Wizard's Weekly Wrap-Up: August 31-September 6, 2025
The Week America’s Emperor Went Missing Then Went Mad, the World Moved On, Defense Was Renamed War, and Epstein’s Ghost Returned to Storm Congress.
This week, the empire dressed for war, hoping the armor would hide the limp, the layoffs, and the skeletons rattling in its closet.
America’s emperor ghosted his own empire, vanishing for seven days and stumbling back with bruised hands, swollen ankles, and a mind fraying at the seams, while the White House threw medals at Giuliani, a propaganda video at the internet, and mysterious trash out the windows like a frat house after finals.
Silicon Valley’s titans bent the knee at Trump’s table, stammering out trillion-dollar pledges like nervous courtiers, while the jobs report cratered, farmers prayed for relief, and China, Russia, India, Iran, and even North Korea clasped hands in a new axis of power.
Israel dropped bombs, Gaza slid deeper into famine, and Trump tanked his chances of a Nobel Peace Prize by creating a Department of War, executing foreigners without trials, and threatening to invade Chicago with a slogan ripped straight from Apocalypse Now.
Epstein’s survivors stormed Congress, names were whispered, files withheld, and Republicans found themselves caught between petitions, shutdown threats, and secrets too heavy to bury.
And through it all, the sky itself joined the demolition: the Sun flared, the Moon darkened, and eclipse season cracked the world open. Fire above, shadows below, truth dragging itself out of the dark whether power likes it or not.
As always, I’ve tracked the signs, read the stars, and sifted through the noise to bring you this week’s story - the collapse, the cosmic choreography, and the choices we’re being forced to make in the rubble.
So take a breath.
Grip the still ground.
It’s time to make meaning from the madness.
To transmute fear with insight.
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**
🌞 🌑 The Sky Breaks Open: A Season of Reckoning
September hasn’t crept in quietly - it’s exploded open under an eclipse sky.
The week began with Sun flaring, hurling fire through space and rattling Earth with auroras and storms. Now the Moon is pulling us into its shadow, eclipsing in Pisces, and before the month ends, the Sun will be eclipsed in Virgo. Back-to-back, the great lights of our sky are demanding what they always demand in these seasons: surrender, exposure, truth, and reckoning.
Eclipse season is the corridor where the veil thins and nothing can stay hidden, so if the world feels mad right now, it’s because the cosmos is pulling us into its storm. Leaders will falter, systems will shake, secrets will slip loose, not because things have spun off course, but because the design is revealing itself.
What’s unfolding isn’t random. The heavens are cracking open, and Earth is keeping time. This week’s headlines - a missing president, economies stalling, alliances shifting, survivors speaking truths once buried - were not coincidences. They were echoes of the eclipse: the shadow, the exposure, the demand for truth.
As the skies broke open above us this week, the world below broke open too.
🕳️🏛️ Trump’s Vanishing Act
Like the Moon slipping into Earth’s shadow, Trump disappeared for most of last week - an unusually long stretch for a man who can’t stop talking to suddenly go unheard.
By the start of this week, the silence had lit up the internet with rumors that Trump had suffered a stroke, a heart attack, or even been replaced by a body double. Photos of him leaving the White House for golf over the weekend only made things weirder: zoom-lens shots showed him heading toward the course, but none proved he ever made it to the green. Circulating videos of him shaking hands with supporters were quickly exposed as months old. As the White House’s refused to clarify, many sniffed another cover-up.
“I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week,” wrote investigative journalist Adam Cochran in the opening of a viral 31-post thread on X.
Trump roared back with an all-caps social media post - “NEVER FELT BETTER” - but skeptics said it didn’t sound like him. Others swore they saw Melania wandering the halls of Walter Reed Hospital, though no proof ever surfaced. His weekend posts carried on, oddly polished and properly punctuated, fueling more whispers that someone else was at the keyboard.
🎖️🎖️ Medals, Memorials & Projection Games
As Rudy Giuliani lay in a New Hampshire hospital bed after a serious car crash, Trump (still M.I.A) announced in a tweet he’d be awarding Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, triggering outrage that a disbarred lawyer, cast out of the profession for spreading lies about the 2020 election, should be given such an honor.
Amidst the backlash, there was still no Trump voice on Fox, no rants on the White House lawn drowned out by the noise of propeller-blades. Just tweets, with no spelling errors. Very unusual indeed.
When the White House uploaded a slick video called “Trump’s 11 Life-Changing Lessons” complete with solemn music, comments disabled and lines delivered like scripture, critics called it bizarrely timed. To a public already convinced something was being hidden, it landed less like inspiration and more like a memorial, fueling whispers that the “special message from the president” scheduled for Tuesday in the Oval could be the moment JD Vance ascends the throne.
🏛️📦 The White House Window Drop
As speculation mounted, an Instagram account called Washingtonianprobs dropped a bizarre video: someone in white pants tossing objects out of an open White House window. The clip went viral instantly, with many wondering how bullet proof windows sealed shut since 9/11 could be opened, and what was being pitched out? Trash? Trump’s medical records? The Epstein files? Nobody knew.
The White House scrambled, eventually conceding it was “just a contractor doing maintenance.” That story lasted until Tuesday, when Trump finally re-emerged - forty minutes late to his “special message” press conference, heavy make-up masking hand bruises, ankles visibly swollen - and dismissed the video entirely. “No, that’s probably AI-generated,” he said, offering no satisfying explanation for his week of silence. “If something happens really bad, just blame AI.”
And that was that. Nothing to see here. Totally normal. The President goes AWOL for a week - the longest silence of his public life - then reappears with bruises, cankles, and a mind clearly fraying, babbling about having “settled seven wars” and that “without the United States, everything in the world would die,” and we’re all expected to just nod along.
Critics noted that Trump spent most of the election campaign last year accusing Joe Biden of being too old and frail for the presidency, but Biden never turned up looking disheveled, with cankles and bruises.
As Travis Langley wrote in Psychology Today, “When Donald Trump accuses someone of something, you should understand that it is a subconscious expression of his own guilty conscience. And we all know that when Trump accuses someone of something, it’s almost certainly because he’s guilty of it himself. It’s called projection.”
But eclipses don’t let secrets stay hidden forever - the shadow always moves on, and what’s revealed cannot be unseen. According to the stars, this eclipse season doesn’t just expose Trump’s politics, it exposes his body: the nerves fraying, the heart under strain, the sudden jolts that make a man look his age all at once. Trump may try to swagger through, but the sky has him marked - vitality cracking in public, the strongman mask slipping as frailty becomes the headline. By December, those cracks split wide, and by next year the unraveling will be impossible to hide.
🤖🍽 Tech Titans Bend the Knee at Trump’s Table
Trump’s nonsense ramblings this week about AI being to blame for all bad things were contrasted starkly by his wife, Melania, just days later when she strode into the East Room with a calm, almost ethereal poise, declaring, “The robots are here. Our future is no longer science fiction.”
Far from casting AI as a bogeyman, she framed it as something to nurture - “our duty to treat AI as we would our own children.” Her press conference wasn’t about deflection; it was about positioning America at the frontier of education and innovation, a deliberate echo of Jackie O optimism in a White House that lately looks like a reality-TV set gone feral.
Melania’s soft-focus paean to AI came just hours before the President’s private dinner with the tech titans - Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Satya Nadella, Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Missing from the table was Elon Musk, seemingly still sour from his spectacular break-up with Trump earlier this year.
The dinner had all the trimmings of a court spectacle: Trump playing ringmaster, the Silicon Valley elite lined up like feudal lords paying tribute. Trump staged himself as the Sun, demanding worship from the brightest stars in tech in a pledge-fest that saw each exec announce billions in U.S. investments like contestants on a game show competing for the Commander-in-Chief’s favor.
Tim Cook promised another $600 billion, Sundar Pichai $250 billion, Satya Nadella $80 billion - numbers so inflated they sounded more like GDPs than corporate budgets.
When Trump went around the table and put Mark Zuckerberg on the spot about Meta’s investment, he stammered, “Oh gosh, um, I mean I think it’s probably going to be something like, I don’t know, at least, um, 600 billion dollars through 2028 in the U.S.”
Later, in a clip that circulated online, Zuckerberg was overheard muttering to the president, “I’m sorry I wasn’t ready…..I wasn’t sure what number you wanted me to go with.”
Eclipse season doesn’t just expose liars, it exposes the hollowness of those who orbit too close to power, especially in Trump’s America where no one says “no” to the king.
On the Daily Beast podcast this week, author Michael Wolff explained, “You can’t say no to him. I mean, you just can’t say no. And when someone does say no, he flies into a rage. Any situation in which he faces opposition, in which someone might be able to actually say no to him, he goes crazy.”
Hence why CEO’s like Apple’s Tim Cook openly praised Trump’s “focus and your leadership,” and OpenAI’s Sam Altman cooed, “Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president. It’s a very refreshing change.” All this deference from leaders in AI developments nodding along like obedient sons, just days after their monarch had ranted, “If something happens really bad just blame AI.”
As Michael Wolff said of Trump, “The people around him know that he must get what he wants.”
📉💔 Bad Jobs, Worse Excuses
Nobody knows the pitfalls of disappointing Trump better than Erika McEntarfer, the former Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner who Trump fired in early August just hours after she submitted a July jobs report with numbers he didn’t like.
For weeks, Trump and his allies have been dismissing her data as a “scam” and part of a vendetta against his presidency, but that spin collapsed this week when August figures emerged showing an even bleaker picture of the U.S. economy.
Prior to the new report dropping, Trump was asked if he would commit to saying August’s data would be “credible,” and in response he offered a word-salad that will live in press-room infamy: “We’re gonna have to see what the number - I don’t know, they come out tomorrow. But the real numbers that I’m talking about are going to be whatever it is.”
Yeah, whatever that meant.
When the report dropped, it laid bare that the U.S. economy added only 22,000 jobs in August, compared to predictions of 75,000. Even uglier, June’s numbers were quietly revised downward by 27,000, meaning the month actually lost 13,000 jobs - the first net negative jobs figure since the pandemic. Taken together, the June–July revisions wiped out 21,000 jobs, a retroactive gut punch to what had already been a sluggish summer. Unemployment climbed to 4.3%, the highest since 2021.
New York Times columnists David Brooks noted that “the number of manufacturing jobs lost last month was 12,000. That brings the total number of lost manufacturing jobs under the Trump administration to 78,000 people. That's not what he was promising when he was running."
The spin machine lurched into gear immediately. GOP Rep. Randy Fine shrugged on CNN, “Numbers always tend to benefit the left,” while former Trump adviser Kevin Hassett went on air blaming “bad response rates” at BLS, saying the number would be “revised up” except, of course, the revisions just went down.
A CNN commentator noted that blaming the people who are compiling the numbers as opposed to the actual policies “would be like if you had an NFL owner whose team just lost big, and instead of changing the quarterback or firing the head coach, they fire the scoreboard operator.”
No wonder Trump was at pains to have those tech CEO’s declare their investments in the U.S. - he knew bad news was incoming and, once again, tried to throw out a distraction.
But as with most things Trump related, the bad news was entirely self-inflicted. Analysts pin the slowing economy on Trump’s tariffs, erratic economic policy, and harsh immigration clampdowns, which have left manufacturers and construction firms short of workers and investment.
🌏🤝 The World Moves On Without America
Trump’s tariffs haven’t just slowed the U.S. economy; they’ve pushed the world into each other’s arms.
While Washington flailed this week, China, Russia, and India staged a summit this week under the banner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - a security and economic bloc that now stretches from Belarus in the west to China in the east, with members including Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and other Central Asian states. It’s a club designed to be everything the U.S. isn’t: multipolar, anti-sanctions, and explicitly non-Western.
As the Earth prepared to blot out the Moon, nations blotted out old allegiances, proof that eclipse season doesn’t just remake the sky, it remakes the map.
In Tianjin, China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and India’s Narendra Modi embraced like old comrades and pledged cooperation on trade, energy, and finance - a direct response to Trump’s tariff war and his decision to slap a 50% levy on Indian goods.
Xi cast China as the new anchor of global stability, promising hundreds of millions in aid and urging partners to deepen trade outside the dollar system. Putin blasted U.S. “bullying behavior.” Modi, caught between Washington’s tariffs and Moscow’s oil, chose to clasp hands with his fellow SCO leaders instead of bowing to Trump.
For decades, Beijing has dreamed of cutting the U.S. dollar down from its perch as the default currency of global trade. Trump may have handed them the opening. Even if an immediate dethroning of the dollar isn’t in the cards, the optics were unmistakable: America looked isolated, its would-be adversaries looked aligned, and the balance of power tilted East.
Call it reverse Nixon: half a century after Washington pried China and Russia apart, Trump’s erratic tariffs and economic nationalism are binding them back together, with India now in the mix. At home, the jobs are vanishing, while abroad, the alliances are shifting. Trump hasn’t just weakened America’s economy; he’s weakened America’s place in the world.
Confronted with this reality, Trump simply tweeted: “Looks like we’ve lost India & Russia to deepest darkest China. May they have a long and prosperous future together.”
Pressed by reporters on who he blames for “losing” India, Trump delivered a meandering monologue about oil tariffs, Modi’s visit, and a soggy press conference on the White House lawn: “We put a very big tariff on India. 50% tariff. Very high tariff. I get along very well with Modi as you know. He was here a couple months ago. We went to the Rose Garden and the grass was so soaking wet, it was such a terrible place to have a news conference….everybody sunk in. They ruined their shoes. We made that change. It’s been a really well received change.”
So India and China - who together make up 40% of the world’s population - are being driven into each other’s arms by a reckless American president, destabilizing America’s global authority by the day.
The SCO summit may look like a triumph, but the sky says China faces a two-decade metamorphosis: consolidation in the 2020s, upheaval in the 2030s, survival questions in the 2040s. India balances now, revolts in the 2030s, and seizes the global crown in the 2040s. Russia thunders today but spends the next twenty years battling not just the West but its own collapse.
America’s path is darker still: Neptune fogging its foundations in the 2020s, rebellion by the 2030s, financial reinvention by the 2040s. The Pluto return is already rewriting the republic; what emerges by 2050 won’t resemble 1950.
But at least, for now, Donald Trump won’t have to worry about his shoes sinking into soggy grass anymore.
🔥🕊 Israel on the Edge: War, Famine, and Red Lines
While Trump obsessed this week over lawns and tariffs, and new power blocs were being hammered out in Asia, the Middle East burned hotter than ever.
Israel executed Operation Lucky Drop, a precision airstrike in Sanaa that killed Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi and multiple senior ministers, striking during a televised address and wiping out the top tier of the Houthi government. The Houthis confirmed the losses, vowing vengeance, while regional observers tallied the scale of the operation.
At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quietly shelved annexation plans in the West Bank after the United Arab Emirates drew a hard “red line,” warning annexation would unravel the Abraham Accords. The matter vanished from Israel’s cabinet discussions - a sign of how seriously the message landed.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s humanitarian collapse deepened as UNICEF reported over 15,000 children under five placed into malnutrition recovery programs in August, with 7,000 enrolled in just two weeks. Gaza City has now been declared in famine, with Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis not far behind. Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty condemned claims that Palestinians are leaving “voluntarily,” calling it “nonsense” and insisting famine conditions are being used as coercion. Cairo continues to position itself as mediator, working with Washington on a possible ceasefire.
Overlaying it all is the unresolved hostage crisis. Trump said the U.S. is in “very deep” negotiations with Hamas over the release of the remaining captives, urging their immediate freedom and warning that talks could turn “tough” if no deal emerges.
In Israel, thousands took to the streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem demanding the government end the Gaza war and bring the hostages home - a pressure campaign that’s now running parallel to the battlefield.
Eclipse season drags truth into the open. Gaza’s famine, Israel’s airstrikes, and the lie of “voluntary” exodus are fissures in the wall where reality leaks through. Israel is not in stability - it’s in a crucible.
The long arc is even starker: the 2020s dismantle, the 2030s bring existential shocks to alliances and identity, and the 2040s–50s test the state’s material survival. Today’s war and backlash are not passing storms but the tremors of a decades-long karmic reckoning.
For Netanyahu, this weekend’s eclipse is a career rupture. It hits his MC/IC axis (career vs. home base), ignites his Moon (the people), and drags in Saturn (authority and judgment). With Mars and Jupiter hammering his Moon the same day, the picture is of public fury, institutional pressure, and a visible pivot in his leadership arc. This isn’t private - it’s staged for the world, and it carries the karmic weight of a chapter ending.
The eclipse doesn’t just dent him - it shoves his chart onto the slope where legacy unravels.
🌞🇨🇳 The Sun Rises in the East: China’s Power Surge
While Trump has tariffed America out of the driver’s seat of global trade, China is already revving the engine of the future. As Trump rails against wind farms, shouts “drill baby drill,” and guts every clean-energy program he can find, Beijing is laying down solar panels at a pace that makes America’s entire effort look quaint.
In the first six months of 2025 alone, China installed 212 gigawatts of new solar capacity - more than the entire solar fleet of the United States at the end of 2024. Let that sink in. Half a year of Chinese build-out erased decades of American incrementalism.
And the spectacle isn’t abstract. On the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai, China is raising what will soon be the largest solar farm on Earth: seven million panels spread across land the size of Chicago, enough to power five million homes. Sheep graze between the rows of glass, a pastoral counterpoint to the industrial scale of the project. It’s a visual metaphor for the clean-energy revolution underway: modernity and tradition moving in tandem.
The results are already measurable. Despite surging electricity demand, China’s carbon emissions from power generation actually fell in the first half of 2025. Meanwhile, in Washington, the only thing falling is America’s credibility, as Trump doubles down on fossil-fuel theatrics and tells the world the future is fake.
The stars echo the split. While America grinds through its once-in-250-year Pluto return - a reckoning that tears down empires and strips identity to bone - China has Pluto freshly crossing its Aquarius Ascendant, igniting a decades-long metamorphosis that amplifies its global image and hardens its grip on power. By the 2030s, when Uranus returns to China’s chart for the first time since 1949, the balance of power will have shifted irreversibly East.
The contrast is stark: one nation dismantling itself under karmic weight, the other recoding its destiny through sheer force of will. One is building the infrastructure of the next century, while the other is dismantling its own and blaming the wind.
🚀 Power on Parade: Dictators Flex, Trump Fumbles
If anyone still doubted who’s dictating the optics of global power, Beijing answered this week with steel and spectacle.
Xi Jinping presided over a massive military parade in Tianjin this week, rolling out hypersonic missiles, stealth drones, armored columns, and precision lasers - a stage-managed declaration that China isn’t just building the future, it’s defending it. It was a terrifying spectacle compared to Trump’s recent “birthday parade”, with its sparse bleachers, protesters shouting “No Kings,” and the unforgettable sight of an Abrams tank squeaking down Constitution Avenue like a rusty, old shopping cart.
At Xi’s side stood Vladimir Putin, soaking in the theater and sending his own message to the world that Russia isn’t isolated. “We have powerful friends,” he said, a line aimed squarely at Ukraine and the rest of Europe.
And he wasn’t wrong. On Xi’s other flank stood Kim Jong-un, grinning as China’s hypersonic missiles and armored columns thundered past. Three dictators, shoulder to shoulder, flexing for the cameras - a living tableau of the new axis of power. The symbolism was undeniable: Moscow, Beijing, and Pyongyang linked together, their fortunes, militaries, and messages fused in one carefully choreographed spectacle.
The most surreal moment came when a hot mic caught Xi and Putin, both 72, chatting about human longevity, organ transplants, and the dream of living forever. The world’s most entrenched autocrats, speaking casually about immortality as their war machines thundered past, was the perfect metaphor for men who see themselves not as leaders but as fixtures of history.
And yet, while Xi, Putin, and Kim project permanence and power, Trump projects impotence. It’s been seventeen days since his Alaska summit with Putin, where he promised a follow-up meeting with Zelenskyy “within two weeks.” That deadline has come and gone with no summit, no ceasefire, and no progress. Trump was even caught on a hot mic telling Emmanuel Macron that he thought Putin might “do a deal for me… as crazy as it sounds.” What’s clear to everyone now is that Putin didn’t do a deal - he played Trump, bought time, and used the lull to tighten his embrace with Xi.
Asked about the stalemate, Trump admitted: “I thought that ending the Russia/Ukraine war would be much easier. I thought that would be in the middle of the pack, maybe one of the easiest. You know, war is a very interesting thing. You never know with war. War is complex and dangerous and uhh, what a mess.”
Pressed further by Polish reporters, he grew defensive: “How do you know there is no action? Who are you with? I haven’t done phase two yet or phase three. I think you ought to get yourself a new job.”
But for all Trump’s chest-thumping that he “ended seven wars,” the reality is brutal: after eight months in office he has ended none. Gaza still burns, Ukraine still bleeds, and America’s would-be dealmaker looks less like a peacemaker than a man watching conflicts multiply on his watch.
While Xi, Putin, and Kim parade their strength, muse about eternity, and cement new alliances, Trump mutters about phantom phases no one has ever seen, and scolds journalists for daring to question.
As Tom Nichols wrote in The Atlantic this week: “America is adrift. It has no coherent foreign policy, no team of senior professionals managing its national defense and diplomacy, and a president who has little interest in the world beyond what it can offer him. Little wonder that the men who gathered in Beijing feel free to act as if they don’t even think twice about Trump or the country he leads.”
The cosmic clock isn’t running on Washington time anymore - these days, the stars say, it’s keeping Beijing’s.
⚔️🇺🇸 Maximum Lethality: Trump’s War Department
While dictators abroad consolidate their power, Trump seems hellbent on unravelling America’s by pulling at every loose thread in its fabric.
If Xi, Putin, and Kim are building monuments to permanence, Trump is rifling through the nation’s institutions like a burglar, looking for weaknesses, loopholes, and pressure points - any cracks where he can shove in grenades and wait for them to blow.
This week, he signed an executive order rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War, a change that legally only Congress can make, but Trump brushed off the issue, insisting he had the authority to do it anyway. “Defense is too defensive,” he said. “We want to be offensive too if we have to be.”
Almost immediately, the administration began rolling out the new branding. Pentagon press briefings were suddenly held in a space relabelled the “War Annex.” The department’s website began redirecting to war.gov. Fresh signage and nameplates appeared in federal offices before the ink on the order was even dry.
Constitutional experts noted the obvious: by law, it remains the Department of Defense. For now, “War Department” is just a secondary, ceremonial title - a branding exercise, not a legal reality.
Critics warn the rebrand could cost billions - an unavoidable byproduct of rewriting everything from stationery to building plaques to military contracts. Politico reported that officials are fuming at the prospect of swapping seals, logos, and letterhead across more than 700,000 facilities worldwide - from napkins in chow halls to keychains in the Pentagon gift shop.
Secretary Pete Hegseth embraced the change with characteristic bravado. In his first public remarks as Secretary of War, he declared it part of his mission to restore a “warrior ethos.”
“We’re going to go on offense, not just defense,” he said, before bizarrely launching into a Dr. Seuss style rhyme. “Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We’re going to raise up warriors, not just defenders. This War Department, Mr. President, just like America, is back.”
Trump has rechristened America’s arsenal in his own image, and nothing says Nobel Peace Prize quite like unveiling a Department of War.
🚤💥 Death Without Trial: America’s New War at Sea
The maximum lethality Pete Hegseth bragged about was on full display this week when the U.S. military conducted a drone strike on a small vessel in the southern Caribbean, killing all eleven people on board.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted about it on social media like it was a campaign ad: “Lethal strike on a Venezuelan drug boat.” A video was even released, the grainy footage of a boat turning into a fireball served up like proof of justice rather than the start of an international incident.
The facts, though, are murky. No names, no trial, no evidence beyond the Pentagon’s word that the dead were members of a cartel. Venezuela called the footage fake. Legal experts called it an extrajudicial killing. But the whole incident echoed Hegseth inane rhyme: “Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct.”
Vice President JD Vance wrote online that “killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.”
Rand Paul, usually an outlier, actually sounded like the sane one on Newsmax this week, warning that “even the worst people” are supposed to get a trial. He followed up with a post online directed at Vance, saying, “Did he ever read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation? What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.”
When told that killing civilians of another nation without due process is a war crime, Vance just replied, "I don't give a shit what you call it."
Trump and his acolytes aren’t interested in legality - they’re interested in spectacle. The point isn’t the boat, or the drugs, or even Venezuela. The point is that the new War Department is flexing, and flexing hard, to prove that Trump’s America kills first and answers questions never.
And this isn’t the first time Trump’s show-of-force style has crossed into outright recklessness.
The New York Times this week uncovered details of a 2019 botched raid on North Korea, authorized to bolster Trump’s nuclear summit posturing. The mission failed, the listening device was never planted, and three North Korean fishermen wound up dead - stabbed in the lungs so their bodies would sink. The White House buried the story, but it’s a chilling echo of the same doctrine now driving America’s new “War Department”: maximum spectacle, minimum accountability.
🏙🔥 Trump’s War on His Own People
Trump’s not just at war with foreign drug dealers - this week he turned his Department of War on his own people, continuing his pattern of lawlessly unleashing troops into American cities.
He started a few months ago by invading California, then Washington, D.C. - both of whom have now sued his administration for the illegal deployment of the National Guard. This week, Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the L.A. deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act, warning Trump risked turning the military into a “national police force with the president as its chief.” However, with the order stayed until September 12 to allow for an appeal, troops remain in place, barred only from law-enforcement roles pending resolution.
Undeterred, Trump announced this week that he would next direct federal law enforcement to conduct a takeover of both Chicago and Baltimore to combat “crime”.
Declaring he had an obligation to end violent crime in cities around the U.S., Trump said, "If the governor of Illinois would call me up, I would love to do it. Now we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it because I have an obligation to protect this country."
In a fiery press conference, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker responded, saying, “When did we become a country where the president demands states beg him for things they don’t want? There is no emergency here. Calling Chicago a hellhole insults every one of us.”
Pritzker also claimed White House Advisor Stephen Miller was behind the push for a takeover of Chicago during September. “Stephen Miller picked September to target our city during Mexican Independence celebrations. ICE will try to disrupt parades and picnics. Terror and cruelty are the point.”
Pritzker closed with a refusal to normalize any of it: “I will not sacrifice constitutional rights just because Trump cloaks his power grab in the guise of fighting crime.”
Even right wing commentators like Megyn Kelly took issue with Trump’s threat, telling her millions of followers this week, “You can’t just send them into random cities in support of just fighting crime. I’m sorry but we can’t have it. He does not have constitutional permission to do it. I really hope he doesn’t do it because I don’t want a world in which I’m siding with Governor Pritzker over President Trump, but I will if he does it because he can’t do it legally.”
As confirmation that Trump’s more serious about war than peace, he vowed to remove the Peace Vigil across from the White House, the longest-running continuous protest in U.S. history. Established in 1981 as an anti-nuclear and anti-war vigil, it has endured through every administration for more than four decades with protected status and round-the-clock demonstration.
Then, by end of week, Trump ramped up the threat by posting an AI image of himself dressed like a U.S. Army officer, helicopters flying over a burning Chicago skyline, and the text “Chipocalypse Now” accompanied by his own words, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.…Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
Pritzker shot back “The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”
The backlash was immediate. Thousands flooded the streets of Chicago and Washington, D.C., chanting “Donald Trump has got to go!” and decrying a president they called lawless. In the capital, church bells tolled in solidarity, their peals joining chants that Trump’s “war” was not against crime but against his own people. In Chicago, as night fell, motorcycle clubs rallied in preparation to resist military invasion.
💉🤡 The Sickening of Public Health
While Trump was busy desecrating the Defense Department and invading capital cities, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was continuing his own demolition job on America’s public health system, facing Congress to be grilled over his recent actions.
Since taking office, Kennedy has fired entire advisory panels, gutted the CDC’s vaccine committee, and sidelined hundreds of career scientists. He’s rolled back guidance for childhood and maternal vaccines, cut funding for flu-prevention campaigns, and allowed state allies like Florida’s surgeon general to scrap vaccine mandates altogether. Public health experts say the result is a country drifting toward its first preventable epidemics in decades. Even former CDC directors warn his policies amount to sabotage.
This week, Congress finally called him to account. The hearing was a spectacle. When Kennedy couldn’t answer how many Americans died from COVID, Senator Markey shot back: “How do you not know 1.2 million Americans died?” Senator Warner pressed further: “You’re the secretary of health. How can you be that ignorant?”
When Senator Cassidy asked if Trump deserved a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed, Kennedy said “Absolutely”, despite having just told another senator that the vaccines killed more people than the virus. When Senator Bennet quoted one of Kennedy’s new appointees falsely claiming mRNA vaccines cause death, Kennedy said he hadn’t seen it, but agreed with it anyway. “It’s not true,” Bennet snapped.
Even Bernie Sanders, usually measured, lit into him: “To suggest every institution is corrupt because they disagree with you is disrespectful to the American public.” Outside the chamber, his own family was piling on - Joe Kennedy III, Kerry Kennedy, and Caroline Kennedy all called for him to resign.
By the end of the day, the picture was undeniable: the nation’s top health official couldn’t state the death toll from a pandemic, was openly siding with conspiracy theories, and had gutted the very institutions meant to safeguard Americans. Minimum accountability isn’t a theme of the week - under RFK Jr., it’s the operating principle of government.
And just as the lights in the hearing room dimmed, the skies had their own say. The Pisces lunar eclipse this weekend tears through RFK Jr.’s chart like a floodlight on a stage prop. Chiron’s sting is hitting his Sun and Neptune all at once, forcing him into a brutal confrontation with truth versus illusion. This isn’t a subtle vibe shift - it’s an unmasking. His image as healer, crusader, or conspiracy martyr is cracking, and the public will decide whether he looks like a visionary or a fraud. With Jupiter sitting on his Uranus, shocks are guaranteed: the kind that either catapult him into a cult-like surge of support or drop him into political freefall. Either way, the stars are clear - his myth can’t survive untouched.
By the time RFK Jr. shuffled out of the hearing room, it was obvious that accountability isn’t even a ghost in Washington anymore. If the Secretary of Health can shrug off a million deaths, why should anyone else be held to a higher bar? That same logic - rules for the powerless, loopholes for the powerful - runs straight from the CDC to the farm fields to the Senate floor.
💰🌾 Big Money, Bare Bones Relief
News broke this week that Senator Susan Collins, who once promised to close the carried-interest loophole that props up Wall Street’s private-equity kings, raked in millions in donations from financiers like Blackstone’s Steven Schwarzman and Citadel’s Ken Griffin after pulling her amendment at the eleventh hour before Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” vote. The loophole stayed open, the money flowed in, and Trump’s budget sailed through.
That bill wasn’t just a gift to private equity - it gutted support for rural America. Federal meal-purchase programs were slashed, conservation funding rolled back, and tariff wars drove up costs while closing export markets. The result is a farm economy on the brink.
Now, American farmers are going broke under Trump’s tariffs. Higher input costs, lost export markets, and vanished federal support have left small farms reeling. This week, footage emerged of Arkansas farmers praying to Jesus for government assistance because Trumps’s tariffs have destroyed their business.
A Kansas family farm saw an 8% revenue drop after federal meal-purchase programs were canceled, wiping out their expansion plans. Bankruptcy rates are climbing while Washington looks the other way.
On the ground, people are furious. Swing-district Republicans can barely face their constituents, who turn up at town halls to rage about benefit cuts, arrests, militarization, and the crushing cost of living.
Commentator Jessica Tarlov said this week: “The reality is that no Republican that represents a swing district can hold a town hall because everyone in their district is showing up to scream at them about cuts to government benefits, what Donald Trump is doing in militarizing D.C., arresting good hardworking people, and most of all that the cost of living is too damn high.”
The Pisces lunar eclipse this weekend is striking straight at America’s food and money core. With the Moon activating U.S. Venus–Jupiter in Cancer, the pain in the farm belt isn’t just policy - it’s karmic exposure of how the nation feeds (or fails) its people. Neptune and Saturn hammer the country’s leadership, dissolving credibility while demanding accountability, and Uranus–Pluto trines pry open the institutions themselves. Mars opposite U.S. Chiron adds the raw edge: wounded citizens lashing out at leaders who sold them out.
This eclipse makes the farm crisis a mirror of the larger truth - America’s breadbasket is broken, and the system can’t paper it over.
🍷🌹 The Rose Garden Club: Versailles on the Potomac
While farmers watch their margins collapse under tariffs, Trump has been busy remaking the White House into his own private country club for Republican elites.
This week he officially christened the newly paved-over Rose Garden as the “Rose Garden Club,” trading historic lawns for limestone patios, striped umbrellas, and Mar-a-Lago kitsch - a backdrop for steak dinners with the donor class. It’s less People’s House than gilded Versailles, a space where lawmakers sip cocktails and toast themselves while Americans shoulder the fallout of Trump’s economic wrecking ball.
When Speaker Mike Johnson posted a photo of him dining with Trump at his new White House club, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office called him out, writing online, “After ripping health care away from 17 million Americans and slashing food stamps for kids, we’re glad Mike “Marie Antoinette” Johnson and his boyfriends had time to toast the grand opening of the Predator Patio.”
The whole thing really does reek of Marie Antoinette - a ruler so cocooned in privilege she infamously waved off starving peasants with “let them eat cake.” And the sky agrees: Pluto is back in Aquarius now, just as it was when Antoinette lost her head. That cycle always brings the same drumbeat - concentrated power meeting its reckoning, elites mistaking their feasts for permanence while the crowd gathers outside the gates.
Trump’s version is just as tone-deaf: while farmers lose their markets and working families count pennies, he’s serving filet mignon to courtiers under striped umbrellas. The symbolism is unmistakable - elites feasting while the people go hungry.
As one preservationist put it, the Rose Garden has been stripped of grace and turned into a sterile plaza - fitting for a president more interested in hosting courtiers than serving citizens.
And that’s exactly the rot representatives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been calling out: a Congress stuffed with millionaires and insulated elites, while working-class voices are locked out. If Americans want a government that reflects the country, she argued recently, they’ll have to tear open the doors. “If anyone says this isn’t fair, I’m gonna have to divest all my stocks if I’m gonna run for Congress, then maybe you should stay home. Millionaires are very overrepresented here in Congress. If we want a Congress that reflects the actual country we need to have working-class people.”
Not all leaders are listening, but the people are raising their voices, and Pluto in Aquarius says they will be heard.
👻📜 Epstein’s Ghost Walks Into the Capitol
Nowhere did the people speak louder this week than on the steps of Congress, where survivors of Jeffrey Epstein broke decades of enforced silence. While Trump’s been trying to distract with renamings and rants, this is the one subject he has not been able to change.
Congress returned from recess this week to a reckoning too long delayed, as Epstein survivors sat across from lawmakers in a deeply emotional two-hour session. For at least two of them, it was the first time telling their story, and for Republican Representative Nancy Mace it was all too much, and she bolted from the room in tears, later confirming that hearing their stories gave her a "full blown panic attack."
Oversight Chair James Comer admitted, “We learned of some additional names today,” calling it “as bipartisan as anything I’ve seen.” Representatives Anna Paulina Luna, Summer Lee, and Melanie Stansbury - from opposite parties - emerged with the same grim refrain: this is bigger than anyone thought, and the cover-up goes all the way to the top.
Luna told reporters, “There are some very rich and powerful people who need to go to jail. It is very much a possibility that Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset working for adversaries.”
Lee said bluntly, “The government itself is responsible for this injustice.”
Stansbury added: “What we heard today is a cover-up potentially involving foreign countries and foreign actors…..there’s a very powerful person who doesn’t want these stories out.”
When the doors opened, the survivors took to the microphones outside the Capitol, only to have their voices drowned out by military jets roaring overhead. $320,000 worth of taxpayer flyovers sent to silence women raped as teenagers.
Every major network covered the press conference - except Fox News, which focused on the planes. Still, the survivors stood shoulder to shoulder with Representatives Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, refusing to be silenced again.
“I am no longer weak. I am no longer powerless,” said Anouska de Georgiou.
Annie Farmer pointed to Les Wexner: “He’s been seen as a victim when clearly there’s more to it.”
Chauntae Davies reminded the world that Epstein’s proudest boast was his closeness to Donald Trump.
This was eclipse energy in its purest form: silenced voices stepping out of the shadows, names once buried rising into the light. Survivors standing on the steps of Congress weren’t just testifying - they were embodying the eclipse. The Moon’s shadow doesn’t just darken the sky, it strips the cover off secrets too long hidden.
🧾🕵️ Sleeves Off the Vest, Skeletons in the Closet
The House Oversight Committee released 33,000 pages of DOJ documents, nearly all of which was already public. “They’ve given us the sleeves off their vest,” Massie scoffed, before eventually going further and naming billionaire John Paulson as an entry in Epstein’s black book.
Paulson bankrolls Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and the GOP campaign machine, confirming that the same donor class funding today’s leadership is entangled in Epstein’s shadow network.
Ghislaine Maxwell already confirmed as much herself in her July interview with DOJ Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, during which she remarked: “If you met Epstein, there is no way that this cast of characters, of which it's extraordinary, and some are in your cabinet, who you value as your coworkers, and you know, would be with him if he was a creep or because they wanted sexual favors.”
Not an outright confession, but an admission that some who once orbited Epstein now sit inside Trump’s cabinet. That overlap isn’t coincidence. It’s motive.
Perhaps that’s why Trump’s DOJ asked a federal judge this week to keep sealed the names of two people who received Epstein payments in 2018 - one for $100,000, the other for $250,000. Both had been labeled “co-conspirators” in Epstein’s earlier case and granted immunity under a plea deal that also shielded their identities.
NBC News petitioned to unseal the names, citing public interest, but the DOJ pushed back, insisting the two are uncharged third parties with privacy rights. Prosecutors even hinted the money could have been meant to influence witnesses.
Critics say the secrecy raises more questions than it answers, and survivor Lisa Phillips issued her own ultimatum: “If you won’t release the client list, we will - by survivors, for survivors. We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Together we will confidentially compile the names we all know who were regularly in the Epstein world.”
⚖️ The Informant Gambit and the Petition Trap
While survivors spoke, Trump dismissed it all from the Oval: “We should be talking about the greatness of our country, not the Epstein hoax.”
His allies scrambled to back him, but not all sang from the same sheet. Speaker Mike Johnson tried to spin a new defense, floating the claim that Trump had been an FBI informant against Epstein, and that banning Epstein from Mar-a-Lago was part of that mission. But the gambit landed like a grenade: if true, the only way to prove it is to release the very files Trump is fighting to keep sealed. Instead of killing the story, Johnson only deepened the urgency.
“I think it’s shameful that this has been called a hoax,” Thomas Massie said, calling on his GOP colleagues to sign a discharge petition to force a vote on releasing all Epstein-related files. “Politically, it’s really bad for Republicans. They should just have this vote and put it behind them. 80% of Republicans support releasing these files. They’re at odds with our base right now, particularly the MAGA base.”
Democrats pressed harder. Rep. Jim McGovern scolded Republicans: “You guys think you work for Trump. Every single Republican on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files.”
Rep. Robert Garcia added: “If it’s true that every Republican supports disclosure, then every Republican should sign the discharge petition. We don’t understand why this cover-up continues.”
Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger wrote online, ”It’s one hundred percent clear Trump is covering up criminal child sex trafficking.”
Author, pastor and activist John Pavlovitz railed online, writing,“The Conservative hypocrisy we’re witnessing here is incalculable: self-identified “pro-life” Christians whose Bible-pounding performative religiosity is tireless, sanctimonious men and women who never shut up about the supposed dangers of the groomers on the Left, are the only thing standing in the way of rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers facing accountability under the law.”
Rosie O’Donnell chimed in too, after Trump posted an unflattering altered image of her to social media and again threatened to revoke her citizenship, carrying on his years long beef with a woman who dared to stand up to him. Responding to Trump calling the Epstein files a hoax, she said simply, “How dare he. Our president is a serial pedophile rapist. That’s what he is.”
Even MAGA media felt the strain. Eric Bolling told viewers: “Trump can prove it’s a hoax by releasing the files. Let us decide if it’s a hoax or not.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene doubled down: “It’s not a hoax…..Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted pedophile. That takes away the whole hoax thing.”
Trump’s White House panicked, warning Republicans that signing the petition would be treated as “a very hostile act.”
Greene fired back: “The real hoax is that they’re afraid to sign. Somebody in the Trump administration called this hostile to the president. I take offense to that. I put my life and my fortune on the line fighting to get that man elected.”
Then she issued her promise: “If they want to give me a list, I will walk in that Capitol on the House floor, and I’ll say every damn name that abused these women. The truth needs to come out. The government holds the truth. The sealed cases hold the truth. Epstein’s estate holds the truth. The FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA hold the truth. And the truth, we are demanding, come out.”
⚡️💥 Shutdown Showdown
So far, 206 members of the House have signed the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing all Epstein-related files - just 12 short of the 218 needed for a majority. That tally includes all 212 Democrats, plus Republicans Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert.
If the petition reaches 218 signatures, a floor vote must follow within two legislative days. Meanwhile, Oversight Chair Comer has subpoenaed Epstein’s estate, requested declarations from former Attorneys General, and scheduled three key witnesses, each step promising fresh revelations.
But the clock is ticking: the government faces a shutdown on September 30. Republicans are under pressure to keep the lights on, while Greene and Massie are threatening to make Epstein transparency a line in the sand.
Will the file fight sink or sway the shutdown negotiations? That’s Washington’s most volatile cliffhanger: the government could go dark, but survivors and their allies are betting the truth won’t stay buried with it, and the skies say that’s a pretty safe bet.
This eclipse hits Epstein’s chart like a cosmic subpoena. Pluto is sitting on his Sun, dragging his identity back from the shadows, while Chiron slams against Saturn, forcing trauma to collide with authority. The Nodes clamp down on his Venus in Pisces, replaying the same karmic script of seduction, exploitation, and cover-up. In plain terms: the sky is ripping open the vault. Victims’ voices are amplified, institutions are cracking, and the glossy veneer is splitting.
The eclipse doesn’t just darken the sky - it pries open the vault, spotlighting Epstein’s ghost and the rot that still clings to power. No secret, no matter how buried, escapes this kind of light.
🌑🔥 The Sun Upgrades, the Moon Exposes
A week that began with flares from the Sun ends now in the darkness of the Moon.
The madness we are living through isn’t without pattern. This is eclipse season - a corridor of exposure written into the sky itself. The Sun and Moon are staging their drama overhead, and down here, we are forced to play our parts. This is not chaos for chaos’s sake - it’s cosmic design.
Scientists have long studied how cosmic rays and solar radiation interact with human DNA. At high doses, radiation causes mutations - sometimes harmful, sometimes neutral, sometimes adaptive. Astronauts exposed to solar particles show shifts at the cellular and genetic level. Traditions have always translated this into myth and meaning: surges of solar fire as “upgrades,” the body and psyche rewired to hold more light, more sensitivity, more awareness.
When the Sun floods the planet with energy, it shakes the very fields our hearts and minds run on. Nervous systems buzz, rhythms stutter, dreams sharpen. What happened at the start of this week wasn’t just a space-weather event - it was an activation. A reminder that our cells are starlight condensed, always capable of remembering more of what we are. The Sun scorches not to destroy but to awaken, reminding us that evolution is still happening in real time.
And then comes the Moon - eclipsing, shadowing, exposing. Where the Sun ignites us from within, the Moon strips away what we hide. Its darkness is a mirror, forcing us to see what we’ve tried not to. Together, they play their roles: the Sun upgrading, the Moon revealing. Fire and shadow, activation and exposure.
So if the world feels unbearable in its madness, it’s because we’re in the corridor where stars and shadows conspire. A season when nothing can stay hidden, and everything is being rewired for what comes next.
🔮 What Lies Ahead: September’s Eclipses & Beyond
The Pisces Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse this weekend floods the world with light, exposing what’s been hiding in the shadows.
This lunar eclipse doesn’t just hit the headlines - it slams right into Trump’s chart and the inner circle around him. Trump himself is stripped down to desperation, his bluster reading more like weakness than strength. RFK Jr., Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi and JD Vance all take direct hits from this Moon, their carefully polished myths unraveling in public view. Even Epstein’s ghost is dragged back into the conversation, tying the old scandals to the present collapse.
Together, it reads less like politics as usual and more like a demolition plan: the eclipse shaking the scaffolding that’s held Trump’s empire upright, and beginning a period of public unravelling for the would-be king.
I’ve written about this in detail at the link below: ⬇️
The Virgo Solar Eclipse on September 21 doesn’t just turn the page - it rewrites the script entirely, a reset point for governments, institutions, and backroom deals whose choices will echo for years.
Then Pluto stations direct in Aquarius on October 14, the planet of buried power now grinding forward in the sign of rebellion and reinvention. Globally, this is when hidden things rise, when pressure under old systems splits them open.
And two weeks later, as if on cue, the approaching comet 3I/ATLAS swings around the Sun on October 29. Astronomers expect it to flare as the heat ignites its frozen surface - CO₂ jets firing, metals boiling off, dust plumes brightening as it arcs toward Earth. Whether just a rock or something stranger, this visitor from another solar system races through the spotlight exactly as Pluto forces the reckoning into daylight.
By late November and December, Saturn and Neptune turn direct, clearing the fog. The eclipses will have reshaped the map, Pluto will have torn the cover off buried truths, and now the outer planets themselves hold their breath - Pluto, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus all stall at the very edges of their signs like history leaning forward but waiting for the signal to move.
By December, Mars drags Trump into raw volatility - anger, recklessness, and strain spilling into public view. Old weaknesses resurface, health falters, control slips. The king may still shout, but the crown will sit crooked.
Then, on December 19, the comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest pass to Earth. The timing is flawless: as the planets pile at the edge of change, this interstellar torchbearer slips past us like it was written into the choreography from the start.
Two days later, on the December 21 solstice, the hinge of the year swings open - planets, eclipses, and a messenger from beyond the solar system all converging on the same turning point. It doesn’t feel like just another season changing. It feels like the decade itself shifting on its axis.
Then January tightens the screws. The inner planets - Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars - all cross Pluto in Aquarius, activating the future in one relentless wave. Technology, governments, movements, even consciousness itself start running on new circuitry.
Then February seals it. A solar eclipse clears the board, and Saturn joins Neptune at 0° Aries in a conjunction not seen before - the Genesis Portal, the reset button where structure meets spirit, systems meet dreams, endings meet beginnings. The narrative of the decade flips.
If you want to know more about what this eclipse season triggers and what lies ahead, I wrote about it in detail in the article below: ⬇️
🌌 Holding the Still Ground
These next two weeks are the heart of eclipse season - the liminal corridor between endings and beginnings. People often feel restless here, like they’re standing on shifting ground, half-blind to what’s ending and half-anxious for what’s about to arrive. Old stories start to dissolve, new ones haven’t yet taken shape, and the nervous system doesn’t always know what to do with the uncertainty.
The best way through is to move slower, not faster. Let unfinished business surface without rushing to resolve it.
If you feel tired, rest. If you feel raw, don’t force clarity.
This isn’t the week to lock in decisions - it’s the week to listen closely: to your body, to your gut, to the quiet truths that only show up when everything else goes dark.
What you do now isn’t about controlling the outcome, it’s about preparing the ground. Keep your calendar flexible, your expectations soft, and your attention tuned to the subtle shifts.
By the time the Solar Eclipse arrives on September 21, you’ll be ready to see what’s been waiting in the wings all along.
We are living in a time when collapse is not abstract - it’s visible, visceral, and at times unbearable. Institutions, governments, alliances, even long-held illusions are all breaking apart, but the breaking is not the end of the story - it’s the necessary unmaking that clears a path for what’s been waiting to be born.
The danger is in staring too long at the wreckage. If you tune only to the noise, you’ll drown in it. The work now is to tune to your own heart, to the still place inside that does not collapse - that’s where resilience lives and that’s where the new world is seeded.
Don’t mistake the shattering for the whole picture. Beneath the rubble is the ground of your own being, steady and luminous, carrying you through. Look inward, not outward. Anchor there, in the deepest part of your heart, and let the storm spend itself around you.
This week, remember: you don’t have to tune to the collapse - you only have to withstand it. Be the still ground when the old world shakes itself apart.
A new day is dawning, a better world is rising, and it won’t be built by those who panic at the collapse, but by those who stay rooted as the systems break - clear-eyed, unshaken, and ready, with eyes fixed on the sky above, not on the rubble below.
We are here to be the solid ground from which the next world can rise.
(And if you want support staying solid, 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.
Just…wow. So much all at once. It does make the heads spin. Thank you for putting it all together with the arc of astrology. I always plan to read about what’s going on in your beautiful Sunday synopsis before I take my dog to drench our nerves with the balm of nature. The energy of this time is really amazing and the frequency is wild. I’m feeing a profound buzzy frequency that both electrifies me and exhaust me at the same time. Some days it’s hard to ground and much easier to float above— swimming in the hope and the waiting phase of what’s next. Reading about what is happening is really helpful for me to ground into the reality of now, so that I can lift my frequency up versus float in the delicious enerergies of the spirit realm without doing the work of creating change and co-creation here on earth.
Btw- loving the ask arion app. It’s genius!
I mean…wasn’t this the plan? To destroy the US from the inside out? Project 2025 and all that? Kill most of us off to benefit the billionaires?
Why are they even bothering to lie? It’s obvious what they are doing. They’re not dumb, they know what each and every move they make will do to hurt people. This is malicious intent with a thin veneer of nonsense.