1. The 30-year cycle noted by Arthur Schlesinger is returning, which is the 30-year Saturn zodiac cycle. This progressive era that he mentioned happens when Saturn is in Aquarius, Pisces and Aries. The 60-year period is even more significant, since both Jupiter and Saturn are in these signs following their conjunction. The last time this conjunction happened close to this position in 1961 (25 Capricorn), JFK said "let us begin!" Jupiter-Saturn cycles confirm the 2020s will fit the pattern of the 1960s, 1900s, 1840s and 1780s, and the minor reform periods of the 1990s, 1930s and 1870s.
2. Jupiter and Saturn join in the first degree of progressive Aquarius in Dec.21 at the winter solstice, the first such conjunction in 600 years, shifting all these conjunctions and trines into air signs for the next 200 years. Uranus-Neptune is making the same switch, for a longer period. Air signs represent mind and communication, confirming we are switching into the information age instead of the industrial age (earth signs of money and materialism). The conj. of 1981 was like a preview of the switch to the information age, since it happened in air sign Libra, but it switched back to earth sign Taurus in 2000.
3. Pluto Returns to its position when the USA was founded for the first time, in 2022, and then moves into reform sign Aquarius in 2024 for about 20 years.
4. In 2027 Uranus returns to its exact position in 9 degrees Gemini when the USA was founded, which indicates the climax of the periodic American great crisis, and Uranus returns to the sign Gemini where it is located in the US horoscope starting in 2025. Jupiter joins Uranus in earth sign Taurus in 2024, a frequent conjunction of reform, representing the Green New Deal since Taurus is the sign of Earth Day. This is the first time that this 84-year Uranus Return of the Fourth Turning great crisis era ( = the modern saeculum, one typical human life cycle) will coincide with the 30/60-year Saturn Cycle Reform era. The Fourth Turning is an 80--85-year cycle defined by Strauss and Howe in their book of that title.
5. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto form a very rare triple sextile 60/120-degree angle, very exactly, around mid-decade. These are the planets of creativity, enlightenment and progress, and the symbols of the modern age of knowledge of the invisible since c. 1781. These 3 planets aligned in a tight conjunction in c.577 BC for the only time in history as the Axis Age of Enlightenment began.
6. Neptune enters activist Aries in 2025-26, lifting the current muddle of Pisces, beginning a new 164-year cycle through the zodiac. This last happened on the day the civil war began. On the day Neptune enters Aries to stay, 5 planets align in Aquarius overhead at DC.
7. The horoscope of humanity is indicated by Neptune's conjunction with Pluto, opening a new 493-year cycle of civilization in 1892. Using progressions (1 day after April 26 1892 = 1 year after 1892), we see that Mars in progressive Aquarius was highlighted in the sixties by turning stationary and then retrograde in 1962-1963 during JFK's admin and his assassination. In retrograde, Mars has put progress on hold since the sixties. In 2022 it turns stationary at 7 Aquarius, and the retrograde period is over. Progress returns. The chart for Neptune's ingress into Aries on Jan 26, 2026 shows the Sun in 7 Aquarius, conjunct Mars-Pluto near there and conjunct Mercury and Venus near there at the midheaven in DC, and Uranus is rising. That indicates the start of a new age of Aquarius, and progress returning.
8. The next Uranus-Neptune conjunction will also happen at 7 Aquarius in 2165. This is the beckoning light of the city on the hill for us. This conjunction happens 2140 years since Christ, the period of one age in the precession cycle, and thus indicates the Aquarian Age.
Here is a list of proposed reforms that may happen in our new reform era:
Repeal gerrymandering and reduce the filibuster.
Repeal Citizens United, pass public campaign financing, require licensed media to provide fair, free time and space for candidates, limit contributions from all sources, restrict lobbying.
End the 2 party duopoly and voting for lesser of two evils with ranked-choice voting and proportional representation.
Raise taxes on the wealthy, and return social security savings to the social security account to reduce the debt and reduce inequality in the economy among classes.
Raise minimum wages and provide basic income security for all. End trickle-down economics and its deceptive slogans of freedom as "less government."
Require corporations to serve and contribute to society in their charter.
Invest prudently in aid for housing to bring down prices.
Medicare for All. Lower prescription drug prices. Invest in disease control again. Restore government departments that have been decimated by Trump.
End voter suppression schemes. Repeal the electoral college.
Require civics classes to be taught in all licensed schools, public and private.
Effective gun control. Defeat the expected violent revolt against it.
Hold police accountable for shootings. Black lives matter. End racial profiling and unfair criminal sentences. Anti-racist education. Slavery reparations. Restore funding to social work and health professionals whose jobs were cut since Reaganomics and replaced by police.
Action to reduce and reverse the existential threat of climate change/global warming. Institute carbon taxes. Regulate auto emissions so that gasoline is phased out in 10 years. Regulate and end coal emissions and provide for transition to renewables. Invest in subsidies if necessary to further encourage the transition to renewable green energy. Reform farming practices, and restore family farms by restricting the size of corporate farms.
I see some chance for artistic revival in the 2020s-- unusual for a 4T. Watch the year 2022.
If necessary, consider packing the supreme court if it blocks reforms. Consider dividing the country between red and blue states. Consider ending the presidency as we know it and its war-making power, and switch to a parliamentary system like all other countries have instead of our elected-king system.
Will we pass some, most or all of these reforms in the 2020s? Or will we leave them to the late 2040s when in some cases (such as climate change) it may be too late to avoid catastrophe or the rapid decline of the USA? That could be our decision in the 2020 election, and the 2024 election.
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are the Democratic candidates who have the best chance to defeat the stalwart of the status quo, Donald Trump, in 2020. Bernie Sanders is the progressive candidate most likely to lead us forward into these reforms. If we are entering a reform era, that may indicate that a progressive reform president will be elected in 2020. Indications are for a close election in which the incumbent Donald Trump may have a slight advantage. But if the indications for a reform era are correct, this may tip the scales toward the progressive candidate.
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