Weekly World Wrap-Up: July 27-August 2, 2025
While Gaza starved and Trump rewrote the script, America drowned in illusion, denial and spectacle this week; now the stars demand a reckoning.
This week felt like a eulogy for the world we once knew.
Institutions crumbled, truths unraveled, and somewhere between the headlines and the heartbreak, it became clear that the old story is dying, and no one’s coming to save it.
Kamala Harris stepped out of political hibernation to tell us the system’s broken. (No shit, Sherlock) Trump, meanwhile, played emperor by tariffing the globe, slurring about whales and windmills, tanking the American economy, and tweeting nuclear threats like angry Yelp reviews.
He fired officials for telling the truth, demanded a Nobel Peace Prize for ending wars he didn’t end, and got trolled by a man playing the bagpipes. He announced a $200 million ballroom for the White House after kicking millions of Americans off Medicaid, and called the Mayor of London “nasty" and his own Fed Chair “a stubborn mule,” “a stupid person,” “a dumb guy,” and “a knuckehead”.
In Russia, quakes shattered the earth and volcanoes erupted, while missiles rained down on Ukraine. In Gaza, the man-made famine got worse. The UK, Canada and Portugal stood for Palestine. The EU joined 17 other nations to demand Hamas disarm. In the U.S., climate laws were torched, public broadcasting killed, the Smithsonian erased Trump’s impeachments, and Republicans rebooted Russiagate to distract from Epstein.
Ghislaine Maxwell demanded clemency. Trump pretended he’d never been to Epstein’s island, then claimed Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre from his spa. Her family called it out for what it was: a veiled confession.
Jeanine Pirro was made a federal prosecutor. Emil Bove’s lifetime judgeship was approved, despite lying to the Senate. ICE handed out $50,000 bonuses to attract new agents. The US landed on a global human rights watch-list.
There were mass shootings, train crashes, plane fires, radioactive wasps, and an armored golf cart dubbed “Golf Force One”. They all featured heavily in the madness of this week.
But beneath the rage and rot, a rebirth is whispering. Australia banned social media for teens. Solar and wind outpaced coal. New energy batteries emerged from rock and bacteria. Scientists cracked a code in MS. And clean fuel was born from captured carbon.
The sky may be howling and the ground may be shaking, but still, something sacred is sprouting.
As always, I’ve tracked the signs, read the stars, and gathered the week’s news, from collapse to coherence.
Breathe deep.
Hold your nerve.
And let’s step into the fire.
**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**
Former Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from political hibernation this week to give her first interview since the election, appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and she said out loud what many Americans have quietly suspected for a while now about our system of government.
“I think it’s broken,” Harris said to a stunned silence in the Ed Sullivan Theater. “I don’t want to go back in the system. I always believed that, as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles. And I think, right now, that they’re not as strong as they need to be.”
Her words landed like a gut punch to the national psyche. Less than a year after campaigning to lead that very system, Harris is now stepping away from it, declaring it too damaged to fix from within.
It was a strikingly unguarded moment from someone known more for cautious calibration than unscripted honesty. In a world where it’s increasingly hard to know what’s true, her words felt disarmingly and alarmingly real.
📉 The Broken System on Show
Evidence of the broken system Harris spoke of was on full display this week.
President Trump started the week in Scotland, parading around his Turnberry golf resort on a taxpayer-funded trip that reportedly cost Americans up to $10 million - complete with security, staff, and an armored golf cart nicknamed “Golf Force One.” No wonder we can’t afford Medicaid.
Between cheating at rounds of golf, he found time to tweet a fabricated accusation that Beyonce took an $11 million bribe to endorse Kamala Harris during the last election and called for her prosecution. Then he met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to unveil a new 15% U.S. tariff on most European imports, branding it a big win for America, without mentioning that the previous rate was just 1% and the real cost will hit American wallets, not European exporters.
That pretty much set the tone for the week: a fire hose of lies, bluster, and brazen grift, coming straight from the top-dog down. If you want proof of what Kamala meant by a broken system - or a real-time glimpse of the systemic reckoning Pluto in Aquarius points to, and the information chaos Uranus in Gemini reflects - this week delivered it in spades.
💸 Tariffs, Lies & Market Tremors
Trump spent the week slapping tariffs on just about everyone. In total, about 68 countries are now facing tariffs between 10% and 40%. Before this new trade war, the U.S. average tariff rate hovered around 2.4%, but now, it’s more than sextupled.
Trump bragged that his tariffs raked in $150 billion in six months, glossing over the fact that tariffs are taxes in disguise, and that money came from U.S. consumers and businesses, not foreign governments.
A federal appeals court is currently reviewing whether any of Trump’s tariff-spree is even legal, since the Constitution gives tariff power to Congress, not the president.
But that didn’t stop Trump from forging ahead and seemingly making up trade deals on the fly. He claimed this week that Japan had agreed to invest $550 billion in the U.S., and Europe over $1.4 trillion, but Japanese and European officials said Trump’s numbers were fantasy - he just made them up. Economist Paul Krugman called the whole thing “nonsense.”
Despite all the fanfare and promises of 90 deals in 90 days, Trump hasn’t landed a single binding trade agreement this term. The EU deal was not enforceable. The Japan pact was not ratified. The UK “win” was just a framework with no teeth. The only thing he’s really delivered this year is delusion.
In the wake of all Trump’s economic blustering, the Dow plunged over 400 points this week, spooked by a bleak July jobs report showing just 73,000 new jobs - far below expectations - and an unemployment spike to 4.2%. But the real gut punch came from the fine print: May and June’s previously high job numbers were significantly revised down, indicating the economy has been unraveling for a while now, just quietly.
Trump originally claimed 144,000 new jobs in May - the report revised this down to just 19,000. In June, he boasted 147,000, only for it to crater to 14,000. The economy has been silently sliding for months, and now the cracks are showing.
MAGA influencers tried to spin the jobs report as a win, until Trump flipped the script, claiming that the commissioner of labor statistics, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, had manipulated it. “In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad,” he wrote.
Then he fired her.
Economists sounded the alarm immediately. Firing a Senate-confirmed statistician over numbers Trump doesn’t like isn’t just authoritarian cosplay - it’s a full-blown credibility crisis. If U.S. data gets politicized, global markets lose trust. The foundation cracks.
But Trump didn’t stop there. He demanded that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell - his own appointee - resign, saying he should be “put out to pasture” and called him a “stubborn MORON,” “ a stubborn mule,” “a stupid person,” “a dumb guy,” and “a knuckehead”. Powell, who has repeatedly refused to slash interest rates to juice Trump’s flailing economy, can’t be fired without cause, so Trump tried to invent one recently, accusing Powell of “wasteful spending” over a Fed headquarters renovation, but mercifully for us all, it didn’t work.
That being said, Trump may get what he wants now that Adriana Kugler, the Fed’s first Hispanic governor and a respected labor economist, announced she’s stepping down early, months before her term ends, which gives Trump an unexpected opening to reshape the Fed with someone more compliant, more political.
After the jobs report debacle, Trump’s firing spree, the Fed shake-up, and yet another round of tariffs, the markets tanked. The Dow dropped 1.23%. The S&P slid 1.60%. The Nasdaq dove 2.24%.
Critics say this seals it: Trump doesn’t grasp trade, denies inflation exists, and now treats facts like a Deep State psyop. More damning, appellate lawyer and ex-GOP campaign chair Chris Truax wrote in The Hill this week that Trump’s rambling stories, scrambled timelines, and math struggles are textbook signs of dementia. The American economy is now being run like a rage-fueled livestream by a man visibly unraveling in real time.
The stars say the U.S. isn’t just heading into an economic downturn - it’s entering a full-blown systemic reckoning. With Pluto now in Aquarius, Uranus freshly in Gemini, and a rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction brewing in early 2026, the country is being pushed to confront its financial illusions, rigged structures, and unsustainable power games.
The cosmic message is that you can’t prop up a broken system with tariffs, lies, and spectacle forever. Collapse isn't just possible - it's karmically scheduled.
If the 2020s were the unraveling, 2025–2026 is the audit. Economic shocks, data disruption, and a public trust crisis are all on the way, but so is the chance to rebuild something radically more just. The stars aren’t cruel - they’re clear: Adapt or be exposed.
🧠 Alt-Facts and Outbursts
Trump clearly chose “exposed” this week, at least as far as his deteriorating mental state is concerned.
Seated beside a bewildered looking President von der Leyen in Scotland, Trump declared a war on windmills, saying “We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains.” He claimed that offshore wind farms were “causing whales to die in numbers never seen before,” adding, “The windmills are driving them crazy, they’re driving the whales a little batty and now they’re washing up on your shores in numbers never seen before.”
It was completely unhinged. Von der Leyen looked like she’d seen a ghost. The internet lit up. Analysts called the performance “chaotic,” “delusional,” “dangerous” and “an embarrassment to the United States”. But Trump had only just got started.
The following day, Trump met with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for yet another off-the-wall press conference beside a world leader (this time with bagpipes) during which he claimed that he had “stopped six wars, I’m averaging about a war a month” (though he could only name four, none of which he actually stopped).
Nobody seemed to know what Trump was talking about, until Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took to the White House podium later in the week to fervently demand that Trump should receive a Nobel Peace Prize, insisting he’s “brokered on average about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office”. She claimed he ended conflicts between Israel and Iran and India and Pakistan, which was news to, well, Israel, Iran, India, and Pakistan. “It's well past done that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize," she fumed.
It’s baffling to watch Trump’s loyalists debase themselves day after day, parroting whatever unhinged script he hands them. But when news broke this week that Leavitt is drowning in $326,000 of debt from her failed 2022 House run - much of it from illegal over-the-limit donations she still hasn’t repaid - it all snapped into focus. Desperation breeds devotion, especially when you’ve got a quarter-million-dollar IOU and a front-row seat at the circus. Plus, it helps when you’re the teacher’s pet. This week Trump said of Leavitt in a televised interview, "She's become a star. It's that face, it's that brain, it's those lips, the way they move." The 1950’s called, Don, and they want their sleazy boss vibes back.
In other Trump-related fumbles this week, during a bill-signing ceremony he completely forgot that the sponsoring congressman, Rep. Derrick Van Orden, was standing right beside him. Trump paused midway, asked “Where’s Derrick?”, prompting the congressman - just inches away - to say “I’m here.” Van Orden then joked, “I’m a Navy SEAL - I snuck up on you.” Needless to say, it was awkward.
Then, in a painfully ironic twist, Trump struggled to keep his eyes open as Dr. Oz gave a speech about how exhausted the average American is. The man who coined “Sleepy Joe” got out-snoozed by his own eyelids.
In another stunning moment, Trump seemed to lose control of the right side of his body as he skulked away from the podium. The internet lit up with theories: Did he bump into the lectern? Did he trip? Did he just have a stroke?
Looking worn and weathered as he sat beside a stone-faced Keir Starmer in Scotland, cameras zoomed in on the heavy makeup caked on Trump’s bruised right hand and his visibly swollen ankles, a reminder that the man is not well - and very possibly far more unwell than the White House is letting on.
This week’s astrology paints a grim picture in Trump’s chart, echoing what the cameras captured: a man mentally adrift and emotionally unmoored. Venus squared Neptune, clouding his thinking and amplifying delusion, while Chiron’s retrograde hit pressure points tied to wounded pride and grandiosity. He’s spinning behind the scenes - trapped in a loop of paranoia, victimhood, and shadowy manoeuvring. The fog isn’t just external - it’s internal….and it’s thickening.
By mid-August, Mars clashes with Neptune and Saturn, stirring confusion, frustration, and compulsive misfires. At the same time, Venus inflates his messaging, pushing the kind of puffed-up claims and emotional bait we’ve seen on display. But the real flashpoint comes late August, when a trio of harsh aspects strike at his public persona and private control. This is fracture energy. What he’s clinging to slips. What he’s hiding may not stay hidden.
Uranus is now moving in on his Sun and North Node - his fame, his destiny, his identity - and Pluto continues to grind down his Ascendant. The mask is cracking. The astrologers aren’t guessing here: this is decline. And it’s gaining speed.
🇷🇺 Nuclear Bluffs & Cyber Brawls
In Scotland this week, Trump’s rant-fest alongside the UK PM continued as he took aim at world leaders, first going for London’s Mayor saying, “I’m not a fan of your mayor. I think he’s done a terrible job. A nasty person.” Starmer offered a brief defence - “He’s a friend of mine” - but Trump bulldozed on, undeterred, announcing he would give Putin just “10, 12, maybe 15 days” to implement a Ukraine ceasefire (down suddenly from his previously stated 50 days) because he was “very disappointed” in his old comrade, Vlad - presumably over the recent escalation of Russian airstrikes in Ukraine.
In an almost immediate response to Trump’s ultimatum, Russia blitzed Ukraine with a massive drone and missile strike that killed 6 and wounded dozens, on top of the more than 597 drones and 60 missiles Russia’s launched in July alone, hammering Ukranian cities with relentless precision. Dozens have died, hundreds have been injured, and swathes of infrastructure have been reduced to rubble.
But Russia is by no means winning this war. It has suffered over 1 million casualties and currently occupies less of Ukraine than it did a week into the war back in 2022.
Ukraine has been hitting back heavily, just this week pulling off a daring cyberattack on Russian airline Aeroflot, wiping 7,000 servers, stealing 20 terabytes of data, and grounding over 100 flights. It’s already being called one of the worst cyberstrikes on Russian infrastructure to date. Ukrainian drones also struck the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery late this week, one of Russia’s top ten largest refining facilities that produces critical jet fuel for combat aircraft.
With war-weary Pluto now crawling through Aquarius and a game-changing Pisces eclipse due in September, Russia’s power plays are entering their twilight phase. October’s Pluto station and Mars in Scorpio will tempt Putin toward escalation, but it may backfire spectacularly. Ukraine’s chart, meanwhile, shows growing international support and digital dominance. The stars don’t promise peace yet, but they do suggest a narrative reversal is brewing, and it won’t favor the invader.
With tensions between Ukraine and Russia reaching a boiling point, Trump tossed a nuke into the pot this week - figuratively, but only just. Trump upped the ante against Russia by announcing on social media that he’d ordered two U.S. nuclear submarines to reposition “appropriately” in response to what he called “highly provocative” nuclear threats from Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev. Experts said it was mostly theatrical posturing, but waving nukes around on Truth Social isn’t exactly stabilizing. It’s nuclear brinksmanship as foreign policy, with the volume turned to 11.
This isn’t deterrence. It’s deflection. A president flaunting nukes to divert from a collapsing economy, visible cognitive decline, and his ties to an international child trafficking ring. Welcome to the Epstein Missile Crisis.
🕵️♀️ Maxwell’s Moves
Speaking of Epstein (and let’s face it, who isn’t speaking of Epstein these days), news broke this week that convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was urging the Supreme Court to toss out her sex-trafficking conviction, arguing that Jeffrey Epstein’s shady 2007 plea deal with federal prosecutors should’ve shielded her too, and that she’s been scapegoated for his sins.
“This case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did,” said her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, even invoking Trump’s deal-making legacy to make his point: “Surely he would agree that when the United States gives its word, it must stand by it.”
In a separate response to last week’s subpoena from the House Oversight Committee, Maxwell’s lawyers made a bold play, saying she won’t talk to them unless she gets immunity or clemency from President Trump. They also demanded advance questions, an off-site location, and a delay until after her Supreme Court appeal.
Congress rejected every condition and confirmed Maxwell will be deposed on August 11 - with no immunity.
Maxwell’s chart is lit up like a Christmas tree on August 11, and so are Trump’s, Dershowitz’s, Clinton’s, Barr’s, Wexner’s, Black’s, and Prince Andrew’s. Even Epstein’s chart is triggered from beyond the grave.
The skies say August 11 looks less like a deposition and more like a detonation. The stars set the stage for a cosmic ambush - the kind of day when secrets go feral and the empire of silence catches fire. We shall see.
For now, Maxwell has been handed a sweetheart transfer to a minimum‑security prison camp in Texas - far cozier than her former lockup in Florida - where she’s now incarcerated with convicted fraudsters like Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and reality TV star Jen Shah. Maxwell is the only sex-offender in the place - the Bureau of Prisons explicitly bars sex offenders from these facilities, calling them too high-risk for such relaxed security, so someone high up had to greenlight this exception. No points for guessing who, but that someone clearly wants her either more comfortable.….or more accessible. Time will tell which, and why.
📂 The Files That Won’t Stay Buried
Trump played coy this week when asked by reporters about the possibility of clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, saying “nobody’s asked me,” but notably, he didn’t shut the door on a future pardon either.
He doubled down on denials, insisting he never drew the now-infamous raunchy birthday sketch cited in the Wall Street Journal (which he's currently suing for $10 billion), that his name may have been “planted” in the Epstein files, and that he never had the “privilege” of visiting Epstein’s island.
Never had the privilege.
Seriously, sometimes there just are no words….
Offering new insight into his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein this week, Trump claimed the two fell out after Epstein started “stealing” young female workers from Mar-a-Lago’s spa.
“People were taken out of the spa, hired by him,” Trump said. “I told him we don’t want you taking our people….He did it again, I said, ‘Out of here.’” When asked if one of those women was Virginia Giuffre - who later became one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers - Trump replied, “I think so. He stole her.”
Commentators were quick to point out that Trump’s story doesn’t match the record. Giuffre has long said Epstein recruited her from Mar-a-Lago in 2000, yet two years later, Trump publicly praised Epstein as a “terrific guy” who “likes beautiful women…..on the younger side.” Epstein attended Trump’s 2005 wedding, and remained a Mar-a-Lago member until at least 2007.
In fact, multiple reports suggest their real falling out wasn’t over spa staff, but a soured real estate deal, and far from being horrified by Epstein’s behavior, Trump allegedly encouraged a culture that mirrored it. According to a new biography by royal historian Andrew Lownie, Trump and Prince Andrew exchanged a list of masseuses at a party in 2000 while they made vulgar comments about women. Epstein reportedly quipped that Andrew was “more obsessed with p*ssy than me.” So either Trump forgot everything, or he’s lying through his teeth. Again.
Critics were also quick to note that, by Trump’s own admission, his outrage wasn’t about Epstein’s exploitation of young women - it was about employee poaching. As many pointed out, Epstein wasn’t running a hotel. He wasn’t poaching janitors. He was showing up at Mar-a-Lago to recruit teenage girls. When asked directly, “What did you think Epstein was stealing those women for?” Trump snapped at the reporter, called them fake news, and muttered, “I don’t know really why.”
Virginia Giuffre’s family issued a statement in response. “It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago,” they said. Her brother, Sky Roberts, added: “She wasn’t stolen. She was preyed upon - at his property, at President Trump’s property. And it makes you kind of ask the question: how much did he know back then?”
Answers to that question may be coming, if Chuck Schumer gets his way. This week, the Senate Minority Leader dusted off a little-known century-old weapon called the “Rule of Five” to compel the DOJ to cough up every Epstein file in their vaults - no vote required. The demand covers everything from documents to interviews and even internal memos. The disclosure deadline he set was for August 15 - yet another explosive date lighting up the charts of nearly everyone connected to Epstein.
The cosmos, it seems, is closing in.
Meanwhile, the Epstein mystery got a fresh injection of paranoia this week when author Michael Wolff claimed that Trump has been privately fuming about rumors that he may have had Epstein killed. “They say I killed Epstein. I didn’t have Epstein killed,” Trump reportedly said, before adding, “but a lot of people wanted him dead.” Of course, Trump denied the whole thing.
But the plot thickened when CBS News revealed that newly analyzed security footage shows an unidentified, blurry orange figure walking the corridor near Epstein’s cell at 4 a.m., just two hours before he was found dead. (Though many online quipped that a “blurry orange figure” sounds like a description of Trump, on the video, it looks more like someone in a bright orange jumpsuit). This person isn’t named in any DOJ report, wasn’t mentioned in the official investigation, and according to guards, shouldn’t have been able to access the area without a key.
The CBS probe also flagged a suspicious timestamp jump in the video - brushed off by the DOJ as a routine reset - and exposed that Epstein made a late-night, unmonitored call to a mysterious 646 number in New York, arranged by a senior officer, the content of which remains unknown.
Epstein was supposed to be under strict watch on the night he died - a cellmate, 30-minute checks, functioning cameras - but instead, the cameras glitched, the guards either slept or faked the logs, no cellmate was assigned, and someone slipped into the unit unnoticed. The two guards later had charges against them dropped in a quietly brokered plea deal. At best, it looks like an institutional failure on every level, and at worst, a cover-up in plain sight.
So many Epstein cover-ups, it’s hard to keep track of them all.
🧟♂️ Ghosts of Russiagate
With the Epstein scandal dragging into its fourth week - the longest Trump’s ever failed to be able to reset the narrative - Republicans got desperate this week to feed the base a suitable distraction.
They tried accusing Obama of treason last week, but that didn’t really fly, so they reverted to another Trump punching bag that Republicans love to hate.
Enter some dusty CIA memos suggesting U.S. intel once overheard a rumor that Hillary Clinton approved a plan to link Trump to Russia during the 2016 campaign to distract from her email scandal. It was passed to Obama, then the FBI, but never verified. No proof - just smoke.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassified the memos this week, which were buried in a classified annex to the Durham Report - a 2023 report by Trump-appointed special counsel John Durham that found no wrongdoing by Clinton but scolded the FBI for how it handled both Trump-and Clinton-related intel.
Right-wing media spun the memo drop like a smoking gun, but it wasn’t. It was a rerun. A straight-to-video sequel. Russiagate Returns: The Revenge of the Republicans.
FBI director Kash Patel joined in on the action, claiming bureau officials tried to destroy damning Russiagate documents during Trump’s final weeks in office back in 2020 - shoving them into “burn bags” for incineration. Patel says he rescued some of them, which supposedly show intel officials knowingly pushed false claims about Trump and Russia and that the FBI is now “reviewing” those documents. Maybe.
Two ghost stories, same goal: rewrite the origin of Russiagate and cast Trump as the real victim, in an effort to change the subject from Epstein.
Critics were quick to point out the obvious: Trump was president for four years after 2016 - if this was a smoking gun, why didn’t he wave it around then? Biden was in office for another four after that, and we’re meant to believe his team just left damning Russiagate evidence lying around for Trump’s allies to stumble across a decade later? Even with right-wing media breathlessly screaming Hillary’s name into the void once more, the story doesn’t hold up. Least of all to Trump himself.
When asked by reporters about these “burn bags” full of Trump–Russia documents the public’s never seen, Trump just blinked and said, “I thought you said I appointed a man named Burn Bag.” Then he veered into another unprompted ramble about Epstein.
His acolytes twisted themselves into a pretzel this week trying to provide Trump with a way to steer the conversation away from Epstein, and he just fumbled it straight back.
Perhaps aware that Trump was fumbling, his team added a fresh scapegoat to the mix by end of week: Jack Smith. The Office of Special Counsel confirmed it’s investigating the former special prosecutor - yes, the one who indicted Trump - for allegedly violating the Hatch Act.
The accusation is that holding Trump accountable for literal crimes was somehow “political.” Just like the Obama treason claim and Hillary’s emails - it’s the same recycled ritual: criminalize the investigators, canonize the criminal.
First they weaponized conspiracy. Now they’re weaponizing accountability. And still, no arrests have been made, no charges laid. Just endless noise, designed to drown out the signal: Epstein.
The Republican Party right now is in full retrograde mode - and not just ideologically. Pluto in Aquarius is dancing with their natal Sun, triggering a full-blown identity crisis. Cue the ghost stories: Hillary, Obama, Russiagate, burn bags - anything to avoid facing the collapse of their current narrative.
Neptune retrograde is squaring the GOP’s Scorpio Moon, dissolving emotional coherence and fueling persecution delusions. No wonder it feels like a 2016 fever dream - they're drowning in conspiracy fog and calling it truth.
Meanwhile, Mercury in Leo squaring the U.S. natal Pluto is classic "weaponize the media" astrology - misdirect, deflect, distract. But with Pluto involved, the real story always leaks out. Trump’s camp is trying to change the subject, but Epstein's shadow still looms, and it’s armed with a flashlight and a subpoena.
Mars enters Libra in early August, hitting both America’s reputation zone and the GOP’s Midheaven. That’s the warm-up act for public blowback, legal heat, and institutional karma. Mars in Libra doesn’t brawl - it litigates.
The stars are clear: reckoning ahead. The GOP is stuck in a rerun, but the country is on the verge of a very different season.
🍽 Let Them Eat Aid
In a rare flash of clarity this week, Trump took aim at Israel’s official line on the man-made famine unfolding in Gaza, flatly rejecting Netanyahu’s claim that starvation wasn’t happening. While Netanyahu insists that aid is flowing and blames Hamas for the shortages, virtually every independent source says otherwise. Gaza is spiraling into famine.
There’s been 28,000 reported cases of malnutrition and at least 122 people have died of starvation since the war began in October 2023, after Hamas’s attack on Israel, which killed around 1,200 Israelis. Despite global outcry, humanitarian aid remains severely restricted. The UN has warned of mass hunger. The EU is scrambling to open new crossings.
The total death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 60,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. That includes over 18,500 children and nearly 9,800 women. More than 146,000 have been wounded, and thousands remain missing.
Trump announced this week that the U.S. would partner with European allies to set up open-access “food centers” in Gaza aimed at getting aid directly to civilians, bypassing what he called Israel’s “crazy” blockades. He reminded reporters that the U.S. had already sent $60 million in food aid, but complained nobody had thanked him - “You really at least want to have somebody say thank you” - because apparently, in Trump’s world, gratitude matters more than genocide.
On closer inspection, though, it turns out the U.S. didn’t actually send $60 million in food aid to Gaza - it sent $30 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a Delaware-based nonprofit operating under Israeli oversight. Major aid groups and the UN refuse to work with it, calling it a “death trap” after dozens of Palestinians were killed at its militarized food hubs. Critics say it’s humanitarian theater with body bags - a PR stunt posing as aid, and Trump’s supposed generosity is just veiled hostility.
🇺🇸🎤 Diplomacy or Damage Control?
Trump’s handpicked Middle East envoy, real estate tycoon Steve Witkoff, held a rare and emotional meeting this week with the families of the 20 remaining Israeli hostages still believed to be alive in Gaza. He assured them their loved ones were America’s “first priority,” floating an “all-or-nothing” deal to bring everyone home and end the war in one sweep.
But while Witkoff offered empathy and airtime to Israeli families, Palestinians got visa bans, blacklists, and bombs. This week, Trump barred top Palestinian officials from U.S. soil - including the UN - further isolating Palestinian leadership while reaffirming Israel’s hand.
Witkoff’s visit may have brought comfort to some, but it also laid bare the cruel arithmetic of U.S. policy: 20 Israeli lives center the global stage, while 60,000 dead Palestinians barely make the credits.
The message was loud and clear that for this White House, Israeli grief is sacred, and Palestinian survival is negotiable.
🌊 The Tide Turns on Palestine
But while Trump was sidelining Palestine this week, the rest of the world was giving recognition and ultimatums.
The UK, Canada and Portugal all announced this week that they will formally recognize the State of Palestine in September 2025, unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, halts West Bank annexation, allows at least 500 trucks of humanitarian aid per day, and commits to a two-state solution. France committed to recognition last week, while Ireland, Norway, and Spain already recognize Palestine, however, the rest of the EU remains divided on the issue.
What the EU agrees on is that Hamas must disarm, this week cooperating with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and 17 other nations in signing a joint declaration calling for Hamas to relinquish control of Gaza, and transfer authority to the Palestinian Authority. This marks the first time major Arab states have publicly called for Hamas’s removal. Notably, Israel and the United States were not signatories to the declaration.
🏗 Gaza: Annexation or Apocalypse?
Rather than ending the war, Israel is now weighing a plan to annex parts of northern Gaza, including the construction of three new Israeli settlements. Far-right ministers like Bezalel Smotrich are championing the idea, which would involve forcibly removing Palestinians and redeveloping the area. Some officials have even floated a grotesque vision of a “Gaza Riviera.”
The proposal has been slammed by international law experts and the UN as a blatant violation of international law, potentially constituting crimes against humanity and contradicting a 2024 advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice, which reaffirmed that annexing occupied territory is illegal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity over the Gaza offensive. The ICC issued arrest warrants in late 2024, and more than 120 countries - ranging from France and Germany to South Africa and the UK - are now legally obliged to detain him if he sets foot on their soil. The court rejected Israel’s appeal to scrap the warrant last month, meaning Netanyahu now leads a war while facing global legal jeopardy.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s chart is about to take several direct hits, and this time, even his usual political Teflon may not hold. The months ahead look less like a comeback and more like a cosmic takedown. With Pluto squaring his Sun and a solar eclipse landing right on it in September, the stars are screaming “endgame.” Add Jupiter dragging his name through the public courts and Pluto turning direct in October to seal the deal - this is legacy collapse, not legacy cement. The reckoning’s inbound.
⚖️ The Scales Are Tipping
Despite the growing support for Palestine and disdain for Israel and Netanyahu’s actions, Gaza remains a deeply polarizing issue.
The New York Times was forced to issue a correction after publishing a front-page photo of an emaciated Gazan toddler under the headline “Young, old and sick starve to death in Gaza.” Medical records later revealed the child suffered from pre-existing conditions, including cerebral palsy and hypoxemia - not famine.
In response, protesters splashed red paint across the Times building this week, scrawling “NYT lies, Gaza dies” on its facade - a visceral rebuke of perceived media distortion in the face of mass suffering.
Actress Miriam Margolyes ignited controversy this week by speaking out for Palestine. The proud Jewish advocate for justice said, “I can’t bear the thought that my people are doing exactly the same thing to another nation.” She went further, saying “The terrible thing I face is Hitler won. He changed us, made us like him.” Margolyes insists her criticism comes from a place of moral clarity, not antisemitism, calling on Jews everywhere to “shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire.” Watchdog groups now want her stripped of her OBE and BAFTA for her fiery remarks.
Joe Rogan also sparked backlash by slamming the Israeli government’s assault on Gaza this week, calling it “insane” and pointing to the mass killing of women, children, and aid workers. “October 7th was awful. Absolutely terrible attack,” he said. “But also what they've done to Gaza is insane……And if your response is ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’ - like, against what? Children?”
Rogan’s refusal to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his podcast reportedly sent Netanyahu’s son, Yair “Yaya” Netanyahu, into a tailspin online, accusing Rogan of platforming “neo-Nazis” while denying one to his father.
Commentators quickly mocked the hypocrisy, noting that no one owes the Israeli PM a platform for wartime spin. Yair’s outburst, many argued, revealed rising panic among pro-Israel hardliners as global public figures - including prominent Jewish voices - now openly describe Israel’s Gaza offensive as a genocide, heavily backed by nearly $300 billion in U.S. military aid.
That military backing only grew this week, as the Senate rejected two measures that would have blocked $675 million in arms sales to Israel over Gaza concerns. The resolutions failed, but more than half of Senate Democrats supported them, marking the biggest internal rebellion yet against unconditional U.S. support for Israel. The weapons are still flowing for now, but the political tide may be turning.
The stars suggest we are entering a period of historic karmic exposure for both Israel and Palestine - but not equally.
From August through October 2025, Israel's natal chart is hit hard by Pluto retrograde in Aquarius, squaring its Taurus Sun and Leo Moon. That’s an identity crisis at the highest levels: power, reputation, and national self-image are under siege. The global tide turning against Israel isn’t just geopolitical - it’s woven into the cosmic fabric. Pluto demands reckoning, and Israel can’t bomb or spin its way out of this one.
Meanwhile, Palestine’s chart is activated by the Pisces Lunar Eclipse on September 7, landing near its natal Moon. That’s an emotional eruption, a cry heard worldwide - and likely a moment of mass mourning or symbolic release. But this eclipse also opens the door for recognition, particularly with Jupiter in Cancer forming a stabilizing trine to Palestine’s Venus and Mercury. Expect breakthroughs in diplomacy around September 21’s Virgo Solar Eclipse - possibly timed with formal recognition from multiple countries.
October is the final domino. As Pluto stations direct in Aquarius on October 14, collective judgment arrives, and Israel’s global standing may fracture further. If it doubles down on occupation and annexation, it risks total isolation.
This conflict won’t “resolve” in 2025, but the karmic balance is shifting visibly now. Palestine may suffer horrific losses, but it is stepping into historic visibility. Israel may maintain military control, but it’s losing moral authority, and that, astrologically, is the beginning of the end of impunity.
🏰 Trump’s America: Ransack, Not Rule
As Trump made his way back from Scotland this week, he returned to a country embroiled in political chaos, much of which has been caused by his own administration. Many commentators this week suggested that he and his acolytes are not really running the country - they’re just ransacking it.
First, we learned that Trump’s pointless six-week Marine deployment to Los Angeles back in May - designed purely for optics - burned through $134 million in taxpayer funds.
Then came the news that $1 billion is being funneled through the Pentagon to retrofit Trump’s "gifted" luxury jet from Qatar.
By end of week, Trump announced he’s building a 90,000-square-foot, $200 million ballroom on the South Lawn of the White House, almost twice the size of the actual residence, paid for by “patriot donors” allegedly.
Meanwhile, his new budget bill just kicked millions of low-income Americans off Medicaid. Golden galas and luxury jets for the elites, no antibiotics for the rest of us.
All of this is eerily reminiscent of the last time Pluto was in Aquarius - when Marie Antoinette’s response to starving peasants demanding bread was to sneer, “Let them eat cake.” And we all know what became of her.
But it’s not just money burning in Trump’s White House, it’s laws, regulations, history and facts too.
This week, the EPA scrapped the rule allowing the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, essentially giving polluters a free pass to poison the air. It's part of Trump’s broader “patriot economy” push, because apparently, climate action is un-American now.
Elon Musk’s DOGE was found to have been using an AI program to auto-delete thousands of federal regulations, with plans to wipe out half of all U.S. regs by January 2026. So far, it’s reportedly deleted up to 100,000 rules, including some still under legal review. No oversight or transparency, just mass deletion by machine.
News also broke this week that instead of saving taxpayers money, DOGE’s so-called “war on waste” torched $21.7 billion in just six months by paying federal workers not to work, cancelling clean energy projects, and burying agencies in useless paperwork. So much for efficiency.
After Trump signed an executive order demanding the removal of “improper, divisive or anti‑American ideology” from Smithsonian exhibits, this week officials quietly pulled a placard at the National Museum of American History that mentioned his two impeachments. The Smithsonian insists no one from the government ordered it - they say it violated exhibit design standards and will be “restored in the coming weeks.” But like everything with Trump, the fix is always coming in “two weeks”…..and somehow, it never arrives.
In yet another effort to wipe out history, Republicans this week filed a bill to rename the Kennedy Center the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts, with a second proposal to rename the opera house after Melania. Legal scholars called it a political stunt. The Kennedy family called it “insane.” Maria Shriver tweeted, “It makes my blood boil. It’s so ridiculous, so petty, so small‑minded……What’s next?”
Tax accounts for kids, it seems.
In case your toddler wasn’t already sufficiently invested in the market, the Trump administration this week unveiled “Trump Accounts” - new tax-deferred investment accounts for children. Every newborn gets $1,000, and families can contribute up to $5,000 per year, tax-free. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called it a “backdoor way” to privatize Social Security, prompting immediate backlash from economists and Democrats alike. Wall Street cheered. Everyone else heard alarm bells. While Bessent later walked it back, saying it was meant to “supplement” Social Security, the original pitch was clear: turn America’s safety net into a stock portfolio. Because what could go wrong with entrusting a child’s future to the Dow Jones?
Speaking of children….
After 60 years in business, supporting shows like Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced this week it’s shutting down because of Trump’s funding cuts. This marks an end to decades of public support for iconic educational and cultural programming.
Brown University agreed to pay $50 million over 10 years to get back into Trump’s good graces this week, and unlock $500 million in frozen research funds. In return, it agreed to federal oversight, gender policy restrictions, and “biological sex” mandates. Smells less like a donation and more like a political shakedown in a lab coat.
Thanks to court rulings and a Trump rollback, Biden’s SAVE Plan was declared dead this week, so now 8 million student loan borrowers are about to feel the financial burn.
Speaking of courts, Trump’s longtime TV ally Jeanine Pirro was confirmed this week as the top federal prosecutor for D.C. - a position that oversees politically sensitive cases and Capitol-related prosecutions. The vote was 50–45, right down party lines. Pirro, who made her name yelling on Fox News about voter fraud and Deep State conspiracies - the one Fox said was “crazy” and had to take off the air - is now in charge of actual federal prosecutions. Critics say it’s like handing the launch codes to QAnon. For Trump, though, it’s the perfect loyalty reward: appoint a bulldog in heels, call it justice, and dare the system to stop you.
In another blow to institutional integrity this week, a whistleblower exposed that Emil Bove - Trump’s ex-lawyer turned DOJ official - lied under oath during his confirmation hearing, so Senate Democrats tried to block his lifetime judgeship, but Republicans shrugged and confirmed him anyway, 50–49. Trump scored another judicial win, this time with perjury in the paperwork.
Not that Trump pays much attention to the judiciary.
The Washington Post reported this week that the Trump administration has defied court orders in 57 cases, using tactics like delays and misinformation to sidestep legal rulings.
And when team Trump doesn’t like a ruling, he and his administration just straight out attacks the judge.
Trump’s DOJ this week filed a misconduct complaint against Chief Judge James Boasberg for warning that Trump could trigger a constitutional crisis by ignoring court rulings. They want him removed from a major immigration case, claiming bias, but what they’re really doing is sending a clear message to the bench: rule against Trump, and you’re the next target.
It’s not just the judiciary that’s being purged - it’s Trump’s inner circle too - and Laura Loomer’s hit list seems to be the script. At least 15 officials have been axed after appearing on her MAGA loyalty radar, including the NSA’s top lawyer and vaccine chief Vinay Prasad, who was fired despite protests from RFK Jr. and Trump’s own health secretary. Loomer holds no official role, no government clearance, and no expertise in anything, but she’s somehow dictating personnel decisions at the highest levels. Trump claims she has no sway, but the firings say otherwise. This isn’t random. It’s a fringe-led, President-approved ideological purge.
Another Republican to catch the ire of Trump this week was Senator Josh Hawley when he helped push a bill through committee that would ban stock trading for Congress, the President, and the VP. It passed 8–7, with Hawley the only Republican siding with Democrats. Trump, feeling targeted, lashed out at Hawley, calling him “second-tier,” while GOP senators whined that banning trading was basically “an attack on success.” The sting is that the bill only gained traction once it included executive branch accountability, and that’s exactly why the White House tried to kill it.
To top it all off, the U.S. landed on a global human rights watchlist this week - alongside countries like Pakistan, Italy, and Congo - for cracking down on protest rights, media access restrictions, funding cuts to civil society, and erosion of checks and balances.
This news came as ICE hiring kicked into overdrive, dishing out $50,000 signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness, and full benefits to attract thousands of new agents. Trump’s goal is 1 million deportations a year, 3,000 arrests a day, powered by a massive new war chest: $170 billion in immigration spending, with tens of billions funneled directly to ICE in a vast expansion of what used to be called enforcement, but now looks a hell of a lot more like intimidation.
This week, in Florida, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen was violently detained by Border Patrol, choked, tasered, and told he had “no rights here.” The teen recorded the encounter, which captured agents joking about stun guns and bonuses, before being charged with obstruction, presumably for having the audacity to film it.
In New York, witnesses at 26 Federal Plaza described families with children walking through a gauntlet of masked and armed agents, only to watch their caregivers disappear the moment they left court. Volunteers had to walk a child home after ICE left them stranded on the street.
In Georgia, ICE threw a double amputee into solitary confinement after he refused to re-enter a flooded cell that could have damaged his prosthetic legs. He wasn’t asking for special treatment - just functioning power and a dry floor.
This is Donald Trump’s America.
With Pluto in Aquarius exposing authoritarian power plays, Mars in Virgo turns bureaucratic chaos into a weapon, and Venus squaring Saturn and Neptune reveals the high-gloss illusions masking systemic decay.
This isn’t just corruption, it’s empire rot in real time.
Uranus in Gemini keeps the narrative unstable - one shocking headline after another, designed to disorient and dominate. Jupiter in Cancer tries to uphold collective care, but it’s being smothered by greed wrapped in patriot branding. Meanwhile, Chiron retrograde in Aries reopens deep national wounds: identity, justice, and betrayal by those sworn to serve.
The astrology says it plainly - this is collapse dressed as celebration, tyranny cloaked in tradition. But even now, the cosmos reminds us: what is built on illusion cannot hold.
It’s easy to feel sickened, stunned, or small in the face of such sprawling decay and cruelty. But this is the moment we were born for - not to shrink from truth, but to meet it with moral clarity. Even when power lies, the soul does not.
Let your outrage become illumination. Let your grief sharpen your gaze. This is not the end of the story - it’s the fire before the renewal. So stay awake, stay rooted, and remember: darkness thrashes hardest when it knows the light is coming.
🧨 The People Push Back
Despite the relentless fire hose of insanity spewing out of the White House, there has been some significant push back over the past few months, and this week it started getting pushier.
A federal appeals court this week upheld a ban on ICE's racial profiling arrests in Southern California, blocking agents from targeting people based on race, language, job type, or neighborhood without probable cause. It’s a rare - and vital - act of resistance from the bench.
After Trump told Texas Republicans to rig the 2026 midterms by redistricting the map, slashing five Democratic seats and handing the GOP a near-lock on 30 out of 38 districts, Democrats like Jasmine Crockett and Beto O’Rourke this week called it what it is: a power grab dressed up as paperwork.
Senator Cory Booker blew a gasket on the Senate floor this week, torching his fellow Democrats for being “complicit” with the president, urging his party to “get a backbone”, and calling on institutions to stop “bending the knee” to Trump.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s came out swinging, floating a November special election to let California voters approve a new, Democrat-friendly map in retaliation for what Republicans are trying in Texas.
“Donald Trump and Greg Abbott recognize that they can’t win in the midterms. All the momentum has shifted away from them, so they’re doing what Trump what familiarly does. He wants to rig the game,” Newsom declared at a press conference this week. “The Trump presidency ends in November of next year if the American people are given a fair chance and a voice. We will take back congress. He wants to rig the game. We can criticize from the sideline or we can respond in kind. Fight fire with fire.”
It’s a redistricting arms race, and California just loaded the first blue missile.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the FBI to conduct a counterintelligence threat assessment to analyze the risk of a foreign adversary gaining access to the Epstein files and using it as leverage against powerful people named in it. Not looking at anyone in particular…..
Democratic House members sued the Trump administration for blocking their oversight of ICE detention centers, after a messy May incident where some reps got stopped cold at Newark’s Delaney Hall, with one even slapped with assault charges (later dropped, of course).
Even GOP Senator John Thune drew a line this week, announcing that he’ll block Trump from sneaking in recess appointments by keeping the Senate in technical session during it’s August recess - a technical manoeuvre that prevents a president from filling key roles while the chamber is away, and Trump from packing the government with loyalists while no one’s home.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) rejected a sweeping request from Trump’s DOJ for access to the state’s voter registration data and election systems, after Maine Republicans raised claims of double voting, but Bellows' office investigated and found no evidence of fraud. She effectively told Trump’s DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
American voters themselves registered their disgust loud and clear in Gallup’s latest poll showing Trump’s approval sinking to 37%, with independents jumping ship in droves. He’s now underwater by 29 points with that group - a flashing red warning light for the 2026 midterms.
A poll commissioned by The Century Foundation this week showed that 60% of Americans blame Trump’s administration for driving the high cost of living, with 63% saying he worsened grocery prices and 61% citing a general financial decline under his leadership. Most Americans do not buy the idea that Trump’s policies improved their finances. Instead, they see them as a key driver behind soaring prices and chronic economic anxiety.
And for what it’s worth, Trump was booed relentlessly by the 50,000-strong crowd when his image hit the big screens at WWE’s SummerSlam this weekend. Wrestling crowds used to be part of his base - clearly not anymore.
As Venus enters Cancer and slams into Saturn and Neptune, the feminine archetype doesn’t crumble - it defends. This is the sacred protective force rising now: people guarding the soul of democracy with more grit than grace.
Mars in Virgo cuts through spin with surgical precision, while Jupiter in Cancer amplifies the emotional charge of justice and belonging. Pluto in Aquarius reminds us that power is being redistributed, one rebellion at a time. And with Uranus sparking disruption in Gemini, the message is spreading: you don’t win by bending - you win by breaking the old script.
The tide turns not because institutions are strong, but because people get louder, bolder, and more allergic to the lies and spin. This week wasn’t just backlash - it was the beginning of a counter-surge.
💥 Nervous System on Edge
The unrest right now isn’t just political.
This week, violence broke out in multiple cities, first in Michigan where a man went on a stabbing spree in a Walmart, injuring 11 people. Laura Loomer was quick to blame Muslim immigrants, tweeting: “What are the odds that the person who went on a mass stabbing rampage is a Muslim immigrant? Michigan has been invaded. Deport them all.” Turned out though that the attacker was a white guy from Michigan named Bradford James Gille.
No word from Loomer on whether all white people will now be deported.
Then a gunman opened fire outside the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino in Reno, Nevada, killing 3 people and critically injuring 2 others. The shooter was quickly confronted and taken into custody.
In Virginia, councilman Lee Vogler was set on fire in a shocking personal attack at his office. The suspect allegedly doused him with gasoline and ignited him before fleeing. Vogler survived with serious burns in what police say is one of the most violent assaults on an elected official in recent memory.
In Montana, four people were gunned down in a small-town bar by ex-Army sergeant Michael Brown, who fled barefoot into the mountains and remains at large. The manhunt locked down the town of Anaconda as officials warned he’s armed and extremely dangerous.
In Midtown Manhattan, a gunman opened fire at 345 Park Avenue - home to the NFL’s headquarters and major finance offices. Armed with a rifle, the shooter entered the building’s lobby and continued up to the 33rd floor, firing on employees before turning the weapon on himself. He killed 4 people before dying by suicide. During the siege, anti-Muslim rhetoric spread rapidly online, with many falsely claiming the attacker was a Muslim immigrant, when in fact, the gunman was 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura from Las Vegas. Among the four victims was NYPD Officer Didarul Islam - a Bangladeshi immigrant - who was killed in the line of duty while protecting others.
Online speculation quickly swirled that the attack was a targeted hit on Blackstone, one of the world's largest real estate investment firms, after it was revealed one of the victims was Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner. Some attempted to connect it to the earlier assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione in 2024, but investigators say Tamura was not targeting Blackstone or its leadership - he had mistakenly entered the building while allegedly aiming to confront the NFL over player brain injuries.
This week’s rash of violent acts reveals the darker undercurrent of Mars in Virgo: not just system breakdown, but personal rupture. When Mars gets cornered by invisible pressures (like Venus crashing into Saturn’s judgment and Neptune’s illusions) rage finds strange and tragic outlets.
Chiron retrograde in Aries exposes unhealed wounds in identity, masculinity, and justice, while Pluto in Aquarius dredges up society’s buried sickness, including our obsession with spectacle and scapegoating. Uranus in Gemini fuels digital wildfire - misinformation, xenophobia, and viral rage. And underneath it all is a collective nervous system on edge.
The sky is mirroring our fragmentation, and asking who we become when fear takes the wheel. The violence isn’t just random - it’s a scream from a world cracking under pressure.
🌋 The Earth Doesn’t Whisper Anymore
Even the Earth herself was feeling violent this week.
A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the waters off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula - the sixth strongest quake ever recorded on Earth. It set off tsunami warnings across the entire North Pacific, including Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, and the U.S. West Coast. Waves up to 4 meters hit Russia, and over 900,000 people in Japan were ordered to evacuate.
Klyuchevskoi volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka region began erupting shortly after the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake. The eruption sent an ash column up to 3km high, with ash drifting east for nearly 60km.
Then Krasheninnikov, a long-dormant volcano silent since 1550, erupted for the first time in over 460 years, with ash columns rising 5–6km high. Scientists hadn’t even listed it as active - some thought it was extinct. The tremor may have unsealed centuries-old pressure, setting off a one-two volcanic gut punch that geologists are now scrambling to understand.
Meanwhile, a powerful mudflow devastated parts of Tyrnyauz in Russia, sparking urgent evacuations, leaving infrastructure crippled, with roughly 700 households offline, bridges and roadways damaged, and many residents temporarily displaced.
There was monsoon mayhem in Himachal Pradesh this week when a raging river near the Malana Power Project swept away multiple vehicles like matchbox cars after relentless rain triggered flash flooding.
There were tornadoes in Minnesota, and floods in Beijing, and Portugal battled three large wildfires in sweltering summer heat.
In New York, a torrential storm dumped up to 8 inches of rain, triggering flash floods so intense they breached the walls of 7th Avenue station. Governor Hochul declared a state of emergency, cars floated down Queens highways, and subway tunnels turned into swimming pools.
When the Earth groans like this with quakes, floods, mudslides and volcanoes, it’s not just weather - it’s a planetary purge. Uranus in Gemini rattles the airwaves, but it’s Pluto in Aquarius and Chiron retrograde in Aries that are stirring the ancient fault lines. We’re being shaken awake, literally and symbolically.
Venus clashing with Saturn and Neptune brings the delusion of control crashing down- this isn’t just a climate crisis, it’s a reckoning with the systems that ignored the warning signs. The elements are roaring louder because humanity keeps muting the message.
The Earth is speaking clearly now, and she’s done whispering. What comes next depends on whether we humble ourselves to listen, or brace ourselves for louder lessons.
✈️ Turbulence, Tech Glitches & Radioactive Wasps
It wasn’t just natural disasters striking this week - some of the chaos was man-made, airborne, or just plain apocalyptic.
In Germany, a packed regional train derailed in Germany’s Black Forest, killing 3 people and injuring over 50, including 25 seriously.
In Denver, an American Airlines flight burst into flames on the runway after a landing gear malfunction forced an emergency stop during takeoff - no one was seriously harmed.
In Minneapolis, 25 people were hospitalized after Delta Flight 56 hit violent turbulence midair, dropping suddenly and tossing passengers and carts like popcorn. “I thought we were crashing,” one passenger said. “It went down that hard and that fast.”
In the UK, 150 flights were grounded this week due to radar issues.
In Saudi Arabia, at least 23 people were injured, three of them critically, when a fairground ride buckled, sending passengers crashing to the ground.
And then there were the radioactive wasps - yes, you read that right. Radioactive wasps are now a thing.
Workers at a U.S. nuclear site in South Carolina found a wasp nest laced with radiation - ten times the legal limit - built from contaminated mud near an old bomb tank. No one has yet explained how the wasps withstood the radiation - either they’re weirdly resilient or already dead. Whichever it is, nature’s tiny contractors just turned nuclear waste into DIY decor. Welcome to the atomic bug age.
Uranus just landed in Gemini, which is the number one culprit for why suddenly the trains are derailing, the planes are flaming, and the wasps are glowing. Add to that Mars in Virgo highlighting cracks in our systems and Venus clashing with both Saturn and Neptune, and you get beauty colliding with breakdown, and the tech dreams we romanticized show their wear.
Chiron’s retrograde pulls old fears of safety back to the surface, while Pluto in Aquarius whispers the uncomfortable truth: the grid is glitching.
This week is a cosmic wake-up call - our clever systems aren’t as safe or stable as we’d like to believe. Something wild is in the wiring. Time to ask: who built this thing, and why is it humming like that?
Don’t panic. Pause. Breathe. Even as the structures shake and the bugs go nuclear, the heart stays steady. Anchor there, and let your presence be the signal that still works.
🌱 Green Shoots Break Through
Not all was chaos, collapse and calamity this week.
In the UK, the late Ozzy Osbourne, the godfather of heavy metal, was honored as thousands lined the streets of Birmingham to pay their respects to the Black Sabbath frontman and Prince of Darkness as his hearse rolled past his hometown roots. In a moment of peak British surrealism, the Band of the Coldstream Guards blasted “Paranoid” during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace - yes, really. From bat bites to royal rites. Long live the madman.
There were also signs of tides turning, and better days ahead.
Scientists zeroed in on two gut bacteria that appear to trigger multiple sclerosis. By studying identical twins and transplanting gut microbes into mice, they found these bacteria ramp up MS-like symptoms. It’s a major breakthrough that shifts how we understand MS and could open doors to new treatments.
In a world-first, Australia is banning social media accounts for anyone under 16. Teens will still be able to view content, but no more posting, commenting, or personalized feeds - and platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram face fines up to A$50 million if they don’t comply. Critics call it overreach, but supporters say it’s long overdue. If Australia can pull this off, it could spell a global reckoning for the tech industry who for too long have raked in profits at the expense of our kids’ mental health.
Australia also led the way in dryland farming this week thanks to advancements in smart water-saving techniques, soil makeover hacks, and next-gen seeds that tap deep moisture, crop yields are booming despite tougher climate conditions. These breakthroughs aren’t just feeding Aussies; they’re helping feed the world and setting a global standard for the future of farming.
In good news for the future of clean energy, Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation also made its biggest-ever annual investment this week - A$3.5 billion. Most of it goes toward renewable energy grids, especially a major east-coast transmission upgrade. It’s a powerful push toward the 2030 clean energy target.
If it feels like Australia’s stepping into global leadership territory, that’s because it is - cosmically and practically. With a Capricorn Sun and a Taurus Moon rising, Australia’s chart is built for slow-burn mastery, but right now Pluto is activating its 10th House of legacy, while Saturn and Neptune head toward a 2026 conjunction that electrifies Australia’s rising identity. Add Uranus in Gemini (law and tech disruption) and Neptune in Aries (bold vision), and suddenly, the quiet continent becomes the blueprint.
In the planetary plan, Australia isn't just keeping up - it’s setting the pace. But Australia’s not alone in seeding advancements that welcome in New Earth.
A U.S. company, Quidnet, this week announced its found a way to store renewable energy by pressurizing water into underground rock, essentially creating a new kind of geochemical battery. Their test site stored energy for six months with no loss. It’s not ultra-efficient yet, but it’s cheap, scalable, and could change the storage game.
Additionally, researchers at DGIST in South Korea announced new developments in lithium-sulfur and solid-state batteries that could mean faster charging, longer life, and more reliable energy storage - crucial for electric vehicles and solar backup systems.
Multiple reports this week confirmed that solar and wind are now cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable than coal and gas in many regions. The clean energy transition is no longer hypothetical - it’s accelerating and, in many places, economically inevitable.
At Kasso, Denmark, European Energy launched the world’s first commercial-scale e‑methanol facility, creating low-emission methanol and plastics from captured CO₂ plus green hydrogen. It’s a breakthrough in lab-made clean fuels, potentially offering an eco-friendly alternative for aviation, shipping, and heavy industry. Still early, but it’s another domino falling in fossil fuel’s decline.
Even though it may feel like the world is collapsing, don’t forget to look for the green shoots growing in the cracks. In quiet labs, on remote farms, and beneath headlines of despair, a new world is emerging - rooted, resilient, and reaching for the light.
🔮 What Lies Ahead: August and Beyond
The month of August hits like a storm.
According to the stars, the month begins with fire on the wind - a series of pressure points strike across the global field like flares.
Borders shake.
Old alliances wobble.
And beneath it all, something long-buried begins to rise: the truth.
Not the PR truth, not the staged-for-TV version,
but the raw, unvarnished kind that breaks myths when it breathes.
In America, a reckoning stirs.
The people (and Kamala Harris) feel it before the institutions admit it.
The mask slips.
The performance falters.
What was once strategy now looks like panic.
What was once dismissed as conspiracy starts to resemble documentation.
The spell begins to break.
For Trump, August isn’t just hot - it’s haunted.
The spotlight finds him in the dark,
pressing on old wounds he thought were sealed.
Legal shadows stretch longer.
Emotional outbursts land louder.
And the crowd that once cheered now watches in silence,
unsure whether to boo or pray.
Mid-month, a full moon cracks the sky wide open.
It’s not gentle. It reveals, illuminates and demands.
Whistleblowers step forward.
Markets tremble.
Stories unravel.
The system begins to show its seams.
But don’t confuse unraveling with ending.
This isn’t collapse - it’s the countdown.
Because September is the threshold,
and the two eclipses it holds are no ordinary sky shows.
They are choice points.
One washes away.
One writes anew.
Together, they draw the line between what we’ve survived and what we become.
And beyond that line, in February 2026, the real reset arrives.
Saturn and Neptune meet at 0° Aries - the Genesis Portal.
The world turns on a hinge that doesn’t swing back.
A new blueprint is sealed - not just for politics or power,
but for the soul of civilization itself.
So if you feel the rising pressure,
the strange dreams,
the quiet voice inside whispering something is coming…..
you're right.
The storm is a messenger.
And it’s not here to punish.
It’s here to point the way.
Listen closely.
Choose wisely.
The future is listening, too.
🛠 What This Collapse Is Making Way For
The world feels like it’s cracking open right now, because it is.
Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini, Saturn and Neptune in Aries - these aren't just cosmic backdrops, they’re the flashing neon signs of a planetary reset. This is the decade the scaffolding comes down: the false systems, the borrowed identities, the lies we were taught to swallow. Nothing stable, nothing sacred left untouched.
But collapse isn’t the end. It’s the clearing.
Pluto in Aquarius is tearing down the top-down control structures so we can build networks that actually serve people, not profit margins.
Uranus in Gemini is short-circuiting the old media matrix so new forms of thought, voice, and connection can emerge.
And Saturn and Neptune in Aries are lighting the spiritual fuse. We’re not waiting for saviors anymore - we’re becoming sacred disruptors, each of us called to act, lead, and live with unapologetic purpose.
This pain has a point.
It’s breaking the trance.
It’s preparing us for what comes next:
a world where healing is woven into design,
where truth becomes architecture,
and where the soul has agency again.
The stars describe it clearly - that’s what’s coming.
We just have to walk through the fire to reach it.
🌟 What We’re Building Toward
So if you’re standing in the rubble right now, don’t just look at what’s fallen.
Look at what’s possible.
We’re not just witnessing the end of an era….
we’re laying the foundations for a world that remembers how to feel,
how to serve, how to lead, and how to love.
The collapse is noisy.
Loud. Frightening. Devastating.
Heartbreaking. Unbearable. Hideous. Horrific.
Yes, it is all of those things.
We are being asked to let go of an old way, and letting go is never easy.
Sometimes it’s downright excruciating.
But let go we must.
Because things are not going back to the way they were.
America will not be restored - not to the way it was.
And there is grief in that knowing.
Deep sadness.
Sacred pain.
Allow yourself to feel it all as you move toward the place where you can let it happen.
Because if we don’t let go, we never get to the better that’s coming.
What lies ahead is more beautiful than any of us can imagine.
But it’s not tomorrow, and it’s not next week.
It’s not even next year.
We are the bridge-builders,
traversing the gap between the old world and the new,
sowing seeds that will bloom into beauty for our children,
and their children, to one day live inside.
That’s why we’re here. That’s why we came.
So yes - mourn the destruction.
Grieve all that’s falling away.
But don’t think for a moment it’s all for nothing.
Don’t believe the lie that we are doomed to eternal ruin.
We are not doomed to ruin.
We are destined to rise.
This isn't just the breakdown of a system.
It's the breaking open of a spell.
And yes, it hurts.
Yes, it's heavy.
Yes, it's hell.
But this is what awakening looks like at the level of a civilization.
So don't rush to make it neat.
Don’t numb it with platitudes.
Just keep standing where it’s real,
inside your own fierce compassion,
your own sacred knowing.
Let your integrity be your insurgency.
Let your tenderness be your resistance.
We are not powerless here.
We are the remembering.
And in the ruins of the old world,
we are planting the seeds of the next.
Stay steady.
Stay wild.
Stay human.
We’ll find each other, not in perfection, but in presence.
Not in answers, but in the fire that keeps us alive.
(And if you need some help staying steady, 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.
Yep...it's broken for sure and as always you are spot on. I can't resist saying that it has been broken under the hood for a long long time. While I am glad KH finally said something real, i am not wanting to credit her. She knew long ago...they all did..and they just kept it going (provided it was working for them...though some did more good than others)....I have never been in politics, but if I could know how broken things were for all my life, I am sure they all knew....and saying so now does not make her a hero...but rather, someone just rubbing it in. neither side gets a pass from me. They were leaders...and cowardice, cover ups, lies, corruption, self aggrandizement , "i told you so's" and subterfuge does not belong in that arena. I am here for my country, as I said earlier....to hold its hand... we can rise differently this time...though it is likely to worsen before it gets better....
“Many commentators this week suggested that he and his acolytes are not really running the country - they’re just ransacking it.”
That was the plan from the get go, right?