Its not your typical love story. Every 12 years, the two planets meet up for a romantic tryst for a week or two – usually a few times that year. Then they go their separate ways. It’s pretty controlled in that sense, but those concentrated bursts of togetherness make pretty powerful affairs.

Jupiter loves no boundaries, while Pluto loves depth. Often times, a desire for absolute power is the byproduct. It’s as if Jupiter is the microscope and Pluto is the cell: illuminating everything from the grandiose to the infinitesimal.

The last Jupiter-Pluto conjunction was December 2007 in late Sagittarius, less than a year before the 2008 presidential election. Barack Obama was elected just after Pluto entered Capricorn and Jupiter had already been moving swiftly through the sign of the goat. The Wall Street shenanigans were fully disclosed around this time. In Capricorn, the emphasis is on responsibility and austerity – not the easiest position for Jupiter who loves no bounds.

Pluto seems to like the compliance of Capricorn. There’s a seriousness to Capricorn that understands how to play by whatever rules are imposed. After 12 years, Pluto has had more time to acquaint Capricorn with its underlying message. The upside is a rule-abiding society; the downside is fascism.

Bill Gates is an ideal example of someone born under a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction. Driven to succeed from an early age, his message has always been far-reaching – from technology to philanthropy. His drive has both impressed and repelled others, as his quest to be in a powerful position to help seems unrelenting. This has raised questions for many.

Jupiter-Pluto natives run the risk of being both very popular and very threatening. Those two planets combined encompass the gamut of human experience-from microbiology to astronomy; egalitarianism to elitism. Powerful people will always have enemies. We cannot question the amount of money Bill (and Melinda) Gates has donated to charity, but many are concerned by his quest for power.

Gandhi is another example of someone born under a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction. Again, both revered and reviled. It seems difficult for these natives to avoid both extremes.

While this conjunction will happen in Capricorn for most of 2020, in late December of 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will conjunct in Aquarius, signaling the beginning of a new 200 year cycle.

I mentioned the air trigon in my post about the Corona Virus. My guess is that it will be both a burgeoning time of intellectual advancement and cross-cultural diasporas. People will be less rooted to their countries of origin as empires collapse and new imperial states emerge. Arguably, that’s already been happening on micro levels for some time. Many American ex-patriots are living all over the globe and immigration has been a hotly debated topic for quite some time.

Conjecture about exact details is beyond the scope of an astrological perspective. 200 years is a pretty broad brush stroke. Many unique and specific transits will be peppered throughout. Moving away from an earth-centered cultural landscape I imagine will be inevitable. We’ve seen that progression already begin in the last 20 years with the foundation of the Internet.

An economy based on the mining of resources will be replaced by an economy of ideas and technological advances. A spiritual restlessness will replace the now common desires for material-based structures, like marriage and real estate. Not that people will no longer choose marriage and home ownership. We just might see a shift away from the nuclear-family suburban model to a more communal (or even feudal) model of interdependence.

Jupiter is magnifying our systemic problems now in Capricorn. In Aquarius, there will be more freedom of movement – of social progress. When it has it’s meeting with Saturn in December (not a love affair at all – more like a political strategists’ summit), structures will begin to be put in place.

We will most likely have a police state fill in the interim period for the remainder of 2020 until Jupiter and Saturn form their tense meeting of the minds: the former highlighting expansion, the latter demanding boundaries. Hard to say how easy it will be to slip through the cracks as a citizen of the world. It might turn into a little bit of the wild west again if we can’t figure out how to help one another without federal intervention.