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Conjunctions As Singletons
Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage; you cant have one without the other.
The conjunction is perhaps the most difficult aspect to interpret. The two planets involved are harnessed
together. One does not function without the other.
The energies of the planets may be complementary, like Sun and Jupiter or Mercury and Uranus, or very
disparate, like Moon and Uranus or Sun and Neptune.
As you can see the Sun/Jupiter and Mercury/Uranus conjunctions combine Yang planets, while Moon/Uranus and
Sun/Neptune combine Yin with Yang planets. Some combinations of Yin and Yang, such as Mercury/Venus, are
neutral. They cancel each other out and generally are expressed as a balanced mind or a refined mind. It is
often reflected in a fondness for literature, writing, and the arts.
Another inner planet conjunction, Venus/Mars, tends to activate the emotions, the passions, as well as the sense
of aesthetics. If this conjunction is in a Venus ruled sign, Taurus or Libra, Venus will dominate, and if it falls Aries
or Scorpio, Mars tends to be more influential.
When a conjunction is found as a singleton, such as the only planets in Earth or Universal
signs, or social houses it may tend to dominate the life, or to be repressed, projected, or subject to
any number of psychological defense mechanisms, just as a solitary singleton planet is. It is quite
rare to find the inner planet conjunctions as singletons. More often we find outer planet
conjunctions or an inner/outer planetary conjunction.
An example of an inner/outer, Yang/Yin singleton conjunction is found in Jons chart. The Mars/Neptune in Virgo in
the 6th is the only mutable energy. Mars rules the Ascendant and Neptune rules the 12th house. There is a hint
here of identify confusion as well as an unconscious drive to escape from the past or into it. Only through the area
of work and service can he find a sense of himself. We might expect to discover he has some peculiar sexual
issues or attitudes as well. Of course, in this chart there are two other things that point toward identity issues, not
the least of which is a Sun singleton, the only Air sign and only Cardinal sign planet. The Sun is weakened in
Libra, the sign of its Fall, and as it is located on the Western half of the chart, indicating that he would tend to be
vulnerable to the opinions of others in order to define himself through a sense of belonging.
Having a Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in the first house of self-image is not helpful. It tends to give an
inferiority/superiority complex. There is a great deal about his life that has required him to do balancing acts. His
relationships and work have been very problematic. There is a long string of marriages and innumerable job
efforts behind him.
He is very brilliant, but even a series of advanced degrees have not helped to overcome the inferiority/superiority
complex. He has given up trying to compete (Mars) in the real world, preferring to rely on his imagination
(Neptune). He writes romance novels under a very feminine nom de plume. In this way, by using an active (Mars)
imagination (Neptune), he allowed the singleton conjunction to dominate his life, a case of over-compensation. As
often happens with over-compensation, Jon has been rewarded with success in the way of royalty checks and a
degree of renown within romance writers circle.
More interesting on a mundane and societal level are outer planet conjunctions when they occur as a singleton in
a natal chart. Generally speaking, an outer planet singleton conjunction implies that the person carries the tenor
of his or her times, lair du temps, and may channel many elements of the collective unconscious or conscious into
his life and work, for better or for worse.
Every few generations there is a conjunction, or New Moon Phase, of two outer planets. When these outer, or
transpersonal, planets conjoin, it correlates with a shift in the collective consciousness. These conjunctions mark

the beginning in a next, new, step in evolutionary development on the planet. They present opportunities for
masses of people, for civilization, to move forward (though often while the process is going on, it appears to move
backwards!). Outer planet conjunctions mark global initiations. We know that as a whole, people tend to resist
change, and these conjunctions impel change. The choice is often clearer and more conscious for an individual,
but there is a fated quality for the masses of humanity.
The most recent conjunction was the Uranus/Neptune in Capricorn in the 1990s. We will have several decades to
wait to see how individuals with this as a singleton turn out. In the 1960s (1963 to 1968) there was a
Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo. This is another Yang/Yin combination like the 1990s conjunction.
So, there is a built-in tension and stress. Uranus with Pluto in Virgo corresponded to the era of the first manned
space exploration, the first Moonwalk by the U.S.A. astronaughts. The first cosmonaught, Uri Gagarin, circled the
earth in Sputnik, which was launched within days of Plutos going into Virgo (the power of technical expertise).
While they were in their teens, the Uranus/Pluto generation had a large number of suicides among its members.
Perhaps as young people they felt they could not live up to the Virgo ideal of perfection. Drug use rose, particularly
the stimulant cocaine.
Uranus/Pluto loves the power of hyper-mind. Computer technology was developed. The people of this
generation are just now entering the prime period of their influence and power. I suspect many of the recent
terrorists have this conjunction, whether as a singleton or part of a stellium (four or more planets in one sign or
one house), prominent in their charts. Virgo, in terms of religion, can be very literal in its interpretation, and it
easily falls into fundamentalist doctrines (a fundamentalist is demented because he has no fun). Leo is the sign of
fun, pleasure and self-expression; the sign following it, Virgo, tries to clean up its act; insisting on purity it may
deny itself fun. Only in Libra do we find a balance between enjoyment and duty.
Two close acquaintances of the author have the Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo as the only Earth sign energy.
They are employed in the TV news media; so they have the opportunity to be of influence on public opinion, or at
least, they are laying the groundwork for that later, as recognized authorities. They seem progressive in their
outlook (Uranus) within the bounds of social conformity (Virgo is a social sign), and they are powerfully (Pluto)
efficient in their work (Virgo). What is most noticeable in them is the tendency toward efficiency, expertise, and
neatness (almost compulsive Pluto, neatness -Virgo) along with great attention to detail. Right now, Pluto
transiting through Sagittarius is triggering this conjunction for their whole generation by squaring it.
It is important to be aware that the idea of a conjunction being a singleton has not been researched very much.
Richard Idemon, who presented a great deal of material on singletons, did not consider that a conjunction could
be regarded as a singleton. He did make an interesting observation about outer planets as they function in
psychology.
Ideally, the three outer planets should work as a team, a troika. One energy pulls to the left, the other to the right
and the central pulls straight ahead. The whole of the three working together gives great strength and balance.
Uranus represents the universal, higher or Hyper-Mind; Neptune symbolizes universal, or Hyper-Love, and
Pluto correlates to universal Will, or Hyper-Power. This is what we would call the soul or our Higher Power.
When Uranus is with Pluto but lacks the energy of Neptune , there is a tendency to get the despot, or the mad
scientist, who might say, Lets drop the bomb, spread the anthrax, etc., and see what happens, how many die,
how long does it take, etc. With Neptune unintegrated, there is a lack of compassion.
Uranus with Neptune and minus Pluto tends to give the starry-eyed dreamer, the New Ager, or the bliss
ninny who has not the power (Pluto) to put his or her utopian (Uranus/Neptune) ideas into action. The early
1990s saw Uranus conjunct Neptune in Capricorn. It correlated with the financial (Capricorn) boom based on the
dream of ever expanding (Neptune) technology (Uranus). The Neptune bubble burst recently, as Neptune bubbles
are wont to do. There was too little power to stabilize the glamour of technological and financial fantasies. This
conjunction saw a rise in fundamentalism all over the world. The past (Capricorn) was romanticized, and many
rebelled against progressive (Uranus) ideas and directions. Where Pluto in Sagittarius was unintegrated in the
personal and collective psyche, xenophobia (fear of foreigners of those who are different) began to grow.

The combination of Neptune plus Pluto minus Uranus tends to produce the fanatic, the true believer who does
not want to be confused with the facts (Uranus is the mind, recall). Pie in the sky ideals or ideologies combined
with a desire for power that is devoid of higher reason, is a seductive, and dangerous thing!
The last conjunction of Neptune and Pluto occurred in the 1890s in Gemini. [For many decades since the mid1940s we have been living under the opening sextile of that conjunction.] The Gemini archetype likes to
experiment. It is the first Air sign, and it is the archetypal mental individual, devoid of feeling, at least about other
people. Gemini is a Personal sign; it may have a sense of its own feelings, but it cannot relate that to others. That
function does not occur until we reach Libra. Neptune and Pluto are both Yin energies, capable of great
seductiveness. Neptune is infinitely charming and glamorous, while Pluto is overpoweringly hypnotic. Some
glamorous and compelling new ideas took over in the collective. The Nazi movement, one manifestation of those
energies, was triggered in the mid-1930s by the square from transiting Neptune in Virgo and another square from
transiting Saturn in Pisces.
THE TRUE BIZZAROS
There is a tape available through the History Channel entitled, Hitlers Henchmen. It includes photographic
biographies of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Gring, and Paul Joseph Goebbels and other top ranking Nazis. These three
men are examples of the monstrous misuse that can be made of spiritual (Neptune) power (Pluto). They tried to
use transpersonal energies for personal gain, toward personal goals and ambitions. To do that inevitably results in
disaster for the person himself, and sometimes, as in this case, for the entire world. Two of these men, Hitler and
Goebbels have the Neptune/Pluto conjunction as a singleton. Gring had the closest conjunction, placed in his
7th house. The only other Mutable energy in his chart was an unaccepted Venus in Sagittarius.
Countless astrologers have analyzed Adolf Hitlers chart for the past sixty years or so. The late Barbara H.
Watters has an excellent chapter on it in Sex and the Outer Planets. The conjunction is placed in Hitlers 8th
house of death, transformation and collective resources. It is the only Mutable energy in a chart that is otherwise
dominated by Fixed and Cardinal energies, the steam roller combination. Hitler had a huge and effective
propaganda machine. Both Neptune and Pluto can be associated with propaganda and advertising. Neptune uses
it to deceive and hide the truth while Pluto uses it to distort reality in order to manipulate others. Hitler was a
formidably grotesque orator (Gemini). Yet his many ranting and shouting speeches had a deeply moving and
erotically hypnotizing effect on the majority of the German people in the 1930s. People have offered the thought
that Hitler was overcome or overshadowed at some point by some sort of superhuman entity or energy. He was
certainly overtaken by the transpersonal energies of his own unconscious and that of the collective. With
Neptunes urge to surrender and ability to enter mediumistic or channel states, and Plutos association with
possession and paranoia, that might indeed have happened. With this conjunction in the 8th house of sex, his
horrendous politics were motivated by a monstrously perverted, albeit sublimated, sex drive.
In the chapter on Saturn as a Singleton, we looked at the chart of Paul Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels was a
fanatical Nazi who was instrumental in bringing Hitler and the Nazi Party to power in 1933. Once the Party was in
power and Hitler was the Frher, Goebbels became the official propagandist for Germany. He was in total control
of all public communications media. The singleton conjunction is the only energy in the upper, or southern,
hemisphere of the chart, and it straddles the 11th house cusp. Neptune and Pluto rule his 4th and 8th houses; so
there was something both nurturing and erotic and ultimately deadly for him in being a important member of his
peer group (the Nazi Party). With the exception of the conjunction, the chart is very tight, confined within a square
from Moon in Capricorn and Jupiter in Libra. All those planets fall between the South and North Nodes of the
Moon. In Vedic astrology, the outer planets are not considered. When all the planets fall within the confines of the
Nodes, it is called Kala Sarpa Yoga the Serpent of Time Yoga. This is called a dreaded combination because
there is a sort of retributive justice that follows the person through the undulations of time, and hidden forces creep
stealthily through the life. Of course as Goebbels had tied his whole life and identity to Hitler and the Nazi party, he
had no choice but to commit suicide at the end of World War II. He killed his wife and six children along with
himself in Hitlers bunker in Berlin.
Hitlers second in command was the vainglorious, egotistical megalomaniac, Hermann Gring. As a young man,
he was handsome and adventurous, a rather swashbuckling character. As time went on, he became a morphine

addict in addition to being a compulsive eater of sweets. He grew portly, puffy-faced and glassy-eyed from the
drugs and sugar. His Neptune/Pluto conjunction is almost exact in his 7th house of relationships. While it is not
technically a singleton (because the unaspected Venus is also in a Mutable sign), it combines the rulers of his first
house and his 4th. He had an obsessive admiration for Hitler and wanted to be near him as much as possible. And
yet, there were numerous occasions in which Gring made great efforts, or went to extreme lengths, to undermine
or betray Hitlers plans. His behavior in that relationship was remarkably schizoid, quite in keeping with an angular
and exact Neptune/Pluto conjunction. The conjunction forms part of a Yod comprised of a sextile for the
conjunction and Mars, both quincunx Uranus in the 12th house of addiction, imprisonment, madness and suicide.
The Allies at the end of the War captured him. While in prison he committed suicide by biting into a cyanide
capsule.
A HOLY MAN
Lest we start to think that all Neptune/Pluto in Gemini people were murderous, insane monsters, lets look at
another chart from the same era, that of Paramahansa Yogananda. Yogananda brought yoga and kriyayoga
practices from India to the West, particularly the United States in the 1920s and established his organization, SelfRealization Fellowship, in the 1930s. His conjunction singleton is the only energy in a universal house, the 10th
house of calling or vocation. Although the Moon is slightly to the 12th house side of the ASC, it can be considered
as conjunct the ASC. I had the opportunity to see Yogananda in person when I was a child. That Moon in Leo
shone on all and everyone, all the time!
Yogananda expressed his spiritual power through his teachings, lectures and many writings. His Autobiography of
a Yogi is a beloved classic. Now, nearly 50 years since his passing, Yoganandas influence on the spiritual
development of others is still powerful. He was only one week older than Hermann Gring was; so many planetary
placements are the same. He shares the Yod with the conjunction of Neptune/Pluto, Mars and Uranus. Uranus is
a singleton as the only Water sign planet, in the third house of communication. In this chart, the three outer
planets worked together as, ideally, they should. Yogananda stressed the importance of the will or will power in
spiritual growth. The Nazis stressed the will to power for personal agrandizement and domination of others.
Yogananda found revolutionary ways to teach spiritual truths to the world. He also shares with Gring a Sun in
Capricorn square Jupiter in Aries. While Gring fell into megalomania, Yogananda chose to give his ego, or
personal will (Sun) to the Greater Purpose and the Divine Guru (Jupiter). Yoganandas chart was graced by a
grand trine in Fire (the spiritual and spirited element) comprised of the Moon, Mercury and Jupiter. This gives
stability and good fortune. That configuration was what allowed him to use the Yod, along with other challenging
aspects in the chart, for the highest purposes.
When we look at the charts of two men, Gring and Yogananda, we are faced with the fact that the chart does not
tell everything. First, it does not reflect the persons level of consciousness. And, second, it does not give the
persons family and cultural background. These two men were raised in very different cultures with different
values. Their early family lives were quite different as well. One man led an exemplary life while the other man
chose the path of infamy.
Example Charts Used in the Article


About the author:
Eleanor Buckwalter has studied, practiced and taught astrology in Los Altos, CA for more than twenty-five years,
including three years with the late Richard Idemon, a psychological astrologer. Her primary astrological focus of
interest is parent-child relationships and family dynamics.

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