Wizard's Weekly Wrap-Up: The Files, the Fury, and the Fracturing Facade
Epstein’s Files, Trump’s Unraveling, Europe’s Sovereignty Push, and a World Trying to Metabolize the Unthinkable: The Week That Was February 1-7, 2026
This week, what the world was asked to process exceeded what most people’s minds could comfortably hold, as long-held secrets spilled into the open in a torrent of files and fury.
Brace yourself. The news this week was not gentle. What follows is a summary of what was reported, released, and widely discussed this week. Some of it is verified fact, some of it is still emerging, and some of it is emotionally confronting to even read. You don’t need to hold every detail - I’m not even going to go near the worst of it because that’s not what I’m here for. I’m going to walk you through the shape of it, so you can understand what this week felt like without having to drown in it, and then at the end, we’re going to make sense of it. Okay?
Let’s dive in together….
The week began with the world trying to digest over 3 million pages that the Department of Justice released from the Epstein investigation - the largest document dump in the case's history, though they’re reportedly still holding back thousands of files. What people found inside wasn’t new in theme but in scale, and seeing it laid out in black and white had a psychological impact that’s hard to overstate.
Much of what surfaced wasn’t about new allegations, but about the shock of seeing the mechanics of abuse laid out in ordinary language across official documents. The files include references to emails showing someone sending Epstein photos of children, asking if girls were “too old” for him, with the senders’ names completely redacted. A survivor telling Epstein she’d contracted an infection - he was the only person she’d been intimate with - being forced to see a male doctor he’d chosen. Someone reminding Epstein he’d once offered to buy her baby. Just sitting there in the files, totally unexplained and utterly horrific.
And that’s hardly the worst of it - some of the unverified allegations listed in anonymous FBI tip-offs, as described in the files, defy human comprehension. Alleged acts so vile, and so disturbing, they cannot be responsibly repeated here. The kind of details that makes you wish you hadn’t read them - things they did to children. Things they’ll never recover from, that now we cannot - and must not - un-know.
One of the most confronting aspects of the release wasn’t about criminal allegations at all, but about something far more mundane and, in its own way, more revealing: who continued to associate with Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution. Reporting by outlets including the BBC documented post-conviction contact between Epstein and a range of public figures, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Deepak Chopra, Ehud Barak, Noam Chomsky, Larry Summers, Steve Bannon, Lord Peter Mandelson, Brad Karp, Børge Brende, Miroslav Lajčák, Steve Tisch, Peter Attia, Sarah Ferguson and Richard Branson. None of this implies criminal wrongdoing, but it does force an uncomfortable question about the judgment of some of the most powerful and prominent people in the world.
The files also included an email dated July 24, 2025, bearing an FBI header, showing someone instructing colleagues to compile a spreadsheet on powerful figures connected to Epstein - the list included Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, the Andrew formerly known as Prince, Glenn Dubin, Jess Staley, Leon Black, Les Wexner, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Howard Lutnick, Alexander Guest, Jean-Luc Brunel, and William Barr. None of those named have been charged, nor is there any suggestion that sufficient evidence exists to charge them. What’s notable is the email’s timing.
The email was sent just weeks after the DOJ and FBI publicly stated in early July 2025 that no “client list” existed and no further disclosures would be made. While officials like Pam Bondi and Trump himself were dismissing further discussion publicly, this document suggest names long associated with Epstein were still being discussed internally in some investigative context. The files raise so many questions, but offer very few satisfying answers.
The files also contain a large number of references to Russia after Epstein’s 2008 conviction. Over 1,000 documents include the name Vladimir Putin, and nearly 10,000 mention Moscow. Among the material are records showing Epstein sought introductions to Russian political figures, including efforts to secure an introduction to Putin himself through intermediaries like former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. One document shows Epstein writing to a Russian official, Sergey Belyakov, claiming that a woman from Moscow was attempting to “blackmail a group of powerful businessmen in New York. It is bad for business for everyone involved.”
The global response to the files has been swift. Lithuania launched a human trafficking investigation. Poland announced an investigation into possible Epstein-Russia intelligence links. France opened a probe into former culture minister Jack Lang over suspected money laundering after he was named hundreds of times in the files. In Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing the potential collapse of his government after revelations that his ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, may have leaked secret market-moving information to Epstein during the 2008 financial crisis. Mandelson now faces criminal investigation and has resigned from the House of Lords.
In the United States, however, there have been few visible consequences so far for any of the high-profile men named. The only significant fallout came when longevity doctor Peter Attia stepped down as chief science officer of David Protein and lost his CBS News contributor role, and attorney Brad Karp abruptly resigned as chairman of one of the country's most prominent law firms, both after their email exchanges with Epstein were revealed. No consequences at all so far for Donald Trump, whose name appears over 38,000 times across 5,300 files.
While Trump may have escaped scrutiny for now, his government is under fire in all directions. This week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was revealed to have bottled up a May 2025 whistleblower complaint for months without transmitting it to Congress as required by law. When finally released, it was heavily redacted under claims of executive privilege. According to the whistleblower’s attorney, the complaint detailed how the NSA detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump. Rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information, Gabbard took a paper copy directly to Trump’s chief of staff, then instructed the NSA not to publish the intelligence report.
Trump’s ICE raids continue terrorizing citizens across America, with federal agents this week accused of gassing children in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. A new Marist poll showed 65% of Americans think ICE has gone too far.
Voters are turning on Trump in a big way, with Democrat Taylor Rehmet this week flipping a Texas state Senate seat that had been Republican since the early 1990s - the same week the Supreme Court upheld California’s new congressional maps, designed to counter Texas Republicans’ gerrymandering strategy that assumed Latino voters who swung to Trump in 2024 would stay there. Rehmet’s win suggests that assumption was wrong, and their redistricting may now backfire.
A new Fox News poll showed Americans now support Democrats over Republicans at the highest margin since the survey began: 52% to 46% - what analysts call “blue wave” territory heading into November’s midterms. In response, Trump is now openly working to rig the 2026 election to guarantee Republicans win, pushing the SAVE America Act which would require documents proving citizenship to register or vote - documents the Brennan Center estimates 21 million Americans don’t have. He’s also called for Republicans to “nationalize the voting” and “take over the voting in at least many, fifteen places,” a suggestion that defies the Constitution, which gives control of elections exclusively to states.
Continuing his efforts to undermine faith in elections, Trump posted a video to social media this week featuring debunked 2020 election rigging claims and an image of Barack and Michelle Obama with their heads attached to the bodies of apes. After Republicans condemned the blatant racism, Trump deleted it, the White House blamed a “staffer,” then Trump admitted it was actually him who posted it, but refused to apologize, saying “No, I didn’t make a mistake.”
In light of the unfolding Trump circus, the world is moving on without American leadership. French President Emmanuel Macron this week announced France is investing $30 billion in artificial intelligence and dumping Zoom and Microsoft Teams, declaring Europe’s intent to win the AI race against the United States. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni added: “Europe cannot continue to be a digital colony. Our identity is not a set of data to be processed in California or Beijing. If tech companies want to operate on our soil, they must accept that we stand above their code, and the sovereignty of nations above their quarterly profits.”
As Canada, Australia, and the UK discuss banning Elon Musk’s X platform, French authorities raided X’s Paris offices this week as part of an investigation into allegations including spreading child sexual abuse images, and summoned Musk for questioning. Musk called it a “political attack.” The French government fired back, saying, “Maybe that logic flies on some island. It doesn’t fly in France” - seemingly a reference to Musk’s emails in the Epstein files trying to organize a trip to Epstein’s island.
And all that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Take a breath. That was a lot.
The news right now is like a fire-hose - it’s almost impossible to keep up. But underneath the clatter of collapse, a new frequency is quietly rising. What we’re witnessing isn’t random chaos, but the opening movement of a larger pattern written in the sky, as we prepare to cross the threshold from one age into another.
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 losing the plot - 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**
The Wretched Rhyme of History
On November 29, 1945, at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, a deathlike silence fell over the courtroom as the lights dimmed and, for fifty-two horror-filled minutes, film unspooled slowly across the screen; six thousand feet of evidence drawn from the liberation of twelve concentration camps scattered across Austria, Belgium, and Germany. There in harrowing black and white, the world was forced to reckon with a truth it could not unsee.
The camera lingered on bodies burned to a crisp - men and women who had tried to flee burning barracks, only to be mowed down by machine-gun fire. It moved methodically over heaps of corpses, bulldozed into piles, fingers still clawed into the earth where they had died in agony. Skeletal survivors stared into the lens with hollow eyes. American POWs described, in calm, measured tones, the methods of murder: shooting, beating, lethal injections, exposure.
Inside the courtroom, the Nazi leaders who had orchestrated it all sat illuminated by fluorescent lights, their reactions caught on camera for posterity. Some just stared, others watched with sickening expressions of interest, others looked away, and some fell ill at the sight of what had been carried out at their behest.
When the lights finally came back up, no one spoke. The courtroom sat frozen. The judges adjourned immediately - they could not continue. Outside, in London theaters where the footage was shown to the public, some moviegoers bolted from their seats and waited in the lobby. They simply could not watch.
The world had known the Nazis were evil. Reports of atrocities had filtered through during the war - whispers, testimonies, protests from Jewish leaders broadcasting the horror from London and Washington. But knowing and seeing are not the same thing. Hearing about industrialized murder and watching the camera pan slowly across a field of emaciated corpses stacked like firewood - that breaks something in the mind.
What the footage revealed wasn’t just cruelty. It was a machinery of depravity operating at a scale that human cognition struggled to absorb. It shattered the comfortable story people had been telling themselves: that the camps were brutal, yes, but perhaps exaggerated. That the Nazis were bad, certainly, but not that bad. Not beyond comprehension. Not monstrous in ways that rewrote what humanity thought itself capable of.
But they were.
And this week, the echo of that horror reverberated through the halls of history, as once again the world was forced to reckon with the weight of yet another unbearable truth.
The Weight of Unbearable Truth
Most of us alive now were not around back in 1945 to hold the memory of what the sudden weight of unbearable truth feels like. Most of us grew up knowing the horrors of what the Nazi’s carried out - watching it in documentaries, learning about it in school, seeing it depicted in films as established fact presented by a world that had worked out how to metabolise it. For most of us, we’ve lived with the truth of the Nazi’s atrocities our whole lives, thinking that cruelty was the pinnacle of human depravity, never to be repeated again, filed away in our minds as something from the past that we’d learned from, that couldn’t possibly happen now.
But this week, we were forced to reckon with the same kind of unfathomable cruelty carried out by fellow humans, right under our own noses. Not the exact same horror, not the exact same detail, but the same psychological rupture that occurs when the mind is forced to absorb what it cannot believe is possible.
The release of over three million pages of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation landed like a sledgehammer. The contents were sickening, harrowing, and devastating, and they still represent only a fraction of the full picture. The accusations and allegations contained within those files implicate some of the most powerful men on the planet, including the convicted criminal currently residing in the White House, not all as participants in a crime, but at the very least, complicit to the depravity.
We thought we knew. We’d heard the rumors, seen the flight logs, watched the Netflix documentaries. But these documents took the story beyond even the wildest political thrillers, exposing a reality in which horrific crimes were committed not in the shadows of some far away land in the olden days, but in the penthouses and private islands of the so-called elite, in our time, in our world, by men whose faces we recognize, whose names we know, whose power we’ve watched compound unchecked for decades.
And just like in 1945, knowing is not the same as seeing.
The mind recoils. It scrambles for explanations, for ways to soften the blow, for reasons why this can’t possibly be as bad as it looks. Some people reject the documents outright, calling them fabricated, exaggerated, strategically timed. Others numb themselves with cynicism: of course the powerful are predators, what did you expect? Still others doom-scroll compulsively, unable to look away, metabolizing trauma in real time through a screen.
This is what happens when reality shatters the story we’ve been living inside.
We thought the world was run by flawed men making compromised decisions, but what we’re being forced to see now is that some of those men are not just flawed - they are entirely broken. And the systems protecting them are not compromised - they are complicit. Built to not only enable but also to protect these men from consequence.
And now, like the people sitting in that Nuremberg courtroom eighty years ago, we have to decide: what do we do with a truth this unbearable?
Do we close our eyes and turn our backs?
Do we open them wide until we’re physically sick?
How do we hold a truth this heavy, that threatens to crack us all open?
Just like our ancestors almost a century ago, we are living in our own reckoning now, and the question facing us is the same one that faced the world in 1945:
Now that we know - now that we cannot unknow - what world do we build next?
What Kind of Human Does That?
The first question we must grapple with is how did we hand the reins of power to so many people who operate without conscience?
We were raised on the comforting lie that the best among us naturally rise to the top. In movies and television, moral fortitude always prevails by the final act. Luke Skywalker destroys the Death Star. Atticus Finch stands up for justice. Superman stops Lex Luthor. Captain America defeats Red Skull. The plucky journalist exposes the conspiracy and the whistleblower takes down the pharmaceutical company.
We grew up watching goodness rewarded and villainy punished, believing that's how the world worked. Meanwhile, in reality, Lex Luthor becomes a billionaire, Red Skull becomes the president, the plucky journalist gets silenced and the whistleblower goes to prison.
The cinematic fantasy we were fed has nothing to do with the world we actually inhabit. In the movies, the bad guys are properly bad through and through - in real life, they often present as seemingly normal, with the ability to blend in among us. We like to believe these people are just pure evil - perhaps possessed by demons or spirits, filled with blackness, or however religion has taught us to see it - but the actual truth is messier. These men are not cartoon villains with one-dimensional intentions of world domination - deep down they are profoundly broken, deeply wounded and trying to deal with their wound by living through it. And in our world, we have created a habit of elevating those with that particular wound.
To understand how societies end up here at all, it helps to step back from the headlines and look at a much older human pattern. As criminal defense lawyer Duncan Lewis pointed out in a post on social media this week, the reality is that many who climb to the upper echelons of corporate and political power got there precisely because they’re willing to do things others won’t. We celebrate them as “pragmatic” or “a man who gets things done” but the truth beneath that language is that the most ruthless among us often share traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
As Lewis pointed out, who else could raise insulin prices knowing children will die, then sleep soundly that night? That’s not “just business.” That’s a mindset we see in boardrooms, parliaments, and corporate towers across the world. That’s how psychopaths operate.
Understanding the Psychopath: A Mind Without a Heart
Clinically, a psychopath is someone whose mind does not access the deeply feeling part of themselves that would make them feel another person’s pain. While they might intellectually understand that hurting someone is “wrong,” they don’t feel it. There’s no empathic resonance that says “this is a human being like me, and their suffering matters.”
The word “psychopath” comes from ancient Greek: psyche, the mind, and pathos, meaning feeling. A psychopath could therefore be described as “a mind without feeling” - someone whose mind exists in complete severance from feeling, cut off from the emotional circuitry that connects them to others’ suffering.
They are psyche without pathos.
Intelligence without heart.
This isn’t just a pretty metaphor - it’s neurology. Brain imaging studies in people with psychopathy show reduced activity in the regions associated with empathy and emotional processing. The mental hardware that should access emotional resonance simply doesn’t fire as it should, or doesn’t fire at all. Where most of us have a doorway leading from our head to our heart, for these people, their door is bolted shut.
They can use their mind to think and strategize, and charm and manipulate, but the bridge to pathos - to genuine feeling, to the heart space where compassion lives - is broken, underdeveloped, or was simply never built in the first place.
Research suggests some people are born with this disconnection, almost as if they are predisposed to psychopathy. But while their hardware may be different, environment matters enormously too. Childhood trauma, abuse, neglect, and lack of emotional attunement can either trigger or amplify these traits.
A child born with reduced empathy, raised by loving parents who model emotional connection, who experiences safe attachment, who faces consequences for harmful behavior, who grows up in a culture that values compassion - that child has a chance at developing some level of connection to their heart, even if it’s harder for them.
But a child born into wealth and entitlement, raised by emotionally absent parents, taught that their desires matter more than others’ wellbeing, shielded from consequences, rewarded for dominance, given unlimited power - whether they started with an empathy deficit or not, they’re being trained to become a psychopath.
Some people may be born with the door to their heart harder to open, but what turns someone with limited empathy into a monster isn’t just biology, it’s being raised in a world that never teaches them to try opening that door. It’s being surrounded by people who reward them for keeping it closed.
In that way, psychopaths aren’t born fully formed.
They’re cultivated.
The Heartless World We Built
In a world that privileges the mind over the heart, heartlessness is considered a competitive advantage. We’ve built a civilization that actively nurtures the psychopath within by elevating those who are disconnected from their heart.
The executive who can’t feel the suffering caused by mass layoffs can make that decision faster and sleep better afterward. The politician who can’t empathize with the families destroyed by their policies can stay focused on strategy and power. The billionaire who can’t connect to the desperation of people dying because they can’t afford medicine can keep maximizing profit margins without the burden of a guilty conscience.
And for far too long, we haven’t just tolerated this disconnection - we have celebrated it. We built entire systems around it. We called it “pragmatism” and “realism” and “doing what needs to be done.” We punished people who let their hearts guide them and rewarded those who could silence that voice entirely.
And we didn’t just give power to psychopaths.
We taught everyone else to think like them.
Too often, young boys are taught that feelings are weakness.
Workers are taught to compete rather than connect.
Soldiers are taught to dehumanize.
Executives are taught that compassion is a liability.
And we are all taught we must dominate that which we fear.
And now, in the days since the Epstein files dropped, we see how deeply that training runs. A familiar chorus has risen across social media, with people fantasizing about what should happen to these men who carried out the atrocities detailed in the Epstein files. Graphic descriptions of torture. Gleeful anticipation of prison violence. Daydreams of public executions. Memes celebrating suffering.
“They deserve worse than death.”
“I hope they rot.”
“Someone should do to them what they did to those children.”
“I want to watch them suffer.”
The rage is righteous because the horror is real. When we see the full scope of what was done - children exploited, lives destroyed, power weaponized to enable the unspeakable - something primal rises up demanding retribution. Something that wants these men to feel every ounce of pain they inflicted, magnified a thousandfold.
But we must reckon with the fact that every time we lean into that kind of vengeance and revenge, we are stepping into the exact space that created this horror in the first place. We are retreating into the mind and slamming the door to our heart.
Vengeance operates entirely in the realm of psyche - the calculating mind that can strategize punishment, that can imagine suffering in exquisite detail, that can dehumanize another person enough to wish them destroyed. The heart doesn’t do vengeance - it can hold fury and grief and an absolute commitment to stopping harm without needing to inflict suffering in return. The heart can demand accountability, justice, and protection of the vulnerable without requiring torture as payment.
The heart can look at a human being who has done monstrous things and still recognize - even through tears of rage - that dehumanizing anyone is the first step toward becoming what we despise.
We may tell ourselves it’s different because they deserve it. They’re monsters. They’re not like us. But that’s what the mind always says when it wants permission to dehumanize. That’s not the voice of justice. That’s the voice of the Age of the Mind at its endpoint, whispering that some people can be removed from the circle of humanity, that some people don’t count, that some people are disposable. It’s the words of a broken world run by people who cannot feel what they do to others, surrounded by people who’ve learned not to feel it either, teaching others to do the same.
The heart can be fierce in its protection, absolute in its boundaries, uncompromising in its demand for justice, but the heart cannot participate in torture fantasies without closing itself, and that closure is how we perpetuate the exact machinery that created this nightmare.
The overwhelming noise of vengeance and violence is just proof the Age of the Mind is ending - it’s crashing out in a frantic, volatile, harrowing display, and our challenge in these times is not to crash out with it.
We are standing at a threshold where the door to the collective heart is opening - a door that has been bolted shut for centuries. This is the dawning of the Age of the Heart, but only those anchored in their heart are fit to cross the threshold. Now, more than ever, we must not be lured into the ways of the mind, divorced from the guidance of the heart.
The only path forward is the one straight through our heart.
The Age of the Heart, Written in the Sky
If you step back from the news and look at the wider arc of history, there is a larger pattern unfolding - one that astrology happens to map with eerie precision. Right now, if you look up, you’ll see the sky is charting a series of alignments we’ve never witnessed before in recorded human history, all telling a very specific story about the death of one age and the birth of another, as humanity moved from a civilization built on the mind to a new one built on the heart.
This year, three massive outer planets - Neptune, Pluto, and Uranus - will all nestle into a configuration of signs they haven’t occupied together since before we started writing things down. This is the Crisis Convergence: a window where all three slow-moving giants simultaneously disrupt the structures that have long held our world together.
Uranus enters Gemini later this year - the planet of revolution moving through the sign of the mind, information, and communication. It’s revolutionizing the mental realm itself, which may be why artificial intelligence has arrived at this exact juncture, forcing us to confront what the mind actually is and what role it should play in human life.
Neptune has just moved into Aries - the planet of spirituality moving through the sign of action and the warrior. Neptune in Aries dissolves the ego-mind, so all the spiritual bypassing, all the false enlightenment, all the ways we’ve used spirituality to avoid action will all burn away, til what remains is the spiritual warrior who acts from soul rather than ego.
Pluto is charging through Aquarius - the planet of death and transformation moving through the sign of collective systems and networks, triggering the total restructuring of how power operates in society. Every system built on centralized control, on hierarchies of dominance - it’s all being pulled apart at the roots.
This is the convergence. The mind is being revolutionized by technology. The ego is being dissolved by spiritual crisis. The power structures are collapsing under their own weight. And it’s all happening at once over the next five years.
And while the outer planets trigger the breakdown of the Age of the Mind, an unprecedented conjunction ignites the Age of the Heart: on February 20 (just days from now) Saturn and Neptune meet in the first degree of Aries - the Genesis Reset. Structure meets the dream in the sign of fire. A new reality is born. A seed begins to bloom. A new frequency flickers online, broadcasting an entirely new signal - no longer the frequency of the mind, but now at last, the vibrant frequency of the heart.
And from there, we spend the next fifty years navigating the transition.
From 2026-2031, Uranus in Gemini overwhelms the mental realm. AI advances faster than we can regulate it as the tools we built to help us think start thinking for us. We hit the wall of what the mind alone can do, and start asking if the mind isn’t what makes us special, what is? The answer we will discover - undeniably - is the heart.
Then from 2032-2038, Uranus moves into Cancer - the sign of emotion, home, and feeling - and the revolution moves from mind to heart. We learn to feel our way through life after accepting we can no longer think our way through, as feeling becomes not a weakness but a revolutionary act. This is where the seed finally sprouts.
From 2038-2043, Neptune enters Taurus, grounding spirituality in the earth and body as Uranus moves into Leo, bringing creative revolution. By 2043, when Pluto enters Pisces (where it has not been since the early 1800s during the Romantic era, when art and emotion challenged cold rationalism) the transformation will be total as the seed blooms into a fully formed tree.
And then from 2043 onwards, Neptune moves through Taurus and then Gemini (integrating heart and mind), then enters Cancer in 2065 - the full embodiment of the Age of the Heart. By then we’ll live in a world unrecognizable from the one we inhabit today, where emotional intelligence is as valued as intellectual intelligence. Where people are taught to feel as skillfully as they’re taught to think. Where the heart’s wisdom guides how we live together.
The mind isn’t going anywhere - it’s just finally taking its proper place as a tool in service of the heart, not the master of it.
The mind informed by the heart.
Thinking guided by feeling.
Logic grounded in love.
That’s where the world is headed.
Standing On the Edge of Change
All of this might sound distant and abstract, like a beautiful vision of some far-off future that has nothing to do with the crisis we’re living through. But whether we like it or not, we’re in the beginning of this transition right now. The chaos we’re experiencing - the documents dropping, the systems failing, the old certainties crumbling - this is what the death of an age looks like.
We are living through the breakdown.
The mind is being overwhelmed.
The ego is being dissolved.
The power structures are collapsing.
And in the midst of all this destruction, a new frequency is rising.
The door to the collective heart is opening.
It’s been locked shut for so long that most of us have forgotten it was ever there. We’ve spent centuries, maybe millennia, learning to live from the neck up, trusting our thinking over our feeling and dismissing the heart’s knowing as irrational, unreliable and weak.
But the stars are telling us clearly that the next fifty years will be the journey back to the heart. Not in some mystical, abstract way, but in concrete, embodied reality. Learning to feel fully and trust our emotional intelligence. Learning to build systems based on compassion rather than domination, and to live in harmony with each other and the earth rather than in conquest of it.
This is the path written in the sky that the unprecedented planetary alignments are pointing toward. It’s now up to us whether we’ll navigate it consciously by choosing to open our hearts even as everything around us falls apart, or whether we’ll be dragged through it by crisis after crisis until we have no choice but to change.
Right now, the door is opening.
The frequency is rising.
The heart is calling us home.
We cannot sleepwalk through this one.
The universe requires our participation.
We must open our hearts and walk through the door.
Thinking From the Heart
This moment requires more from us than just an impulsive mind response, lashing out in fear or fury when confronted with uncomfortable truth. If we want to live in a heart-led world, then we must choose to be led by our hearts, even when the mind screams that it knows a better way. This is the great challenge we’re facing right now, as the full scope of the evil born of the Age of the Mind is becoming undeniable.
Can we stay in our hearts while taking in the worst of what humans have done?
Can we feel the full force of our rage without weaponizing it into dehumanization?
Can we demand justice without fantasizing about violence?
Can we hold people accountable without closing our hearts in the process?
Staying in the heart while facing this level of evil requires us to feel our rage without letting it consume our capacity for compassion. It requires us to stand for justice without becoming the monsters we’re opposing.
If we respond to this horror by becoming more like the men who committed it, then we’re not healing anything. We’re just re-creating the Age of the Mind with different people in charge, and building a new world that runs on the same logic that created Epstein’s island.
A world where some people matter and others don’t.
A world where those in power can decide who deserves humanity and who doesn’t.
A world where the mind calculates who lives and who dies, who suffers and who’s protected, without the heart’s voice asking “but what if we’re wrong?”
We’ve been living in that world.
It’s the world that made this possible.
That would be trampling on the seed that’s being planted, and fighting against the rising heart frequency by hitching our wagons to the one that’s flickering out.
Eyes & Hearts Wide Open
The real question of this moment is not what punishment these men named in the Epstein files deserve, but who will we choose to become in response to them?
Will we become people who can look at horror and imagine inflicting more? Or will we become people who can hold rage and grief and absolute commitment to justice while keeping our hearts open?
This is what it means to move from the Age of the Mind into the Age of the Heart. Not naive positivity or spiritual bypassing, or pretending everything is fine, or that these crimes don’t warrant the most serious consequences. But refusing to let our hearts close in response to darkness. Refusing to become heartless in the name of addressing heartlessness. Refusing to practice dehumanization even when it’s directed at those who have dehumanized others.
That’s the only way we build something different - a world where the next generation of children is actually protected - not by perfecting the machinery of revenge, but by staying so deeply rooted in our hearts that we cannot, will not, become the kind of people who can look at suffering and feel nothing.
The path forward is not through the cold calculations of the mind.
It’s through the fierce, unwavering, uncompromising love of the heart.
And that path requires us to face the hardest truth of all - that we cannot heal this world by becoming heartless ourselves.
We Are the Light of the World
If you’ve spent the last few days trying to read, absorb, or even glance at what’s coming out of the Epstein document release - and found yourself unable to breathe properly - you’re not broken. You’re responding correctly.
This isn’t information. It’s confrontation. It’s millions of pages of a reality so grotesque, so systemically enabled, so protected for so long, that the mind simply short-circuits trying to take it in.
And that’s before we add the rest of the news cycle. The ICE raids. The arrests of journalists. The cruelty on display. The threats against democracy. The lies spoken into microphones as if we didn’t just watch the footage ourselves. The seeming collapse of every system we ever relied on. The overwhelming sense that darkness is encroaching on everything, and that the light is steadily fading.
This is where we must remember that darkness is not a force, but an absence. Darkness can only encroach where light withdraws - and we are the light.
It is our open hearts that illuminate the world. And much of the reason things feel so dark right now is that we’re trying to process darkness through the mind, which generates no light of its own.
The mind is a sorting mechanism. Feed it horror, and it tries to file it, categorize it, and make some sense of it. But the more darkness we absorb through the mind, the less able we are to shine. Trying to metabolize this darkness through the mind blows the door to our heart shut, severing us from our own light source.
At some point, we must recognize that we are trying to absorb this moment through the wrong apparatus. It is futile to keep asking the mind to make sense of the senseless. Our endless doomscrolling isn’t bringing clarity - it’s only feeding the mind’s fear and cutting us off from the wisdom of the heart.
We now know what’s in those files is bad. Worse than any kind of bad our mind has a map for. Forcing ourselves to take in every detail, even when it overwhelms us, is not the path to understanding - it’s the path to paralysis, where we render ourselves useless in the face of this onslaught.
The men who carried out these heinous acts could only do so because they disallowed their psyche to access pathos. They are minds operating in darkness - by choice - because they refuse the light of the heart. A human vehicle roaming around cut off from its connection to the divine.
We must not follow their lead and allow our mental overwhelm to cut us off from our source of light. We must not allow their depravity to lure us into darkness through despair - the kind our mind convinces us is all there is when we forget to seek the heart’s guidance.
We are not wrong to grieve, to feel rage, sadness, anger. These feelings are more than valid. But we must send them through the heart - through the soul - the strongest and largest part of us. It’s eternal and cannot be harmed, and therefore it is the only instrument that can hold this much truth without shattering. Only in the heart can the feelings be properly held. Only there can they can become fuel for our light, rather than a barricade blocking light from reaching the mind.
This is the work the moment demands:
Put down the phone.
Put your hand on your chest.
Breathe slowly.
Feel the part of you that’s still here, still whole, still lit.
Still connected to something older than this news cycle.
That’s not bypassing. That’s anchoring. That’s remembering you are more than your mind’s overwhelm. You don’t have to read every page of those files to know the world is broken. You don’t have to absorb every horror to care. Your heart already knows. It’s been knowing for a long time.
The overwhelm is real. Honor it, but don’t let it consume you.
What we’re feeling right now - this disorientation, this sense that reality itself is breaking - is not a glitch. It’s the transition. It’s what the death of the Age of the Mind feels like from the inside. It’s a global heart activation, pushing us through pain into the deepest part of ourselves, out of our heads and into our hearts, because that’s the only way forward. The mind cannot carry us through this. It was never designed to.
The old world is loud as it dies.
The new one is quiet as it rises.
Our task now is to learn to hear the difference.
So slow down. Rest. Seek the stillness, not the noise.
That’s where wisdom lives right now. Let your heart take it from here.
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!
"The heart doesn’t do vengeance - it can hold fury and grief and an absolute commitment to stopping harm without needing to inflict suffering in return. " Thank you for sharing your clarity of vision, your open heart. At times, it is so 'easy' to react, to 'fire back'. When I've found myself impulsively doing this, a heavy, muddied darkness covers me. Your words are light and healing waters. Thank you.
I saw a comment to this post on Facebook. I will choose to respond to the poster here even if they may not read it.
At this point, I believe, that we are way beyond the point of calling what we are facing political disagreement or "politics." I wish that it were that simple. We are facing an unprecedented assault on human rights, democracy and our freedoms, at least in modern times. The constitution itself is under attack. Our environment, our forests, our clean air and our water are sold out to the moneyed interests of a few, with disastrous effects.
People of all political persuasions, faiths and classes should be concerned.
All of this is done by authoritarians who want absolute power, in the image of the dictators of old, going by the same playbook. They are not driven by political ideology but by utter corruption and predatory and ruthless and cruel insatiable lust for power.
I believe that we are in such a big mess that we need to try something new to solve the problems we face. We have tried the violent revolutions and attempts to overthrow the dictators, kings, emperors and popes of the past many times before, always giving rise to yet another dictator.
It really does feel like times are shifting. Something new is being asked of us. Now hopefully, we are able to begin learning the hard lessons of life gained over many generations and lifetimes by acknowledging what does not work. Digging deep into ourselves, I believe that we will find the spiritual resources of Love and wisdom and wherewithal to come together across the traditional divides to dissolve this "evil" within and without, and probably over time. It will have to be a new kind of Love, that is not tribal or possessive our solely for self-interest. Growing pains and birthing pains seem to be a part of this sacred journey.
Now is not the time to stick our head in the sand. I think that we have a duty to stay informed (according to capacity), but love ourselves and each other through, when we are faced with the devastation of what is happening around us.
I am so grateful to have found Wizard. Thank you for your incredible work of compiling all of this information but also for your profound wisdom and power to inspire. I share your posts freely with friends and we are all so moved and learn so much from you.