The Saturn Zil 2024
§ Friday 16th August 2024: First sighting of the Saturn Zil from Galicia, Spain. Witnessed by JLL, Ceridwen, and Lola.
Gregor Reisch: Margarita Philosophica, 1503. Woodcut showing the Greek astronomer Ptolemy advised by Astronomia, the embodiment of star wisdom. They are observing the sunrise crescent (gesture of the left hand, looking east before dawn). The armillary sphere bottom left represents the planetary orbits with different inclinations from the ecliptic, the orbital plane of the earth. These offsets from the ecliptic, which vary from 1.8 to 2.5 degrees, play a role in supporting the mothership to manage balance as it releases from the capture of the inorganic planetary system — the action of Alignment.
All Hands on Deck!
To begin, remember that the Grailkeepers reckon a generation by 25 years, not the loose 30. The 21st century opened with the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in 22 Taurus on May 22, with Uranus SR square in 21 Aquarius. The Zil with Saturn on the meridian and Jupiter rising in the east occurs for the first time in exact square in August 2024. Due to retrograde variations, the square diverges and converges in the ensuing months. Heliocentrically, they are only square once, on January 20th 2025.
What a moment to be alive! This is an epic moment for the Grailkeepers, being as it is the first occasion in modern times when witnesses to Sophia’s Correction are informed in advance and poised to participate in the event. It is easy to conceive what the Zil is and follow it by observation. It is only visible at well before sunrise after the sun transits the Twins and it appears uniquely at different latitudes. Saturn rises first, the rest of the Zil follows and is visible for some hours before dawn.
From Course 3 Grail Studies:
Saturn at the Meridian
Excerpt from 3.105 in Grail Studies:
The screenshot from Stellarium below illustrates the Saturn Zil observed by the Grailkeepers after the Uranus-Neptune conjunction (☌) of 966, timed from the Jupiter-Saturn☌ of January 968 which they observed after sunset. In other words, they reckoned from the long-term event of Uranus-Neptune in conjunction in 966 to the short-term event of the following Jupiter-Saturn☌ in 968, in order to know how to proceed from the moment of the crisis. In this way they read the script that directed them on their course of action from the Saturn Zil. They enacted what the skyscape showed them, and took direction from the celestial code. Consequently, by reading the skyscape of that moment, we can derive the factional story of what they were facing and what they decided to do.
November 2, 972 AD around 2 AM. Saturn on local meridian in the torso of the Twins square to Jupiter rising in the Virgin, aligned to Vindemiatrix, the Grail Cup. At this moment the skyscape displays the square angle of Jupiter to Saturn with Jupiter in advance in the zodiac, rising later. This square routinely occurs about 5 years after the Jupiter-Saturn☌. Hence the interval 20 + 5 years. Reading Saturn at the meridian (Zil) with Jupiter rising, the Grailkeepers read in the celestial code how to proceed with the second diaspora.
How did the Grailkeepers read the Zil of 972? In every instance of this signal, Saturn on the meridian denotes commitment or resolution, and Jupiter on the ascendant denotes how the Grailkeepers fulfill their roles as guides and educators. The mantique is clear and simple: to maintain the legacy of the Grail and their role as guides to the Sophianic vision of life, they needed to go out in society in disguise as double agents (Saturn in Twins) while maintaining their privileged knowledge of the Grail (Jupiter at Spora, the sheaf of wheat), even if they could not continue the practice of telestic initiation.
Can you see that reading of the Zil of 968? If you can, fast forward to the current Zil.
Decoding the Zil of 2024-25
First sighting in August 2024 continues to August 2025 the Zil when it phases out. In that month Jupiter stands in the Twins @ 103 ECL with Saturn in the Fishes @ 2 ECL, close to the vernal point. The separation is 100 degrees, 10 beyond the square at 90. To decode the Zil, start from the initial exact sighting on August 14th 2024: Jupiter @ 77 ECL between the lower horns of the Bull, and Saturn @ 247 ECL in the stream of the Urn of Manitu. The Grailkeepers take their instruction from these two positions according to the rule: instruction informs and guides commitment. The instruction of Jupiter in the Bull informs the commitment of Saturn at the border of Manitu and Whales. That borderline is 18 Pisces ECL 348. Notice how Saturn reaches the Matangi Point as the Zil unfolds in April 2025. At that point the Zil is compressed with a separation of 81 degrees. The Zil is exact again in June 15-17th, 2025 with Jupiter at 2 Cancer in the feet of the Twins, and Saturn at 2 ECL Aries under the Western Whale. That brings the Zil the culmination of the signal.
While the Zil stands for observation, the Grailkeepers have the opportunity to set their course for the future and insure their legacy up to the next J-S conjunction in October 2040 in 18 Libra @ 198 ECL in the lower body of the Virgin. In other words, they form their vision and lay the groundwork for the future generation that inherits the Grail. This they do by reading the instruction of Jupiter in the Twins and Saturn in the Western Whale. That is the conclusive instruction, compared to the initial instruction, as noted, Jupiter in the Bull, Saturn in the waterstream of the Urn of the Manitu.
Mantique for the opening phase of the Zil: The Grailkeepers today commit to their role in guiding culture and community through the turbulent transition (Saturn in the Matangi Point in the cold currents above the tail of Cetus) into the Beauty to Come. To do so, they plan and regulate their personal lives to find a balance between material and esthetic standards (horns of the Bull). In other words, the signal of the Zil comes at a moment to decide short- and long-term management of personal resources, including property, inheritance, and finances. This emphasis is imperative. The commitment to act as trailblazers through the catastrophic meltdown of society (cold currents, turbulent times) cannot be merely abstract or subjective. It has to be guided by future-looking, life-shaping personal choices. This is the moment to plan the future for your families and allies, and act on those plans.
Mantique for the closing phase of the Zil (how the Zil concludes): to be read from Saturn @ 2 ECL, in 2 Aries close to the vernal point (north node of earth) in square to Jupiter @ 92 ECL in 2 Cancer in the perihelion of Saturn (the trans-historical Gnostic Impulse, as explained in the GNE). That is, coordination of commitment (Saturn beneath the western Whale) with moral and educational guidance (Jupiter in the feet of the Twins). I will reserve more comment on this reading, for a later time.
I would not venture to attempt an overarching description of what is to be realized in visionary terms and played out existentially during those twelve months, as it would be overly prescriptive and is, anyway, unnecessary. You learn what the Zil reveals by living through it in real time. But there are of course informing themes, which can be summarized and brought to definition at peak moments, for instance, when Saturn hits the Matangi Point and when Jupiter aligns to El Nath, Morbido. For the moment, note that Mars advances to El Nath by 23-24th August, and Jupiter follows it until October 10th then it turns retrograde at 82, almost exact. There is also a decisive lunar eclipse on September 18, 2024, taking Nemeta into its 7th year, and a solar eclipse on October 2nd @ 190 in 10 Libra at the Grail Cup.
In summary:
The instruction for guidance: Jupiter moves from Bull into Twins
The instruction for commitment: Saturn transits from Manitu into the Whales
jll: August 16, Galicia