New Age 2026 (Part II): The Conjunction That Foretold the 'Death' of God

In 1398 and 1399, the first conjunctions of Pluto and Neptune in the sign of Gemini for tens of thousands of years initiated a new phase of history, one we could call ""The Age of Gemini"". This coincides with the time when scholars generally consider that the Middle Ages ended and the modern era began.

The world was transformed out of all recognition over the course of the 500-year cycle that those Pluto-Neptune conjunctions initiated. It was a cycle that saw the formation of a globalised world, driven by European imperialism, capitalism and the discoveries that came about as a result of the development of the scientific method. It also saw a decline in faith in the West, leading to Friedrich Nietzsche's famous remark: ""God is dead. And we have killed him.""

What we'll see in this episode is how these events were foreshadowed by events that took place in the period around the conjunctions of 1398 and 1399. In other words, we'll see how conjunctions can be used as predictive methods on a grand historical scale. This will become important in the remainder of this series, when we try to understand our current moment and where our world is heading.