Maybe you’ve heard that the astrology of 2025 is once-in-a-century astrology. (This is true.)
Maybe you’ve noticed the panic from spiritual practitioners in the form of catastrophizing about climate and political disasters. (This is reasonable, if very age-of-the-internet clickbait.)
Maybe you’ve even heard the astrologers talking about ascending to a “New Earth,” with straight out of the Book of Revelations apocalyptic predictions about how things have to collapse before we can “manifest” something better. (I call bullshit.)
As we approach 2025, we must remember that history is a cycle, and sometimes even an ouroboros — the snake that eats its own tail. Any student of history or reader of literature knows that tyranny is the baseline of human history, that history is not progressive, that there have been tremendous ebbs and flows in civil rights and revolution over the millennia.
We have been here before.
"Jeanna’s webinar We've Been Here Before: A Historical Retrospective on the Astrology of 2025 was excellent, comprehensive and very engaging. She introduced us to recurring astrological cycles, how their energies have been philosophically/culturally expressed in a wide range of historical time periods and cultures, and what all this could mean for us today. Her uniquely queer feminist decolonial astrological reflections introduced many intriguing and ultimately optimistic reference points to help us navigate through the current maelstrom as Pluto finally arrives in Aquarius." — Eirene C.
Huge shifts are coming in 2025, yes. But they are shifts we — humanity as a collective — have experienced before.
In such precedented (yes, precedented) times, it’s useful to look at historical and cultural artifacts from similarly-positioned astrological eras — from horse racing to the development of firearms.
This is a lecture for history buffs who are intrigued about astrology, and for astrology girlies who love history. But it’s also for folks looking to soothe their anxiety about politics, religion, and the state of literature and art-making in the coming year.
By looking at discrete but interrelated periods together, we can find the patterns in the puzzle. It’s true that Saturn has not been in Aries at the same time as Uranus in Gemini and Neptune in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius in recent human history. But Saturn has sat with Neptune before (in the late 1300s and early 1700s). Saturn in Aries has hung out with Pluto in Aquarius three other times in the last thousand years. Astrology, like history, comes in cycles — and my job is in finding the clues to what future cycles bring.
Looking at what happened during the previous moments where the Outers have had similar conversations can help us prepare for what comes next. In this 2+ hour educational lecture, I walk us through the lessons of history to better set expectations for the Astrology of 2025; mostly, this will be focused on Europe and nations on the Mediterranean, with some East Asian events. Specifically, we will look at historical eras where…
Revolution stirred
The relationship between Church and State made dramatic changes
Artists thrived anyway
We have done, and survived, this kind of living history before. And we will do so again.
This lecture is designed to be beginner/intermediate friendly, but for the conversant amongst you, we'll be covering roughly a dozen time periods where...
Saturn in Aries built a dream with Neptune in Aries
Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius felt cute, caused chaos
Saturn in Aries brought structure to Pluto in Aquarius’ dream
Neptune in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius swung through for some major world change
& more
Basically, where we had varying, mix-and-match configurations of the major transits we'll be experiencing next year: Saturn in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Aries, and Pluto in Aquarius.
While I will try to make the astro-language as accessible as possible, please note that you will get more out of the lecture if you have a baseline understanding of planetary domains and associations (e.g., you don’t have to be reminded that Saturn has to do with boundaries and constriction, or that Neptune can be dreamy and diffuse).
If you think those things are not political, or have no place in astrology, then buddy, my work is not for you.
I am not an activist; there are other people (and astrologers) to give your time and money to if you’re looking for tangible, boots on the ground, what do I do this very moment ideas. While there may be indirect ideas and inspirations in this lecture, it is oriented toward contextualizing our present moment rather than offering direct items for collective action.
Former Humanities majors who love learning astrology by way of historical context.
Astrology buffs who are interested in taking a long-lens view of history.
Folks looking for a spiritual reminder that humans have survived difficult tyrannies, crises, and astrological phenomena before.
Folks who enjoyed my lecture Poison & Cure: 500 Years of the Art & Literature of Saturn in Pisces lecture
Please note that if a lecture — very literally, me presenting LOTS of historical information (with dates!) for multiple hours — is not one of your preferred ways-to-learn, this may not for you!
What. If you're still curious about what ~the vibe~ will be, I'd like to encourage you to check out one of my previous lectures: Poison & Cure: 500 Years of the Art & Literature of Saturn in Pisces and The Astrology of Book Bans.
How. You will make an account and get an email confirming. The lecture can be viewed through your account on this website.