Every twenty years, the planets Jupiter and Saturn combine together in the sky, signaling a general political and governmental shift. Almost all of these conjunctions are in earth signs, the ones most involved in practical matters such as politics.

It just so happens that they are landing on even number years, and every so often, one lands in an election year.The year 2000 is one of those years. Although things do change around the world, this seems to have an adverse affect on United States presidents -- they die.

In the early 1800s, future president William Henry Harrison led the fight against the Indians in his area. It was his forces who killed the great leader, Tecumseh, chief of the Shawnee. Years later, Harrison won the presidency in the election of 1840. He probably wasn't aware that as he raised his hand to swear in, there was a conjoining of two planets in the sky that formed a foreboding sign.

Harrison never finished his term of office. In fact, he never really got started. A month after the inauguration, he died of pneumonia. People called it Tecumseh's Curse. Curses aside, this was just the first in a line of U.S. presidents to succumb to the Jupiter-Saturn transit.

Let me say that transits don't cause death. Planets merely show what might happen, like a weather forecast. People have free will. But then again, how many will alter their personality or the course of their lives in order to avoid the particular energies at work around them? Not many. So, like the weather, when this astrological front moves in, you know the president better take notice.

Is it fate? Can you escape it? The "Teflon" president Ronald Reagan did, but then he had astrologer Joan Quigley in the Whitehouse (courtesy of his wife, Nancy) planning out his schedule down to the minute. Even then, it wasn't enough to stop an assassination attempt. Some say he escaped because the conjunction occurred in an air sign (Libra) instead of an earth sign (Capricorn, Virgo, Taurus). This cycle is in an earth sign, signaling a warning.

Here is the rundown after Harrison:

1860 -- LINCOLN: One of the most famous assassinations.

1880 -- GARFIELD: Assassinated in July of 1881.

1900 -- McKINLEY: Re-elected in 1900, he should have retired. Assassinated in September, 1901.

1920- HARDING: Became ill while returning from a trip and died in August, 1923.

1940 -- ROOSEVELT: He almost made it, but chose to run again in 1944 and died in office.

1960 -- KENNEDY: We all know this one.

1980 -- REAGAN: The only man who beat the curse, but not by much. The bullet missed his heart by inches.

2000 -- BUSH JR....?

This year, 2000, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction falls in the earth sign Taurus. The earth sign conjunctions seem to be the worst for this aspect. Reagan's time was in an Air sign conjunction -- the only time this has happened.

As far as the future, we now know that Bill Clinton completed his term, so that leaves the question: will Mr. Bush fall victim to "Tecumseh's Curse?" Right now (2007) he has completed a first term and has another year to go to finish the second. We will just have to wait and see what happens.

The stars show the climate through which we are traveling, but they also show the connection between our soul and it's learning cycles and karma. Metaphysically speaking, any person, whether a president or not, has free will. With self-knowledge and work, this can avert and even change karmic conditions.

For George Bush specifically, Marjorie, an Ascended Master channel, has said to me in our book that he can shift this by changing his perceptions. The question is, will he do it? Will he awaken to a larger unfoldment of his soul purpose? Because she says that if he remains "asleep" then he will most likely fall into the pattern that has befallen the other presidents. It is up to him, not the stars, to create his destiny.