July – August 2026

Jupiter in Leo Joins the Lineup

The Beginning is the End, and the End is the Beginning

In July, the lineup of Pluto, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, and Mars all in aspect with each other would suggest a massive shift in collective consciousness, signaling the end of the old world and all that it contains, presenting us with a brave new view of who we are, where we live, and how we manifest all that is important to our survival and growth, from deep within ourselves. You might call this phenomenon “creative destruction.”

The sign changes in Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus – the slower-moving outer ring planets forming favorable or supporting aspects to one another are joined by Jupiter this month, ushering in hope, enthusiasm, technological and scientific breakthroughs, all coming into the domain of public consciousness and led by young charismatic people (Jupiter in Leo) to emerge within the corporate and political arenas. When it comes to election cycles, we are reminded that: “There’s no business like show business.”

These configurations also openly demonstrate the parade of human technological breakthroughs, along with a new move to restore human relationships, embraced by tolerance, mutual appreciation, and healing. It represents the “beginning” of our moving away from a culture of tribal, religious, and ethnic hatreds that have characterized our most recent history, resulting in wars and devastation of people throughout the world. Unfortunately, the aspects to Mars in Gemini would signal a continuance of wars with Iran and in Ukraine. The first real efforts toward peacemaking may emerge around the 2^nd week of August.

Where were we?

In 1993, there was a significant conjunction of Uranus to Neptune (in Capricorn) and a square (conflict) between Pluto in Scorpio and Saturn in Aquarius. Arguably, this was the beginning of the “Age of the Internet,” the advent of cell phones, technological changes that changed our economies, redistributing massive amounts of wealth into the accounts of the rich and powerful, rearranging our lives, and destabilizing the minds and psyches of a large swath of our young people. This was a “big deal”.

The period of 2008 through 2024 brought us the transit of Pluto in Capricorn– emphasizing the dominance of “old men”, Plutocrats, and an unprecedented concentration of global wealth and power into the financial accounts of the very few. The 2008 “crash” on Wall Street and the so-called “Great Recession” should have awakened us, but instead, banks and financial institutions were bailed out, and the “trickle-up” wealth trend continued. This “wave” was reinforced by the Supreme Court’s Decision in the Citizens United Case in 2010, which legalized unlimited amounts of private money for donations to any and all political campaigns. This has resulted in the current transfer of 80–90% of this nation’s wealth into the accounts of about 1,100 American families.

The recent previous transits of Uranus in Taurus and Neptune in Pisces have historically coincided with the rise of dictatorships, racism, religious tribalism, and generalized feelings of helplessness and hopelessness in the public domain. In the US and other industrialized nations, too many young people have decided not to marry or have children since economic supports for their healthcare, housing, and education have been systematically reduced or removed from the public economic domain.

The Trump administration has effectively “gutted” significant numbers of previously passed social support systems (for education, the disabled, children, the elderly, and the poor) so that a billionaire class of people can escape taxation that would share the wealth, investing in the future of our nation’s people. Billionaires are buying hugely expensive luxury housing in New York City because there are simply no taxes on the transactions. During Trump’s presidency, the US national debt has increased to $8 trillion. The interest we pay on this debt alone is greater than our entire military budget!

The Elephant in every room:

Even though top scientists have confirmed we are headed toward global climate emergencies, government investments in solar and windmill technologies have been gutted or shut down. The most crucial ocean-based instruments measuring the condition of our oceans, placed there by our scientists, have been ordered removed. This has taken place even while climate catastrophes due to global warming are escalating at an alarming rate, and fuel prices have skyrocketed due to the Iran war — reminding us of our dependency on fossil fuels from one of the least favorable nations on earth. It has recently been revealed that the Ogallala Aquifer in the southwestern US is running out of water. This system provides about 30% of all groundwater used in US Agriculture. In addition, the essential California Central Valley Aquifer is running dry.

Recently, the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela and the recent eruption of Mount Aetna remind us of global tectonic instabilities that I have forecast in previous newsletters.

The recent war with Iran has made us aware, once again, of our dependency on fossil fuels. The good news is that more private investment is now going back into wind turbines, solar panels, electric trains, electric vehicles, etc., as a backlash to all this. Pipelines are being constructed across the Middle East that will avoid the Gulf of Hormuz. As you all know, my take is that the Holy Grail of energy lies ahead in nuclear fusion.

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Where are we going?

AI:

Since the advent of Artificial Intelligence, a powerful fear has gripped Americans that a huge swath of jobs will be eliminated across our nation. This fear has gripped our nation before, during the Industrial Revolution, when people moved from farming to manufacturing jobs in major cities. The advent of the internet unleashed fears of this nature, but new jobs and different working environments also emerged. In addition, the “dangers” accompanying AI as the Trump administration forced Anthropic (Claude and Mythos) to back down, without a “rule of law” to intervene. It is now widely known that AI could easily breach government defenses. This is normally the job of the Senate and the House, which have been unable to pass much of anything. How to we fix this challenge? The answer lies in strict federal regulations.

Jobs:

My take on the fear of job losses is that we will need the people who will “fix”, maintain, and repair all this, which will be the electricians, construction engineers, plumbers, architects, and builders. (Who do we presently employ to install and fix the data centers for AI emerging all over the nation?) We will still need teachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers – all necessary to maintain our complex social system and support.

Colleges and universities that change their courses and majors to accommodate these needs will survive the current upheavals in education (Uranus in Gemini). A two-year associate’s degree from local community colleges will solve the problem of the enormous cost of a college education, and graduates will emerge with licenses to enter high-wage jobs and a bright future. I have written about these sweeping changes in my books and previous newsletters, but only recently have these movements been openly discussed.

Speaking of data centers:

There is a backlash across the nation against installing these data centers (to support AI), which companies refuse to pay for and would also burden taxpayers. These centers are energy vampires – using up huge amounts of electricity and water, and would increase consumer utility costs across the nation.

War Craft:

A major concern for me is that the last time Uranus transited Gemini, we entered WWII and dropped the Atomic Bombs on Japan to end the war. Russia, because Ukraine has been winning victories in the war they started, has threatened to use a nuclear weapon. Because the US, India, Pakistan, and China all have nuclear weapons, this option has remained off the table for decades. If Russia uses a nuclear weapon on Ukraine, NATO is obliged to reciprocate. This would put the world in the dreaded framework of “mutual self-destruction”. Let us hope this is simply not an option.

Education:

The last transit of Uranus in Gemini after WWII coincided with the US investment in public education nationwide and the financing of the GI Bill, which educated veterans to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, and corporate executives. We financed the coast-to-coast super highway, fairly taxed corporate profits (up to 90%), and created the greatest economy in the world. Now, we are well aware that our children’s basic knowledge scores have gone seriously downhill, especially with the widespread use of cell phones, and that funding for quality public education has been most unfortunate. Most worrisome is that many young people across the board are unable to address issues of any complexity.

I now think we are at the very beginning of correcting our course, investing more in public education, and enacting laws limiting the use of cell phones by children and teenagers. Australia has already passed a law prohibiting children under 14 from owning a cell phone. Personally, I do not think this will work since this technology is so widely available that children will still be able to access it. Something else will have to be proposed. There is a will to do this.

The Real Economy:

We have now reached a point of severe danger in geopolitical, fiscal, and macro-financial developments. The expensive war with Iran has made things much worse, creating an inflationary spiral that is out of control. As stated above, the US national debt is so large that the interest owed is greater than we can afford to pay.. We are not alone. China, Japan, and most nations in the European Union are in the same mess. Our large government-run programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, are all moving toward insolvency. The last time Social Security was “saved” was under the Reagan Administration, when the eligibility age was raised, and payments into the fund were increased. This would be an obvious “save”, but Congress has refused to implement this remedy.

Who owns the country?

The stock markets are currently defying the real economy. Elon Musk, now the world’s first trillionaire, took SpaceX public, and many people bought the stock. I have yet to see a way this company will actually make money. If it does, it will come from something unexpected. The giant corporations in America literally control our economy, and they are doing absolutely nothing to alleviate this nation’s massive, unprecedented debt. There are rumors that the big banks are quietly buying gold, holding down its price through futures trades, and planning to revalue gold at high prices to back the US dollar, which is currently in danger of losing its standing as a global currency. Jupiter entering Leo will initially create more market optimism until the end of the year, when reality sets in. Jupiter in Leo would also signify greater investment in gold. I think silver will follow the upward movement since it is a “necessary metal, now, even more than in the past, with its use in chips, airplanes, medical devices, and weapons of war.

Our economy is currently “owned” by giant monopoly corporations and oligarchs. As I have stated above, about 80–90% of this nation’s wealth is in the accounts of 1,100 families whose tax returns are filled with “loopholes”. Recently, the Stock Market has soared to new “highs”. All the while, more and more American families cannot feed their children or pay their bills. Healthcare is no longer affordable for most Americans, even though major breakthroughs are being made with cures for cancer, autoimmune diseases, and dementia.

The recent bipartisan “Housing Bill” somewhat reduces ownership control of multinational corporations, funds more housing construction, makes it easier for manufactured housing, and, stealthily, forbids the federal government from issuing a digital currency. Trump refused to sign it unless Congress votes to pass his bill that would disenfranchise voters, which they (both parties) are disinclined to do.

Days of Reckoning:

With the transit of Chiron (the wounded healer) into financial Taurus (where he was 42 years ago), we are headed for a financial “reckoning”. In November of this year, transiting Mars and Jupiter will hit the South Node, along with afflicted retrograde Mercury in Scorpio, which could signal a great stock market “crash” and a true “wake-up” call. The US dollar’s solvency as the “global currency” will be challenged. I will discuss this at greater length in future newsletters.

Much of the media is now controlled by a small number of corporate giants. The cuts of prominent, award-winning journalists at 60 Minutes – the gold standard for television news magazines – were due to the proposed merger of Paramount/Skydance with Time/Warner, including CBS, which wanted to please the President. Trump said that he would “approve of the merger”. Freedom of speech and the quality of truthful reporting are in danger of being eliminated across all news agencies. These new planetary placements will make us aware of all this and, hopefully, restore honest reporting.

The Supreme Court has recently ruled in Trump’s favor on immigration issues that will lead to the loss of “protected status” for people from Haiti and Syria. This will collapse regional economies – especially in Ohio, which has surged into prosperity since Haitian workers have supplied workers for businesses there.

Dangerous Tendencies:

I am frequently amazed by the number of people who seem to know nothing about politics, economics, or those running for office and what they stand for. As mainstream television is out of fashion, many people watch podcasts with no accountability to report honest, real news, or they simply do not listen to or watch news programs at all.

A generalized attitude that “everybody is crooked anyway” is a massive “cop-out” by citizens who take responsibility for maintaining and strengthening our democracy. This tendency to generalize or descend into meaningless “sound bites” is currently encouraging people not to vote at all, or take any responsibility for informing themselves. All this leads us down the rabbit hole into what we have now — a disastrous Fascist dictatorship.

Climate Change Now:

I have quoted global climate scientists’ predictions of climate-based catastrophes for decades in my books and newsletters. It is now upon us. Europe is experiencing the hottest Spring and Summer in history! Heat waves are hitting the US. Fires and Floods are happening with a frequency never observed before. This Summer, with Jupiter in Leo, heat will likely increase, and Uranus and Mars in Gemini will increase high winds. It will simply be too late for too many people to change the course of devastating climate destruction.

Previews of Coming Americans:

The recent enthusiasm around the New York Nick’s victory, the American hospitality and embracing of soccer from all nations around the globe in the World Cup, and the record-breaking “No Kings” movements across our nation, suggest that we will rally, enthusiasm for elections will return, and we will work to take our democracy back. A lot of hope rests in young people courageously standing up for what is right.

The array of planets that are with us now suggests we will “wake up” – come out of our collective coma – begin to “gather” in large groups, forge personal relationships based on common goals, and begin the long journey out of darkness into the light.

Science and Technology:

Brain and Neurological Treatments:

Recently published in the MIT Technology Review on June 1, 2026, it was reported: “China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip. . . . This will be available to some patients with paralysis in their limbs due to spinal cord injuries. It is a coin-sized device called NEO.

Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, has developed chips to be inserted into chimpanzees to improve their cognitive abilities. There is a movement in medicine away from chemical antidepressants toward electrical stimulation devices. The Fisher/Wallace Stimulator, an electrical device that stimulates the brain’s upper regions to lift people out of depression, will return to the market for public trading in the near future.

Recently, in the June 2026 Issue of Science News, an article was published entitled: “Pushing Back Against Parkinson’s”. The article concentrates on early diagnosis and early treatment. They report: “As drugs to hold off the disease’s progression advance, the demand for early testing will take on urgency.” “Dozens of such drugs are in clinical trials, and a handful have advanced far enough that researchers may soon be able to gauge how well they work.”

My take is that with Pluto transiting Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini, medicine will make amazing breakthroughs in disorders of the brain and nervous system.

AI Data Centers:

As stated above, AI Data Centers are projected to be built across our nation, consuming enormous amounts of water, land, and electricity, and raising utility rates. There is growing public resistance to this. I have previously reported that the energy required to sustain both AI and cryptocurrencies will exhaust our fossil fuel supplies within a few years. This is a major energy “black hole”. I admit that I am repeating myself. We may be doomed to run out of fossil fuels in just a few years.

Nuclear Fusion:

An article on Reuters, March 23, 2026, by Neil Ford, entitled “Fusion developers go public as AI boom widens funding sources,” reports: “Summary: Established fusion companies TAE Technologies and General Fusion recently announced merger agreements to go public, showing how fusion developers are increasingly tapping deeper pools of capital to build their first plants.”

They go on to report: For companies like Helion Energy and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) that have deep private backing and are more advanced in the development process, going public could make sense ‘once they hit a major technological milestone,’ said Alimento.” Helion recently announced that it is building a new fusion site to supply energy to the State of Washington.

This article is important to read in its entirety because it demonstrates a strong current movement of both private and public capital into the fusion industry. As many of my readers know, I think this is the most significant scientific and technological development of the 21st Century. We are running out of fossil fuels, and what we are currently using is threatening to destroy our livable climate here on Earth. Without this “endless” and clean energy source, civilization will simply collapse.

Rare Earths:

Our scientific and technological development (the chip industry) is absolutely dependent on our access to rare earths. On June 9, 2026, an article was published on “Yahoo Finance” reporting: “ R Ealloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) has signed an agreement that could give it priority access to up to 30 % of production from a 2-billion-ton Appalachian rare earth resource network expanding its growing pipeline of domestic and allied feedstock ahead of the Pentagon’s 2027 ban on Chinese origin materials.” We cannot minimize the importance of US independence in the rare earths industry, especially since the future of technology lies here.

China is known to control most of the world’s rare earth mining industries at this time.

China:

The astrological chart of China at this time is filled with unexpected changes, both positive and negative. With Trump dumping and/or insulting trading partners throughout the world, many of these nations are now happy to do business with China, including our closest neighbor, Canada, which has moved ventures to Australia and China.

China produces the most solar panels and has a large nuclear fusion site, developing rapidly. They have deals with Russia and Iran connected to mineral resources and shipping rights. They also have a massive public debt and are buying (have already bought) huge amounts of gold to back their currency. The “elephant in the room” for China is that, as Pluto crosses their Ascendant and Moon, they will no longer want a dictator and may be moving toward a democratic revolution within their own ranks. Recent “purges” of the top brass by Xi would suggest this. Uranus in Gemini is another placement that is “disruptive” for this nation. America’s credibility is being destroyed internationally by the President. Trump, China is cleverly moving to “step into the void” in world leadership. This is why I do not think China is interested in going to war with the US over Taiwan.

Final Thoughts:

“Wavering between the profit and the loss,

Is this brief transit where dreams cross,

The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and death.”

T. S. Eliot from ‘Ash Wednesday’

It is undeniable that I am fully alive at the end of my time here on earth. The arc of history that I have traveled includes depressions, wars, pandemics, losses, and victories. It has been a great privilege to have discovered astrology and practiced its arts for decades, sharing celestial information with clients and interpreting the constellations and their messages to all of us about the challenges and opportunities we have experienced and will live with in the future.

Most of the great religions have presented to us the notion of “life eternal”, reaching beyond physical embodiment into a realm of the continuation of consciousness in a spiritual form. Recently, discoveries in quantum physics suggest that there is no time as we know it – that we all exist within a conscious continuum, expressing itself in an infinite number of possible and probable ways. Many people report “near-death experiences” that suggest core souls have lived many lives here on earth. There are people who believe we currently live in the “obstructed universe”, framed by limitations and their ensuing joys and sufferings. I think we all would agree that life is a journey within frameworks that are limiting until we change them, creating our own “realities”.

At this point in my life, I truly believe that human life here on earth is at a crossroads. The looming question is: will we descend into tribalism, hate, violence, and alienation, all of which will most certainly end in extinction? Or will we choose to make an evolutionary leap into a higher and greater realm of consciousness, recognizing that we are all of one continuum of light and life, framed by a universal love for all who exist here on earth.

I know which one I choose. Do you?

Blessings,

Linda

Sabian Degree Descriptions from “The Zodiac by Degrees” by Martin Goldsmith:

Solar Eclipse degree Aug 12^th – 21^st degree of Leo: “Drunken chickens make giddy attempts to fly over a barnyard fence.”

Lunar Eclipse degree Aug. 28 – 5^th degree of Pisces: “The cast party after a benefit performance. The host ladles out spiked punch and regales the other guests with outrageously exaggerated stories based on his own experience.”

Important Points of Reference for Astrologers

New Moon at 21 degrees Cancer conjunct Mercury July 14; Full Moon at 6 degrees Aquarius conjunct Pluto and opposition Jupiter June 29; New Moon Solar Eclipse at 20 degrees Leo Aug. 12; Full Moon Lunar Eclipse at 4 degrees Pisces opposition Mercury Aug. 28; Jupiter goes into Leo July 1, is sextile Jupiter Aug. 17, and transiting there through July 25, 2027; Mars goes into Cancer Aug. 10 (through Sept. 27); Mercury retrograde in Cancer goes direct July 23, goes into Leo Aug. 9, is sextile Venus in Libra Aug 13, is conjunct Jupiter Aug. Aug. 15 and is trine Saturn Aug. 17; Mars transits Gemini July 1 through Aug. 10, is conjunct Uranus, trine Pluto, sextile Neptune. Venus is in Virgo July 9 through Aug. 6 and is square Uranus, inconjunct the Neptune/Pluto sextile to form a Yod July 13 and is inconjunct Saturn July 21; Venus goes into Libra Aug. 7 through Sept. 10, is trine Pluto Aug.. 11, is sextile Jupiter Aug. 17 and is opposite Saturn Aug. 21. The North Node is in 00 Pisces until July 27^th when it goes into 29 degrees Aquarius.