Dear Funkstar:
These are interesting posts. I like that you brought up the trouble at Tienmen Square and particularly the New Moon activation. Very nice astrology. The incident of the "unknown warrior" which occurred on June 5, 1989, who stood in front of 59 tanks, alone, seems an apt symbol of the fulfillment of the Jupiter=Pluto/Saturn. The photograph was seen around the world as a picture of hope and faith and bravery. Jupiter as an intermediary between the political constructs that come about from Pluto-Saturn would offer a point of hope. It would require bravery, or perhaps a desperate retrieval of what is left to save (I believe that is Noel Tyl's definition of that midpoint)
The chart for 2012, with Saturn and Pluto in mutual reception instead of in their own signs, suggests the need for cooperative energy manifestation, maybe extremely volatile energy cooperation. Jupiter as intermediary displays a critical role, at a critical degree...as you say, at the star Aldebaran, which was at the vernal equinox at the start of the Mayan calendar around 3000 BC. Aldebaran, one of the four royal stars, the Watcher of the East, has been associated in the Western world, since the writing of the Old Testament (which belongs with the Jewish people and is shared with Christians), with Michael the Archangel, who is considered the general of God's army. According to the book of Revelations in the New Testament (which belongs with Christians), Michael the Archangel is one of the four horsemen of the apocylypse, the number one spiritual warrior for the end times. Of course, make of this lore what you will.
Barbara Ybarra