3I/ATLAS and the Beginning of the End of the World
How an Interstellar Comet and a Furious Sun Conspired to End One Age and Begin Another
For decades, modern cinema has told us what the end of the world would look like in films such as Deep Impact and Armageddon, or the more recent, Don’t Look Up. It’s always roughly the same story: a rogue comet hurtling toward Earth, scientists screaming, world leaders praying, a final countdown to obliteration, then KABOOM.
Then there are the alien films - Independence Day, Close Encounters, Arrival - the sky splitting open, the mothership descending, humanity holding its breath. They promise contact or catastrophe, invasion or salvation. Either way, something comes from above, and everything changes below.
Both genres seem to be converging in real life right now as, far above our heads, an interstellar comet - 3I/ATLAS - is swinging around the Sun. A visitor from another solar system, its chemical makeup has had astronomers baffled, questioning exactly what it is, even moreso when it approached the Sun last week and our brightest star began hurling colossal flares of plasma towards it, eruptions of light and magnetism so fierce they rattled Earth’s atmosphere. Were these defensive moves on the part of the Sun, or some kind of cosmic conversation between two celestial bodies?
Is this the moment the mothership reveals itself and we all get fried?
Is this our own Close Encounter or Deep Impact?
The end we’ve been warned about?
Or is this something stranger - something deeper?
This week, on October 29, 3I/ATLAS will reach perihelion, its closest pass to the Sun, and no one knows exactly what will happen when this visitor from another star meets the heart of ours.
While scientists are baffled, the stars, it seem, are not. They know exactly what’s going on, and spell it out quite plainly:
Yes, you’re right - this is the end of the world, but maybe not quite as you’d expect….
This writing leans on the wisdom of planetary pattern recognition. If you’d like to know more - and why I don’t believe in astrology - read all about it HERE
The Interstellar Visitor Approaches
On 7 May 2025, as NASA’s TESS spacecraft scanned distant stars in search of new worlds, it unknowingly caught the first faint streak of a traveler entering our Solar System - a visitor from another star, slipping quietly into view.
For weeks, no one noticed. It was just a ghostly line of light against the black, forgotten until 1 July, when NASA’s ATLAS survey spotted a wandering speck moving strangely through the dark. At first, astronomers thought it was a glitch, until the data confirmed it was something real, something inbound, and something from somewhere else entirely. It was moving too fast, on a hyperbolic trajectory - a telltale signature of an interstellar visitor. The object was given a name: 3I/ATLAS - the third known traveler ever to enter our solar system from another star.
The first images of our cosmic guest showed a blurred nucleus with a faint tail, jets of vapor where there should be ice, heat where there should be silence, and it was immense - some say the size of Manhattan.
Wrapped in a sheath of charged gas and heavy metals, it showed a carbon-dioxide output eight times that of water - an inversion of normal comet chemistry - while its metallic-nickel emissions suggested something almost engineered. It was a chemical outsider in a solar system that’s never seen its kind before.
Most unusually, this comet wasn’t orbiting the Sun, as most do; it was cutting straight through our Solar System like a blade, slicing in from a direction beyond the constellation Lyra, weaving neatly through the planets, careful not to be knocked off course, and every week it grew brighter, stranger, and more talkative. It shed water long before it should have, as if it were alive in the cold, and it bled light like it had a secret to tell, with two luminous points at the comet’s leading edge - headlights, almost - holding steady even as the nucleus tumbled.
As it moved inward, its path began to look deliberate - threading neatly through planetary zones, dipping close enough to sample gravitational fields without being captured by any, as if it were taking a flyby tour of the Solar System.
No one could explain the precision. The odds of a natural interstellar object navigating this cleanly are astronomical in the literal sense - less likely than winning the cosmic lottery twice.
Dancing with the Sun
As it hurtled toward the Sun, 3I/ATLAS began spraying out water vapor like a ruptured fire hose, its coma swelling, its metallic signature sharpening. Some astrophysicists quietly admitted that it looked “constructed” - physics shouldn’t produce something this organized.
By October 14, the comet drew near the Sun and a series of solar flares erupted in sequence. The sky lit up like a live-wire, each eruption hurling charged particles into the solar wind. Several massive plumes of magnetized plasma were sent like messages made of light and heat across the void toward Earth, where they were received as bright auroras in the sky and jitters in our satellites and electrical grids. And it didn’t just zap our electronics - we felt it in our bodies too. If you’ve felt strangely exhausted this month, or unable to sleep, or laden with random headaches or pains you can’t explain, that’s your body responding to the intensified solar energy. When the Sun speaks, all living things listen.
Amidst the flurry of solar flares, our interstellar guest stepped out of our view last week, swallowed by light as it travelled behind the Sun. Right now, this cosmic traveller is nearer to us than ever while being entirely out of sight, burning unseen, beyond the veil on the other side of the Sun.
Some have speculated that the comet is up to something while out of our view, that the intense solar heat may unleash a new chemistry, perhaps deploy probes or drones, or release light and energy codes. Some say it’s aliens. Some say it’s a mothership. Others say it’s just a magnificent billion year old rock, older than Earth itself, that just happens to be passing through, to remind us there’s more out there than we know.
An Explosive Conjunction
Astronomers have been on tenterhooks awaiting the precise moment of conjunction when our flaming star and this alien wanderer would finally meet exactly. Would the Sun burn it to dust, transform it, or receive something from it - data, dust, code, communion?
Nobody knew until October 21, when 3I/ATLAS became exactly conjunct with the Sun, and a colossal coronal mass ejection erupted - a full-halo blast aimed from the far side of the Sun toward exactly where the comet was passing. Every day after that for three days, huge CME’s were hurled from the Sun in the direction of the comet, but even that intense solar fury could not erase it. The Sun roared, yet the wanderer endured. Even under that bombardment, 3I/ATLAS has stayed intact - coronagraph images show a faint but steady point still moving right on course toward its October 29 perihelion.
While vanished behind the Sun, a cosmic conversation in light and plasma has been taking place that we’re only just beginning to translate.
Perihelion: The Fire Passage
As 3I/ATLAS reaches perihelion this week - its closest approach to the Sun - it enters the most intense corridor of its passage through our Solar System, whilst still hidden from our view.
In physical terms, scientists expect plasma turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and possibly a surge in solar activity as the object dives through the inner heliosphere.
In human terms, that may register as increased restlessness, vivid dreams, insomnia, surges of inspiration, or emotional release - the nervous system mirroring the solar wind.
In geological term, the intensified solar activity is expected to trigger storms and seismic activity.
In spiritual and metaphysical terms, all signs point to 3I/ATLAS being far more than just a visiting space rock that’s come to dance with our Sun. At perihelion, it forms a rare cardinal grand cross - a four-way tension between Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.
In Libra, conjunct Venus, it calls for balance and justice. Squaring Jupiter in Cancer expands empathy, urging us to outgrow victimhood. Opposite Chiron and Eris in Aries, it exposes the wound of individuality and the chaos of suppressed truth. The missing Capricorn leg signals collapsing hierarchies and systems that no longer serve integrity.
This is a cosmic crossroads - an energetic initiation dismantling separation and birthing coherence where love, truth, and power align.
Layered over this is 3I/ATLAS’s conjunction with Arcturus, the ancient gateway of higher consciousness. It’s as if our visitor locks onto a cosmic transmitter, beaming light codes through the heart of Libra. Venus lends grace, Jupiter expands care, and Uranus opposing Mercury sparks revelation - the collective mind struck by lightning.
And below, Earth mirrors the awakening. On October 29, as 3I/ATLAS reaches perihelion, Mercury opposes Uranus and trines Neptune, igniting insight and dissolving boundaries between reason and revelation, while Mars trine Saturn grounds the surge into purpose. The First-Quarter Moon in Aquarius fuels social reform under an electric sky. Lightning above, awakening below - the solar system synchronized in one act of remembrance.
Together, these alignments turn tension into awakening, transforming the grand cross from crisis to initiation, the moment our solar system remembers its higher design. The Sun and this interstellar visitor are performing a ritual of transmission - our brightest star meeting a messenger from another realm come to seed a higher frequency of inclusion and balance in this one.
In other words, this is the comet that heralds the end of one world and the beginning of another.
The Gathering of Messengers
As 3I/ATLAS moves towards perihelion behind the Sun, it’s not alone.
Right now, the skies are crowded with visitors - a whole congregation of comets are lighting up the dark: green-glowing C/2025 R2 (SWAN), the bright and beautiful C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), the long-period C/2025 L1 (ATLAS), and others trailing their own secrets through the night. A celestial parliament has gathered, each tail a torch in the dark, as if the universe itself has convened above us to witness a momentous transition.
For millennia, the appearance of a single comet in the night sky always signaled the fall of kings and the turning of ages. But when many appear together - some arriving from beyond the solar veil amid a sky so charged with destiny - the crown no longer slips from one head alone. It topples from them all, as humanity rises to reclaim its true throne: remembrance.
This sudden gathering of wanderers from the deep coincides with a series of major cosmic transits - some we’ve never seen before in human history, that all seem to be ushering us towards the beginning of a new age.
As the comets gathered and 3I/ATLAS vanished behind the Sun, Pluto stationed direct in Aquarius - the sign it will carve through for the next twenty years, testing systems for integrity and toppling leaders who’ve forgotten who they serve. Every 248 years, when Pluto returns to Aquarius, thrones collapse, empires crumble, and humanity rewrites its contract with power. It’s as if these celestial rebels arrived to mark the moment - to announce that power itself is being recalled, redistributed, and rewritten.
By the time 3I/ATLAS re-emerges in November, the outer planets will hover on the edges of their signs, as if the cosmos itself is holding its breath. Then, as it makes its closest pass to Earth in December, truth will rise, secrets will spill, and everything false will quake in the light.
In January, the inner planets will all cross Pluto in Aquarius, activating the future in one relentless wave, and then February brings a conjunction never seen before in human history when Saturn joins Neptune at 0° Aries - the Genesis Portal.
Saturn is structure, Neptune is the dream, and Aries is ignition - together, they’re like a cosmic reset button where structure meets spirit, systems meet dreams, and endings meet beginnings. The narrative of the decade flips. This transits hits the charts of nations and world leaders like an earthquake - nothing false makes it past this point.
February is the reality reset. The beginning of endings - and the ending of beginnings - as one age sinks into sunset and another rises like dawn.
The Awakening
These comets aren’t only here to escort an old world to its end - they’ve come to guide each of us through our own becoming.
You might have felt it lately: the unnameable grief, the edge of despair that doesn’t seem tied to anything specific, the sleeplessness, the ache, the hollow sense that something vast is ending. You’re not imagining it. Something is ending, just not the way we were taught to expect.
This isn’t Deep Impact. The Earth isn’t about to explode - it’s about to evolve. The apocalypse isn’t a physical fireball; it’s an emotional one. The world as we knew it - our systems, our illusions, our sense of who we are - is burning away from the inside out.
This ending isn’t destruction, it’s recalibration. The Sun’s flares, the quakes beneath our feet, the sudden exhaustion and waves of feeling - it’s all part of the same transmission. The intensified light that bombards the planet is boring through our bodies, dredging up the old emotions, the ancient griefs, the collective fear that kept us small. It’s upgrading the circuitry of the human heart.
We are traversing a spiritual cataclysm - not of annihilation, but of awakening. The apocalypse, it turns out, is simply the moment humanity comes into coherence: when emotion, mind, and matter finally tune to the same frequency.
The stars whisper that this is where we’re heading - toward a planetary resonance strong enough to be heard across the cosmos. By the 2050s, Earth will enter harmonic alignment - not a visitation, but a reunion, where the universe turns its head and recognises us as kin. We’re on our way there now, hitting real ignition when Neptune crosses into Aries and joins Saturn in February 2026 - the fusion of spirit and matter, the ignition of the new circuitry and the beginning of a collective awakening as dreamers catch fire and the quiet ones remember their voice.
Over the next thirty years, Uranus moving through Gemini and into Cancer, Pluto moving through Aquarius and into Pisces will all orchestrate the rewiring - the heart becoming the antenna, emotion the new diplomacy, care the new law. Humanity will stop asking if we’re alone and start remembering that we never were. The comets here now mark the beginning of that journey - a thirty-year ascent into coherence, an invitation to remember who we are and take our place among the stars.
But we can’t reach coherence while dragging old baggage. We can’t speak to the stars if we can’t hear our own hearts. That’s why every wound is surfacing for healing right now. That’s why you can’t sleep, or can’t stay awake. That’s why you burst into tears for no reason, want to throw plates, or collapse into silence.
The world isn’t descending into darkness - it’s being flooded with light. Every hidden corner, personal and collective, is being illuminated. On the world stage, that light exposes government rot and the buried secrets of power - the corruption, the Epstein files, the systems built on silence. In our own lives, it shines on the unresolved griefs: the friend we can’t forgive, the loss we never made peace with, the dream we still mourn, the ones we never realised.
All of that has now reached a dead end, because the world those dreams were born in - and the place those wounds were made - has already gone offline. We’re in the limbo now, the liminal space between worlds. That’s why so many of us can’t find our footing. Why nothing feels right, why the old ways don’t work, why the future still feels out of reach. It’s not that we’ve failed - it’s that we’ve unplugged.
The old system has shut down. The new one is waiting to come online.
As we move through this blank space between worlds, the Sun shines its relentless spotlight on all that cannot make the jump - not to punish, but to purify. It asks us to face what’s been hidden, to feel what we’ve avoided, and to hold it to the fire until only truth remains.
Because truth is the only frequency that can rise to meet the new world.
The Heart of the New World
If you feel like everything is falling apart right now, that’s alright - because it is. The collapse we are living through is not a mistake; it’s the release. The world built on fear, competition, and control is dissolving so something truer can rise. Our task isn’t to hold it up but to let it fall - with grace, with awareness, with faith that what’s real can’t be destroyed.
Investing in the collapsing world is futile. It was never meant to last. What’s rising now is subtler - a frequency, a hum beneath the noise. That’s what we must tune to: not the chaos of what’s breaking, but the current of what’s being born.
Anchor in your heart. That’s where the signal of the new world is strongest. The mind will scramble for meaning, but the heart already knows the code. In every heartbeat, the new world is announcing itself - steady, luminous, alive.
Tune there. Stay there. That’s where the frequency of the future is found.
This doesn’t mean we turn away from reality or ignore the suffering around us. We can witness the world without being swallowed by its dying drama. We can stand present to the collapse without collapsing ourselves.
When fear rises, when the ground feels uncertain, step outside and look up. Remember the journey of 3I/ATLAS - crossing galaxies to be here now, dancing with our Sun, transmitting the same energy that stirs our own evolution. We are not alone. We are not lost. We are not doomed. We are becoming.
The stars are singing in the heavens - a choir gathering to herald the dawn of a new age. We are the bridge between worlds, the ones who chose to be here for this precise moment in human history, to shepherd Earth and all her beings through the great transition.
We are not cursed to walk the Earth at this time, but deeply blessed to stand here - hearts anchored, eyes open - welcoming the dawn of a new world.
The sky isn’t warning us; it’s welcoming us. As these comets traverse the heavens, something ancient is stirring - not just above us, but within us.
Let yourself remember.
Let yourself receive.
3I/ATLAS hasn’t come to end the world, but to remind us how to begin it again.
My intention in my writing is to lessen the climate of fear around world events by offering clarity and cosmic context for what’s unfolding; to bring context to the chaos. I believe our highest calling right now is to anchor in the vibration of love & truth and call in a more beautiful world, and to do that, we must lean out of fear. I hope you read this with an open, uplifted heart.
You know there’s a reason why REM said it’s the end of the world and as we know it and I feel fine… well not everybody was catching on. But I think what they were trying to say is if it was the end of the world as we know it it could at least get a little bit better maybe even more than that.
I want to let you know that you are doing a huge service here with your writing. The calm and steadiness that I feel in your posts is exactly what this moment calls for. I imagine that you are speaking to all the Bridge Builders, helping us to understand timing. I am using your posts to influence my writing themes and translate it into actionable community next steps. Bless you.