Much thanks to Astrogoddess Judith Cowell, who always reminds me of things and points out the important stuff.

2025 is a special July 4 for the USA, in astro-gnomical terms, and this has to do with the great chronocrators – Jupiter and Saturn.

Ancient Chaldean and Babylonian astrologers realized that all five planets had cycles in which they would “return” to a place in the zodiac at about the same time as the Sun, and recorded the mathematics in cunieform texts. Modern anthropologists have dubbed these texts “Goal-Year” texts.

The values are generally:

• Mercury: 46 years
• Venus: 8 years
• Mars: 47 or 79 years
• Jupiter: 71 or 83 years
• Saturn: 59 years

Of these, the Jupiter cycle of 83 years stands out as the most accurate, deviating by an average 0°01′ of arc for every return, which astrologer Nicholas DeVore said is “Unusually exact.” An astrophysicist may not find this surprising, as the Sun and Jupiter are the gravitational heavyweights of the solar system, pairing up and shepherding the inner planets.

I have written extensively about this on my other blog, mostly in regards to Washington DC, the Washington Monument, and the Washington National Cathedral, which all have this cycle encoded. The special Sun-Jupiter relationship is nothing new; the math had been worked out well before the first Roman Caesar ever decided to dedicate a temple to Jove.

Jupiter has other orbital attributes that prove it is the “flywheel” of the solar system. For this, it’s astrological association with good fortune and happiness seems natural, though I would go even further and say that Jupiter rules over evolution itself – the god of all life. (Saturn as the dealer of death would counterbalance the notion.)

83 is a prime number, too, and primes are the stuff of wonder that gives philomaths goose bumps. All the outer planets have a prime Goal-Year value, which seems unprobable. The table above tells us that seven Jupiter orbits happen in exactly 83 Earth years. This gives us a special ratio of primes: 83/7, which in decimal form is:

11.857142857142857142857142…

The interwebs tell us that one Jupiter orbit takes that many years, rounded to 11.86, or basically 11⁶/₇ years.

Earth years of 365.2424 days are based on the tropical reckoning, and not the sidereal, which means that perhaps even the Earth’s axial nutation is governed by Jupiter, along with the Moon. Well, maybe.

In any event, 2025 – 1776 = 249, which is 83 × 3.

The USA’s Independence is now 21 Jupiter orbits old.

The Independency 249th solar return charted:

The values of Jupiter are off by 12 arcseconds, which is a bit more than DeVore claimed was the average, but you get the point – this is a very low-tolerance astro-math.

The other “Goal-Year” return in 2025 is Saturn’s, but rather than 1776, it is for 1789 – the year the Federal Government began:

2025 – 1789 = 236, which is 59 × 4.

Saturn’s orbit is a bit under 29.5 years, and 59 is two of those, and so the USA Federal Government is 8 Saturn orbits old.

That date was also a “4th,” but in March. A sunrise chart:

The Sun-Saturn cycle is much less precise, with Saturn being off here by a whopping 7°30′:

The actual Saturn Return:

The reliability of the 59-year cycle for Saturn tends to fall apart over a plethora of returns.

In any event, we can make this table for 2025:

Founding Event	Solar Returns	Jupiter Returns	Saturn Returns
Declaration of Independence	249	21	~ 8.5
US Federal Government	236	~ 20	8

DeVore also listed a handy table of interplanetary conjunction recurrance cycles, and we see that Jupiter-Saturn is 59.6 years:

As I put forth in my first published piece on astrology, the timing of the USA’s Declaration of Independence seemed to be quite conspicuously timed to the formation of the freemasonic Grand Lodge of England in 1717 – 59 years prior to 1776.

Both of those events have a Sun-Saturn square, though the 1717 chart has a Sun-Jupiter conjunction in square to Saturn. In the Federal Government chart of 1789, we have a Sun-Saturn conjunction, in a loose trine to a stationing-Px Jupiter.

Why would the freemasonic astrologer-priests of the 18th Century be so obsessed with Jupiter and Saturn? For one, they didn’t know about Uranus and Neptune, and so the longest periods of celestial time were those of Jupiter-Saturn.

Furthermore, they were also trying to tap into classical history, to which they may have felt was their inheritance. The Roman Empire, on which the USA’s ethos is modeled, began in earnest in the Sun-Jupiter cycle; Saturn was in Cancer in 27 BC as well.

“Man is the measure of all things,” according to Protagoras, but in actuality man is the measurer of all things, and without our ability to measure, we cannot understand the cosmos. If humans seek to properly inhabit, use, and apply the cosmos, humans need to take measures of everything, including time. The biblical wisdom is that God created the stars so that humans could tell time, and in time and space humans are captured.

I wouldn’t expect some big dumb orange pedophile president to understand such profundities, but someone told him and his Legion of Doom that they needed to get some big piece of tax-and-grift legislation signed on July 4, because the astro-gods demand it.

The very first tax bill out of Congress in 1789 was signed by President Washington on July 4. If you’re thinking that this, then, is all some kind of political theater from the Invisible College, well, what can I say, but, “By Jove, you’ve got it!”

Thanks again, Judith. 🙂

►Ed