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A Narrative of the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter at the Winter Solstice 2020
1 h 35 minMary Stewart Adams
The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn · A Call of the Cosmic I
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A contribution by Wolfgang Held
Jupiter and Saturn are the two classical planetary giants in the solar system. In their rapid rotation, their calm course, they represent identity and independence. When they are in conjunction, their opposition reveals itself, an opposition that is also found so enigmatically in the human countenance. Jupiter radiates outwards, Saturn shimmers inwards. This time this conjunction is outstanding because it takes place on the day of the winter solstice, the day of the birth of the spiritual sun, and because Pluto, the planet of the threshold, stands between them. Death and life thus orchestrate this great encounter, which is also the fifth in a special sequence of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions. The lecture takes us from the astronomical phenomena to the human and social situation today, in a pandemic in which death and new life likewise meet us.
A contribution by Wolfgang Held to the webinar series “The Great Conjunction” of the Section for Mathematics and Astronomy in December 2020.
German | Subtitles · DE · EN
Publication: 28 August 2026
Translated by AI from the original (Deutsch), not reviewed · Read the original
Speakers
WHWolfgang Held
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- Series
- The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at the Solstice on December 21, 2020, Episode 2 of 4
- Section
- Mathematics and Astronomy
- Language
- German · Subtitles: German, English
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