Published on Mar 09, 2021
Google Doodle Winter Solstice Great Conjunction : The 'Great Conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn on December Solstice - December 21. The 'Great Conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn will be the closest since 1623, which is 13 years after Galileo built his first telescope and discovered four new 'stars' orbiting the Jupiter.
There's no question: What happens in the sky the night of the winter solstice is sure to bring some joy in a year when it's been hard to find in Connecticut. Jupiter and Saturn will dance in a planetary conjunction, lining up perfectly to create the illusion of a "Christmas star."
The two bright planets have been visible in the evening sky for the past several nights as they move closer together, culminating on the night of Dec. 21, the winter solstice.
But if the solstice and the "great conjunction" of Jupiter and Saturn aren't enough to get you outside, the Ursid meteor shower will offer a show of shooting stars at the same time.
The National Weather Service forecasts partly cloudy skies over the southern part of the state Monday evening and Tuesday morning, although skywatchers further north might struggle with some patchy fog.
The last time Jupiter and Saturn were this close together was in 1623, according to NASA. As the two giant planets traveled together across the sky, Jupiter caught up to and passed Saturn in the astronomical event known as the "great conjunction."
One of the important considerations in a new star wisdom, or astrosophy, is to enter the flow of rhythm in the life of the planetary spheres. In so doing, we must consider the rhythms that even now are shaping the theme of this Great Conjunction as the planets engage and prepare for this meeting. One can view Saturn and Jupiter as the great keepers of the divine evolutionary plan for humanity. Saturn is that sphere who is the keeper of the plan from its inception, the great Father Time, who continually reminds us through karma, of the beginnings of our Earth and the great plan laid out for human evolution.
The meeting of these two great keepers of our solar cosmos who carry that which arose from the most High Trinity and the most High Sophia, can be seen as a kind of cosmic conference, evaluating how we are unfolding the cosmic plan into the future as creative partners in evolution. These great conjunctions unfold in a pattern over time, occurring every twenty years at 120 degrees equidistant from each other, weaving in the heavens around us a great equilateral triangle, called the Golden Triangle, or Golden Star, a symbol used in many esoteric schools.
This Golden Triangle remains intact but over time slowly rotates forward in the zodiac by 8 to 10 degrees every 60 years when one trinity of conjunctions has been completed. The fourth conjunction returns to the same point to begin the cycle again, a bit further along. These points of the triangle can therefore be traced back in time to reveal historical events related to humanity’s spiritual evolution.
Willi Sucher has followed this Golden Star in history and his research has revealed, among other things, that the corners of this Great Triangle can be traced back and have a relationship to the events around the time of Christ, which have imbued their conferences now with new meaning for the Earth. These events are the Great Conjunction of 6 BC, which according to Willi Sucher’s research, is the actual so-called Star of Bethlehem, pre-announcing the birth of the child who would become the Savior of the world.
This “star” observed by the magi, was their tool for knowing the time and place of the reincarnation of their great Teacher, Zoroaster (meaning Golden Star), or Zarathustra, in Bethlehem in Israel. Thus they made their journey, with the wisdom of the ancient clairvoyant star knowledge, to seek their great Teacher. Therefore this corner of the zodiac carries the “great Annunciation” theme, calling for humanity to awaken to birth of the new in the world, often revealing in history, events of new revelation, new annunciations for humanity.
