Wizard's Weekly Wrap-Up: Grifters, Gangsters, and the Great Unravelling
Denial, Deception, Distrust and Dysfunction as Truth and Reality Forced Their Way In: The Week That Was January 25-31, 2026
This week felt like a seam ripping in the fabric of reality. As threads we thought were separate were revealed to be one tangled knot, pulled tight enough that the whole thing began to fray, some doubled down on what they needed to believe in order to feel safe, while others chose inconvenient reality, and quietly walked toward the future.
After federal agents shot 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti dead in the streets of Minneapolis, the Trump regime rushed to every available microphone to shape the story - declaring Pretti a domestic terrorist - even as the footage showed him holding only a phone, trying to help a woman, before being pepper-sprayed, tackled, and shot multiple times in the back.
As the official version of events fell apart in real time - with contradictory evidence emerging and even former officials warning that DHS’s approach was destroying public trust - criticism came from across the spectrum. Republicans, visibly uncomfortable, finally found a spine and began calling for investigations, and a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota even went so far as to withdraw from his race, saying he could not stand with what the national party had become. Even the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post ran editorials saying the White House had gone too far.
Panic rippled through the administration as Republican senators called for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to be fired. Noem blamed Stephen Miller, and Miller in turn blamed Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, who was promptly removed from his role. And while Washington argued, Minnesota acted. Governor Tim Walz activated the National Guard not to assist the feds, but to protect citizens. Footage spread online of Guard members handing out coffee and donuts to freezing, traumatised Minnesotans on street corners.
ICE, however, did not de-escalate. Reports surfaced that federal agents had been collecting photos, license plates, and personal details of protesters into what looked very much like a database of dissidents. An agent attempted to force entry into the Ecuadorian consulate - a breach of international law - while Italy publicly objected to plans to send ICE agents to the Milan Olympics, with Milan’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, calling ICE “a militia that kills” and saying they were “not welcome in Milan.”
Senate Democrats forced Homeland Security funding out of the must-pass budget and into a two-week showdown over ICE reforms, succeeding in creating leverage, then choosing negotiation over using it. At the same time, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota’s governor basically saying “we might dial back the ICE surge, if you hand over your voter rolls,” a demand election officials and legal experts across the spectrum described as the kind of shake-down blackmail ransom-note you’d expect to receive from a gangster.
Not long after, federal agents showed up in Fulton County, Georgia, executing a search warrant at the local elections office and seizing boxes of 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, images, and voter roll as part of a “criminal probe” that’s rattled voting officials who’ve spent years defending the integrity of that election. The chaos in the streets, the demand for voter rolls and the seizure of five year old ballots is all part of the same story - an attempt by the Trump regime to upset the coming midterm elections in November, elections that every poll says will likely hand the Congress and possibly the Senate back to the Democrats, and that even Trump has admitted will likely lead to his impeachment (again, for a third time).
Trump’s base of support is haemorrhaging, as this week tens of thousands of Americans stood in the snow across the country - from Minneapolis to college campuses - to protest what they see as an authoritarian surge. Polls show support for abolishing ICE rising sharply, even among Republicans, and overall approval of the administration’s immigration tactics sliding as outrage builds.
As former presidents spoke out against the cruelty playing out in Minnesota, and broad segments of the public recoiled at what they saw, the President responded by unleashing his Department of Justice on journalists. Federal agents arrested former CNN anchor Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort over their coverage of an anti-ICE protest inside a St. Paul church - charging them under a civil rights conspiracy statute and a law originally designed to protect access to abortion clinics but now applied to a protest in a house of worship. Jane Fonda aptly declare, “They arrested the wrong Don!”
After Trump posted on social media 56 times in a period of 60 minutes - a series of unhinged rants, false claims and AI slop - critics suggested it was evidence the president was “sundowning”, which is a condition connected to Alzheimers. Trump responded to questions about his own mental state by telling a story about his father’s Alzheimer’s, and promptly forgot the word “Alzheimer’s” while telling it. Very reassuring.
Meanwhile, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an investigation into TikTok over claims the platform had been suppressing anti-Trump videos, directing California’s DOJ to examine whether the company is violating state law. Trump, for his part, announced plans for a car race through the monuments of Washington, D.C. - because apparently that’s what the people really wanted when they voted for cheaper groceries - alongside a fresh round of tariffs on countries he’s currently annoyed with, and a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. A sitting president suing an agency he literally oversees. Nothing to see here. Carry on.
Beyond America’s borders, the world kept moving. Over 100,000 Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran demanding the fall of the Islamic Republic, while 27 EU member states formally backed designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Trump, meanwhile, continued threatening to do something, but so far, that something remains theoretical.
In what felt like a quiet diplomatic earthquake, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer landed in Beijing to establish what he called a “long-term, stable comprehensive strategic partnership” with Xi Jinping - the first visit by a British leader in nearly a decade. China immediately granted 30-day visa-free entry to British citizens. After Canada struck its own new trade deal with China last week, it’s clear the world is starting to route around Washington.
Elsewhere, Nikki Minaj appeared at the White House this week to grift a gold card from Trump, while Kanye West finally issued a long-overdue apology for his past embrace of Nazism, conveniently timed with the release of his new album. And Melania’s new documentary - reportedly a $40 million Amazon deal - opened to empty seats worldwide. The film is already on track to lose millions and potentially be one of the biggest flops in cinematic history.
Health authorities have begun monitoring a small outbreak of the Nipah virus in India - a rare but deadly pathogen with a mortality rate that can be as high as 75 percent. There’s no cure, and it can cause severe brain swelling and respiratory failure, so global health agencies are watching the situation closely. Nice timing, too, since the United States just bailed on the World Health Organisation. Best of luck with that, RFK Jr - how’s those measles going?
On Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Marco Rubio showed up to a televised hearing looking like he had just wrestled a bag of caffeine pills. Sweating, hands shaking, talking a hundred miles an hour, dry mouth and nervously licking his lips, he prompted critics to wonder if he was high - especially after reaching twice into his jacket pocket, putting something in his mouth, and then rubbing his gums. When Senator Rand Paul pressed him on whether the regime’s recent actions in Venezuela could justify a foreign country indicting and seizing President Trump the way they authorised an invasion to capture Maduro, Rubio had no convincing answer.
And just when you thought the week couldn’t twist tighter, the Department of Justice quietly did what it had been legally required to do six weeks ago: release the Epstein files. But instead of a clean, careful transparency dump, DOJ pushed out roughly 3.5 million pages while withholding millions more, claiming legal constraints - even though that still amounts to only about half the documents identified as relevant under the law. Critics from both parties blasted the slow rollout and redactions for protecting the powerful while exposing survivors’ identities. Survivors called it “a betrayal.”
And buried in the newly released pages were exactly the kinds of names the administration didn’t want anyone digging into: email exchanges involving Elon Musk, mentions of Bill Gates, photographs of (formerly prince) Andrew, and documents showing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick interacting with Epstein long after publicly claiming he’d cut ties. The files also include unverified and deeply distressing allegations about Trump in FBI tip memos, dozens of emails with billionaire contacts, and a 2002 exchange between what appears to be Melania and Ghislaine Maxwell praising her appearance in a magazine - details that range from eyebrow-raising to downright unsettling to heinous and unspeakable.
The news is getting hard to follow. It’s a firehose of surreal moments blasting past at a thousand miles an hour, very little of it making sense except as evidence that the world we’ve known is coming apart at the seams.
It’s easy to look at all of this and think the world is ending because, in a way, it is. The old world is dying. The new one is quietly rising underneath it, like water pushing up through cracked pavement.
But what looks like chaos is actually patterned. What feels random is anything but. There is a map for what’s playing out on the ground, written in the sky, and whether we realise it or not, we are following it precisely.
So if you’re asking what’s really moving under the headlines - what this moment means, what it’s asking of you, and what to do if you’re starting to feel like you’re going insane - then keep reading.
Let’s make meaning of the madness,
Trace the architecture beneath the chaos,
And walk forward with eyes open,
Tuned to the clarity blooming beneath collapse.
**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**
Before we begin this week, let’s take a breath. What follows is best read with both an open mind and a steady heart. Some of it may stir discomfort - that’s okay. Stay with it. This isn’t a moment that calls for panic, but for presence. You don’t have to agree with every word - just let your heart stay open as the words pass through.
Inconvenient Truth, Blame the Bots
Last week, the world bore witness to something we will not soon forget: the killing of Alex Pretti, a nurse from Minneapolis, gunned down by federal agents after stepping in to help a woman they were assaulting. Through the phone in our hands, we all became unwilling witnesses to an execution, watching from multiple angles as agents slammed Pretti to the ground, doused him in pepper spray, disarmed him of a legally concealed weapon, then shot him in the back - multiple times - leaving him dead in the street.
Despite video evidence beaming around the world in real time, the Trump administration began spinning its own version of events, branding Pretti a domestic terrorist who tried to massacre federal agents. It was brazen, grotesque, and so at odds with the footage that even seasoned Trump loyalists gasped, leaving MAGA influencers fumbling and stumbling, trying to find ways to excuse what was so clearly an unjustified killing at the hands of the state.
This week, a second video surfaced, filmed eleven days before Pretti’s death by The News Movement, showing a man who looked like Pretti confronting federal agents in the street. As their vehicle pulls away, he spits toward it and kicks out a taillight. The agents stop, pile out, throw him to the ground, hold him there, and fire tear gas toward bystanders before eventually retreating.
MAGA influencers pounced on the new footage like they’d found the smoking gun. “Violent thug,” they declared. “He had it coming.” Trump himself reposted the video with smug vindication, and suddenly, a broken taillight and a loogie became retroactive justification for state-sanctioned execution. “See?” they seemed to say. “He wasn’t a saint. So it’s fine.”
And then the narrative fractured again - this time from a corner of the internet seemingly desperate to believe that the footage was an AI-generated fake. Even after the BBC’s facial recognition software pegged a 97% match. Even after the Star Tribune confirmed the man in the video was Pretti, citing his own family. Even after the family’s attorney released a statement saying clearly: “A week before Alex was gunned down in the street - despite posing no threat to anyone - he was violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents.”
Even when a second angle of the same altercation began to circulate - a wide shot from across the street - some still cried “fake,” even though the footage aligned perfectly with what had already been seen, which would be a complex trick for commercial AI to pull off. In the face of an inconvenient truth, some still refused to believe, because they simply didn’t want to.
While some rejected the video, determined that Pretti was a flawless martyr, untouched by impulse or rage, others embraced it as proof that he wasn’t, and so he deserved to die. And caught between those extremes - between digital delusion and moral rot - lay the truth; that life is messy, humans are complicated, and all the spit and smashed taillights in the world is no justification for murder.
The second video didn’t tie up the story with a neat bow. It added texture, context, and complexity and made Pretti more human, and harder to flatten into a symbol. And that, for many, was an unbearable reality to face.
And that’s what this week was - a slap in the face with reality, as dreamy Neptune finally entered fiery Aries, leaving the waters of Pisces behind, where it’s been since 2011. That’s the fog of illusion clearing, and cold, hard truth rushing in. For fifteen years, we’ve been wading through the Piscean soup of projection, delusion, and spiritual bypass, but now Neptune in Aries won’t do fog - only fire. Aries confronts, and sears through lies with uncompromising clarity, demanding action, not abstraction. This week was the first flashpoint of a new spiritual era. A reality reckoning that showed us exactly what Neptune in Aries is here to do: burn down the illusions we can no longer afford to hide behind.
Life Beyond Fake News
While Neptune was in Pisces, Trump made a political career out of crying “fake news” any time reality failed to flatter him. It’s a bitter irony that Trump, the emperor of delusion, floods his social media with AI-generated sludge - depicting himself as a war hero, a demigod, a gold-plated titan, with fighter jets, six-packs, eagles, lightning bolts and the full messianic cosplay - but the moment real images surface, like his unmistakable signature in Epstein’s birthday book, or a photo of him posing next to the man himself, suddenly that’s AI, too. Nothing is real, it seems, in the world of Trump.
And now his tactics have metastasized across the political bloodstream, with many of his critics adopting his moves, circulating AI slop with glee when it makes Trump look ridiculous - a giant baby in a MAGA diaper, or a prisoner being dragged into a cell - but show them real footage that complicates a story they want to believe, and they do exactly what he does: blame the bots.
When a video emerged this week that didn’t fit the clean narrative Pretti’s defenders and Trump’s detractors were hoping for, they didn’t integrate the complexity - they rejected the footage wholesale, declared it fake and blamed the machine, making AI the new scapegoat for our collective cognitive dissonance.
But with Neptune now out of Pisces and marching through Aries for the next fifteen years, the refusal to deal with reality won’t work like it used to. Neptune in Pisces let us live in curated dreamworlds, each married to our own version of the truth, but Neptune in Aries won’t tolerate that. It demands we deal with what is, not what feels safest. It asks us to stop blaming the bots, stop dodging nuance, and finally face the inconvenient truths we’ve spent years trying not to see.
Neptune in Pisces blurred the line between reality and fantasy - we swam in symbolism, projection, and illusion. It was a time of dreams, but also deep deception where truth became liquid, but now that Neptune has entered Aries, the collective spell is beginning to break.
Neptune in Aries doesn’t ask how something feels - it demands what it is. This is a spiritual fire that burns off the fog and forces us to engage with what’s real, even if it stings. Over the next fifteen years, this shift will sharpen our inner knowing as the fog lifts, not just around our politics, but around our perception itself. Expect to see more moments where the soul just knows - that’s Neptune in Aries recalibrating our compass, helping us discern deep-fakes from truth, fantasy from fact, and emotional projection from actual presence.
This doesn't mean we’ll never be fooled again, but it means we’re entering a cycle where reality bites louder than fantasy whispers, and the heart won't let us look away.
Fake news won’t hit the same.
Spiritual fluff won’t land.
AI hallucinations will trigger something in us that simply doesn’t buy it.
And while the bots get better at imitation, Neptune in Aries will ensure we become better at recognition - not with our eyes, but with our hearts.
Secrets, Salem, & Reclaiming Sanity
Along with the new footage of Pretti and many other revelations this week, we also saw the dumping of over three million new files relating to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation - a document drop so dense and disturbing it felt less like a slap from reality and more like a sledgehammer. The contents were sickening, harrowing, and devastating, and still only a small part of the puzzle. The accusations and allegations contained within those files implicate some of the most powerful people on the planet, including the one currently plastering the Oval Office in gold.
These documents took the Epstein story beyond even the wildest political thrillers, exposing a reality in which horrific crimes were being committed, not in the shadows of history, but in the backrooms of the so-called golden era. And that’s what made them so hard to absorb: they didn’t just implicate individuals - they shattered timelines, and forced us to consider that reality itself may not have been what we thought it was.
What we’re living through right now is not just a psychological collapse, but a spiritual reckoning. Our collective circuitry is frying because we’re being asked to metabolize a version of reality that the mind alone cannot square. It’s too grotesque, too vast, too systemically enabled - it fights the comfortable narrative we built in our head.
We thought Alex Pretti’s death was horrific, but the sudden adjustment to the truth of his actions breaks the brain. We thought the Epstein files were bad, but the sudden reality of just how bad they are feels like a bridge too far that we cannot cross. That’s what Neptune in Aries does: it confronts us with reality so raw, so unvarnished, it sears through the fog like flame. That’s why it feels like reality is breaking - because it is. But not in the way we fear.
It’s breaking open.
This has happened before. In the 1690s, when Neptune left Pisces and entered Aries two cycles ago, it marked the sudden collapse of the Salem witch trials - a period defined by delusion, projection, and moral hysteria. For years, accusations flew without evidence, people were hanged based on feelings, not facts, condemned not because of what they did, but how others felt about them. And then, almost overnight, it stopped. A collective realization broke through that what had been happening was utter madness. The fog cleared, sanity returned, and the trials became a thing of history.
We’ve just lived through our own modern Salem - same Neptune in Pisces above, different outworking below. Through the past decade marked by the rise of “alternative facts,” we were required to navigate a cultural landscape where truth was no longer tethered to evidence, or even to the direct testimony of those who lived it. Truth, in the Neptune in Pisces era, hung almost exclusively on whether the facts at hand fit our preferred map of reality. If the answer was no, then it was deemed fake, rigged, planted, or manipulated.
This is how you get millions of people insisting an election was stolen (2020 and 2024, either one, on both sides at different times), despite every court, every audit, and every official saying otherwise. It’s how half the population of a nation can look at a convicted criminal and accused predator and think he belongs in the White House (twice) because it’s really Hunter’s laptop, Hillary’s emails, or Kamala’s tone that’s the actual problem. And it’s how a crowd can watch a man get killed in broad daylight and still be convinced that he had it coming. It’s how a single video, confirmed by the victim’s family and cross-checked by news outlets, is still written off as fabrication because it makes things a little too messy.
We’re coming out of years of fog, and it’s taking time for our eyes to adjust to the sudden clarity.
The Scapegoat for our Fear
In the Neptune in Pisces era, we stopped checking facts, because we favoured checking vibes, and only absorbing those that closely matched our desired reality - the one in which we felt most safe.
When someone we admire was charged with a crime, it was a witch hunt. When it was someone we already loathed, it was proof that the system works. When someone we distrusted was accused, we demanded punishment and insisted that “all accusers must be believed” but when someone we admired was accused, we demanded nuance. When scientists advised taking a vaccine to protect public health, some refused because they didn’t trust “big pharma,” but when a celebrity marketed a new lip filler, they pumped it straight into their face, no questions asked.
In this post-facts Neptune in Pisces world, our standards for belief shifted depending on how comfortable the truth made us feel. We became a tangle of contradictions - morally certain, factually selective, and addicted to the warm glow of confirmation. If a fact soothed us, we embraced it, but if it challenged us, we denounced it. We moved from echo chambers into echo realities, meticulously curated to reflect only what we already believed.
And in the midst of that Neptunian Piscean fog walked a new variable: a technology capable of generating images, voices, and narratives at scale, and almost instantly, it became the perfect scapegoat. Every uncomfortable truth could now be dismissed as a deepfake and every scandalous image was “probably synthetic.” Every voice we didn’t want to hear became “algorithmically generated.” We stopped interrogating our biases and outsourced our denial.
We’ve always found a scapegoat for our fears. Witches. Immigrants. The media. The elites. The deep state. Now, in this era, it’s the machines. Over time, the names change, but the driver stays the same, amplified to greater effect in the years when Neptune was in Pisces.
We are creatures raised to live from the mind, and the mind, knowing its impermanence, is obsessed with control and self-protection. It clings to certainty and crafts a version of reality that makes us feel safe, even if it’s based on assumptions that are entirely false. And when that reality is threatened, it doesn’t investigate - it attacks, and with little pushback from reality when the Piscean fog is so thick.
That fog allowed us to spit, and fight, and blame, and push away what we didn’t want to see. It allowed us to weaponize “truth” in service of safety, all while tuned to the frequency of fear - louder, faster, and more dominant than ever with Neptune lost in the Piscean sea.
But this isn’t just something we learned through the Neptune in Pisces transit these last fifteen year. For centuries, this fear-based way of living made sense. Survival, vigilance, projection, control - the mind knew how to operate in that signal. It built entire systems and societies to mirror its need for certainty and power, and we called that reality.
But now, that signal is faltering.
Neptune hasn’t just moved out of Pisces. It’s completed a full 165 year cycle - a full lap around the Sun. As it moves into Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, a whole new cycle begins - a whole new way of perceiving reality. At the end of February, Saturn will join Neptune in Aries in the first degree of the sign - that’s structure and the dream meeting in the sign of ignition. The Genesis Reset - the rebirth of reality.
You can feel it in the air, even if there’s no language for it yet. Something is shifting. The energy is changing. The old way of navigating purely from the mind - from fear, from certainty, from control - is no longer holding. It’s cracking under its own weight, and plunging us into something deeper.
The Rising Heart Written in the Sky
Astrologers have been watching 2026 approach for decades because the planetary cycles that define eras are doing something extraordinarily rare this year. Beyond the Genesis Reset, when Saturn and Neptune meet in Aries - an alignment that has not occurred at that degree in recorded human history - three outer planets (the ones that shape entire generations and civilisations) are also shifting into positions that have never overlapped like this in recorded history. In addition to Neptune gliding through Aries, Pluto is moving through Aquarius and soon Uranus will also enter Gemini.
This is not a small sky change, but an era change.
Pluto governs power, systems, and the architecture of civilisation. Aquarius governs networks, technology, and collective intelligence. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius (250 years ago), the world saw revolutions that shifted power from monarchies to the people. Pluto in this sign describes civilisation rewrites.
Uranus governs disruption, innovation, and sudden leaps. Gemini governs the mind, communication, and information exchange. The last time Uranus was in Gemini (80 years ago during the 1940s), we saw the birth of early computing, codebreaking, radar, and the foundations of modern information theory. Uranus in Gemini marks a radical shift in how minds process and share information.
Neptune governs the spiritual tone of an era. Aries governs identity, action, and the emergence of the self. Neptune in Aries dissolves old identities and forces the birth of new ones. This is not a contemplative transit. It is catalytic. People do not retreat under this sky. They say, I cannot live this way anymore.
Put together, the sky is describing something unmistakable:
The system is being rebuilt.
The mind is being reoriented.
The self is being redefined.
From 2025 to 2032, Uranus in Gemini brings an explosive phase of mental and informational disruption. From 2032 to 2039, Uranus in Cancer brings that disruption into the home, into care, into emotional life. From 2039 onward, Uranus in Leo ushers in a creative renaissance where expression and innovation move hand in hand.
The stars are telling a story about a decade of disruption on the way to divergence. A mental revolution, followed by a return to care, followed by a creative rebirth.
This is the turning of the age - from mind to heart, from fear to coherence, from survival to remembrance - and that is why so much of what we built from fear, control, and certainty feels unstable right now because the way we have been thinking is reaching its limit.
A new signal is beginning to hum underneath it all.
The Age of the Mind is flickering out.
The Age of the Heart is coming online.
Facing Change Without Fear
It is our human habit to meet almost every uncomfortable change from the place of fear. Such was the way in the Age of the Mind, and as each new era dawned - as we lurched from evolution to evolution - a new tool always arrived to propel us forward, and each time we balked at it with fear.
When the printing press arrived in the 1400’s, authorities panicked. Mass literacy, they warned, would lead to chaos and heresy, and they weren’t entirely wrong. The upheaval was real, but so was science, education, and democracy, all made possible through this powerful new tool.
When trains arrived in the early 19th Century, doctors warned that traveling faster than 30 miles per hour would cause insanity and organ failure, but instead, we got migration, commerce, and cultural exchange on a scale never seen before.
When electricity appeared in the late 1800’s, people called it dangerous sorcery. Entire professions vanished - the candlestick makers and lamplighters were no more - but night became usable, cities grew, hospitals functioned after dark, and entire categories of invention became possible because of it, like refrigerators, ovens, televisions, computers, and more.
When cars hit the streets at the turn of the last century, the fear was, “What will happen to all the horses?” But civilization didn’t end - it evolved, solving some problems and creating new ones.
When we split the atom in the 1930’s, the fear was existential, and for good reason, yet from that same knowledge came nuclear medicine, energy, and a deeper understanding of physics.
When television boomed in the 1950’s, we were told it would destroy reading and family life. Books and families survived and evolved - what really changed was how we shared stories and information.
Throughout history, every time humanity approached a new threshold, a new tool appeared alongside it to help us cross over. And every time, the mind screamed: this will destroy us. Our task was never to eliminate the tool, but to learn how to live with it wisely - using a mix of laws, ethics, and personal restraint.
We are living through another one of those threshold moments now, here at the turning of the age, and right on cue, the same voices are telling us to be afraid. That jobs will vanish. That civilization is doomed. And like every evolution before it, those voices are not entirely wrong - but they are not entirely right either, because the tool being presented to us at this threshold is different.
The printing press amplified ideas.
Electricity amplified activity.
Cars amplified movement.
Nuclear science amplified power.
Television amplified influence.
But now, Artificial Intelligence amplifies cognition.
For the first time, the tool we are being handed touches the one domain humans believed was always uniquely ours: the mind. All the other tools at all the other thresholds expanded what the mind could do - this one threatens to outrun it entirely. It does not just help us move faster or build bigger - it actually thinks. And in a world that has placed the mind on a throne for centuries, it’s no wonder this feels threatening.
We’re trying to process the possible replacement of the mind through the mind itself. Our mind is facing the reality of the end of its own age of dominance. No wonder it’s freaking out.
Afraid of Our Own Minds
Perhaps we’re not afraid of AI because of what it can do, but because of what we know we are capable of doing with it.
AI doesn’t scare us because it’s powerful, but because we don’t fully trust ourselves with its power - it can amplify the human mind without limits, and deep down, we know the mind works best when reined in. Left unchecked, the mind becomes obsessed with control, gripped by fear, and prone to domination. It knows its own fragility and its inherent need to keep itself safe, so when it imagines itself unbound, all it can foresee is unbounded fear.
The problem is not this new tool, but how wildly unprepared we are to use it wisely. History shows us again and again: the tool always arrives before we are ready, and we become ready only by reckoning with its power.
When we discovered nuclear power, we unlocked the capacity to destroy ourselves, but so far, the potential for that destruction has forced us to choose restraint. Once we gained the power to end ourselves, we were forced into a new kind of maturity. Now we hold the power of ultimate destruction in our hands, it becomes our choice to never use it. When the ceiling on our capacity is gone, we must rein ourselves in, or perish.
AI offers a similar evolutionary moment. We built AI in a world of speed, fear, and extraction, but this tool doesn’t belong to that world. It arrived just in time to nudge us across the bridge, not into dystopia - unless we choose it - but into the only world where it can be safely wielded, one led not by the mind but by something deeper.
For centuries in the Age of the Mind, human worth, status, and survival were tied to thinking, analysing, producing, managing, deciding, but now that a machine can do large parts of that faster and cheaper - now that a new world is rising asking for something new to lead - the mind senses it’s own peril and it begins to panic.
How will I earn my right to exist?
How will I know what’s real?
What am I, if thinking isn’t uniquely mine?
What we’re witnessing is not a tech crisis, but an ego crisis.
The mind has long believed it runs the show and that it is the pinnacle of human evolution, but now, faced with something that might outpace it, it’s flailing - not because it’s being destroyed, but because it’s being unseated.
The mind was never meant to be our crowning glory. It’s a brilliant instrument, but it is not the source of our deepest wisdom. That has always lived deeper, in the eternal part of us that exists beyond this body and mind.
The truth is, we are not our mind, or even our body - not really, deep down. These are vessels - our sacred containers - through which our soul perceives this world. The mind and body is the avatar. The soul is the player. And to navigate what comes next, as we leave the Age of the Mind, we must root back into the only guidance system that knows how to walk this path without fear: the heart.
The rise of AI is revealing how unsustainable mind-led living has become. A tool this powerful, wielded by a fearful, controlling mind, is catastrophic. And for the first time in history, we are being shown - not symbolically, but practically - that the way we’ve been thinking cannot safely hold what we are now creating. It cannot carry us to where we are going.
If we continue from the mind, we will find only folly.
The only safe passage forward is through the wisdom of the heart.
Heart-Led Tools and the Birth of Spiritual Tech
When viewed through the lens of the sky, perhaps AI has not arrived to destroy us, but to dismantle the dying world of the mind - to jolt us out of our heads and into our hearts, demanding that we evolve. Here at the end of the Age of the Mind, we face a tool so vast, so infinite in its reach, that it can only be safely nurtured from the heart.
If we wield it from the mind, it becomes a weapon.
If we meet it from the heart, it has the potential to become a spiritual tool.
This is the nature of the bridge we now stand on. No wonder so many of us feel afraid. In a world still ruled by the mind, AI is deeply dangerous, but to discard the technology entirely is not the answer - wether we like it or not, it’s not going away.
We can push against it, rail against it, fight and yell and scream about it, but like electricity or social media or television that came before it, this new technology is not going anywhere. We cannot wish or will it away - we have to find a way to meet it, anchored in our heart and soul, and learn how to exist with it from there.
But what do we do when this most powerful tool is being shepherded by tech-bro billionaires - many of whom we rightly blame for the collapse we’re now living through? And how do we address the very real moral concerns AI raises? It steamrolls copyright without a care. It consumes staggering amounts of energy. It gulps water by the million-liter just to keep itself cool. If left unchecked, this technology won’t just evolve - it’ll metastasize.
The criticisms of AI are valid and should not be waved away. It’s energy-hungry, water-intensive, and largely controlled by men who’ve never once designed for planetary balance. And yet, the uncomfortable truth is that it’s not the only system guzzling resources at a catastrophic scale. So is the meat industry, which still uses orders of magnitude more water and energy than AI ever has. If we’re going to talk about collapse, we need to consult the full ledger. The real question isn’t whether AI uses too much - it’s whether we’ll use it to dismantle or reinforce the systems that already consume too much. That’s the deeper reckoning this moment in human history invites. Not just a tech reckoning, but an ethical one.
And this is where we would do well to remember our place in the cosmic order. We’ve come to believe it’s up to us to force things into being, or to stop things from happening - that if we’re not doing, controlling, fixing, then nothing will unfold as it should. But that’s not how life works. We are not holding the tides in place. We’re not fuelling the sun. We’re not manually opening flowers in spring.
The cosmos does not ask for our control. It simply moves, and we respond. And right now, the stars are clear: the frequency is changing, ready or not.
The energy of the heart - long buried, long exiled - is rising as the fear frequency of the mind flickers out. This isn’t metaphor - it’s the energetic shift that underpins the next age, and all we are asked to do right now is to ride the wave, not resist it.
Those who try to use the tools of this new age to dominate, extract, or deceive will steadily find themselves out of tune with what’s coming. That old vibration will not hold, because the Age of the Heart is not a poetic ideal, but a functional requirement.
Our task is not to fear what’s rising, but to meet it from the place of coherence. Not to hand our humanity over to the machine, but to allow our humanity to expand by wielding the new tools of this new age from the soul.
The Economy of the New Earth
AI will not bring about the heart-led world, but it’s existence may help make it possible, if we respond to it wisely.
Our fear tells us this new tool will replace us - render us obsolete, overthrow us, enslave us and subdue us. We’ll all lose our jobs, we’re told, and without jobs, we’ll be penniless, and without money we will be destitute and unable to live. That’s the mind spiralling into a fear-death-loop right there, and the thoughts are not wrong, there’s just more to the picture that the mind has trouble taking in.
If we take a moment to breathe, to step back and settle our mind, and allow our heart to rise, we may be able to look at this without fear from a different perspective. For the first time in history, we have created a tool that can relieve us of massive mind-labour: the paperwork, the bureaucracy, the logistical grind that has dominated civilization for centuries. And when that is removed, what remains are the domains machines cannot enter - care, presence, connection, community, the Earth and each other.
That’s what AI reveals - not its own power, but ours. The stars are not warning us that dystopian technology is coming. They are showing us that technology and the heart are rising together, heralding the birth of spiritual tech. The version of it we’re looking at now, run by the tech bros with no guardrails, reads as incredibly disturbing, but it’s not necessarily the tool that’s the problem, it’s how it’s being used and who’s at the helm. Electricity in the hands of madmen would be pretty terrifying too.
AI itself is not inherently good or bad. Like most of our modern tools, it is an amplifier.
Plug it into a fear-based system, and it scales fear.
Plug it into a profit-only system, and it scales extraction.
Plug it into a surveillance system, and it scales control.
But plug it into a heart-led system, and it could scale care, time, creativity, and connection. The machine doesn’t change - the values do.
Right now, we are trying to run next-era technology on last-era consciousness and that’s why it feels so wrong. This is not a software problem, but a soul problem, and we can only solve it through the heart.
Like it or not, AI is about to become the most productive asset class in human history, and if that productivity flows to a handful of corporations, it will absolutely make life worse for most people. Jobs will vanish. Inequality will deepen. Suffering will rise. That’s the logic of the Age of the Mind, but that logic is collapsing as that age is ending.
As we step into a new age and a new frequency, we are being called to reconsider how we engage with the tools at our disposal. In a heart-led world, tools like AI would be treated as shared resources. Like oil in Alaska, where all citizens receive a dividend, AI could generate abundance not for the few, but for all, if we lead with our hearts and pass laws to match - not as charity or welfare, but as a return on our shared inheritance: consciousness itself.
In a world led by the heart, a tool like AI might not just pave a path to abundance, but also gift us something even more radical: time. Time we’ve never been allowed to have. Time to tend to the inner world we’ve kept on mute. Time to finally stop running.
Imagine what might become possible if we no longer had to scramble to prove our worth, feed our families, or keep up with a system built on burnout. Imagine if our needs were met and the tasks were taken care of, and we could slow down long enough to actually feel - to process generations of trauma we’ve inherited and ignored, to metabolize the grief and fear that live in our cells, to begin healing not just ourselves, but the lineages we carry.
Time to care for the land, not just as a resource, but as a living teacher. Time to walk barefoot, to grow food, to listen to the wisdom of water, to repair the relationship with the earth we’ve spent centuries trying to dominate. Time to raise our children with presence. Time to sit in circles, not scroll timelines. Time to rest. To remember. To return.
This is not a fantasy. This is what becomes possible when we use the tools at our disposal to step back from ruling with the mind, and return to the sacred work of the heart.
That is the economy of the new Earth - coherence.
And that is how the world begins again.
Rise, and Unsubscribe
But in order for that new world to take hold, we must first unsubscribe from the old one. Right now, some of the most powerful technologies on Earth are being used in ways that feel extractive rather than humane - not because the tools themselves are predatory, but because the hands guiding them still operate from that old world way of thinking, and that’s becoming harder to tolerate as we enter the Age of the Heart.
We don’t need to fear the tool, but we must demand better from the hands that hold it.
In the United States, escalating ICE enforcement is being enabled by corporations that provide the data, infrastructure, and logistics to make it possible. Technology is being used on people, rather than for people, and many are starting to realise that outrage won’t change this - only economics will.
Professor Scott Galloway has proposed something he calls “Resist & Unsubscribe.” A coordinated, temporary pullback from discretionary spending aimed at the companies where economic and political power is most concentrated - particularly in tech and AI. These organisations don’t respond to anger - they bend only to financial pressure.
The United States is a $30 trillion economy driven largely by consumer spending. When consumers pause, markets notice. When markets notice, decisions change.
This isn’t about rejecting technology. It’s about reminding the companies shaping our world that participation is no longer automatic. It has to be earned.
What’s powerful here is not the resistance - it’s the redirection. Because resistance still centers the thing we’re pushing against. What matters more is where we choose to place our energy instead. So perhaps it’s not just “resist and unsubscribe,” but RISE and subscribe to a future led by coherence, compassion, and heart-aligned leadership.
A temporary economic strike isn’t a protest. It’s a signal that people are learning how to steer. That our subscriptions - financial and otherwise - are a form of consent, and that consent can be withdrawn.
The Resist & Unsubscribe website provides a list with links of all the subscription-driven consumer tech companies that have outsized influence over the national economy and the levers of power - CLICK HERE to find out more. I spent today unsubscribing from a number of services. You might consider doing the same. This is not an abandonment of technology - it’s our way of saying we are no longer willing to accept it being led without heart.
As we walk the bridge between worlds and cross from one age into the next, this is how we affect change: by reminding those who misuse their power that we care about the way they use it. Not through dominance, but through coherence. Not by fighting the old world, but by quietly stepping into the new one.
And that - more than anything - is Neptune in Aries, in action.
Forward, Without Fear
As always happens, the arrival of these new technological tools is demanding we become ready to use them, and as humans - wired for survival - if the only way to survive the tool we now wield is to lead from our heart, then that is what we must choose to do next. Perhaps our very first step is to set down these tools for a time, until those at the helm are ready to steer with their heart. Unlimited power is now in our hands and we must wield it with wisdom, or perish.
None of this is written as a defence or endorsement of AI, nor is it to say AI is bad, but rather it is an invitation to consider how we might meet this moment without fear. Because fear keeps us stuck in reaction. When fear is what moves us, we’re always running - chased from one existential threat to another, always gripping, never grounding. Always in the mind, never in the heart.
Somewhere along the line, we have to realise that every time we respond with fear, we are still leading with the mind, and that will not do in the Age of the Heart. If we try to meet this moment with the same fear-based reflexes that built the systems now collapsing, we’ll only recreate what we’re trying to outgrow - faster, louder, and more dangerously automated.
The mind doesn’t know how to navigate this transition. It only knows how to protect. But this isn’t a moment for protection - it’s a moment for evolution.
If you felt fear rise as you read any of this, that’s okay. It’s not wrong to be afraid - in fact, fear is just guidance. The heart knows no fear - it is the mind’s construct, born from its own limits - so when we feel fear rising we know which place we’re anchored in. The feeling we know as fear - that sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach - that’s the heart trying to rise and the mind disallowing it. Fear is essentially a form of heart resistance. Our soul knows no limits, and so it knows no fear. The heart sees further, steadier, truer, and it’s the best place to anchor as we navigate what comes next.
The stars are clear: we have nothing to fear right now, if we view whats unfolding from the place of the heart. The old world is collapsing, yes, but it’s not the end - it’s the clearing. Something new is being born, and the only thing we’re being asked to do is not mistake the wreckage for the future.
If your thoughts are racing right now, if your chest is tight or your jaw is clenched, that’s not a sign you’re broken - it’s just your mind doing exactly what it was trained to do: it’s trying to control the uncontrollable. But this is a moment the mind cannot navigate, so it cannot be solved with thoughts.
Put your hand on your chest, and just breathe slowly. Just ten deep breaths, in and out slowly, is all it takes to feel the deep you that knows. That’s how you drop into the place inside you that doesn’t need to compete with a machine, or win the argument, or outrun the future - the place that’s already connected to what’s coming next.
You don’t need a master plan.
You don’t need to figure it all out.
You just need to root yourself in the part of you that isn’t afraid.
The mind asks, “How will I survive this?”
The heart whispers, “You were made for this.”
A new world is being born. Let’s not meet it with clenched fists and panicked eyes. Let’s meet it with steady hearts and open hands, anchored in our soul.
A Heart Louder Than Fear
We do not have to fear what comes next, but we can if we wish. We can navigate this path between ages locked in our minds, and feel all the pain and dissonance associated with that. Or we can drop into our hearts - the bright place where the darkness of fear cannot exist - and forge a path from there.
We are used to looking at the outer world through our mind - scanning for danger, assessing safety, and reacting from there - but that reflex will not serve us as we attempt to cross this bridge. Trying to process the collapse from the surface layer - with the mind - will only lead us deeper into fear. We would be wise to look with the heart instead: the part of us that can catch the deeper signal, the one already transmitting.
Because when we do that, what frightens the mind can energise the heart.
So as we step into this new week, let’s remember: we don’t have to be fearless to move forward - we just have to stop letting fear lead. The noise is loud right now, yes, but underneath it, something ancient and clear is beginning to hum again: a frequency that speaks not to our panic, but to our purpose.
If we meet what’s rising with our old armour, we’ll miss what’s trying to be born. But if we meet it with open hands, grounded hearts, and the courage to feel instead of control, then this moment won’t break us. It will transform us.
We were not made to survive this by becoming sharper minds.
We were made to walk it home as steadier hearts.
And so, let’s walk gently this week. The news right now is intense. The stars tell us the month ahead will be a lot to take in. We have to look after ourselves - staying permanently glued to the fire hose of news is not required or advised.
Take breaks.
Put down the phone.
Rest.
Nap.
Touch grass.
If it’s snowing, make a snow angel.
(Yes, this count’s as spiritual practice!)
Drink water.
Sit under a tree.
Take a walk.
Breathe.
We'll get through, but we have to be wise as we find the way. Our challenge in the days ahead is to let our hearts be louder than our fear. And when the world tries to drag us back into panic, remember - we are not here to manage the collapse. We are here to midwife the new.
If you need some support as we navigate the days ahead from the seat of the soul, come join me in the Daily Lighthouse. I’ll be there, each day with you, or if you prefer it in an audio listening format, head over to the Resonance Room.
See you next Sunday, friends. Until then, have COURAGE, and stay kind, stay fierce, and stay human.
Onwards!
Wiz, hard to find words for all the appreciation I have for what you explored in this week’s wrap-up 🤍. I want to spotlight this one paragraph (and the few after it) that touched something deep. I felt a rush of grief - and hope - in what you named here:
“In a world led by the heart, a tool like AI might not just pave a path to abundance, but also gift us something even more radical: time. Time we’ve never been allowed to have. Time to tend to the inner world we’ve kept on mute. Time to finally stop running.”
This was an amazing, gutting, terrifying, soothing wrap-up. Time to go out and make some snow-angels. Peace to you and to all.