Weekly World Wrap-Up: August 3-9, 2025
From Power Grabs to Pushback: A Week of Bandits, Backlash, and the First Cracks of a New Order
This week was a relentless firehose of noise, blasting from every direction, while leaders acted like bandits, selling out the people they serve in their scramble for power.
Trump spent the week acting like a kid lighting matches in a fireworks store, firing the IRS commissioner, reinstating Confederate statues, shaking down universities for billions, “accidentally” deleting bits of the constitution, taking 24 karat gold gifts that looked more like bribes, screaming at reporters from the roof of the White House, appointing a registered sex offender to a children’s sports council and, like some kind of Bond villain, announcing plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon.
He made up new numbers for the jobs report, shook the economy with a tariff tantrum, and tried to rewrite the census to keep immigrants from voting, all while his Epstein connections continued to leak like a busted pipe.
In Texas, Democrats fled the state to stop Republicans from gerrymandering themselves five extra congressional seats, prompting Governor Abbott to threaten them with arrest, while Trump mused about sending the FBI after them.
In Australia, 100,000 people marched for Palestine, as Netanyahu decided the Gaza famine wasn’t moving fast enough and pushed to reoccupy the strip entirely, prompting the ire of world leaders who’ve been funding his war, with Germany freezing arms exports to Israel altogether.
Meanwhile, Putin kept shelling Ukraine while Trump rolled out the red carpet for him in Alaska, dangling a ceasefire plan that leaves Russia with the loot and Ukraine in the cold, to which Zelenskiy said defiantly, “not on my watch”.
There was another shooting in New York, another at an army base in Georgia, and after RFK Jr. scrapped vaccine research, a man opened fire on the CDC in Atlanta, convinced the jab had made him sick.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went online to back repealing women’s right to vote, while Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed a special counsel to go after her boss’s personal enemies.
As Epstein subpoenas flew in all directions, Tulsi Gabbard tried to distract with a Russia-shaped smoke bomb, and may have just set herself on fire instead. JD Vance held a barely-secret White House meeting, supposedly to contain Dan Bongino, the one man in Trumpworld still allegedly refusing to help bury the Epstein files.
The weather went feral with volcanoes in Russia, flash floods in India, record rain fall in Hong Kong, and record snow fall in eastern Australia.
But through it all, the walls began to creak, as MAGA loyalty splintered, calls for justice rose, and green shoots pushed quietly through the rubble.
Republicans were booed in town halls, Marjorie Taylor Greene said she’s had it with the GOP, and one party leader even switched from red over to blue.
The world marked 80 years since Hiroshima with demands to end nuclear weapons. In D.C., a legal dream team of ex-prosecutors and judges formed to take on Trump’s overreach. And in Rome, a million people poured into the streets for a shot of hope from the Pope.
The noise may have been deafening, but the signal was there if you knew where to listen.
As always, I’ve tracked the signs, read the stars, and gathered this week’s news, from collapse to coherence. This is how I make sense of the noise: by finding the pattern that makes what’s devolving feel, in its own way, strangely divine.
So take a breath.
Hold your nerve.
It’s time to put the chaos in context.
Let’s go in and dive deep.
**The cosmic insights shared here are mapped to the real movements of the heavens during the past week. If you want to know more about planetary pattern recognition, read about it here**
🌋 New Earth Rising
This week, just south of Tokyo, a volcanic eruption in the Pacific Ring of Fire cracked the Earth’s crust. The sea began to boil from the deep-sea upheaval, and seemingly out of nowhere, a brand new island emerged from the depths.
It’s a stark mirror for what’s happening in the world at the moment, most especially in the United States. Everything feels like it’s erupting, but though the chaos seems relentless, we’d do well to remember it’s part of something deeper that’s clearing space for a new world to rise.
Every 240 years or so when Pluto is in Aquarius (as it is now and will be for the next 20 years) we see deep systemic eruptions occur in our world. Last time it was the French and American revolutions of the 1700s, and the time before that the Reformation in the 1500’s.
Likewise, whenever Uranus is in Gemini every 80 years or so, the way we connect, travel and communicate gets disrupted, like it did last time during World War II in the 1940’s.
That island’s emergence in the Japanese sea this week reminds us that sometimes eruptions come to reveal, not to destroy, and to birth something new from the pressure beneath.
☢️ Hiroshima: Remembering the Fire
Land emerging from the sea wasn’t the only big news in Japan this week - August 6 marked 80 years since the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and ended World War II.
On Wednesday, around 55,000 people gathered in Hiroshima for a solemn minute of silence at 8.15am - the exact moment the bomb fell. Representatives from 120 countries were present, but the one responsible for the bombing and the only nation ever to use nuclear weapons in war chose not to attend. Japanese officials quietly expressed disappointment, given this was likely the last major anniversary with living survivors still present.
Speeches echoed with calls for nuclear disarmament and peace. Prime Minister Ishiba and Mayor Matsui criticized global militarism, calling on Japan to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, still rejected by the world’s nuclear powers, including the U.S. They reaffirmed Japan's three non‑nuclear principles - no possession, production, or permitting of nuclear weapons on Japanese soil.
Pope Leo also denounced nuclear deterrence this week as “illusory security” and urged dialogue over mutual annihilation. Catholic bishops from Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. dubbed nuclear weapons morally indefensible.
While multiple bodies raised alarms about a renewed nuclear arms race, the dwindling hibakusha (the name given to survivors of the blast) warned global leaders that “we haven’t learned anything in 80 years.”
And perhaps they’re right.
While the world paused to honor the 78,000 souls vaporized in an instant in the deadliest flex of nuclear power in history, President Trump was busy waging a tweet war with former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, and sent two U.S. nuclear submarines into Russian waters just to prove a point. He then startled reporters by climbing onto the White House roof and joking about installing nuclear missiles up there, and as if channeling Doctor Evil himself, his administration capped it off by announcing plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon.
We’ve come so far yet grown so little.
Uranus was in Gemini on that historic day in 1945 when the bomb was dropped - a placement wired for radical breakthroughs in science, technology, and communication. Paired with Pluto in Leo - the planet of power, dominance, and legacy channeled through fire and spectacle - this was the atomic age born in a flash of godlike hubris. But now, with Pluto in Aquarius, that same Uranian force is circling back, demanding a reckoning for what was unleashed in its name.
It’s time to confront what began that day, and what’s been bubbling in the deep ever since.
The turmoil we’re walking through now didn’t just appear out of nowhere. It’s been brewing for years beneath the surface, like the long-building tension that forced an island to rise from the sea this week. That land wasn’t gently placed; it was forged in boiling seawater, molten rock, and volcanic ash, erupting from years of mounting strain beneath the Earth’s crust, until rupture was inevitable.
That’s how new Earth is formed; not through serenity, but through rupture. Through danger and destabilisation, unpredictability, and fierce, unrelenting force.
And that’s exactly what we’re living through now - the deep tremors before something new emerges, forged from pressure, eruption, destruction, fire, and ash.
The old structures are cracking and the truth is surfacing like steam escaping from the seabed; boiling reality is forcing its way up, demanding to be seen. And from the wreckage, something new will form, from the ash of what once was.
🌀 Through the Tornado
For decades now, spiritual circles have spoken of the rising of a “New Earth” as if one day we’d all just wake up, stretch our arms, and step out of our broken-down sepia world into a technicolor utopia, where everything’s perfect and everyone sings in key like an MGM musical.
But we forget that Dorothy didn’t just peacefully glide into Oz. She first had to watch her world get obliterated, torn up by the roots in a howling tornado while she was flung through the sky, battered and disoriented, landing inches from death.
That’s the passage - the birth canal we all currently find ourselves in. Not the wishful dream, but the disorienting rupture that precedes it.
We are on our way to something far better than any of us can imagine - really we are, the stars don’t lie - but first, we must endure the pressure, the battering, the rupture, the fire, and we must reckon with all we’ve been trying to keep hidden, buried beneath the sea of our own illusion, in order to maintain the idea of utopia, when the reality for most has been far from it.
That’s where we are right now, with everyone declaring that American democracy is "at stake" when what’s really crumbling now isn't democracy, but the illusion of it. If you ever needed an example of this, you need only look to Texas this week, and what’s been going on there in the name of America’s so-called democracy.
🗺️ The Great Texas Map Heist
This week, the Texas GOP tried to sneak a redistricting grenade into the state legislature, aimed straight at the 2026 midterm elections in a plan backed by Trump that would hand Republicans five additional congressional seats, cementing minority rule in a state where demographics are shifting rapidly in the opposite direction.
Texas Democrats have been pushing back on this this for weeks, asking Republicans to pass much needed flood relief and getting stonewalled while the GOP obsessed over redrawing maps. While the floodwaters rose, it seems the only thing the Republicans wanted to fix was the election.
“We’re entitled to five more seats,” Trump declared this week, raising the ire of just about everyone on the left.
California Governor Gavin Newsom responded swiftly, saying “The idea that the president of the United States says he’s entitled to five seats should sicken everybody. There’s nothing normal about that and anyone who says it’s not surprising is normalizing it. That’s shocking.”
Senator Bernie Sanders said it simply: “You are entitled to nothing. You still have to earn the votes of the people in this country.”
And Texas Democrats definitely weren’t having a bar of it.
In a dramatic jailbreak, over 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state and holed up in Chicago, effectively stalling the special legislative session aimed at passing the GOP-favored redistricting plan. Conservatives accused the Democrats of “running away from the job”, conveniently ignoring the fact that their “job” was being twisted into rigging maps for Trump.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and New York Governor Kathy Hochul publicly welcomed the exiled lawmakers, offering them safe harbor and a media platform to rally their cause. “This is a war,” Hochul said in a fiery press conference. “The gloves are off.”
⚠️ Threats, Warrants, and Federal Muscle
In response to the Democrats walking out and blocking Republicans from enacting their gerrymandering 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 & New York Build Counter-Maps
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been leading the offensive against Texas’ push to ram through gerrymandered maps, promising to fight fire with fire, but in a way that puts the choice in voters’ hands. “We will nullify what happens in Texas,” he vowed this week. “We will pick up five seats with the consent of the people.”
If Texas moves ahead with its Republican-skewed redistricting - imposed by lawmakers without public approval - California will strike back by reworking its own congressional map to favor Democrats. The move would bypass the state’s voter-approved independent redistricting commission, but unlike Texas, Newsom plans to do it through a statewide special election, giving Californians the final say.
In New York, Governor 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.”
🗳️ Trump’s Midterms Power Grab
In a sign that Trump may be genuinely concerned that the 2026 midterms won’t fall in his favor, efforts to skew the election results ramped up this week when Trump’s DOJ demanded voter data from 19 states - including full voter rolls, histories, and even non-citizen info - under the guise of “election security”.
Asking for non-citizen data sends a chilling message to immigrant communities that they’re being watched, and deters legal voters in mixed-status households from showing up, for fear of harassment, deportation risk, or scrutiny. Several counties refused, citing privacy violations and federal overreach, while critics called it what it was: a partisan power grab and a pretext to challenge future election results or intimidate voters, especially immigrants.
In another thinly veiled attempt at electioneering, Trump ordered the Commerce Department to launch a new U.S. census that will exclude undocumented immigrants from the population count - a move that experts say is unconstitutional, as Trump has no power to change the timing of the U.S. Census, which is mandated by the Constitution to take place every ten years, nor does he have the power to declare that undocumented immigrants should not be counted. This census manipulation combined with aggressive redistricting could help Republicans strip House seats from Democrats; a blatant attempt to rewrite the electoral playing field ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Getting in on the act, the Supreme Court this week signaled it may dismantle Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act - the key provision that protects against racial gerrymandering. If they strike it down, it would give states like Texas a green light to redraw districts with impunity. As one analyst put it: “This isn’t just a local fight - it’s a preview of the constitutional crisis looming over 2026.”
With the Voting Rights Act on the chopping block, Trump trying to manipulate voter data and the census, and state leaders openly trying to arrest their opposition, it became abundantly clear this week that the Republicans are not trying to win the next election.
They’re trying to rig and gerrymander it so they don’t have to.
🇺🇸🥧 It’s Baked In To The American Pie
Gerrymandering is and always has been little more than a cheat code for staying in power even if you lose the popular vote. 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.
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. What the U.S. calls “redistricting” would be labeled “election-rigging” anywhere else, a reminder that the U.S system of “democracy” is not just broken - it was never fully whole to begin with.
The word democracy isn’t even mentioned anywhere in the constitution 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. 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. 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’ve been pledging allegiance to all this time is little more than 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.
And now that America’s hit it’s Pluto return (which most empires don’t survive) we’re experiencing what Rome, Spain and Britain all experienced before us in theirs - institutional collapse, leadership rot, and karmic reckoning. When Pluto returns to where it was in the sky at the time of a nation’s birth, it holds a match to whatever’s not real and true, so what’s being exposed right now isn’t a democracy in peril, but an illusion long past its expiry date.
This is the fire being held to every lie, burning away everything that cannot, will not and must not come with us as we forge a New Earth. And that fire is hot - it melts hardened rock to liquid magma - but soon enough the building pressure will send that magma hurtling from the depths, and from the ruins of the old will be born something new. A new Earth will breech the surface.
But we’re not quite there yet.
First, we have to endure Trump grifting his way through a second presidency, so no one can ever say again that they didn’t see it, and so that we can know what not to do when we lay the foundations for what comes next.
🤑 The Grift That Keeps on Grifting
This week, reports confirmed that Trump has doubled his net worth to over $5 billion in just six months, all while sitting in the Oval Office. Much of that surge has come from thinly-veiled bribes, like the billion-dollar retrofitted jet paid for by U.S. taxpayers, the $16 million payoff from Paramount, and the meteoric, multi-billion-dollar paper valuation of his personal cryptocurrency, all while wielding presidential power.
The parade of gifts continued this week when Apple CEO Tim Cook stood in the White House and presented Trump with a 24-karat gold and glass sculpture, complete with the Apple logo, Trump’s name, and Cook’s signature. A shiny and expensive way of saying, “Please don’t come for us next.”
But Trump didn’t invent personal enrichment via the presidency. Most modern former presidents are multi-millionaires, richer after leaving office than when they entered.
Making money from the presidency is baked into the American pie, it’s just that Trump has made the enrichment more immediate, more shameless, and more state-sponsored than ever before. He’s not waiting to profit after leaving office like all the others did - he’s using the office itself as the grift.
But really, should any president, current or former, be a multi-millionaire while millions of their constituents die in poverty each year because the system they presided over has failed those they swore to serve? The uncomfortable answer to that question speaks to the heart of what’s wrong with this crumbling system.
Trump’s just a symptom of America’s underlying disease - a lethal bout of hubris and greed. He’s what happens when a cancer goes undiagnosed - it spreads and mutates, and gets into the bloodstream, and by the time you realize what’s happened, you’re more tumor than host. Government corruption didn’t start with him - it festered unchecked for decades, and now the infection’s so widespread, we mistake the symptoms for the cause.
Trump is the raw, unfiltered expression of systemic rot. He’s not even pretending anymore - he’s just strolling into the vault, smashing the glass, and posting a selfie mid-theft. And while we wince as he skips gleefully through a minefield, indifferent to what blows up, every explosion just reveals what’s been buried beneath the surface all along.
We may scream at each detonation, but the real scandal is that the mines were planted in the nation’s blueprint in the first place.
🔢 Trump’s War on Math
True to form, Trump spent much of this week detonating political bombs, one after the other in such a cacophony of noise that it made it hard to keep track of.
Trump started the week by going on CNBC and delivering a wild, delusional interview, accusing the government of faking jobs data, interrupting the hosts repeatedly, insulting Representative Jasmine Crockett as “low IQ,” bizarrely asking if she was related to Davy Crockett, and misnaming host Joe Kernen as “Brian.” The performance was so scattered it raised fresh concerns about his mental state.
Having just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week because he didn’t like the numbers in July’s jobs report, Trump claimed this week that he had lowered drug prices in America by 1500% - a mathematical impossibility that would imply companies are paying Americans to take the drugs. Maybe he’s not so good at numbers, himself.
Trump's top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, tried to justify last week’s firing of the BLS chief by claiming the jobs data wasn’t “transparent and reliable”, but when pressed for proof of rigging, all he could offer was, “The revisions are hard evidence.” NBC’s Kristen Welker wasn’t having it, pointing out that 40 people compile the jobs report and asking if Trump planned to fire them all. Hassett dodged, offering no actual evidence of fraud. Economists slammed the move, with one calling it “authoritarianism wrapped in economic spin.”
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said it was “way beyond anything Richard Nixon ever did” and warned that the action is part of a broader authoritarian trend that threatens democratic norms. “This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism,” he said, pointing out that “firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers….assaults on universities…assaults on law firms…” He described it plainly: “This is really scary stuff.”
Famed economist Paul Krugman warned Trump’s move could be a sign of “bad things” to come for the U.S. economy. “If you start to corrupt those numbers,” the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences said, “if you start to report those numbers as being what makes the president look good instead of what’s actually happening, then bad things start happening,”
Undeterred, Trump rolled out a set of glossy charts whipped up by Project 2025 architect Stephen Moore, hoping to shout over the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a louder but less accurate version of reality. The charts relied on selective framing, unpublished data, and bold assumptions, including a claim that incomes had risen based on Census data no one else has seen.
Then, in a blatant attempt to rig the scoreboard itself, Trump nominated his economic adviser Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve Board - his first move this term to reshape the institution he’s spent years attacking. Miran has openly criticized Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not slashing rates and has floated ideas like weakening the dollar and giving presidents more control over the Fed.
Trump’s not just rewriting the numbers - he’s stacking the deck to make sure the next scorecard works in his favor.
📦 Tariff Tantrum 2.0
The economic circus just kept on rolling this week as Trump rang in his tariff apocalypse with a late-night all-caps meltdown, declaring: “THE WORLD HAS BEEN LAUGHING AT US LONG ENOUGH!”
As his sweeping new tariffs slammed nearly 70 countries, the president took to social media to wage psychological warfare via caps lock, warning foreign leaders that "WE WILL NOT BE RIPPED OFF ANYMORE!!"
The post dropped just as tariffs surged to as high as 50%, prompting economists to warn that U.S. households could face an average of $2,400 in extra annual costs. Trump, undeterred by basic math or international diplomacy, claimed the tariffs would “bring billions into the U.S. treasury” - never mind that Americans are the ones paying them.
As a result of Trump’s tariff trade war, big brands are bleeding, and passing the pain down the line. Nike says tariffs will cost it $1 billion, Adidas is staring down a $230 million hit and already plotting price hikes, and Ford, not to be outdone, warns its total tariff tab could hit $3 billion by year’s end. All that extra cost will be passed on to American consumers; Trump’s trade war is about to show up in your shopping cart, bigtime.
As prices rise across the board, low-income Americans are taking the biggest hit - some losing up to 4% of their disposable income just trying to afford the basics. Economic growth is slowing, job creation is stalling, inflation is creeping back in, and economists are warning of a looming “stagflation-lite” scenario, with high prices, low growth, and no clear fix. And despite all the tough talk, manufacturing still isn’t booming, it’s just bruised, battered, and waiting.
Historian Eric Rauchway offered a sharp critique of Trump’s economic vision, saying, “Trump wants the prosperity of the 1950s but the policies of the 1890s, and that contradiction just doesn’t work. The economic boom of the postwar era depended on government regulation and lower tariffs, not the protectionist blast-from-the-past Trump is pushing.”
Astrologically, Trump’s tariff crusade isn’t just reckless - it’s detonating straight into the U.S. economic chart. With Pluto squaring America’s natal Pluto through October and eclipses slamming financial sectors, the country is headed into a storm of rising prices, stalled growth, and deep structural reckoning. August marks the trigger, but September’s eclipses expose the fallout: economic confusion, public backlash, and inflation pain hitting the lowest earners hardest.
The stars aren’t forecasting a win - they’re warning of a costly ego war disguised as policy.
🧨 Dirty Deeds in Plain Sight
From tricky numbers to tariff tantrums, it was just one thing after another coming out of Trump’s White House this week.
Trump once again appeared to suffer a “senior moment” as he struggled to keep track of people standing behind him during an Oval Office meeting. He went on to announce plans to bring a statue of a Confederate general back to the heart of the nation’s capital, and a plan to require visitors to the U.S. to post a $15,000 bond to get a tourist visa. He also threatened a federal takeover of Washington DC after a former DOGE worker known as “Big Balls” was attacked in an attempted carjacking.
Under Trump administration policies, the US Air Force this week said it will deny early retirement benefits to transgender service members forced out under Trump’s reinstated ban, leaving many with no pension after 15–18 years of service.
In a win for Trump but a blow to freedom and fairness, a federal appeals court tossed a contempt ruling over migrant deportations to an El Salvador prison, saying the judge went too far by ordering the planes back. The decision effectively gives Trump the green-light to deport people at will, with judges largely sidelined.
Trump’s DOJ just hit UCLA with a $1 billion settlement demand over alleged antisemitism, on top of freezing nearly $600 million in funding - a move that could kneecap the university’s research powerhouse.
Trump’s DOJ also fired former acting director Brian Driscoll, who refused to turn over the names of FBI agents who investigated the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James over the $454 million civil fraud case she brought against him (and won).
Trump’s AG Pam Bondi this week also appointed a special prosecutor to conduct investigations into James and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff. Critics call it pure political payback, warning the DOJ is being turned into Trump’s personal hit squad.
Trump also abruptly fired IRS Commissioner Billy Long this week, less than two months after he was sworn in, and only days after IRS clashed with the White House over using tax data to help locate suspected undocumented immigrants. The firing consolidates control of the agency in the hands of loyalist Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who will serve as acting commissioner amid concerns it could be weaponized against Trump’s political enemies.
Trump’s Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. canceled $500 million in funding for 22 mRNA vaccine projects, claiming they don’t work against respiratory viruses - a statement with no credible scientific backing. Days later, a man who told friends he believed the COVID-19 shot had made him sick opened fire outside the CDC in Atlanta, killing a police officer before dying himself. Critics blamed the tragedy on Kennedy and called for his resignation, with the Fired But Fighting coalition of fired CDC employees saying, “Kennedy is directly responsible for the villainization of CDC’s workforce through his continuous lies about science and vaccine saefty, which have fueled a climate of hostility and mistrust.”
Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video on X this week featuring pastors calling for the repeal of women’s right to vote and urging wives to submit to their husbands, captioning it: “All of Christ for All of Life.” The move sparked outrage over a senior U.S. official amplifying hard-right Christian-nationalist views.
As the Epstein scandal continues to swirl, a bombshell New York Times report this week revealed that Trump was photographed with Epstein multiple times and those images were found in Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, where many of the crimes occurred. Despite years of Trump claiming he “barely knew” Epstein, the mounting evidence says otherwise.
Seemingly determined to follow up one landmine detonation with another, Trump made the jaw-dropping move of appointing registered sex offender Lawrence Taylor to his council on children’s sports and fitness. Even though Taylor has publicly admitted to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old, and Trump is currently being accused of shielding one of the worst sex traffickers in U.S. history, somehow, these are still the men he chooses to surround himself with.
In the midst of it all, keen-eyed reports noticed that several critical parts of the U.S. Constitution had been disappeared from the official Constitution Annotated website this week, namely the sections pertaining to protections like habeas corpus and limits on government power. The Library of Congress claimed it was a coding error, not a legal change, and restored the missing content, but the timing raised eyebrows, especially with Trump floating extreme executive actions.
The noise coming out of the Trump White House right now isn’t just chaos - it’s crackling. Underneath the screeches and spin, the sky shows a system running out of room, out of rope, and out of time. This week’s Full Moon lit up Trump’s shadow, and the nation’s. The next act is not containment - it’s detonation.
🧾 Epstein Files: The Vault Begins to Crack
As the Trump/Epstein cover-up scandal entered its fifth week this week, showing no signs of abating, the House Oversight Committee issued a formal subpoena to the Department of Justice, demanding the release of all documents, communications, and files related to Epstein’s network and alleged co-conspirators, in an attempt to gain some long overdue answers.
Pressure is coming from outside government too as the Democracy Forward Foundation this week filed a lawsuit against the DOJ and FBI to force the release of senior Trump administration officials’ communications about the Epstein investigation, including any correspondence between Trump and Epstein.
The DOJ in turn filed its own motions in New York to unseal transcripts related to Epstein’s 2019 case and Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 conviction, though Maxwell’s attorneys are opposing the release, arguing that the records are hearsay and that unsealing them would infringe on her due process rights, particularly since she’s still appealing her conviction.
The House Oversight Committee also issued subpoenas for Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify as part of its intensifying investigation into Epstein’s network. The committee also sent subpoenas to former attorneys general Jeff Sessions, Alberto Gonzales, William Barr, Merrick Garland, Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder, as well as former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller.
High-profile attorney Gloria Allred, who represents multiple Epstein survivors, publicly called on Congress this week to expand its subpoena net to include three key Trump appointees: Pam Bondi (former Florida AG and now Trump’s Attorney General), Todd Blanche (Trump’s former lawyer and now Deputy AG), and Alex Acosta (former Labor Secretary and architect of Epstein’s notorious 2008 sweetheart deal).
Allred was especially scathing about Acosta’s omission from the current subpoena list - a man who played a central role in shielding Epstein from federal prosecution. The powers that be are trying to narrow the scope, control the optics, and rewrite the story by ensuring selective subpoenas, sanitized transparency, and just enough disclosure to keep the press pacified while the truth stays buried, but Allred isn’t playing along. She drew a clear line in the sand, demanding not only broader subpoenas but also that survivors be allowed to testify directly before Congress.
This all comes as the FBI officially acknowledged this week that it redacted Donald Trump’s name - alongside other “high-profile individuals” - from the Epstein documents in its possession. The agency stated it did so in anticipation of a possible public release, claiming this aligns with standard protocols around sensitive identities in ongoing investigations.
And they’re right to be anticipating some kind of release.
In early September, the sky cracks open with back-to-back eclipses - one in Pisces on September 7, and another in Virgo on September 21 - that hit every key player in the Epstein saga like clockwork. Trump, Clinton, Maxwell, Barr, Dershowitz, Wexner, even Epstein’s ghost chart - all of them get nailed by these cosmic pressure points. Secrets don’t just whisper under these skies - they scream.
If there’s a moment when the vault breaks open, names drop, and the public finally sees the full rot festering beneath the surface, it’s this one. September is the storm surge, and it’s building….
💣 Tulsi’s Smoke Bomb Backfires
And the storm clouds only grew darker this week, when reports emerged that Trump gave Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard his blessing to override CIA objections and release a classified report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, seemingly in an effort to distract from the Epstein saga.
The report - compiled by House Republicans - disputed the long-held conclusion that Putin sought to help Trump win, instead framing the original collusion probe as a politically motivated hit job by the Obama administration.
The CIA strongly opposed the release, warning it could expose sensitive sources and methods, but Gabbard forged ahead all the same.
But it didn’t stop there. Attorney General Pam Bondi, acting on a criminal referral from Gabbard, signed off on a directive authorizing a U.S. federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury of alleged misconduct by Obama-era officials in launching the Trump-Russia investigation.
This week, Gabbard took to Fox News to defend the madness of it all, but her performance was less whistleblower and more word salad. Pressed for details, she deflected with vague claims and half-baked conspiracies. Critics say she’s just peddling the same baseless theories that have floated around conservative media for years, just now with an official stamp.
Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, called Gabbard a “threat to national security” and demanded she be fired. Even some Republicans privately questioned the strategic wisdom of releasing a document that could compromise U.S. intelligence infrastructure purely to serve a political counter-narrative.
Gabbard may have miscalculated her timing with all this. What was meant to be a smoke screen may end up setting off alarms inside the very agencies she hoped to sideline. With intelligence officials furious, legal experts circling, and even Republicans quietly distancing themselves, Tulsi’s loyalty to Trump could become her political eulogy. The stars are lining her up for a fall - by late September, whispers about her become headlines, and by mid-October, she’s politically radioactive.
If this was her audition for a second act, it’s already being cancelled in pre-production.
🕴️Vance’s Bongino Dilemma
And if all that wasn’t surreal enough, Vice President JD Vance was reportedly set to host a private strategy dinner at his residence this week, aimed at managing the growing fallout from the Epstein scandal. According to multiple outlets, the meeting was designed to coordinate messaging and next steps, with Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles all expected to attend.
But under the heat of media scrutiny, the dinner was abruptly scrapped, and moved off the calendar and into the shadows. Instead, quiet strategy sessions reportedly unfolded at the White House, behind closed doors, and the reported topic of conversation was allegedly Dan Bongino - the one man in Trump’s inner circle refusing to play along with the Epstein cover-up, and who was never on the guest list.
Bongino is said to be defiant; having seen the files and read the transcripts, he knows what’s in the logs, and apparently wants no part of the cover-up Trump’s allies appear to be orchestrating. According to sources, the meetings weren’t just about press strategy - they were damage control around Bongino, whose refusal to fall in line has created deep fractures between him and loyalists like Bondi.
The stars say Bongino’s defiance isn’t a passing mood - Mars and the Aquarius Full Moon have lit a fuse he won’t snuff out. For Vance, the same cosmic heat is turning loyalty tests into knife fights, and the chart shows this crack in Trumpworld could split wide open before month’s end.
Trump may control the DOJ, the FBI, and the party line, but he can’t control Bongino, and that’s the crack they’ve been allegedly scrambling to seal all week.
None of this is governance - it’s a propaganda relay race. One scandal hurls the baton to another before the last can stick. This is the magician’s sleight of hand on a national scale: distract the audience just long enough so they don’t see what the other hand is doing.
But the American public, it seems, aren’t buying one bit of it.
🌊 The Trump Tide Turns
A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted mid‑July found just 17% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the Epstein investigation. Surprisingly, only 35% of Republicans said they approve. A staggering 60% of people (and 55% of Republicans) believe the government is hiding details of Epstein’s death, while 69% (62% of Republicans) think a client list is being concealed.
A Washington Post poll from late July echoed that disapproval, with only 18% approval, 58% disapproval, and 24% unsure. Among Republicans, opinion is all over the place: 38% approve, 24% disapprove, and a huge 38% are undecided. Support from MAGA Republicans is barely a majority, hovering just over 40%.
In a CNBC interview this week, Trump insisted he has “the best poll numbers I’ve ever had,” asserting his approval was north of 70%, when in reality, it’s currently hovering around 40%.
Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, fueled the hype by claiming Trump’s approval rating is currently 90%, citing a CNN story, but CNN’s actual poll reported only 42% overall approval.
For all the bluster, it seems the rats may be starting to desert the sinking ship.
🚪 Cracks in the MAGA Wall
At a packed town hall in Nebraska this week, Representative Mike Flood attempted to defend Trump’s controversial “Big, Beautiful Bill” and was loudly booed and heckled after claiming the Republican Party represents “the heart and soul of the working class.” The crowd chanted, shouted over him, and demanded answers on everything from the Epstein files to fascism. Flood was visibly overwhelmed by the backlash, as locals pushed back on what they saw as Republican abandonment of basic support systems.
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted the Republican Party in an interview, saying, “The course the Republican Party is on, I don’t want to have anything to do with it.” She accused GOP leadership of betraying working Americans, abandoning women, and straying from its America First roots. While still loyal to Trump, Greene signaled she's fed up with the party establishment, hinting she may break away if things don’t change.
Former Georgia LT Governor Geoff Duncan this week announced that he had left the Republican Party and become a Democrat, citing Trump as the reason.
In an interview with Lara Trump on Fox News, Charlamagne Tha God criticized Trump’s presidency this week, arguing that his policies have harmed low-income Americans, particularly through cuts to Medicaid. He also warned that dissatisfaction among traditional conservatives, especially over Trump’s failure to release more information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, could lead to a political shift within the Republican Party, suggesting that a “political coup” might be underway as old-guard conservatives grow weary of Trump’s control over the GOP.
⚖️ Bad News, Mr President
In other bad news for Trump this week, a government watchdog confirmed that his administration is breaking the law by blocking NIH funds, the National Weather Service received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians after being hit hard by Trump’s DOGE-related cuts, and Trump’s border agents were directed to stop deportations under his asylum ban after a court order.
A U.S. judge also blocked Trump’s administration from reallocating $4 billion meant to help communities protect against disasters, and halted construction at Alligator Alcatraz amid environmental concerns.
And a powerhouse new nonprofit law firm called The Washington Litigation Group launched in D.C. this week, with a mission to challenge Trump’s executive overreach and defend the rule of law, by providing free legal help to people targeted by Trump- investigations or policies and by suing the administration over controversial executive orders. Staffed by former federal prosecutors, judges, and top litigators, many of whom were fired or sidelined under Trump’s administration, this group joins a growing legal resistance, including other orgs like the Civil Service Law Center, aimed at protecting career public servants and restoring legal norms.
The August skies are laced with rebellion, revelation, and resolve. Mars fuels the fire of resistance, Uranus lights the fuse, and a Full Moon in Aquarius beams its spotlight straight onto collective outrage. Legal warriors are rising under Saturn’s steady hand, while the Mars–Pluto current surges behind closed doors, turning whispers into power plays.
This isn’t just political noise we’re seeing right now - it’s written in the cosmic code. The tide is turning, and the universe is backing the pushback.
🧱 Netanyahu Cornered & Exposed
Trump wasn’t the only world leader facing massive pushback this week. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under fire from every direction, and not just for the ongoing assault on Gaza, which many now describe as a slow-motion genocide unfolding on his watch.
This week, Netanyahu’s government moved to oust Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who is currently prosecuting him for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. The cabinet vote to remove her was unanimous, marking the first time in Israeli history an attorney general has been directly targeted like this, but within hours, Israel’s Supreme Court froze the firing, calling it potentially unlawful. Critics say it’s a full-blown constitutional crisis and a blatant attack on judicial independence.
But Netanyahu isn’t just battling legal fire, he’s also facing a growing humanitarian revolt and global condemnation, and instead of deescalating, he’s dousing every front with gasoline.
This week, Netanyahu publicly called on the Red Cross to deliver urgent aid to hostages, blaming Hamas for blocking ceasefire efforts, to which Hamas responded that they would allow access, but only if Israel halted airstrikes and opened permanent humanitarian corridors.
But far from halting, Israel escalated, as Netanyahu pushed a plan through his security cabinet this week to seize full control of Gaza City and potentially beyond. Framed as “security control,” it amounts to a de facto occupation that would forcibly displace nearly one million Palestinians, returning Gaza to full Israeli military control for the first time since 2005.
UN officials have warned the operation could bring “catastrophic consequences,” not just for Palestinians, but for the surviving hostages still trapped underground.
For years, Netanyahu has staunchly insisted Israel had no plans to annex Gaza. “Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population,” he said in January 2024. That position collapsed this week when the man who told the world he wouldn’t run Gaza’s daily life began orchestrating exactly that.
Netanyahu’s false assurances have been lucrative. Israel has enjoyed decades of multi-billion-dollar military backing - especially from the U.S. - with tens of billions more poured in over the past year alone. Washington alone has sent $33.7 billion in the past two years. Germany added $530 million, Canada $21 million, Italy $13 million, and the UK $54 million - all funding a war that has killed more than 60,000 people in Gaza, sold on the premise that Israel’s aim was only to defeat Hamas, not govern Gaza.
The "we’re not staying" narrative helped grease the wheels, and now with the takeover plan in motion, that premise looks less like policy and more like a bait-and-switch, and an enormously expensive one at that.
✊ Justice for Palestine
In response to Netanyahu’s takeover plan, Spain called it “completely illegal,” accusing Netanyahu of turning Gaza into a “massive graveyard.” Turkey denounced the move as genocidal, the UK called it “wrong”, Australia warned it will worsen the humanitarian crisis, while Canada and France threatened diplomatic action.
The sharpest blow came from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz who suspended all export approvals for military equipment that could be used in Gaza “until further notice”. As Israel’s second-largest arms supplier after the U.S. - providing around a third of its major imports in recent years - Berlin’s pause is a political warning shot. If one of Israel’s staunchest backers is willing to halt exports over Gaza, other European states may be next.
The people had their say too, and this week, they spoke loudly.
In Australia, over 100,000 people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge - rain pouring, pots banging, voices unified in a single chant: justice for Palestine. It was loud, peaceful, and unstoppable - a clear sign that the tide is turning.
In the U.S., more than a dozen House Democrats urged the Trump administration to formally recognize a Palestinian state, citing the deepening crisis and rising global support. The push - led by lawmakers like Ro Khanna and Nydia Velázquez - came after France, the UK, Portugal, and Canada all agreed to recognize Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September.
The stars say Netanyahu is nearing the endgame. August ignites global outrage and mounting internal dissent, with Mars inflaming tensions and a Full Moon spotlighting humanitarian crimes. But it’s September’s eclipses that bring the reckoning: the Pisces Lunar Eclipse exposes buried truths and karmic guilt, while the Virgo Solar Eclipse strikes Netanyahu’s career axis, signaling a public fall from grace or forced exit. October finishes the job, as Pluto stations direct and Mars enters Scorpio, triggering a collapse of control, legacy, or legal protection.
By year’s end, the astrology shows a power vacuum in Israel and a rising global mandate for Palestinian recognition. The tide is cosmic, and it’s turning.
📸 Putin’s Land Grab, Trump’s PR Win
While the conflict continues in Gaza, so does Putin’s war against Ukraine with Russian forces killing two civilians this week in a drone strike on a house in Zaporizhzhia and another two people in a bomb attack on a train station in Kharkiv, injuring ten more. Shelling in Nikopol also killed three civilians.
The strikes came as diplomacy over a potential ceasefire was heating up. Trump confirmed he’ll meet Putin in Alaska on August 15 to try to hammer out a deal - a rare foreign trip for Putin, who generally cannot travel outside Russia because he is under ICC indictment for war crimes, including the abduction of Ukrainian children. By welcoming him onto U.S. soil, in territory once owned by Russia, Trump signals to Russian nationalists a tacit nod to their dream of reviving the old empire - an ideology at the core of Moscow’s push to seize Ukrainian land.
Meanwhile, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff has been quietly shopping Putin’s proposal around Europe: a cease-fire that would freeze the front lines and leave Russia in control of eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv isn’t biting. President Zelenskiy has flatly rejected any peace deal from the Trump–Putin Alaska summit that excludes Ukraine, calling such agreements “dead” from the start. He ruled out ceding any territory - including areas currently under Russian control - and said rewarding Moscow’s aggression would destroy any chance of a real, dignified peace. His stance is clear: no land for peace, and no negotiations without Kyiv at the table.
The stars suggest that the August 15 Trump–Putin meeting is unlikely to produce a genuine peace - more likely a PR-friendly ceasefire that freezes the war and cements Russia’s hold on eastern Ukraine. Trump will frame it as ending the conflict, Putin will quietly bank the territorial gains, and both will leave with a win in optics but not in lasting stability.
In the meantime, expect Trump to milk the moment for all it’s worth, dangling it as proof he deserves that long-coveted Nobel Peace Prize.
🌪 Wild Weather, Silent Seas
Meanwhile, in the U.S. this week, flash flooding in Alabama left one person dead, while a minor earthquake in New Jersey sent tremors into New York City.
In Russia, a massive 8.8-magnitude quake off the Kamchatka Peninsula triggered eruptions in seven volcanoes - a spectacle not seen in nearly 300 years. Among them, Krasheninnikov erupted for the first time in centuries, sending an ash plume 3.7 miles high and prompting a red aviation warning.
Across Asia, Hong Kong endured its wettest August day since 1884, with over 350 mm of rain causing travel chaos and quadruple black rainstorm alerts. Northern India’s Uttarakhand was battered by flash floods and landslides after more than 200 mm fell in a single day, leaving at least one dead and over 50 missing. In Japan, Kanazawa was deluged with 148 mm in just three hours, derailing bullet trains and shutting roads.
Down under, eastern Australia remains locked in bizarre winter weather - record snowfalls of up to 40 cm blanketed towns in northern New South Wales and parts of Queensland, while floods and power outages compounded the chaos.
And it’s not just us humans bearing the brunt. Blue whales - the largest animals ever to live - are going quiet as the oceans they’ve ruled for millions of years shift beneath them. Warming seas are stripping away krill swarms, forcing them to hunt longer and sing less. Those haunting songs are how whales find each other, navigate, and court, so a silent ocean isn’t just eerie, it’s a biological alarm bell. When the top of the ocean’s food chain goes quiet, it’s because the base is cracking. If the biggest creatures on Earth can’t find enough to eat, the rest of the system is already in trouble.
The stars right now echo the warning. Neptune, ruler of the seas, has just moved into fiery Aries - a rare cycle that stirs the oceans and demands urgent action. It’s the cosmic equivalent of a flare shot into the night: the next five years are a make-or-break window for marine life. When Neptune meets Saturn in Aries in 2026, governments will be pushed to act by expanding sanctuaries, reining in industrial fishing, and facing what’s been ignored. The whales may be quiet now, but the sky says the fight for the ocean is only just beginning.
In the meantime, wild weather is the new daily forecast. We’re in a stacked cycle of planetary shifts that historically coincide with environmental upheaval: Pluto in Aquarius shaking up systems, Neptune in Aries unleashing raw elemental surges, and Uranus in Gemini scrambling wind and atmospheric patterns. When these three align, “once-in-a-century” events arrive on repeat.
This isn’t the Earth suddenly turning against us - it’s a deep planetary reset.
The climate, oceans, and atmosphere are recalibrating, with human activity acting like jet fuel on the process. The flood/drought/freeze/fire cycle is accelerating, and the old boundaries of “normal” weather are gone. The Earth is doing something, and it’s not subtle, and we can either adapt fast or get swept away by a planet in motion.
The extremes are real, the stakes are high, but the story isn’t locked. When the Earth shifts this dramatically, it also pushes humanity toward reinvention. The same planetary cycles now fuelling upheaval also open windows for alignment, adaptation, and healing. If we can meet the pace of change with courage and creativity, we can rebuild a relationship with the planet that’s not about control, but about partnership.
The Earth is speaking loudly now. If we listen, there’s still time to answer in harmony.
🌱 Awakening in Many Languages
In Rome this week, more than a million young people from across the globe poured into the streets for music, prayer, and community, answering Pope Leo XIV’s call to live with compassion, courage, and joy. It was the largest gathering ever for a U.S.-born pope - not because of celebrity status or political clout, but because he offered something rarer: hope.
The gathering offers proof that even in what feels like an increasingly dark world, kindness can still be a rallying cry strong enough to draw strangers together in a fractured world.
And it’s not just happening under cathedral domes.
In Greece, when wildfires tore through entire villages this summer, locals built grassroots aid networks in days, moving faster than government agencies to feed, house, and protect their neighbours.
In Brazil, flood-hit communities have created their own mutual-aid kitchens and clean-up crews, showing that compassion can mobilise faster than bureaucracy.
Countries like Iceland, Finland, and New Zealand are rewriting the very definition of progress, building “wellbeing budgets” that measure national success by health, connection, and environmental care instead of GDP.
Even in quieter ways, the shift is showing up. Global volunteering, donations, and everyday acts of helping strangers are at their highest levels in more than a decade, with the sharpest rise among under-35s.
Nearly a third of adults worldwide now identify as “spiritual but not religious,” turning to meditation, nature, and mindful activism instead of formal dogma. In the UK alone, a recent report revealed that 96% of young people are open to spiritual experiences.
Whether you call it faith or simply the human spirit waking up, the signs are there that people are hungry for something deeper than survival, and they’re starting to build it together.
We’re walking into a century where the slow, steady movements of the outer planets are pushing humanity out of the age of extraction and into the age of connection. Over the next two decades, the old engines of power will keep breaking down under their own weight, replaced not by a single new system, but by thousands of smaller, living networks. Technology will keep evolving, but so will our understanding of what it means to belong - less about borders and titles, more about shared purpose and care.
From the 2040s onward, the skies suggest that the cultural current will turn toward compassion and stewardship. Spirituality will become less about following rules and more about how we live with each other and the earth. Home will be redefined - not just a place, but a community of choice. And by the back half of the century, a new generation will inherit a world that measures success in healing, cooperation, and courage, not in dominance.
The choice ahead of us is simple, though not easy: stay awake to each other, or slip back into the same old patterns. The sky is offering us the momentum for awakening - the rest is up to us.
🔮 What Lies Ahead: Mid-August to Eclipse Season
The second half of August arrives like a fuse already lit.
One by one, the sparks catch - a word spoken that can’t be unsaid, a truth slipping loose where it was never meant to wander, a handshake that feels more like a trap.
On August 11, Ghislaine Maxwell is due to testify before Congress, stepping into the light she’s tried to avoid. The air sharpens. Words carry weight here - not the casual kind, but the kind that can tilt reputations, crack open vaults, or send shadows racing for cover. Whether she speaks or stays silent, the weight of the day is the same. Cameras find her. Headlines wait. The room hums with the possibility of something breaking open. If words come, they’ll ripple far beyond the walls. If they don’t, the silence itself will press into the story like a thumbprint; proof of what could not be said. Under this sky, either choice is a kind of revelation, and both carry a cost.
Somewhere else, Donald Trump feels the current. It’s not a headline yet, but a pulse - the sense that a story he thought was locked is brushing against daylight. He bristles, pushes back at ghosts in the walls, his responses flickering between bravado and something more brittle. August 11 may not be the explosion, but it’s the sound of a fuse finding fire.
Around August 12, the air swells with offers and temptations. They come wrapped in smiles, but they carry the weight of hidden debts. For Netanyahu, the mirror turns inward - his past decisions breathing down his neck.
August 15 draws two men into the same room - Trump and Putin - under a sky that loves to play double games. Promises are made in the shadows, but the ink runs before it’s dry. One leaves with a story to sell, the other with something tucked under his coat.
By August 22–24, the ground shivers. Alliances that once felt like granite begin to creak. Markets twitch. The map doesn’t change yet, but it looks different under this light.
Then September arrives, and the sky stops hinting.
The September 7 Lunar Eclipse pulls secrets into the tide. For some, it’s the moment the crowd sees behind the curtain. For others, it’s the floor shifting beneath home ground.
Two weeks later, the September 21 Solar Eclipse writes a new line in the world’s story. This is ink that doesn’t fade. Once it’s written, there’s no turning back.
And then October presses down. Pluto turns in its grave and wakes, Mars sharpens its edge, and the locks on long-sealed doors give way. What escapes will not go quietly.
Beyond it all waits February 2026 - the Genesis Portal. A hinge in history. The last breath of the old world, the first inhale of the new.
If August feels like a storm, it’s because the storm is here. Not to punish, but to strip away the false light so the real one can finally be seen.
Listen close. The future is leaning in.
This week was loud and relentless. It felt like the news was blasting at a million miles and hour like a firehose.
It’s hard to watch as every day right now something new happens to dismantle the America we grew up with. It’s like watching the demolition team come in and take a wrecking ball to your family home.
But maybe what’s happening right now isn’t a total demolition. Maybe it’s just that we built our house with rotten wood, and as beautiful as it’s looked from the outside, underneath the whole place is filled with termites. We have to strip it back to the foundations, exposing every beam, so we can rebuild from the ground up.
And, just for fun, we’re going to keep living in the house while we dismantle it.
It's not cozy with the insulation torn out. It's not pretty with the plumbing laid bare. Can't we just put back the heavy cladding, the ornate trim that made everything seem so permanent? Sadly, no, because once you've seen the rot, once you know it's there, you can't unsee it. You can't go back to pretending the walls were sound.
Yes, it’s demolition, but that doesn’t mean it’s doomsday. It’s just the start of something better. The dust, the racket and the chaos are all just proof the rebuild’s underway.
The pain we feel right now is mostly from us clinging to the old wallpaper, wishing the crooked doorframes could stay. The real power is in letting go, trusting that what’s falling away wasn’t meant to last, and that what’s coming will be stronger, truer and far more alive.
We are not witnesses to an ending.
We are midwives to a beginning.
We are not doomed to ruin.
We are destined to rise.
We are the bridge between what’s falling and what’s yet to be built.
We are the ones planting seeds in soil we're still clearing for the future that we came here to steward.
So feel it all right now, and feel it deeply.
Let it break you open if it must.
But know that this pain is not without purpose.
First the reckoning, then the reward.
Stay hopeful.
Stay peaceful.
Stay awake.
Stay true.
We’re not here to mourn the dying blueprint.
We’re here to draw a new one.
(And if you need some help staying steady through it all, come join me in the Daily Lighthouse. I’ll be there, each day with you.)
See you next Sunday - until then, stay kind, stay fierce, and stay human.
Thank you for the comprehensive assessment and for the wise counsel, hope, steadiness, and light. There comes a time ...during crisis....that one reaches a kind of radical acceptance that things are crashing. It is not the same thing as giving up and complying with the wrong being done...it is more a release of the arrogant belief that one can fully control the situation...and then one is somehow freed to set about quietly doing what one CAN do. I have been there many times... In the past, I went kicking and screaming into difficult change...clinging to the edges of sinking ships...begging the heavens....broadcasting loudly to the world about the unfairness of it all. But despite that inelegant entry into chaos, I began to notice that when i released my grip a bit....a special kind of openness happened..one in which I could actually laugh at what was not funny at all..and my movements became more effective and purposeful, as though guided by something divine. I call that the sweet spot. I am there now....it is a gift to treasure despite the unwanted events that brought us here. sending you love, light, and wishes for all to find themselves in that sweet spot soon.
It’s like the whole planet is coughing up the lies we tried to pave over. Not pretty. Not peaceful. But necessary.
You don’t birth a new world in candlelight and spa music. You do it in demolition dust, with the sound of the old beams snapping.
The trick is not to mistake the cracking for collapse. It’s just the shell breaking. And yes, it’s loud.
Keep your hand on the truth. Let the noise fall away.