Wizard's Weekly Wrap-Up: October 5-11, 2025
From Shutdowns to Ceasefires, Peace Prizes to Power Plays; The Week the Illusion Cracked, the Masks Slipped, the Empire Burned, and the Reckoning Began.
This week, the theater of the absurd upgraded to IMAX as the arsonists became the fire brigade and the empire caught fire.
In France, the new Prime Minister resigned barely a month after taking office, only to be re-appointed days later, to have another crack at forming a government - second time’s a charm. In Japan, Sanae Takaichi made history as the new head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, positioning herself to become the nation’s first female prime minister.
In the U.S., the government shutdown dragged into its second week, as furloughed workers who received no paycheck lined up at food banks, and Speaker Mike Johnson kept the lights off in Congress to avoid swearing in a newly elected Democrat whose signature would trigger a House vote to release the Epstein files.
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced the Senate, refusing to answer questions or deny the existence of explicit photographs allegedly linking the president to the world’s most infamous sex trafficker. New York’s Attorney General Letitia James was indicted. Former FBI Director James Comey was hauled into court. Dominion Voting Systems was quietly bought by a company run by a former GOP election official. Totally normal. Nothing to see here.
Elsewhere in the carnival: after suggesting Tylenol might cause autism, RFK Jr. decided circumcision could be a culprit too. Trump declared open war on ANTIFA, Portland, and Chicago, tanked the stock market again with another trade spat with China, and popped into Walter Reed for a “routine” checkup - his second in six months - where he reportedly got a COVID shot (the same one his administration says you shouldn’t get) but most certainly did not get medical attention for the stroke he definitely didn’t have.
Trump also unveiled a new branch of magical economics, claiming he’d cut the price of inhalers by 654% - which, if true, would mean inhaler companies now owe you money - then he told the world he’d achieved everlasting peace in Gaza as an audition tape for the Nobel Peace Prize that ultimately went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
MAGA faithful started jumping ship when Team Trump announced a deal to put a Qatari military base in Idaho, which Laura Loomer called an “abomination.” Candace Owens accused the administration of covering up the truth about Charlie Kirk’s murder, Tucker Carlson said Trump was “Nazifying the country,” Joe Rogan wondered aloud why Americans were being rounded up in the streets, and Marjorie Taylor Greene - the patron saint of political whiplash - blamed Republicans for the shutdown and called for the government to reopen.
Diane Keaton died, and Dolly Parton got sick, scared the world half to death, and the outpouring of love online practically resurrected her in real time, reminding everyone she may be the one person who can still unite America.
Once again, I’ve checked the stars, mapped the fault lines, and tried to make some clarity out of the chaos.
So take a breath.
Let’s unpack the week that was.
Transmute fear with insight.
And make some meaning from the madness.
**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 Bondi Bombshell
Sometimes the only way to know where you’re going is to look back and see where you’ve been. Such was the necessity to make sense of this week, with all its denials, lies, ceasefires, peace prizes and cover ups.
It all started with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s combative performance during a five hour long grilling on Capitol Hill where she was questioned on her scandal-ridden tenure as the head of the Department of Justice under Donald Trump.
In a performance that must have pleased her boss, she was highly combative, refusing to answer most questions, instead taking swipes at Democrats. But Bondi became noticeably flustered as the questions veered towards the ghost that haunts Capitol Hill these days - Jeffrey Epstein.
“Who gave the order to flag records related to Trump in the Epstein Files?” Senator Dick Durbin inquired, as Bondi chugged from her bottle of water, quenching her dry mouth.
“I’m not going to discuss anything about that with you, Senator,” Bondi said, shaking her head with disdain.
“Eventually you’re going to have to answer for your conduct in this,” Durbin reminded her.
According to reports, soon after Trump returned to power at the start of this year, Bondi ordered the FBI to deploy 1,000 agents to comb through more than 100,000 Epstein-related records with explicit instructions to flag every document that mentioned Trump.
It was around this same time that Bondi summoned a group of social media influencers to the White House for what was supposed to be a fluff session meant to celebrate “transparency and free speech” but turned into a document dump. Hours before the meeting, Bondi ordered interns to print thousands of pages of court filings, flight logs and redacted witness statements and had them bound in glossy, official-looking folders stamped “The Epstein Files: Phase 1 - Declassified.”
When the influencers arrived, Bondi theatrically announced that she was “handing the truth to the people” but within hours, journalists discovered that every single page inside had already been public for months.
The only thing truly exposed was Bondi’s desperation to look like she’d delivered something meaningful when, in truth, she’d simply handed the public an empty binder.
📁 The Files on Her Desk
“There’s been public reporting that Jeffrey Epstein showed people photos of President Trump with half-naked young women,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said this week during Bondi’s inquisition on Capitol Hill. “Do you know if the FBI found those photographs in their search of Epstein’s safe or otherwise? Have you seen any such thing?”
The words hung in the air like an electrical charge. Bondi froze. Her eyes hardened into glass. “The question is,” Whitehouse continued, “did the FBI find those photographs?”
The seconds stretched. Reporters stopped typing. You could almost hear the air-conditioning hum.
Bondi’s chart that day demanded truth; every illusion of control she’s relied on began to crack under the weight of what she’s defended. The pattern written above her was simple: what’s been buried rises, what’s been hidden speaks.
“You don’t know anything about that?” Whitehouse asked again, but still nothing.
It wasn’t defiance anymore - just a hanging silence, the kind that doesn’t protect the truth but hides it, the kind that lets everyone in the room draw their own conclusion, and none of them flattering. Whatever authority Bondi carried into that chamber cracked in that moment. Her silence on Capitol Hill wasn’t strength; it was the sound of karma tightening its grip.
The nation’s top law-enforcement officer refused to deny the existence of explicit photographs potentially implicating the president in relation to the world’s most infamous sex trafficker. And the sky itself seemed to mirror it: she isn’t merely shielding her boss - she’s bound to his collapse. The more she protects him, the more the light bends toward her too.
🧳 Inside the Safe
Author Michael Wolff confirmed the existence of the explicit photographs discussed on Capitol Hill this week, saying he had seen them himself. Wolff said Epstein kept the pictures in a safe and would take them out “because they amused him,” confirming he had twice seen photographs at Epstein’s Palm Beach home that appeared to show Donald Trump with young women.
“There are three that I specifically remember - two with young girls - I don’t know their ages - sitting in Trump’s lap topless,” Wolff explained, “and a third with Trump standing up and he has a stain on the front of his page and there are four of these girls laughing and pointing at the stain.”
These images have never been publicly verified or released, but Wolff said this week, “I don’t know if they were in the safe when the FBI came in July 2019 but it would not be a far fetched assumption to assume that they were and that now today they exist in the Epstein files.”
Bondi has seen the Epstein files. “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” she told Fox News in February, referring to the files, just days before the rushed distribution of the bulging binders full of previously released information.
Though she’s never publicly discussed the contents, according to reports, in May this year Bondi told President Trump directly that his name appeared multiple times in the files. Just a few weeks later, that information became public when Elon Musk tweeted to his millions of followers: “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That’s the real reason they haven’t been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Bondi’s heads up that his name was riddled throughout the Epstein files, coupled with Musk’s big reveal to the public, appears to be what set off a months long concerted endeavour from Trump - and all those around him - to ensure the full unredacted files never saw the light of day.
💥 Distraction Diplomacy
The week after Musk’s social media detonation, Trump reached for the first of many Epstein distractions - he sent 2,000 National Guard troops into the streets of Los Angeles. Protesters called it a takeover, but in hindsight, it looks more like sleight of hand designed to stop the public from asking the one question Trump couldn’t afford to answer: Where are the Epstein files?
But when troops in American streets didn’t quiet the calls for transparency, Trump reached for a bigger distraction, ordering U.S. bombers to strike three of Iran’s nuclear sites. He hailed it as a “spectacular military success” that had “obliterated” Iran’s enrichment program, but satellite images showed Iran had quietly moved its stockpiles before the attack. The strikes were loud, rushed, and strategically hollow - more about optics than outcome - another desperate attempt to change the subject by lighting a new fire halfway across the world.
The bombings riled his own base. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson all piled on, accusing Trump of dragging the country into another endless war. In trying to distract from the Epstein fire by bombing Iran, Trump had only poured gasoline on it, and it was becoming a blazing inferno.
And still, the calls came to “Release the Epstein files,” so Trump changed tactic and suddenly began styling himself as a global peacekeeper, boasting on social media that he had personally brokered a “complete and total ceasefire” between Iran and Israel. The so-called deal was entirely fictional and the illusion collapsed within hours when Iran, having no idea what he was talking about, fired another barrage of missiles into southern Israel.
Confronted by reporters on the White House lawn, Trump looked rattled. “They don’t know what the f*** they’re doing,” Trump said of the rogue nations who didn’t play along with his fantasy ceasefire. Every distraction he lit to bury the Epstein story kept blowing up in his face, and the heat was clearly getting to him.
🧯 Case Closed?
A few weeks later, in early July, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice released an official statement claiming its “thorough review” of all Epstein-related evidence had found no “client list,” no credible blackmail material, and no indication of any wider conspiracy involving public figures, and as such, there would be no further disclosure.
The internet exploded. MAGA loyalists raged online as the files they’d been promised for years seemed to vanish overnight.
When Trump tried to shrug it off at a press event - “Are you people still talking about Epstein?” - it only made things worse. In a frantic social media tirade, he called Epstein a “creep,” blamed the files on “Obama, Hillary, Comey, and the losers of the Biden Administration,” and insisted the documents were fabricated by his enemies. It was incoherent - the kind of rant that didn’t extinguish suspicion, but confirmed it.
Even Trump’s allies began to flinch. Speaker Mike Johnson broke ranks, telling reporters, “I think we should put everything out there.” Marjorie Taylor Greene echoed the call for “transparency,” warning that the Epstein issue could cause “significant blowback” if Trump continued to stonewall.
But just days later, when an amendment was introduced to force a House vote on releasing the full Epstein files, both Johnson and Greene backed away. Every Democrat voted yes, all but one Republican voted no, and the motion failed. The same people who’d just demanded transparency suddenly voted to bury it.
In response, Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna filed a discharge petition to bypass GOP leadership and force a full House vote, but again, Republicans quietly blocked it - this time, in the dead of night.
Transparency had somehow become treason.
🧨 Grenades and Dynamite: MAGA Mutiny in Real Time
Facing a furious backlash, Trump turned on his own followers, accusing “stupid Republicans” of falling for “Democrat lies.” “My past supporters have bought into this bullsh*t.….I don’t want their support anymore,” he raged online. He dismissed the entire controversy as the “Epstein Hoax” adding it to his ever-growing list of “hoaxes.”
In response, MAGA loyalists flooded social media with fury, many posting videos of themselves burning their red hats in protest. Even inside the FBI, cracks began showing - Dan Bongino reportedly exploded behind closed doors and floated resignation. The fire Trump lit to hide the truth was now roaring inside his own house.
By mid-July, a CNN poll showed that more than half of all Americans were dissatisfied with the amount of information the federal government had released about the Epstein case. The public wasn’t buying the silence.
Desperate to change the subject, Trump started hurling political grenades in every direction - calling for the prosecution of Adam Schiff over a disputed mortgage loan, ranting about tariffs, pushing Texas to redraw its election maps.
As accusations of a cover-up mounted, the Department of Justice abruptly fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey and dismantled its human trafficking office entirely - moves that only deepened suspicion.
💣 The Birthday Letter
Adding a stick of dynamite to Trump’s already raging Epstein bonfire, The Wall Street Journal detonated a political time bomb with the publication of the now infamous birthday letter allegedly from Trump to Epstein, written in 2003 and included in a leather-bound album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell, featuring a hand-drawn outline of a naked woman, with Trump’s iconic signature scrawled in a squiggly line designed to mimic pubic hair, and the words “we have certain things in common, Jeffrey….a pal is a wonderful thing….may every day be another wonderful secret” typed down the middle of the page.
Trump immediately denied everything and sued Rupert Murdoch and News Corp for publishing the piece, but within days, more damning evidence dropped when CNN released photos and video from the 1990s showing Epstein attending Trump’s wedding, and appearing alongside him at other high-profile events, proving the two were far more than the “casual acquaintances” Trump and his allies had long claimed.
Then a videotaped deposition from 2010 resurfaced, where Epstein was directly asked whether he ever socialised with Trump in the presence of underage girls, and rather than answer, Epstein invoked the Fifth Amendment, as well as the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, refusing to respond to the question.
🕵️♀️ The Maxwell File
In the wake of damning revelations, support mounted on Capitol Hill for the discharge petition to force a floor vote on a bipartisan resolution demanding the release of the full Epstein files.
In response, Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly announced that the House would adjourn early and remain in recess until September to “give the administration space” to act without congressional interference. The move effectively killed the momentum for Epstein transparency, but while the House was away, Democrats pulled a surprise maneuver, pushing through a subpoena motion demanding full disclosure of all DOJ records related to Epstein and issuing a formal subpoena to Ghislaine Maxwell, requiring her to sit for a deposition from her prison cell.
In response to Congress’s subpoena, Trump’s former personal lawyer and now Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, rushed to Tallahassee to meet privately with Maxwell for two full days. When transcripts of the nine-hour meetings were eventually released, Maxwell stated that she “never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way,” that she never saw him “in any type of massage setting,” and that in all her interactions, he was a “gentleman in all respects.”
Within days of the interview, Maxwell was quietly transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas - a far more comfortable facility than her previous lockup in Florida - and she refused to speak to Congress unless granted a presidential pardon or clemency.
🕊️ The Peace Prize That Never Was
As August arrived, with the Maxwell madness unfolding and calls to release the Epstein files growing so loud it was deafening, Trump reached for yet another distraction by loudly and doggedly pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize.
He began blustering about ending multiple wars he hadn’t actually ended, inserting himself into any conflict that might yield a headline. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Trump had “brokered on average about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office,” and declared that “it’s well past done that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
But the list of “wars” Trump claimed to have resolved read like a geography quiz written by a con artist; most of the flare-ups were settled by regional powers long before Trump barged in for the photo op. The Armenia–Azerbaijan truce owed more to Russia’s retreat than to Trump’s diplomacy; the Thailand–Cambodia ceasefire was mediated by Malaysia; and the so-called peace between Israel and Iran was entirely made up by Trump. The so-called “peace deals” were little more than press releases designed to catch the eye of the Nobel committee.
Trump’s had his eye on the Peace Prize ever since 2019, when he fumed that Barack Obama had won his “for nothing.” Perhaps it was jealously that spurred his covetousness, or just the notion that if he could win that prize, he could mask with a medal the moral rot festering beneath his golden veneer.
It’s written in his wiring. Born with his Sun crowning his chart in Gemini - the showman’s placement - and Jupiter glinting in Libra, Trump has always believed that appearance is virtue, that applause can stand in for absolution. His life’s blueprint says redemption must be seen to be real. For him, grace isn’t something you earn; it’s something you brand.
For years he’s tried to buy redemption through optics, a golden shortcut to grace. “I want to try and get to heaven if possible,” he told Fox News earlier this year. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I hear I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.”
To Trump, the Peace Prize represents absolution - something he can wave at the Pearly Gates in the hope of gaining entry, and wave at the American people in the hope they’ll forget the Epstein files. It’s the same instinct that rules his Oval Office - slap fake gold over decay, dress corruption up as grandeur.
The Nobel was never just a prize to him; it’s always really been about camouflage - a way to cover the stain instead of cleansing it.
♟️ The Putin Play
Ramping up his efforts to get Oslo’s attention, Trump tried to urgently end another war by abruptly declaring that he would give Vladimir Putin just “10, 12, maybe 15 days” to implement a Ukraine ceasefire. Within days of the off-hand comment, the White House announced a hastily arranged summit where President Trump would meet with Putin on American soil.
Trump literally rolled out the red carpet for the Russian dictator, greeting him with a military flyover and an unprecedented ride in the presidential limousine, all of which, in the end, amounted to nothing. Clearly, Trump had hoped for an easy win with Putin - declare peace in Ukraine, snag a Nobel Peace Prize, and drown out the Epstein noise - but instead, he got rolled. The summit delivered no ceasefire, no sanctions relief, and no progress for Ukraine.
Days later, Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House - joined by a swarm of European leaders determined to ensure he didn’t ambush Zelenskyy as he had before - but that meeting produced no ceasefire either.
Trump eventually conceded, “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.”
☠️ The Return of Epstein’s Ghost
After discovering that ending long-running wars was, in fact, complicated (who could have guessed?), Trump pivoted to trying to start one of his own, ordering strikes on small boats in the Caribbean Sea in an attempt to provoke Venezuela.
He also declared war on the American people, sending National Guard troops into Washington D.C, Chicago and Portland as he had done in Los Angeles.
If any of this war mongering was meant to help his chances of winning over the Nobel committee, it surely failed spectacularly. And if it was meant to silence the growing calls to release the Epstein files, that failed too.
As Congress returned from recess in early September, Epstein survivors stood shoulder to shoulder with Representatives from both major parties on the steps of the Capitol, refusing to be silenced. Survivor Lisa Phillips issued her own ultimatum: “If you won’t release the client list, we will - by survivors, for survivors.”
Representative Anna Paulina Luna told reporters, “There are some very rich and powerful people who need to go to jail.” Representative Summer Lee said bluntly, “The government itself is responsible for this injustice.” Representative Melanie Stansbury added: “There’s a very powerful person who doesn’t want these stories out.”
Trump dismissed it all from the Oval Office: “We should be talking about the greatness of our country, not the Epstein hoax.” His allies scrambled to fall in line - Speaker Mike Johnson spun a new defense, suggesting that Trump had actually been an FBI informant against Epstein, but that landed like a grenade that blew up in his face. If true, the only way to prove it was to release the very files Trump was fighting to keep sealed. Instead of killing the story, Johnson had only deepened its urgency.
✒️ Silencing Signatures
When the limited Epstein files Congress had subpoenaed were released to the public - revealing new entries in the infamous “birthday book,” including a photo of a giant check for $22,500, styled to look as if Trump had written it to Epstein, for a girl “fully depreciated” - momentum behind the discharge petition exploded. By early September, every Democrat had signed, joined by four Republicans - just two signatures shy of the 218 needed to trigger a full House vote.
A mid-September special election in Virginia delivered the 217th signature when Democrat James Walkinshaw was sworn into Congress and signed the petition as his very first act.
A late September special election in Arizona should have delivered the 218th signature when Democrat Adelita Grijalva was elected, but when she headed to Capitol Hill to be sworn in, she was met with bureaucratic stonewalling. Speaker Mike Johnson had sent members home ahead of the looming government shutdown, and in his view, Grijalva couldn’t be sworn in until the House formally reconvened - a date that he conveniently kept shifting.
Now two weeks on and with the government shut down, Grijalva has still not been sworn in, leaving Arizona’s 7th Congressional District without representation - and the Epstein petition still one signature short.
“Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva should be sworn in now,” said Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week. “It should have happened last week. It needs to happen next week.”
“We will swear her in when everybody gets back,” Johnson told reporters this week, but he’s now confirmed he won’t call House lawmakers back to Washington until the government shutdown ends, and there’s currently no end in sight.
Democrats have publicly accused Johnson of deliberately delaying both Grijalva’s swearing-in and the chamber’s return to Washington to avoid an Epstein vote, though Johnson denies it. “This has zero to do with Epstein,” he said this week, but the timing is hard to ignore - it’s starting to look like Grijalva’s oath of office now hangs on the whims of the man whose name may appear in the very files she’s trying to unlock. Just one more obstacle in the carefully constructed maze Trump has built to delay any reckoning over Epstein.
And the sky reads the same way. Through October and November Johnson’s chart puts pressure on private life and public duty until they’re indistinguishable - the kind of squeeze that makes a man hide behind procedure. These months tighten the noose: Pluto sits on his public line, Venus flares in the house of secrets, and the pattern repeats like a tell - power and privacy knotted together, daring someone to pull. He looks steady on camera, but the cosmic handwriting is blunt: this is a man praying the lights don’t turn his way.
🕰 The Rushed Peace Plan
Since shutting down the government, Trump’s ramped up his efforts to foment war at home, sending Black Hawks into Chicago, declaring Portland a war zone because cable news told him to, and labelling ANTIFA - a loose idea opposing fascism, not an organization - a terrorist group. That alone says plenty.
While stoking war on American streets, Trump pursued peace abroad, staging his most elaborate Epstein distraction yet: the illusion of a Gaza breakthrough.
He’d shown little interest in bringing peace to Gaza since returning to power, but by September, with his Ukraine peace stunt flopping and the Nobel announcement days away, desperation set in.
He hauled Benjamin Netanyahu into the White House to hastily draft a “Gaza Peace Plan”, shoving a phone in his hand and ordering him to apologize to Qatar for bombing them, because Qatar holds the keys to Hamas (as one of their major financiers, reportedly). Netanyahu obeyed, and Trump rewarded the humiliation by signing an executive order pledging U.S. military protection of Qatar - the nation who recently gave Trump a $400 million jet out of the kindness of their heart, no strings attached, he promises.
The pair then strutted out a 20-point “path to peace” in consultation with no-one else - no Arab leaders, no Palestinians, just the U.S. president who supplies Israel’s bombs and the Israeli prime minister under ICC investigation for war crimes.
Trump tapped out a tweet demanding Hamas release all hostages or face “HELL like no one has ever seen before.” Against all expectations, Hamas agreed (at least tentatively) and Trump immediately declared victory, tweeting, “Based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE.” Hours later, he released a rambling Oval Office video thanking “those great countries that helped,” blessing the same people he’d just threatened with annihilation.
None of it was diplomacy - it was desperation. Trump doesn’t care about Gaza any more than he cared about Iran, Ukraine, or Venezuela. He cares about optics, applause, and anything shiny enough to drown out the one truth he can’t contain: the Epstein files.
The peace plan, like his “seven ended wars” and failed Putin summit, was never about peace at all. It was a cover story - a last-minute scramble to lacquer his legacy in gold and clinch a peace prize before the truth breaks through.
🌪️ The Illusion of Peace
Two days before Oslo announced this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this week, Trump tweeted, “I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!”
As the ceasefire’s went into place this weekend, tens of thousands of Palestinians began walking back toward their homes in central and northern Gaza, taking to the streets in demonstrations of joy as Israeli forces began a partial withdrawal. But what’s happening right now in Gaza isn’t new - it’s deja vu dressed as deliverance.
Back in January, a near-identical ceasefire ended the same way: families returning to ruins, trusting the leaflets that said it was safe, only for Israel to accuse Hamas of regrouping and rain fire on them again. Many who rebuilt tents over the ashes of their homes never made it out a second time.
It may look like Trump’s self-serving wheeling and dealing has inadvertently led to a lasting peace, but the same patterns that haunted January’s false ceasefire are back - Pluto digging up buried wounds, Mars and Uranus vibrating with volatility, and Saturn squaring Neptune, the cosmic signature of promises that melt on contact with reality.
For Israel, Pluto still presses on the national Moon - the people’s psyche. Peace by day, nightmares by night. Beneath the applause, tension hums, waiting for one spark.
For Palestine, the chart speaks of endurance, not surrender - Pluto trine Jupiter and Mars sextile Pluto: survival energy, rebuilding strength. This is a strategic pause, not reconciliation.
Netanyahu’s transits scream overreach - Jupiter opposing Jupiter, Mars squaring Pluto - a man clinging to control as it slips away.
And Trump’s still chasing optics over order, cloaked in Neptune’s fog and Pluto’s theatre - an illusionist under cosmic audit.
These skies don’t foretell peace. They describe performance: a ceasefire as stagecraft, applause as camouflage. The “everlasting peace” Trump sold the world is just another act in a long war wearing a new costume.
👑 And The Winner Is…..
As the week came to a close, Trump’s dreams of a Nobel Peace Prize evaporated when Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was named the 2025 laureate. Barred from running in the 2024 election, stripped of her rights, and hunted by Nicolás Maduro’s regime - one Trump openly admires - Machado refused exile and kept the flame alive while her country burned.
Her win was a subtle but unmistakable rebuke to Trump and his imitators - those who dismantle democracy while preaching its defense. When asked why Trump hadn’t been chosen, the Nobel Committee chair answered with calm precision, saying, “This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates, and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. We base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”
Nobel’s will was clear: the prize is for those who reduce arms and advance human fraternity - not the loudest, richest, or most self-congratulatory, but those who actually elevate humanity.
That reminder of the value of courage and integrity lands like a quiet thunderclap in this age of spectacle. Those portraits on the wall belong to people who risked their freedom for peace, not those who dangle it like a trophy. Trump’s version of peace is transactional, performative, hollow. His diplomacy is a photo op; his ceasefires, brand deals. He mistakes attention for impact and coercion for leadership. Courage, to him, is choreography. Integrity, an inconvenience.
Of course, her win wasn’t met with universal applause. Critics were quick to sneer “Venezuelan MAGA,” citing her ties to Trump and Netanyahu and her hardline stance against Maduro. But context matters. In a country where dissent can get you jailed, exiled, or erased, purity tests are a luxury. Every opposition figure is forced into uneasy alliances just to survive. You don’t have to love her politics to recognize her courage, or the symbolism of a woman who kept speaking when silence was safer.
Machado embodies what Nobel meant: peace as persistence, integrity as resistance. She doesn’t chase applause - she holds her ground. Which makes her statement of acceptance all the more fascinating:
This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom. We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy. I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
It was a masterclass in realpolitik wrapped in grace. She gave Trump the headline he craved, but not the honor he hungered for. In thanking him, she outplayed him.
In a world gaslit by strongmen and showmen, that’s the truest rebellion of all.
🇺🇸 Chaos in America
As the week drew to a close, and Trump and his acolytes crowed about the injustice of the Nobel snub, Trump’s kingdom began unravelling at the seams.
Trump’s Budget Director Russ Vought kicked off mass federal layoffs - a pressure tactic meant to break Democrats during the shutdown. Hundreds of thousands lost paychecks; food-bank lines grew; still Trump bragged that “a lot of those jobs will never come back.” Senator Chuck Schumer called it “deliberate chaos.”
Markets then cratered as Trump opened a second front via tweet, opening yet another reckless tariff war with China and wiping $1.65 trillion from the stock market with one social media post, proving once again that he can crash an economy faster than he can spell “deal.”
The proverbial really hit the fan when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Trump administration had given approval for Qatar to build a facility at Mountain Home, Idaho, for its air force - effectively bringing Qatar’s jets and pilots onto U.S. soil under a U.S.-controlled base.
Critics argued that allowing a state accused of financing Hamas to operate militarily inside the U.S. set a deeply alarming precedent, but it was the MAGA faithful that really flipped their lid. Laura Loomer hit the roof, accusing Trump’s Pentagon of “handing over an American base to a Middle Eastern regime,” and calling it “an abomination” and saying “I don’t think I’ll be voting in 2026….this is where I draw the line.”
And Loomer’s not the only loyalist who’s mad. Candace Owens has been actively accusing the Trump administration of lying about and covering up the details of Charlie Kirk’s murder, while Tucker Carlson has accused Trump’s regime of using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a pretext to abolish the First Amendment, round up Americans and Nazify the country (yes, he actually said all of that). Joe Rogan appears to be having buyer’s remorse, openly questioning why Americans are being rounded up in the streets, and even Marjorie Taylor Green appears to have switched sides, blaming Republicans for the shutdown and calling for government to reopen.
It’s as if the rats are finally working out that they’re on a sinking ship.
🤒 The Ailing President
It’s not just Trump’s popularity that’s flailing, but seemingly his health too. After weeks of slurred rallies, rambling speeches, bruised hands caked in make-up and visibly swollen ankles, Trump slipped into Walter Reed for three-hour long “annual checkup” this week, only six months after his last. Though doctors insisted he was in “exceptional health,” citing a cardiac age fourteen years younger than he actually is - a claim experts labeled “unusual” - the stars are clear: the president is burning through fuel he simply doesn’t have.
Astrologically, the sky mirrors the man - Saturn squeezing vitality, Pluto prying at buried truths. By December, the vault he’s spent decades sealing begins to crack.
Representative Eric Swalwell predicted this week that dozens of Republicans may soon support legislation requiring the Department of Justice to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein. “It’s coming to an end guys,” Swalwell wrote in a post this week. “I’ve spoken to a lot of House Republicans this week and they’ve confided that Trump’s movement/support is fading. As one told me, ‘this Epstein bomb is about to drop and no [one] wants to defend a pedo-protector. It’s just a matter of time.
“One Republican just texted me,” Swallwell said, “that if there’s a discharge vote on Epstein they expect a ‘jail break’ of over 100 members. Trump will go nuts!”
Go nuts indeed, if he hasn’t already. Health-wise, the stars show Trump’s body mirrors his psyche: exhaustion disguised as energy, decline hidden behind denial. By December, that facade wobbles. His vitality and his narrative both start leaking.
Trump’s body, his movement and his myth are all showing the same symptom: collapse disguised as control. The year ends not with victory, but with exposure.
By the solstice, Trump won’t just be battling opponents - he’ll be wrestling his own myth. The man who built an empire on controlling the story will face the one thing he can’t control: exposure.
🔔 A Nation Says No Kings
With supporters peeling away, the economy in free fall, the government shut down, and the president’s health and popularity collapsing, this coming weekend’s No Kings March- set to unfold across thousands of cities nationwide - is being met with panic disguised as patriotism from Republican leaders.
Speaker Mike Johnson slammed the event, calling it “a hate-America rally” and warning it would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the Antifa people.”
The No Kings movement began as counter-programming to Trump’s June military parade, swelling into the largest coordinated protest against his rule since his return to the Oval Office. That first march was overwhelmingly peaceful - tens of thousands standing in silence with signs that read No Kings. No Crowns. No Tyrants.
Organizers of this weekend’s march brushed off Johnson’s smear, saying, “Speaker Johnson is running out of excuses for keeping the government shut down. Instead of reopening the government, preserving healthcare, or lowering costs for working families, he’s attacking millions of Americans who are peacefully coming together to say that America belongs to its people, not to kings.”
The backlash from Republican leaders isn’t a show of strength - it’s a confession of fear. They know that if millions take to the streets, the illusion cracks. The cameras will see it, the world will see it, and no amount of bluster will be able to hide what’s already plain to everyone else: the people are done kneeling.
🕯 The Power That Doesn’t Shout
As rage simmers across the America in response to a rogue president, it’s tempting to meet Trump’s fire with our own - to shout, to strike, to fight. But the real revolution doesn’t come through rage; it comes through restraint.
There’s a reason tyrants always mistake calm for weakness. They think whoever isn’t shouting must be scared. But that’s because they’ve never met the kind of power that moves without noise. They’ve never met the kind of people who stand in the street not to burn it down but to reclaim it. That’s the energy needed now - not fury, but frequency. Not chaos, but coherence.
History’s greatest revolutions were never led by those who screamed the loudest - they were led by those who refused to scream at all.
Gandhi didn’t need an army; he had integrity. He didn’t need bombs; he had truth. While the British Empire controlled the weapons, he controlled the weather - his silence was thunder, his fasting was fire, his stillness a storm that reshaped the world. His victory wasn’t measured in battles won, but in the moment his oppressors saw that his soul was untouchable. That’s the power of nonviolence - it doesn’t defeat the tyrant, it reveals him.
As Trump’s world rattles and roars, the temptation is to fight him on his own frequency - to shout, to rage, to trade insult for insult. But his empire is built from those frequencies; they are the oxygen that keep it burning. The real rebellion is to take that oxygen away - to go silent where he shouts, to stand where he shoves, to root where he rages.
Because love, when it’s anchored, is more immovable than hate.
And the sky agrees. Next weekend, on October 18, when Americans gather for the No Kings March, Jupiter and Mercury align - the people’s voice amplified into something bigger than politics - while Neptune hums beside the Moon, inviting compassion, not combat. This is not a day for fists. It’s a day for feet planted in peace. The astrology itself speaks of a nation remembering its original promise: no kings, no crowns, no tyrants - only people. Only power shared among hearts that refuse to hate.
Gandhi called it satyagraha - the force of truth. It doesn’t conquer by violence; it transforms by vibration. It’s the same current that carried Martin Luther King Jr., that toppled apartheid, that tore down walls. And it’s stirring again now, in every person who knows that democracy isn’t defended by rage - it’s held by those who still believe in grace.
Peaceful protest is about as American as you can get, but it’s also ancient, something borrowed from the ancestors but perfected in modern times, as American as apple pie or baseball or hot dogs, and it’s what’s needed this weekend - a revolution of peace and love to stand against a regime built on fear and hate.
So as the loud men stomp and threaten, hold your ground in peace. Love of country. Love of truth. Love of fairness. Love of justice. Let that be your protest. Let that be your weapon. Because love doesn’t fight - it stands. Love doesn’t rage - it holds the line. Love doesn’t blast off - it anchors.
This is a weekend to remember the most radical truth of all: peace is not the absence of power - it’s the mastery of it.
(And if you want support holding your peace, 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 - until then, stay kind, stay fierce, and stay human.
Thank you for this affirming message. I love the way you tie the actual detailed events to planetary alignments, they are noted on my calendar for reference as the week progresses. Every morning as I walk my dog before sunrise I like to commune with the moon still up and stars 🌟 planets shining then some days I get an incredible sunrise photo. It gets lonely and scary out here in the real world but you have helped me to recover daily grounding myself in nature and your Resonance Room meditation. Peace and love ❤️
Another great weekly wrap up! Your writing about peaceful protesting and anchoring in love is what I need to hear. I have warrior energy and am working on channeling that energy from anger and frustration to powerful love. "Because love, when it’s anchored, is more immovable than hate" as well as "they knew his soul was untouchable", both quotes from your post are empowering. These may have to go on my poster for this weekend's protest. Blessings