In episode 444 astrologer and historian Richard Tarnas joins the show to talk about conjunctions between the planets Jupiter and Uranus, and discuss major events they have coincided with in history.

Jupiter and Uranus form a conjunction in the sky every 14 years, and since this year the two aligned on April 20, I thought it would be good to look back to see what types of events occurred around the time of these conjunctions in the past.

Richard dedicated several chapters of his 2006 book Cosmos and Psyche to exploring Jupiter-Uranus alignments in history, and he showed that they often coincide with periods sudden advancements in technology, scientific breakthroughs, and political revolutions.

In the first part of the episode we talk about the meanings of Jupiter, Uranus, and their conjunctions, and then in the second half we get into talking about what happened under specific alignments.

Some of the events we cover include the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the American and French revolutions, and the discoveries of Kepler and Galileo.

This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.

Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:01 Jupiter Uranus overview

00:12:16 Handbook of planetary archetypes

00:13:20 Archetypal meaning of Jupiter

00:14:58 Archetypal meaning of Uranus

00:17:27 History of naming of the planets

00:19:17 Uranus' connection with Prometheus

00:30:12 Myth of Uranus

00:35:32 Mars and Pluto

00:36:22 Tarnas' book Prometheus the Awakener

00:37:50 Jupiter-Uranus conjunction significations

00:49:26 15 degree orb

00:53:30 1960s

01:00:53 Arc of the moral universe

01:03:53 Timeline of current Jupiter-Uranus conjunction

01:15:18 American Revolution 1776

01:18:08 Moon landing

01:30:44 Other travel and flight milestones

01:44:09 Current changes in society

01:46:09 Effects of conjunctions hidden for a time

01:47:56 Shadow of Jupiter-Uranus

01:58:04 Women's suffrage and feminism

02:01:19 1609 conjunction, Kepler, and Galileo

02:08:13 1789 conjunction, French Revolution

02:14:38 Scholarly rigor needed in astrology

02:16:42 AI and chart data accuracy

02:19:40 Cosmos and Psyche

02:26:13 Uranus-Neptune and Millennials

02:29:41 Tarnas' retirement and upcoming books

02:32:15 Tarnas' website

02:34:09 California Institute of Integral Studies

02:36:16 Sponsors and closing credits

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JJLgO7XGlw

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Transcript

A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 444 transcript

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