American Saturn Returns

American Saturn Returns are also important. These Saturn Returns are all for the Declaration Chart (July 4, 1776). Saturn Returns for a nation, that is, when transiting Saturn makes the conjunction to the natal Saturn of the chart of its founding, imply a restructuring of the whole of that society. Often it can mean the replacement of an old elite by a new one. It certainly has to do with the birth of something new into the culture, as ratification of the 19^th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the vote (August 18, 1920), which occurred towards the end of its fourth Saturn Return; or the battles that ended slavery in the American Civil War that occurred at the beginning of its third Saturn Return, or the first Saturn Return, which took place on President Jefferson’s second swearing-in as a confirmation of the expansion of America, including the Louisiana Purchase, which occurred right on its first Saturn Return.

America has had eight Saturn returns so far (2018), and below I describe some of the transformative effects of each cycle.

FIRST AMERICAN SATURN RETURN  1804-05

First conjunction= Dec 16, 1804  (JU 24° Scorpio 20΄
Rx conjunction March 6 1805  (JU 5°52΄Saggittarius)
Thomas Jefferson is sworn as 2^nd term president (March 4^th, 1805) He would place his stamp on roughly the next thirty years of politics in America.This  transit confirms the destruction of the old elites, the Federalist Party.
Direct conjunction= Sept., 02, 1805  (JU 28° Scorpio 45΄)

The president sends explorers (Lewis and Clark) west to discover this land that people do not know much about, which was purchased from the Emperor Napoleon. The Louisiana Purchase more than doubled the size of America.

SECOND SATURN RETURN

First conjunction = Oct. 14, 1834

Only one conjunction this cycle. Andrew Jackson is now president, and his frontier people now are in power in Washington. A wild time. He also wipes out the old elite, and his people will stay in power until 1860.

THIRD SATURN RETURN

First Conjunction = Nov 24, 1863 (JU = 12° Scorpio 52΄)
Rx conjunction = April 5, 1864 JU = 26° Scorpio 49’)
Direct Conjunction = Aug 17 1864 (JU 19°Scorpio 20΄)

This new cycle, is a confirmation of the ending of slavery in America; a war is being fought about it, and it is now being won by the Union. November 19, 1863, Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address, one of the greatest speeches on human freedom.  The Battle of Missionary Ridge (November 25, 1863), at Chattanooga, where Grant defeated Bragg, was fought on the first conjunction of transiting Saturn to natal Saturn. This ended the Confederates power in the South: Never would they win another major battle. Later in 1864, General Sherman began his famous march through the Confederate South. He allowed his lines of supply to drop, and then sliced his way through the entire Deep South, relying on the power of his army to forage for supplies. Nothing could stop his push, which by this time had grown into one of the most powerful armies in history. Every one knew the war was over. Sherman’s taking of Atlanta, Ga., located in the heart of the Confederacy, was reported avidly in Union newspapers: It helped Lincoln win his bid for re-election in 1864. This cycle would encompass the first trans-continental railroad. It would also usher in an enormous expansion of the economy.

FOURTH SATURN RETURN

First Conjunction = 29 September 1893 (JU 1° II 19΄)
PL 10° II 44΄RX | NE 13° II 31΄ Rx)

This is the time of discovery and breakout. The white heat of invention was burning. The picture to the left is Thomas Edison, sitting in front of the phonograph that he invented, powered by the electrical grid that he was the first in the world to build. Those rolls in front of him are the first recordable media in the world. In this cycle, in America, for the first time in history man flew in the air in a mechanical device. There was a movement called the Third Great Awakening that reached its peak in these years.

Only one conjunction this cycle. The re-structuring here involved giving the vote to women, causing a massive change in American civilization. This struggle would take place all through the cycle, culminating in the ratification of the 19^th Amendment, 2 August 1920. Also, this was the period when America became a first world nation; it was when it began its dalliance with progressivism and socialism. Grover Cleveland was the cycle’s first president. He was the last of the pre-Bryan Democrats: son of a minister, honest in his dealings with others sometimes to his own detriment, popular with the people because he was not a Tammany Democrat, a deep believer in the Constitution. He had one election for the presidency stolen from him by the Republicans, and four years later partly from sympathy was returned to that office by a huge popular margin. He was the perfect Plutonian type who often rises by not fighting. Power seems almost given, as it was in another cycle with Eisenhower. Teddy Roosevelt was also president and brought in much reform. Wilson was the first progressive president who believed the Constitution was out of date and needed to be “rewritten”; he took the nation into World War I, which tipped the balance of power towards the Allies and caused the Germans to sue for a peace, and they would smolder for twenty years until war broke out again. Wilson’s wife, Edith, was president for a year after his stroke. She would be the first female chief-executive, albeit covert.

FIFTH SATURN RETURN

First Conjunction = Nov. 7, 1922 JU = 2° Scorpio 26΄)
Rx conjunction = May 06, 1923 (JU = 14°01΄ Scorpio)
Direct conjunction = 26 July 1923 (JU = 9° 35΄ Scorpio)

On August 2, 1923 (Pluto 11° Cancer 25΄), President Warren Harding, after a very successful two years of rebuilding the economy, dies, and Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president.  This is the Roaring 20’s of Harding and Coolidge and for a while Hoover, a time of great prosperity in America and around the world. However, the lending and credit bubble grew too large and burst, creating a bad financial slump, bringing, in reaction, and a whole new group of people came into power. In order to end the Great Depression they tried to manage and fine-tune the economy with all sorts of new government programs; all their efforts failed. Roosevelt was president then. His greatness was not in his economics, which few historians celebrate today, but in foreign policy, in his certainty that Adolph Hitler was evil and would take the world back into war. He prepared America for that, covertly at first, then openly, first by supplying weapons and materiel to Germany’s enemies, then by feeding America’s invincible armies into the conflict. In this cycle, America became the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. The atomic age was born, and two atomic bombs ended the war in a few weeks. Japan and Germany become democratic republics. By the end of this cycle America achieves world hegemony.

SIXTH SATURN RETURN

First Conjunction = Jan 5, 1952 (JU = 6° Aries 23΄)
Rx conjunction = 12 Feb. 1952 JU = 12° Aries 25” | opposition exact Feb. 21, 1952)
Direct conjunction = Sept. 13, 1952 (SA @ 14° Aries 48′ | JU= 20° Taurus 58΄)

On November 4, 1952, Dwight Eisenhower is elected by a landslide, that is, a large majority of the popular vote; he is the first Republican president in twenty years, and is elected on a Jupiter Saturn opposition. New players have achieved world power. The US and the Soviet Union vie for power everywhere: This is called the Cold War. A Uranus Pluto synod occurs on America’s Neptune: This era is simply called The Sixties. There is a sexual revolution; there is spiritual revolution; some call it the Fourth Great Awakening. Science continues its explosive growth: An American walks on the Moon. Vietnam happens, then America leaves, forsaking its ally. American hegemony shrinks.

SEVENTH SATURN RETURN

First Conjunction = 21 October 1981 (JU 22° Libra 14΄) (Jan. 20, 1981: JU = 10° Libra 21΄ | SA = 9° Libra 47΄Rx)
50΄ Rx conjunction at 15° 50΄on 6/15 – 22/1982

Though the conjunction occurred finally in October, 1981, at the swearing in of President Reagan the synod was roughly 4° off the conjunction. Thus it placed its stamp on the whole thirty year cycle. This cycle for America was extraordinarily prosperous. American hegemony is restored. This era also saw the break-up of the Soviet Union, the rise of theocratic fascism which would manifest as 9/11 and other events. For more on this, read the section of the Jupiter Saturn synod dating from 1981.

EIGHTH SATURN RETURN

First conjunction = Dec 2, 2010 (JU 23° Pisces 48΄)
Rx conjunction = 23 March 2011 (JU 13° Aries 00΄)
Direct conjunction = 26 August 2011 (JU = 10° Taurus 19΄)

This conjunction occurred while Pluto was making the opposition to the triple conjunction of America’s Venus/Jupiter/Sun (Declaration Chart). This opposition will place its stamp on the whole thirty year cycle. The first Saturn Return conjunction was exact Dec 2, 2010. A month earlier, when Saturn was 3° away from the conjunction, elections were held all over the nation. Those in power were everywhere voted out of office: the House of Representatives moved to control of an opposing party; the Senate lost its absolute voting majority, leaving it open to the neutering filibuster; governorships and legislatures all over America passed out of control of the elites. It was essentially a tsunami vote. By March of 2011, when the conjunction was exact again, and when transiting Jupiter was opposed Saturn, marking the full phase of a Jupiter Saturn synod, a whole new group of people were in power. While it did not wipe out the power of the old elite, it did stop cold their tendency to increase taxation and build ever more bureaucratic empires. The president could get none of his programs passed in the congress.