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''Then peace will guide the planets
''And love will steer the stars"''
|''[[Hair (theatre)|Hair]]'', "Aquarius"}}
Something in the plot depends on some stars or planets lining up in a particular order at a certain time (an event known in astronomy as [[syzygy]]). Often doomsayers claim this will be the cause for [[The End of the World as We Know It]], whether by breaking the tectonic plates, causing a shift of the poles, changing the Earth's rotation..., or introducing the [[Eldritch Abomination]].
When it overlaps with [[Significant Birth Date]], it can occur in the [[Backstory]] and still complicate the plot; this can produce [[The Chosen One]] or the [[Big Bad]].
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* ''[[Film/Twenty Twelve|2012]]'' vaguely waves at this, with the [[Critical Research Failure]] of another planet visible from Earth's orbit and Jupiter visible from Saturn, but apart from Woody Harrelson's free-associating [[Conspiracy Theory|conspiracy theorist]], it doesn't come up again.
* In ''[[The Scorpion King]]'', the villain will allegedly become invincible when the Moon is in "the House of Scorpio".
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Two alignments of the seven planets play a major role in the timing of the third book of the ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' series.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Syzygy". An alignment of Mercury, Mars and Uranus may have something to do with several murder cases in a small town.
* The ''[[MacGyver]]'' story ''Lost Treasure of Atlantis'' features this. For some reason, the planets are visible, to the point where they would actually collide with each other.
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* ''[[Star Fleet]]'' has all the planets in Earth's solar system aligning at the end of the year 2999 for the dawn of a new millenium.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* It has been suggested that the star which guided the Wise Men to [[Jesus]]' manger was not actually a star, but a particular astronomical alignment.▼
== [[Tabletop
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' supplement ''Treasure Maps'', adventure "Sign of the Times". [[Vicious Cycle|Every 700 years]] during a specific astrological conjunction of planets, moons and stars the king of a desert empire will fall ill and die, and his son will take his place. The new king will become evil and cruel, raising taxes and invading other countries. Natural disasters (famine, pestilence and drought) will ravage the land.
* In ''[[Rifts]]'', [[Apocalypse How|The Great Cataclysm]] occurring during (and in part because of) a rare conjunction of the planets. It caused the [[Ley Line]]s to surge with power. This combined with a couple other factors upset the Earth's magical balance, causing [[After the End|The Coming of the Rifts]].
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''Hair'' references the trope during the song "Aquarius": "When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars/then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars"
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The Grand Cross planetary alignment is a major part of the plot of ''[[Persona 2]]: Innocent Sin''. In ''Eternal Punishment'', it's become a minor background element whose only significance is that absolutely nothing of note happened during it... {{spoiler|acting as an absolute confirmation that the events of the prior game never came to pass in this timeline.}}
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
* The planets look like they are lining up in ''[[Camp Camp]]'' season 4 episode 5. It also one that is much larger, so that is presumably the moon. A big issue though is they are lining up in a line that looks vertical from the surface of the earth. Which is weird because the planets are mostly in the same plane, so they should probably be in front and behind each other, not vertically stacked. They don't show all 7 other known solar system planets, but that is to be expected.▼
▲== Web Animation ==
▲The planets look like they are lining up in ''[[Camp Camp]]'' season 4 episode 5. It also one that is much larger, so that is presumably the moon. A big issue though is they are lining up in a line that looks vertical from the surface of the earth. Which is weird because the planets are mostly in the same plane, so they should probably be in front and behind each other, not vertically stacked. They don't show all 7 other known solar system planets, but that is to be expected.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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{{quote|'''Optimus Prime:''' And it was written in the Covenant of Primus that when the forty-seven spheres align, a perpetual conflict will culminate upon a world forged from chaos; and the weak shall perish in the shadow of a rising darkness.}}
** Somewhat [[Justified Trope|justified]] (or [[Hand Wave]]d, [[Your Mileage May Vary|depending on your point of view]]) by the fact that gravitational forces from those planets were somehow acting on [[Eldritch Abomination|Unicron]], causing him to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|wake up]].
▲* It has been suggested that the star which guided the Wise Men to [[Jesus]]' manger was not actually a star, but a particular astronomical alignment.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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