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    FIELD OF VIEW

    Nov 19, 2020 2 minutes
    “…things in heaven and earth…”

    Ahead of 21 December, Jane Green looks at literary conjunctions across the ages

    Will this month’s Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on the 21st improve your love life, or your career? Will there be thunderbolts and lightning and other very, very frightening things? Does its apparition herald a

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