Dear friends,
Trump. Putin. Netanyahu.
Three kings, or three tyrants, depending on who you ask. Between them they seem to be behind so much of the chaos in our world right now, and the question so many of us are carrying, more than a little wearily, is what becomes of them? Will they just keep on winning?
This week the sky starts to answer.
On Saturday the Sun meets Venus, the planet of love and loyalty, right at the gate of Scorpio, the sign of everything buried. They only meet there once every eight years. The last time was late October 2018, days before America’s last midterm elections. Hours later Mercury, the planet of words and counts, stops and turns backwards too. And loyalty is exactly what holds a king up.
That turn opens the road ahead. It runs through Israel’s election next week and America’s midterms the week after that, into an end of year when all three men look bigger and louder than ever, and on into a new year when the ground beneath their thrones starts to move.
The coming months won’t be gentle, and some of what these men do will be frightening, but the sky shows a very clear shape to all of it, and it shows where the tide turns.
Two of these kings were born with the same fighting point in the sky, and in the coming weeks it lights up for both of them at once. One of them faces his most exposed weekend just days from now. And one of them governs a people about to come out of this winter changed. Which king, which turn, and what comes next for each of them, that’s as much as I’ll say out here.
And this week the map runs through Canada twice. Alberta votes on Monday on whether to begin the road out of the country, and British Columbia votes on Saturday in a snap election that’s swung hard and fast to the right, with a lot of Canadians asking when hate became an acceptable platform. I’ve read Canada’s chart for the winter ahead, and it has something steadying to say about whether the country holds. If you’re in Canada and feeling the ground move, there’s a section inside written for you.
There’s a personal side to all of this too. Saturday’s light reaches what each of us has been holding onto as well: the loyalties, roles and stories we’ve been propping up out of fear. If your birthday falls between about the 18th and the 27th of October, January, April or July, you’ll feel it most, and late October birthdays most of all.
Below, I’ve mapped the week ahead day by day, then read Canada’s chart for the two votes and the winter after them, then followed the sky through the charts of all three kings: why they look so strong right now, what’s moving beneath their thrones, the shape of the road ahead, and how each of us can walk it with the heart leading.
The map is inside.
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