Saturn and Outer Planet Waves

If we look at any of the turning points in history Saturn appears in quadrate alignments with any of the three outer planets. To be more detailed, Saturn appears at a number of quadrate alignments over a period of years that lead up to aforementioned turning point. How this appears in parallel to these times is covered in the Trigger Effect found below. What we need to know here is that Saturn's interaction with the outer planets seems to works within a century to tie once or twice a century event to other centuries.

The reason why Saturn appears throughout some many historical crossroads comes from the wave Saturn waves connect humanity to history. ((Saturn and the Human Condition)) that precedes this section reveal how Saturn's close tie to the human growth cycle shows again how people make history rather than the other way around. Here we can see how the process of measuring history moves away from the natural assumption that planetary interactions predetermine our behavior. Saturn's connection to humanity ties it to the capricousness that people display tend toward. It shows how history rotates around the split-second decisions we all make that alters the path we take in a lifetime. It also exhibits the irony of life. Astrologers classify Saturn, with good reason, with structure, foundation and discipline. But since Saturn in relation to the outer planets connotes the anthropogenic side of history, Saturn also relates to how unpredictable any us can be.

Saturn waves vary between thirty-one and forty-five years. This means that their ((quadrate alignments)) appear between two to three times a century. This reflects the reality that major historical events only occur a few times in a hundred year period. What helps even more is how quadrate alignments connect to one another. More complex examples appear at the end of this section but this one serves to gain bearings.

Cold War

The Cold War and 1948Saturn-Pluto1981 have an almost direct correspondance. Yes, some could argue that the Cold War lasted into the 1980s, but certainly the USSR of that decade hardly held the clout it did in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

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The quadrate alignments (there are five) appear in the following order with events associated with years of occurrence. Give a one to two year leeway on either side of a given year.

1948-(0°/360°): Events surrounding this year center around the USSR exhibiting its muscle by fomenting communist regimes around the world and a US lead coalition pushing back. NATO, for example, was described "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." In and around these years Mao established The People's Republic of China, South and North Korea became separate, opposing countries. The list simply grows from here, but in summary the post-war chaos put the Soviet Union in a position to leverage its gains during the war. Since this time appears the 0°/360° mark see this time as a seed moment.

1954-(90°): Taking a slighty different tack here by copying directly from the Cold War timelime found on Wikipedia:

* May 7: The Viet Minh defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu. France withdraws from Indochina, leaving four independent states: Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam (founded by the communist former Viet Minh) and South Vietnam (anti-communists). The Geneva Accords calls for free elections to unite Vietnam, but none of the major parties wish this to occur.
* May: The Huk revolt in the Philippines is defeated.
* June 18: The elected leftist Guatemalan government is overthrown in a CIA-backed coup. An unstable rightist regime installs itself. Opposition leads to a guerrilla war with Marxist rebels in which major human rights abuses are committed on all sides. Nevertheless, the regime survives until the end of the Cold War.
* July 23: Nasser, an Egyptian nationalist, ousts the pro-British King Farouk and establishes a dictatorship. Soon he becomes an important Soviet ally.
* August 11: The Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the Chinese Communist shelling of Taiwanese islands. The US backs Taiwan, and the crisis resolves itself as both sides decline to take action.
* September 8: Foundation of the South East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO) by Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Like NATO, it is founded to resist Communist expansion, this time in the Philippines and Indochina.

This helps fill in the picture by showing the global scope of the Cold War and who some of the players were. Also note that the Soviets would soon launch Sputnick, a development that when combined Soviet development of a nuclear arsenal made the
West realize their vulnerabilty.

1965-(180°): This represents the height of the Cold
War and proves to be a complicated period to study. The complexity comes from the proxy wars and the various alliances that all sides (China having its own issues with the Soviets, carved out its own sphere of influence, particularly in Indochina) backed in various ways. Because of various astrological complexity this part of 1948Saturn-Pluto1981 extends from about 1961 through 1969, encompassing the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, Prague Spring and the rise of Qaddafi. The ((opposition)) (180°) always represents the height or essence of any wave, this one proving no different. However, another major two other quadrate alignments, 1943Saturn-180-Neptune1989: 1965 and of greater consequence, 1849Uranus-360-Pluto1965 also appeared during this decade enlarging the scope of study. Nonetheless, the signature of 1948Saturn-Pluto1981 still stands out if only simply follows the wave point to point.

1972-(270°): Here we begin to see how capitalism undermined the Communist Bloc. Nixon opened relations to China and from here on a sense of detente prevailed. Nonetheless, both sides worked behind the scenes to forward their agendas, as with low-level conflicts in El Salvador and Nicaragua and, more importantly, Afghanistan.

1981-(360°/0°):

Saturn Pluto Waves

Duration: 31/36 Years

Saturn Neptune Waves

Duration: 38 Years

Saturn Uranus Waves

Duration: 45 Years

A Trigger Effect

Some Examples

1390s

French Revolution