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Worlds in Collision – Media v. The Truth
The Election has Consequences
As multiple wars and weather events of mass destruction (most recently in California) play out in a polarized world, human societies are in desperate need of “truth-sayers”—people who are informed, intelligent, experts in their fields, and with a sense of moral commitment and inspiration to help us all through these most challenging times. We also need a public that has the mental capacity and motivation to listen to them.
Instead, over the past several decades into the present, we have developed a mass media, much of which is dedicated to lies and emotionally fueled distortions, designed to strengthen people in power and increase the standing of persons of enormous wealth.
Public education in America has been underfunded and often unavailable to lower income neighborhoods. At the same time, civics, political science and history have been removed from the classroom, resulting in a nation that has been “dumbed down” and easy prey for deception and manipulation. This has been assisted by young people with eyeballs constantly on their cell phones, drowning their brains in ads and trivia. Now, the Trump administration is set to downsize or “eliminate” the Department of Education.
Consequences!
Using “freedom of speech” as an excuse, everything from TV networks to podcasts, to Social Media posts – are now “deregulating” themselves. The most recent example, Marc Zuckerberg’s announcement that guardrails to the truth are being taken down on Facebook and his social media empire. Fox News has been successfully sued for lies and slanders connected to political news and campaigns, but continues to distort the news around important issues and opinions. The President of the US continues to push his lies and distortions, hooking people on his opinions – similar to people who get addicted to drugs, until they simply “overdose”. A major example of this is his offending millions all over the world by declaring Ukraine’s president Zelensky a dictator and blaming him for starting the war, and continually complimenting Russian dictator and mass murderer, Vladimir Putin. Back here, Trump has recently fired the Head of the Joint Chiefs and all top military personnel, replacing them with his cronies.
Elon Musk’s “weapons of mass destruction”, eliminating or immobilizing government agencies that are necessary for the public good, are unauthorized by law and he has no legal standing, except that Pres. Trump has given him this power. Musk, in turn, has wielded a chainsaw in public reminiscent of several horror films and highlighting his sociopath tendencies.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been approved to head up the Department of Health, who is known to be against vaccines, and immediately went to work gutting employees and systems there. In response to this, the State of Louisiana has decided to no longer make vaccines mandatory. Meanwhile, locations throughout the US that stopped vaccinations, presently in Texas and New Mexico, are witnessing the spread of measles and other contagious diseases.
The defunding of US government agencies such as USAID, that helped end HIV as a global pandemic, will soon see the deadly consequences of these practices with the rise in AIDS and other diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis around the world. We are seeing the worst pandemic of bird flu in recent history, causing farmers to destroy their poultry and increasing the price of eggs. The March Lunar Eclipse at 23 degrees Virgo on the Neptune of the US opposition Saturn suggests a real and present danger of the spread of disease epidemics.
Musk’s DOGE people are now raiding Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare. The recent budget passed by the House is slashing Medicaid. Millions of women are now lacking reproductive care, leading to the US having the highest rate of infant deaths in the industrialized world. All these “firings” of essential people in government agencies will penalize the elderly, retired, handicapped, veterans, disabled, as these agencies will be unable to function. Meanwhile, the Congress is proposing extending the tax cuts for billionaires..
What lies ahead?
In 1980-81, Saturn in Virgo was conjunct the US Neptune in Virgo and transiting Neptune in Sagittarius was square the US Neptune. Mt. St. Helens erupted, the Pope was shot and Pres. Ronald Reagan was shot. The Pope has just been hospitalized in critical condition. In late 2024, the California wildfire catastrophe in Los Angeles was considered the worst environmental disaster in our history. Pres. Trump’s blowing up of our institutions, siding with Putin in the Russia/Ukraine war and his lies and distortions have caused his approval ratings to drop like a rock. The month of March presents extreme tensions in his horoscope.
Neptune and the sign of Pisces often govern human tendencies to “escape” from problems, fall into multiple addictions, spiral into self-deceptions. Ironically, it also reveals the highest potentials for great spiritual insights and breakthrough inventions, fine art, music and inspiration that exceed anything that has gone before.
The symbol for this water sign and the Age of Pisces is presented as two fish swimming in opposite directions. One is sinking into the dark realms of the ocean, while the other is swimming upward toward the light of the sun. One thing the fish have in common is that they have to “keep moving”. The question is: which direction? Investments in water – its purification, management, and sustainability – will rise in importance. Water is the source of all life on earth and humans have damaged this precious resource. Flooding is also catastrophic when hurricanes and tornadoes sweep across nations.
Investing in science for the curing of diseases, invention of new energies, and solving technological problems could propel us into a new age of progress. In contrast to this, the regressive policies of the Trump administration will ensure blowing up our institutions, our death as a democratic nation and, potentially, a plunge into a new Dark Age for humanity.
Trump’s World:
The President has said he will end the war between Ukraine and Russia. This will happen, but at great cost and important concessions from Ukraine, such as US control of their rare earths. Putin and Trump are old friends and Trump allies with him as a “fellow dictator”. Trump is not comfortable with NATO and will not allow for Ukraine to join. Recently, he had a friendly meeting with India’s president, who is now seen as a mostly Fascist head-of-state, recently declaring India as a Hindu “only” nation.
An “isolationist”, he believes in a world of “strong men” as heads of state, arming themselves, negotiating transactional deals, and should, otherwise, “keep to themselves”. His world view is similar to the old heads of the Mafia who make deals with each other to avoid turf wars. Trump’s mafias are giant transnational corporations buying up the world’s resources. His recent proposals for selling “Gold Cards” as green cards for $5 million for US legal immigrants, and, simultaneously, deporting parentless immigrant children would reverse the poem on the Stature of Liberty – “Give me your tired, your poor” – that has defined the US for centuries as a democratic land of opportunity for all.
A recent speech in Europe by Vice President Vance emphasized this policy and openly insulted our “former” European allies who were there. This administration has threatened tariffs on both Canada and Mexico, our neighbors and trading partners. Trump, as we all know, is working to get rid of all undocumented immigrants rather than offering them a path to citizenship.
The one positive outcome that could present itself — is for the European Union to strengthen and come together to act in their interests, no longer depending on the US. They need to strengthen their military might against Russia, since Pres. Trump is conceding to Putin and making it obvious that he is ending US global enforcement of democracy that has been in place for decades.
Basically, the past 70 years of American prosperity with the mantle of support for democracy and the “free world” has been decapitated by the Trump administration in just a few weeks.
Mother Nature:
The March 14th Eclipse conjunct the US Neptune in Virgo opposition Saturn combined with Mercury going retrograde in Aries, suggests, unfortunately, more environmental and natural catastrophes. A similar set of patterns connected to the US Neptune emerged in 1980 -81, a period when Mt. St. Helens erupted in Washington State. Recent tectonic instabilities are being noted off the coasts of Oregon and Alaska. Volcanoes erupting, flooding, fires, are all included in the list of probabilities. There may be an earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific rim area, possibly Japan and/or Hawaii. Aspects connected to Neptune/Saturn force us to face harsh realities we have avoided for a long time.
Threats to Economies, Health, and Those in Power:
These same configurations suggest some kind of economic crisis that may worsen inflation and sink financial markets. As stated above, the previous similar historic period (1980-81) presented us with the eruption of Mt. St Helens in the State of Washington and attempts on the lives of Pope John Paul and of President Ronald Reagan. Our multiple trillions of dollars of out-of-control national debt, monumental tax breaks for billionaires, tariff-induced inflation spirals, will likely increase the price and value of gold, which is a safety play for investors. Recently, the “Oracle of Omaha”, Warren Buffet, the billionaire who pays taxes, has gotten his assets into cash positions and is warning us of a sell-off on financial markets.
Another period when the US Neptune was activated (Uranus in Pisces opposed the US Neptune in Virgo) was 2008, when markets crashed and resulted in what was referred to as “The Great Recession”.
We need to pay attention to journalists whose critical thinking and truth-telling will help us. Nobel Prize winner, and Filipino/American journalist, Maria Ressa, and CEO of “Rapper” strongly points to the significant danger of losing truthful reporting for Americans who have been experiencing lies, distortions, and “fake news”. Without high standards for the press, we are in danger of losing democracy. This is a time when accurate and truthful reporting are of major consequence.
As quoted above, from the book, “The Zodiac by Degrees” by Martin Goldsmith, the Sabian Degree degree of the 9 degree Aries Solar Eclipse March 29th is described as “a behavior of adolescent self-absorption and attempts to sway public opinion on the part of famous people, by the use of the media “– and having it all “backfire”. The degree 23 degrees of Virgo of the Lunar Eclipse on March 14th is described as: “Having built a Playhouse out of odds and ends, a group of children decide upon the characters they will play in their improvised dramas.” Does all this sound familiar?
The week of April 6th, Mercury and Venus go direct, conjunct Saturn, trine Mars and sextile Uranus. Significant economic decisions will be made concerning repairing infrastructures destroyed by climate disasters. Trump has already expressed his desire to eliminate FEMA, the agency that rescues towns and cities that have been destroyed in climate catastrophes.
Chaos, Inc.
President Trump has, as he said he would, become a dictator on Day One. We are now finding out what it is to lose our democracy whose existence depends upon a “balance of powers”. The March/April planetary configurations are very tough in the chart of Pres. Trump, possibly his having to face a hidden but significant health crisis. His propositions to take over the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada will have to be seriously modified or will fail. He will run into conflicts with his “bro” Elon Musk and his party in Congress. Remember that these people in the Congress have to go back to their states and get re-elected.
Trump may be using these global threats to “make deals” he thinks favor capital wealth in the US., but they will not work as they are offending multiple heads of state. He may be vying for control of the rare earths in Greenland that will be essential to global technology dominance in the future. However, we are already in friendly deals with Finland, Denmark, and Sweden that include military surveillance locations. As pointed out above, Trump is alienating our friends and allies, replacing friendly negotiations with humiliating arm-twisting threats.
Ironically, China will likely walk into the gap the US leaves behind. Trump’s trade decisions are increasing the power and economic influence of both Russia and China. Last month, he welcomed Prime Minister Bodhi of India, promising stronger economic alliances there. In recent years, India has morphed into another increasingly Fascist government. What many Americans do not know, is that from the mid 1990s into the present, the largest number of people who have immigrated to the US are from India!
Neptune’s deceptions will be uncovered and harsh truths will emerge.
The Real Economy:
When Pres. Biden made one of his last speeches before leaving office, he spoke about the danger posed by the “oligarchs”, basically those who control most of this nation’s wealth and assets and, indeed, most of the world’s wealth. Unfortunately, this transfer of wealth has been going on for decades, under the reign of both political parties and has been amplified since the “Citizens United” Decision by the Supreme Court in 2010 allowing massive amounts of money to go into political campaigns from the richest people — calling this “freedom of speech.”
The current transit of Uranus in Taurus was in this very same place in the 1930s, corresponding with the Rise of the Third Reich in Germany. They were enabled by a previously democratically elected Weimar Republic that was weak and corrupt. Their economy had collapsed and their currency was hugely inflated. Hitler and the Nazis were elected and marched into the arena. Sound familiar?
The wealth gap between the top controllers of wealth and everybody else in America is the widest it has been since the early 20th Century, referred to as the “Gilded Age.” The great irony is that this inequity is behind the “populist revolution” that swept Pres. Trump into office, ironically, a member of the card-carrying “oligarch” class who brought all of this wealth grab into play in the first place!
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Indeed, Pres. Trump’s rewarding Elon Musk (who contributed more than $270 million to his campaign) with so much power and privilege, along with other billionaires points to all public protections being removed and/or government programs, as stated above, such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security for the masses being threatened. This is all on track to insure that these “oligarchs” can get away with paying no taxes and do, essentially, whatever it takes to increase their wealth and cement their power.
The large banks, food and energy corporations — are consolidating. Investment giant, Black Rock, alone, currently oversees $11 trillion. Jan. 9, gold reached a high of $2692 a Troy Ounce. By the end of January, it was in the $2800s, and by February it soared into the high 2900s, pointing toward real and present fears of an increasing inflationary economy.
Thus, Trump’s tariffs are creating an inflationary spiral that most people voted for him to prevent. As stated above, being a “deal maker,” he may use these as threats to gain other things he has on his agenda, “strong-arming” Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Panama to make concessions to him. March and April’s eclipses and planetary lineups in Pisces point to confusion, instability, and fear – all not good for financial markets.
The US dollar is already in the process of moving out of paper money into a digital currency. Paper checks are becoming obsolete, replaced by online direct payments into banks. Credit cards have been converted to cell phone swipes for years now and will expand in their use. At the same time, cryptocurrencies are expanding globally. Have we forgotten the Sam Bankman-Fried crypto scam that cost investors millions of dollars and crashed multiple California banks? All this will pose a series of cyber security risks throughout the economic landscape.
As stated above, many people are moving their assets into gold as a safety play. Last month, Goldman Sachs announced that they have acquired a considerable amount of gold – a highly unusual move for them. For now, my suggestion is to be in non-mortgaged (possible income-producing) real estate, gold, silver, rare earths, water stocks, and cash.
The Current US Government is Assisting the Economic and Military Rise of China:
The recent emergence of China’s AI format, DeepSeek, challenging our AI Format, ChatGPT, is only the beginning of the long emergence of China as a reigning world technological and economic power. Pluto in tech Aquarius going over their Ascendant and Moon, with Uranus coming up in Gemini, in harmony with this placement, and Saturn and Neptune going into Aries, also harmonizing with China’s chart helps their emergence as a global economic power. The only glitch for them, ironically, is a possible rebellion by their populace against the tyranny of their current government.
Meanwhile, Trump’s tariffs against our former trading allies and friends, looming withdrawal from NATO, and isolationist policies, weakening the USA as a world power, is leaving the door wide open for China to step in and replace us as the leading economic power in the world. Our “former” trading partners are likely to switch their economic ties to China as we abandon them.
Climate Change:
I would like to introduce an idea that contrasts with the prevalent and most current view of global warming. It is true that the global mean temperature, due to the burning of fossil fuels, has been rising to new highs in recent years. However, with Pluto now in its long term transit in Aquarius (until 2044), I think we need to think about a possible cyclical “cold” cycle. The last time Pluto transited this sign was during the mini-Ice Age when the American Revolution was fought, and Washington’s troops were freezing in the woods and fields. Aquarius is traditionally a “cold” sign and could reverse the warming trend. Cooling cycles are often initiated by what is known as a “Solar Minimum”, or a period when the Sun produces very few solar flares or storms.
The last mini-Ice Age came after a global warming cycle when glaciers melted at the poles, bringing fresh water into the oceans. This, in turn, slowed down the thermohaline currents (or important coastal warming currents) such as the Gulf Stream. (The Gulf Stream has been noticeably slowing down in recent years.) These currents warm temperatures in Europe and America. At that same time, a Solar Minimum was present and many nations lost the climate conditions to grow important crops due to extreme cold and shortened summers.
The question I have is this. What happens when extreme heat and cold come together? The standard explanation is that this condition would produce severe storms. We shall see.
Science and Technology:
Fusion Breakthrough:
Posted on “Interesting Engineering” by Aman Tripathi on Jan. 11, is an article entitled: “US Scientists find way to prevent runaway electron damage in fusion reactors.” This information is gleaned from scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory using the Summit supercomputer.
The article goes on to say: “Fusion energy has long been hailed as the ‘holy grail’ of clean energy. However, the problem of runaway electrons has been a major hurdle in realizing the nuclear fusion process. The latest simulations could be a massive step in this regard. It could pave the way for the successful operation of ITER, the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor under construction in France.”
The article goes on to explain: “Runaway electrons are negatively charged particles that can be generated during fusion reactions. These electrons can be accelerated to high energies and can significantly damage the reactor walls and potentially derail the entire fusion process.” ‘These electrons can possess as much as 100,000 times more energy than the bulk electron population, so the beam becomes highly energetic and can cause significant damage.’ said Chang Liu, lead author of the study.”
The article goes on to say: “The simulations on Summit showed that a type of electromagnetic wave, called an Alfven wave, can scatter runaway electrons and prevent them from forming a damaging beam. . . The waves disperse the electrons, reducing their energy and preventing them from causing harm.”
The article is worth reading in its entirety. This may be the last major hurdle to overcome in the actual production of fusion energy for our electrical infrastructure. Last month’s newsletter reported that the construction and installation of a fusion chamber designed by Commonwealth Fusion in Cambridge, MA has recently been approved to be built and installed in the State of Virginia.
China’s Energy Breakthrough:
It was announced on “Live Science” that China has a plan to build an enormous 0.6 mile wide solar power station that will beam continuous energy back to earth via microwave. This could be a big step forward in clean energy — or a warning signal that this innovation could be used as a weapon. Chinese leadership has recently announced that their relationship with Russia is closer and more mutually supportive, especially since Russia has been selling them oil and gas. The Chinese have also announced progress in solving some significant problems at their nuclear fusion sites.
Final Thoughts:
We are at the interface of the turning of major worldwide historic cycles which will leave an unrecognizable landscape of upheaval– in natural landscapes, environmental and climate shifts, economic destruction and reconstruction, technological and scientific breakthroughs – many that “we the people” are tragically unprepared to face, let alone navigate.
Ancient tribal, religious, and racial divisions haunt humanity, bringing us, once again, to the brink of wars over territories, economies, and the minds and hearts of peoples. Fascism has been rising all over the world and is now a “fact” in the US. We have sadly forgotten the history – the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s — that should have instructed us and warned us of these dangers.
The last transit of Pluto in Aquarius in the 1700s presented us with the American Revolution against the British monarchy. It would seem that “Mad King George” has risen from the grave and returned again, this time within the boundaries of our nation, forcing us to decide whether we want fascism or democracy. Who among us will rise — here and abroad – to once again, help all of us to make this determination?
Contrary to feelings of hopelessness, I think we have a shot at an evolutionary “leap” – a process of coming out of our collective coma – a wake up call for humans on planet earth. We will soon see!
Stay tuned!
Blessings,
Linda
NOTE… Linda was featured in a Podcast interview in January… https://youtu.be/Sas_Hgq0BDI
Important Points of Reference for Astrologers:
Lunar Eclipse at 23 degrees of Virgo (conjunct the USA Neptune) opposition Saturn and sextile Uranus March 14; Solar Eclipse at 9 degrees Aries March 29; Full Moon April 13 at 23 degrees Libra opposition Chiron and inconjunct both Venus and Uranus; New Moon at 7 degrees Taurus; Mercury goes retrograde at 9 degrees Aries (the degree of the solar eclipse) March 14 and goes direct April 6 at 26 degrees Pisces conjunct Venus and Saturn and sextile Uranus square Mars and Pluto April 27; Mars in Cancer throughout March is trine Saturn and sextile Uranus April 4; Jupiter in Gemini is square the Sun in Pisces March 1 and is sextile the Sun in Aries April 6; Venus in Pisces goes direct April 12 sextile Uranus April 16 and is conjunct Saturn April 22; Neptune goes into Aries March 31(until it is retrograde back into Pisces Oct.23); Mars goes back into Leo April 18 opposition Pluto April 26.
Note: Sabian Degrees for the Eclipses:
24th Degree of Virgo (March 14 Lunar Eclipse opposite Saturn and Neptune in Pisces): “Having built a playhouse out of odds and ends, a group of children decide upon the characters they’ll play in their improvised drama.”
10th Degree of Aries (March 29 Solar Eclipse plus the degree of Mercury when it goes retrograde): “Before going out to meet the cameras, an adolescent star strikes a pose in front of a round convex mirror.”
