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On January 11, 1994, there will be a rare planetary alignment in the heavens. Seven planets will form a conjunction in the sign of Capricorn. Those planets are the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Uranus and Neptune.1 I call this seven-planet conjunction a "megaconjunction." (See fig. 1.)
It will be the seventh time since the year 1700 that seven planets have been within a 20-degree arc of space as seen from the earth. The coming megaconjunction in Capricorn is the tightest and most powerful of these seven-planet conjunctions. On January 11, 1994, the seven planets will be within 9 degrees of each other.
I have taught that the planets have a weight other than the mass. The astral weight of a planet is the accumulation of the negative karma made by the evolutions who have lived there. This forms what we refer to as the planet's electronic belt. Correspondingly, every planet has a collective Causal Body, where all the good works and positive karma of all evolutions who have lived there are stored.
What we are seeing with this tight megaconjunction of seven planets is the force of seven electronic belts - the total momentum of all energies of those planets that have ever been misqualified through karma. In addition, we see the combined positive momentums of their Causal Bodies.
Because of the interchange of energy between the core of each of those planets and the core of our planet, there is a type of symbiotic relationship, if you will. There is an interaction, and we will definitely feel the momentum of those seven planets in relation to our own planet.
As the astrology changes, the very atmosphere changes. And I am talking about the atmosphere of consciousness, of moods, of the psyche, of the unconscious and the subconscious. All life on earth is affected by the energies that interchange not only between earth and the other planets of our solar system but between earth and all stars, all suns and all celestial bodies, known or unknown.
So this is why we take up the study of astrology. We understand that there is an interplay and that there are influences. The influences of this megaconjunction, for instance, will affect the earth as a whole and every person on earth. It will impact every one of us, depending on our individual karma and our astrological birth and progressed charts. We will feel it uniquely and we will certainly participate in it collectively.
None of the other seven-planet conjunctions were closer than 16 degrees. And only one of the other seven-planet conjunctions had all the planets in one sign. We know, then, that this is a rare and powerful conjunction.
The hard part of my subject today is: What does it all mean? We cannot really know what it all means. That's simply because megaconjunctions are so infrequent and so different from each other that it is hard to determine precisely what a future one may bring.
Four Planets in Capricorn, February 1988
To get a better understanding of what the coming megaconjunction portends, let's look at the conjunction of Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn that took place February 22-23, 1988. (See fig. 2.) The core of this conjunction was the Saturn-Uranus-Neptune conjunction, a planetary alignment that happens only once every 700 to 1,500 years.
Saturn-Uranus-Neptune conjunctions mark major turning points in the history of the world. The last one took place in 1307, but its influence was felt throughout the fourteenth century and beyond.
In my book The Astrology of the Four Horsemen, I wrote: "The Saturn-Uranus-Neptune conjunction of 1307 inaugurated a century of woe. It was characterized by unenlightened leadership, exorbitant taxation, the breakdown of social institutions, immorality, religious ferment and persecution (including the slaughter of Jews), destruction of farms and villages by bands of marauding mercenaries, peasant uprisings and anarchy."2
The fourteenth century experienced a violent shift in global weather. It was a period of extreme cold known as the Little Ice Age. It was a time of famine and a time when corruption in the Church reached new levels. It was also a time of conflict, which included the Hundred Years War between France and England and the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe. The worst disaster of the fourteenth century was the Black Death, an outbreak of bubonic plague that killed one-third of the population of Europe.
Historian Barbara W. Tuchman suggests in her book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century that we have much to learn about the present by studying the fourteenth century. It is not hard to see parallels: bad leadership and heavy taxation, a lingering recession, a rash of natural disasters, religious persecution (otherwise known as ethnic cleansing) and the modern Black Death, AIDS.
The fourteenth century was also a time of transformation. Some of the changes ultimately led to the Renaissance. The Saturn-Uranus-Neptune conjunction caused a revolution in military technology that brought the feudal period to a close and hastened the rise of monarchies. The mortality caused by the Black Death started an economic revolution by consolidating wealth in fewer hands.
In the 1988 Saturn-Uranus-Neptune conjunction, Mars, the fourth planet, acted as a trigger. As I pointed out in The Astrology of the Four Horsemen, this four-planet conjunction marked "the formal starting point of a period of upheaval and change on the planet. ... During this period we are likely to see the reform, disruption or dissolution of economic and political systems, revolution, major cataclysm and war." I explained that along with a number of other configurations this conjunction showed that the period of time between 1988 and 2000 would be a time of karmic summing-up.
That teaching comes from the Ascended Masters and it is easily read in the stars. As you know, I have often used astrology to confirm prophecy or prophecy to confirm astrology. If you study the quatrains of Nostradamus and the predictions of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, you will come up with the same answers. God has not given us merely one means to know the future and how to prepare for it.
On February 22, 1988, in Beverly Hills, the Maha Chohan delivered through me a dictation of great import. He spoke on the four-planet conjunction in Capricorn, occurring that very day:
You have heard the interpretation of the four planets in Capricorn. One must understand that they represent the deliverance of the Holy Spirit's initiations to a planet; and as the result of the consequences of the violation of the Holy Ghost in little children, in Nature and in the defilement of the body and the soul, you will see that unless these things are turned around and a people invoke the Light of their God and fulfill the Law of Love, those things projected will come to pass.
This astrological configuration is the testing of the four lower bodies of a planet and a people.3
I remember this moment well as a point in the history of my own life. I was standing on the platform in a Beverly Hills hotel delivering my Stump message and afterward the Maha Chohan delivered this judgment of the Holy Spirit. The judgment of the Holy Spirit is a more intense action than either the judgment of the Father or the judgment of the Son. It comes with the sacred fire. And this judgment, along with the judgment of the Divine Mother, is a heavy burden upon a planet and a people.
I felt in my very bones and to the very core what the consequences of that judgment would be if the people did not turn and serve their God. I knew that if they did not take the Light released and turn it into positive action, they would experience it as negative action, or judgment.
The Maha Chohan said that Mars, as the fourth planet in Capricorn, denoted the triggering in the physical plane of all that had gone before (in the Piscean age) in the etheric, mental and desire bodies of mankind.4
And so, the Holy Spirit came to test us and we are all being tested daily. We are mindful of the tests, we are grateful for them, we watch for them and we make certain that we pass them.
The Karma of 25,800 Years Is Cycling into the Physical Plane:
Twelve-Year Period, April 23, 1990-April 22, 2002
On April 23, 1990, the physical karma of 25,800 years5 began cycling into the physical plane. It had been held in abeyance through an entire cycle around the zodiac, principally because Jesus Christ, the great Piscean avatar, and other great avatars bore the burden of our karma.
The full karma of the 25,800 years (the Piscean age plus the eleven preceding ages) was due to descend at the beginning of the Piscean age. Jesus' sacrifice made it possible for this karma, instead of descending all at once, to be meted out in increments over the 2,150-year Piscean age. The first karma to descend was the karma made in the etheric plane. The next to descend was the karma made in the mental plane and then the karma made in the astral (emotional) plane.
April 23, 1969, marked the beginning of the return of karma made in the astral plane. It initiated a period of the intensification of the return of karma known as the Dark Cycle. April 23, 1990, marked the beginning of the return of karma made in the physical plane. On that day it began descending into the physical octave and will continue for twelve years, ending April 22, 2002.6 This period of karma becoming physical is the backdrop for all these astrological portents I am discussing.
In May of 1990, just after this twelve-year period began, India and Pakistan were on the verge of a nuclear war, unbeknownst to us all. The Bush administration sent Robert Gates, then deputy national security advisor, to India and Pakistan to diffuse the situation. Gates apparently succeeded, but the Bush administration kept the matter a secret because it had allowed nuclear weapons technology to flow to Pakistan. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could have been what experts call a "catalytic nuclear war." It could have drawn China, the Soviet Union and the United States into it.
Gates was quoted as saying: "Pakistan and India seemed to be caught in a cycle that they couldn't break out of. ... I was convinced that if a war started, it would be nuclear."7
And Richard Kerr, former deputy CIA director, described the confrontation as "the most dangerous nuclear situation we have ever faced. ... It was far more frightening than the Cuban missile crisis. ... There was no question in my mind that we were right on the edge [of a nuclear war]."8
This was the period, if you will recall, of increased press awareness, of reporters from all over the world flocking to the ranch to have me tell them about the heightened danger of nuclear war in the month of April and the twelve years following. Of course, I did not consciously know that such a situation was brewing between India and Pakistan. I simply had the word of El Morya and his prophecy to go on.
To be at the brink of nuclear war and not know it and then to know it after the fact a number of years later is something that brings upon us a delayed shudder. It took about three years for the information about this near miss between India and Pakistan to become public. When I read the news account of it earlier this year, I realized just what we had been dealing with and that there are perhaps other similar situations that we are not aware of.
Saint Germain and El Morya had told us that the preparation of the Lightbearers in the earth was the key that would deter and prevent nuclear war. On November 27, 1986, Saint Germain said:
Secure the underground shelters, preserve the food, and prepare to survive. And if it be an exercise proven unneeded, then bless God that it did not go unheeded. For beloved, my word and your response, your very preparedness, is the one condition that can prevent the almost inevitable scenario of nuclear war.
Beloved ones, preparedness is the key. If you do not think and act in terms of survival, then surely, surely, I say, you will not survive!9
And on April 8, 1990, when many of us had finished our shelters, El Morya said: "You have paid in advance for your survival. You have secured it. You have obeyed Saint Germain, who told you that preparedness is the key. Your very preparedness itself has forestalled certain events."10
So it is interesting to look at what astrology and prophecy have meant in the past, even though we've lived through those times and not known all the things that were going on in the earth. And even today, in the midst of this twelve-year cycle, we do not know all that is going on in the earth.
The January 1994 megaconjunction in Capricorn follows in the wake of the 1988 conjunction. The 1988 and 1994 conjunctions can be seen as a sequence, one tripping the other. The 1994 megaconjunction amplifies and sustains the power of the first conjunction and also initiates its own influences.
The Seven Mighty Elohim came to the Inner Retreat during our Easter conference 1993 to hold the balance for this conjunction. Cyclopea said: "We the Seven Elohim come in this hour as a counterweight to the positive and negative momentums [the seven planets in Capricorn in 1994 will] deliver. [We do this] that you might have the foundations established to meet this auspicious conjunction of the planets next January and that you might build upon the foundations that we will lay in this conference."11
During this conference we gave perpetual decrees to the Elohim to anchor their Causal Bodies in the earth as a means of support and reinforcement to help us meet the challenges of the January megaconjunction.
Like the 1988 conjunction in Capricorn, the 1994 megaconjunction in Capricorn could produce economic woes and warfare. It also indicates the prospect of major earthquakes and disruptive weather patterns or storms. It has many other portents, including changes, for better or worse, in political liberty. We could see the establishment or overthrow of dictatorships, the increase or decrease of spy and secret-police activity, and the rise or fall of nations and power blocs. The megaconjunction also indicates the danger of widespread plague and famine and danger from radioactivity, possibly from nuclear war.
Some of this configuration's most important influence falls in two areas - social power and restructuring. Capricorn rules social power and social structures. Social power is the power wielded by governments, institutions, corporations, churches, organizations, communities, families and individuals.
The planet Saturn rules the sign Capricorn. The ruler of a sign influences the character and function of the sign. Saturn is our tester, our teacher, our initiator in the zodiac. It governs the principle of limitation in its positive and negative expression, and it can show where it is necessary and beneficial to set limits. For instance, the limits on governmental powers are a function of Saturn. Saturn also rules the immune system, which limits the capacity of pathogens to make you ill. But Saturn can also be expressed as physical, psychological, social or spiritual obstacles and limitations. These include the sense of pessimism or guilt that inhibits successful action.
Saturn has other dimensions. It rules structure, concentration, crystallization and form. In the social or political sphere, it shows how power is organized and is indicative of a nation's constitution. Saturn shows how a person, organization or nation gains through discipline, responsibility, perseverance, practicality, organization and wisdom. Conversely, it shows how people and nations may suffer from loss, delay and restriction if they do not embody these qualities. Saturn and Capricorn give people and nations the challenge to "do it right" or suffer the consequences - sometimes long-term consequences.
Because Saturn rules Capricorn, the influences of Saturn are expressed through Capricorn. Therefore, whatever is happening to Saturn as it transits through the heavens is expressed through the planets in Capricorn.
Keep in mind that we are in the penumbra, or the shadow, of this megaconjunction. This means that we are already experiencing the megaconjunction. It will not just fall on our heads like an apple from the tree on January 11. Some of the things I've mentioned are already happening. Some have been happening since the 1988 conjunction and before that in the penumbra of that conjunction. So as we look at these portents, let us bear in mind that they are upon us. They are only going to get stronger when January 11 comes up on our calendar.
On January 11, when the megaconjunction takes place, Saturn will not be in its home sign of Capricorn. It will be in Aquarius. Aquarius's influence is just the opposite of Capricorn's. Capricorn is conservative and tends to preserve the status quo. Aquarius is innovative, evolutionary and sometimes revolutionary. It contains the impulse for freedom and occasionally provokes anarchy.
Good governments under a Capricorn influence produce the greatest freedom by establishing and maintaining a social order that prizes harmony, discipline and respect for authority and established institutions. Such governments gain through wise leaders, hard work and a correct organization of political power.
Good governments under an Aquarian influence produce the greatest freedom by improving a social order that prizes freedom, scientific and social experimentation, the worth of the individual, the transformation of the status quo and widespread participation in the political process.
Systems under the influence of both Capricorn and Aquarius can produce freedom, but they can also produce tyranny. It is easy to see how Capricorn can be expressed as tyranny because of its emphasis on centralized control and an authoritarian structure, but what about freedom-loving Aquarius? Aquarians or leaders under an Aquarian influence can prize freedom of thought for themselves but can be highly dogmatic towards others. They can love freedom so much that they usurp it and keep it all for themselves.
Saturn (the planet of restriction) in Aquarius (the sign of innovation) may seem like a contradiction in terms, but it is not. When Saturn is in Aquarius, individuals, nations and all other organizations must combine order with innovation. They must combine Capricornian respect for institutions with Aquarian celebration of personal liberties. They must also allow Aquarian forces to transform the status quo without degenerating into anarchy, tyranny or violent revolution.
While Saturn in Aquarius is not a contradiction in terms, it is not an easy fit. This placing can create a lot of tension. And this tension will be transferred to the seven planets in Capricorn - the sign that Saturn rules.
But there is another dimension to this. At the time of the megaconjunction, Saturn in Aquarius will be square to Pluto in Scorpio. (See fig. 1.) This square is a major challenge in itself and will heavily influence the expression of the megaconjunction.
Saturn rules structure and Pluto rules transformation. This square shows the need for people to restructure their lives and reorganize their priorities. Nations and organizations must reorganize their policies or even their basic structure. They must set new priorities. The failure of a nation to properly restructure could mean the fall of the government or the destruction of the nation.
Pluto rules transforming, and frequently destructive, power. It mobilizes forces from the realms of the unseen, including unconscious angers and hatreds. Pluto rules unseen toxic forces and plutonium, a critical ingredient in nuclear weapons. It also rules the power of plutocrats - that is, political power derived from great wealth. The need of governments to restructure is likely to run into conflict with the agenda of the power elite.
Scorpio introduces a new set of factors into the equation. It rules a wide range of financial matters, including debt, taxes and corporate or partnership finances. It also governs certain aspects of warfare, science, art, management and health or health care. Because Scorpio rules joint finances, it rules health care in situations where someone else pays the bill, such as governments or corporations.
Saturn crystallizes the energies of Pluto in Scorpio and makes them a matter of social or governmental concern. It is no accident that the Clinton administration is trying to restructure the government finances in order to manage the national debt and that health care reform is a major part of it. It is also no surprise that the administration is facing serious delays and restrictions.
If the Clinton administration and Congress don't find the proper formula, there are likely to be severe economic consequences at the time of the megaconjunction or in the months that follow. These could include another major economic downturn and debt liquidation.
The Saturn-Pluto square also shows that the Clinton administration and the world may have to deal with terrorism, warfare, disease, and accidents involving toxic or nuclear substances, along with intense economic problems. A major problem that derives from the Saturn-Pluto square is the crystallization of hatred and anger directed against government through terrorism.
The bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26 took place on one of Pluto's power points, a Pluto retrograde station. A retrograde station is the point where a planet appears to stop its forward motion along the zodiac and to begin to move backward as seen from the earth. It is a power point because pent-up energies are released with great force.
In the case of the bombing of the World Trade Center, pent-up unconscious as well as conscious Scorpio anger, combined with Pluto's destructive energies, was released and crystallized by Saturn. Pluto was square to Saturn at that time and will remain so until spring 1994.
When Saturn crystallized the energies of Pluto in Scorpio, they literally exploded at the World Trade Center and again two days later when the BATF made its first assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Explosions are a release of tremendous anger, often unconscious. The fact that both events happened as Pluto in Scorpio went retrograde indicates that there are hidden causes and circumstances associated with them that are still unknown.
In any case, we may see more tragic events as the energies of this Saturn-Pluto square express through the megaconjunction. These could include terrorist attacks, large-scale loss of life, warfare and conflict. We can also expect to see governments react to limit freedom if they cannot or will not evolve new ways of solving these problems.
Under this Saturn-Pluto square, all of us have to deal with the emergence and the crystallization of unconscious anger and hatred. And "all of us" means all of us. It means you need to be working on your inner child, examining flashes of anger that you may feel coming up from somewhere unknown. You need to deal with these in therapy, in study and in decrees. You must be certain that you are not a focal point for world energies of anger. You cannot allow these energies to pass through you and to trigger what's in your subconscious.
Remember Jesus' words: "The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me."12 Jesus couldn't be tempted by anything of the world because he had nothing of the world in him. The best way to batten down your hatches and get ready for changes in the earth is to be certain that no element of outer darkness can tie into any subconscious or unconscious anger that is within you.
Although we think we are justified in consciously targeting our hatred and our anger against this one or that one, at the core we are really directing our hatred and our anger against God. It is because of our nonresolution with God that we find ourselves evolving here on earth. We seek resolution with God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We must seek that resolution now. We must understand that it is our karma and our inordinate desire that have placed a wedge between ourselves and our God. And we must do something about that separation now.
When this anger against God interacts with Aquarian energies at a personal level, people become excessively dissatisfied with their circumstances. They sometimes get an intense desire to experience greater personal freedom, as though it were the most important thing in the world to them, and this blinds them to all other responsibilities.
Sometimes their desire for freedom is blocked by responsibilities, finances, psychological limitations or an inability to figure out what they want to do. Sometimes they simply want to throw off responsibility and restriction and do their own thing. They can become eccentric and feel "I gotta be me!" and that becomes the driving force in their life. They often feel angry, tired, depressed, pessimistic and overburdened. They want to set limits but don't know how to innovate, as Aquarius says they can, in order to meet their responsibilities, as Capricorn says they must.
Whatever is hidden, toxic and governed by Scorpio is likely to be brought to the surface. You can anticipate these situations and transmute them or wait for them to explode. Either way, you will be dealing with them. It is almost certain they will emerge, because Saturn deals with necessity and Pluto with coercion and involuntary circumstances.
The process of creative change on a personal level can best be achieved by letting the anger and hatred go into the violet flame - and by letting the cause and core go into the violet flame. But we must also transmute the returning cycles of anger and hatred on a world scale, and this can prove to be a great challenge.
You can start to meet that challenge - and all of the challenges of the 1994 megaconjunction in Capricorn - by setting aside thirty minutes a day to give violet flame decrees to transmute all blocks, within and without, to your union with God.
The Church to Face Major Challenges
Like all other organizations, Church Universal and Triumphant will face major challenges. The Church will continue to face a financial challenge. This is related to a second challenge: resolving our differences with the Internal Revenue Service. Both of these challenges may involve some restructuring by the Church. In fact, as Edward Francis has pointed out, we have already done some of this restructuring.
The goal is to be in advance of prophecy and in advance of astrology. What does that mean?
It means that you need to decree for the transmutation of the negative astrological portents before they are about to land on your head! You need to get a running momentum on the Capricorn megaconjunction before it precipitates out of the etheric, the mental and astral planes into the physical. By so doing, you can transmute a large percentage of the personal and planetary portents of negative karma that the megaconjunction is dumping on the earth and her evolutions.
By decreeing in advance, you literally turn the avalanche of karma back up the mountain. And what finally hits the physical octave is a small percentage of the sound and the fury of what might have been.
Wise ones will do this. And this is why at the turning point of the new year I urge you to update your personal astrology by looking at how the transits at the time of the megaconjunction impact your birth and progressed charts so that you know specifically what your personal challenges will be.
The Saturn-Pluto square and the megaconjunction show a new phase in our public relations and a major shift in the way the public perceives the Church. These two configurations also show a major challenge related to the staff of the Church and possibly to important, precedent-setting litigation. These challenges can have positive outcomes, negative outcomes or both.
Uranus-Neptune Conjunction: Core of the Megaconjunction
The core of the megaconjunction is a Uranus-Neptune conjunction in Capricorn. The two planets are only one degree apart. Uranus is at 22 Capricorn. Neptune is at 21 Capricorn. (See fig. 1.) Uranus-Neptune conjunctions take place about once every 172 years. These conjunctions inaugurate social, political, technological and spiritual revolutions.
In the long run, mankind tend to benefit from these conjunctions. In the short run, Uranus-Neptune conjunctions can create havoc. Uranus in Capricorn can shake up governments. Combined with Neptune, it can drive a government out of power or change the form of government. Since Neptune rules socialism, it can show the sudden rise or fall of socialist governments. It will probably breathe new life into the old Soviet bureaucracy or deal them a powerful blow. In any case, the Uranus-Neptune conjunction may give rise to mass movements, including the unpredictable movement of refugees with unsettling influences.
This configuration could have a big impact on the U.S. economy. Bill Clinton had better get presidential fast! [7-second applause]
Clinton's popularity, already in decline, is likely to take a big dip around the first of the year. If we take a look at Clinton's birth chart in relation to the megaconjunction and the Saturn-Pluto square, we see that the square is likely to impact his Sun in Leo on January 1 and 2, 1994. The Saturn-Pluto square has already been the harbinger of challenges he has not been able to meet.
This will be a time of trial for the president. And if the economy runs into trouble, Clinton is in for a rough time. It is possible that Clinton or someone else will unexpectedly grab some power. With Uranus and Neptune at the core of the megaconjunction, it is also possible that someone will think up some brilliant solutions to our problems. But it is much more likely that we will try to muddle through and get caught in a series of social, financial, political, military and geophysical problems that will be difficult to solve.
As I said, we are in the penumbra of this megaconjunction right now. The influence of the megaconjunction is likely to last for at least eighteen months (through July 1995) and possibly much longer. I believe that this configuration will affect life for decades if not centuries to come, because it has so much power to put so many things in motion. And turning those things around may literally take decades or centuries, depending on what nation you're talking about.
In sum, the megaconjunction can help us restructure our lives, our organizations and our nations. This restructuring when done well and solidly will make it possible for us to grow and evolve. But if we as an organization, as a Community, as a nation and as a planet fail to properly reorganize ourselves, we may suffer severe consequences as the old order crumbles, perhaps violently, before giving way to the new order of the age of Aquarius.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet delivered the lecture "Meeting the Challenge of World Karma on the Cusp of the Twenty-First Century: Seven Planets in Capricorn, January 11, 1994: Turning Challenge into Opportunity" on Sunday, July 4, 1993. The lecture was part of the ten-day conference FREEDOM 1993: "Healing the Earth," held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. It has been edited for publication in the Pearls of Wisdom. Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.