Avery interesting, as you may know I have always been sceptical about astrology although I have seen many times when it looks like it works, but I am a great believer that collective human consciousness, the harmonic convergence, can change the world drastically for the god or the bad. So over the last however long, maybe since the days of tribes, people, I think, have always prepared for and feared war, starvation, disasters etc, which has led human mass consciousness in that direction (which is why so many countries have weapons they say they hope never to use, ministries of war and not peace, laws to stop us doing stuff that people always break, stockpiles of food whilst people starve and a media that focusing on the bad stuff to scare people into submission and greed). SO, I think any article that says "things are going t get better", even if the planets and stars are the cause, if people start to think that way, is going to make positive changes, even if the stars have little to do with it or not. Just like positive affirmations like I say to people - say out loud, three times, three times a day "I m glad I feel good today" will help improve people's lives, even if it seems like it will never work or is not true. IE, we make our own world, we make our own life, we make our own destiny etc. SO spreading articles like this WILL help. If we emanate light, love and people, like the smiling, it will effect others - even one candle can light hundreds - Prem's cause and mine. SO I am going to post the article on here.
By Mark A. Shryock
In July 2026, five planets will lock into a geometric pattern that a
French astrologer named André Barbault spent his entire life trying to
understand. He called it a basket. It is a rare alignment where the slow
outer planets cluster in one section of the zodiac wheel while one
planet sits apart, like a handle on a basket. Barbault believed this
formation marks periods when civilizations reorganize themselves, when
the old order breaks apart and something new tries to take its place. He
died in 2019, three months before COVID-19 proved one of his
predictions correct. He had forecast a pandemic for 2020. He was 89
years old when he wrote it, working from decades of cycle data and
historical correlation. This July, the basket he theorized will appear
for the first time in the 21st century.
The physics behind this is real. When the four giant planets, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, gather on one side of the Sun, the solar
system’s center of mass shifts. NASA calls this the solar system
barycenter. It can move more than 800,000 kilometers from the Sun’s
center. That is over one solar radius outside the Sun’s surface. Jupiter
accounts for most of this pull. Jupiter is two and a half times the
mass of all other planets combined. The barycenter is not theoretical.
NASA uses it for deep space navigation. The International Celestial
Reference System is barycentric. In 2024, researchers using NANOGrav
pulsar timing data pinpointed the barycenter to within 330 feet above
the Sun’s surface. The lopsidedness is measurable. Barbault’s claim was
that this physical lopsidedness correlates with human events. He did not
claim to know the mechanism. He claimed the correlation was robust
across centuries.
Barbault identified the Black Death in 1347, the Great Plague of London
in 1665, the Spanish Flu in 1918, and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 as
all occurring during periods of low Cyclic Index values. In 1347,
Jupiter, Pluto, and Uranus formed a triple conjunction in Aries while
Saturn and Neptune sat nearby in Pisces and Aquarius. Only 73 degrees
separated the outermost framing planets. In January 2020, Saturn and
Pluto conjoined in Capricorn with Jupiter close by. All five slow
planets gathered within about 100 degrees. Barbault had predicted this
in 2011. He wrote in L’Astrologue that the period 2020 to 2022 could
accompany a pandemic based on the lowest cyclical reading of the 21st
century. He died on October 7, 2019. He did not live to see the
prediction fulfilled.
The exact configuration peaks July 19 to 21, 2026. The five outer
planets align at approximately 4 degrees of their respective signs.
Jupiter sits at 4 degrees Leo. Pluto sits at 4 degrees Aquarius,
opposite Jupiter. Neptune sits at 4 degrees Aries, trine to Jupiter.
Uranus sits at 4 degrees Gemini, sextile to Jupiter and trine to Pluto.
Saturn sits at 14 degrees Aries, having conjoined Neptune on February
20, 2026, slowing ahead of its retrograde station and leaving a
10-degree separation from Neptune’s anchor at 4 degrees Aries, sextile
to both Pluto and Uranus. This creates what astrologers call a Minor
Grand Trine among Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus, two trines and two
sextiles, with Jupiter activating the figure from Leo through opposition
to Pluto and trine to Neptune. The result is a cradle or basket
pattern. An opposition at the top. A cluster of supportive aspects
beneath it. The shape of a basket.
Barbault’s own words on this period were specific. In his 2014 book The
Value of Astrology, translated into English by Kate Johnston and Roy
Gillett of the Astrological Association, he wrote that the
Saturn-Neptune conjunction of 2026 is the most benefic configuration of
the century and its interplanetary partnership will work for the best in
a splendid re-launch of civilization. He wrote that it contains a
harmonious relationship between primordial polar opposites, the coming
together of the external and internal, rational and spiritual mind and
soul and human beings surpassing themselves while experiencing life on a
higher level. In his broader analysis of the 2026 to 2028 period, he
described the new world civilization, the beginnings of which appeared
around the year 2000, as being in full flight. He wrote that this entry
into the second quarter of the century bears the stamp of the
achievement of a new age of humanity. He specified that the central and
harmonic position of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction is especially
expressive of a promotion of the lower strata of the world population, a
significant rise in the standard of living of the poor, a victory over
misery won in unprecedented solidarity.
On the collective level, astrologers interpreting the basket emphasize
several themes. The end of the crisis period. The 2020
Saturn-Pluto-Jupiter conjunction in Capricorn initiated what Barbault
called a world crisis. The 2026 basket marks its resolution phase, not
the absence of difficulty, but the pivot toward rebuilding.
Civilizational reset. The Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0 degrees Aries
in February 2026 is the pure potential seed. The basket in July is its
activation. This is the threshold to the new world. Once we pass through
it, there will be no return to the way it was. Promotion of the lower
strata. Barbault specifically predicted that the Saturn-Neptune
conjunction would bring a significant rise in the standard of living of
the poor, a victory over misery won in unprecedented solidarity.
Technological spiritual paradox. The configuration presents a
significant choice point. Whether humanity will follow the invisible and
mysterious stream of spiritual evolution or the denser reality of
technological expansion. The question of whether these can harmonize is,
in Barbault’s view, the foremost existential question of the new era.
Whether this achievement manifests as liberation or as a more subtle
form of control, as spiritual awakening or technological sedation, as
solidarity or fragmentation, the geometry does not dictate. It describes
the field of possibility. The rest is human choice.
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