into its fiery stride!

So – do bear with me as I turn some background material into posts, in order to file them more clearly.

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"Jupiter meets Uranus"

To buy “Jupiter meets Uranus: from erotic bathing to star gazing“, described in a five-star review by Leah Whitehorse as “a page-turner of the astrology world”, click HERE

UK buyers, click HERE

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“This is a study of real-life astrology”, as Ken Gillman says in his foreword. Observation of what actually takes place on Earth when particular planetary alignments occur in the Heavens is of critical importance in determining whether astrologers’ theories about what should happen are borne out empirically. Our tradition has depended on the validation provided by actual observation of planetary effects since those Chaldean priests “…six thousand years ago, when the human mind was still half asleep…were standing on  watchtowers, scanning the stars…”.

This book continues that ancient tradition by presenting a comprehensive study of the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus  which took place in February 1997 at 5 degrees 55’Aquarius.

Jupiter and Uranus meet every fourteen years. When they do, revolution and innovation  join forces with restless exploration and the quest for knowledge.The result is always exciting, educational and unpredictable. Or is it ? Anne Whitaker, never one to take anything at its face value, decided late in 1996 that she would observe the effects of this approaching planetary event and investigate whether it lived up to its reputation according to the textbooks.

Her method was straightforward. Watch world events around the time of the conjunction, and during the rest of 1997 which continued to be dominated by Jupiter-Uranus energy. Find some volunteers with the 5 degrees 55’ Aquarius Hot Spot highlighted by a planet, Angle or Moon’s Node in their natal horoscope. Collect their stories during the year of the conjunction’s operation, and see whether the same core“Jupiter-Uranus effect” could be detected in all their different lives.

The first version of her research was published in “Considerations”magazine (USA) during 1999-2000, and was well received by its world-wide readership. But Anne continued her work on the conjunction, setting it in its historical and mythological context for a seminar she gave at the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London in June 2000. Right through to the end of 2001, she did more research exploring the impact of Neptune’s transit of the 5 degrees 55’ Aquarius Hot Spot, again from both a collective and an individual point of view.

Nine of the original seventeen volunteers stayed with the study throughout. Their disrupted, exciting, turbulent life stories form the core of this vivid exploration of the interface between planetary activity and human life, during a period in which the startling announcement of the birth of Dolly the Sheep in February 1997 indicated that advances in cloning and genetic engineering were taking us on a voyage never  before undertaken by humanity.

This highly original book, written in a pacy and accessible style, will be of particular interest to  research-minded students. It will also appeal to astrologers looking for specific evidence that the personal and collective lives of humankind respond in the same core way to the great music of the spheres, played throughout space and time by the planets in their cycles.

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UPDATE NOTE:

followers of this site will be aware that Anne is continuing her research into Jupiter/Uranus conjunctions, via recording the life stories of ten volunteers from around the world whose horoscopes are “plugged in” to the 2010/11 conjunction in Pisces and Aries. However, the book “Jupiter Meets Uranus” remains a useful reference tool for  anyone interested in how planetary energies play out in both world affairs and the ‘ordinary’ lives of  you and me.

2010/11 Background Notes for ‘Tales from the Wild Ride’: 4: astrological significators June-Sept 2010

I am currently re-ordering this site , to turn it into a more user-friendly Jupiter/Uranus research archive, in preparation for when the study I have been running since Spring 2010 comes to its conclusion – in Spring 2011 as the new Jupiter/Uranus cycle in Aries gets into its fiery stride!

So – do bear with me as I turn some background material into posts, in order to file them more clearly.

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Summer Solstice to Autumnal Equinox 2010:

KEY ASTROLOGICAL SIGNIFICATORS:

Sun into Cancer on 22.6.10
Lunar eclipse at 5 deg Capricorn 26.6.10.

Uranus retrogrades 5.7.10 at 0.5 deg Aries
Saturn enters Libra 22.7.10
Jupiter retrogrades at 3.5 deg Aries 23.7.10
Saturn exactly opposite Uranus(2) (0 deg Libra/Aries) 26.7.10
Mars enters Libra 30.7.10

Venus enters Libra 8.8.10
Uranus retrogrades back into Pisces 15.8.10

Jupiter retrogrades back into Pisces 9.9.10
Jupiter conjuncts Uranus exactly (2) (28 deg 43 min r Pisces) 19.9.10
Sun into Libra on 23.9.10
Full Moon at 0 deg Aries 23.9.10.

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100 words copyright Anne Whitaker 2010
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2010/11 Background Notes for ‘Tales from the Wild Ride’: 3. Sample Questionnaire with responses

I am currently re-ordering this site, to turn it into a more user-friendly Jupiter/Uranus research archive, in preparation for when the study I have been running since Spring 2010 comes to its conclusion – in Spring 2011 as the new Jupiter/Uranus cycle in Aries gets into its fiery stride!

So – do bear with me as I turn some background material into posts, in order to file them more clearly.

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3. Sample Questionnaire with responses – 15.9.10

2010/11 Background Notes for ‘Tales from the Wild Ride :2: The Year in Sketch form

I am currently re-ordering this site, to turn it into a more user-friendly Jupiter/Uranus research archive, in preparation for when the study I have been running since Spring 2010 comes to its conclusion – in Spring 2011 as the new Jupiter/Uranus cycle in Aries gets into its fiery stride!

So – do bear with me as I turn some background material into posts, in order to file them more clearly.

2. The Year in Sketch form: Useful Background Dates for Reference

(applying orb end March 2010: 10 degrees – ie Jupiter 17 deg Pisces, Uranus 27 deg Pisces)

28.5.10 : Uranus enters Aries
06.6.10 : Jupiter enters Aries

08.6.10 : Jupiter conj Uranus 1 (going direct) 00 deg 18 min Aries
19.9.10 : Jupiter conj Uranus 2 (retrograde)   28 deg 43 min Pisces r
04.1.11 : Jupiter conj Uranus 3 (going direct) 27 deg 02 min Pisces

22.1.11 : Jupiter re-enters Aries
13.3.11 : Uranus re-enters Aries

(orb of separation mid-March 2011: 10 degrees – ie Uranus 0 deg Aries, Jupiter 10 deg Aries)

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2010/11 Background Notes for ‘Tales from the Wild Ride’: 1.Guideline Notes for Participants

I am currently re-ordering this site – to turn it into a more user-friendly Jupiter/Uranus research archive, in preparation for when the study I have been running since Spring 2010 comes to its conclusion – in Spring 2011 as the new Jupiter/Uranus cycle in Aries gets into its fiery stride!

So – do bear with me as I turn some background material into posts, in order to file them more clearly.

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1.Guideline Notes for Participants

A)
This is qualitative, not quantitative research. My aim is to observe the effects, if any, of the Jupiter/Uranus conjunctions in Aries (8.6.10 exact ). Pisces (19.9.10 exact retrograde) and Pisces (04.1.11 exact direct) on the lives of a self-selected random group of 12 volunteers, all of whom are directly ‘plugged-in’ via planets, Ascendant, Midheaven, or Moon’s Nodes to the degrees of the three conjunctions. For interest, I have included one person whose Progressed MC/IC has just entered Aries/Libra, squaring his Uranus in Cancer.

B)
I am allowing a wide orbital range of 22 Pisces to 5 Aries. This is five degrees applying to the 27 Pisces – 0 Aries ‘hot spot’ where the conjunctions take place – and five degrees separating. One person in the research has her Angles on the mutable 22 degrees “outer limit” . Another has her MC/IC on the cardinal “outer limit” of 5 degrees. So it will be interesting to observe whether the ‘outer limit’ people and the Progressed person have significantly less potent experiences than those more exactly ‘plugged in’ – or not.

C)
It has been difficult to decide the best method of collecting your feedback as simply and clearly as possible. In the end, I have decided to send you six questionnaires at different stages of the year April 10 – March 11.

Since the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction falls on a very powerful degree ie 0 deg Aries, the Very First Point, I have decided to divide up the year of the research into four cardinal quadrants(after the first questionnaire which will be looking at the April/May 2010 build-up period to the 8.6.10 conjunction in Aries):

Summer Solstice and 0 deg Cancer; Autumn Equinox and 0 deg Libra; Winter Solstice and 0 deg Capricorn; and Spring Equinox when the Sun enters Aries. I will email to ask for feedback after each of these quadrants.

At the end of March 2010 I will conclude by sending a questionnaire asking you to sum up the year of the research. Don’t worry! I am setting up the questionnaires with some simple tick-box categories, followed by some space to give detail in your own words.

D)
You will be asked to sum up the essential points of your inner and/or outer life during the unfolding of the research year. Bearing in mind that an ‘average’ (I use the term with full appreciation that there is probably no such thing, but we have to have some common terminology here!) life has a mix of ups and downs, what I am looking for are inner( eg dreams, intuitions) or outer occurrences which are outwith the parameters of what you would see as normal and average in your particular life and the lives of those close. Bear in mind that any planetary energy can strike a ‘dumb note’ with you, but be vividly observable in the life/lives of family or and/or friends and/or significant others.

E)
I really need you to be disciplined in how much you write, since I have a limited amount of time to spend on this project and hope not to have to do too much editing. If each person provides five fairly short summaries as the year unfolds, plus a final ‘summing up’ the year, then I hope that what will emerge is a clear picture of what each individual life has manifested.

IMPORTANT: I am very careful with confidentiality and will be checking back with you before posting biographies and charts anonymously on the Web. You can help me here by ONLY writing in your questionnaires that which you would be comfortable to see in the public realm.

F)
I don’t need any of you to worry too much about commenting on the actual astrology, unless you want to! What interests me is simply collecting biography, with specific dates from your diaries of particularly important events/occurrences/shifts of understanding or perception which cast things in a new light, etc. I can then look at all the feedback and see whether there are links between the symbolism eg relevant eclipses, exact days of the three conjunctions, and your life stories.

I know this is probably impossible – but let’s try and be as objective as we can. If nothing happens when astrology says it should, that adds to the information provided by the research!

G)
I have written extensively on Jupiter/Uranus conjunctions in my book “Jupiter meets Uranus” and no doubt one or two of you will have acquired copies. This will be useful because you can read and reflect on what this dynamic, unusual, difficult, disruptive, ground-breaking combination brings to both collective and individual life. But if you don’t have the book, there are a couple of articles on the ‘Jupiter meets Uranus’ website which introduce these two powerful planetary characters. It would be useful to read them, to help you orient towards the research year.

And finally ….

As I said in my first email to the group, this fiery,energetic, pioneering, impatient, explosive, aggressive version of the conjunction is – through the Grand Cross it makes with the Saturn/Pluto square – held in a matrix of darkness and difficulty, frustration, deep-testing and delay. We can see this collectively in the situation in the Gulf of Mexico, with battle lines drawn between the USA government and BP – and the thwartings and delays occurring in the desperate attempts to contain this disaster. I can see from the feedback to my Jupiter/Uranus site, emails and my own personal experience, that those of us ‘plugged-in’ at a personal level have been handed a tiny chip of the same energy to wrestle with.

One of the things I will be looking for is some kind of easing-off and moving forward come the autumn of 2010, as Saturn moves away from the Grand Cross pattern. But then the conjunction retreats back into Pisces for the winter……so we shall just have to be keen observers, as well as coping with our own personal slowly emerging new world order…….

1100 words copyright Anne Whitaker 2010/11 Jupiter/Uranus Research Study
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