Subject: "If Jupiter and Saturn meet..." quote is from Yeats
From: slab@psych.Stanford.EDU (Stephen LaBerge)
Date: 1991-04-30, 09:34
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I don't think anyone has previously identified the source of 
Wily Wyndom's incantation. It's from one of W. B. Yeats's most 
recondite collections of poems, the "Supernatural Songs."
The complete quote is as follows:

   Conjunctions

   If Jupiter and Saturn meet,
   What a crop of mummy wheat!

   The sword's a cross; thereon He died:
   On breast of Mars the Goddess sighed.

What does it mean? Mere mummery? Or mumbo jumbo?
I'll have to leave the answer to those of you
who can see in the dark...