2020年木冥合相：极致的放大

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2020年木冥合相：极致的放大

Posted on October 19, 2019
Author Patrick Watson
作者：帕特里克·沃森
译者：成娟，是一位特殊教育老师，人在北京

In 2020, Jupiter and Pluto will conjoin in late Capricorn, so I wanted to take a look back at previous Jupiter-Pluto hard aspects to get a sense of their archetypal signature. When I did this I found a remarkable pattern that fits the combined archetypes of Jupiter and Pluto somewhat literally: the development of telescopes and microscopes, facilitating the exploration of the macrocosm and the microcosm.
2020年，木星和冥王星会合相于摩羯座，所以我想回看一下以前木冥的紧张相位来感觉一下它们的原型意味。当我这样做的时候，我发现了一个显著的模式，从字面的意义上都契合木星和冥王星的结合原型：望远镜和显微镜的发展，促进了对宏观宇宙和微观宇宙的探索。

In theory, we know that Jupiter in astrology is the expansive planet of wisdom and knowledge, big picture thinking and the broadening of horizons. Pluto is a planet of extremes. The late great astrologer Alan White used to say that “Pluto makes big things small and small things big“, which is the essence of what an extreme is. Microscopes magnify extremely small things, and telescopes magnify extremely distant things. Appropriately, the times of major Jupiter-Pluto aspects have coincided with times when the vistas of discovery extended to impossibly small and impossibly large scales, and are often brought about by people who themselves were born at significant axes of the Jupiter-Pluto cycle.
理论上来讲，星相学里的木星是扩张性星球，代表智慧和知识，大图景思考，视角的扩大。冥王星是极端的星球。近代伟大的占星家阿兰怀特曾说“冥王星让大的事情变小，让小的事情变大”，这就是极端的本质。显微镜放大极端小的东西，望远镜放大极端远的事物。应该说，主要木冥相位的时间点碰巧就是这样的时代：探索的远景延伸到几乎不可能地小以及几乎不可能地大的规模，而带来这种变化的人本身也通常出生在木冥周期的重要轴位上。

I traced a chronology spanning over 400 years which clearly shows how the telescope and microscope were developed at successive Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions and oppositions, but it’s too unwieldy to publish in an article. Instead I’m going to focus on 5 of what I think are some of the most impressive and literal examples of the Jupiter-Pluto complex in action, along with my thoughts on what we might be able to expect from the upcoming 2020 Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions in Capricorn at the end.
我追溯了跨越400年的年表，它清晰地显示出，望远镜和显微镜是伴随着连续的木冥合相及対宫发展出来的，而这太难以一篇文章发表出来。所以，我想集中说最让人印象深刻也是从字面上就契合木冥相位的五个例子，以及关于我们在即将在年末到来的木冥合相摩羯座能期待些什么。

开普勒的顿悟

Johannes Kepler’s Epiphanies
1571-1572 Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions at 22° Pisces
Johannes Kepler Born
开普勒的顿悟

1571—1572 木冥合相于双鱼座22°
约翰尼斯开普勒出生

Source: Astrodatabank
Johannes Kepler was born on December 27th 1571, less than 3 weeks before the early 1572 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Pisces. What makes this example so interesting is the fact that Kepler came from a time when Pluto was unknown, and so he would not have been aware of this conjunction to his natal Jupiter, just that it was fortunately placed in its domicile of Pisces. At each subsequent Jupiter-Pluto conjunction, Kepler’s insights would profoundly broaden humanity’s view of the skies.
开普勒出生于1571年12月27日，距离1572年木冥合相于双鱼座不到三周的时间。有趣的是，开普勒出生的时候，冥王星并未被人知晓，所以他不可能意识到它与他本命木星的合相，只是它幸运地位于双鱼座的宫位。后来每一次的木冥合相，开普勒的洞见都会深刻地扩展人类对天空的视野。

Johannes Kepler presents a kind of contradiction for modern science since his monumental contributions to astronomy were guided by his work in astrology and his theological or otherwise enchanted view of the universe. It was all part of one cohesive perspective, and it was precisely these “non-scientific” interests which propelled his scientific advances. Carl Sagan referred to him as “the first astrophysicist and the last scientific astrologer”. We will see this theme reappear with some other Jupiter-Pluto pioneers.
开普勒的洞见似乎对现代科学是某种矛盾，因为他对天文学最重要的贡献是由他在占星学以及神学，或者说对宇宙的奇幻观点所引领的。这全是一种连贯视角的一部分，恰恰是这些“非科学”的兴趣驱动了他的科学进展。Carl Sagan说他是“第一个天文物理学家以及最后一个科学的占星学家”。我们会看到这个主题在一些其他木冥先驱那里重新出现。

1596 Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto conjunction at 18° Aries
Kepler writes Mysterium Cosmographicum
1596年  木星-天王星-冥王星 合相在白羊座18°
开普勒撰写《宇宙奥秘》

One of his most significant works was his first, Mysterium Cosmographicum, which was when Kepler first proposed his geometrical model of the solar system. He thought he had revealed God’s design of the universe. He attributed this to an epiphany on July 19th 1595 as Jupiter was approaching Uranus and Pluto in Aries, and the book was published in “late 1596”. The Jupiter-Pluto conjunction itself perfected on April 14th 1956. The particularly revelatory nature of this conjunction is reflected by the addition of Uranus to the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction. This is the same conjunction under which Rene Descartes was born.
开普勒最重要的著作是他的《宇宙奥秘》，这是开普勒第一次提出太阳系的几何模型。他认为他揭示了上帝的宇宙设计。他将此归功于在1595年7月19日当木星在白羊座接近天王星和冥王星的时候产生的顿悟，这本书在“1596年晚期”出版。这次的木冥合相在1596年4月14日达到完美。这次合相特别的显化性特征反映在木冥合相中天王星的加入。勒奈笛卡尔也是在同样的星象下诞生。

1608 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction at 1° Taurus
Kepler writes Somnium and invents the Keplerian Telescope
1608年 木冥合相在金牛座1°
开普勒写下了《梦游》并发明了开普勒望远镜

In 1608, Kepler wrote a novel called Somnium. The book describes a dream he had about people who travel to the Moon and imagines what the sky would look like from the lunar surface, to prove the universal applicability of his astronomical principles. Some consider this to be the first work of science fiction. While we don’t know when in 1608 he wrote this book, the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction perfected on May 19th 1608 and was in close proximity to Pluto that entire year. What’s particularly interesting about this event is that while this is the year Kepler wrote the book, the book itself was not published until after his death. Also in 1608, Kepler devised his own telescope, the distinct design of which would come to be known as a Keplerian telescope. The very next year he released the first book explaining his Laws of Planetary Motion.
1608年开普勒写下了一本名为《梦游》的小说。此书描述了他梦见人们旅行到月球上，想象从月亮的表面来看天空看起来是什么样子，以证明他的天文原则的普遍适用性。有人认为这是第一部科幻小说。而我们所不知道的是，这本书写成的1608年，木冥合相在5月19日达到完美，且整一年都与冥王非常接近。这件事情有趣的地方是，这本书是在这一年写成的，但是直到他去世都没有出版。同样也是在1608年，开普勒发明了他自己的望远镜，这个设计是如此的独特，被称为开普特式望远镜。在接下来的一年，他发表了第一本解释他的行星运动法则的书。

1620-1621 Jupiter-Pluto Conjunctions at 11°-13° Taurus
Kepler completes his Three Laws of Planetary Motion
1620-1621 木冥合相在金牛座11°-13°
开普勒完成了行星运动的三大定律

From 1620-1621, Kepler published the final two volumes in his work that would be most influential for modern astronomy: Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. In this work he completed his Three Laws of Planetary Motion, namely that planetary orbits are ellipses around the Sun rather than circles, that planets travel faster when they are closer to the Sun, and that a planet’s orbital period is determined by its distance from the Sun, with a lot more math. Isaac Newton would later use these three laws as proof of his own laws of motion and gravitation.
1620-1621年，开普勒发表了对现代天文学最有影响力的著作的最后两卷：《哥白尼天文学概要》。在这本著作中，他完成了他的“行星运动的三大定律”，即行星的轨道是围绕着太阳的椭圆形而非圆形；行星在接近太阳时运行更快；行星的轨道周期由它与太阳的距离决定，包含更多的数学计算。艾萨克·牛顿后来利用这三大定律来证明自己的重力与运动定律。

1632-1633 Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions at 23°-24° Taurus
Kepler’s Somnium Posthumously Prepared for Publication
1632-1633 木冥合相在金牛座23°-24°
开普勒的《梦游》在他去世后准备出版

Johannes Kepler died in 1630 at his second Saturn return, and so after his death, his work Somnium was finally published in 1634. Somnium was edited and printed by his son and his son-in-law between 1630 and 1634, which means that the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction would have coincided with when Kepler’s unpublished work was being revisited, which is peculiar because it was written during a previous Jupiter-Pluto conjunction.
1630年，开普勒在他的第二次土星回归时去世，去世之后，他的著作《梦游》最终在1634年出版。1630-1634年间《梦游》由他的儿子及女婿编辑和印刷，这意味着木冥合相再次与重访开普勒未出版著作的时间点巧合，这非常特别，而此书是在之前的一次木冥合相写成的。

微观宇宙的发现

The Discovery of the Microcosm
微观宇宙的发现

1589/1590 Jupiter-Pluto Oppositions at 11°-14° Libra/Aries
The Invention of the Microscope
1589/1590 木冥対宫 在天秤座/白羊座 11°-14°
发明显微镜

Two Dutch spectacle makers, Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans experimented with lenses in a tube in 1590, discovering that nearby objects appeared larger. Zaccharias is generally credited as the inventor of the compound microscope and the first telescope. While we don’t know the exact date in 1590, the two Jupiter-Pluto opppositions in 1590 perfected in April and August, making it more likely that the invention of the microscope occurred while Jupiter and Pluto were in close opposition.
1590年两个荷兰镜片制造者扎卡利亚斯·詹森和他儿子汉斯在一个管子里做镜片实验，发现附近的物体看起来变大了。扎卡利亚斯通常都被认为是复合显微镜以及第一个望远镜的发明者。我们不知道这是在1590年具体的哪一天，两次木冥対宫是在4月和8月完成，所以看起来很可能是显微镜的发明发生在木星和冥王星在非常接近対宫的时候。

1632-1633 Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions at 23°-24° Taurus
“Father of Microscopy” Born
1632-1633木冥合相在金牛座23°-24°
“显微镜之父”诞生

Source: Astrodatabank
Anton van Leeuwenhoek is often considered the “father of microscopy” or the “father of microbiology”. He was born on October 24th 1632, just a week after one of Jupiter’s 3 conjunctions to Pluto in 1632. Like Kepler, his strictly scientific method dovetailed with his religious faith. He continually marveled at his discovery of microscopic life in religious terms, considering them to be more evidence that God made all creatures great and small.
安东·范列文虎克被认为是“显微镜之父”或者是“微生物之父”。诞生与1632年10月24日，当年木星三次与冥王星合相中的一次之后的一周。和开普勒一样，他严格的科学方法非常契合他的宗教信仰。他不断地在宗教的语境下惊叹他对微生生命的发现，认为它们更加证明了上帝让所有的生物或伟大或渺小。

1657 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction at 17° Gemini
Van Leeuwenhoek Becomes First Person to Observe Microscopic Life
1657  木冥合相于双子座17°
安东·范列文虎克成为了第一个观察到微生生命的人

We do not know exactly when in 1657 Van Leeuwenhoek first observed microscopic life, but we do have a quote from him that specifies the year: “In the year of 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water. Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.” The Jupiter-Pluto conjunction was exact on June 4th 1657, and Jupiter was within 19° of Pluto the entire duration of 1657.
我们不知道他第一次观察微生生命的确切日期，但是我们有他的一句话可以指明这一年：“在1657年我在雨水里发现了非常小的活的生物。无论何时我发现任何了不起的事情，我都认为把我的发现写在纸上是我的责任，这样所有天才的人都能由此知晓。”这次木冥合相的确切日期是1657年6月4日，木星在整个1657年期间都位于冥王星19°之内。

1663 Jupiter-Pluto Opposition at 24° Sagittarius/Gemini
Robert Hooke Popularizes Microscopic Images
1663年木冥対宫 射手/双子
罗伯特·胡克使得显微镜影像人尽皆知

Sometime in 1663, Robert Hooke began drawing detailed pictures of insects viewed microscopically for his massively influential book Micrographia published in January 1665, which introduced the microscopic world to the public and triggered public interest in microscopy. He also coined the term ‘cell’ after observing them in cork under a microscope.
1663年，罗伯特·胡克开始为他广为影响的书籍《显微图谱》绘制在显微镜下所看到的昆虫的细致图像，此书在1665年出版，将微观世界介绍给大众，引发了大众对微观事物的兴趣。在显微镜下观察软木中的微生物之后，他发明了“细胞”这个词。

1838-1839 Jupiter-Pluto Oppositions at 15°-18° Libra/Aries
Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann Formulate Cell Theory
1838-1839木冥対宫 天秤/白羊15°-18°  
施莱登和施旺提出细胞学说

In 1838 Schleiden and Schwann compare notes and jointly devise fundamental tenets of microbiology known as the Cell Theory, namely that all living organisms are composed of one or more cells and that the cell is the most basic unit of life and come from other cells. In 1839, Schleiden published the Cell Theory in what is considered to be a foundational text of modern microbiology: Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen.
1838年施莱登和施旺对比了笔记，联合提出了微生物的基本原理，后来被称为细胞学说，即，所有活的有机体都是由一个或者多个细胞构成，细胞是生命的最基本的单位，并来自于其他细胞。1839年施莱登出版了细胞学说，这是现代微生物学的基础性文本：微生物学是一门研究微生物的学科。

1930-1931 Jupiter-Pluto Conjunction at 19°-20° Cancer
Invention of the Electron Microscope
1930-1931年 木冥合相于巨蟹座19°-20°
发明电子显微镜

On March 9th 1931, Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska made the first practical demonstration of an electron microscope which would eventually be able to magnify objects millions of times closer than conventional microscopes. This happened as Jupiter was approaching Pluto in Cancer. The electron microscope was patented on May 30th 1931, just 3 days from the exact Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Cancer.
1931年3月9日，Max Knoll和Ernst Ruska第一次做了一种电子显微镜的实际演示，它能将物体比传统望远镜放大百万倍。这时，正好木星在接近位于巨蟹座的冥王星。电子显微镜在1931年5月30日注册专利，离木冥在巨蟹座精确合相只有三天。

As we’ve seen from previous examples, not only did the electron microscope come from a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction, but the inventors were also born in proximity to major Jupiter-Pluto aspects. Max Knoll was born on July 27th 1897, within one month of the 1897 Jupiter-Pluto waxing square. Ernst Ruska was born on December 25th 1906, within 6 months of the 1906 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Gemini, which perfected while he was in utero.
和前面的例子一样，不仅仅这个电子显微镜的发明是来源于木冥合相，而且发明者也是在接近于木冥主相位的时候出生。Max Knoll出生于1897年7月27日，距离1897年的木冥四分相位一个月之内；Ernst Ruska出生与1906年12月25日，在1906年木冥合相于双子座6个月之内，他仍在子宫中的时候这次合相达到完美。

Georges Lemaître和大爆炸理论

Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang Theory
Georges Lemaître和大爆炸理论

Georges Lemaitre’s Primeval Atom/Big Bang Theory is a fairly straightforward description of the Jupiter-Pluto dynamic of extremely small things becoming extremely big: that all matter in the universe was compressed into an infinitesimally small point until exploding into all directions, stretching out time and space itself at an accelerating pace. It is based on the observation of the universe’s accelerating expansion.
Georges Lemaître的原始原子/大爆炸理论简直是木冥合相动力的最直截了当的表达：极端微小的事情变得极端大，宇宙中所有的物质被压缩到无限小的点直到向各个方向爆炸，以加速度的步伐拉伸了时间和空间。这个理论基于对宇宙加速扩张的观察。

1894 Jupiter-Neptune-Pluto Conjunction at 9°-12° Gemini
Georges Lemaitre Born
1894年 木星-海王星-冥王星合相在双子座9°-12°
Georges Lemaitre出生

Source: Astrodatabank
Georges Lemaître was born on July 17th 1894, just two months after the 1894 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Gemini. This Jupiter-Pluto conjunction was also conjunct Neptune, giving it a boundless and ethereal quality. Like Kepler and Leeuwenhoek, Lemaître was a man of ostensible contradictions: a Catholic priest, a man of faith as well as a scientist, a man of religious and materialist reasoning. The central irony of his life is that although he believed in a divine origin for the universe, he proposed the Big Bang Theory which is used an argument against a divine creation.
Georges Lemaitre出生与1894年7月17日，距离1894年木冥合相于双子座两个月之后。这次合相也结合了海王星，赋予了一种无边和以太化的品质。像开普勒和列文虎克一样，Lemaître表面上看起来也充满矛盾：一个基督教牧师，一个充满信仰的人，同时也是科学家，一个同时具备宗教和物质主义理性的人。他生命的核心讽刺是，虽然他相信宇宙的神圣起源，他同时又提出了大爆炸理论，用来反对神圣创世的理论。

1925 Jupiter-Pluto Oppositions at 11°-14° Capricorn/Cancer
Lemaître Begins Writing About the Universe’s Expansion
1925年木冥対宫在摩羯/巨蟹 11°-14°
Lemaitre开始写宇宙扩张的理论

Central to the Big Bang Theory is Lemaître’s observation that the universe is not static as Einstein initially proposed, but expanding. Lemaître began writing his famous paper sometime in the year 1925, while Jupiter and Pluto were in opposition for a vast majority of the year. While this observation was credited to Edwin Hubble, Georges Lemaître beat him to the punch by 2 years when he finally published his paper in 1927. Lemaître’s paper went by virtually unnoticed until it was translated into English in 1931.
大爆炸理论的核心是Lemaitre的观察：宇宙不是静止的，如爱恩斯坦最初提出的那样，而是在扩张。Lemaitre开始写他著名的论文是在1925年的某个时间，在这年的大部分时间木冥都处于対宫位置。虽然这个观察要归于艾·哈勃，但是Lemaitre的论文最终在1927年出版时，比他早了2年。Lemaitre的论文几乎无人问津直到1931年被翻译成英文。

1930-1931 Jupiter-Pluto Conjunction at 19°-20° Cancer
emaître Proposes the “Primeval Atom” Theory
1930-1931年 木冥合相在巨蟹19°-20°
Lemaitre提出“原始原子理论”

In 1931, Lemaître’s astounding observation about the universe’s expansion finally got some press when astronomer Arthur Eddington enthusiastically reviewed his paper, and it was translated into English in the same year. This was the same year he proposed that because the universe is expanding, that the universe could have begun expanding from a single point, a “Primeval Atom”. He outlined this theory in his 1931 papers “The Beginning of the World from the Point of View of Quantum Theory” and “The Primeval Atom – an Essay on Cosmogony“. This Jupiter-Pluto conjunction was in proximity to Lemaître’s natal Sun position. Years later a skeptic of his theory labeled it as the “Big Bang Theory“, which has held fast in the popular consciousness ever since.
1931年Lemaître’s对于宇宙扩张令人震惊的观察终于得到一点反响，天文学家Arthur Eddington热情洋溢地浏览了他的论文，并在同一年翻译成英文。同一年，他提出，因为宇宙在扩张，那么宇宙很可能是从一个单点开始扩张的，从一个原始原子开始扩张的。他在1931年的论文《从量子论的角度看世界的开端》和《原始原子——宇宙起源论》中概述了这个理论。这次木冥合相在Lemaître的本命太阳位置附近。几年后，这个理论的怀疑者将其标榜为“大爆炸理论”，从此后，这个概念就牢牢地在大众意识里面。

Interestingly, Cancer is a sign associated with nature, life, bios, the “home” of our world and our bodies, and it is the rising sign of the Thema Mundi, the mythical chart of the beginning of the world. It’s interesting then that this Jupiter-Pluto conjunction occurred in Cancer, which coincided with a scientific articulation of the beginning of the world.
有趣的是，巨蟹座是与自然、生命、生物相关的星座，是我们世界和我们身体的“家园”，是Thema Mundi（关于创世的神秘图）里的上升星座。那么有趣的是，这次木冥合相出现在巨蟹座，正巧出现的是对于世界起始的一种科学阐述。

哈勃太空望远镜

Hubble Space Telescope
哈勃太空望远镜

1968-1969 Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto Conjunction at 23° Virgo-3° Libra
Moon Landing and Dawn of Space Telescopes
1968-1969 木-天-冥合相在处女座23°-天秤座3°
登陆月球以及太空望远镜问世

This was a very significant Jupiter-Pluto conjunction because it was also so close to Uranus. This would signify a time not only characterized by an extremely empowered Jupiter to explore new vistas but also of radical liberation. It’s under this Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto configuration that humanity broke free for the first time from the surly bonds of the Earth and landed on the Moon, while Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto were all within 8 degrees of each other. The Moon landing on July 20th 1969 occurred while the Moon itself was conjunct Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto. That such a giant leap for humanity would occur at such an unusually rare and appropriate outer planetary configuration is a tremendous validation of astrological correspondences.
这是非常重要的木冥合相，因为它同时又如此接近天王星。这标志着一个时代，不仅仅有极致赋能的木星探索新视界的特点，而且带着彻底的解放意义。因为这个木-天-冥合相的设置，让人类第一次摆脱了地球的束缚，登上了月球，而木星、天王星、冥王星都与彼此相聚8度。在登月那天，1969年7月20日，月亮自身也与木星、天王星、冥王星合相。这种人类的巨大飞跃出现在如此异常少见又恰当的外行星设置之时是对占星系统的极大确认。

This was also when space agencies began formal plans to launch a space telescope, which would be able to operate beyond the limitations of Earth’s atmospheric conditions and see deeper into the cosmos than ever before. In 1969, the National Academy of Science released a report called the Scientific Uses of the Large Space Telescope, urging the construction of such an instrument. NASA soon got onboard.
同时各航天局开始了发射太空望远镜的正式计划，它能在地球环境条件的限制之外运作，比先前任何时候都更能看到宇宙更深处。1969年国家科学院发布了一个报告名为《大型太空望远镜的科学用途》，敦促这样一种设备的构建。美国航天局很快就加入进来。

1981 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction at 24 Libra
Hubble Space Telescope Begins Construction
1981年 木冥合相在天秤座24
哈勃太空望远镜开始建构

On April 12th 1981, the first US Space Shuttle launched, at the precise Jupiter Return of the Moon Landing. Later on in the year when Jupiter was close to perfecting its conjunction with Pluto in Libra, construction of the Hubble Space Telescope began. Little did they know that there would be an error in the grinding of the telescope’s mirror that would cause it not to work once it arrived in space in 1990.
1981年4月12日，第一艘美国航天飞机发射，恰恰在登月木星回归的时间点。同年，后来木星几乎与位于天秤座的冥王星完成合相时，哈勃太空望远镜的建构开始了。但是他们不知道的是，在打磨镜片的时候的一个误差导致了它在1990年抵达太空时无法工作。

1994-1995 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction at 28 Scorpio
Hubble Telescope Produces First Images of Cosmic Marvels
1994-1995木冥合相在天蝎28
1994年哈勃太空望远镜产生了第一个宇宙奇观影像

This was a very rare Jupiter-Pluto conjunction because Pluto spends the least amount of time in Scorpio of all the signs. The defect in the Hubble Space Telescope’s mirror prevented it from producing any clear images for several years. In December 1993, as Jupiter began approaching Pluto in Scorpio, astronauts went into space to give the telescope “spectacles” to correct its vision. On January 13th 1994, NASA announced the problems with the telescope were finally fixed. Throughout 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope was able to produce sharp and clear phenomenal images of the most distant galaxies seen up to that point, including the famous “Pillars of Creation” photograph that emerged in early 1995.
这是非常少见的木冥合相，因为在所有宫位中冥王星在天蝎停留的时间是最少的。哈勃太空望远镜镜子的缺陷妨碍了它，在几年都无法产生任何清晰影像。1993年12月，当木星在接近位于天蝎座的冥王星时，宇航员进入太空给望远镜戴上“镜子”以修正它的视力。1994年1月13日，NaSA宣布望远镜的问题修复了。整个1994年，哈勃望远镜都能对截至那时最遥远的星系创造高度清晰的现象影像，包含1995年初出现的照片--著名的“创造支柱”。

What makes this example so compelling is that we might have expected the launch of the telescope to coincide with a major phase of the Jupiter-Pluto cycle, and yet it did not. It was not until the next Jupiter-Pluto conjunction that the telescope would be fixed and able to provide unimaginable images.

冥王星的探索和发现

Discovery and Exploration of Pluto
冥王星的探索和发现

I made this the final example of Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions just because of how weirdly literal and meta this example is. Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions seem to coincide with the discovery and exploration of Pluto itself.
我要列出最后这一个木冥合相的例子，是因为这个例子从字面意义上和元意义上来讲都极其诡异。木冥合相似乎与冥王星本身的探索和发现也是巧合的。

1894 Jupiter-Neptune-Pluto conjunction at 9°-12° Gemini
Lowell Observatory Opens, Where Pluto was Discovered
1894年 木-海-冥合相于双子9°-12°
洛厄尔天文台开放，冥王星被发现的地方

Percival Lowell opened the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona on May 28th 1894, just 11 days after the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction perfected. In fact, the day it opened was during a Sun-Mercury-Jupiter-Neptune-Pluto stellium in Gemini. This is the observatory where Pluto would first be observed. This was the same conjunction Lemaître was born under, which also coincided with the explosion of stellar/astronomical photography.
1894年5月28日，帕西瓦尔·洛厄尔在亚利桑那州弗拉格斯塔夫开放了洛厄尔天文台，这是木星和冥王星完美合相后的第11天。事实上，它开放的那天是太阳-水星-木星-海王星-冥王星一组行星位于双子座。这是首次观测到冥王星的天文台。这是Lemaître诞生的同一合相，同时也恰好是星空/天文摄影的爆发时期。

1906 Jupiter-Pluto Conjunction at 22° Gemini
Clyde Tombaugh Born, Discoverer of Pluto
1906年 木冥合相于双子22°
Clyde Tombaugh出生，冥王星的发现者

Clyde Tombaugh was born on February 4th 1906. While his Jupiter and Pluto were 24 degrees apart on the day of his birth, which we would consider a very wide orb, in real time he was born under 5 months before the exact Jupiter-Pluto conjunction, and given the overall pattern with Jupiter-Pluto, he would seem to fit into that part of the cycle. Clyde Tombaugh was the astronomer who discovered Pluto.
Clyde Tombaugh出生在1906年2月4日。在他出生的那一天，木星与冥王星相距24°，我们可能认为这是挺大的轨距，事实上是在他出生之后五个月木冥确切合相，考虑到整个木冥的模式，他似乎恰好适合整个周期的那个部分。Clyde Tombaugh是发现冥王星的天文学家。

1918 Jupiter-Pluto Conjunction at 18° Cancer
Venetia Burney Born, Namer of Pluto
1918年 木冥合相于巨蟹18°
Venetia Burney出生，她是冥王星的命名者

Venetia Burney was not an astronomer. She was just a little girl at the time Pluto was discovered, but she was the one to propose the name “Pluto” for this new planet. She was born on July 11th 1918, which just happened to be within one month of the 1918 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Cancer. This story has been chronicled in documentaries and even a new children’s book.
Venetia Burney不是天文学家。冥王星被发现的时候她还是一个小女孩，但是是她给这个新行星建议了这个名字“pluto”。她诞生于1918年7月11日，恰好是木冥在巨蟹座合相相差不到一个月。这个故事已经被纳入了编年史文献，也在一本新的儿童书籍中有记载。

1930-1931 Jupiter-Pluto Conjunctions at 19°-20° Cancer
Pluto Discovery
1930-1931年 木冥合相在巨蟹座19°-20°
发现冥王星

The discovery of Pluto kicked off an international media frenzy and a flurry of scientific study about the new planet. Clyde Tombaugh’s initial discovery of Pluto on February 18th 1930 occurred as Jupiter was just under 8 months from its conjunction with Pluto. As the year progressed and Pluto was named by Venetia Burney, calculations were made about its mass and orbital period, and Pluto became part of popular culture (Pluto the dog became a Disney mascot late in 1930), this was all happening as the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction was becoming more exact. In a sense, Jupiter began studying Pluto and “welcomed” him in to the culture.
对冥王星的发现让国际媒体都陷入狂热，兴起了对这个新行星的一系列科学研究。Clyde Tombaugh’s在1930年2月18日第一次发现冥王星，这时木星与冥王星合相相差8个月。随着这一年的进展，冥王星由女孩Venetian Burney命名，对其体积与轨道周期进行了计算，冥王星成为了流行文化的一部分(布鲁托“pluto”这只狗在1930年末成为迪斯尼的吉祥物)，当合相变得越来越确切的时候，这一切也在发生着。从某种意义上来讲，木星开始研究冥王星，并“欢迎”他进入到文化之中。

2007 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction at 28° Sagittarius
New Horizons Gets Gravity Assist from Jupiter on the way to Pluto
2007 木冥合相射手座28°
新视界在去往冥王星的途中得到木星的重力援助

New Horizons was the NASA space probe designed to fly by Pluto, which delivered all kinds of data and crisp HD closeups of Pluto in July of 2015. In what has to be literally the most meta transit imaginable, Jupiter was approaching Pluto in Sagittarius when New Horizons was getting a gravity assist from Jupiter on its way to Pluto. Let’s say that again. The New Horizons probe only got to Pluto when it did because of a gravity assist from Jupiter, in the same timeframe as a longitudinal Jupiter-Pluto conjunction, geocentrically and heliocentrically. Talk about a meta transit!
“新视野”是设计用来飞过冥王星的NASA空间探测器，它在2015年7月发送了冥王星的各种数据以及高清近景图片。在这些几乎是可想象的最元传输里，当新视野正从木星得到重力协助前往冥王星时，木星正在接近位于射手座的冥王星。再说一次，新视野因为从木星得到重力援助才能抵达冥王星，在同一个时间框架里，木星与冥王星在纵向合相，同时以地球为中心并太阳为中心合相？？。

But perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised by this, because the New Horizons team had to plan the launch of the probe around Jupiter’s approximate alignment with Pluto in order to take advantage of the gravity assist from Jupiter. The person who figured out the math behind using Jupiter to assist spacecraft to get to Pluto from Earth was Michael Minovitch, who personally consulted the New Horizons team on its launch strategy. Minovitch first released his paper on Jupiter gravity assists for Earth-Pluto missions in November-December 1994, which itself was in the precise timeframe of the December 1st 1994 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Scorpio! Space exploration is creating a weird new meeting point between astronomy and astrology.
但也许我们不应该对此感到太惊讶，因为新视野团队必须计划在木星与冥王星大致对准的时候发射探测器，以便利用木星的重力协助。迈克尔·米诺维奇发现了利用木星帮助宇宙飞船从地球到达冥王星背后的数学原理，他亲自咨询了新视野团队的发射策略。米诺维奇于1994年11月至12月首次发表了他的论文《木星对地球-冥王星任务的引力辅助》，该论文的时间正好是1994年12月1日木星-冥王星在天蝎座的合相！太空探索在天文学和占星术之间创造了一个奇怪的新交汇点。

My Thoughts on the 2020 Jupiter-Pluto Conjunctions at 22°-24° Capricorn
我对2020年摩羯座22 -24日木星-冥王星会合的看法

This Jupiter-Pluto conjunction should be somewhat distinct from ones in previous eras because Saturn is in the mix as well as being in Saturn’s own sign of Capricorn, so it should really be understood as a Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto conjunction. On April 5th 2020, Jupiter will be exactly conjunct Pluto at 24° Capricorn. Retrogradation gives us a 2nd conjunction at the same degree on June 29th 2020. The final conjunction occurs at 22° Capricorn on November 12th 2020. So Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto will all be in fairly close proximity for the vast majority of 2020. The last time Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto were this close in tropical Capricorn was 1894 BC. The next time will be in 2755 CE. So this is a pretty rare event.
木星-冥王星的合相应该与之前的时代有所不同，因为土星混在其中，且合相在土星自己的星座摩羯座，所以它应该被理解为木星-土星-冥王星的合相。2020年4月5日，木星将在摩羯座24°与冥王星确切合相。2020年6月29日，逆行给了我们同样程度的第二次合相。最后的会合发生在2020年11月12日，位于摩羯座22°。所以在2020年的大部分时间里，木星、土星和冥王星都将非常接近。木星、土星和冥王星最近一次在热带摩羯座如此接近是在公元前1894年。下一次将在公元2755年。所以这是一个非常罕见的事件。

If Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions typically expand the vistas of discovery and magnify things on cosmic and microcosmic scales, then the presence of Saturn suggests there will be some element of contraction, limits or boundaries on those scales. It should be a bit of a bummer in some way.  Perhaps this is when we will reach an apparent limit to how far we can see into the cosmos or how far we can see into the microcosmos. A maximum resolution, a maximum magnification, a final end to a frontier of discovery. Perhaps someone will be discovering a boundary to the universe, discovering the “walls” of a cosmic prison. Maybe this is when space travel properly meets capitalism and becomes corporatized, and this will be considered some sort of beginning point for space tourism. Or perhaps it may revolve around another Saturnian concept like time, such as discovering a cosmic expiration date. After all, if the last Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Cancer coincided with a novel theory of how the world began, perhaps this Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto conjunction in the opposite sign of Capricorn will coincide with a novel theory of how it all ends. Whoever it is that makes a big insight in this time will likely have been born at a major aspect of Jupiter and Pluto, especially the conjunctions. I guess we’ll see!
如果木星和冥王星的结合通常会扩大探索的视野，并在宇宙和微观尺度上放大事物，那么土星的出现意味着在这些尺度上会有一些收缩、限制或边界的元素。从某种意义上来说，这应该有点令人沮丧。也许这是我们能看到宇宙多远或能看到微观世界多远到达一个明显极限的时候。最大的分辨率，最大的放大倍数，探索前沿的最终终点。也许有人会发现宇宙的边界，发现宇宙监狱的“墙”。也许这就是太空旅行与资本主义相遇并被公司化的时候，这将被认为是太空旅游的某种起点。或者它可能围绕着另一个土星的概念，如时间，比如发现宇宙的终止日期。毕竟，如果上一次木冥在巨蟹座合相是与关于世界如何开始的新理论相吻合，也许木星-土星-冥王星在摩羯座对宫的会合会与一个关于一切如何结束的新理论相吻合。无论是谁在这个时候做出了重大的见解，都很可能出生在木星和冥王星的主要相位，尤其是会合点。我想我们会看到的！

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