Category: climate and chaos

The week 18th – 24th August 2024

A crazy week, again.

Expect geopolitical friction to flare in places that have been simmering like a pot on low heat for far too long, and don’t be surprised if the natural world decides to remind humanity that it – unlike our fragile egos -does not negotiate. Seismic activity flares, Fires, floods, heatwaves, and freak storms will appear in surprising locations, pushing infrastructures and governments past their usual coping mechanisms. This, on top of the already high level of natural phenomena pushing emergency services to the brink.
Meanwhile, social tensions bubble beneath the surface: misinformation, discontent, and mismanagement could clash in spectacularly messy ways, as populations no longer accept the given as truth and look for themselves.
We will all be reminded that chaos is the default state, and order is a temporary illusion.

Financial markets will wobble as energy and food supply concerns collide with political brinkmanship. Populations in crisis zones could see unexpected movements – migration pressures, protests, or mass mobilisations. There is nowhere left to go, so these problems, will spill over to other areas. Global travel may encounter more disruptions, and supply chains are buckle under the strain, no matter how many spreadsheets or press releases managers produce – the work will not go smoothly or as expected.

Expect technological glitches everywhere, smoothly working systems may stutter for no discernible reason  dangerous glitches or failings cause great concern, or otherwise betray confidence, highlighting how dependent humanity is on systems that were never designed for real unpredictability. Please take care.

Time to finally stop acting surprised. We need to work together and adopt new approaches NOW.

There is hope. Despite the increasing chaos and uncertainty, this week asks the planet and us – its inhabitants – to pause, observe, and act deliberately. The practical step? Focus on one meaningful, stabilising action at a time. Put out the worst fire, see to better water management, look to energy conservation, be mindful of the rate of consumption, and deal with conflict de-escalation, these tasks are not glamorous, but they are effective. We have to do what we can where we are this week.

Local initiatives can ripple outward. Communities that state clearly and honestly what is happening will work. Be prepared to share resources, and collaborate creatively. We will feel the difference immediately. We have to learn to work together from the ground up. It’s a cosmic test in patience, ingenuity, and empathy: can humans operate as a collective intelligence rather than a collection of egos? We will find out this week.

On a psychological and spiritual level, Earth is letting us know who is really in control, she is.   So, stop pretending control exists. Begin noticing what you can change.

We are being tasked to be spiritually mature in all we do. Meditate on simplicity, reconnect with natural cycles, and pay attention to the small acts that accumulate into resilience.

Humanity may not have invented a manual for survival under chaos yet, but practical kindness, adaptability, and honest assessment of risks are surprisingly effective tools. This is not the time for heroic gestures or grandstanding: it’s about doing what works, even if it’s dirty, boring and slow.

This week: brace for turbulence, expect the unexpected, and accept that discomfort is an honest teacher. Prioritise the tangible over the theoretical, act locally while thinking globally, and remember that peace – real, enduring peace – requires both courage and patience. We need to grow up and help each other no matter where we are or what is happening.

Earth will continue to spin regardless of human panic. Your job is to act wisely within your sphere, because small, consistent efforts now will echo far beyond the immediate week. We are growing something new, something that goes beyond our current cultures and states and politics, we have to.

You can grumble about the heat, the storms, the politics, the chaos – and you will – but roll your sleeves up and get on with the practical while grumbling, the universe has no obligation to pause for you.

The Knife Edge

As we surge through the boiling crucible of mid-2025, the planetary alignments are neither gentle nor subtle. Pluto, planetary lord of endings and uncompromising truth, is overhead in regions that matter: the United States, China, Israel, and the Pacific theatre. No masks hold. Power games are laid bare, and those who’ve hidden behind legacy or myth are exposed in scorching celestial light. These aren’t metaphors anymore – these are structural transformations, border changes, leadership implosions.

In Palestine and Israel, Pluto continues to pour its venom straight down from the zenith, igniting a karmic reckoning. There is no public support left for Israel’s policies – not among the conscious, not even among many Jewish communities. The genocide cannot be denied. The question now is how long the United States can hold its increasingly threadbare narrative together. International sanctions, boycott expansions, and fracturing Western alliances have all been swelling through July. Germany may soon begin to tactically defy the US-Israel line, and by August, we hit a moment of choice: the Mercury cazimi around August 19th could open a narrow channel for a ceasefire – but only if arms deals stop and diplomatic pressure from India, Turkey, and Brazil intensifies. Do we believe this?
We are likely to see a terminal event in October with the South Node eclipse falling directly across Israeli leadership charts like an iron bar on a magnet – the karmic guillotine is coming, whether political, legal, or seriously terminal.

Russia, meanwhile, is being cracked open from the inside. Uranus, planet of revolt, revolution, and rude awakenings, is hovering overhead across Russia and Turkey. For Putin, this is not a war he can win — not geopolitically, and not astrologically. Neptune fogs his natal Saturn, meaning that,- what he thinks is solid ground is swamp. Internal dissidence doesn’t come from the public – it comes from oligarchs tired of losing yachts and access to their rich lifestyles. Late August could bring a major internal reorganisation masquerading as stability. Watch for Belarus going off-script, and for power to shift silently behind the curtains. Cyberattacks blamed on Russia will increase, and not all of them will be Russian. This is misdirection at its finest.

China is playing a different game entirely. While Taiwan still gets the headlines, the real theatre is economic domination and quiet leverage. Pluto zeniths over the southern provinces, squeezing the supply chains and smothering foreign corporations still in the area that are trying to ride out the chaos. One major Western tech player will fall hard – expect this mid-August. At the same time, Xi Jinping’s leadership takes a hit under September’s lunar eclipse, landing within striking range of his progressed Sun. Don’t look for revolution – look for subtle shifts in tone, language, and the allegiances of mid-tier officials, he is an intelligent and shrewd leader. Drought and water trouble hit the news, blackout mismanagement and another public health breach could become the face of that internal tension.

In the US, it’s all fire. Mars and Pluto are ripping across the American sky like meat hooks. Expect massive disclosures – some accidental, some surgically mastered. The intelligence community’s own zenith lines are being hit, meaning we may see rogue whistleblowing or strategic leaks designed to throw upcoming elections into further chaos. The Southern states escalate their defiance of federal rulings. It starts with immigration but expands into judicial defiance. Trump’s erratic behaviour becomes impossible to ignore as August grinds forward. Biden’s public vitality falters – the full moon of August 12th may be the flashpoint, astrologically. By October, the Pluto return hits again – a 250-year returning blast furnace. Trust in US leadership will crater. Globally, alliances fray. NATO might not break, but it’s definitely creaking.

Britain flails. Mars over the British Isles makes everything feel hot, edgy, and thin-skinned. Labour’s incoming government will quickly look hollow and the shadow cabinet won’t last the year in its current form. Meanwhile, London’s financial sector hits a tremor by mid-August – keep an eye on HSBC and any whispers of insolvency or offshore leaks. Scotland, ever the quiet rebel, may well prepare for another independence gambit around the Equinox. They’re deadly serious this time, and the numbers might shock Westminster.

Africa and the Global South are being drawn into a resource war disguised as climate partnership. Saturn at zenith over the Indian Ocean basin signals false promises and donor or charity deception. Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan edge toward a water war over the Grand Renaissance Dam, while Kenya and Nigeria double down on crypto-led autonomy. Meanwhile, South Africa teeters on another IMF intervention. The continent is where the next geopolitical alliances are being forged – not in summits, but in backrooms, quiet trade routes, drone deals, and rogue satellite states.

Europe’s façade of unity is thinning. France will face internal chaos – the astrology for Macron’s chart is siege-like – can he stand his ground? Italy is pivoting eastward, cozying up to BRICS. Germany is quietly preparing for a future without NATO. Leaks in Brussels won’t be minor; expect something structural – maybe a security breach, maybe a political scandal which will undermine confidence in the EU’s relevance as a bloc. This all ramps up post-August as Jupiter in Gemini fans the flames of gossip, spin, and double-speak.

The economic and climate landscape is caught in a tightening vice. Sunspot Cycle 25 peaks in October, and we are already in the blast radius. Expect power outages, satellite failures, and disruptions to communications infrastructure – not all of it will be blamed on the Sun, of course. The Uranus and Mercury zenith over Silicon Valley and Singapore point to instability in the tech sector: AI booms, but there’s a major scandal waiting to drop. Crypto has a final bounce in early August, but by late in the month, it’s a bloodbath. Gold looks good — if you can eat it.

Droughts deepen across Asia and North Africa. This is the real terror: not missiles, but empty reservoirs. By late August, we’ll see a climate refugee surge out of central Asia and Sudan. Grain prices spike, especially since we cannot rely on the harvest in the Ukraine. Expect populist unrest in places that don’t usually make the headlines — like Kazakhstan, or even Italy’s agricultural south.

As we move toward the October watershed, that eclipse on October 8th is a karmic black hole. What falls into it won’t come back. On October 13th, Pluto stations direct in Aquarius and the rebel awakens, the tech mutiny begins; the Age of Authoritarian Control begins to crack from the inside.

If your power is false, borrowed, stolen, or built on blood — the sky is coming for you.
Yes, this is a warning.