Home

2025 in the 12-year Jupiter-Kalki-Kali Cycle

Midwinter, 21 December 2020, was when a great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter occurred. This began a new great conjunction cycle of approximately 20 years, which is the last great conjunction cycle of the Great Age now ending, and the first of the new Great Age now beginning, hence the term Kalki-Kali cycle. It could also be referred to as an Alpha-Omega cycle or period of time, which the mystery schools symbolised by the AA hieroglyph.

Jupiter has a planetary cycle of 12 years, as seen from the Earth, whilst Saturn has a cycle of approximately 29.5 years (usually rounded off as c. 30 years).

Saturn, known as Kronos to the Greeks, is nicknamed 'Father Time', the Hierophant of hierophants, who rules over Golden Ages of wisdom, peace and prosperity. He is also known as the Gatekeeper, who tests and judges whether someone is good enough to enter a Golden Age.

Jupiter, known as Zeus to the Greeks, is Saturn's son, and is associated with mercy, teaching and friendship. Jupiter's role, as the right-hand of his father Saturn, is to help people to become good and wise enough to enter the Golden Age. Jupiter therefore gives us opportunities to express our love and peaceful intentions, to become wise, to help others, and to work out the best ways to enter a Golden Age, whilst Saturn carries on testing everyone.

Jupiter's planetary cycle of 12 years gives us 12 opportunities, as well as challenges, to do our very best. These 12 opportunities are associated with traversing the 12 signs in a precessionary way, starting in 2020 with Taurus as the creative sign and Scorpio as the responsive sign.

This year, 2025, is the sixth year of the 12-year Jupiter-Kalki-Kali cycle. For this, the creative zodiac sign is Sagittarius, whilst the responsive sign is Gemini. For most people it is the responsive sign that will be most apparent, in terms of what it brings out in people and society generally, and what challenges it will bring.

Sagittarius rules the thighs, the muscles of which are the largest muscle groups in the body and are responsible for human movement and stability. The thighs are also connected with the heart, as their movement assists the heart in pumping the blood around the body.

This connects very much with the role and character of Sagittarius, for Sagittarius, the Archer, is symbolised as a centaur (half-human, half-horse), who is shooting an arrow from the bow that he holds in his hands. Like Cupid, what he shoots are arrows of love, helped by his ruling planet, Jupiter, the planet of mercy, compassion, generosity and wisdom.

The primary myth associated with Sagittarius is that of Chiron, the learned healer-teacher, who was known for his wisdom, kindness and vision, and who taught medicine, hunting, music and prophecy to many great heroes. This Chiron story summarises the creative force that all good people the world over can especially channel and work with this year, so that they themselves become Chirons.

However, there are other centaurs who are not so good, who can be wild, lawless, inhospitable beings, slaves of their animal passions.

Gemini (meaning ‘Twins’) rules the shoulders and arms, and its ruling planet is Mercury. Gemini's zodiac sigil is symbolic of the Great Pillars that guard the entrance to the temple, wherein the temple signifies the head. The Gemini form the gateway to the head, and are associated with the throat that leads into and is part of the temple of the head. Gemini, the gateway and gatekeeper, is thus associated with testing something or someone as to whether right or wrong, true or false, virtuous or corrupt.

In terms of society, in a negative sense the Gemini energy tends to create a division between those who think and believe one way and those who think and believe otherwise, which can lead to conflict, battle and warfare. But in a positive sense the Gemini energy stimulates and increases friendship between different thinking-believing people, and harmonises their differences so that common ground is found.

In Freemasonic and Hebraic myth, the Gemini are the twin Great Pillars, Jachin and Boaz, which stand on each side of the entrance to the Temple of Solomon (the Temple of Peace), with the Middle Pillar being the way through that is achieved by balancing and harmonising the two opposites in actions of friendship and love.

So the big challenge this year is whether one is able to pass the test of the Gatekeeper so as to enter a state of peace, or not.