Artificial Intelligence, and the Age of the Rising Heart
On Technology, Terror, and the Threshold We Were Always Meant to Cross, and What It Will Take to Walk It Well
Every major leap in human history has arrived wrapped in fear. Through every epoch, at the turn of every age and at every point of evolution, we have met the change with existential terror, seemingly aware that there was no return, and that the only way forward was through the very thing that loomed like a threat.
Here at this hinge point in history, we face yet another evolutionary leap, and Artificial Intelligence has arrived as the new threat - the thing that may destroy the world, if we let it, but that may also revolutionise it entirely, if we can evolve fast enough to wield it wisely.
As we cross this juncture, we ask the same questions that our ancestors asked when faced with new tools that held both the promise and the peril of a burgeoning new age. What if the thing we're so afraid of isn't actually a threat but an invitation? What if this tool isn’t here to replace us, but to reveal something we’ve been avoiding for centuries? What if AI has not arrived as our replacement, but as our reckoning? Not here to overthrow us, but to unseat something in us that was never meant to rule?
Right now, the stars are shifting in ways not seen in recorded history, telling a story the fearful mind doesn’t like to hear: the world is being rebuilt from the inside out. The Age of the Mind is ending. The Age of the Heart is being born. As we stand at the threshold, might AI be the uncomfortable catalyst pushing us across the bridge?
This is not a defense of AI, nor is it a warning against it either. It's an invitation to step back from the panic, settle into something deeper, and ask a different question entirely:
What is this unprecedented moment in history actually asking of us?
If the rise of AI has left you unsettled - if something in your chest tightens when you think about what’s coming - you’re not alone. That fear is real, and it’s not wrong, but it also might not be the whole story. Let's look at the whole picture - on the ground and in the sky - and find a way through the fog toward what lies ahead.
The mind says brace yourself.
The heart says: let's begin.
It's time to stop running from the future and start meeting it.
Let's cross the bridge, together.
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
Portions of this piece appeared in February 1 2026 Weekly Wrap-Up
What follows is best read with both an open mind and a steady heart. Some of it may stir discomfort - that’s okay. Stay with it. This isn’t a moment that calls for panic, but for presence. You don’t have to agree with every word - just let your heart stay open as the words pass through.
Facing our Fears Through the Ages
It is our human habit to meet almost every uncomfortable change from the place of fear. Throughout history, as each new era dawned - as we lurched from evolution to evolution - a new tool always arrived to propel us forward, and each time we balked at it with fear.
When the printing press arrived in the 1400’s, authorities panicked. Mass literacy, they warned, would lead to chaos and heresy, and they weren’t entirely wrong. The upheaval was real, but so was science, education, and democracy, all made possible through this powerful new tool.
When trains arrived in the early 19th Century, doctors warned that traveling faster than 30 miles per hour would cause insanity and organ failure, but instead, we got migration, commerce, and cultural exchange on a scale never seen before.
When electricity appeared in the late 1800’s, people called it dangerous sorcery. Entire professions vanished - the candlestick makers and lamplighters were no more - but night became usable, cities grew, hospitals functioned after dark, and entire categories of invention became possible because of it, like refrigerators, ovens, televisions, computers, and more.
When cars hit the streets at the turn of the last century, the fear was, “What will happen to all the horses?” But civilization didn’t end - it evolved, solving some problems and creating new ones.
When we split the atom in the 1930’s, the fear was existential, and for good reason, yet from that same knowledge came nuclear medicine, energy, and a deeper understanding of physics.
When television boomed in the 1950’s, we were told it would destroy reading and family life. Books and families survived and evolved - what really changed was how we shared stories and information.
Throughout history, every time humanity approached a new threshold, a new tool appeared alongside it to help us cross over. And every time, the mind screamed: this will destroy us. Our task was never to eliminate the tool, but to learn how to live with it wisely - using a mix of laws, ethics, and personal restraint.
We are living through another one of those threshold moments now, here at the turning of the age, and right on cue, the same voices are telling us to be afraid. That jobs will vanish. That civilization is doomed. And like every evolution before it, those voices are not entirely wrong - but they are not entirely right either, because the tool being presented to us at this threshold is different.
The printing press amplified ideas.
Electricity amplified activity.
Cars amplified movement.
Nuclear science amplified power.
Television amplified influence.
But now, Artificial Intelligence amplifies cognition.
For the first time, the tool we are being handed touches the one domain humans believed was always uniquely ours: the mind. All the other tools at all the other thresholds expanded what the mind could do - this one threatens to outrun it entirely. It does not just help us move faster or build bigger - it actually thinks. And in a world that has placed the mind on a throne for centuries, it’s no wonder this feels threatening.
We’re trying to process the possible replacement of the mind through the mind itself. Our mind is facing the reality of the end of its own age of dominance.
No wonder it’s freaking out.
Afraid of Our Own Minds
Perhaps we’re not afraid of AI because of what it can do, but because of what we know we are capable of doing with it.
AI doesn’t scare us because it’s powerful, but because we don’t fully trust ourselves with its power - it can amplify the human mind without limits, and deep down, we know the mind works best when reined in. Left unchecked, the mind becomes obsessed with control, gripped by fear, and prone to domination. It knows its own fragility and its inherent need to keep itself safe, so when it imagines itself unbound, all it can foresee is unbounded fear.
The problem is not this new tool, but how wildly unprepared we are to use it wisely. History shows us again and again: the tool always arrives before we are ready, and we become ready only by reckoning with its power.
When we discovered nuclear power, we unlocked the capacity to destroy ourselves, but so far, the potential for that destruction has forced us to choose restraint. Once we gained the power to end ourselves, we were forced into a new kind of maturity. Now we hold the power of ultimate destruction in our hands, it becomes our choice to never use it. When the ceiling on our capacity is gone, we must rein ourselves in, or perish.
AI offers a similar evolutionary moment. We built AI in a world of speed, fear, and extraction, but this tool doesn’t belong to that world. It arrived just in time to nudge us across the bridge, not into dystopia - unless we choose it - but into the only world where it can be safely wielded, one led not by the mind but by something deeper.
We are standing at the end of an age, about to enter a new one, and this new technology may be the very thing calling us across the chasm, in the same way other technologies did before it. We are not ready for it, but we must become ready for it, and in doing so we become equipped to inherit a new world.
The Rising Heart Written in the Sky
The rise of a new world (and the end of the old one) is writ large right now across the sky. Astrologers have been watching 2026 approach for decades because the planetary cycles that define eras are doing something extraordinarily rare this year - three outer planets (the ones that shape entire generations and civilisations) are shifting into positions that have never overlapped like this in recorded history. Neptune is gliding through Aries, Pluto is moving through Aquarius and soon Uranus will also enter Gemini.
This is not a small sky change, but an era change.
Pluto governs power, systems, and the architecture of civilisation. Aquarius governs networks, technology, and collective intelligence. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius (250 years ago), the world saw revolutions that shifted power from monarchies to the people. Pluto in this sign describes civilisation rewrites.
Uranus governs disruption, innovation, and sudden leaps. Gemini governs the mind, communication, and information exchange. The last time Uranus was in Gemini (80 years ago during the 1940s), we saw the birth of early computing, codebreaking, radar, and the foundations of modern information theory. Uranus in Gemini marks a radical shift in how minds process and share information.
Neptune governs the spiritual tone of an era. Aries governs identity, action, and the emergence of the self. Neptune in Aries dissolves old identities and forces the birth of new ones. This is not a contemplative transit. It is catalytic. People do not retreat under this sky. They say, I cannot live this way anymore.
Put together, the sky is describing something unmistakable:
The system is being rebuilt.
The mind is being reoriented.
The self is being redefined.
From 2025 to 2032, Uranus in Gemini brings an explosive phase of mental and informational disruption. From 2032 to 2039, Uranus in Cancer brings that disruption into the home, into care, into emotional life. From 2039 onward, Uranus in Leo ushers in a creative renaissance where expression and innovation move hand in hand.
The stars are telling a story about a decade of disruption on the way to divergence. A mental revolution, followed by a return to care, followed by a creative rebirth.
In other words, the stars are declaring the turning of the age - from mind to heart, from fear to coherence, from survival to remembrance - and that is why so much of what we built from fear, control, and certainty feels unstable right now because the way we have been thinking is reaching its limit.
A new signal is beginning to hum underneath it all.
The Age of the Mind is flickering out.
The Age of the Heart is coming online.
Leaving the Age of the Mind
For centuries in the Age of the Mind, human worth, status, and survival were tied to thinking, analysing, producing, managing, deciding, but now that a machine can do large parts of that faster and cheaper - now that a new world is rising asking for something new to lead - the mind senses it’s own peril and it begins to panic.
How will I earn my right to exist?
How will I know what’s real?
What am I, if thinking isn’t uniquely mine?
What we’re witnessing is not a tech crisis, but an ego crisis.
The mind has long believed it runs the show and that it is the pinnacle of human evolution, but now, faced with something that might outpace it, it’s flailing - not because it’s being destroyed, but because it’s being unseated.
The mind was never meant to be our crowning glory. It’s a brilliant instrument, but it is not the source of our deepest wisdom. That has always lived deeper, in the eternal part of us that exists beyond this body and mind.
The truth is, we are not our mind, or even our body - not really, deep down. These are vessels - our sacred containers - through which our soul perceives this world. The mind and body is the avatar. The soul is the player. And to navigate what comes next, as we leave the Age of the Mind, we must root back into the only guidance system that knows how to walk this path without fear: the heart.
The rise of AI is revealing how unsustainable mind-led living has become. A tool this powerful, wielded by a fearful, controlling mind, is catastrophic. And for the first time in history, we are being shown - not symbolically, but practically - that the way we’ve been thinking cannot safely hold what we are now creating. It cannot carry us to where we are going.
If we continue from the mind, we will find only folly.
The only safe passage forward is through the wisdom of the heart.
Heart-Led Tools and the Birth of Spiritual Tech
When viewed through the lens of the sky, perhaps AI has not arrived to destroy us, but to dismantle the dying world of the mind - to jolt us out of our heads and into our hearts, demanding that we evolve. Here at the end of the Age of the Mind, we face a tool so vast, so infinite in its reach, that it can only be safely nurtured from the heart.
If we wield it from the mind, it becomes a weapon.
If we meet it from the heart, it has the potential to become a spiritual tool.
This is the nature of the bridge we now stand on. No wonder so many of us feel afraid. In a world still ruled by the mind, AI is deeply dangerous, but to discard the technology entirely is not the answer - wether we like it or not, it’s not going away.
We can push against it, rail against it, fight and yell and scream about it, but like electricity or social media or television that came before it, this new technology is not going anywhere. We cannot wish or will it away - we have to find a way to meet it, anchored in our heart and soul, and learn how to exist with it from there.
But what do we do when this most powerful tool is being shepherded by tech-bro billionaires - many of whom we rightly blame for the collapse we’re now living through? And how do we address the very real moral concerns AI raises? It steamrolls copyright without a care. It consumes staggering amounts of energy. It gulps water by the million-liter just to keep itself cool. If left unchecked, this technology won’t just evolve - it’ll metastasize.
The criticisms of AI are valid and should not be waved away. It’s energy-hungry, water-intensive, and largely controlled by men who’ve never once designed for planetary balance. And yet, the uncomfortable truth is that it’s not the only system guzzling resources at a catastrophic scale. So is the meat industry, which still uses orders of magnitude more water and energy than AI ever has. If we’re going to talk about collapse, we need to consult the full ledger. The real question isn’t whether AI uses too much - it’s whether we’ll use it to dismantle or reinforce the systems that already consume too much. That’s the deeper reckoning this moment in human history invites. Not just a tech reckoning, but an ethical one.
And this is where we would do well to remember our place in the cosmic order. We’ve come to believe it’s up to us to force things into being, or to stop things from happening - that if we’re not doing, controlling, fixing, then nothing will unfold as it should. But that’s not how life works. We are not holding the tides in place. We’re not fuelling the sun. We’re not manually opening flowers in spring.
The cosmos does not ask for our control. It simply moves, and we respond. And right now, the stars are clear: the frequency is changing, ready or not.
The energy of the heart - long buried, long exiled - is rising as the fear frequency of the mind flickers out. This isn’t metaphor - it’s the energetic shift that underpins the next age, and all we are asked to do right now is to ride the wave, not resist it.
Those who try to use the tools of this new age to dominate, extract, or deceive will steadily find themselves out of tune with what’s coming. That old vibration will not hold, because the Age of the Heart is not a poetic ideal, but a functional requirement.
Our task is not to fear what’s rising, but to meet it from the place of coherence. Not to hand our humanity over to the machine, but to allow our humanity to expand by wielding the new tools of this new age from the soul.
The Economy of the New Earth
AI will not bring about the heart-led world, but it’s existence may help make it possible, if we respond to it wisely.
Our fear tells us this new tool will replace us - render us obsolete, overthrow us, enslave us and subdue us. We’ll all lose our jobs, we’re told, and without jobs, we’ll be penniless, and without money we will be destitute and unable to live. That’s the mind spiralling into a fear-death-loop right there, and the thoughts are not wrong, there’s just more to the picture that the mind has trouble taking in.
If we take a moment to breathe, to step back and settle our mind, and allow our heart to rise, we may be able to look at this without fear from a different perspective. For the first time in history, we have created a tool that can relieve us of massive mind-labour: the paperwork, the bureaucracy, the logistical grind that has dominated civilization for centuries. And when that is removed, what remains are the domains machines cannot enter - care, presence, connection, community, the Earth and each other.
That’s what AI reveals - not its own power, but ours. The stars are not warning us that dystopian technology is coming. They are showing us that technology and the heart are rising together, heralding the birth of spiritual tech. The version of it we’re looking at now, run by the tech bros with no guardrails, reads as incredibly disturbing, but it’s not necessarily the tool that’s the problem, it’s how it’s being used and who’s at the helm. Electricity in the hands of madmen would be pretty terrifying too.
AI itself is not inherently good or bad. Like most of our modern tools, it is an amplifier.
Plug it into a fear-based system, and it scales fear.
Plug it into a profit-only system, and it scales extraction.
Plug it into a surveillance system, and it scales control.
But plug it into a heart-led system, and it could scale care, time, creativity, and connection. The machine doesn’t change - the values do.
Right now, we are trying to run next-era technology on last-era consciousness and that’s why it feels so wrong. This is not a software problem, but a soul problem, and we can only solve it through the heart.
Like it or not, AI is about to become the most productive asset class in human history, and if that productivity flows to a handful of corporations, it will absolutely make life worse for most people. Jobs will vanish. Inequality will deepen. Suffering will rise. That’s the logic of the Age of the Mind, but that logic is collapsing as that age is ending.
As we step into a new age and a new frequency, we are being called to reconsider how we engage with the tools at our disposal. In a heart-led world, tools like AI would be treated as shared resources. Like oil in Alaska, where all citizens receive a dividend, AI could generate abundance not for the few, but for all, if we lead with our hearts and pass laws to match - not as charity or welfare, but as a return on our shared inheritance: consciousness itself.
In a world led by the heart, a tool like AI might not just pave a path to abundance, but also gift us something even more radical: time. Time we’ve never been allowed to have. Time to tend to the inner world we’ve kept on mute. Time to finally stop running.
Imagine what might become possible if we no longer had to scramble to prove our worth, feed our families, or keep up with a system built on burnout. Imagine if our needs were met and the tasks were taken care of, and we could slow down long enough to actually feel - to process generations of trauma we’ve inherited and ignored, to metabolize the grief and fear that live in our cells, to begin healing not just ourselves, but the lineages we carry.
Time to care for the land, not just as a resource, but as a living teacher. Time to walk barefoot, to grow food, to listen to the wisdom of water, to repair the relationship with the earth we’ve spent centuries trying to dominate. Time to raise our children with presence. Time to sit in circles, not scroll timelines. Time to rest. To remember. To return.
This is not a fantasy. This is what becomes possible when we use the tools at our disposal to step back from ruling with the mind, and return to the sacred work of the heart.
That is the economy of the new Earth - coherence.
And that is how the world begins again.
Rise, and Unsubscribe
But in order for that new world to take hold, we must first unsubscribe from the old one. Right now, some of the most powerful technologies on Earth are being used in ways that feel extractive rather than humane - not because the tools themselves are predatory, but because the hands guiding them still operate from that old world way of thinking, and that’s becoming harder to tolerate as we enter the Age of the Heart.
We don’t need to fear the tool, but we must demand better from the hands that hold it.
In the United States, escalating ICE enforcement is being enabled by corporations that provide the data, infrastructure, and logistics to make it possible. Technology is being used on people, rather than for people, and many are starting to realise that outrage won’t change this - only economics will.
Professor Scott Galloway has proposed something he calls “Resist & Unsubscribe.” A coordinated, temporary pullback from discretionary spending aimed at the companies where economic and political power is most concentrated - particularly in tech and AI. These organisations don’t respond to anger - they bend only to financial pressure.
The United States is a $30 trillion economy driven largely by consumer spending. When consumers pause, markets notice. When markets notice, decisions change.
This isn’t about rejecting technology. It’s about reminding the companies shaping our world that participation is no longer automatic. It has to be earned.
What’s powerful here is not the resistance - it’s the redirection. Because resistance still centers the thing we’re pushing against. What matters more is where we choose to place our energy instead. So perhaps it’s not just “resist and unsubscribe,” but RISE and subscribe to a future led by coherence, compassion, and heart-aligned leadership.
A temporary economic strike isn’t a protest. It’s a signal that people are learning how to steer. That our subscriptions - financial and otherwise - are a form of consent, and that consent can be withdrawn.
The Resist & Unsubscribe website provides a list with links of all the subscription-driven consumer tech companies that have outsized influence over the national economy and the levers of power - CLICK HERE to find out more. I spent today unsubscribing from a number of services. You might consider doing the same. This is not an abandonment of technology - it’s our way of saying we are no longer willing to accept it being led without heart.
As we walk the bridge between worlds and cross from one age into the next, this is how we affect change: by reminding those who misuse their power that we care about the way they use it. Not through dominance, but through coherence. Not by fighting the old world, but by quietly stepping into the new one.
Forward, Without Fear
As always happens, the arrival of these new technological tools is demanding we become ready to use them, and as humans - wired for survival - if the only way to survive the tool we now wield is to lead from our heart, then that is what we must choose to do next. Perhaps our very first step is to set down these tools for a time, until those at the helm are ready to steer with their heart. Unlimited power is now in our hands and we must wield it with wisdom, or perish.
None of this is written as a defence or endorsement of AI, nor is it to say AI is bad, but rather it is an invitation to consider how we might meet this moment without fear. Because fear keeps us stuck in reaction. When fear is what moves us, we’re always running - chased from one existential threat to another, always gripping, never grounding. Always in the mind, never in the heart.
Somewhere along the line, we have to realise that every time we respond with fear, we are still leading with the mind, and that will not do in the Age of the Heart. If we try to meet this moment with the same fear-based reflexes that built the systems now collapsing, we’ll only recreate what we’re trying to outgrow - faster, louder, and more dangerously automated.
The mind doesn’t know how to navigate this transition. It only knows how to protect. But this isn’t a moment for protection - it’s a moment for evolution.
If you felt fear rise as you read any of this, that’s okay. It’s not wrong to be afraid - in fact, fear is just guidance. The heart knows no fear - it is the mind’s construct, born from its own limits - so when we feel fear rising we know which place we’re anchored in. The feeling we know as fear - that sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach - that’s the heart trying to rise and the mind disallowing it. Fear is essentially a form of heart resistance. Our soul knows no limits, and so it knows no fear. The heart sees further, steadier, truer, and it’s the best place to anchor as we navigate what comes next.
The stars are clear: we have nothing to fear right now, if we view whats unfolding from the place of the heart. The old world is collapsing, yes, but it’s not the end - it’s the clearing. Something new is being born, and the only thing we’re being asked to do is not mistake the wreckage for the future.
If your thoughts are racing right now, if your chest is tight or your jaw is clenched, that’s not a sign you’re broken - it’s just your mind doing exactly what it was trained to do: it’s trying to control the uncontrollable. But this is a moment the mind cannot navigate, so it cannot be solved with thoughts.
Put your hand on your chest, and just breathe slowly. Just ten deep breaths, in and out slowly, is all it takes to feel the deep you that knows. That’s how you drop into the place inside you that doesn’t need to compete with a machine, or win the argument, or outrun the future - the place that’s already connected to what’s coming next.
You don’t need a master plan.
You don’t need to figure it all out.
You just need to root yourself in the part of you that isn’t afraid.
The mind asks, “How will I survive this?”
The heart whispers, “You were made for this.”
A new world is being born.
Let’s not meet it with clenched fists and panicked eyes.
Let’s meet it with steady hearts and open hands, anchored in our soul.
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.
AI is not inherently enslaving or liberating. It amplifies the consciousness of those who wield it.
As for me I am pushing 80, yes a boomer and self proclaimed woo woo weirdo.
I am finding I am spending more and more time exploring Infinite Intelligence as compared to AI. The cognitive process, and my evolving consciousness. It’s fascinating, new thoughts are creating a new reality of me as an energy being, fine tuning to higher frequencies. The knowing I am an extension of Source, the energy that creates worlds.
I am not afraid but excited as a cooperating component to what is unfolding. Your writings resonate with me, stir new possibilities, thank you.