Some thoughts on…Twelfth House phases. We’re in one now!
Over the decades of my being an astrologer, I have written extensively on the Twelfth House in general, and Twelfth House phases in particular. Hardly surprising, with either five or six of my planets there, depending on house system…
Collectively, we had a world-defining USA election on 5 November 2024. Donald Trump returned to the Presidency with Pluto anaretic in Capricorn, in the final fortnight of the Twelfth House phase of an almost 250 years long Pluto cycle which began in Aquarius in the 1770s, heralding the American Revolution. This was followed a decade later by the French Revolution, with the world-trnsforming Industial and Scientific Revolutions just hitting their stride in that transformative Era.
Currently, we are being tossed around worldwide in yet another Twelfth House phase: that of the Saturn/Neptune cycle which began in Capricorn in early November 1989, accompanying the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism. The new cycle of that contradictory planetary pair – about which much is currently being written – begins fully with maximum drama at 0 Aries in late February 2026.
As I write, with Mars in mid Libra having recently activated Saturn in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius, all in their opening degrees, we are seeing the tantalising prospect of peace inching forward in the brutal conflict following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the spring of 2022. There may even be glimmers of hope of some kind of peace in the Middle East…
Last autumn, I published a reflective piece setting those world-defining cycles in the even larger context of the shift which is currently taking place between world eras. That piece is still relevant, and it seems very apt to share it again in these currently highly significant days:
As I said on Hallowe’en 2024:
‘…We are currently in the turbulent, disturbing, liminal space between one world Era and another; a potent time of “…deaths and entrances…” Great poets like Dylan Thomas have always been ahead of the rest of us in sensing momentous changes in the world’s energy field. As the great astrological cycles are showing us in symbolic form, and the great Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson once observed in ‘Morte d’Arthur’, ‘the old order changeth, yielding place to new’.
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