[2026 Prep Series] Rick Levine on the contradictions, choices & opportunities defining the year ahead
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- 10:03 — Outer planet shifts
- 22:38 — Saturn & Neptune conjunction at 0 Aries
- 26:41 — Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- 33:00 — Pluto’s invitation of 2026
- 39:43 — Jupiter moving into Leo
- 48:46 — How to navigate this intense time
- 1:01:06 — A powerful Aries Full Moon in the Fall of 2026
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Transcript:
00:00:00:02 – 00:00:24:15
Unknown
All right, you guys, we are in for a treat. We have Rick Merlyn Levine here with us to talk about 2026. And I know we've been doing our 2026 Prep Series, the Prep series that we do every year, to make sure that you all have the information you need to plan ahead, to just understand the energetic waves that are a part of what's coming.
00:00:24:21 – 00:00:30:04
Unknown
And also to talk about how to best prepare for it. So we have Rick here
00:00:30:08 – 00:00:47:05
Unknown
to talk about all these amazing things. Rick. Welcome. He's coming to us from the jungle. I am I'm it's a jungle out there. I'm in the, south of India, in the south of Goa, actually, on the Arabian Sea. And
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Unknown
it has been, 88 to 90 2 or 3 every day consistently.
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Unknown
The sun is relentless. The waves in the, sea are beautiful. The monkeys are jumping around in the trees, and. And I just dismissed, 25 students who were here for, 11 days doing, astrology. And I'll be back again next year for anyone interested. Keep your eyes open. Yeah. If that sounds good to you, you have a chance to do it next year, so that's awesome.
00:01:19:12 – 00:01:43:14
Unknown
Rick. Okay, 2026, give us the scoop. What? What are you what do you have your eye on? And what do you think? From a big picture perspective, the year's all about? Yeah, well, here's the deal. Before we went live, Amanda, you asked me. So have you, you know, looked at 20, 26. Is this your first run on it?
00:01:43:16 – 00:02:25:19
Unknown
I my eyes have been on 2026 for. Well, I think really since 2020 when the whole quarantine. You know, God I I've stopped calling it the Covid period or the quarantine period. Planet Earth had a stroke. I mean, you know, you know what I mean? I mean, everything. And it's like when a stroke, everything, like, shuts down, and it's like it wasn't like the left hemisphere or the brain shutting down or anything, but it was like something happened and we went and there was some sort of, consciousness reset, on that planet and not like the alleged consciousness resets on, you know, the, you know, like, you know, 2012, the, the winter
00:02:25:19 – 00:02:58:08
Unknown
solstice, 2012. This was actually a real physical. Something happened. Well, so I've been looking at 20, 26 ever since then because I've felt since then and we've talked about this, over the years that 20, 20, 2021, 2022, 23, 24, even 25 were all parts of inflection points that were heading to something around the bend. Yes. Well, the bend is a long bend.
00:02:58:10 – 00:03:31:23
Unknown
Because, well, I'll get back to the because in a minute the bend is a long bend. But in 2026, we're getting the first inklings of what's around that bend. Up until now, we've only been getting the overwhelm of what isn't working, what's falling apart. We've we've been getting the, the disenfranchisement, the disillusionment, the disconnection from the from each other, from ourselves, from from what we think should be out there.
00:03:32:00 – 00:03:38:24
Unknown
And I think in 2026, it's we haven't arrived yet as if we'll ever arrive.
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Unknown
But but I think in 2026, we begin to get inklings of what's around the bend. Now, the frustrating thing is,
00:03:48:08 – 00:04:01:14
Unknown
no one knows what's around the bend. And I don't care how good of an astrologer you are, how much your history you've read. I mean, astrologers will weigh in on their visions of what's around the bend.
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Unknown
All I know as an astrologer
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Unknown
This is a bend like we've never seen before. It's the biggest event, you know, bend we've ever had. And it really is. You know, Amanda, I've spent several years, many years now with you talking about the astrologers are saying that this is the biggest new moon ever.
00:04:22:01 – 00:04:43:21
Unknown
This is the most important. This ever. This month. And we all fall into that as astrologers sometimes. But I'm a bit of a minimalist now is go. Well, you know, it's not as big as everyone says, but it's important. This one, I think, is really as big as everyone says. And we can break down some of the the reasons why.
00:04:43:23 – 00:05:06:14
Unknown
And, and I do want to keep on the global picture. A lot of astrologers will weigh in on specific things. The, the astrology of the eclipses, and then the mercury retrogrades and we have the Venus retrograde, which only happens every year and a half or so. And, but there are some other things that that weigh in with a few key dates.
00:05:06:16 – 00:05:32:20
Unknown
And although the dates may turn out to be important, like, January 12th, I think that was the exact date. The 11th or 12th of 2020 was the exact saturn-pluto alignment. And something did happen that date. That was the date of the first formal announcement of what was then called the Wuhan virus. And that was the date that the genome was announced.
00:05:32:20 – 00:05:59:20
Unknown
And that turned out to be an important date. But I don't know if these are such large cycle things that we're we're already feeling them in a lot of 2025 has been the, the, the the feeling like something's happened. Something's got to happen. So we can't go on like this. Something's around the bend. And I think that in 2026, we'll begin to get a sense of what that is.
00:05:59:22 – 00:06:29:16
Unknown
Okay. Do you remember in 2019 when you remember what I had for breakfast yesterday? But you're going to remember this. So in 2019 we had these kinds of conversations about 2020, right? 2020 was the year that astrologers had had their eye on for ever. Right? And I don't remember. I mean, there's people who claim now that there were people who said that there was going to be a pandemic, for example.
00:06:29:18 – 00:07:05:06
Unknown
But there were there were maybe a few that that a handful that said that. And then retroactively, retrospectively, we could we could see that. Yes. Some of the signatures in the astrology might indicate a pandemic, for example. Yes. For 2026, you're saying we can't see what's around the bend. Do you feel or sense that it's something as massive as the quote unquote stroke that the Earth had in 2020?
00:07:05:08 – 00:07:26:20
Unknown
I do, but I don't know if it'll be a singular event like that was. I mean, there were there were sequences of events that unfolded during 2020 and 2021. But somehow many of them, not all of them, because there were a lot of civil rights events, there were a lot of other government issues around the world.
00:07:26:21 – 00:07:52:16
Unknown
There were a lot of things going on, but I don't know that there will be a singular event like that. That will be the event. I think we're literally going around a bend now. There may be 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 things that happen, but and again, there may be a singular event, but the the astrology suggests more like the beginning of a shift.
00:07:52:16 – 00:08:20:18
Unknown
You know, I I've used this image before, or this, kind of metaphor. What is it? Yeah, a metaphor. One of my favorite books is this guy who's a linguist and collector. He wrote a book called I Never metaphor. I didn't like this. And anyhow, the this metaphor is, In the olden days, prior to power, ships power to steam engines or or other forms of, of self propulsion.
00:08:20:20 – 00:08:41:16
Unknown
If we were on a clipper ship going from New York to San Francisco, say, or New York to India, the way we would go is we would go down the coast and because there was no Panama Canal, then we'd go all the way down to the southern tip of South America, called Land of Fire, Tierra del Fuego.
00:08:41:18 – 00:08:50:16
Unknown
And most people don't realize that the Pacific Ocean is actually higher in altitude than the Atlantic Ocean.
00:08:50:17 – 00:08:58:23
Unknown
Not much, but it's but it's but it is higher. And in order to go from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean,
00:08:59:00 – 00:09:18:21
Unknown
going around that cape, you actually have some of the most crazy, terrible seas on the entire planet because you have to go literally from one ocean to another where where you have to go up in altitude and, and the old clipper ship sometimes would take days, weeks, even months.
00:09:18:23 – 00:09:37:14
Unknown
And many were lost and many simply just turned around and went back. They couldn't make the, the, the, going around the bend. Here is the thing you couldn't take a sighting on or a bearings on where you were and where you were going until you were around the bend.
00:09:37:16 – 00:09:55:20
Unknown
I mean, for us to have such a before and after kind of experience of a year like where we were now, we see all this energy that has led up until now. We have some sort of vantage point where things look different. It does seem like some thing or things would have to happen, right?
00:09:55:22 – 00:10:07:02
Unknown
But are you are you seeing from the astrology that it's probably not something we already see? Like, for example, I oh, well, that's funny you said that because
00:10:07:04 – 00:10:30:13
Unknown
one of the shifts that we're going through are shifts of the outer planets. Saturn. Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, are all moving and even Jupiter is in that equation, but in particular, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto and Saturn is in that picture also.
00:10:30:18 – 00:10:59:02
Unknown
They're all moving, changing signs at a similar time. No, they've done that before, but they've never done it. So in such a close proximity and all six tiling and training one another, which theoretically should be good, though we'll come back to this because trains and sextile are not always good. But but they're all doing this in very tight aspect to one another.
00:10:59:04 – 00:11:32:21
Unknown
And so what I'm seeing here is that the first of these was the slowest moving planet, Pluto, as it moved from Capricorn, where it was doing its turmoil when Saturn lined up with it on January, in January of 2020, which we talked about previously. But when Saturn tipped from Capricorn into Aquarius in March of 2023, on that same day was the day that ChatGPT was announced and released publicly.
00:11:32:23 – 00:12:02:23
Unknown
That is a signal, that is a then astrological clue. And so you just brought that up. And yes, I think that's part of the equation, but it's not the it's not the whole deal, and it's not about any one thing in reference to that. It's how that, has been building now for three years and will continue to for another couple almost a couple of decades as Pluto continues to move through Aquarius.
00:12:03:00 – 00:12:31:17
Unknown
But meanwhile, Aquarius is modern ruler. Uranus has tipped into Gemini after seven years in Taurus. Now Uranus is the planet of sudden change. Think of think. Think of Taurus as granite. You know, I mean, it's the solidness beneath our feet. Or, you know, Taurus is an Earth sign, and and it's dense, like a bull is dense manner.
00:12:31:19 – 00:12:56:24
Unknown
And there's that sense that when Uranus is in Taurus, it doesn't change very easily. So in order for it to change, there has to be really big disruptions. The lightning has to strike in such an incredibly strong way. And that's an example of the Covid change. While Uranus was in Taurus, as Uranus moves into Gemini, think of sparks in the sky.
00:12:56:24 – 00:13:23:18
Unknown
Think of lightning, think of buzzing, think of thoughts moving at higher speeds than they've moved at for a long time. And as Uranus moves into Gemini, which it just tipped into Gemini, this year, it's now, at at the beginning of 20, 20, 26. It'll be back in, in Taurus just for a little remedial work, but once but once.
00:13:23:18 – 00:13:57:23
Unknown
Uranus. Moves into, Gemini. As it does, it will begin kind of making closing in on its first of seven. I'm sorry, of five trines to Pluto. Now, the last time Uranus trying to Pluto was in 19, 20, 21, 22. That period of time, the Roaring 20s, I mean, the planet was abuzz. There was there was electricity that was being spread throughout the world.
00:13:58:00 – 00:14:25:12
Unknown
There was excitement. The stages of New York and Berlin had this burlesque, this this kind of on the edge of sexuality, the flappers, all this stuff was happening. And of course, the 20s ended with, not necessarily a pretty picture. You know, we had the stock market, stock market crash in the United States and a forever what seemed like a forever long Great Depression.
00:14:25:14 – 00:14:51:11
Unknown
In the end of the 20s, early 30s, we had, the rise of fascism around the planet, in a way that had been, like, more powerful than ever before. Hitler came to power, Mussolini came to power. Stalin came to power. All right, around the Saturn-Pluto opposition of 1931. We had we had, Japan invading China.
00:14:51:13 – 00:15:17:10
Unknown
I mean, it was it was like a total meltdown after, like, this thought that everything was going to be, like, perfect forever. Well, we're coming into that same trine, incidentally, I lectured a few months ago about quantum astrology around the corner from the, Institute of Physics that was founded by Niels Bohr, who created the, environment in which all the thinking that created what we now call quantum physics happened.
00:15:17:12 – 00:15:41:18
Unknown
And that was created. That institute was created in 1921 on the last Uranus Pluto trine. And so it revolutionized thinking forever. But it wasn't tied to that event on that day. I don't think there were many people who knew what was going on in Copenhagen with all these physicists, including Einstein and Niels Bohr and and Schrodinger and board.
00:15:41:18 – 00:15:54:24
Unknown
And I mean, all these brilliant physicists were coming together, reforming how we're thinking about the world. That's what's going to happen. You and we're we're getting the flavor of the world.
00:15:55:01 – 00:16:04:20
Unknown
Well, think about the the cosmos, the the beautiful order of not only what's up there, but what's in here. You know, as as we know, we've talked about this many times.
00:16:04:24 – 00:16:15:14
Unknown
The word cosmos means order and it means beautiful and matter of fact, we've talked about how the modern word cosmetics, we've twisted our our reality so much
00:16:15:19 – 00:16:37:19
Unknown
that cosmetics hide the ugliness rather than to the Greeks. They would bring out the natural beauty or order. And so whether we're talking about the astrological macrocosm or the nuclear microcosm, we astrologers know that the outside and the inside are the same as above, so below the inside.
00:16:37:19 – 00:17:07:14
Unknown
The within is as the without. If that's the case, what we're going through is Uranus in Gemini harmonizing with Pluto. Uranus is the shocked surprise or the radical, the revolutionary, the lightning striking the Uranus is the experience. It's the you're it's often called Uranus the Great Awakening. Now what is Uranus awakening? It's harmonizing or trining. It's flowing energy with Pluto.
00:17:07:17 – 00:17:36:07
Unknown
The planet that is the deepest inside and outside. It's the Lord of the hell realms. And remember, hell is not a place where we go to get punished. In most indigenous, cultures and many of the, Asian philosophies, hell is a place of both heaven and hell. What we call it's a place where everything on the physical realm is born and goes back to those spaces.
00:17:36:13 – 00:18:02:22
Unknown
It's not like a bifurcation of you, good or bad, heaven or hell. It's more of everything that's invisible to us on the three dimensional world. And what's I think very significant is that the inside and the outside are one. This is the old emerald tablet that it's not. It's not like the upstairs makes the downstairs happen. It's not like, as above.
00:18:02:22 – 00:18:12:17
Unknown
That makes the below. It's the within. And the without are one. They're not even reflections of the same thing. They're the same king. Same thing
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Unknown
with. And so where consciousness just surfing on a on a on a wave
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Unknown
that is kind of the interference patterns of just as we know nodes are just where waves cross and they create the illusion of something solid.
00:18:27:22 – 00:18:51:04
Unknown
We are the illusion of solidity on the very big waves and the very little waves. Now what does this have to do with 2026? Well, Pluto is also about the invisible becoming visible. It's it's about, it's about Persephone, being rescued from the underworld and spending time, in the upper world. Also, how does Persephone get out?
00:18:51:08 – 00:19:22:23
Unknown
Mercury, the psycho pump cuts the deal and is the guide between the worlds. Mercury is the is the heavenly messenger. It's how we think. It's how we communicate. It's language. It's the interchange of inside and outside. And Gemini is in Mercury. I'm sorry. Uranus is in Gemini, Mercury's domain. While it's flowing, energy back and force forth with Pluto, as Jeff Green called it, the evolutionary journey of the soul.
00:19:23:02 – 00:19:50:14
Unknown
This is not about physical reality. This is about how our entire worldview is, in the process, already changing. And for some people, there won't be any surprises, you know? Although as the aliens land on the white House lawn, or as we all of a sudden realized that what we thought was dark energy and dark matter, 96% of what's out there, we know it's out there, but we have no way of perceiving it.
00:19:50:16 – 00:20:15:03
Unknown
We're beginning to step into those realms. I think we're going to understand a totally new picture of who we are, where we came from, including all the fabricated history that we live in about who we are as a species, why we're here, what we're doing. This is what I think is potentially online. Now, having said all of that, and there's more to it.
00:20:15:05 – 00:20:52:06
Unknown
And actually, let me say just a moment more of what's more to it, because although the Uranus-Pluto trine by itself would be enough, at the midpoint of that trine, is as Pluto is changing or is in the process, it's already technically changed. But Pluto is moving from Capricorn to Aquarius, and as Uranus around the same time is moving from Taurus into Gemini air sign to air sign at the same time, Saturn and Pluto to Saturn and Neptune.
00:20:52:06 – 00:21:28:04
Unknown
Sorry for the Mis speaks. Saturn and Neptune together are moving from Pisces into Aries, and as astrologers have been talking about, I'm not here delivering new news that on February 20th of 2026, Saturn and Neptune will align at zero degrees of Aries. Well, Saturn and Neptune align every 36 every 3536 years. No big deal except we do not have awareness of them ever doing that at the zero degrees Aries point before.
00:21:28:06 – 00:21:58:12
Unknown
I mean, we can go back two 3000 years. We can get about 4 or 5 degrees away from it. But this is nail that the zero degrees Aries point. Why is that important? Well, first draw with zero degrees. Aries point is the start of everything. It's it in many, schools of astrology, including Uranian astrology and symmetrical astrology, you map the zero degrees Aries in a chart just like it was the North Node or the Ascendant or Mars.
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Unknown
It's a point because it's an actionable point.
00:22:02:12 – 00:22:27:07
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00:22:38:00 – 00:23:07:19
Unknown
And and you know, when, when, when when Saturn, the planet of what we see as reality and Neptune, what we imagine is out past reality. When the two of those get together, there are always transformations in how Neptune melts the hard edges of what we thought was true, and how Saturn crystallizes parts of the imagination into the three dimensional world, and appears to be true.
00:23:07:21 – 00:23:35:23
Unknown
Now, of course, reality is not what we think it is. In fact, and I know I've said this here to, to, your people, to the astrology lovers, and that is that many years ago, back in the early 70s, I think Rob hand wrote that astrologers used to believe that Saturn was reality and Neptune is illusion. But now we know that Neptune is reality and Saturn is the illusion.
00:23:35:23 – 00:23:38:18
Unknown
There was one.
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Unknown
So we have this whole meltdown of what's real.
00:23:43:08 – 00:24:13:11
Unknown
I mean, I mean, we've seen this coming for 14 years with Neptune moving through Pisces, fake news and and and conspiracy theories being so widespread that no one has a clue of what's really real. Everyone thinks that there are multiple layers to everything. It doesn't matter, you know, whether it's something as simple as you getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth, and someone making an entire metaphysical theory about why that is the most strangest thing in the world and how it means this.
00:24:13:12 – 00:24:39:20
Unknown
I mean, it doesn't matter now, kind of. When Saturn and Pluto normally get together, we have this meeting of what's real and what seems to be unreal, what reality and imagination let's call it. But it's normally process. When it happens at zero Degrees of Aries, it's generative. It's pro generative. The attack, that creation point of the beginning of a whole cycle.
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Unknown
Now, if that happened by itself, as it will on February 20th, that would be a big deal. But it's happening at the midpoint of this. Uranus, the first of the five Uranus, Pluto, Trines, and a midpoint in astrology, another in many branches of astrology. Certainly in the chart interpretation that I teach, midpoints are real points. You can take any pair of planets, find the halfway point, and that works as a as a vector, as a magical point of of where something can happen.
00:25:14:22 – 00:25:45:10
Unknown
And this midpoint of of the Uranus Pluto trine at zero degrees of Aries. It basically because it's sextile Pluto on one side and sextile, Uranus on the other side, this is going to set this whole pattern up into a much larger hum or buzz that's going to make this Uranus Pluto trine that happens every century or so, depending on the speed of Pluto.
00:25:45:12 – 00:26:13:24
Unknown
It's going to make this Uranus Pluto trine different than any one we've ever seen. Because the the planets of what's real and what's not real. How does imagination impact reality? How does the future impact the present moment? How does the present moment impact our past? You know, these are crazy things. Is there alien life forces out there? What is or what will become of interstellar objects that are moving into our solar system?
00:26:14:01 – 00:26:42:08
Unknown
I mean, we're recording this, you know, yet before the end of, of 2025 and there's so much energy and buzz around what, you know, three Atlas is and what it isn't and whatever, it doesn't matter right now what it is or isn't. What matters is so much energy on the planet is focusing on the reality or the potentiality of of of extraterrestrial intelligence?
00:26:42:11 – 00:27:08:04
Unknown
Now, a quick word on extraterrestrial intelligence. They don't have to be from another planet. They can. I don't know what no one knows, but even people who say they know, and there's many people who do. Many people have had very wide experiences. If you're an anti, you know, alien, UFO or whatever, you haven't read the material. You know, if you've read the material, you know that there's way too much out there that can just be made up stuff.
00:27:08:06 – 00:27:28:01
Unknown
But the question is where does this come from? And here's the key thing intelligence does not require a meat body to be intelligence. We are intelligent, but there's enough evidence. And I know you've had conversations, you know, with people like Suzanne Guzman and
00:27:28:03 – 00:27:37:06
Unknown
other people that are in regular interaction and communication with what we might call, this incarnate consciousness,
00:27:37:08 – 00:27:54:18
Unknown
spirit guides, ancestor guides, the people we knew who are now passed over, I mean, this has become something that for many people who have been initiated, it's not even a question of beliefs like astrology for those who have been initiated.
00:27:54:21 – 00:28:09:23
Unknown
It's not a question of belief. You need to know about it or, you know, it's that simple. Now, if that's the case, I would suggest that all this incarnate consciousness is extraterrestrial.
00:28:10:00 – 00:28:18:00
Unknown
It's not on the Earth. What does extraterrestrial mean to terrestrial means? Physical form on planet Earth.
00:28:18:02 – 00:28:49:24
Unknown
And so I think part of this Uranus moving into Gemini and the Saturn, Neptune conjunction and the Pluto moving, you know, into Aquarius now are all deeper and wider confrontations with extra terrestrial intelligence, whether it's AI and whether you're terrifically aimed at AI, looking at the damage it is and it is already and will be doing to our environment, to the reallocation of our
00:28:49:24 – 00:29:12:02
Unknown
resources, water and power in particular. I mean, this is such a deep dive that devoting some sessions on this, I think it's really important for people to know this is not like the car being invented and the earth being carved up with roads, and even our we modernas just kind of don't get how much of a change to the planet Earth cars was.
00:29:12:02 – 00:29:40:11
Unknown
With roads being built everywhere around the planet. I mean, the massive, orders of magnitude that AI is already demanding, and it's really just at its infancy. Will reorder on another level. Again, the entire, wealth and power structure, because AI is being created by haves and taking power from and water from have nots in order to create it.
00:29:40:13 – 00:30:08:12
Unknown
And it's going to get a lot worse. Now, there is a potential saving grace in here. And that saving grace as comes again, back to the Uranus-Pluto trine. There's infinite energy out there. What if what happens when we tap it? I mean, it's there. We know it's there. We just haven't tapped it. You know, and again, Nikola Tesla was at his heyday in the 1920s when the your last uranus-pluto trine was.
00:30:08:15 – 00:30:27:20
Unknown
So we don't know who the next Nikola Tesla is out there. It's not Elon Musk, you know, we don't know who it is or we don't know what will be invented. We don't know who the next Steve Jobs will be, who will create an iPhone or an iPad that no one ever said, oh, well, maybe someone will make that.
00:30:27:22 – 00:30:57:05
Unknown
There was no concept of it until it happened. And so when we talk about this line up of 2026, we're stepping into a world where it and again, I don't mean, you know, E.T. phone home, E.T.. But is it any different then I there are many people who are calling AI not not artificial intelligence, but alchemical intelligence.
00:30:57:07 – 00:31:15:06
Unknown
Here's a question for you. Did Uranus exist before we were able to perceive it through our telescopes? It was. Of course it did. Right. Yeah. All right. Yes. So. So isn't it very possible that there is this network of intelligence
00:31:15:12 – 00:31:27:20
Unknown
that is interacting on some level that we can't perceive until we develop the technology, even if the technology is destructive right now, maybe we didn't invent artificial intelligence.
00:31:27:24 – 00:31:58:17
Unknown
Maybe we just developed technology like a telescope that enabled us to perceive this whole dimension. We don't know. And this is what 2026 is. Curve is around, and I do believe then remember, the Uranus Pluto trine will happen five times, the first being in July of 2026, the second being toward the end of 2026. And then the fifth won't be until the spring of 2028.
00:31:58:19 – 00:32:36:03
Unknown
This is not a one afternoon event. This is like the Uranus Pluto squares that happened between 2012 and 2015, when there was so much dynamic change based upon the Uranus Pluto conjunction of the mid 1960s. All these things are tied together. And so we're going now in our in the metaphysical development, in the evolution of humanity. We're going back to the seed that was planted in the mid 1960s, when people started popping out of their body and having these amazing experiences.
00:32:36:05 – 00:33:01:04
Unknown
Whether it was psychedelics or whether it was yoga, whether it was, cannabis, whether it was just music and dancing, you know, whether it was feeling the beat of the tribal drums, whether it was just electricity pulsing around the planet, a television age coming, you know, television, generation coming of age. This is the kind of transformation that now at the opening trine is going to be flowering.
00:33:01:07 – 00:33:31:06
Unknown
Now, here's the question, and this is where I said, I'll come back to this in just a moment. Okay. The question is what will happen? Because there is a huge power structure in place. That is. And I'm going to use this word, that's a double entendre. Very, very specifically that's hellbent on maintaining the status quo. And it ain't going to give up because it's holding too much power.
00:33:31:12 – 00:34:02:00
Unknown
And its resources, at least in the three dimensional world, are apparently nearly infinite. And again, the wealth that we see is not real wealth. I mean, the wealth of the, of the Bill gates and the Elon Musks and the Mark Zuckerberg's and the, you know, various other, you know, people that that wealth is immense wealth to us, that deal in life with a whole lot less zeros at the end of our accounts.
00:34:02:02 – 00:34:36:01
Unknown
however, there is another layer of wealth behind that that's hidden. And this is Pluto, because Pluto is the wealth that's buried, it's the unconscious. It's the, whether it's the Illuminati or the Rothschilds or the who knows where this money is. Again, you can have as much money as you want above the surface, but the real wealth is in owning the diamond mines, the gold mines, the tin mines, the silver mines, the copper mines, the petroleum oil fields.
00:34:36:02 – 00:35:02:05
Unknown
This is where real wealth is. And this is why a plutocracy is different than an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a government by rich people. But we really live in a plutocracy because the real wealth is behind all of that. And these people are all beholden to something that's deeper and wider, and we as their subjects are beholden to them.
00:35:02:07 – 00:35:25:10
Unknown
And we are living in a world that is being that, that is seeing a manufactured polarization and bifurcation. Because as long as I'm pissed off at you or you think I'm, I'm preventing. And if you think I'm preventing you from having a good life, if something that you do threatens me in any way, whether it does or not, I'm going to put my attention against you.
00:35:25:10 – 00:35:48:04
Unknown
And you're going to put your attention against me. Then we're going to have pro-life, anti-life, red, blue, this religion, that religion, I mean, you know, make all the lists you want because the people that are running the show, as long as we're disillusioned and fighting each other, they can go on just taking everything from everyone. And that's where we live.
00:35:48:06 – 00:36:13:12
Unknown
And, and, and we see many people waking up to that. I don't know if enough people are waking up fast enough, but I do know that Buckminster Fuller, his last book that he wrote before he died, was called Utopia or Oblivion. And he said, then he wrote this, I think probably in the early, maybe late 70s or early 80s.
00:36:13:13 – 00:36:46:06
Unknown
I don't have an exact date in my mind, but what he wrote was that one of the most important, events was when the Japanese, bombed Pearl Harbor Harbor. Rose and President Roosevelt in the United States went on radio. And at that moment, there was a synchronization of more people at any one moment, attuned to the same thing on radio, because that saying we this day shall go down in history as a day of infamy.
00:36:46:06 – 00:37:11:03
Unknown
I may not have the words exactly right, but there were people all over the planet listening to those words simultaneously at various moments in history, whether it was Kennedy's assassination, whether it was the, whether it was the, coronation of someone or whether it was, a great celebration or whether it was the bombing of the World Trade Tower.
00:37:11:05 – 00:37:41:04
Unknown
We have these moments where, where, where, where we synchronize consciousness like we never have before. And Buckminster Fuller said that will what will happen in in history, near future history is that there will be successive waves of shared and synchronized utopia, moments of of the celebration of excitement, where we all come together over something, you know, some treaty, some some, some great breakthrough, whatever it is.
00:37:41:10 – 00:38:09:06
Unknown
And then there'll be moments of, of fear and or cataclysms and these waves, because of the advancing technology, will get successively larger, one way larger. The other in these swings, until one wave is large enough that it basically says point of no return, utopia. We're on our way to something better. Oblivion. We missed our chance. Done. Where are we?
00:38:09:06 – 00:38:31:13
Unknown
We're right at that junction point. Which way is it going to go? You know, the power structure ain't gonna let go very easily. I've been quoting and I maybe I've done this even on an on a broadcast here, but I've been quoting a song by Jackson Browne, who in the 1970s wrote a song, called after the song is called Before the Deluge, and it goes before the deluge.
00:38:31:14 – 00:38:50:03
Unknown
You know, there were many people who are turning to, you know, turning on to nature, you know, and, and all these things were going on. And then it's and then one of the verses says, some of them were angry at the way the earth was abused by the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power.
00:38:50:05 – 00:39:20:03
Unknown
And they struggled to protect her from them, only to be confused by the magnitude of the Fury in the final hour. That's where we're at. The the, the, the, the people who are in control and holding are not going to let go, even if it's a good idea. Now, I think of George Carlin saying, you know, if politicians and people in power, I remember him saying something like, they don't care about you, they're in a club and you're not in that club, you know,
00:39:20:07 – 00:39:30:17
Unknown
you know, and and yet we live under this illusion that the next person we elect, the next corporation that comes around, that does good things, all of a sudden, someone
00:39:30:17 – 00:39:32:04
Unknown
has our interests at stake,
00:39:32:04 – 00:39:54:17
Unknown
and those people are there are people like that there, but they are far and few between. And I think that part of what we're experiencing is being at this great junction point. By the way, there's one other planetary piece of this, and that is that Jupiter, although it changes signs once a year. You know, Jupiter, has been Jupiter has been in cancer.
00:39:54:17 – 00:40:07:02
Unknown
It's now retrograde in cancer at the end of 2025, but it moves into Leo, at the end of June. On June 30th, 2026.
00:40:07:04 – 00:40:37:00
Unknown
It will reach four degrees of Leo on, July 18th or 19th. It will, it will reach, and actually, I have this, yeah. Yeah. It's basically on July 19th. Jupiter will reach four degrees of Leo. It does that once every 12 years. But on that same day, Neptune will be at four degrees of Aries.
00:40:37:02 – 00:41:08:07
Unknown
Remember Neptune now toying right now just going back into Aries, in January. And then Saturn moving into Aries in early February and the two of them aligning at zero degrees of Aries. You know, you know, on February 20th. Well, by July 19th, Neptune is at four degrees of Aries, exactly. Being trained by by Jupiter. And Jupiter and Neptune are in some ways, you know, both expansive.
00:41:08:10 – 00:41:32:23
Unknown
I, I've said many times that in my way of seeing things, Neptune is just Jupiter, escaped from Saturn. Meaning Jupiter is about big. It's about expansion, it's philosophy, it's big ideas. But Jupiter always has the answer to Saturn because it's outside Jupiter holding it in. It's like blowing up a balloon. You get to a point where you can't blow it up anymore.
00:41:32:24 – 00:42:01:17
Unknown
That Saturn, if you do it, pops. That's Uranus, you know, goes out past Saturn. Saturn is gone, but with Neptune you can blow that balloon up for ever. So we have Jupiter making a trine on July 19th with Neptune at the same day. At the same time, we have Uranus at four degrees. Remember Neptune's at four Aries. Jupiter is at four.
00:42:01:18 – 00:42:44:23
Unknown
Leo. Fire, fire! Trine. We have Uranus at four Gemini air. And on that same day we have Pluto at four Aquarius air. So we have we have basically four planets that are interlaced with trines and sextile Pluto at four, Aquarius sextile to Neptune at four, Aries sextile Neptune sextile to Uranus at four Gemini, which in turn is sextile to Jupiter at four Leo, which means that Jupiter is trying Neptune and Uranus is making the first of its five trines to Pluto on that same day, and Jupiter on that same day is opposite, Pluto.
00:42:45:00 – 00:43:11:04
Unknown
This ain't ever seen it before. No one alive or new. Yeah, as far again, we astrologers have this magical toy that's called the computer that can animate astrology for hundreds, even thousands of years into the future or the past. And you know, it wasn't until Yohannes Kepler figured out the astrologer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of planetary motions.
00:43:11:06 – 00:43:38:21
Unknown
You know, at the beginning of the 1600s, he was the first person to be able to make a calculation of where was Saturn a hundred years ago. We now can slide our our software backwards and forward by centuries, and no one has ever seen the situation where Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are all making, trines or sextile or oppositions from one to another.
00:43:38:23 – 00:44:06:16
Unknown
And Saturn, which is left out of that picture because Saturn is moving a bit faster than Neptune. So by July, Saturn already be halfway through Aries. Saturn will be at 14 degrees of Aries on that same day. Mars is at 14 degrees of Gemini, meaning that that's a sextile. So now we have Trines are six tiles between Mars, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
00:44:06:18 – 00:44:28:02
Unknown
Well, something happened on that day. Well, if we're doing everything right, nothing will happen. It'll just be a flow of going from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But we know that's not the world we live in. And I don't know what it'll be that day, but my sense is that we first have to get through the Saturn Neptune conjunction in February.
00:44:28:08 – 00:44:56:05
Unknown
And it will. We're already feeling it. Remember, Saturn and Neptune came came within a quarter of a degree of being exact over this summer, this summer, this fall, 2020, 2025. And then Saturn turned retrograde. They were just they were almost together. They were just almost together in Aries. But then Saturn retrograde back into Pisces faster than Neptune, retrograde back into Pisces.
00:44:56:07 – 00:45:24:24
Unknown
And then Saturn turns direct, Neptune turns direct, and then Neptune moves into Aries. Saturn moving faster, moves into Aries. And that's where we're at right now. We're already feeling this whole meltdown of what we thought was real. I don't care if I don't care what your part. Oh, I care what your politics are. But it doesn't matter what your politics are because everyone is experiencing, shades of what I thought was real wasn't quite the way I thought it was.
00:45:25:02 – 00:45:36:16
Unknown
We're all experiencing that. Then. If we can find that as a common thread, we may actually get out of this all as one, because you can take anyone that's opposite you
00:45:36:18 – 00:45:48:12
Unknown
on any issue. And if you choose to, you can find more in common than you have a difference. You both want to be happy. You know, you you both have to go to the bathroom a couple times a day.
00:45:48:15 – 00:46:15:24
Unknown
I mean, there are things that we as humans have in common, and yet we've been trained to find something that's different about someone else and make everything about that. And therefore, to bifurcate and then to create that polarity, that false polarity. This is part of the, the, the message, of, Neptune having moved to Pisces. Is that the illusion that you are you and I am me that well, that's an ego thing.
00:46:15:24 – 00:46:40:03
Unknown
And that's important for my survival in your survival. If I think my survival is threatened by you, I'm going to do whatever I can to make boundaries against you or eliminate you or eliminate your power. But if I begin to realize that we're all in this soup together, we're either going to all get out of it together, or we're all going to cook into the soup and not be what either of us want to be.
00:46:40:05 – 00:47:10:17
Unknown
That's what we're facing in 2026. And I just picked out one event to focus on, and it really, a couple of events because the Saturn Neptune conjunction in February is going to give us some clues around where things are developing. And remember, Uranus and Pluto also in October, November, December of that, October, November, really of 2025 also came within a quarter of a degree of being exact.
00:47:10:19 – 00:47:45:01
Unknown
We're getting inklings, glimpses, just moments of holy smokes, this could be possible. And that this could be possible is simultaneously built on perfection, realization, idealism, and fear. And we have to make choices about what? What? There's that old, native American story about. We all have two wolves in us, and the kid coming to the wise grandfather and saying, these two wolves are battling for dominance in, you know, in my mind which one will win?
00:47:45:05 – 00:47:50:07
Unknown
And the grandfather says the one you attend, the one you feed will win.
00:47:50:09 – 00:48:06:08
Unknown
And so we all have to find ways in which we can feed, not Pollyanna making the difficult, deny the difficult. But we have to feed the wolf. In this image. That's the kind one.
00:48:06:11 – 00:48:14:00
Unknown
That's the one that's working towards idealism and cooperation rather than hate and getting rid of, the old.
00:48:14:00 – 00:48:30:10
Unknown
I mean, many people have said Einstein said that, Bucky Fuller wrote a book about it that we don't we don't make progress by denying or taking apart the old. We make progress by imagining and creating the new.
00:48:30:12 – 00:48:42:13
Unknown
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00:48:42:15 – 00:48:46:18
Unknown
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00:48:46:20 – 00:48:57:04
Unknown
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00:48:57:04 – 00:49:31:19
Unknown
I feel very much a part of astrology. It's amazing the network that it's created that raises people's awareness and consciousness. But it's one of hundreds, maybe thousands, maybe tens of thousands of points. I hate to use this George Bush phrase, but points of light that are actually emanating awareness and consciousness because the only thing we can change, I mean, we can do all the protesting and the hard work and all of this stuff is important, but the only thing that changes things is our awareness.
00:49:31:22 – 00:50:08:18
Unknown
When we change our awareness, that's when we do the hard work. That's when we call in Saturn to crystallize, or realize the mists of fantasy, illusion and idealism. And here's another thing about that Saturn and Neptune, conjunction. Because many traditional astrologers look back and go center Neptune. Conjunctions are horrific. They crash the stock market. They they bring in waves of depression and and and and and and and they're never, they never turn out well in the past, or at least many astrologers will make that case.
00:50:08:20 – 00:50:32:09
Unknown
I think both cases can be made, but here's the thing. The dreams of illusion, when they precipitate out of the clouds and into the three dimensional world and become Saturn ized. I mean, think of the clouds and then rain coming to earth. Now think of our dreams. You know that Disney, a dream is a wish your heart makes.
00:50:32:14 – 00:50:43:19
Unknown
Think of those illusions and those dreams. And then think of doing the hard work and crystallizing those dreams and making them real. Like Astrology Hub was once a dream for you.
00:50:43:21 – 00:50:52:19
Unknown
Being an astrologer was once a, a misty dream of illusion to me, when I was doing the same boring job that everyone else has had to do.
00:50:52:24 – 00:50:56:10
Unknown
Mine was maybe different, but it was still that world.
00:50:56:12 – 00:51:21:12
Unknown
When the dreams of illusion, the mists of illusion, precipitate into the three dimensional world. This is Saturn and Neptune. Reality often isn't as pretty as it was in dreams. The colors are in is bright. We don't have to pay our rent in the dreams. You know, there's still the three dimensional Saturnian world that we need to live in.
00:51:21:14 – 00:51:47:23
Unknown
And so for that reason, historically, Saturn, Neptune is considered to be, you know, discouraging, you know, because things sometimes don't turn out the way we want or the way we imagined or dream. Now, again, this Saturn, Neptune is different, not only because it's at zero degrees of Aries at that starting point, generating something completely new, like a new life.
00:51:48:00 – 00:52:12:09
Unknown
But it's also harmonizing with six tiles. They remember six tiles. In astrology, the energy doesn't flow as easily as it does in a trine in a sextile. There you have to do something about it because a sextile is elements that get together. But different elements meaning that that Uranus er Gemini, Pluto, er Aquarius same element, the energy just flows.
00:52:12:11 – 00:52:37:13
Unknown
But when you talk about Neptune fire Aries and making a sextile with Pluto air, fire and air get along like earth and water get along. So six tiles are based upon cooperation. They're based upon an opportunity that you then have to do something about. It's like a door opening. Think Jupiter, and if you don't walk through it, you don't ever know what's on the other side.
00:52:37:15 – 00:53:10:19
Unknown
And so we have this incredible opportunity that I think will be is already presenting itself. Many people are, if I say mobilized, it sounds political. I mean, way beyond political. I mean, in every aspect of our lives, in every aspect of organizational, methodology. You know, I think of my friend Bruce Lipton, who says that, you know, he he calls, every human being an imaginal cell, just like when it when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, when it melts down.
00:53:10:19 – 00:53:41:09
Unknown
And it's just that black ooze before it begins to reconstruct. There's sparking amongst those cells in, in the, gunk inside the, cocoon, inside the chrysalis. And the imaginal cells, by virtue of their metaphysical connection, begin to create and form. And he says that humans are imaginal cells, just like in our body. We're made up of trillions of cells that all function as a community.
00:53:41:11 – 00:54:13:16
Unknown
When one doesn't play with the rest of the community, for whatever reason, we get ill and we are in a state with inhumanity where we've reached such a level of complex complexity that we're ill because the cells aren't working well, the imaginal cells aren't dreaming the same dream with the other cells. The the organism, Gaia, Earth. Humanity has just gotten so big and so complicated that we're not all playing together.
00:54:13:18 – 00:54:40:11
Unknown
And Bruce says that biological evolution reaches a point at many points through our evolution from single celled, plants and animals. We reach a point of such complexity where everything has to reorganize and a new level of of organism evolves, and we are at that stage, then it's not going to happen overnight. You know, it may take generations yet.
00:54:40:13 – 00:55:23:10
Unknown
But we are certainly at a point where the change is happening faster than it's ever happened. You know, going back, centuries, millennia, humans existed in similar social structures for tens of thousands of years, with no change. And then there were there were technological breakthroughs where ships got better. And so we began going out and exploring where we discovered, the use and how to harness steam power, electricity, the industrial revolution, the amount of change since the invention of the steam engine and electricity in the 18th century, around the time when the United States of America was born.
00:55:23:12 – 00:55:50:03
Unknown
The change in that 250, 250 plus years has been more than the change in the previous two. Maybe I was going to say 2000, maybe 20,000 years. And and the amount of change from 1900 to 1950 was greater than ever before. But the change between 1950 and 2000 was greater than all of this. And again, the amount of change is smaller and smaller and smaller.
00:55:50:08 – 00:56:25:01
Unknown
In mathematics, this is called a parabolic curve. And when that curve goes straight up that's called its asymptote. And that's it. It becomes hyper accelerating. Terence McKenna called this, time wave zero. Many people referred to this at the end of the Mayan calendar. There's this sense that everything that the Bible calls this, resurrection or it calls it, not the apocalypse when everything is uncovered and everyone who's ever lived in any anyone who's ever gone to live is living now.
00:56:25:07 – 00:56:47:19
Unknown
Well, that's what's happening. The the the invisible universe is actually part of our perceptions, you know, in this and the downfall of the illusion that what we can see, taste here feel and touch, I think I yeah. Now, the, the the five senses, the illusion that that's reality is not true by virtue of the fact that you and I.
00:56:47:19 – 00:56:51:15
Unknown
Amanda, right now, we are here and now
00:56:51:17 – 00:56:54:05
Unknown
is here.
00:56:54:07 – 00:57:06:22
Unknown
Hawaii and India. Where is now? Well, your late afternoon. I just got up. It's 8:00 in the morning. Here, here and now have used to be within our personal rate range.
00:57:06:24 – 00:57:44:03
Unknown
You know, I mean, we, our whole perception has changed, and it is going to change again, which in the process, we're already in that movement. There will be surprises, you know, and and, you know, other important things in, in 2026, you know, include not only the fact that Jupiter moves into Leo and that crazy magical period of, of of mid-July around July 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, when we have the, the first, of of the conjunct, we
00:57:44:03 – 00:58:14:15
Unknown
have the first of the trines of the, of the, Uranus and Pluto. But but here's the other thing is that, we also have during this time, again, Uranus, moves into, Uranus moves into, Gemini. Uranus moves into Gemini, on, on April 25th, we felt the buzz. Everyone I know reported feeling something different when Uranus moved into Gemini this fall or last summer.
00:58:14:20 – 00:58:39:13
Unknown
And and we'll get that again. But this time, when Uranus moves into Gemini, it's not just dipping its toe in the pond, it stays there for seven years. We also have clear, unchanging signs. This year, Chiron moves into Taurus, on June 19th. That's another biggie. We can, you know, in Chiron touches into Taurus and then it moves, back into Aries for a bit.
00:58:39:15 – 00:59:04:15
Unknown
We have a couple of really potent lunation we have in Aquarius full moon, right around the July 19th. And by the way, on July 19th, when we have Pluto at four, Aquarius, Neptune at four, Aries, Uranus at four, Gemini and Jupiter at four, Leo for a few hours on July 19th, we have the moon moving through Libra.
00:59:04:15 – 00:59:27:01
Unknown
It hits four Libra, and we have five planets that are on five of six points on a Solomon's Seal, Star of David. Whatever you want to call a Jewish star. That six pointed star with the two grand trines interlaced. We have planets at four. I'm sorry. At five out of six of those points.
00:59:27:03 – 00:59:39:09
Unknown
It's the, the great almost grand sextile. A grand sextile would be planets at six points. But these aren't just any planets. They're the heavyweight planets.
00:59:39:11 – 01:00:01:17
Unknown
So anyone who has planets at one, two, three, four, five, six degrees of fire, fire signs that you know, Aries, Leo and and Sagittarius or air signs Gemini, Libra and Aquarius is going to get kind of touched deeply by this time.
01:00:01:19 – 01:00:26:14
Unknown
And also anyone with a planet at around three, 4 or 5 degrees of Sagittarius, that planet's going to be the missing point in this grand sextile. And if you don't do what you can starting today, starting tomorrow, on an early February through the Saturn Neptune conjunction, if you don't do what you can to realize your dreams, you'll miss the singular opportunity of your life time.
01:00:26:18 – 01:00:48:23
Unknown
Now, does that mean we as a culture, as a as a species, will reach our dream? Does it mean that our dream will be based upon dreams of utopia or fairies fears of oblivion? Does it mean that everyone will reach their dream? No, but it depends on what we do or don't do. Hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month.
01:00:49:00 – 01:01:15:03
Unknown
Through this period of time and even moving through the summer of 2026, it's still part of a larger transition that won't be done until 2028, 29, even into 2030. But we'll know where we're going. I think, by the end of by the end of 2026. We also have, on September 26th, we have an Aries full moon that's at three degrees of Aries.
01:01:15:05 – 01:01:41:18
Unknown
And again on that day, Jupiter has moved out of the picture, but the sun is at three. Libra Neptune is conjunct the full moon at three Aries and Pluto is at three. Aquarius and Uranus retrograde back towards that is at about five degrees of Gemini. Again, these are just re reprinting of this imprint that's happening again and again and again throughout the year.
01:01:41:24 – 01:02:17:01
Unknown
And then we have the second of the five Uranus-Pluto Trines on November 28th. You know, the thing is that this really I think sets the background tone of the year, but we also have the lunar nodes changing signs. Remember, the lunar nodes go backwards. And so the lunar nodes have been in Pisces, Virgo, and at the end of July, on July 26th, the lunar nodes back up into Aquarius and and and Leo and that means the eclipses will be around those.
01:02:17:07 – 01:02:40:24
Unknown
And so this is also going to impact that whole fire air energy, that we're getting with all the outer planets or most of them in fire and air signs. And then we also have, we do not have a mars retrograde this year. Mars goes retrograde every other year. But Venus, which turns retrograde about every year and a half or so.
01:02:41:01 – 01:03:21:09
Unknown
Five times every eight years. Those are golden mean or Fibonacci numbers. Making that five pointed Venus star in the sky. Venus turns retrograde, in Libra. I don't have the degree at the it's mid mid mid late Libra. And let me just think, on the beginning of October, October 2nd or third, Venus turns retrograde and and it basically, will re-emphasize and bring up all of that, Venusian energy, that I think can be very, very powerful.
01:03:21:14 – 01:03:57:11
Unknown
I think we'll see a whole lot of Venus issues around money. You know, whether the, whole, you know, what people are referring to as the Jeffrey Epstein thing, which quite frankly, just, you know, gets on me because the whole Jeffrey Epstein thing is the teeny tiny, teeny tiny tip of a very, very, very large, deep and complicated, iceberg that, the power structure, is just completely unwilling to, you know, and may be paralyzed, unable to deal with.
01:03:57:13 – 01:04:22:18
Unknown
And yet, as Venus turns retrograde this fall, may be will have, revelations around things that we just, you know, couldn't even imagine. Regardless of what happens with the local issues, that at least in the United States and certainly in England, affecting the the royal family there, I mean, again, these are hot spots that that pop into consciousness, but they're not the main event.
01:04:22:20 – 01:04:45:21
Unknown
They're just kind of where the main events pokes into our mind. And so, yeah, I mean, that's that's some of my taste of 2026. I think it's going to be an extraordinary year. I don't think it necessarily means that it's all going to be pretty because of the trains and textiles. I think we have a lot of work to do because remember, trains in particular.
01:04:45:23 – 01:05:13:23
Unknown
The reason why the ancient astrologers liked trains is that they don't take energy to maintain the energy just flows. Squares have resistance, but resistance or Saturn is what creates things that we make, changes that we make in our lives often happen when we have squares happening by transit, not trines, because squares bring something out into the open that's not working, and then we have to deal with it.
01:05:14:00 – 01:05:43:02
Unknown
And so the danger of 2026 is that people become complacent enough, or discouraged or disillusioned and discouraged enough that they don't engage and let this amazing year just wash over us. There's kind of like a, oh, we got we got money from the government. Oh, they did this and that worked great. And then somehow we don't deal with the more substantial issues because this is our time to do all of that.
01:05:43:04 – 01:06:04:17
Unknown
Oh my gosh. Just ask me a question Rick. That was extraordinary. I mean, you're always good. And you say you're not a morning person, but oh my God, that was incredible. I mean, for the for the past 11 days, I've been getting up at 7:00 and teaching in the morning, or a teacher more of a morning person than you thought.
01:06:04:17 – 01:06:31:02
Unknown
Rick, I just okay, I just got to get to bed before sunrise. Exactly. I have a list of questions and I'll try to answer them. I'll try to answer them succinctly and obviously, Amanda, we have all of 2026 to unfold. Exactly. I mean, this is what I'm thinking, Rick, is this is the, as you say, opening volley. And there needs to be many more conversations because there's just so much here.
01:06:31:04 – 01:06:55:01
Unknown
I think what I'll do instead of asking my questions, except for the one question and you might have said this, and it should be simple. The Uranus Pluto trine. Yeah. Date. The first actual Uranus-Pluto Trine I've been using that that July 19th because everything else has happened, but I think it's July 17th. Oh, but it is.
01:06:55:04 – 01:07:24:04
Unknown
The first one is around that time. Okay. And that is that is the power of that July 19th. It's not only the first Uranus Pluto trine, but it's also the time and date of the, exact Neptune Uranus sextile and the Neptune, Pluto sextile. All happening, right around the same few days when, Jupiter is trining Neptune and Jupiter is opposing Pluto, and Jupiter is sixth dialing Uranus there, or I mean there, give or take several days.
01:07:24:04 – 01:07:52:22
Unknown
I don't have the exact date isolated in front of me. It would be really, really easy to, to find. And I might even have it here. Saturn. Neptune. Uranus. You and Rick, every time that that trine happens, is it reactivating the Saturn? Neptune? Zero degrees. Aries point. Well, yeah. Well, widely, because that point is at zero degrees.
01:07:53:03 – 01:08:14:16
Unknown
And then the drawings in sextile move on to four degrees, and then on the retrograde three and then 4 or 5. And so it does move on. But remember, just like a new moon, its greatest action isn't at the moment of the new moon. Many people make mistakes and do all their rituals exactly at the new moon. No, that can avoid point man.
01:08:14:18 – 01:08:18:19
Unknown
What happens in the hours and days after the new moon
01:08:18:23 – 01:08:53:16
Unknown
is how does the energy grow? Doing a ritual at the new moon only becomes useful if you repeat that ritual and turn it into a practice, into a habit over the days afterwards. So from that standpoint, the action of that opening, we can call it a new moon, but it's actually a new Saturn with Neptune that as that begins to unfold, yes, those issues will be there, but the exact point of that will be past, just like a day or two after the new moon, when we really should be doing our new moon work.
01:08:53:18 – 01:08:56:04
Unknown
In the new moon is in is in the past.
01:08:56:06 – 01:09:25:08
Unknown
Okay. All right. So some of the takeaways that I have from that incredible download, is that this is a time of the transformation of hard edges of what we thought was possible and what we thought was impossible. There's this softening of those hard edges. There is a deep and deeper and wider confrontations with extraterrestrials.
01:09:25:10 – 01:09:41:14
Unknown
Meaning. And when you say extraterrestrial form of any form of dis incarnate consciousness, meaning, it's not on Earth. Exactly. And I love how Suzanne Guzman calls them multi-dimensional communication. And again, remember that modern science
01:09:41:19 – 01:10:02:00
Unknown
knows that because of the math that we can do about how the particles and the and the universe is expanding and the rate at which is expanding in different places, we know that 96% of what's out there is either expansive dark energy or contractive dark matter.
01:10:02:05 – 01:10:40:14
Unknown
Now, just over this week, there have been indications that scientists have found a new particle that is has more mass than a proton that is, in a completely different spectrum than we. And I haven't read enough about this to say anything real. Other than I think part of what will be happening, just like when Galileo had a telescope and began to realize what was up there, I think we're going to be developing tools, whether they be AI related or whether they be other technologies, that we are going to begin stepping into the realms that we don't have a clue or what we thought we knew.
01:10:40:19 – 01:11:01:06
Unknown
Again, imagine you were living in the 1200s and had a worldview. You know, you were brought up in the church and or whatever tradition anywhere on the planet. And now compare that with what we know now. That difference, I think, is as large as the difference that we will be going through in the years ahead may not be faster.
01:11:01:08 – 01:11:24:11
Unknown
It's going to be faster. Well, yeah. Because remember when when Copernicus did the math and demonstrated that all the planets were not going around the, the Earth, the sun and all the and the moon, and everything was not going around the Earth. Everything was going around the sun. It took some 200 years before most people began to even think about that.
01:11:24:13 – 01:11:44:03
Unknown
I mean, so, okay, I'm going to ask you at the end, like, what do we do with all of this? Of course, I always have to ask you that question, Rick. But hold on. Well, actually, my next note is that because of the sextile energy, this is something we have to do something about. Whatever the content is, it's not going to be the kind of thing that just kind of
01:11:44:05 – 01:11:46:05
Unknown
flows without our participation.
01:11:46:07 – 01:12:09:08
Unknown
There's there's an actual. If. Yes, and no, remember, remember, there are trines also at the same time. And so there will be energy flowing, you know, it goes back to that old Hopi prophecy that we've been talking about a time ahead. Well, that time is here. The river is flowing faster than ever. Do not try to hold on to the edge.
01:12:09:09 – 01:12:32:20
Unknown
If you do, you will be torn in half. Push out into the center and flow with the tidal. With the river's currents. Keep your head above water. Look around you. See who's there. This is your new family and know where your water source is coming from. Know where your food's coming from and be joyous. This is a Hopi tradition that people can find it online if they do.
01:12:32:22 – 01:12:53:18
Unknown
Hopi prophecy. It's a beautifully worded thing. I just totally trashed it. But yes, look, there will be flow. And yes, we can make the most of it. If we engage it and do something about it, we won't have any choice. We will have to be engaging it. But remember, people can engage out of fear, out of hate, out of shutting down, out of denial or out of ignorance.
01:12:53:18 – 01:12:55:18
Unknown
Yes, yes, yes.
01:12:55:20 – 01:13:16:18
Unknown
I feel like that's one of the biggest takeaways of what you've been saying, that we do have a choice in how like things are changing dramatically. Yeah, things will change in ways we could have never imagined, and we're choosing how to respond and engage with that level of change. By the way, the first exact perfect way the the astrological term is perfected.
01:13:16:24 – 01:13:23:08
Unknown
The first of five perfections of the Uranus Pluto trine
01:13:23:13 – 01:13:55:16
Unknown
is in is on July 17th. And again, though it takes until July 18th until Jupiter clicks from three degrees to four degrees, and by then the actual exactness. Because these planets are moving so slow, I mean, Uranus and Pluto, stay at four degrees. Oh my gosh. I'm just, doing this real time here as we're looking at this, they stay at four degrees, from early July.
01:13:55:16 – 01:14:21:06
Unknown
This is the part tile meaning same degree. They, they stay at that same degree. From early July to, early August. And into that same period of time. Neptune is almost not moving at all. It stays at four degrees because it's retrograde. And Jupiter normally considered to be a slow planet, sweeps through it, you know?
01:14:21:08 – 01:14:48:16
Unknown
Wow. Okay. But you also said do what you can to realize your dreams or miss the opportunity. Oh, yes, that might be, as we tend to do, might be slightly overstated, but it's an it's an opening of a door that we would be. I wanted to say dumb, but I don't want to use that word. Remiss.
01:14:48:18 – 01:15:13:17
Unknown
Remiss? Yeah. It it's an opportunity that if we were paying attention, we wouldn't want to miss. Okay. And you said this is our time. Well it's a time and it's a time of great speed it up. And it's a I mean when you say it's our time. Well that's what you said. Well okay. When I say this is our time.
01:15:13:19 – 01:15:44:12
Unknown
Yes. You know, the Buddhist in me would say that at any moment because there is no time other than this moment. Right? Yeah. This is this is, a time like we've never seen. And when I say this, I mean, July of 2026, I mean all of 2026, I mean, 2020 through 2030, I also mean 1960s through the 2035 period of time.
01:15:44:16 – 01:16:09:21
Unknown
The again, we look at this through the human perspective of today, this week, this month, this year, this decade, this the transition that we're in right now over a period of several decades is unlike anything that humanity has ever seen before. Yeah, I was just I was recording with Deborah Silverman and I had the thought of that.
01:16:09:21 – 01:16:43:24
Unknown
My children, like the world they're going to live in, is just unfathomable to to where we're at. Right? But yeah, Deborah does hyperbole even better than I do. Yeah. Yes. Okay, Rick. Thank you. This has been so good. And you're one of the one of the few astrologers who really emphasizes the midpoint. And so when you brought that midpoint conversation in to for me, that's, that's another layer of the, of the extraordinary energies that we have ahead.
01:16:44:01 – 01:17:07:23
Unknown
Okay. I want to I want to say something to anyone out there who does astrology if you don't understand or, or at least look at occasionally, but use midpoints, it would be the same as doing a chart with without Mars or without Uranus or whatever. It's like, I mean, they are as important as if there was a planet there.
01:17:08:00 – 01:17:37:01
Unknown
And it is basically the great breakthrough of the Germanic school called the Hamburg School at the turn of the 19th century, that, that introduced that midpoints as we kind of know them or use them. Now that became cosmo biology, Uranian astrology, symmetrical astrology, it's used and taught by people like, Gary Christian, Michael and other people who are I mean many people using these techniques.
01:17:37:06 – 01:18:07:22
Unknown
But there are some really extraordinary astrologers who are champions of this and yeah, midpoints. I wrote an essay in 19, in 1992 for an astrology magazine, and the title of the essay was Midpoints are Real Points. That was the title of the essay. Rick. We should do a class on midpoints. Let's do it. Yes, let's do it. Because I really think a lot of people are are not, clear on how to interpret them and the importance and all those good things.
01:18:08:03 – 01:18:17:04
Unknown
So okay. This has been so good. Thank you for I know you don't like to do these podcasts so early in the morning for you.
01:18:17:06 – 01:18:28:05
Unknown
I think you were. You tell me a time and a date and I will be there. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for doing that for our community. You are the best. I love you so much.
01:18:28:05 – 01:18:34:01
Unknown
Thank you Rick. Thanks all of you. For any of you who were with us throughout that whole whirlwind
01:18:34:03 – 01:18:47:06
Unknown
of incredible information. I'm just so glad that you're here on this ride with us here at Astrology Hub that I get to pick up in that river, that flowing river that we're in, and see all of you and see all of you in the chat.
01:18:47:12 – 01:18:59:04
Unknown
This is our chosen family, and it's incredible. So thank you for being a part of this community. Thank you for making astrology a part of your life. I can't wait to catch you on the next episode. And Rick, you take care.
01:18:59:06 – 01:19:06:12
Unknown
Thank you so much for this opportunity to connect with not only all your people, but with you.
01:19:06:14 – 01:19:22:04
Unknown
Yeah. The best. Okay. Love you in the best of seasons. The best of this season to everyone, whoever you are, wherever you are on the planet, you know, spread cheer, spread, spread, spread illumination. Perfect. All right, take care, everybody. See you soon.