September-October 2026

The Big Picture

The Celestial Harmony of Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Aries, Pluto in Aquarius

On the Great Continuum – Are We Particles or Waves?

The level of complexity that confronts human civilization today is mind-boggling! The more we advance in the sciences, especially quantum physics, the more we can’t believe our own observations, since the current view is that, at that quantum level, reality can appear as a series of either particles or waves. The “theory of entanglement” is no longer a theory. It has been demonstrated that when “twin” subatomic particles are separated, their coordinated “spin” remains, no matter how far away from each other they may exist.

Throw in the notion that the universe may be “consciousness itself”, creating an infinite number of entities within its own constantly changing manifestations. What we have perceived as “death” may simply be a journey out of our current embodiment with all its limitations, into another framework of consciousness.

We are at the beginning of a massive paradigm shift concerning who and what we are, and why we exist.

Here on Earth:

The planetary pictures suggest a kind of celestial mechanics that corresponds with breakthroughs in science, medicine, and technology, such as AI, outer space travel, and nuclear fusion, that would move us way beyond what we have experienced before. We are now examining the probability of intelligent life in the universe that is greater than our own. The looming question is: Are we ready for this?

Unfortunately, our current cultural beliefs would seem to “commodify” and mechanize us on many levels in an attempt to “dehumanize” people. This would make it easier for those in power to manipulate the population, especially when connected to the mass hoarding and/or distribution of wealth and power.

Recently, new author and Stamford University graduate Theo Baker wrote the book “How to Rule the World,” surveying how Stamford has created a “cult of exclusivity” for students it thinks are the tech geniuses who will be tomorrow’s billionaires. The absence of social consciousness and broad opportunities for students who have a “calling” in professions that would pay a decent wage is on the wane. Recently, Syracuse University dropped courses in the arts and humanities in favor of subjects making students more “employable.” The goal of encouraging young people to move toward the “hoarding of wealth” that is exempt from taxation stands out in today’s world, as it has not been seen since the 1920s.

We are just beginning to recognize the lack of nationwide in-depth education, and a mass media that encourages crude, primitive interactions, highlighting ruthless competition, violence, and war. This is likely to reveal a failure of our society to reconstitute itself as a humane and spiritually healthy culture, which could lead to a massive downward spiral into historical irrelevance.

In addition, accelerating climate catastrophes due to the increase of greenhouse gases, the development of weapons of mass destruction, and a blanket refusal to face these realities could drive us into extinction. However, it may not!

What Lies Ahead?

Previous Events:

The debates and insights of our founders, which we have recently re-examined on our 250^th Anniversary, are leading us to expose the unprecedented corruption within the massive “grift” and the obvious deceptions of the Trump administration. Trump’s illegal and personal profits from his businesses since he came into the presidency are unprecedented and monumental. His promotion of racial, religious, and ethnic hatred (white nationalists) has been a political weapon he used to get elected in the first place.

In addition, his continual extortion racket, insulting and/or threatening our allies and trading partners throughout the world, has weakened the position of the US and handed economic and political power over to China. He has supported Putin and Russia over Ukraine, indicating his obvious alliance with “far-right” dictatorships rather than democratically elected governments. Recently, Trump proposed eliminating our military practices with So. Korea, saying he was on good terms with No. Korea. Kim Jong Un has personally denied this. He has pushed the US into a war with Iran that nobody here wanted in the first place. The US national debt, recently reported at $40 trillion, is now so high that we can’t even pay the interest on its debt. In addition to all this, Trump has been exposed as having a connection with the reviled child sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein, who has deliberately, more recently, been kept out of the news media.

Trump’s ongoing attempts to end free elections in the US by destroying our voting infrastructure have been an issue for him even before he won the 2016 election. The criminal protests in Washington in 2021, when he lost the election, and his pardoning of the violent armed Capitol invaders have never happened before in US history. The conjunction of Neptune and Saturn in Aries, sextile Pluto in Aquarius, plus Mars conjunct the US Moon, which is at 27 degrees Aquarius, on Feb. 14^th, led to Trump going to war with Iran (whose natal sun is in Aries), leading to a quagmire of increasing energy costs and more rising inflation.

Currently, the South Node of the Moon is on Trump’s Ascendant, conjunct his Mars, pointing to severe consequences of his starting a war that has backfired on him and the US. Military, since our supply of crucial weapons is being dangerously depleted.

The expectation is high that Trump will most likely resort to some kind of force to blow up the midterm elections. Democracy is being challenged. There will be a huge backlash to this attempt. This is the “backdrop” for what we are now facing here in America, as we go through this period of time, which I would characterize as “The Second American Revolution.”

9/11

Trump will not be attending the 25^th anniversary of the 9/11 event in New York City and instead will speak in Washington, DC. He will be the first president who has not attended this event in New York because he is not “allowed” to make a speech. This speaks for itself.

The Present into the Future:

The next two months will reflect Trump’s attempts to interfere with the midterm elections as Mars transits Cancer, encouraging more immigration arrests and ethnic quagmires. There will be more layoffs due to the rise of Artificial Intelligence. There is also a major “backlash” against data centers (73% of Americans are against them), since they are electricity “vampires”, are extremely noisy, and will raise rates for consumers. Data centers would be the biggest infrastructure build since the railroads were built in the 1800s.

Trump has defunded the government, instituted a prescription fund, Medicare Part D, which is one more attack on American citizens’ programs designed to help the poor, the disabled, and the elderly. The Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s imposition of tariffs, but he is doing it anyway, raising the cost of goods and actually reducing manufacturing sites in the US. He was unable to resolve the tariff issues with Canada, so they remain in place. We are all wondering how Trump can do all this. The Constitution states that the only entity that can remove a president, if he violates the law, is Congress, which has completely capitulated to whatever he wishes. As Congress convenes in the Fall, there will be major conflicts and heated debates over what to do.

Between Nov. and Dec., Trump’s progressed Moon is square his Solar Arc Uranus, pointing to a mental health crisis and a tendency to be “accident-prone.” The transiting South Node of the Moon is conjunct his Mars/Ascendant placement, suggesting a personal crisis. The Mid-term elections are mired in confusion, technical glitches, and Trump’s attempts to blow up the process.

The North Node is now in Aquarius, moving toward the Natal Moon in the US chart and pointing to the challenge that sustaining democracy poses to the US and humanity at large.

Climate Change:

The recent Lunar Eclipse at 4 degrees Pisces square Uranus on August 28 resulted in the disastrous flood that hit the Nepal/China border, which is thought to be due to a giant glacier melting and falling off the mountains. This is one more reminder that climate change is a fact. We must now move from remediation to adjustment – people need to move away from coastal regions, the Global South, and earthquake-prone regions. Starting at the end of Nov. this year, Mars will go into Virgo, activating this eclipse, and on Feb. 9, 2027, Mercury will go retrograde opposite this Mars, one degree ahead of the eclipse degree. This would suggest more climate-related emergencies. I will discuss this in future newsletters.

The Economy:

In July, it was announced that Microsoft is eliminating 4800 jobs. Unfortunately, in October, Mercury enters Scorpio, retrogrades on October 23, and will be in Scorpio in November when the elections take place. And Mercury is retrograde and “afflicted” by Pluto, Saturn, and Uranus. Mercury (communications and voting) will not settle into a harmonious aspect until December 7 through 11, when Mercury in Sagittarius is in harmony with Pluto, Neptune, and Saturn. Nov. 26^th, Mars enters Virgo, forming stressful aspects with Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto, all pointing to a serious public crisis and upheavals in the labor and employment sectors. I will discuss this further in my Nov./Dec. Newsletter.

The Federal Reserve indicated no movement in interest rates back in July. In spite of this, the banks have raised interest rates on credit cards and mortgage loans, making everything more expensive for consumers and contributing to housing unaffordability and the inflationary spiral that wartime energy cost increases have inflicted on people all over the world. Corporate bankruptcies increased by 12% between June 2025 and June 2026. Many economists are warning that the AI industry may “break suddenly”, collapsing the AI Bubble.

The massive $40 trillion government DEBT and the $1 trillion in interest incurred on the debt in the US are simply unsustainable. US debt is now 120% of GDP. In August, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon raised alarm bells, announcing that “margin debt” is the highest in our history! Mars hits the South Node of the Moon in November, which may coincide with a “CRASH” in financial markets. All this would make a case for investing in and holding GOLD and SILVER as a safety play. In August, a bill was passed by Congress and signed by Trump, providing financial support for critical domestic mining in the US.

Cryptocurrency cannot continue to exist without regulatory certainty. Presently, the “Clarity Act”, currently awaiting to be passed by Congress presenting “tokenization,” could merge the benefits of blockchain with traditional finance (a move I have been predicting for years) and could provide a solid framework for digital assets in the US. Until then, cryptocurrencies remain a “crap shoot” and subject to serious crashes.

Interestingly, Venezuela recently announced it is abandoning the Bolivar and adopting the US dollar as its currency.

Politics:

I have been searching for a currently active political candidate in either party whose planetary pictures could indicate a path to winning the presidency. Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Reagan, and Obama were special people who rose to that position at times when our nation faced great crises and needed them most. ALL these presidents had planetary positions conjunct the US Moon at or around 27 degrees Aquarius.

After researching birth dates of current politicians, the one person I have currently discovered who would suggest this level of success is Georgia Democratic Senator John Ossoff (Feb. 16, 1987) whose Natal Sun is exactly conjunct the US Moon. You heard it here first!

There will likely be more candidates from both parties. I will comment on all those people, their astrological charts, and their possibilities in future newsletters.

As for the midterm elections, I would advise us to prepare for a “bumpy ride.”

Science and Technology:

In a Special Edition of Science News (2025), there was an intriguing article entitled: “A New Eye on the Cosmos”. By McKenzie Prillaman. Referring to the pictures, she reports: “This striking image of the Virgo cluster, captured for the public debut of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, features two spiral galaxies (lower right), three merging galaxies (upper right), distant galaxy groups and many stars in the Milky Way. . . . .From a mountaintop in Chili, the observatory will scan the entire southern sky every few nights for the next decade. The amount of data gathered in the first year alone will be greater than that compiled by all other optical observatories combined. These observations will help scientists explore everything from nearby stars to distant dark matter.” The current positions of the planets (Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune) point to breakthroughs in our understanding of the cosmos and will lead us to explore ideas about space, time, and reality that lie far beyond anything ever known.

Researchers at Yale University recently obtained FDA approval for Lacosamid, a drug for osteoarthritis, that delivers a hydrogel directly into the joints. This disease is so widespread and debilitating that it could literally give people their “lives back”.

On August 7, 2026, Science News published an article entitled: “Earth’s molten core suddenly reversed direction – and scientists don’t know why.” They summarize: “Earth’s molten iron core unexpectedly reversed direction beneath the Pacific, revealing a dramatic change in the hidden engine that creates our planet’s magnetic field.”

In the June Issue of Science News, there is an article about the consequences of global warming. It is entitled “Extreme heat is upending more of daily life” by Nikk Ogasa. He reports: “Using global heat, humidity, and demographic data, the scientists found that sweltering conditions can make it dangerous for adults ages 18 to 40 to do moderately strenuous physical activities for an average of about 50 hours per year. That’s double what young adults faced from 1950 to 1979. Meanwhile, adults over 65 now experience an average of about 900 hours of activity-limiting conditions each year. That’s over 10 percent of the year and 300 more hours than half a century ago. ‘We see substantial declines in the number of hours that older adults can safely do general tasks,’ says human biometeorologist Jennifer Vanos of Arizona State University in Tempe. They go on to report: “Almost 80 percent of the human population lives in places where heat and humidity severely limit activity for older adults during part of the year, the team found.” It would be worth your time to read the whole article since we all need to prepare for a much hotter planet within our lifetimes. 2026 has been reported to be the hottest summer ever recorded.

It has recently been reported that Monsanto’s herbicide glyphosate (known as Roundup) is being sprayed throughout California forests to promote rapid tree regrowth. Research has pointed to this being a cause of cancer for decades, and most other nations have outlawed its use. Private lawsuits have been won against Monsanto, but laws have not been passed in the US to prevent its use of the chemical.

It has been announced in the news media by the AI consortium that the Anthropic and Mythos models, which have demonstrated capabilities including breaching their own safeguards, recently accessed citizens’ private data in multiple areas. Corporations are working to address this, as fears about AI and its capabilities are flooding the public arena. Time will tell whether they are successful. In all my books and many of my newsletters, I have emphasized the importance of cybersecurity and encouraged young people to prepare themselves for and enter this field.

China currently “rules the world” in battery technology, the production of solar panels and windmills, and the manufacture of affordable electric cars. This sector has actually decreased in the US to our detriment. We are all observing the consequences of our addiction and dependency on fossil fuels as the war in Iran continues, and its blocking of the Strait of Hormuz painfully reminds us over and over again. Again, I would point to the development and installation of NUCLEAR FUSION as the ultimate solution.

Posted on KRQE Now News on August 25, 2026, is an article entitled “Groundbreaking held for nuclear fusion facility in New Mexico” by Ben Schlitter. He reports: “The next big step in nuclear fusion to New Mexico is now underway. On Tuesday in Albuquerque’s Mesa Del Sol Community, policymakers and scientists gathered as ground was broken on a demonstration center built by energy company Pacific Fusion. The billion-dollar privately funded facility aims to research and eventually provide the state with nuclear fusion energy – a nationwide first.” It goes on to report: “The Los Lunas already employs about 70 people, and the new facility is expected to create 200 permanent jobs once construction is complete. Pacific Fusion estimates the facility will be up and running and able to produce more energy than it uses by 2030.”

Mercury retrograde and Mars in Leo:

Our old “Devil” Mercury retrograde in Scorpio is in effect from October 23 until November 13. This muddies the midterm elections and points to unexpected, severe weather conditions in the US. In addition, Mars in Leo from September 28 through Nov. 26, alongside Jupiter in Leo, both point to extreme heat and the danger of serious fires. Since Jupiter entered Leo in July, huge forest fires have erupted in Spain and France, breaking all previous records. Forrest fires have broken out here in California and Washington State. Mercury being both retrograde and “afflicted” by the outer ring planets would suggest confusion and difficulties with respect to necessary responses to global emergencies.

America has lost Dolly:

If anybody embodied the “American Dream” of great talent and deserved success after growing up in dire poverty, combined with her projection of universal love and acceptance for all, it was singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. Not only was she a great artist who wrote “anthems” that Americans still love, but she was also a major humanitarian and a generous contributor to children’s literacy and vaccine medicine. She was known to embrace all people, regardless of religion, politics, race, or sexual orientation. She never sided with a political party, remaining simply a humanitarian at large. When I saw her death announced on the news, I felt I had lost a member of my family. She now resides with the angels above.

Final Thoughts:

I am frequently reminded of William Shakespeare’s tormented character, Hamlet, the young Dane whose famous lament, “To be or not to be – That is the question,” still haunts us through the centuries.

Humans are capable of great achievements, groundbreaking technological inventions, and compassion for each other and for life on Earth. We are also the most selfish, cruel, and destructive species on the planet since our intelligence enables us to hoard wealth into the arms of the very few, construct horrific weapons, and emit life-destroying pollution – all as the result of unrestrained selfishness and greed.

I am reminded of the sign of Gemini, the twins, which represents the two-sided personality of human expression – the “good twin or the bad twin.” My question would resonate through time. If we choose “to be”, how will we “be”? How will it all play out on the global stage?

What is required is a great and masterful “evolutionary leap” in the history of our species. It will mean inhabiting a human embodiment with greater wisdom, a more refined consciousness, and a deeper understanding of what the scriptural mandate to “love one another” truly means.

Can we do this? We will see.

Linda

Important Points of Reference for Astrologers

New Moon at 18 degrees Virgo conjunct Mercury Sept. 11; Full Moon at 3 degrees Aries conjunct Neptune, sextile Uranus, and sextile Pluto Sept. 26; New Moon at 17 degrees Libra Oct 10; Full Moon at 2 degrees Taurus square Pluto Oct. 26; Mercury gores into Libra Sept. 11, opposition Neptune and trine Uranus and Pluto; Venus goes into Scorpio Sept. 11 and is inconjunct Uranus and Neptune and square Pluto Sept. 15 – 19, goes retrograde Oct. 2 making the same aspects again the week of Oct. 12 is back in Libra Sept. 25, and is trine and sextile the Nodes Oct. 29; Mars in Cancer is inconjunct the North Node Sept. 26, goes into Leo Sept. 28, trine Neptune and opposed Pluto, Sept. 6, and is trine Saturn Sept. Sept. 16; Mercury goes retrograde Oct. 23 square Jupiter and will not go direct until Nov. 13 (after the Midterm elections).