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The apparent meeting of Jupiter and Saturn in the skies – known as the ‘great conjunction’ – marks the birth of a new astrological epoch
‘Thinkers have used Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions to track history for thousands of years.’ Photograph: Pakin Songmor/Getty Images
‘Thinkers have used Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions to track history for thousands of years.’ Photograph: Pakin Songmor/Getty Images
Mon 21 Dec 2020 06.15 EST
Last modified on Mon 4 Jan 2021 16.40 EST
On Monday, Jupiter and Saturn – which are actually more than 400m miles apart – will appear to come together in the night sky, forming what is called a “Great Conjunction”. This is one in a series of meetings the planets make roughly every 20 years, due to Jupiter’s orbit of less than 12 years around the sun lining up with Saturn’s, which is 29.5 years long. On the night of the conjunction, the planets will seem as if they’re sepa