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On the whole, the 2020s began on a tumultuous note that will probably out-chaos the rest of the decade. A Saturn/Pluto conjunction, followed immediately by a series of Saturn/Uranus squares, is enough to demolish anyone’s sense of normalcy. Actually, we have a rare configuration to look forward to in the middle part of the decade, when every outer planet will be perfectly sextile the other (dubbed “the basket” by S.J. Anderson). Every outer, that is, with the exception of Saturn conjunct Neptune.
总体而言，2020 年代伊始就充满了动荡，这可能会比十年中的其他时间更加混乱。土星/冥王星合相，随后紧跟着一系列土星/天王星四分相，足以摧毁任何人的正常感。事实上，我们期待在十年中期出现一个罕见的星象配置，届时所有外行星都将与其他行星形成完美的六分相（S.J. 安德森称之为“篮子”）。也就是说，除了土星与海王星合相之外，所有外行星都是如此。
Though Saturn/Neptune alignments are not historically or symbolically the coziest of times, the Saturn/Neptune conjunction of 2026 will be woven into the basket. In other words, things don’t occur in isolation. The surrounding context is important. Saturn and Neptune will be copresent (occupying the same sign) for a roughly five-year period — one that will likely erode the boundaries of everything we thought we knew, bring about multiple crises of faith, and leave us feeling a bit unmoored in the uncanny valley of a newly unfolding reality. However, the conjunction of these two planets is participating in an unusually stable, supportive, and cooperative assembly of the slowest-moving planets in the sky — almost like a UN meeting of the titans in the sky — in 2026.
虽然土星/海王星的合相在历史上或象征意义上都不是最舒适的时期，但 2026 年的土星/海王星合相将融入“篮子”之中。换句话说，事情并非孤立发生。周围的环境很重要。土星和海王星将同时存在（占据相同的星座）大约五年——这段时间可能会侵蚀我们认为我们所知道的一切的界限，引发多次信仰危机，并让我们在新现实展开的奇异谷中感到有点无所适从。然而，这两颗行星的合相参与了一个异常稳定、支持性和合作性的缓慢移动行星组合——几乎就像 2026 年天空中的泰坦联合国会议——。
I think, as with most things worth dissecting, there’s going to be a lot of both/and. The Saturn/Neptune years will be both a gut punch and a brand new world of possibility, both the disillusionment and the discovery of something real to believe in, both the funeral for a lost ideal and the laying of new abstract foundations. I suspect it will be a time when reality itself will be in an indeterminate state, both terrifying and exciting.
我认为，就像大多数值得仔细分析的事情一样，这将是两者兼而有之。土星/海王星周期既会是一记重拳，又会是充满可能性的崭新世界，既有幻灭，也有发现真正值得相信的东西，既是对逝去理想的葬礼，也是对新的抽象基础的奠基。我怀疑这将是一个现实本身处于不确定状态的时期，既可怕又令人兴奋。
A Timeline
时间线
The current cycle that’s ending
正在结束的当前周期
Last synodic cycle began: 1989 (Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Capricorn)
上一个会合周期开始：1989 年（土星/海王星在摩羯座合相）
Opening square: 1998-1999 (Saturn in Taurus/Neptune in Aquarius)
开启四分相：1998-1999 年（土星在金牛座/海王星在水瓶座）
Opposition: 2006-2007 (Saturn in Leo/Neptune in Aquarius)
对冲：2006-2007 年（土星在狮子座/海王星在水瓶座）
Closing square: 2015-2016 (Saturn in Sagittarius/Neptune in Pisces)
收尾四分相：2015-2016 年（土星在射手座/海王星在双鱼座）
1989 was a historically significant year: the Berlin Wall fell, there were riots in Tiananmen Square, and the beginning of the end of South African apartheid formally began in 1990, with the conjunction still in orb. Previously existing boundaries and divisions (Saturn) were eroded and dissolved (Neptune). The celebration of painful histories ending coincided with the uncertainty and confusion of transitional times. And as we’ll get to in a bit, the timeline of communism was punctuated with important events.
1989 年是具有历史意义的一年：柏林墙倒塌，天安门广场发生暴乱，南非种族隔离制度的终结在 1990 年正式开始，当时合相仍在有效范围内。先前存在的界限和分歧（土星）被侵蚀和瓦解（海王星）。对痛苦历史结束的庆祝与过渡时期的不确定性和混乱同时发生。正如我们稍后将要讨论的那样，共产主义的时间表也以重要事件为标志。
1999, at the opening square, brought about a similar sense that the world as we knew it was ending, so we “partied like it’s 1999” (aka prepped for the Y2K apocalypse). Google was launched in 1998 and Putin was elected in 2000 with the square in orb. Nigeria terminated military rule and established its current government, the Kosovo War started and ended, and the Columbine High School massacre occurred with a retrograde Mars forming a T-square with Saturn and Neptune.
1999 年，在开局方，带来了世界末日即将来临的类似感觉，所以我们“像 1999 年那样狂欢”（也就是为 Y2K 千禧年虫灾做准备）。谷歌于 1998 年推出，普京于 2000 年当选，当时该星体处于拱点。尼日利亚终止军事统治，建立了现行政府，科索沃战争爆发和结束，哥伦拜恩高中大屠杀发生，当时逆行的火星与土星和海王星构成 T 三角。
Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath occurred in the leadup to the first exact opposition. During this time, Twitter and Tumblr were also launched, the first iPhone was brought to market, Saddam Hussein was executed, much of Eastern Europe joined the Schengen border-free visa zone, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, and the subprime mortgage crisis in the US began.
卡特里娜飓风及其破坏性后果发生在第一次精确冲日之前。在此期间，Twitter 和 Tumblr 也相继推出，第一部 iPhone 上市，萨达姆·侯赛因被处决，大部分东欧国家加入了申根免签证区，巴基斯坦总理贝纳齐尔·布托遇刺身亡，美国的次贷危机开始。
During the closing squares of 2015-2016, the Standing Rock Sioux and allied water protectors protested the Dakota Access Pipeline. Trump was elected, and Brexit passed. Luminaries like David Bowie and Prince died. 2016 was also the summer of Pokemon Go, a time when “augmented reality” broke through into the mainstream.
在 2015-2016 年闭合的方形相位期间，斯坦丁罗克苏族和盟友水保护者抗议达科他接入管道。特朗普当选，英国脱欧通过。大卫·鲍伊和王子等名人去世。2016 年也是《口袋妖怪 Go》的夏天，那是“增强现实”突破主流的时刻。
The 2020s and the beginning of a new cycle
2020 年代和新周期的开始
Saturn and Neptune copresent in Pisces: March 2023 - March 2025
土星和海王星同时位于双鱼座：2023 年 3 月 - 2025 年 3 月
Saturn in Pisces, Neptune in Aries: March 2025 - May 2025
土星位于双鱼座，海王星位于白羊座：2025 年 3 月 - 2025 年 5 月
Saturn and Neptune copresent in Aries: May 2025 - Sep 2025
土星和海王星同时位于白羊座：2025 年 5 月 - 2025 年 9 月
Saturn and Neptune copresent in Pisces again: Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
土星和海王星再次同时位于双鱼座：2025 年 10 月 - 2026 年 1 月
Neptune enters Aries: Jan 26 2026
海王星进入白羊座：2026 年 1 月 26 日
Saturn enters Aries: Feb 13 2026
土星进入白羊座：2026 年 2 月 13 日
*Saturn/Neptune conjunction at 0 Aries: Feb 20 2026*
*土星/海王星合相于白羊座 0 度：2026 年 2 月 20 日*
Saturn and Neptune copresent in Aries: Feb 2026 - Apr 2028
土星和海王星同时位于白羊座：2026 年 2 月 - 2028 年 4 月
Saturn/Neptune conjunction within 15 degree orb: March 2024 - May 2027
土星/海王星合相在 15 度范围内：2024 年 3 月 - 2027 年 5 月
In summary: this chapter of history will span the years of 2023-2028, with a more active intensification of Saturn/Neptune themes between 2024-2027. In February 2026, the previous cycle resolves, and a new one begins.
总结：这段历史时期将跨越 2023 年至 2028 年，土星/海王星主题将在 2024 年至 2027 年间更加活跃地增强。2026 年 2 月，前一个周期结束，一个新的周期开始。
The Loss Of The Known, The Loss Of The Hoped-For
已知事物的丧失，期盼事物的丧失
Saturn and Neptune contradict each other in many ways. Saturn represents stone-cold reality, the permafrost of factual truth and factual limits, the boundary between the known and the unknown (quite literally, as it once was the most distant planet visible to the naked eye, and therefore a symbol of the edges of the known universe). Neptune is a fog or a mist prone to suggestion, a vapor that faithfully reflects your projections, the intangible substance of our ideals, dreams, and illusions. When Saturn and Neptune get together, they mutually annihilate each other in certain ways (Saturn scrutinizes, fact-checks, and debunks Neptune’s smoke and mirrors, and Neptune erodes Saturn’s certainty like an ocean dissolves a rock formation). In summary, this is often a process of both sobering up around previous delusions and also no longer being certain what’s actually real anymore. And at the same time, it can also be a process of concretizing the abstract, of “giving form” to Neptune, aka bringing it down to earth.
土星和海王星在许多方面相互矛盾。土星代表冷酷的现实，事实真相和事实限制的永久冻土，已知与未知之间的界限（从字面上看，它曾经是肉眼可见的最遥远的行星，因此是已知宇宙边缘的象征）。海王星是一团容易受暗示的雾或霭，一种忠实反映你投射的蒸汽，是我们理想、梦想和幻想的无形物质。当土星和海王星走到一起时，它们会在某些方面相互抵消（土星仔细检查、核实并揭穿海王星的障眼法，而海王星则像海洋溶解岩石结构一样侵蚀土星的确定性）。总而言之，这通常是一个关于先前妄想的清醒过程，同时也无法再确定什么是真实的。与此同时，它也可以是一个将抽象具体化，“赋予海王星形式”的过程，也就是把它带到地球上。
In Cosmos and Psyche, Richard Tarnas notes that Saturn-Neptune eras are often times when epistemological conflicts between religion and science (and even opposing political parties) are heightened, and skepticism runs rampant in both directions. Tarnas notes that Charles Darwin was born during the conjunction of 1809, and the Scopes trial took place during the square of 1925. When Nietzsche announced that “God was dead,” it was during the conjunction of 1881-82.
在《宇宙与心灵》中，理查德·塔纳斯指出，土星-海王星时代通常是宗教与科学（甚至对立的政党）之间的认识论冲突加剧的时期，怀疑主义在两个方向上泛滥。塔纳斯提到，查尔斯·达尔文出生于 1809 年的合相期间，而斯科普斯审判发生在 1925 年的刑克期间。当尼采宣布“上帝死了”时，是在 1881-82 年的合相期间。
In general though, the need to separate truth from fantasy, to confront delusions and lies, and to bury the ideals that haven’t worked out for us is a strong Saturn/Neptune theme. Sometimes it’s less about entombing the lie than it is about doubling down on your ideals by actually walking your talk. It can be about the death of a dream as much as it’s about the labor of ensouling 3D reality with the dream (and in this case, I can’t help but think of the “expectations vs. reality” meme, which apparently originated via this cartoon from 1921).
总体而言，区分真相与幻想、面对妄想与谎言，以及埋葬那些对我们没有帮助的理想，是一个强烈的土星/海王星主题。有时，这不仅仅是关于埋葬谎言，而是通过实际践行你的理想来加倍努力。这既可以是梦想的死亡，也可以是将梦境注入三维现实的劳动（在这种情况下，我不禁想起“期望与现实”这个表情包，显然源自 1921 年的这幅卡通）。
Saturn/Neptune times are also low morale times. Tarnas writes, "There is also a tendency during Saturn/Neptune eras to experience a subtle but pervasive darkening of the collective consciousness, sometimes as a diffuse and difficult-to-diagnose social malaise, at other times as a direct response to deeply discouraging or tragic events."
土星/海王星时期也是士气低落的时期。塔纳斯写道：“在土星/海王星时代，集体意识往往会经历一种微妙但普遍的阴暗化，有时表现为一种弥漫且难以诊断的社会不安，有时则是对深感沮丧或悲惨事件的直接反应。”
There have been times in history, just like right now, where a Saturn/Pluto alignment was followed by Saturn/Neptune (for instance, 9/11 and the Iraq War followed by the Bush reelection and Hurricane Katrina). "The reactionary structures that were empowered by fiery events and ruthless violence in the earlier period were now weakened or dissolved by watery events and compassionate concern,” says Tarnas. "In wartime, Saturn/Neptune alignments often coincide with the later stages of a war when a collective sense of physical and spiritual exhaustion, disillusionment, and low morale — often on both sides — is dominant.”
历史上曾有过这样的时刻，就像现在一样，土星/冥王星的对齐之后是土星/海王星（例如，911 事件和伊拉克战争之后是布什连任和卡特里娜飓风）。塔纳斯说：“在早期由火热事件和无情暴力赋权的反动结构，现在被水性事件和同情关怀削弱或解散。在战争时期，土星/海王星的对齐往往与战争的后期阶段重合，此时集体的身体和精神疲惫、幻灭感和低士气——通常在双方都存在——占主导地位。”
Given where things stand in the world right now, this will probably have implications for the war in Ukraine, and likely for the multi-hyphenate forms of apocalypse that are all occurring while most of us still have to go to work and send our little emails (I’m at the pandemic, I’m at the climate collapse, I’m at the combination pandemic/climate collapse/encroaching fascism/alien invasion). Remember: this is the ending of the cycle that began in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and symbolically announced the victory of capitalism over communism. Could it be that some of those ideals haven’t exactly worked out for the world either?
鉴于目前世界的现状，这可能会对乌克兰战争产生影响，也可能对多重灾难形式产生影响，而这些灾难正在发生的同时，我们大多数人仍然需要上班并发送小邮件（我在疫情中，我在气候崩溃中，我在疫情/气候崩溃/法西斯主义侵袭/外星人入侵的结合中）。请记住：这是一个始于 1989 年的周期的结束，那时柏林墙倒塌，象征性地宣布了资本主义战胜共产主义的胜利。难道这些理想对世界来说也没有完全奏效吗？
This particular Saturn/Neptune era is especially striking, not only because Saturn and Neptune will be cohabitating for *so long* (normally they’d spend just 2-3 years engaging each other), but because this occurs across the last and the first sign of the zodiac. The exact conjunction literally lands at 0 degrees of Aries! It’s omega spilling into alpha, the tail eating the snake.
这次土星/海王星的时代尤其引人注目，不仅因为土星和海王星将长期“同居”（通常它们只会相处 2-3 年），而且因为这发生在黄道带的最后一个和第一个星座。精确的合相发生在白羊座 0 度！这是ω溢入α，尾部吞噬蛇身。
The Saturn in Pisces era really will feel like the end of something, and I suspect will bear the brunt of the “despair, dissolution and disillusionment” part of the equation (whereas Saturn in Aries might be where we pick up the pieces and move into the trial and error phase, of reality-testing our dreams and ideals in a new paradigm where the old rules don’t apply).
双鱼座土星时代确实会让人感觉像是某种结束，我怀疑这将承担“绝望、解体和幻灭”等方面的主要影响（而白羊座土星可能是我们收拾残局并进入反复试验阶段的地方，在一个旧规则不再适用的新范式中检验我们的梦想和理想）。
Saturn’s stint through Pisces is, in many ways, the finale to the Neptune in Pisces era that started in 2011. It’s seeing that the Wizard of Oz is the man behind the curtain, it’s the consequences of this past decade’s delusions coming home to roost, and it’s the hard aftermath of a slowly dissolving consensus reality. The internet of the personal algorithm has contributed to a more siloed relationship with reality, and a crisis of truth, of knowing what to trust. The 2010s were a prolific decade for fake news, and this stands to only get worse with the advancement of AI and deep fakes. There are multiple universes of “facts” that exist side by side, but remain largely closed to each other, in this era of the information bubble. Will Saturn in Aries be a hard reset, or a shared universe collapsing into an infinity of solo galaxies?
土星在双鱼座的运行，在许多方面，都是 2011 年开始的海王星在双鱼座时代的终章。它揭示了“绿野仙踪”中幕后操纵者的真相，是过去十年幻想破灭的后果，也是缓慢瓦解的共识现实的艰难余波。个人算法驱动的互联网加剧了与现实的隔阂，以及真相的危机，让人不知道该相信什么。2010 年代是假新闻泛滥的十年，随着人工智能和深度伪造技术的进步，这种情况只会变得更糟。在这个信息茧房时代，多个“事实”宇宙并存，却 largely 彼此封闭。土星进入白羊座会是硬重启，还是共享宇宙坍缩成无数个独立星系？
Reality Waits To Be Determined
真实有待确定
Then again, maybe a little doubt is a good thing. Maybe a little dose of skepticism is what will save us in the end. With Saturn and Neptune signaling the merging of the known and the unknown at the first degree of the zodiac, it’s almost as though what we knew before will no longer apply in the face of previous mysteries solidifying and taking shape.
另一方面，也许一点怀疑是件好事。也许，正是那么一点怀疑最终会拯救我们。土星和海王星在黄道一宫度标志着已知与未知的融合，这几乎意味着，面对先前谜团的凝固和成形，我们之前的认知将不再适用。
Saturn in Aries is a punk-rock Saturn. Saturn in Aries is a Saturn in fall, which looks like statues and edifices falling down. Under Saturn in Aries, we’re not necessarily listening to the old rules and authority figures. Under Saturn in Aries, there are no gods, no masters. We are in the wilderness of a near-complete lack of structure, but that also means we get to DIY a new one. Saturn in Aries feels like thinking for yourself and doing for yourself, whether that’s exciting to you, or whether you simply have no other choice.
在白羊座的土星就像一个朋克摇滚的土星。白羊座的土星是一个失势的土星，看起来像是雕像和建筑物倒塌。在白羊座土星的影响下，我们不一定听从旧的规则和权威人物。在白羊座土星的影响下，没有神，没有主人。我们身处几乎完全缺乏结构的荒野之中，但这同时也意味着我们可以自己动手创造一个新的结构。白羊座土星的感觉就像为自己思考，为自己而做，无论这对你来说是令人兴奋的，还是你根本别无选择。
If Saturn in Pisces, a Jupiter sign, was the gradual erosion and crisis of faith, Saturn in Aries, a Mars sign, is for doing something about it. This is the part of the story where we say, “thoughts and prayers are not enough.” Resisting despair looks like proactively taking steps in another direction, and finding something more durable to ground our hopes and spirituality into.
如果在双鱼座的土星（一个木星星座）是逐渐的侵蚀和信仰危机，那么在白羊座的土星（一个火星星座）则是要为此做些什么。故事的这一部分，我们说：“思想和祈祷是不够的。”抵抗绝望看起来像是主动地朝另一个方向迈出步伐，并找到更持久的东西来巩固我们的希望和精神。
A Few Related Timelines To Watch
一些相关的时间线值得关注
Communism & Russia
共产主义与俄罗斯
It’s pretty well-established in the astrological lore that the Saturn/Neptune cycle is relevant to the history of communism, and to major turning points in Russian history.
在占星学传统中，土星/海王星周期与共产主义历史以及俄罗斯历史上的重大转折点相关，这一点已得到相当充分的证实。
The Communist Manifesto was published in the wake of the 1846 conjunctions (with Saturn still in orb of Neptune). Actually, that year, 1848, was the last time Saturn and Neptune were copresent in Pisces.
《共产党宣言》是在 1846 年土星和海王星合相之后（土星仍在海王星的容许度内）发表的。事实上，1848 年是土星和海王星上次同时位于双鱼座的年份。
There were subsequent Saturn/Neptune conjunctions in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution; in 1952 and 1953, the year Stalin died and also the year the Korean War ended and cemented the division between North and South Korea; in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and also the year of the Tiananmen Square protests. We know it didn’t take long for the Soviet Union to fall apart from there, in 1991.
在 1917 年，即俄国革命之年，发生了随后的土星/海王星合相；在 1952 年和 1953 年，即斯大林去世之年，也是朝鲜战争结束并巩固南北韩分裂之年；在 1989 年，即柏林墙倒塌之年，也是天安门广场抗议活动之年。我们知道，从那里开始，苏联在 1991 年迅速解体。
We can tell, based on this, that the upcoming Saturn/Neptune conjunction will coincide with another turning point in those histories, and on a similar, if not greater, level of magnitude.
基于此，我们可以断定，即将到来的土星/海王星合相将与这些历史中的另一个转折点同时发生，其重要程度至少与其相当，甚至可能更大。
The Climate Crisis
气候危机
In my own research, I found that the Saturn/Neptune cycle also has some pretty striking correlations to the history of the climate crisis — not so much just the weather itself, but also the human response to it.
在我自己的研究中，我发现土星/海王星周期与气候危机的历史也有一些非常惊人的关联——不仅仅是天气本身，还包括人类对它的反应。
1988 is widely considered a turning point in the broader public "paying attention to global warming." That summer was the hottest on record, and a scientist testified in front of Congress that he was "99% sure" global warming was happening. In 1989, the year of the exact Saturn/Neptune conjunction, the UN established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
1988 年被广泛认为是公众“关注全球变暖”的一个转折点。那年夏天是有记录以来最热的一年，一位科学家在国会作证说，他“99%肯定”全球变暖正在发生。1989 年，也就是土星/海王星精确合相的那一年，联合国成立了政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）。
In 1997, about a year ahead of the opening square (but already within orb), the first global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol, was adopted.
1997 年，大约在开角四分相之前一年（但在容许度内），第一个减少温室气体的全球协议《京都议定书》获得通过。
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was released in 2006, at the opposition, the same year China surpassed the US as the largest carbon emitter.
戈尔的《难以忽视的真相》于 2006 年对分相时上映，同年中国超过美国成为最大的碳排放国。
The closing square took place during 2015-16, which saw Obama bringing the US into the Paris Climate Agreement and Trump withdrawing from it a year later.
闭角四分相发生在 2015-2016 年，当时奥巴马让美国加入了《巴黎气候协定》，而特朗普一年后又退出了该协定。
As we come around to the resolution of that cycle and the seeding of a new one, it’ll be interesting to see how the failed and inadequate response of the last couple decades informs what comes next.
当我们进入这个周期的解决阶段并播下新的周期种子时，看看过去几十年失败和不足的应对如何影响接下来发生的事情将会很有趣。
Here’s another thing: Saturn plus Neptune (a general signifer of oceans) has overlapping significations with Saturn in Pisces: both point to the contamination of water, and even to potentially water-borne diseases. Along with rising temperatures and sea levels, I am curious to see if ocean pollution will become another major focus during the Saturn in Pisces era.
还有一件事：土星加海王星（海洋的一般象征）与土星在双鱼座的意义重叠：两者都指向水的污染，甚至可能是水传播的疾病。随着气温和海平面的上升，我很好奇在土星在双鱼座的时代，海洋污染是否会成为另一个主要关注点。
Mass Media, The Internet & The 24-Hour News Cycle
大众媒体、互联网和 24 小时新闻循环
Tarnas writes of Saturn/Neptune that the polarization between secularism and religion that happens during these periods also extends to the notion of opposing political camps and ideologies, of “red states” and “blue states,” so to speak — “each side perceiving the other to be living in a state of delusional self-deception.” Not only is the water contaminated, but the well of public discourse is poisoned in some ways, too.
塔纳斯在谈到土星/海王星时写道，在此期间发生的世俗主义和宗教之间的两极分化也延伸到对立的政治阵营和意识形态的概念，也就是所谓的“红州”和“蓝州”——“每一派都认为另一派生活在一种妄想的自我欺骗状态中”。不仅水被污染了，公共话语的源泉在某些方面也被毒害了。
Another theme I picked up on in my research is that the recent history of mass media is also tied into this cycle. You could argue that the advent of cable news, and specifically of the 24-hour news cycle, is the big precursor that led to the even further polarization of information bubbles online. Saturn/Neptune themes include things like: who gets to define reality? What's truth, and what's illusion?
我在研究中发现的另一个主题是，最近的大众媒体历史也与这个周期有关。你可以说，有线新闻的出现，特别是 24 小时新闻周期的出现，是导致在线信息泡沫进一步两极分化的重要先兆。土星/海王星的主题包括：谁来定义现实？什么是真相，什么是幻觉？
In June 1980, at the exact last closing square of the previous cycle, CNN became the first 24-hour news channel in the world.
1980年6月，就在上一个周期结束的最后一刻，CNN成为世界上第一个24小时新闻频道。
In 1989, at the conjunction, CNBC was created, and so was News Corp's Sky News (Europe's first 24-hour news channel in the UK). This is where Rupert Murdoch cut his teeth in the 24-hour news business, only to launch Fox News in 1996, just ahead of the opening square. That was happening at the same time that The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed in the US, which deregulated the industry and led to a broadcast media that was largely controlled by a couple big corporations.
1989 年，在合相时，CNBC 成立，新闻集团的天空新闻（英国第一个 24 小时新闻频道）也成立。鲁珀特·默多克正是在这里开始了他的 24 小时新闻业务，并在 1996 年，也就是在刑克相位开始之前，推出了福克斯新闻。这与 1996 年美国通过的《电信法案》同时发生，该法案放松了对该行业的监管，导致广播媒体在很大程度上被几家大公司控制。
Here’s another interesting tidbit: at the opposition in 2006, Facebook first rolled out its News Feed, which represented a sort of tipping point away from broadcast media to social media being the primary source of news (and its ever-increasing, and ever-manipulative, algorithmic sorting). Remember what we said before, about Google entering the fray during the opening square? The opposition brought us the iPhone, Twitter, Tumblr, AND the News Feed on Facebook.
这里还有一个有趣的细节：在 2006 年的对冲时，Facebook 首次推出了其新闻推送，这标志着从广播媒体转向社交媒体作为主要新闻来源的一个转折点（以及其日益增加和不断操控的算法排序）。还记得我们之前说过的，关于谷歌在开方时进入战局的事吗？对冲带来了 iPhone、Twitter、Tumblr，以及 Facebook 上的新闻推送。
It’ll be interesting to see what kinds of new information paradigms are introduced over the next couple of years, and whether there will be some sort of resolution or closure to the previous cycle. If we’re supposedly headed in the direction of “everyone wearing their own virtual reality headsets,” where does that leave media?
接下来几年将会引入什么样的新信息范式，是否会对之前的周期有某种解决或结束，这将会很有趣。如果我们假设正朝着“每个人都戴着自己的虚拟现实头盔”的方向发展，那么媒体将处于何种境地呢？
The Long COVID Aftermath
长新冠的后遗症
Tarnas also plugs the archetypal presence of “apathetic inertia, escapism and denial, psychic numbing, dissociation, physical and spiritual fatigue, world-weariness, chronic and debilitating illnesses, infectious diseases, viruses, vaccines, and difficult to diagnose mental and physical conditions” into the Saturn/Neptune framework.
塔纳斯还将“冷漠的惯性、逃避和否认、精神麻木、解离、身心疲惫、厌世、慢性及衰弱性疾病、传染病、病毒、疫苗以及难以诊断的精神和身体状况”的原型存在融入土星/海王星框架中。
He notes that chronic fatigue syndrome emerged at the last conjunction, though it's more accurate to say the first formal definition of CFS was published in 1988. I thought this seemed important, so I did some more digging, and found that in 2006, at the opposition, the CDC ran a national campaign to raise awareness about chronic fatigue syndrome, both among the general public and healthcare workers.
他指出，慢性疲劳综合征出现在上次合相时，尽管更准确地说，CFS 的第一个正式定义是在 1988 年发表的。我认为这似乎很重要，所以我做了一些进一步的挖掘，发现 2006 年，在对冲期间，CDC 开展了一项全国性运动，以提高公众和医护人员对慢性疲劳综合征的认识。
We are now at the next Saturn/Neptune conjunction, and major health organizations are quietly releasing statements that 1 in 10 infections will lead to long COVID (compounding risk with each reinfection — and that’s actually one of the more conservative estimates). For those not in the know, the majority of “long COVID” cases appear to be ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome), a post-viral condition that existed prior to 2019, one that has profoundly disabled people who were often in the prime of their lives when they got sick, who suffer in obscurity from a condition that is extremely poorly researched and understood. Meanwhile, most of the world has been led to believe COVID is "just a cold."
我们现在正处于下一次土星/海王星合相，主要的卫生组织正在悄悄发布声明，称十分之一的感染会导致长新冠（每次再次感染都会增加风险——这实际上是一个比较保守的估计）。对于那些不知情的人来说，大多数“长新冠”病例似乎是 ME/CFS（肌痛性脑脊髓炎/慢性疲劳综合征），这是一种在 2019 年之前就存在的病毒后疾病，这种疾病严重地使那些往往在生病时正值壮年的人丧失了能力，他们默默地遭受着一种研究和理解都极其匮乏的疾病的折磨。与此同时，世界大部分地区都被引导相信新冠“只是一种感冒”。
There is already widespread talk of how we're in the middle of a mass disabling event, and that the eventual cost to the general public's health and the economy could be unfathomable. Unfortunately, it would make sense that five years of Saturn/Neptune would bring the sobering aftermath of the Jupiter party that just occurred in the same signs, which coincided with the lifting of restrictions and the collective forgetting/denial of COVID.
现在已经广泛讨论到我们正处于大规模致残事件之中，最终对公众健康和经济的代价将是无法估量的。不幸的是，五年土星/海王星合相会带来之前木星在相同星座运行（这与限制解除和集体遗忘/否认 COVID 同时发生）的狂欢后的令人清醒的后续影响，这似乎是合乎情理的。
My hope is that since this synodic cycle has also generated awareness campaigns and the introduction of this condition into medical literature, that this upcoming conjunction could represent another milestone in understanding this disease, and hopefully, ultimately, treating it.
我希望，由于这个会合周期也产生了宣传活动，并将这种疾病引入医学文献，即将到来的合相可以代表理解这种疾病，并最终治疗这种疾病的另一个里程碑。
One final thought that comes to mind here, given all the historical footnotes just mentioned: if that many people are too sick to work, will that then necessitate the formation of a more robust social safety net, or a move away from economies that previously relied on a workforce capable of laboring 40-plus hours a week? If the climate crisis accelerates, will that force our hand away from an ethos of growth-and-profit-at-all-costs? That feels like a bit too optimistic of a take given what we’ve seen go down in practice, but then again, it’s actually pretty bleak that we’d have to reach rock bottom to get there, and then also still have to deal with the fallout of that.
考虑到刚才提到的所有历史脚注，这里还有一个想法：如果很多人病得太重而无法工作，这是否需要建立一个更强大的社会保障体系，或者摆脱以前依赖能够每周工作 40 多个小时的劳动力的经济体系？如果气候危机加剧，这是否会迫使我们放弃不惜一切代价追求增长和利润的信条？鉴于我们已经看到在实践中发生了什么，这感觉有点过于乐观了，但话又说回来，我们必须跌到谷底才能到达那里，然后还要处理由此产生的后果，这实际上相当悲观。
For now, I’ll continue pinning my hopes on the Great Basket Alignment of 2026 to restore some semblance of balance to our fucked up, crazy world.
目前，我将继续寄希望于 2026 年的大篮子对齐，以恢复我们这个糟糕、疯狂世界的一些平衡。
来源：https://www.ladycazimi.com/blog/saturn-neptune-conjunction-pisces-aries
