The Barbault Basket and Alchemy

Join us for a panel with Brian Cotnoir, J.M. Hamade, Danny Larkin, Eliza Swann about the Barbault Basket in July 2026 and how to work with it alchemically.

This is a pay-what-can in-person event at the New York Theosophical Society. No one is turned away for lack of funds at the door. You may also join the Zoom livestream that night for a small $5.85 required fee. This fee is necessary to prevent Zoom bombers.

Livestream Tickets:
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Event Description:

There has been a lot of discussion on the internet and social media about the so-called “Barbault Basket” of July 19-21, 2026 when 4 outer planets will be tightly configured at 4 degrees. While Jupiter trudges 4° Leo, it will oppose Pluto at 4° Aquarius, trine Neptune at 4°Aries, and sextile Uranus at 4° Gemini.

Many years ago, the legendary mundane astrologer André Barbault (1921 - 2019), foresaw this configuration in July 2026 as a turning point. Barbault was the only astrologer who predicted the COVID-10 pandemic as well as the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. Given the accuracy of Barbault’s previous predictions, there has been a lot of speculation about this inflection point.

Barbault never used the term basket. That term was coined later by the astrologer S.J. Anderson and has now gone viral. This formation is not just a 3 day blip, it is a turning point within a wider cycle that needs to be deciphered.

After decades of research, Barbault concluded that the two most influential cycles for the course of geopolitics in the 21st century would be the Uranus-Neptune Cycle as well as his legendary cyclic indicator.

This so-called basket of July 2026 is intimately connected to the Uranus-Neptune conjunction of 1993, which Barbault saw as the see