HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

The Sign of Sagittarius,

(Politics, Mass Communication, and the New Global Alignments.)

As America challenges all its previous allies and trading partnerships under the MAGA isolationist policies, we are witnessing a backlash of a new and powerful alliance between the nations of India, Russia, North Korea, and China. Russia is the biggest land mass nation in the world and shares much of its border with China. It barely supports a tiny disintegrating economy while at war with Ukraine, which is successfully bombing and destroying its oil and gas pipelines and infrastructure. India, which has been “tariffed” by Trump, is now insulted and alienated from a decades-long technological and economic relationship with the US.

China has the second-largest economy in the world, holds more gold in its accounts than anyone else as a “hedge” against inflation, and is equal to the US in military might. Trump has forged a “mixed ownership” TikTok deal with China, proposing a consortium of corporations owning this mass social media empire, leaving a sliver to be owned by China. However, he is imposing huge tariffs on China on most products. Meanwhile, US farmers are going bankrupt as migrant workers are fleeing or being deported, and the US tariffs on China have caused it to close its market for soybeans. China is picking up the markets in nations Trump has “tariffed” on its pathway to becoming the world’s greatest economy. At this time, China is ahead of the US in the manufacture of solar panels, electric vehicles, environmental technology, and AI infrastructure. They have developed a nuclear fusion plant that may be ahead of all the other sites.

NATO has gathered strength in Europe under the US presidency. Trump previously “stepped back” from challenging Putin in the Russia/Ukraine War and then verbally lent his support to Ukraine; tactics that “flip-flop” back and forth, leaving the world in a black hole of uncertainty. However, Ukraine’s careful targeting of Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure, lampooning Russia’s economy, and fighting back at its borders is leading many to think they will ultimately win this war. The UK, going through a serious economic downturn, has cozied up to Trump in exchange for American businesses going there.

Speaking to “cozying up” to Trump, the optics of our nation’s billionaire “tech magnates” sitting together smiling at a recent luncheon with the President, are revealing to us why a Fascist is still comfortably reigning over this nation.

MERCURY goes retrograde Nov. 9 until Nov. 29^th, in Sagittarius, backward into Scorpio, direct in Scorpio, and forward into Sagittarius Dec. 12. There will be confusion between the optimism innate in Sagittarius and the lack of trust present in the sign of Scorpio. The Sagittarius planets are square (in conflict with) Saturn and Neptune, which are back in Pisces until next year, moving the public back into fear, disillusionment, and despair.

JUPITER, currently in Cancer, is somewhat protective of the US, a Sun in Cancer nation. However, worldwide, serious natural events such as volcanic eruptions, storms, and earthquakes are likely to recur. These same transits form volatile aspects going through the astrological chart of the President. Trump, whose mental stability has been in question in recent months. He has been sending ICE and National Guard military forces into Chicago and Portland illegally, supposedly looking for undocumented migrants. This would cause us to recall Hitler’s Gestapo in 1930s and 1940s Germany with its mass arrests, killings, and incarcerations. The recent and most impressive “No King” rallies throughout the nation would remind us of the first American Revolution, as I have mentioned in previous newsletters. We are fighting for Democracy once again.

Freedom of Speech:

September and October presented us with a political assassination, multiple mass shootings, and the firing of media comics whose comments alienated the Trump coalitions. Trump’s extortion racket tactics of “permitting” media giants to merge with each other in exchange for getting rid of any dissent with his policies – are all reminding us that we are a nation run by oligarchs. The One Per Cent owns nearly everything and – as a consequence – owns nearly everyone. Freedom of speech is on the chopping block.

As polls are being taken, people are being interviewed, opinions are being expressed. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal, implicating Trump, is not going away. The president’s recent speeches at the UN and in front of the US military filled with hate, condemnation of immigrants and his political foes and, most importantly, scatter-shot and nearly incomprehensible would lend support to those who think he is mentally unwell.

It would seem that the public is so inundated by every form of mass media with information and opinions, they have withdrawn into personal positions, dark places, and blind corners where they frequently no longer seem to know what is going on at all.

The Economy:

Inflation is not being tamed. The US debt is so large and growing that, even with lowered interest rates, Congress cannot make a dent in it. Prices are so high, most of the so-called “middle class” cannot afford a house, buy groceries, rent an apartment, buy a car, or medically insure themselves. According to the National Association of Realtors, housing prices are up 56% since February 2020. About 15% of our population is now “co-buying” homes with a friend or relative. Unemployment is rising.

Wall Street will likely have extreme “mood swings”, not sure where it is going. The value of the dollar is coming dangerously close to the famous 1920s Wiemar Republic currency inflation. The US, along with many other nations throughout the industrialized world, cannot sustain the deficits and/or pay back their loans. The Trump tariffs are already contributing to price inflation.

Gold and silver have risen recently, to levels not seen in decades and this trend will likely continue. Silver has now officially been named an “essential metal”, since it is used on solar panels, aviation and growing military technologies. The decades long “short” positions by investment banks and hedge funds in silver may be coming to an end. In spite of recent “corrections in the metals, I think the upward trend will continue.

History Rhymes:

Uranus retrogrades back into Taurus on November 7th until April 26, 2026, when it goes fully back into Gemini until May 23, 2033. Taurus, ruling land masses, wars over territories, real estate ownership, and environmental catastrophes. and attention on earth sciences, will bring back the crises we have been experiencing since it transited into this sign in March 2019. We have all seen it mimic its previous transit in the 1930s when the Third Reich rose in Germany, WWII broke out in Europe, and the devastating Dust Bowl crisis moved across the US. It has also highlighted and even repeated a similar rise in dictatorships and Fascism across the world that accompanied that previous era.

We recently avoided another Great Depression through tricky maneuvers that moved our nation’s profits and fortunes into the funds of the billionaire class, cut their taxes and moved manufacturing out of America to cheap labor abroad with no environmental restrictions. The Trump administration is correct about this. However, the Middle Class has nearly disappeared. Nearly nobody can afford health insurance any more. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, funds to public education and infrastructure that got us out of the effects of that depression and WWII have either been cut or are threatened with disappearing all together. Most importantly, this administration has defunded the largest and most important American infrastructures for science, advanced technology and higher education in the world.

Next year, when Uranus is back in Gemini (and Neptune and Saturn will be back in Aries), the movements away from Fascism and back into Democracy will likely strengthen. We will have to fight for self-governance all over again, as we did with the American Revolution, the Civil War, and WWII, when Uranus previously transited this sign. Democracy won every time. However, the price for all this was the experiencing of massive painful upheavals — and we had to fight “wars.”

Science and Technology:

Online newsletter FUSION reports: “First Light achieves world’s first fusion result, proving unique new target technology.” It goes on to say:

Fusion shown with projectile approach for the first time validated by UKAEA.

Breakthrough achieved faster and cheaper than traditional fusion approaches,

Unique target approach offers a simpler pathway to low-cost fusion energy using existing plant technology,

PROJECTILE approach enables a high-margin consumables business model with an addressable market in the hundreds of billions.”

OXFORD, UK:

“First Light Fusion, the University of Oxford fusion spin-out, today confirms it has achieved fusion. The UK Atomic Energy Authority has independently validated the result.” “Projectile fusion is a new approach to inertial fusion that is simpler, more energy efficient, and has lower physics risk.”

Recently in the US, there has been a move backed by Bill Gates and other billionaires into refurbishing or constructing Nuclear Fission plants, since we all know energy needs are growing exponentially across the world. These plants use Uranium and Plutonium, among the most toxic elements known to humankind.

I have pointed out that the last time Uranus transited through Gemini, we created the Manhattan Project with resulted in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, using nuclear fission. Shortly thereafter, we developed the hydrogen bomb, using fusion. I am convinced the future of energy lies in nuclear fusion with no toxic pollution and have been informing my readership with information about these fusion sites throughout the world. I will continue to report on the progress in this field.

On Oct. MIT News, an article was posted entitled: “Concrete ‘battery’ developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power.” They go on to report: “Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems.” Andrew Paul Laurent explains: “An electron conducting carbon concrete (ec3) – based arch structure integrated supercapacitor electrodes for dual functionality … The prototype demonstrates both structural and load-bearing and the ability to power an LED, with the light’s intensity varying under applied load, highlighting the potential for real-time structural health monitoring via the supercapacitor.” The article goes on to say: “Electron conducting carbon concrete… could one day double as giant ‘batteries.’ It never ceases to amaze me how rapidly technology for energy production and storage is developing.

It has recently been reported that with our new advanced technologies, science now reveals that “gravitational waves” have actually shaped the universe. This is a profound discovery and p;resents a new framework for the cosmic reality we all share.

As I predicted in previous newsletters, it has been reported that a new strain of COVID-19, known as Stratus, has become dominant nationwide. It has most recently appeared in Connecticut, Delaware, Nevada, and Utah.

Go Women!

Japan has elected its first female prime minister, Sanae Takichi. She is known as an ultra-conservative China “hawk”.

Dame Sarah Mullally has been elected the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury (head of the Church of England).

Final Thoughts:

We are living in the “interesting times” proclaimed in the Chinese Curse. The world is in upheaval, and nation-states are in an “identity crisis.” We do not like who we are, but very few know who they can or will be. Climate shifts are on the rise, and we have been unable, up to now, to do what it takes to modify our behavior that has contributed to it.

It would seem hopeless. I do not believe in hopelessness. This kind of pain is necessary when great cycles change life on earth to make way for a new, more intelligent, and more expansive human presence – an evolutionary leap in technology, science, and the capacity for compassion and expanded spiritual experiences.

This is “the darkness before the dawn”. Let us all gather to welcome the dawn.

Have a happy Holiday season and a blessed New Year!

Linda

Important Points of Reference for Astrologers:

Full Moon at 13 degrees Taurus Nov. 5 sextile the North Node; New Moon at 28 degrees Scorpio Nov. 20, conjunct Mercury, trine Saturn, trine Neptune and opposition Uranus; Full Moon at 13 degrees Gemini square the Lunar Nodes Dec. 4; New Moon at 28 degrees Sagittarius Dec. 20, conjunct Venus, square Saturn, square Neptune, inconjunct Uranus; Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius Nov. 9 conjunct Mars, goes back into Scorpio Dec. 18, goes direct Nov. 29 trine Saturn, will trine Jupiter Dec. 6, trine Saturn Dec. 7 is opposition Uranus Dec. 10 and is trine Neptune Dec. 11; Mars goes into Sagittarius Dec. 5, is sextile Pluto Dec. 6, is square Saturn Dec. 8, is inconjunct Uranus Dec. 13, is square Neptune Dec. 14, goes into Capricorn Dec. 15; Venus goes into Scorpio Nov. 7, is trine Saturn (that goes direct) Dec. 27, is trine Neptune and opposition Uranus Nov. 29; Venus goes into Scorpio Nov. 7, is is trine Saturn Nov. 27, is opposed Uranus and trine Neptune Nov. 30, goes into Sagittarius Dec. 1 sextile Pluto, is inconjunct Jupiter Dec. 19, is square Saturn Dec. 21, is inconjunct Uranus Dec. 23, is square Neptune Dec. 24.

16^th 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 20^th 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.

URANUS IN GEMINI

WE GO TO WAR!

(July 7, 2025 – Nov. 7, 2025; April 26, 2026 – Aug. 4, 2032, Dec. 12, 2032 – May 22, 2033.)

Truth or Lies, Revelations or Deceptions:

In order to understand how profound this transit is for humanity, we need to look at the previous periods relevant to us when our ancestors experienced their journey historically through those times. Uranus moved through Gemini during the American Revolution, the Civil War, and during and following World War II. It appears in the origin chart of the USA and is a signature impacting our history, heritage, and looming issues that have both defined us and challenged us throughout our existence as a nation.

This transit is so important to human civilization that, along with Pluto in Aquarius, it would symbolize a paradigm shift in human consciousness that launches us fully into the realms of AI, robots, space travel, genetic engineering, nuclear fusion — and even transformations moving our notions of “reality” into the amazing world of “quantum entanglement.” This transit, along with Pluto in Aquarius and Neptune in Aries in a cooperative relationship with each other, lends hope that we will step up to the plate and be the best we can be.

The Challenges that Lie in Information:

Starting in the 1980s, with the development of personal Computers, cell phones, and the Internet, all available to people in developed nations throughout the world, we entered a previously unknown landscape of opportunity for both good and evil. Laws and/or regulations to hold people responsible for telling the truth were either absent or removed. What is now installed in these devices goes primarily to sell products or services that make big money, since that is the current lynch pin for an economy based on unregulated capitalism. Even evils like human trafficking, extortion, and child pornography are widespread and seemingly unstoppable. Politicians, who have always exaggerated their promises, are now allowed to lie with a degree of consistency we have never seen before. The adage – “Tell a lie often enough and people will eventually believe it” is, sadly, proving that it works!

The Imperial Presidency:

Millions of young people have lost the ability to think critically, reflecting on our society’s failure to offer quality education for all, regardless of their economic status. Their eyeballs are simply “plastered” on their cell phones, while they have not comprehensively studied history, civics, or even grasped basic skill sets, and are too often unable to even pass exams or submit term papers if and when they get to college. The average IQ recorded in the US is now 94.

The US elected a self-proclaimed autocrat to the presidency in 2024. We now have a nation that cannot comprehend what it takes to sustain a successful democracy. Pres. Trump’s challenges to nationwide injunctions on the part of lower courts forbidding him to end constitutionally assured birthright citizenship have won — as the Supreme Court ruled that Trump has the right to effectively end compliance with nationwide injunctions.. This court continues to seem to have forgotten “separation of powers” and continues to extend executive power over the power of the courts. As Uranus moves into Gemini, there will be a growing body of protest to this, just as the American colonists protested the authority of King George.

The Threat of Wars:

The last time this Uranus transit took place was in wartime and the post-WWII era. America fought courageously in WWII against Fascism. Afterwards, the US made enormous investments in public education, the GI Bill enabling veterans to go to college, a coast-to-coast highway system, public transportation — all Gemini themes. This helped the US become the most successful economy in the world and created a prosperous middle class.

Now, following the Transit of Uranus in Taurus, we are witnessing a reversal in all this public investment, “dumbing down” the nation, creating the widest wealth gap between the billionaire class and the general public in our history, all of which would point toward the reversal of our remarkable gains. Now is the time and even the opportunity to reverse this downward spiral. Uranus often SHOCKS us as it symbolizes the “wake up” and “come alive” planet!

Currently, we are operating on the fringes of two major wars – the Israeli/Palestinian,/Iran War and the Russia/Ukraine War. This transit will cast a light on how far we will go militarily.

Uranus the Genius:

As stated above, this transit of Uranus blends harmoniously with Pluto in Aquarius and Neptune and Saturn in Aries – all signs of youth, energy, innovation, and fearless breakthroughs. The planets highlight curiosity, defying old, outworn norms in education, and leading the way to reforming our institutions, which are truly in need of major changes. This does NOT work well with the attempts of the Trump administration to erase funding, discredit, and blow up all our best universities, museums, scientific research institutions, and degrade the efforts of our greatest scientists, intellectuals, and thinkers. It does suggest the emergence of new and younger leaders, just in time to both improve and reassemble these institutions, arguably the best in the world. Recently, 33-year-old Progressive Liberal Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for Mayor in New York City. This was a surprise “shake-up” typical of Uranus.

We will examine new systems of schooling that are more relevant and empowering — training that would encourage the trades and local entrepreneurship – made possible through affordable county colleges that offer two-year associate degrees assuring business acumen, licensing for electricians, plumbers, and builders, green agriculture and farming businesses, and are affordable to their student bodies.

We should continue to empower our advanced universities and scientific institutions, laying out a landscape of learning, research, expansion, and progress in solving the world’s most serious problems. I have been proposing this in all my books and many of my newsletters since 2007, and it is only recently that public discussions concerning this are being put into TV programming.

The mandate of Uranus is to transform us and lead the way to greater ideas and modes of thinking. We will REVISIT the ideal of democracy and what it entails, which will remind us that a government “by and for the people” requires the people to be informed, awake, and intelligent enough to act in their interests.

What Now?

The current transit of Mars in Virgo:

June 18 through Aug. 6.

This disturbing transit of Mars in Virgo will pass throughout our lives, inconjunct both Pluto (crisis/upheaval) and Saturn/Neptune (structure/flow), requiring us to make adjustments to conditions we normally cannot control. Pres. Trump’s bombing of nuclear sites in Iran will experience a backlash. In addition, Virgo is a sign concerned with labor and health issues, presenting us with a crisis in both realms. Trump’s arrest of undocumented immigrants has slashed the labor force across our nation, especially in healthcare services, hospitality, farming, and construction industries, forcing these people into hiding.

Because of the theme of health issues, there may be a widespread contagious illness (not a pandemic) that could take its toll on both animals and people. Problems in healthcare will emerge to haunt us, and we will begin to see the consequences of slashes in programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the cutting of our institutes of health and medical research, along with the deadly vaccine reduction programs of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Ironically, President Trump may suffer from a temporary health crisis.

The transit of Jupiter in Cancer:

June 10, 2025 – June 29, 2026

I will comment on this transit in upcoming newsletters as it makes its way through all our lives. This placement is considered “exalted” in astrological traditions for its generosity and expansion of nurture, family security, nutrition, and rain coming to dry areas. The downside is the prospect of extreme flooding of inland waterways.

The USA birth chart has Jupiter/Sun/Venus all in Cancer, which would explain many of our historic good fortunes through the years. Right now, we need all the help we can get as the current government has been “blowing up” our greatest and most acclaimed institutions, and slashing programs for the public-at-large in favor of tax breaks for the extremely rich persons whose monopolies dominate our economy.

Last month, the “No King” movement swept this nation’s cities in the biggest public protest in our history. Cancer is a sign concerned with safety at all costs, and we are in the middle of a historic crisis with environmental extinctions, escalating wars, and climate catastrophes. Americans tend to support presidents, initially, when they go to war, and traditional patriotic fervor will be in the mix. Trump’s motivation for this attack on Iran may be part of the reason for this looming war.

The Economy:

The massive and corrosive DEBT that lies within the very structure of our government is also shared with personal debts shared by the public-at-large and corporations who borrow money to buy back and hike up their stock prices. We have all noticed how inflation is ballooning, the dollar is falling in value, and gold and silver (as a safe play) are rising at rates not seen in multiple decades. Cryptocurrencies that have no real backing will also suffer wild swings to new highs, accompanied by hard falls. Recently, President. Trump made a “deal” with China, favoring trade with the US in rare earths, which are an absolute necessity for all our technologies. China controls about 90% of the rare earths and their processing.

The Trump tariffs, even if modified, are making matters much worse, even as the president has insulted many world leaders and heads of state, breaking alliances and trade agreements that have sustained us since the end of WWII. His threats of deportation of hundreds of thousands of previously legal immigrant students and undocumented migrants will backfire, as this will decrease labor markets, especially in agriculture, and destroy the credibility of the American legal system. His attacks on our leading universities and cultural icons are causing foreign students to flee to other nations, taking their brains and expertise with them.

Trump and the Republican controlled Congress holding onto obscene tax breaks for billionaires in this bill in Congress is destroying the US budget credibility domestically and abroad. Meanwhile, as stated above, the erosion and destruction of all the systems helping most Americans, i.e., Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, scientific research, education, and food assistance, etc., are a sacrifice too big for most Americans to bear.

Because of serious hyperinflation, an economic downturn and a threat to the viability of the dollar lie ahead. The big news, however, will be the crashing of real estate markets in parts of the nation most subject to climate catastrophes, mainly in the global South, such as Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Louisiana, California, and Florida. Homeowners’ insurance has become too expensive, and continued high interest rates are turning buyers away. In addition, too many people cannot afford to buy a home at current prices, which means prices will have to fall.

Mercury goes retrograde July 16^th through August 10^th, advising all of us not to start a new project, sign an important document, or make significant decisions. Mars is square Venus on July 21^st, not good for the stock markets.

This summer, I actually see the emergence of new ideas, new people, and new solutions that will not fully come into view until 2026. Watch this period for clues of what is to come!

Science and Technology:

On May 16, 2025, an article was posted on the Jason Deegan High-Tech News entitled: “China’s artificial sun just set a nuclear fusion record that changes everything.” It goes on to say: “In a remarkable scientific leap, Chinese researchers have broken a world record by maintaining a superheated plasma for over 17 minutes – an achievement that marks a new milestone in the long and complex journey toward commercial nuclear fusion. The feat, accomplished inside a machine known as EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak), has the global fusion community buzzing with cautious optimism.”

Recently posted on Earth.com, an article entitled “Massive hydrogen reserves discovered beneath Earth’s mountains” informs us of the enormous breakthrough in energy through the retrieval and use of hydrogen. The article reveals: “We are at the threshold of introducing a revolutionary change in worldwide energy manufacturing by identifying these hydrogen resources.” Dr. Frank Swaan (geodynamic modeler at CTZ Hjeimholtte Center) reports: “ These deposits are found beneath rift-inversion orogens in mountain ranges that formed when once stretched crust was later squeezed back together… areas like the Pyrenees, Alps, and Balkans.” Hydrogen is used in nuclear fusion, battery technology, and hydrogen fuel cells – all pointing to a green energy revolution and the end of the use of fossil fuel.

On Yahoo.com, TCT, an article by Amy Boyington was posted entitled “Tiny pieces of plastic might be aging us from the inside out.” She reports: “A new scientific review published in Food and Chemical Toxicology suggests that microplastics and nanoplastics may accelerate aging at the cellular level. Scientists are investigating how these particles found in water, food, and dust affect the body over time.” This kind of information is so overwhelming for most of us to absorb. Processes of filtration, water purification, and various site cleanups will eventually come to the forefront as necessary to our collective survival!

In recent months, it has been reported on numerous sites that on the walls of a Paleolithic cave in Lascaux, France, a 40,000-year-old set of murals accurately depicting a star map of the Pleiades, Orion, and Taurus constellations has been found and photographed. These drawings are dated at about 17,000 BCE and are amazing for their astronomical accuracy. In these eras, it is thought the skies were examined to track seasons for planting, harvesting, and migrating, even though this dates to before the agricultural revolution. Astrology is derived from all this, as the constellations are relevant to what is happening in our lives here on earth. This would confirm what I often say to my clients — that I am in the “second oldest profession!”

Recently, Scientific American’s custom media published a pamphlet entitled “New Horizons in Safety Science”, stating: “Novel solutions are needed to safeguard Earth’s security, health — and future.” The articles in this publication are entitled: “Rethinking Fire Protection, How to Reduce Digital Dangers, and New Safeguards for Global Health.” The current transit of Jupiter in Cancer would encompass and enhance this information!

Last month, on CBS’s 60 Minutes, a report on an exciting and inspiring solution to affordable and sustainable housing was aired. A specially designed cement mixture was used as a material and constructed by 3-D PRINTING, solving many problems of energy efficiency, lasting weather-proof material, not having to pay for many expensive construction materials, etc. Developments are already being constructed that are visually pleasing and are selling in various locations. This option is truly worth considering.

Weather and Climate:

The week of July 20^th, Venus and Mars will square the Moon’s Nodal Axis, pointing to earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, and serious storms developing. Over the past 6 months, we have had an inordinate number of tectonic events occurring throughout the world.

Final Thoughts:

“Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest
fields,

See how these names are feted by the waving
grass

And by the streamers of white cloud

And whispers of wind in the listening sky.

The names of those who in their lives fought
for life.

Who wore at their hearts the fire’s centre.

Born of the sun, they travelled a short while
toward the sun,

And left the vivid air signed with their honour.”

… from “I Think Continually of Those Who Were Great”
by Stephen Spender

Those of us experiencing our lives in this historic era — self-absorbed, unaware of what our history would cry out to tell us, worshiping the dynastic rich and the tribal narrow-minded, trapped within a technological tangle of useless and often paralyzing information — now need to look at heroes of the American Revolution, two world wars, and statesmen of conscience, who reached beyond their times. These people who sacrificed their comfort and their very lives for a notion that freedom of critical thinking, equality of opportunity, and respect for one another were the components of a shining human presence here on earth.

As each historic holiday presents itself, we look at the few men and women left who fought in WW11, who survived the Holocaust, whose generations built highways and infrastructures, financed advanced education and healthcare, and built America into the greatest economy and highest standard of living the world had ever seen. Now, these few persons in wheelchairs still salute the flag, honor their generation’s dead, and whisper in their low voices that they would do it all over again.

We need these hearts and minds to re-emerge in the souls of our young people today. The legacy is theirs, and the future is in their hands. I see them waking up, getting up, rising up, navigating their way out of a morass of wars, hatreds, and hopelessness that have been with us for far too long. The brand new planetary pictures are emerging in the sky to light the way into the next American revolution and the next possible evolutionary leap for humankind.

Blessings to All,

Linda

Important Points of Reference for Astrologers

Full Moon at 18 Capricorn inconjunct Ceres July 10; New Moon at 2 degrees Leo opposed Pluto, trine Saturn, trine Neptune and sextile Uranus July 24; Mercury in Leo goes retrograde July 17 (until it goes direct August 10) sextile Venus in Gemini; Full Moon at 17 degrees Aquarius Aug. 9, New Moon at 00 Virgo Aug. 23 square Uranus and inconjunct Saturn, Neptune and Pluto; Venus in Taurus is conjunct Uranus July 4, goes into Gemini July 5 sextile Saturn and Neptune and trine Pluto July 7, and is square Mars and the Lunar Nodes July 22; Mars in Virgo until August 6, goes into Libra Aug. 7 opposition Saturn and Neptune Aug 8, is trine Pluto Aug. 10 is sextile Mercury Aug. 12; Venus goes into Cancer July 31 is square Saturn and Neptune Aug. 1 is conjunct Jupiter Aug. 11, goes into Leo Aug. 26, is trine Saturn and Neptune and sextile Uranus.

NOTE… Linda was featured in a Podcast interview in January… https://youtu.be/Sas_Hgq0BDI

US Pluto returns in Capricorn, moving forward into Aquarius for the next 19 years.

The US is getting its Uranus return into Gemini from July 7, 2025, to November 7, 2025 (it will retrograde back into Taurus on November 7, 2025, and return to Gemini for its full transit from April 26, 2026, to May 22, 2033).

Is this the Second American Revolution or is this the American Devolution?

From an astrological perspective, it is quite interesting that the horoscope of Pres. Donald Trump is amazingly similar to the chart of “Mad King George”, the monarch who reigned over England at the time of the American Revolution (born: June 4, 1738, St James Square, London, England)). It raises the fascinating and engaging question about whether or not we are “reversing gears” and leaving behind the concepts and ideals of democracy in favor of a centralized dictatorial power.

January’s afflictions with Pluto present a power struggle, possibly between Pres—Trump and Elon Musk, the latter who has been exercising his billionaire status to influence Congress. Musk has his Sun and Mercury in the sign of Cancer (the Sun sign of the US) with Gemini Venus and Gemini rising. Trump has his Sun, Uranus, and North Node in Gemini. This sign is associated with the mythical twins Castor and Pollux along with the concept of “sibling rivalry”. Will their “bromance” come to an end? Ironically, Musk, who continually wants to cut government programs, requested and was given a sizable rescue loan from the US government in 2009 when Tesla was threatened with bankruptcy! He is known to have contributed $277 million to Trump’s campaign.

In the present era, rather than re-adopting a monarchy, we may have moved toward fully embracing a “Plutocracy” or the unfettered control of a billionaire dictator, whose economic “class” controls the nation’s wealth and is now, in the absence of checks and balances, in charge of the government, making his own rules. Could this president be a reincarnation of King George, coming back to get his revenge? I tend to think that our Pluto return and soon, our Uranus return are here to “rehash” and challenge the concepts of the American Revolution with players on the stage that remind us that “history rhymes.”

Trump has promised us that he will enlist the US Military to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants, a massive undertaking that would invade millions of families and locations throughout the nation. This intent is remarkably reminiscent of the practices of the Third Reich in Germany in the 1930s. Apparently, it is thought that this is “perfectly legal” and would run into little resistance. Most of Trump’s recommended cabinet appointments are not only unqualified but hostile to the departments they would manage. Over the Christmas and Hanukkah, holidays of “Peace, love, and light”, Trump published multiple “hate” messages on his Social Media. He has “proclaimed” he wants to buy Greenland, absorb Canada into the US, and take over the Panama Canal – all of which nations have announced a resounding “no” and would require a war to accomplish. He fabricated a story that the Chinese are inhabiting the Panama Canal which is an outright absurdity.

Many observations and interpretations can be made of this horoscope. With the Sun, Pluto, and the Part of Fortune all conjunct in Aquarius in the 10^th House, we can count on issues rising around the “abuse of powers” in every aspect of governance. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, and his bowing down to Trump’s every wish to hold onto power; Musk’s unjustified presence in Washington; Trump’s use and/or abuse of power along with his frequently unqualified appointments to government posts as mentioned above, will unfurl consequences many people never expected. However, it is the legislature (both Houses of Congress) that may form an unexpected resistance.

THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION CHART:

( Jan. 20, 2025, 12:00 Noon EST, Washington, DC., 77W02, 38N54 )

Mars is retrograde in Cancer conjunct the 4^th House (homeland) of this chart, suggesting Trump’s promise to use the military (Mars) to invade people’s homes and deport undocumented immigrants may come into play. Jupiter is in its fall in Gemini and is retrograde near the 2^nd House (economics), making no favorable aspects, suggesting real problems in the economy including the national debt crisis, coupled with an afflicted Moon in Libra in the 6^th House of work and health exactly square (conflict) Mercury in the 9^th House of travel, foreign nations, expansion, information and education — pointing to crises in all these sectors, especially if Trump goes through with the imposition of tariffs. We may be facing new viral epidemics and struggle with their prevention and cures.

My theory is that Trump, who is a “deal maker”, will use this is a negotiating tactic to get other things he wants. He has already threatened tariffs with European nations who refuse to buy our oil and gas. Venus sextile Mercury points to a possibility of this tactic working in some cases. Neptune in Pisces in the 12th House of Secrets conjunct the North Node points to serious climate collapses, and an increase in the number of volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes here and in other nations. Global drug cartels will likely be uncovered. News has recently been released that most of the firearms these cartels use are smuggled into Mexico and sold to them by US Gun manufacturers.

With Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and the North Node in Pisces healthcare and Social Security reforms will be on the agenda, but the efforts to “privatize” these programs will fail in the face of the fact they would simply disappear for most Americans.

DEMOCRACY is about power directed to “the people”, defying thousands of years of human governance and abuse in the hands of monarchs, dictators, and military governors. It relies on people who broadly and comprehensively have an excellent and relevant education, are capable of critical thinking, keep themselves informed of historic events, both locally and internationally, and have a “free press” that takes responsibility for publishing “the truth” as they see it aligned with a population that cherishes the right to vote. Freedom of speech is essential, but perpetual lies and distortions need to be upended and exposed. In today’s Artificial Intelligence world, cyber security should be a framework placed around all institutions. Media on all levels that proclaims itself to be “news” needs to be held legally accountable. Currently, these guard rails, piece by piece, have been systematically removed. US Public education, once the envy of the world, has been underfunded and downgraded.

CORPORATE RULE, or control of the government by the giant, monopoly corporations and financial institutions, for many decades, have been absorbing and investing most of this nation’s wealth, and have instituted and entrenched giant wage gaps between the top and the bottom levels of employees of US companies. We know that the top 1% (America’s billionaire class) controls more than 80% of the nation’s wealth. Since the 2008 crash and recession, brought on when the “banksters” issued sub-prime mortgage loans, traded as derivatives “crashed”. These same corporations and “investment funds” bought properties back at “fire sale prices” from multiple foreclosures. What is so relevant at this time is a major need for policing and regulating AI and Cryptocurrency trading. Under Trump, most people think he is the “king of deregulation” which would risk failures of our banking and financial systems.

According to the online newsletter More Perfect Union, “Blackstone is now the largest corporate landlord on earth,” owning 300,000 homes in the US, while there are “16 million vacant houses, 28 for every homeless person.” This fact is exposed — billionaire-controlled corporations have bought millions of homes and either raised rents or left them as empty investments. A deadly practice of owning apartments or condo complexes, charging enormously high rents for a few people who can afford to rent them, and leaving the rest unoccupied has replaced the normal rule of “full occupancy” with rents based on market affordability. Higher interest rates (which have recently come down) limited mortgage availability. Prices skyrocketed for houses. The result: many gainfully employed Americans can no longer afford to own a house or rent a decent apartment. This is the reality most working people face that keeps them from home ownership.

Ironically, this nation has voted for real estate billionaire Donald Trump to “fix this,” in part, because, they can no longer afford to rent or buy a home! This is one of the major reasons we are suffering from serious inflation. Marching onto the American stage comes the old “wolf invading the hen house!” In addition to all this, we could be experiencing a “surveillance state”, concentrating on Trump’s enemies and opponents. One of the platforms Republicans ran on was fear of “the Deep State.” On Nov. 20, an article by Ronan Farrow was published in The New Yorker, entitled: “The Technology the Trump Administration could use to hack your phone.” Will Trump form his own “deep state”? How monumentally ironic!

Giant investment funds, Vanguard, Black Rock, and Fidelity, plus giant hedge funds managed in Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Bank of America, hold or control most of this nation’s invested wealth. Trump is ditching environmental regulation favoring the giant and rich oil and gas companies’ motto: ”Drill, baby, drill.” He has announced the pressuring of European nations to buy oil and gas exclusively from the US. Meanwhile, we already have the least federally funded healthcare system in the developed world (much of it being privatized) The newly elected government is currently interested in downsizing Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. This has gotten to be so serious that there is sadly, public support for Mr. Mangione, who recently has been charged with the murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Health Care.

At this historic point, we have turned away candidates for office who have promised that billionaires need to pay their “fair share” of taxes and opted instead to agree with Pres. Trump’s pal-in-chief, the world’s richest man who is “allergic” to being taxed, Elon Musk, that they should be “exempt.” Trump has announced his policy to make government “cuts” which can only mean programs that service the public at large. His policy that proclaims he will impose tariffs on imported goods from Canada, Mexico, and China will balloon the inflation that people who voted for him wished to end. Federal budget deficits are increasing, private debt is rising, and medical bankruptcies in the US are the highest in the world.

Wars of the Worlds:

Syria’s rebels, a conglomerate of various factions, just overthrew the genocidal Assad regime. Eight African nations have overthrown their elected governments and are fighting civil wars, the worst of which is in the nation of Sudan, with armed militias murdering millions of their people. Israel is at war with Palestine and Lebanon, recently blew up the Syrian Navy and is occupying Syrian territory, and is unofficially at war with Iran and Yemen. They have successfully “taken out” many of the leaders of terrorists in multiple nations who have been fighting them for decades. The Palestinians have lost over 45,000 people and no agreement for a two-state solution yet lies ahead. This year some kind of ceasefire deal will be made. Russia is still at war with Ukraine but Trump has announced he will “end” the conflict. We currently do not know what this will cost Ukraine, since Putin is a “friend” of Trump.

Civil chaos:

South Korea impeached its Prime Minister after he declared martial law. France shut down their parliament and tossed the prime minister. Germany’s Chancellor Scholz lost a “vote of confidence” in December and has called for an election. The UK, having thrown out numerous prime ministers in the past several years and who just had an election in the Fall putting in the Labor Party, now wants to ditch their prime minister again. There is a global trend veering into chaos.

The US has elected Donald Trump, who promises to disrupt all the US government’s institutions, proposing heads of departments that would “blow up” the function of the federal government, dismantling all social safety nets, including Social Security, Medicare, and even the FDIC that insures all banks. He has also threatened to leave NATO. He has revived the “drill baby drill” campaign promise and denies the existence of climate change emergencies, even though multiple hurricanes, droughts, massive wildfires, and other climate extremes are accelerating in the US and elsewhere. Trump’s MAGA Party (that subsumed the original Republican Party) emerged as a direct result of severe economic inequality, failure of education to include people from all walks of life and a mass media that sells products at the expense of truthful reporting. More disruption will play out in the US political environment.

The Economy:

Financial markets have never liked the level of “uncertainty” we are now witnessing. Interestingly, the budget funding package recently approved by Congress comes “due” on March 14^th – when there is a Lunar Eclipse on the US Neptune conjunct Saturn, and Mercury is retrograde – both not favorable for a budget decision. This would also point to climate catastrophes and bad economic news. I will go into more detail about this in my next newsletter. However, markets will be optimistic the week of Jan. 19^th following Trump’s inauguration, returning to uncertainty the week of Feb. 9^th when Mercury is square Uranus.

Where do we go from here?

By July 2025, Pluto’s new transit into Aquarius will be accompanied by Neptune and Saturn going into Aries, and Uranus going into Gemini. Many of the most serious locations and instabilities point to China and the Koreas. This all follows a Lunar Eclipse on March 14 on the US Neptune. These planetary transits point to huge breakthroughs in technology, including warfare. Questions loom. Will we come out of our collective “coma” and have “buyer’ remorse” as a financial crisis, a series of climate disasters, and a possible WW III threaten civilization? As an astrologer, I would predict “shock and awe” just over the horizon. Between Feb. and April, Pres. Trump’s astrological chart will present him with serious personal conflicts and instabilities.

Science and Technology:

Medical Breakthroughs:

In the Nov. 9, 2024 Issue of “News Medical Life Sciences”, an article was posted entitled “Breakthrough research reveals how to target malignant DNA in aggressive cancers.” The article goes on to say: “In three groundbreaking papers published today in ‘Nature’, scientists from the Cancer Grand Challenges team, eDyNamic, and their international collaborators at the Francis Crick Institute and University College London (UCL) shed light on the unique behavior of extrachromosomal DNA (eDNA), small circular DNA structures that are common in some of the most difficult to treat cancers.

The Papers identify, for the first time, how to specifically target cancer cells – such as glioblastoma, triple-negative breast cancer, or small cell lung cancer – much easier to treat in the future.” It goes on to report: “In one paper, the researchers identified a drug which specifically targets and kills ecDNA-containing cancer cells while sparing normal cells.” In previous newsletters, I have called attention to the coming new transits: Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune in Aries, and Uranus in Gemini would usher in major breakthroughs in medicine and technology.

In the November 2024 Issue of Scientific American, an article was published entitled “The Staggering Success of Vaccines” by Tara Haelle. In recent years, conspiracy theorists such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. have questioned the safety of vaccines. I am old enough to remember horrific diseases like smallpox, polio, TB, measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, and the millions of lives lost or permanently damaged by these highly contagious illnesses. The article reports: “Around the globe, the measles vaccine has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years. This and other vaccinations have revolutionized global health. ‘Immunization is the most universal innovation that we have across humankind.’ says Orin Levine, a fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. He notes that there are people around the world without access to telephones or even toilets, but they find ways to get their children immunized. ‘ It’s the innovations that demonstrate what is possible in terms of delivery of service to everyone everywhere.’ The author goes on to report: A May study in the Lancet estimated that vaccines against 14 common pathogens have saved 154 million lives over the past five decades – at a rate of six lives every minute.” This article goes on to describe the history of vaccines, how they were developed, and their staggering success. I recommend reading the entire article to correctly inform yourself about this recently “politicized” issue.

Recently, on Globalpositive News, an article was posted: “Japanese scientists have created non-toxic plastic that dissolves in seawater in hours. No microplastics remain”. This discovery is amazing as plastics may be the most widespread and destructive form of life-killing pollution on the globe.

Nuclear Fusion:

I am happy to announce that on Dec. 17, 2024, The RoanokeStar.com posted: “Youngkin Announces World’s First Commercial Fusion Power Plant.” The article goes on to report: “Governor Glenn Youngkin has announced that Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the largest private fusion company, will make a multi-billion dollar investment to build the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant at the James River Industrial Center in Chesterfield County, Virginia, on a site owned by Dominion Energy. The project will create hundreds of temporary and permanent jobs in the region. ‘This is a historic moment for Virginia and the world at large,’ said Governor Glenn Youngkin. ‘Commonwealth Fusion Systems is not just building a facility, they are pioneering groundbreaking innovation to generate clean, reliable, safe power, and it is happening right here in Virginia. We are proud to be home to this pursuit to change the future of energy and power.” I would recommend reading the entire article to get a perspective and an education on what this will entail.

Youngkin, a moderate Republican, has often come up as a possible future candidate for President. Virginia has been a coal economy state for decades and this installation will take us into a clean energy future. As all of you know who read this newsletter, I am of the opinion that fusion will become a reality sooner than most people think and that this breakthrough is the “holy grail” of energy. It may be the most important invention of the century.

Auto Technology:

It was recently announced that Australia has launched its first hydrogen-powered car, the Hyundai Nexo. This vehicle covers 900 kilometers in a single tank, takes only 5 minutes to refuel, and, purifies the air around it as it drives.

Nature and the Environment:

Earthquakes and Volcanoes:

There was a recent report that a Super Volcano, at Solfatara crater in Italy, west of Naples in the Phlegraen Fields is producing a spike in carbon dioxide emissions, along with small earthquakes. The last time this volcano erupted was in 1538.

Recently, there was a 7.0 earthquake in the San Francisco area, the largest in recent decades. Mt. Kilauea in Hawaii has begun to erupt again.

Between February and April 2025, the transits colliding in Pisces on the North Node of the Moon, in opposition to the Lunar Eclipse on March 14, point to global tectonic instabilities, especially in the Pacific Rim. This degree was last activated when Mt. St. Helen in Washington State erupted in 1980.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

On a personal note, at my age and stage of life, many would think I might consider retiring from my 51-year astrology practice and no longer feel I have to be so personally concerned with the political, social, economic, political, and environmental crises we are currently navigating. I am deeply saddened by too many people who are simply “escaping” into their cell phones and screens obsessed with glamorous celebrities — joining “cults” in which they may revoke all responsibility for careful and critical thinking – shrinking into narcissism by caring only about their fears and addictions, or simply “dropping out.” Simultaneously, I am also inspired by the many courageous, intelligent, self-sacrificing individuals “out there” that you may or may not know, whose lives are effectively committed to a greater good and a better world. Through the ages, these people have made history.

Two possibilities lie ahead for all of us. We will either go extinct or we will evolve. If we do not blow ourselves up, we may be entering the most amazing age of discoveries, inventions, and breakthroughs since the first humans walked the earth. I still have a passion in my heart and mind to be part of all this until my time here on earth comes to an end.

My directive comes from the acclaimed poet Robert Frost who writes:

“And I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep,

and miles to go before I sleep.”

I invite and encourage all of you to come along for the ride of your lives!

Blessings to all of you throughout the New Year,

Linda

Important Points of Reference for Astrologers:

Full Moon at 24 degrees Cancer Jan. 13 (opposition the US Pluto) conjunct retrograde Mars and sextile Uranus; Retrograde Mars in Leo is opposition Pluto Jan. 2; New Moon at 9 degrees Aquarius Jan. 29 conjunct Mercury; Mercury is square Neptune Jan. 6; Mars retrograde back into Cancer Jan. 6 (goes direct Feb. 23 and goes all the way through the sign March 17), is trine Neptune Jan. 11, is sextile Uranus Jan. 23; Venus goes into Pisces Jan. 3, is square Jupiter Jan. 16, is conjunct Saturn Jan. 19 and is sextile Mercury Jan. 20; Mercury goes into Capricorn Jan. 8, is sextile Venus Jan. 20, is trine Uranus Jan. 23, is sextile Neptune Jan. 26, goes into Aquarius Jan. 28, conjunct Pluto; The Moon’s North Node goes into Pisces Jan. 12.

Full Moon at 21 degrees Leo Feb. 12 is square Uranus; New Moon at 9 degrees Pisces Feb. 27; Mercury at 23 degrees Aquarius is square Uranus Feb. 10; Mercury in Pisces is conjunct Neptune Feb. Feb. 23; Mars still retrograde in Cancer is trine Saturn in Pisces Feb. 7, goes direct Feb. 23 and is trine Mercury; Venus in Pisces is conjunct Neptune Feb.1, goes into Aries Feb. 3, and is sextile Pluto Feb. 2; The North Node is conjunct Neptune Feb. 1 through Feb. 8; Jupiter in Gemini goes direct Feb. 3 and is square Mercury Feb. 20.