Pluto & The Demise of American Democracy

From Empire to Identity Crisis: The Plutonian Remaking of the United States

Historically, most empires don’t survive their Pluto return.

Rome’s Pluto return - around 218–220 AD - began the unraveling of the empire’s centralized power and kicked off fifty years of instability and civil war. Spain’s Pluto Return in late 1800s marked the loss of its colonial empire. The British Empire’s Pluto Return in the 1950s coincided with the fall of colonialism, the Suez Crisis, and the final death knell of British global dominance.

Pluto returns happen roughly every 248 years when Pluto comes back to the same place it was in the sky at the time of a nation’s birth, and with it comes collapse, reckoning, and regeneration.

America just staggered through its Pluto return in 2022, and the years since have felt like living through a slow-motion demolition. And now Pluto has stepped into Aquarius, shifting from collapsing the old house to swinging a wrecking ball toward whatever stands next.

In just months, we’ve seen a president send the National Guard into Los Angeles and now Washington, and openly eye other blue cities as if they were chess pieces. More than fifty court rulings have been brushed aside, while in Texas, Republicans are redrawing the map to gift him five extra congressional seats before 2026.

Yes, these are human choices, but the tremors are Pluto’s. America’s foundations are cracking, and whether you blame the stars, the system, or the man at the helm, the cosmic bill is coming due.

This is the rupture of everything false; the fire being held to every lie. Pluto doesn’t destroy what’s real, it destroys what’s fake, and what’s being exposed right now isn’t a democracy in peril, but an illusion long past its expiry date.

The Great Texas Map Heist

As Pluto’s appointed messenger and apparent wrecking ball through this transit, President Donald Trump has gone from saber-rattling in blue-state streets to now openly dismantling the very machinery meant to keep democracy breathing - stripping gears, cutting wires, and rigging the controls before the next election can even be run.

At Trump’s behest, the Texas GOP recently tried to sneak a redistricting grenade into the state legislature, aimed straight at the 2026 midterm elections in a plan backed that would hand Republicans five additional congressional seats, cementing minority rule in a state where demographics are shifting rapidly in the opposite direction.

“We’re entitled to five more seats,” Trump declared, raising the ire of half the country. In a dramatic jailbreak, Texas Democrats fled the state and holed up in Chicago, effectively stalling the special legislative session aimed at passing the GOP-favored redistricting plan.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott responded with fury, threatening to remove the absent Democrats from office. Speaker Dustin Burrows hit the absentees with cuts to budgets and their own pay - they now have to collect their pay checks in person. Texas AG Ken Paxton sued 13 absent Democrats to boot them from office, pushing the Texas Supreme Court to approve their forced ouster, and greenlighting civil arrest warrants for the lawmakers who skipped town.

Donald Trump, never one to miss a chance to weaponize federal power, upped the ante by suggesting he may send in the FBI to find the “missing” Democrats. Senator John Cornyn took things a step further, claiming that FBI Director Kash Patel had approved his request to deploy federal agents to track down the Democrats. If true, it would mark the first time in the FBI’s 117-year history that federal law enforcement was weaponized to enforce political compliance in a state-level dispute.

Things got darker when a bomb threat was called in to the hotel where the Democrats were staying, forcing a full evacuation. No device was found and no suspect has been named, but with GOP officials using language like “hunt them down” the threat felt less like a random prank and more like the natural endpoint of escalating rhetoric.

California Governor Gavin Newsom promised to fight fire with fire, and that if Texas moves ahead with its Republican-skewed redistricting, California will strike back by reworking its own congressional map to favor Democrats. “We will nullify what happens in Texas,” he vowed. “We will pick up five seats with the consent of the people.”

In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul called to disband New York’s independent redistricting commission and fight fire with fire there too. “If Republicans are willing to rewrite the rules to give themselves an advantage, they're leaving us no choice,” she said. “I’m tired of fighting with one hand tied behind my back.”

But with the Voting Rights Act on the Supreme Court’s chopping block, Trump trying to manipulate voter data and the census, and state leaders openly trying to arrest their opposition, it’s become abundantly clear that Republicans are not trying to win the next election.

They’re trying to rig and gerrymander it so they don’t have to.

And that’s textbook Pluto return behaviour: the underworld planet doesn’t just topple what’s rotten now, it drags long-buried rot into the daylight. The cracks in America’s democracy aren’t new - they’ve been running through the foundation since the beginning. Pluto’s just ripped up the carpet so we can see them, and one of the biggest cracks is gerrymandering.

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It’s Baked In To The American Pie

The term “gerrymander” dates back to 1812, when Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry approved a salamander-shaped district to help his party win - and it was completely legal. The U.S. Constitution gives states the power to run their own elections, so each state gets to choose how to do redistricting. It was never an unintended loophole - it was baked in as a tool of power from the very beginning.

Gerrymandering is and always has been little more than a cheat code for staying in power even if you lose the popular vote. Even the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that federal courts can’t stop partisan gerrymandering, even if it undermines democracy. Essentially, the highest court in the land said, "Yeah, this is bad. But it's not our problem."

Though the U.S. loves to market itself as the beacon of democracy, when it comes to fair representation, it's always trailed behind much of the rest of the democratic world. No other advanced democracy allows the ruling party to rig electoral maps with this level of impunity. What the U.S. calls “redistricting” would be labeled “election-rigging” anywhere else.

It’s a reminder that the U.S system of “democracy” is not just broken. It was never fully whole to begin with.

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The Tarnished City on the Hill

For at least a century now, American leaders have peddled an idealized empire dressed up as democracy, while enacting policies that - far from enacting the will of the people - glorified violence, deceived the public, punished the vulnerable, and enriched the already powerful.

Truman claimed the atomic bomb saved lives, but what it really did was incinerate 78,000 civilians in Hiroshima to flex on the Soviets. Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex after he helped build it. JFK spoke of civic duty while expanding secret wars and Cold War aggression in a better suit. LBJ fought poverty at home while drafting the poor to die in Vietnam. Nixon’s “I am not a crook” revealed the lie wasn’t new, it was just finally caught on tape.

Reagan’s “shining city” ignored the AIDS crisis, armed Central American death squads, and locked up Black men while the CIA ran cocaine. Bush Sr. talked of a “kinder, gentler nation” while bombing Iraq and burying Iran-Contra. Clinton played the sax while gutting welfare, deregulating Wall Street and fueling mass incarceration. Bush Jr. turned 9/11 into a war-for-oil fever dream wrapped in a flag. Obama sold hope while expanding drone wars, deportations, and surveillance. Trump said he’d drain the swamp, and then just gold-plated it. Biden promised a return to decency, but handed weapons to Israel, greenlit new oil drilling, and helped Wall Street thrive while families sank.

This wasn’t one betrayal - it was a multi-decade stage play. One administration after another feeding us polished lies while power grew darker behind the curtain.

Now with Pluto having returned and settling into Aquarius, the curtain’s gone, and what’s collapsing isn’t democracy - it’s the illusion of it.

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Democracy? What Democracy?

The word democracy isn’t mentioned anywhere in the constitution; not in the preamble, the articles, or the amendments.

That’s because the framers weren’t building a true democracy; they were crafting a constitutional republic, where wealthy land-owning men would vote on behalf of the people, and they were deeply suspicious of any system that handed real power directly to the masses. Many of them saw democracy as a dangerous, uncontrollable force, hence why cheats like '“gerrymandering” were coded into the system, as a lever that could be pulled if things ever got “out of hand”.

Astrologically, the U.S. was never built for true democracy. Its natal chart reveals a system designed for control, not equality - Pluto in Capricorn shows power locked into wealth and institutions, Mercury retrograde in the 8th speaks to a founding myth riddled with hidden agendas, and Saturn in Libra legalizes injustice under the guise of order. Even Uranus in Gemini reflects the fractured, state-by-state chaos baked into how elections are run.

What we have been protecting all this time has never been a functioning democracy, but a fragile myth dressed up in flags and slogans; a story that our nation’s ideals are equality, freedom, fairness, truth and justice that’s never actually been true.

A society where every voice is heard, every vote matters, and the will of the people shapes the future is a dream that’s worth fighting for, but it’s never been the United States. Not really.

If America had ever been the great democracy it has long professed itself to be, no administration would ever have been able to do what Trump’s has done in just six months. As Pluto’s puppet, he isn’t so much dismantling democracy as he is peeling back the veneer, exposing the lie we bought into, and the bill now coming due for our blind faith in it.

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What Comes Next for America?

If history holds true, the years immediately after a Pluto return aren’t calm seas - they’re the grinding gears of a system trying to remake itself.

For the U.S., 2025–2028 is the demolition phase: walls coming down, power structures collapsing under their own weight, and the myth of stability stripped bare.

By the early 2030s, the U.S. won’t look or feel like the America we grew up with, and really, that’s the point.

Pluto in Aquarius (for the next 20 years) signals a long re-engineering of the country’s identity around technology, community power, and collective survival. It’s the same placement that birthed the American Revolution, but this time, the revolution will be internal.

Neptune’s move into Aries (for the next decade or so) will ignite a new vision of national purpose, and also stoke waves of idealism, disillusionment, and moral battles over what “freedom” really means.

Uranus in Gemini (til the mid 2030’s) will rip through the information sphere, turning media, education, and communication inside out. Expect revolutions in knowledge-sharing and truth-telling that permanently change the way Americans understand their own history and future.

Under these skies, old hierarchies will fracture, and new networks of governance, economy, and culture will rise from the rubble. It won’t be quick or clean, but it will be for the best….eventually.

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America 2.0

The U.S. is moving from the age of empire into an age of networks; less top-down control, more distributed power. That doesn’t mean smooth sailing; it means decades of experimentation, cultural clashes, and trial-and-error governance.

By the late 2030s, as Uranus settles into Cancer and Pluto approaches Pisces, the country will be in the early stages of a new national story - one less about dominating the world and more about surviving in it, together.

So, if you’re reading this because you want to know if things get better…..well, if by “better” you mean more truthful, more decentralized, and more aligned with reality, then that’s a solid yes.

But if you’re asking if things will go back to the way they were before Trump, then that’s a hard no. There will be no return to the old myths.

America’s future isn’t about restoration.

It’s about reinvention.

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What becomes of MAGA and Trumpworld?

Yes, Trump and his acolytes. Do they become a permanent feature of American life? Will they be successful in rigging the game ahead of the 2026 midterm elections? Will the Team MAGA hold the House and the Senate, or will Democrats be able to win back control to keep a check and balance on Trump?

And what about 2028? Who wins the White House in the next presidential election? And will an election even take place?

I know these are the questions everyone wants the answers to (my inbox is full with these kinds of queries!), so I’ve read Trump’s chart for both 2026 and 2028 and the story they tell is revealing. I’ve examined JD Vance’s and even Marco Rubio’s. I’ve run the charts for the Republican and Democratic parties themselves. And I’ve looked at some of the most talked-about likely Democratic contenders for 2028 - Harris, Newsom, Buttigieg, AOC - to see who has the astrological wind at their back.

What emerges is a stark, high-contrast picture of the political years ahead.

But I’m always careful about making these sort of political predictions out in the open when things are so heated and hotly contested, so I’m sure you’ll understand why I’m going to answer those questions in closed quarters for the Inner Circle. Some things are best said where the signal is clearest, in a space for those who are ready to listen with their hearts.

If that’s you, and you want to know what’s ahead for the upcoming elections, scroll to the bottom of this article for the link to enter the Inner Circle….

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Land of the Free, Home of the Brave

America has crossed the rubicon beyond it’s Pluto return, the place where most empires fear to tread, and for very good reason. So few have made it past Pluto’s return unscathed.

America’s reckoning is here. Too many years of lies and dastardly deeds dressed up as democracy, diplomacy and decency have finally caught up. Empires don’t fall because they fail, they fall because they lie to themselves for too long. Karma’s coming due, and now the United States must pay its bill.

But that does not mean America will cease to exist. It doesn’t mean the United States falls into the sea or goes up in flames (although, I must tell you, the astrology suggest there will be some wild weather events ahead, so batten down the hatches). A hundred years from now there’ll still be a place known as America. People will still stand at the Grand Canyon, still wander Yosemite, and I’m betting there’ll still be hot dogs and baseball, in some form or another.

America’s not going anywhere, but she is going through a deep cleanse. Stripping down to the bones for the kind of identity crisis that only comes once in a lifetime.

We are not going back to the way things were, because the way we thought things were was not at all the way they actually were, deep down, where it mattered most. The rot, the lies, the corruption, the cruelty - it’s all coming up now to face judgment. It’s why we can see it everywhere. It’s not rising so it can take the reins - it’s rising to be reckoned with.

Our job in these wild times is not to cling to what’s falling away. Our task is not to be the people putting up “Wrong Way Go Back” signs. Our best is not behind us. All that’s back their is illusion. What lies ahead is truth - bright and shining truth, and in the light of that truth, none of this ugliness will stand.

So hold on, dear friends, better times are coming. The years ahead will challenge us, but we’ll get through them - hand in hand, heart to heart - holding the line as we carve out a new tomorrow.

No looking back. Face front, eyes forward.

Onwards, friends. Always, onwards.

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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.

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