Eclipse Sabian Degrees:
16th Degree of Pisces: “Wine goblet in hand, a composer in his studio stares off into space. Coming back to himself, he begins to write down a new piece.”
30 Degrees Virgo: “A writer, unable to work because a group of hoodlums is blasting a radio on the street, pulls out a pistol and walks to the window. Thinking better of it, he puts the pistol away and sets off to find a quieter place.”
The Trouble with Neptune
(Transiting in Aries, conjunct Saturn, Retrograde back into Pisces Oct. 21 until it moves forward, again into Aries Jan. 27, 2026, will conjunct Saturn in Aries again Feb. 14, 2026, remaining in Aries until May 2038)
Astrologers, through the ages, have always struggled with interpreting the fundamental components of the Sign of Pisces and its ruler, Neptune, the ancient God of the Oceans, with its legendary fogs, storms, and floods. Relating these symbols to “human nature”, Neptune would seem to move our minds and hearts into the extreme realms of creation and destruction; genius and insanity; paranormal experiences and addiction; inspiring dreams and nightmares. It rules the area of sleep, a necessity for good health, and which is now known to be a significant health “problem” for humans in this modern, high-pressure society.
Steering our personal journeys across the oceans of human consciousness becomes a challenge we are all destined to navigate. Some rise to this occasion by becoming great inventors, painters, film makers, writers/poets, musicians – all who are known to be subject to “mood swings” to “highs” beyond belief to “lows” that border on suicidal. The price for Neptune’s gifts is a high one to pay and thus brings us to ask for a remedy – retaining a core balance among the shifting winds and waters of life.
Another highly significant area for the stormy seas of Neptune to challenge our minds and hearts lies within the landscapes of the many various religions. Neptune’s territory lies within what we would call the “spiritual” areas of the human psyche, encompassing the world’s well-known historic religions, along with humankind’s exploration of consciousness in less conventional ways. This could unintentionally open us up to great deceptions — fear and hate of those who are “different”, isolationist religious cults, addiction, and any escape hatches from the more practical realities.
For decades, modern technology has diverted young people from interacting warmly with each other, as their eyeballs are “plastered” to screens and their time is spent essentially alone. As a result, millions are severely depressed and discouraged with themselves and their prospects for a better life. To add to the “confusion,” Neptune recently transited into Aries and then retrogrades back into Pisces until Feb. 14, 2026, when it goes back into Aries, remaining in this sign until May 2038. The transit into Aries would instill hope that we may “wake up”, toss our phones, and start afresh, meeting with each other in person!
Weapons of Mass Deception:
Accompanying the general discontent of populations with extreme economic and social inequalities, Neptune is a framework for hotbeds of scandals, deceptions, scams, fraud, and a great deal of pain when people “wake up” to the lies they have been told when they were “asleep” and the consequences of the “deceivers” that have taken over a large portion of the media, their economies, their government, and their lives.
The recent Epstein document scandal and exposure is only a small portion of what is to come. The Trump-influenced “firing” of Stephen Colbert and abolishing the 33-year-old Late Show, the highest rated show in’s time slot, ostensibly because it was not making money, is an example of our media being slashed and burned if it offends a president. Everyone who publicly criticizes this president gets sued, fired, put in jail, or pressured out of office. This behavior would remind us of the dictators of the 20th Century, including Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Mao. Currently, it reminds us of how Vladimir Putin has enslaved Russia.
Speaking of Putin – he seems to be getting what is on his “list” to “not” end the war in Ukraine, after his “red carpet” reception from Pres. Trump in Alaska. Reports have “exposed” Trump’s decades-long association with Putin and the “laundering” of Russian money through real estate transactions in the US. If Trump really cooperated with Ukraine and NATO, the questions arise as to what Putin could “release” about his previous “deals” with the president. All the “reality show” meetings with Europeans and Ukrainians are, essentially, meaningless.
Neptune recently went into Aries, conjunct Saturn, sextile Uranus and Pluto in July and August, initiating a wake-up call to the “weapons of mass deception” and the President. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill” that is the biggest cutback in modern history of America’s social support systems for the public-at-large, education, medical research, innovation in technologies — avoiding taxation for a billionaire class of individuals who literally own about 80- 90% of this nation’s wealth. There are currently 800 billionaires in the USA.
Healthcare, already underfunded and over-priced, will fail most people, homelessness will become worse, prices on everything will rise (the result of tariffs), we will lose caregivers and farm workers, who are immigrants, rather than finding a pathway to citizenship for millions of hardworking people who form a support system for our economy. In addition, important local newspapers, especially in smaller towns and rural areas throughout the US, are closing down.
Along with all this, ICE, under Trump, has become an organization resembling the police force in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, arresting and detaining immigrant populations throughout the nation. Trump’s imposition of a Gestapo-like federal takeover of Washington, DC. policing is only one example of what is to come. He is threatening to send National Guard Troops to Chicago and Baltimore, even though he does not have the legal power to do this. He claims this is to combat crime, but crime has been going down in the past five years.
Too many people seem to be backing down, afraid to speak up, swimming around in a sea of silence! The looming question: can we really change all this?
The Economy and Neptune as the “flow” of money:
There are giant mergers on the horizon — especially in the mass media, fossil fuel corporations, and financial platforms; further emphasizing the “monopoly economy” and concentrating money and power even further into the accounts of the very few. There is nobody in this administration or in the Congress’s current majority willing to challenge this trend. Fertility rates, thought to be due to lessening opportunities for young people to be financially successful, and women being employed in full-time jobs with little child care support, have dropped to a historic low of 1.6 children per woman in the US and are dropping across the developed world.
Trump’s effort is to ostensibly get rid of “fraud and abuse” in all the previously written into law and funded by Congress programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, USAID, funding for food for the poor, and education for the handicapped — is knee-capping our nation’s people across the board. — The defunding in Trump’s bill of PBS and NPR – arguably the most intellectually refined and non-biased media organization is a tragedy. Trump is also halting money for science and medicine in the nation’s leading universities, most recently Duke University, at a time when many of these agencies are on the verge of curing cancer. Health Secretary, RFK has de-funded ongoing research into COVID and stopped funding vaccines, just as a new type of the virus is emerging in parts of the US.
Markets are likely to go down mid-September through mid-October with Mercury and Venus opposing Saturn. Inflation will be rising. There are indications of recession lying ahead.
Trump’s Protection Racket:
All this is a continuation of his extortion or “protection racket”, forcing these institutions to pay him money to get back the government funding he withholds, or he will “sue” them for so-called ethnic discrimination in the courts. Knowing the Supreme Court favors Trump, and rather than paying large fees for lawyers, these institutions usually give in to get their funding back. Our national park system, arguably one of America’s greatest historical achievements, has experienced about 2/3 of its employees being laid off, along with young people working in Americorps being defunded and sent home, who have, for decades, generously worked repairing the parks. More deafening silence surrounds America.
Recently, Trump has decided to impose large tariffs on India, one of our greatest trading partners for decades and multiple presidential administrations, ostensibly because they are currently buying oil from a “sanctioned” Russia (on whom, IRONICALLY, Trump refuses to impose further sanctions). I would suspect there are other shady “deals” on the horizon.
Since the richest Americans are enjoying their extensive tax breaks, none of this is helping reduce our giant deficits. On August 12, the Treasury Department released the fact that US debt has climbed past $37 trillion!
The Crypto Revolution:
The re-framing of cryptocurrencies with a modicum of regulation (the advent of Stable Coin) is a move I predicted with respect to the movement of Pluto into Aquarius and Uranus into Gemini. Bitcoin is still traded as a commodity. There is nothing substantial supporting it. However, there is an inevitable move of money away from cash and paper checks and into online currency, credit, and debit cards that has been expanding for decades. There are rumors that Stable Coin will ultimately become the “dollar” and will be backed by US Treasuries ( the valuation of which our massive debt is severely reducing), or gold, whose value per troy ounce will increase exponentially.
This area is still highly “Neptunian” in that questions arise as to how currency is “backed” and what quality of cyber-security exists to ensure the safety of all these transactions. There is still an astonishing amount of confusion and vagueness here.
Interestingly, China is now the nation with the most gold holdings. They are looking to become the most powerful nation on earth and may be waiting for a gold-backed yuan to become the world’s currency, replacing the dollar. There are also the Arab nations moving out of the dollar into a mix of other currencies.
The “Real” Energy Crisis:
An issue rarely discussed in the media is: Where are we going to get the astonishing amount of energy needed to support Artificial Intelligence and cryptocurrency? Just for these two things, all natural fossil resources that are currently warming the planet will be “used up” in just a few years, which would ensure the collapse of our civilization. Trump has de-funded efforts toward non-fossil fuel alternatives and has degraded the “green and sustainable” movements in every way he can. My take is that NUCLEAR FUSION will be ready to come online just in time to save the world.
Where is the Money Coming From?
Without significant tax money coming in from the wealthiest Americans who hold about 90% of this nation’s wealth, the Big Beautiful Bill increases this nation’s debt to levels that it will be impossible to sustain. How to tax this wealth is and has been a monumental problem. You cannot tax unrealized capital gains, but you can tax wealth transfers, especially the massive amounts of inherited wealth whose gains escape currently through multiple loopholes. This is not on the agenda of the government we currently have in power.
This is why Trump wants the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, as we can hardly afford to pay the interest on our massive debt, and the dollar’s reserve currency status is threatened. In September, Mercury will oppose Saturn, and Mars will be inconjunct to Saturn, which may point to sell-offs in the Financial Markets through October 10th, when Venus is in opposition to Saturn. I do not foresee something as severe as the 2008 crash, but there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the debt crisis; confusion is likely to abound. Neptune wins again!
Back to the Future:
The question looms: Will the US go back to gold to “back the dollar? Recently, people have been buying gold and even silver as a safety play. As stated above, China currently owns huge stashes of gold, giving it a decided advantage in global trade and moving it away from dollar dependency. They may have been among the “behind-the-scenes” manipulators in the past, holding down the prices of gold and silver.
Meanwhile, there is an investigation underway as to how much gold is really in Fort Knox, and there are unofficial reports of moving gold there, off the “radar”. Silver has been suppressed for decades by the Central Banks. It is an essential metal in the manufacture of solar panels, military applications, and many other technologies. It is also finally showing positive activity. Our massive, unsustainable federal debt may push us in new, unexpected directions.
In July of 2026 (through July 2027), Jupiter transits Leo, which is bullish for gold and suggests some kind of new movement toward increasing the value of gold, as mentioned above, possibly to back the dollar. I will discuss this in future newsletters.
Neptune – the God of Winds, Storms, earthquakes, and volcanoes:
Since the Lunar Eclipse conjunct the US Neptune and opposition Saturn back in March, we have been experiencing major climate catastrophes across our nation, especially in the global South. Massive wildfires broke out again this summer in Oregon, California, and Canada. The two eclipses this September and October are strongly connected to Neptune, which is conjunct Saturn, suggesting more severe hurricanes and storms in coastal regions. Major fires are burning around and in the Grand Canyon. In addition, volcanoes in the US are showing activity, including the Iliamna Volcano on the coast of Alaska and Mt. Rainier in the State of Washington.
Outside the US, the March Mandalay 7.7 earthquake that took place in Myanmar was felt all the way to Thailand and China. The Icelandic volcano is erupting again. Last March’s Lunar Eclipse in Virgo, opposite both Saturn and Neptune, has foretold these possibilities. Recently, the 8.8-second largest earthquake ever recorded took place in Russia, and a volcano erupted there that had not erupted in 600 years, all triggering waves in the Pacific that included the west coast of the US. The Conjunction of Saturn to Neptune cycle continues through February 2026.
Late October into early November, the transit of Mars in Scorpio alongside Mercury, plus Mercury Sep. 18 and Venus hitting the March Eclipse degree Oct. 8 and opposing Saturn that is back in Pisces, would suggest severe storms hitting coastal regions in the US.
The Best Side of Neptune:
Alongside the planet Uranus, Neptune’s expansive imagination would also open us up to great breakthroughs in quantum physics, chemistry, astronomy, technologies like Artificial Intelligence, space travel, and nuclear fusion. There are “fears” emerging in connection with AI becoming a reality, and thousands of lost jobs are already appearing, with a current stream of layoffs, especially in technology. Other jobs will emerge in the future, involving upgrading and repairing infrastructure across our nation.
In addition, new manufacturing is coming back into the US — like the Micron chips plant in Clay, New York, and is creating new employment possibilities. In that same central New York area, a new yogurt plant and a new dairy corporation are building plants in anticipation of the growth in the upstate NY area. Apple Computer announced in August that they are bringing back two manufacturing plants to the US. We need to tap into the human imagination to create new frameworks for modern economies.
Science and Technology:
In “Wired” posted July 20, 2025, an article by Charlie Wood entitled “The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity” was posted. He reports: “Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.” This article is worth reading, although I cannot predict that most of us will understand this “clash of theorems” and alternate views of reality. It is simply amazing where these scientists are going, what they are finding, and how “quantifying” reality poses a real challenge. We go here to stretch our minds!
It was recently reported on Google News that a “not natural” interstellar object named 31/ATLAS (about 7 miles long), heading toward us, is aimed to go just past Earth and could be here by Christmas. It would seem to be “self-propelled and directed”, but we will not know for sure until its arrival within our Solar System. Beam me up, Scottie!
It has been recently announced that breakthroughs in cancer cures connected to MRNA technology are getting good results in laboratory testing and clinical trials. As stated above, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has de-funded these projects.
Reported in the Sustainability Times on Aug. 24, 2025, an article was presented: “In a landmark effort to revolutionize energy production, Type One Energy has unveiled its Infinity Two Stellarator fusion reactor, poised to generate 350 megawatts of clean electricity and potentially reshape the future of sustainable power.” It goes on to report: “At the core of the Infinity Two reactor is its reliance on stellarator fusion technology, a method that has shown the capability to support stable and continuous energy production. This approach is built on successful experiments with machines like the W7-X, which have demonstrated the viability of steady-state fusion processes.” It would be worth your effort to read this entire article, which illustrates how close we are to achieving the fusion breakthrough, arguably the “Holy Grail” of energy production.
Final Thoughts:
It is my perception that most of this nation’s people are currently paralyzed and in shock as a real and present dictatorship has taken over America, seemingly with little or no effective resistance. Much of this is due to what we are discovering that is NOT in the Constitution – direct limits on presidential power. The “separation of powers” we thought would keep this at bay only works when the powers are separated. Trumpism has taken over the Congress, and the Supreme Court has essentially ruled that nobody can stop a president from committing crimes while he is in office.
The Democrats have been fighting among themselves, between their original, further to the “left” populist origins and those closer to Wall Street because of their need to have their campaigns financed by the richest Americans. At least, they are coming out strongly against Republicans’ gerrymandering in Texas, by gerrymandering in California – fighting fire with fire. Illinois Gov. Pritzker is making effective speeches against this administration. Gov. Gavin Newsom is among the few really standing up to the White House. Democrats need a unifying message across the nation to bring people together and back to the polls. They also need strong, gutsy, charismatic leadership.
Since the end of WWII, America has led the world in economic development, academia, scientific research, inventions, and effective efforts to make democracy work. These efforts are now being removed, and these great achievements are now all being challenged, just at the time when global climate catastrophes are developing, and significant wars have broken out in Palestine and Ukraine, all threatening our lives here on earth.
We are now fighting the American Revolution for democracy all over again. New versions of Washington, Lincoln, and the Roosevelts may emerge into positions of leadership – young people with the brains, the guts, and the moral dimension to lead the way out of the current “dark night of the soul.” They can and they probably will.
Will we evolve or go extinct? That is the question!
Stay tuned!
Linda
Important Points of Reference for Astrologers:
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse at 15 degrees Pisces September 7; New Moon Solar Eclipse at 29 degrees Virgo September 21; Full Moon at 14 degrees Aries Oct. 7; New Moon at 28 degrees Libra Oct. 21; Mercury in Leo is inconjunct Saturn (retrograde back into Pisces) September 2, goes into Virgo September 2 square Uranus, and is inconjunct Neptune and Pluto, is sextile Jupiter in Cancer September 12, goes into Libra September 18 trine both Uranus and Pluto and opposition Neptune, is inconjunct Saturn October 4, goes into Scorpio October 7 square Pluto and inconjunct both Uranus and Neptune, will trine Jupiter October 24, will trine Saturn October 25 and will Trine Neptune October 28; Mars in Libra is square Jupiter September 4, is inconjunct Saturn September 19, goes into Scorpio and is square Pluto and is inconjunct Uranus and Neptune September 22; Venus goes into Virgo September 19 square Uranus and inconjunct Neptune and Pluto and is opposition Saturn October 10, goes into Libra October 14 trine Uranus and Pluto and opposition Neptune.
