I was just looking up about this conjunction.  There is a debate about if the last close conjunction like this was 400 years ago or 800.  It depends on how close they get and I guess there is a debate about the records.  Anyway, if we believe the 400 year number that is very interesting.  The Rothschild's have controlled the Bank of England for 400 years,  Christian prophets are saying God is setting us free after 400 years of slavery.  These planets closest ever conjunction was 2 arc minutes and this conjunction will be 6 arc minutes at its closest.  When Jesus Was born Jupiter and Saturn merged in the sky to create the Star of Bethlehem. Jupiter and Saturn were in conjunction during the US civil war.  When the civil war ended in the US Jupiter and Saturn had passed their conjunction and come into a sextile aspect to each other and Saturn was returned to its position int he US natal chart.  Reagan came in under a Jupiter Saturn conjunction.  The two planets came nearly as close together as they will be on December 21st this year at the start of Kennedy's presidency and the turbulent 1960's. Jupiter and Saturn come into conjunction every 30 years.  But for them to come this close to each other is what is so rare.  A conjunction is anything with in 15 degrees.  Here they will be within a few degrees of each other.    Saturn as an actor represents structure and placing limits, discipline, lessons learned through hardwork.  Jupiter is the opposite- expansion,abundance, good fortune, luck.  Lessons learned through education, travel, serendipity.    They are playing out their merger on the stage of Aquarius the freedom loving, independent, humanitarian sign of the zodiac.