Echoes From the Past
Hikers sometimes experience moments in the woods when everything suddenly goes still, as if nature held its breath in response to a predator nearby bringing heightened awareness.
Station points are very similar as the stillness of the planet signals it’s time to pay attention as similar themes are echoed from the past. Learning how to use station points can be a useful tool in mundane astrology.
Stationary Planet Orbs
In this research stationary planets were allowed an orb, not just the moment they were at station point. The orb used was formulated according to the planets maximum speed and cycle length rather than just allowing a period of days.
- Mercury was allowed an orb of two degrees from the station point.
- Venus was allowed an orb of a degree and a half from station point.
- Mars was allowed an orb of a full degree from station point.
- Jupiter was allowed an orb of thirty minutes from station point.
- Saturn was allowed an orb of nine minutes from station point.
- Uranus was allowed an orb of three minutes from station point.
- Neptune was allowed an orb of one minute from station point.
- Pluto was allowed an orb of one minute from station point.
The aspects used were the conjunction, opposition, and square in orbs of three degrees with eclipses considered for eighteen months.
Venus becomes stationary retrograde every eighteen months. Venus forms a five-pointed star configured by each retrograde until it returns eight years later, a little over two degrees away from where it began. The direct station forms its own return pattern.
Stationary Venus was involved in a severe agricultural depression in 1921 as Venus was square the Jupiter-Neptune cycle, and eight years later in 1929 the next stationary Venus aspected the cycle again to prolong the downturn. The stationary Venus retrograde in 1906 had also aspected the Jupiter-Neptune cycle.14 (see more)
Venus was stationary in aspect to the Saturn-Neptune cycle before war broke out with Mexico in 1846. (see more)
The Caldwell Bank collapse in 1930 and the bankruptcy of Bear Stearns during the 2008 crises held interesting parallels as both events had Venus retrograde with a stationary Jupiter to enlarge the fallout.15 (Caldwell) (Bear Stearns)
Venus is not alone in this pattern of cyclic returns.
Stationary retrogrades of Mercury return a little over two and a half degrees away every thirteen years plus a couple of days.
For example, on March 8, 1907, Mercury was stationary retrograde at 01 Aries 55. Days later, J. P. Morgan made a trip to the White House requesting President Theodore Roosevelt’s help as the Interstate Commerce Commission had negatively affected railroad stock investments internationally prior to the Bankers’ Panic of 1907.16
The next return on March 10, 1920, had Mercury stationary retrograde at 04 Aries 41 as President Wilson was failing in his bid for Senate approval to join the League of Nations. The Senate resisted the monumental expense that the United States would be expected to shoulder for an international peace keeping force at the disposition of other nations.17
Then on March 13, 1933, Mercury was stationary retrograde at 7 Aries 27 as FDR asked for control of the banks, highlighting again an intersection of the office of the President and monetary control.18 (more)
The retrograde returns of Mercury tighten to one and a half degrees apart in thirty-three years cycles.
Thirty-three years after the retrograde of 1907 at 01 Aries had the Interstate Commerce Commission in the news, on March 6, 1940, Mercury would retrograde to 0 Aries 15. The Interstate Commerce Commission made an announcement that a bill to further consolidate transport lines was expected to pass after a meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.19
FDR asked for bank control at 07 Aries, a repeat of bank control emerged thirty-three years later on March 11, 1966, with Mercury was at 5 Aries 45, major banks raised the prime interest rate to 5.5%.20 (more)
The forty-six-year Mercury retrograde returns are closer to a degree.
Mercury would return to 6 Aries 49 on March 12, 2012, (2012 - 1966), with bank control repeated in reports that fifteen of nineteen big banks survived the Federal Reserve stress tests with some still shaky after the 2008 crises.21 (more)
Mercury stationary in 2012 was a seventy-nine-year return from 1933 when the government took control of the banks, thus repeating the themes of international banks in struggles with national regulations. The seventy-nine-year returns are closer to thirty minutes apart. (more)
Messager Mercury is very busy.
The patterns of Mars stationary retrograde returns are wider at three to four degrees apart, with returns in seventy-nine-year cycles.
On August 29, 1783, Mars was stationary retrograde at 14 Aries 46 when Britain and America signed the Paris Treaty to end the war days later.22
The next Mars stationary retrograde return was at 19 Aries 15 during another fierce conflict on September 2, 1862, days prior to a major victory for Confederate forces in the Civil War.23
The Mars stationary retrograde next return was at 23 Aries 43 on September 6, 1941, with the Greer Incident which FDR would use to bring America into World War II.24
On September 9, 2020, Mars was stationary retrograde at 28 Aries 08 when police declared a riot in Portland, Oregon following fire bombs thrown at officers on the 100th day of protests.25
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Saturn retrogrades return in cycles of fifty-nine years roughly two degrees apart.
On September 17, 1813, Saturn was stationary direct at 12 Capricorn 43 as Great Britain surrendered Detroit during the War of 1812.26
The next stationary direct return at 14 Capricorn 39 was on September 18, 1872. Days earlier, an international tribunal awarded the United States $15.5 million against Great Britain for damage claims done by the ships built in England during the Civil War.27
On September 21, 1931, Saturn stationary direct at 16 Capricorn 39 saw Great Britain drop the gold standard, causing the New York Stock Exchange to prohibit short selling.28
The return on September 22, 1990, to 18 Capricorn 42 continued a theme of military or financial engagements of the two countries when the United Nations imposed an air blockade of Iraq and the United States joined Great Britain against Iraq.29
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Jupiter has a concise pattern of stationary retrograde returns every eighty-three years.
The stationary retrograde of Jupiter on June 15, 1760, was at 27 Aquarius 22 as Roger’s Rangers struck French military posts.30
On June 16, 1843, Jupiter was stationary retrograde at 27 Aquarius 31 as Sam Houston announced an armistice between Texas and Mexico.31
The June 16, 1926, stationary retrograde of Jupiter at 27 Aquarius 10 came as Brazil stated they would leave the League of Nations on rumors of American interference.32
A theme of international involvement repeated on June 15, 2009, with the Jupiter stationary retrograde again at 27 Aquarius 01, as the WHO had declared H1N1 a pandemic just days before.33 (more)
Bacon's Rebellion and the Dorr Rebellion both had Jupiter stationary retrograde at 22 Capricorn.
Notes
14. Paul Boyer editor, The Oxford Companion to United States History, 20-21.15. Donald C. Benson, The Ballet of the Planets: A Mathematician’s Musings on the Elegance of Planetary Motion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 55-62; Alexander Jones, A Portable Cosmos, 170.
16. “Morgan’s Hasty Trip,” Washington Evening Star, March 12, 1907, 1.
17. “President’s Article X Defense Fails To End Plans For Compromise,” Washington Evening Star,, March 9, 1920, 1.
18. G. Gould Lincoln, “Roosevelt Asks Control of Banks,” Washington Evening Star, March 9, 1933, 1.
19. John C. Henry, “Wheeler Defies Two in Cabinet; Predicts Carrier Bill Passage,” Washington Evening Star, March 7, 1940, 1.
20. “Major Banks Increase Prime Interest Rate,” Toledo (OH) Blade, March 11, 1966, 1.
21. Peter Eavis, “15 of 19 Big Banks Pass Fed’s Latest Stress Test,” New York Times, March 13, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/business/jpmorgan-passes-stress-test-raises-dividend.html.
22. Nicholas Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes (Bournemouth, England: Wessex Astrologer, 2004), 370. September 3, 1783 Paris, FR at 10:30 am.
23. Bruce Catton, The Civil War (New York: American Heritage Press, 1971), 89-91.
24. Charles Van Doren and Robert McHenry, eds., Webster’s Guide to American History (Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1971), 482.
25. Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, “Feds bust three in Portland protest, 11 charged by city police,” New York Post, September 9, 2020, https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/feds-bust-3-in-portland-protests-11-charged-by-city-police/.
26. Charles Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster’s Guide to American History, 113.
27. Charles Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster’s Guide to American History, 265.
28. “World Centers Rally To Aid Of Finance As British Suspend Gold,” Washington Evening Star, September 21, 1931, 1.
29. Gordon L. Anderson, “Iraq Invades Kuwait and Divides Islamic World,” International Journal on World Peace 7, no. 3 (1990): 73.
30. John F. Ross, War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America’s First Frontier (New York: Random House Publishing, 2009), 283-284.
31. Thomas Maitland Marshall, “Diplomatic Relations of Texas and the United States 1839-1843,” The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 15, no. 4 (1912): 289.
32. Associated Press, “Rumor U.S. Acted In Brazil-League Row Hotly Denied,” Washington Evening Star, June 16, 1926, 1.
33. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “WHO Pandemic Declaration,” June, 11, 2009, accessed November 11, 2022, https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/who/.