Planetary Movements And Super Crises

[Anthony '58]

Roughly every 20 years there is a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn from our vantage point - and twice every 32 years (it happens 15 years after the last time, and then again 17 years before the next), there is what is known as a perihelic opposition of Mars and the Sun, causing Mars to come within about 36 million miles of the earth (at other times it can be up to 250 million miles away).  Every 80 years, these two events come within about a year of each other: There was a perihelic opposition of Mars and the Sun on July 23, 1939, followed by a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on August 15, 1940.  Before that - and of particular interest to Americans, there was a perihelic opposition of Mars and the Sun on June 30, 1860, followed by a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on October 25, 1861.

But wait, it only gets worse: The next perihelic opposition of Mars and the Sun is on October 13, 2020, and the next conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is December 21, 2020 - much closer together than either of the other two!

Let's not also forget that we are nearing the end of the second saeculum of Prabhat Sarkar's acquisitive age.  The last time the second saeculum of an acquisitive age ended, so did the Middle Ages, amid Europe's peasants' revolts and the fall of the Byzantine Empire - and the peasants and the Turks didn't even have AR-15s, let alone nukes.