The Year Ahead 2022: The Grand Mutation of Saturn Conjunct Jupiter

By Susan Miller

Generally, the first part of this year is best because Mars will retrograde this year from October 30 to January 12, 2023. Mars is the action planet that teaches us to be the best we can be and also how to complete well.

As you see, this year, all signs will get chocolates from a loving universe. Of course, I looked at all the planets, not just Jupiter, and I do that in your report. I will give you all your most important periods to use to your advantage.

Be sure to read for your Sun sign and your rising sign. (If you know your time of birth you can discover your rising sign on many Internet sites that offer natal charts for free.) Once you know it, you must faithfully read for your rising sign in all astrological material. If you read one without the other, you will only get 50 percent of the information you need.

I wrote a bonus chapter on the Grand Mutation, which took place on December 21, 2020—a rare astrological event involving the meeting of Jupiter and Saturn that this time will gradually set off pronounced shifts to the look and feel of our lives for the coming 200 years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9780578390192

Susan Miller

Susan M. Miller has been Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) for over 30 years. Prior to UCSF, she held positions as an Assistant Professor and Lecturer of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focus and expertise lies in the areas of chemical biology and enzymology. Her team uses a variety of biochemical and biophysical tools to investigate protein structure/function questions spanning the range of elucidating novel aspects of catalysis in individual enzymes, to understanding how mutations influence flux through pathways of interacting proteins, to engineering novel microbial compounds using enzymes from ribosomally-synthesized peptide precursor pathways. She has mentored over 40 students, postdocs and staff researchers who currently hold positions in academia, biotech/pharma, the FDA, data science, patent law and other entrepreneurial organizations. She has co-authored and co-edited 5 books and published ~50 peer-reviewed papers. She has served as reviewer for grants at NIH, NSF, DOE and for numerous scientific journals, and is currently a member of the Editorial Review Board at the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Recently, Dr. Miller has served a leading role in the transformative design of the UCSF professional PharmD curriculum. She has co-directed the Therapeutic Sciences portion of the Foundations course and has served as co-Director developing and implementing a novel trio of inquiry elements in the new curriculum. Susan received her B.S. with high honors in Chemistry from the University of Missouri Columbia and her Ph.D. in chemistry with Professor Judith Klinman at the University of California Berkeley.

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Introduction

Will 2022 be a better year for you. Yes, I think so! This year has plenty of sparkling dates scattered throughout, something 2020 and 2021 did not have in abundance. Last year I didn’t write the Year Ahead because I knew 2021 would be a twin of 2020. Additionally, we had a slew of difficult new moons and full moons, and this year we only have one. I am very specific in each of the chapters of when to move forward and when to hold back.

Generally, the first part of this year is best because Mars will retrograde this year from October 30 to January 12, 2023. Mars is the action planet that teaches us to be the best we can be and also how to complete well. Additionally, Mars gives us motivation and drive. When he is retrograde, we feel like we are walking through glue—it’s more arduous, and everything takes longer to complete. For that reason, if you are doing anything important, from buying a new house to starting a business, launching a new product, or getting married, do so well ahead of October 30.

What I love most about this year is that Jupiter, the good fortune planet, will spend half his time in Pisces, a water sign, and half his time in Aries, a fire sign. From the start of the year until May 10, Jupiter will be in Pisces, benefiting the water signs of Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio. Water and earth are beautifully compatible, so Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn will benefit, too.

From May 10 until October 27, Jupiter will be in Aries and benefit Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, and since fire and air are divinely compatible, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius will also benefit.

Once we get to October 27, Jupiter will retrograde back into Pisces for a final goodbye. He will be retrograde (weaker than usual) until November 23 but then move ahead and be strong for the water and earth signs from November 23 to December 20.

After December 20, Jupiter will go back to Aries and stay there until May 16, 2023. If you are thinking Jupiter shorted Pisces a bit, we need to remember that Jupiter was in Pisces in 2021 for a brief moment, May 13 to July 28, and within that period, the strongest weeks were when Jupiter was moving direct in Pisces, May 13 to June 20, 2021. You might want to look back through your emails and photographs to see what you were doing last year at that time for a clue of other things that may come up in the first four and a half months of 2022.

As you see, this year, all signs will get chocolates from a loving universe. Of course, I looked at all the planets, not just Jupiter, and I do that in your report. I will give you all your most important periods to use to your advantage.

Be sure to read for your Sun sign and also your rising sign. (If you know your time of birth you can discover your rising sign on many Internet sites that offer natal charts for free.) Once you know it, you must faithfully read for your rising sign in all astrological material. If you read one without the other, you will only get 50 percent of the information you need.

I wrote a bonus chapter on the Grand Mutation, which took place on December 21, 2020—a rare astrological event involving the meeting of Jupiter and Saturn that this time will gradually set off pronounced shifts to the look and feel of our lives for the coming 200 years. In that chapter I will give you a bird’s-eye view of what you might expect, and of course, there will be plenty of surprises that we can’t even imagine yet. You asked for this article, and I did a lot of research before writing it for you.

Send me your comments on Twitter or Instagram (@astrologyzone) or on Facebook (Susan Miller’s Astrology Zone). I look forward to hearing from you.

Susan Miller

The Grand Mutation of Saturn Conjunct Jupiter

It was a warm summer evening in early August 2019 in New York City, perfect in every way. The stars were twinkling above like beautifully well-cut diamonds spilling across a royal blue velvet sky. The moon was full, shedding silvery light on the sidewalks. People were in a happy mood. The pandemic would not arrive for six months. Everyone in the city was going about their lives, blissfully unaware that a deadly pandemic would descend on people across the globe and would turn their lives inside out. There were no warnings, and no preparation was being advised from authorities—we all assumed life would continue in the same manner it always had—smoothly and without interruption. I am getting ahead of myself here, so let’s rewind the tape to that beautiful August evening in 2019.

My friend Suzanne suggested we have a celebratory dinner for our mutual friend Aleta, so the three of us headed to our favorite special-occasion restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It was an establishment known for a delicious classic cuisine with a modern Asian twist. The restaurant had an atmosphere of soft lighting, bouquets of fresh flowers, and crisp white linen tablecloths and gave off a welcoming, warm vibe. Our dinner moved at a leisurely pace. Little did we know that, sadly, this establishment, our favorite restaurant, would not exist a year later, falling victim to an invisible threat that no one saw coming. Restaurants would be especially hard hit around the globe.

That night we arrived for an early dinner at 8:00 PM, and we were enjoying catching up with each other’s news. We ordered an appetizer and a main course, and I whispered to the waiter that it was my friend’s birthday, and we would want candles on the dessert we would order later.

The conversation soon turned to astrology. I mumbled that something huge was about to happen to society during the following year, 2020, and it would change everything about the look and feel of our lives. The coming changes would rapidly shift our priorities, bring enlightenment to many, but would inevitably expose cracks underlying the foundation of parts of society, not only in our city, but in cities and countries everywhere. For example, two of several large problems that would come under public scrutiny were our health care system, which we discovered needed an upgrade, and, due to the need to learn remotely, the Digital Divide—where the poor could not readily access Wi-Fi.

Suzanne asked, What could possibly cause such a radical change? Would there be a bomb or another 9/11 attack? I shook my head, no—I was not sure what it could be, but I sensed it wasn’t violent like that—it would be different from anything we had experienced in our lifetime.

This change was due, I explained, to the then-coming event that astrologers call The Grand Conjunction, which is a rare meeting of Saturn and Jupiter. Astrologers know that a conjunction (an alignment of two or more planets) is the strongest of all astrological aspects because two planets coming together sets off a new cycle, opening a fresh portal of energy. Usually, the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn would set off a 20-year cycle (because they only meet every 20 years), but this conjunction would be unique and historic, for it would trigger a new 200-year cycle.

The pattern of our lives would be the first to change: the way we work, the tools we use in our work, where we work, the clothes we wear while we work and play, the foods we eat—all would change. Some jobs would end, but others—new ones that never existed before—will sprout up.

Aleta, our birthday girl, gave me a quizzical look and interjected, Susan, this makes no sense. I had to agree. I was wracking my brain about what could possibly happen to make such a sudden shift happen. I added that December 21, 2020, the day Jupiter and Saturn would meet, was to fall precisely on the winter solstice, giving this aspect greater clout than usual.

I added that I was worried to see Pluto orbiting conjunct Saturn and Jupiter at the time of the Grand Conjunction in 2020. Suzanne asked what does that mean? I didn’t want to answer, but Suzanne has ways of getting me to spill all the information. Pluto is associated with transformation, big money deals, but also, I mumbled, loss. Suzanne rapidly snapped to attention, what do you mean, loss? I had to be truthful, so reluctantly replied that this might mean some people would die due to the proximity of Pluto to Saturn and Jupiter (all tightly clustered, as if on the head of a pin in deep space). We all went silent. Of course, in hindsight now, we know that tragically many people did die through no fault of their own. Those left behind are dealing with unbearable grief.

In 2019, I don’t think I was alone in assuming that in our advanced, scientific technological age, pandemics were a thing of the past and not on the list of possibilities. As we learned, the universe would have a shock for us all, in a way, demonstrating who is strongest here—Mother Nature.

I never saw the pandemic coming. When dealing with astrology, if you don’t look for a possibility of a pandemic, you won’t see it. Astrology is not fortune telling. There is no predestination. As an astrologer, I look for rising and falling probability bars, as if on a graph. I never knew Pluto ruled bacteria and viruses until I looked it up in my astrology books. I didn’t even think a pandemic was within the realm of possibility—I was wrong about that. The universe was about to show us who was boss.

I did see enormous financial deals coming in 2020 due to the conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto in November 2020, but with Pluto involved, it seemed logical it would be propelled through mega-businesses (in astrology, you always need to look at everything, not just one single aspect, and Jupiter and Pluto stayed within range of each other for a while). Instead, it turned out to be unprecedented government programs, stimulus checks to the population, along with huge sums to drug companies, hospitals, and other health-care facilities.

Coming back at my dinner with my friends in August 2019, Suzanne was gently using her fork to take a bite of her butter lettuce salad, when she asked, What is so special about Jupiter and Saturn meeting up? I looked up from my beet salad with goat cheese sprinkled with pistachios, to answer. I explained that when you look at the place that Jupiter and Saturn occupy in our solar system, you start to see why they hold the keys to so much.

The three planets that are closest to earth—Mercury, Venus, and Mars—move very rapidly. These planets give variety and opportunity to our days in the short-term, and while they help us be productive on many levels, it’s hard for them to set up major themes to our lives.

Instead, much of that job falls to the three outer planets. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto move so slowly that they create themes that each of us work on for decades. Indeed, entire generations work together on some of society’s questions or goals as a result of the placement of these three big planets, but they also affect us on an individual level. Uranus takes 84 years to revolve around the Sun, spending seven years in each house and sign he visits. Neptune takes 168 years to circle the Sun, spending about 14 years in each sign and house he visits. Pluto takes 248 years to make the same journey around the Sun, and because Pluto has an egg-shaped orbit, he can stay in one sign and house of your chart for between 14 and 30 years.

In the matter of Pluto, here’s an example of just how powerful he can be. When God summoned Pluto in 1995 to move into Sagittarius, a sign known for an affinity to publishing, broadcasting, and a fierce proclivity to seek truth and accuracy, Pluto was charged with launching the Internet to masses of people. Even though the Internet was developed earlier, it was 1995 was when the population started to pour in.

As an aside, the official birth of the Internet is considered to be January 1, 1983, according to Google. In that year, expansive Jupiter had just entered publishing-oriented Sagittarius, while Uranus had entered Sagittarius in November 1981 and was set to stay for seven years. Back in 1983, the Internet was known only among government people and geeks. That was to change, of course.

It was in 1995 when companies were starting to pay attention to the internet. In 1994, there were 2,738 websites, but by 1995, there were 23,500 (Source: Internet Live Stats). Pluto’s job was to reach masses of people and bring the world closer through the Internet. I started Astrology Zone® in December 1995, Jeff Bezos started Amazon a little earlier (July 1994), and Match.com came out in April 1995 as one of the first dating sites.

It was mainly in 1995 that the world started to become acquainted with this new form of communication. Sagittarius is a global travel sign, and the Internet shrunk the world and brought us closer.

Pluto probably wanted to remain working on the Internet, but in 2008 God urgently needed Pluto to move into Capricorn. Capricorn is a big-money sign that works on the global financial markets, including mortgages, which were showing signs of being in disarray (the other big-money signs are Taurus, an earth sign like Capricorn, and Scorpio, a water sign).

Pluto moved into Capricorn in January 2008. By September 2008, mortgages and the stock markets went on a wild ride and collapsed. There were glimmers of trouble on the horizon in 2007, but they became much more apparent to inherent dangerous by 2008. The collapse of some banks and massive overflow of toxic mortgages that people defaulted on triggered the Treasury Department of the United States government to develop TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program), which was essentially a bailout of the big banks in the billions of dollars, considered necessary by Congress to create stability in the financial markets.

Pluto, although a dwarf planet, orbiting on the precipice of our solar system is extremely powerful because as the outermost planet, Pluto takes the longest to transit one house of the horoscope. Pluto has a strong dominant effect because he spends so long in each house of the horoscope he visits. Entire generations of people, as well as individuals, felt Pluto’s presence from when he entered Capricorn in 2008 to the present day (at one time or another) for Pluto is still in Capricorn.

Pluto is about to move into Aquarius, however, for the first time in our lifetime. He will enter in March 2023 to stay until March 2043—a whopping 20 years. When Pluto moves into Aquarius, he will again train his mind on the Internet and widen his scope to include, and encourage, all of the digital world—that’s when massive changes will occur at a rapid clip. You will begin to see the blossoming of the promise of the Grand Mutation, which will bring us squarely into the Age of Aquarius.

Let’s go back to our discussion of the planets involved in the Grand Conjunction with the historic meeting of Jupiter and Saturn. Suzanne asked, Why is Saturn’s conjunction with Jupiter considered so important? For example, why don’t we pay similar attention to Venus conjunct Mars? Or any other planets in conjunction?

Jupiter and Saturn are the Goldilocks planets—not moving too fast or too slow to set up a trend. Jupiter take 12 years to circle the Sun, remaining one year in each sign. Saturn takes 29.5 years to circle the Sun, spending two and a half years in each sign. These two planets spend just right amount of time to set up and achieve a goal in a relatively short time period. The role of Jupiter is to reward you, help you expand a dream, and to send you gifts, luck, and at times, even a miracle when you need it most. His job is to make you happy, and for that, Jupiter asks nothing in return.

Saturn is almost the opposite in nature but still is very valuable. Saturn is called the taskmaster planet. His tactics may at times seem harsh, but Saturn teaches that our greatest achievements are won through hard work and dedication. Concentration on your goals is very important to Saturn for he expects you to work on your goals with a spirit of intensity, almost to the exclusion of anything else.

Jupiter and Saturn are in the middle of the planetary lineup, next to each other (so to speak), not moving too slowly or to quickly. Jupiter and Saturn also tend to direct their energies strongly on individuals for the length of time they spend in each part of the horoscope. (Both do have the power to influence and color society too, of course.) Their orbits are not as fast as Mercury, Venus, and Mars, which are unable to create a lasting trend, nor as slow moving as the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, which require many years to find answers. Jupiter and Saturn are