The INCREDIBLE Astrology of July 2026: 'Barbault’s Basket' And The 'Reset Of Civilization'

And we are live. Hello everybody.

Welcome to this World Astrology Report

live stream. So in this stream we're

going to be talking about some of the

incredible astrology of July. There is a

really remarkable outer planet

configuration coming into play right now

and it will be peaking in July for now.

And this is a really really rare piece

of astrology. It's got a lot of

astrologers very excited. So, we're

going to be talking about that. And in

particular, we're going to be talking

about some of the things that the

legendary French astrologer Andre Barau

had to say about this astrology. Because

Barau said some very positive things

about this particular configuration.

And we're going to be thinking about

what Barau said, whether it looks like

he was on the money or not. Obviously,

we're not in July yet, but we're going

to be trying to evaluate. Does it look

like Barau was on track with his

predictions about this astrology or not?

And we're going to be digging into that.

And then I'm going to give you my own

thoughts on what I think this astrology

signifies and what could be coming in

July.

So this is the configuration

that everybody is getting very excited

about. It's being referred to by many

people as the bar basket. You can see

that it has this kind of basketlike

shape in terms of the aspects that the

planets are making with each other. Now

what's going on here is that we have

all of four out of the five outermost

planets and we include Pluto in that at

four degrees of their sign. So you can

see we have Pluto at four degrees of

Aquarius, Neptune at four degrees of

Aries, Uranus at four degrees of Gemini

and Jupiter at four degrees of Leo. Then

we also have Saturn in a some somewhat

wide conjunction to Neptune right now.

But what this also means is that a lot

of these planets are making powerful

aspects with each other. So you can see

that Pluto and Jupiter are in an

opposition there. Pluto and Neptune are

in a a sex style. You can see this this

blue line here is a sexile aspect 60°.

Neptune and Uranus are also in a sex

style. Again, another 60°ree aspect. But

then Uranus and Pluto are in a trine

aspect with each other. And of course,

Jupiter is also making sexile with

Uranus, trine with Neptune. So all of

these planets which represent certain

impulses, certain energies are tightly

configured to each other and are working

together in some way.

Before we really get into this, just a

little bit about Andre Barau, who passed

away in 2019. He's a legendary French

astrologer made a lot of very important

contributions to astrology particularly

mundane astrology which is what he

specialized in i.e. the astrology of the

world and he popularized and invented a

lot of very influential techniques. He

made some quite high-profile predictions

that turned out to be correct among

other things. pandemic of 2020. This

quote was bandied around quite often

during the early days of the pandemic

from Barau. This is something that he

wrote in 2011. He said it may well be

that we are seriously threatened by a

new pandemic in 2020 2021. And those two

years are really the the high point of

that pandemic period.

So that's one high-profile prediction

that he got very right. Now, this

astrology that we're talking about in

July, this so-called bar basket,

you can see how there is this kind of

basket-like shape with the aspects here.

Now, we need to uh correct maybe

something of a misunderstanding about

this astrology because actually Andre

Barau never talked about a basket. Andre

Barau wrote about the astrology of 2026

and in particular the harmonious

configuration of Uranus, Neptune and

Pluto that's part of this basket

configuration.

And he wrote very positively of this.

This is what we call a minor grand

trine. But then the addition of Jupiter

here in opposition with Pluto turns it

into this basket-like shape that creates

the rim of the basket, so to speak. Now,

as far as I'm aware, I believe it was

actually my colleague and frequent

collaborator SJ Anderson who started

calling this the basket. And he did this

on Twitter and this term the basket

caught on and also in association with

Barau. So, I think there's something of

a misunderstanding that Barau himself

talked about this basket configuration.

He didn't really get into the opposition

between Jupiter and Pluto as far as I'm

aware. He was more focused on this minor

grand trine and the astrology in

general. But just for correctness's

sake, I just wanted to to clear that up

about where this term has come from. As

far as I'm aware, and I might be wrong,

but I'm pretty sure that SJ Anderson is

the popularizer of the basket term.

So this if we strip away Jupiter what

we're looking at here is a again a minor

grand trine the technical term for this

aspect pattern between Uranus four

degrees of Gemini Neptune at four

degrees of Aries and Pluto at four

degrees of Aquarius making Uranus and

Pluto in a trine which is generally seen

as a powerful flowing aspect. It's a

powerful aspect where the two planets

are in agreement with each other.

Then we also have Pluto and Neptune in a

sexile aspect which is also a flowing

aspect of agreement. The energies are

supposed to be harmonized with each

other but it's less powerful than a tr.

And then same with Neptune and Uranus

also in a sexile. So this is another

flowing aspect less powerful than a trr

but nevertheless it indicates that the

planets are in agreement with each

other.

So what did Barau actually say about

this astrology? So I have a quote that

I've taken here from his book book

planetary cycles mundane astrology which

I have here. um very much a recommended

book if you're interested in the

astrology of the world, mundane

astrology. It's pretty much essential I

would say. And this is what he said

about this astrology of 2026.

Quote, it is the most beneficent

and its interplanetary partnership will

work for the best in a splendid relaunch

of civilization. It contains a

harmonious relationship between

primordial opposites. the coming

together of the external and the

internal, rational and spiritual, mind

and soul. Human beings surpassing

themselves while experiencing life on a

higher level.

So extremely positive and you have to

wonder has Andre hit the mark there.

We're still a month away from the peak

of this energy and it will be in play

actually for the next couple of years

anyway. So it's it's actually rather

than being something new, it's something

that we're already experiencing

and have been for some time. And I don't

know about you, but I am not sure that

those kinds of very uh very positive

phrases quite describe the mood of the

times. Here's another quote from Barau.

This is this is from an article that he

wrote again addressing this 2026

astrology. He said, "The new world

civilization, the beginnings of which

appeared around the year 2000 is in full

flight here. This entry into the second

quarter of the century bears the stamp

of the achievement of a new age of

humanity. The central and harmonic

position of the Saturn Neptune

conjunction is especially expressive of

a promotion of the lowest strata of the

world population. A significant rise in

the standard of living of the poor. A

victory over misery won in unprecedented

solidarity.

I find this quote

much more accurate, I would say, in

terms of where we're at. and perhaps

again not completely accurate, but I

think this uh this quote here and what

he says here is much more arguably

justifiable.

And we'll get into why in a moment.

I want to just emphasize that we should

be fair to Andre Barau here. A lot of

astrologers have zoned in, honed in on

these particular quotes of his about

2026 and they've been shared a lot and

you know there's quite a number of

astrologers that are involved in mundane

astrology have talked quite extensively

about this astrology and reference these

quotes and I'm one of those people so I

have played a a part in that and I think

there's a little bit of a risk that we

boil Barau's work down a little bit too

much to just these things that he said

about 2026.

We've pulled out these quotes and he's

written, you know, he would have written

an enormous amount in his career and I

think that it would not be fair to just

judge him on these particular

predictions that he made. I think that

he has again made countless predictions

over the course of his career. It's just

that we're now heading into this

particular window that he wrote about

that we are pulling out and highlighting

these particular quotes. But I don't

think any astrologer should or could be

just judged on one particular

prediction. And he got quite a lot of

stuff right. And the other thing to bear

in mind is that he's no longer with us.

Unfortunately, he passed away in 2019.

and he may well, if he was still with

us, he probably would have updated his

visions of what's going on. It's quite

easy for us sitting here in 2026 to look

back on something that he wrote many

years ago and say, "Well, that's not

quite right, is it?" You know, that's

very easy to do. But we've had the

benefit of being able to update our

thinking as we've watched what's

unfolded in the world. He hasn't had

that. So, we should bear that in mind.

And again, don't don't place our entire

judgment of the man and his work on

these quotes. Nevertheless, since they

are very well known, I think it's

interesting to to look at them and

consider whether or not they have played

out. Now I have highlighted here a

article from Gallup International the

polling organization

and I know there are issues with opinion

polls and so forth but nevertheless I

still think it's interesting to

look at what a polling organization

thinks or has gathered about the state

of the world based on its international

polling work. Now this is its headline

here which is a divided world looks to

2026 optimism in the global south

anxiety in the west and among older

generations. The latest findings from

the world's longest running global

public opinion study. This is from the

end of December 2025. So not so long

ago. And essentially the poll is saying

there's a very mixed picture. It really

depends on where you are in the world as

to what you think about the state of the

world right now. This is a quote from

the article from GA Gallup. As the

findings show, the world entering 2026

is deeply divided. Emerging and

developing regions in the global south

remain relatively optimistic, while

advanced western economies and older

generations across regions express

growing anxiety, particularly about

economic prospects and global peace.

So, not everybody sees what's going on

in the world in the same way right now.

And there's a lot more pessimism and

gloom about the state of things in the

west. Now

I would ask could that be because

relatively speaking the the status of

the west is falling or the the relative

affluence of the west is falling and the

relative affluence of the global south

quote unquote is growing.

I think it's quite natural among human

beings where if they see if they feel

like things aren't as good as they used

to be for them, they're going to assume

that means, you know, the whole world's

going to hell in a hand basket, as they

say. But my my sense is that there's a

lot of optimism in many parts of the

world. Um I personally live in Southeast

Asia. I don't really get the sense that

there's this same kind of level of gloom

here at all. I think people are, from

what I can tell,

relatively optimistic about the future

in general. Of course, there are there

are serious problems as there are

everywhere, but if we think back to

Barau's prediction, he was talking about

the the rising up of the the poor of the

world. And uh I don't think he's

necessarily wrong to say that that's

kind of what's happened and where we're

at. And so if we're thinking, you know,

if we're sitting from a corner of say

the developed world and saying, well, he

got that wrong. The world feels feels

terrible. I think it's worth stepping

back a bit and thinking, well, is that

actually true or is it just that there's

some kind of rebalancing going on, which

has perhaps made life more difficult for

for you or for certain corners of the

world, but in others, things are getting

better. So, I'm trying to steelman

Barau's case here. I'm trying to um see

ways in which we could see that he is

indeed correct. And I think this is an

important perspective to bear in mind.

Now you can see here this is a uh image

showing what's called the Barau cyclic

index which is a technique that Barau

popularized which essentially adds up

the angular separation of the outer

planets and produces this this chart

which is said to be able to show regions

of more chaos more difficulty time I'm

talking about regions of time and more

harmonious, easier times and so forth.

Now, the reason I'm showing this is that

this is actually a tool that I made

myself using Claude AI and I these days

can't program code at all. I have no

idea. I would have no no idea where to

begin to make a tool like this, but I

just did it very easily with AI. Um, I

made my own tool that does all this

stuff. And I've made several astrology

tools using Claude that I'm using

because they do things that I haven't

been able to find software that can do.

And so I I think that's kind of

incredible in some respects. And don't

get me wrong, there are plenty of very

problematic things about AI which we

will talk about in this presentation.

But if you were to to step back a bit

and think, well, we've got these these

tools now that can um

produce works of quite sophisticated

analysis and can correct our grammar and

can produce calculating tools like this

in minutes. I mean, that's quite

impressive in in certain respects. It's

quite an an achievement

technically that we've managed to build

these tools. Now again there are very

serious issues with them which we will

talk about but just from a a sheer

perspective of kind of ingenuity it's

quite miraculous really that we've

produced this stuff. So when you look at

that astrology that we're talking about

that remarkable out of planet

configuration

and you're tempted to think well nothing

particularly amazing is happening. I

think you'd be probably wrong to say

that we something quite remarkable is

happening in the the tools that we've

been able to uh bring into the world at

this time that are at least quite

ingenious and nobody's as far as we know

has ever had anything like this in

history at least not during this

runaround of the cycle.

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Now,

we're going to look a bit more

critically at

this astrology now and our reading of

it. And we're going to ask the question,

do sexiles and trines equal good?

Automatically, this is, I think, an

assumption that some people are making

when they look at this astrological

configuration. They're seeing these

trines and sexiles, which are generally

held by astrologers to be harmonious,

supportive, positive aspects between

planets.

And I think there's a there's a

temptation

to equate these positive flowing aspects

with goodness and to say well because

these are flowing aspects that means

that these times should be great and I

think we need to be a bit careful of

doing that. This is Joseph Stalin

shaking hands with Joe Kim von

Ribbentrop in 1939.

This was the basically the Nazi Soviet

pact that they agreed in 1939.

Uh the Molotov ribbon pact. And the

reason I'm showing this

is to put forward the message that

when say malefic forces agree with each

other, that's not necessarily good. when

uh challenging forces agree with each

other, that's not necessarily going to

be a good thing for everybody or at

least it's not necessarily going to be

experienced as a good thing. We have the

Soviets and the Nazis basically making a

non-aggression pact here in 1939.

Um yes, that's very nice. They're in a

they're in a TR, but is it nice? Not so

much, is it? Um for the for the rest of

the world. So, it's a little bit of a

silly point, but I think you get what

I'm trying to say here.

Um, coming back to our minor grand

trine, which we have pictured here

again,

we've got

three planets, Uranus, Neptune, and

Pluto, in harmonious aspect with each

other. But

I would argue that all three of these

planets can feel rather malefic meaning

essentially meaning unpleasant in their

expression.

Uranus can make can cause sudden

shocking disruptive change. Neptune can

bring illusion and delusion. Pluto can

force you to undertake a journey to the

underworld and cause power struggles and

things of that nature.

So you know these planets I think have

positive expressions and effects as

well. There's no doubt about that. But

they are in general quite rough

influences. There are you know a number

of astrologers consider these to be

malefic planets. Malefic doesn't mean

bad. It means experienced as unpleasant.

And what these planets are is they are

great change makers affecting the world

at large. And humans don't tend to like

change that much. They like to usually

like to get into a a state of comfort

and stay there. Now, some more than

others, of course. It, you know, depends

on how you're constituted, but generally

speaking, we don't really enjoy very

rapid

change that forces forces us to do

things differently in a short period of

time. These are powerful change making

planets that are collaborating with each

other. So, this is a time of extremely

rapid change and the fact that it

doesn't feel great to many people, I

think, is actually

probably quite inevitable.

Now I want to point here to the battle

of Stalingrad. Here's a grim picture of

that battle underway. One of the the

greatest but most destructive battles in

the history of war from July the 17th

1942 to February the 2nd 1943. And it's

estimated that between one and three

million people were killed during this

battle, which was essentially a turning

point in the Second World War when the

Nazis were trying to invade Russia.

Now, why am I talking about the Battle

of Stalingrad here? Well,

here are our three friendly outer

planets in 1943 at the 1st of January

1943. So, in the thick of the battle of

Stalingrad, which is a battle that

killed, as I said, 1 to three million

people. And what are these planets

doing? Oh, look, they are in a very

harmonious configuration here. They're

in a minor grand trine, the same

configuration that they are in right

now. Now granted,

the planets when they were in this

configuration, there are differences

with the configuration of today and this

was not as geometrically perfect. So in

our current uh the current state in 2026

in July, we're going to see these

planets all at four degrees of their

sign. So these uh sexiles and shrines

are going to be exact.

That didn't happen in the same way in

the 1940s

when we had this astrology. But

nevertheless, these planets were in

flowing aspects with each other. And

assuming that that equals good would

probably not have been a sensible thing

if you're trying to describe the times

during the Second World War. Now

um just to compare d more directly these

two configurations on the left we have

the astrology in 1943

in on the right we have the same planets

in July of 2026.

Now again the the configuration

relatively speaking is the same two

sexiles and a trrine but firstly all the

planets are in different signs that can

have an impact on how this stuff is

expressed of course with planets behave

differently in different signs.

Secondly, the other major factor to keep

in mind is that in 1943, these planets

were in in their predominantly in their

waning cycles.

Meaning that you can see that Uranus,

which is the fastest moving of the three

planets, is it here in Gemini, and it's

actually moving towards Pluto and

towards Neptune. So, it's in the waning

phase of its cycles with these two

planets. So the cycle these cycles are

kind of coming to an end here. Not the

Pluto Neptune cycle. They're in a their

waxing phase. But but with respect to

Uranus, Uranus, Uranus's cycles with

Pluto and Neptune is in uh are in their

waning phases. So waning and waxing is a

different feeling, right? Waning is more

about consolidation and pruning and

preparing for the new. Whereas waxing

things are emergent and coming coming

out into the world. In our 2026

astrology, you can see that Uranus is

now ahead of Pluto and Neptune. So these

cycles are in their waxing phases. All

three synotic cycles that you can

generate from these three planets are in

their waxing phases. So that's one

reason why there is is a difference

between these configurations.

Now I want to give a shout out to an

astrologer here. I don't know what his

real name is. He doesn't use it

publicly. Uh he just goes by astrologer

on X Twitter and his handle is Jotier

Astrology. very experienced and wise and

smart astrologer who uh does a lot of

work to recover the ancient traditions

of astrology and to try to figure out

more effective ways of doing it. Again,

I want to give a hat tip to to him

because he turned me on to um another

way of understanding

why the astrology of the moment is not

quite as good as it might first look.

And it has to do with signs of long

ascension and short ascension.

This is an image I've taken from Astro

Grammar. Thank you to them. Um,

essentially

when you move away from the equator, the

because of the the geometry of the solar

system and of the planet and so forth,

signs, the different signs spends

different amounts of time rising.

On the equator, every sign rises for

about two hours. 12 signs, 24 hours, two

hours per sign. But if you move away

from the equator, whether that's north

or south, you start to get differences

between the time taken for the signs to

rise. And in astrology, this is called

signs of long ascension and short

ascension. This image shows how some of

the signs you can see because they rise

at different times of the year, take

quite a long time to rise and then other

other signs take a short time to rise.

And what jotier astrology turned me on

to is the idea that the ancients had

which is that that affects how the

planets uh sorry yeah how the planets

interact with each other. So the signs

can be divided into long and short

ascension. This is different depending

on the hemisphere but in the northern

hemisphere the signs of short ascension

are Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries,

Taurus and Gemini. The signs of long

ascension are Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,

Scorpio, and Sagittarius. So there's two

groups basically, signs of long

ascension and signs of short ascension.

Now this is a quote from Claudius Tommy,

extremely influential

henistic astrologer from his tetra

biblos.

Tomley says quote and sometimes also

among the signs that ascend slowly the

sexile aspect destroys when it is

afflicted and again among the signs that

end ascend rapidly the trine.

So what Tommy is saying there and he's

not the only traditional astrologer to

say this is that depending on the signs

that planets are in the aspects change

their flavor and that sometimes sexiles

can be more like squares and sometimes

uh sometimes trines can be more like

squares.

So if we come back again to our

configuration here, we can see that

actually all of our planets in this

minor grand trine, Uranus, Neptune, and

Pluto, they're all in signs of short

ascension.

So if we come back to what Tommy says,

Tommy says that in signs of short

ascension, the TR destroys.

So we have Uranus and Pluto in a trine

here.

And what Tommy would would say is that

this is actually going to feel less

trinelike and more square like. It's

it's actually um a harsher aspect than

you might think. So we have essentially

if Tommy is correct, if this doctrine is

correct um the this aspect between

Uranus and Pluto is actually quite

rough.

Now,

this is an old doctrine that was lost in

astrology, and most modern astrologers,

I don't think, even know about it. Um,

was it lost because it didn't work? Or

was it lost because it it's a bit

inconvenient? It makes things more

complicated than we'd like it could be.

If we think about what Uranus and Pluto

were doing,

um they made their conjunctions in 1965

and 66 at the time of the civil rights

movement. This is LBJ signing the civil

rights act which came at that time.

These Uranus Pluto conjunctions bring

tend to bring revol cultural revolutions

and rapid cultural change.

Now from 2012 to 2015, Pluto and Uranus

made a square aspect which is a

friction aspect, a difficult aspect and

they were making their exact squares

between 2012 and 2015. But we can say

that they were in in orb of square say

through the through the 2010s very

roughly speaking. And during that time

we saw all of these kind of um

let's say uh protest movements and some

of them were more you know at times more

like riots and so forth but we have

these these kind of um these uh risings

up let's say on certain matters we have

black lives matter here we have me too

here and the themes are basically the

same as some of the things that were

coming up in the 60s like we have

black rights minority rights

women's rights,

sexual rights, and so on and so forth,

right? The same themes came up again in

quite a rough, challenging, friction

producing way in the 2010s.

So, you know, I wonder if this uh if

this doctrine from toy is right,

maybe we can expect that this Uranus

Pluto's uh trine may actually generate

more of this kind of thing. Well, let's

watch and see what happens and just

watch. I think I I don't want to make a

pronouncement either way, but um I think

we should just watch what happens and

see if there is that kind of friction

relating to identity themes and how

those kind of go down over the over the

next particularly let's watch to watch

what happens in July. But more

generally, this astrology is in play

over the next couple of years. So let's

see what happens

now. Another way to just think about

this minor grand trine that Babau was

talking about is that it's three cenotic

cycles in one. We just talked about the

Pluto Uranus cenotic cycle. Senod just

means meeting by the way, but there are

three cycles here, right? There's the

Pluto Neptune cycle. Those two planets

are in sexile now, but they have a cycle

of their own. Uh we have the Neptune

Uranus cycle. Again, they're in sexile

aspect and they have a cycle, the Uranus

Neptuneic cycle.

And then we have the Uranus Pluto

synotic cycle. So actually three cycles

in one that are all reaching an

important moment at the same time. So

one way to break down what this

configuration is all about is to think

about what these individual cycles are

about.

And this is something that we could talk

about for hours and hours and hours

because there is all sorts of stuff

going on in each of these cycles. And

I'm not going to do that in this

session. I'm just going to be very brief

and focus on things that I think are

particularly important right now. Now,

the last Uranus Neptune conjunctions

came in 1993 in Capricorn. So that was

the start of the of the current Uranus

Neptune cycle which lasts about 170

years.

And most notably we have the release of

the worldwide web. The public release in

93. It was developed a little bit before

that but the planets were in orb of

their conjunction as Tim Berners Lee

pictured here was rolling out the

worldwide web. So we have I think an an

important uh theme of this Uranus

Neptune cycle is the roll out of the the

worldwide web and its development over

time. What it turns into.

Pluto Uranus conjunctions. Again, we

already looked at these. We saw the

civil rights movement and of course

there was the hippie thing and Vietnam

and all that stuff at the time of these

conjunctions. The exact conjunctions

were in 1965 1966.

At this time, Arpanet, which is

basically the forerunner of the

internet, was being launched. Now, this

is a picture showing what Arpanet, the

forerunner of the internet, looked like

in 1972, but you can go back earlier

than that. The project, I think it was

started in ' 66, if I'm not mistaken.

So, again, we have the same theme. We

have a major seed moment relating to

the digital world.

And we can go back to the Pluto Neptune

conjunctions of 1891 and 1892

making the last quarter of the 19th

century roughly speaking the

conjunctional period of the Pluto

Neptune cycle.

And at this time we had the British

building what they called the all red

line which was a a globe spanning

telegraph network using undersea cables

and so forth. It covered the whole

globe.

And this is really just a kind of

archetypal forerunner of the internet in

my opinion. It's it uses electricity to

transmit messages around the world.

It's it's a kind of archetypally

speaking, you know, it's it's not so

different really. It's a very early seed

moment for the digital

network that we have today. This is a

kind of uh nervous system of the planet

being seeded and these conjunctions.

This Pluto Neptune cycle is in my

opinion the master cycle. It's more

powerful than the others. And so you can

see how this development comes at these

conjunctions. But then the conjunctions

of uh with Uranus bring kind of new

iterations, more high-tech

advanced iterations of this fundamental

idea.

So we have again come to come back to

our minor grand trine. All three of

these synotic cycles, among many other

things, have to do with the this kind of

global

um planetary nervous system, this

digital nervous system that's coming

into being right now. Now, this is

showing the sexile between Pluto and

Neptune. Pluto and Neptune do a weird

thing in their cycle in which they stay

in the same aspect for very long periods

of time. And this is their waxing sex

style which is their first sex style

following the conjunctions of 1891 and

1892. This is from archetypal explorer

website and this shows the centuryl long

sexile that Pluto and Neptune have been

in. They came into orb of this this

aspect in the 1940s and they basically

stayed in it with the exception of a

kind of lull period in the 2000s.

911 maybe it kind of sort of killed the

momentum of something that was growing.

Um and then where are where we are now

is we are in this final phase of this

long sexy. We get exact sexy between

2026 and 2032. You might have heard that

time period being bandied around quite a

lot in spiritual circles. This is the

final phase of something that was has

been in development since the 1940s.

So have a think about what was what

started to come into view in the 1940s

and which and is reaching some sort of

culmination right now.

Now again

1940s what was invented then? The

computer was invented then, the

transistor was invented then. Um,

and so putting all this together, my

sense is that we are basically now

seeing the roll out of a kind of of

totalitarian essentially digital

systems. Um, these are a bunch of

stories. I did the search for digital

totalitarianism

and these were the stories that came up.

How Gaza became laboratory for digital

totalitarianism. Resistance in digital

totalitarianism. The case of Myanmar.

Digital ID programmable money paved way

for dystopian hellhole horrific

totalitarian regimes. That's a bit of a

more extreme one. ESN at European

Parliament. Russia is rapidly moving

towards digital totalitarianism. Canada

may be on the path to digital

totalitarianism.

It's happening everywhere, right? It's h

they're rolling out these kind of

digital systems building data centers

all over the world. Um, and there's a

bunch of connecting technologies which

are being rolled out right now very

visibly. We have digital ID, we have

stable coins and CBDC's, we have AI.

Um, and when you put these technologies

together, especially with the kind of

the smartphones that we all carry

everywhere, we have recipe for a a

totalizing surveillance and control

system. There's nothing conspiratorial

about saying this. This is just very

obviously what's happening. Um, it's

very clearly happening. It's very

brazenly happening. And if you wonder

what all these data centers are for,

these massive, massive, massive data

centers that they're building, it's not

so you can make pretty pictures with

chat GPT or MidJourney or whatever. You

know, that's not what it's for. They

don't need that kind of power to do

something like that. It's to basically

create this totalizing digital system.

And now I'm sure that that that its

proponents can come up with some

arguments as to why that's good for us.

Maybe they might argue that that it adds

the amount it adds knowledge to the AI

systems which can then use that

knowledge to help us or something like

that. Don't particularly buy it myself.

I personally think it's about control.

And so I just want to highlight

Katherine Austin Fitz and her work

because she's done probably more than

anybody else I think to uh popularize

the understanding of what this means.

Resist the digital control grid. I

believe she might have come up with the

phrase digital control grid. She's an

expert on finance and money and and she

has a website solar report which I would

encourage people to check out if you're

interested in learning how you can

maintain financial sovereignty in the

midst of what's happening. But happening

it is and again we're looking at this

really extraordinary

astrology and

what's being built is extraordinary and

not necessarily in a good way but it is

remarkable. It is ingenious. It is

something that you would expect very

remarkable astrology to signify. So when

we're looking at this astrology and

saying this is extremely rare astrology.

Wow this configuration so perfect. We I

think might make a mistake if we just

assume, oh, this is great for humanity.

You know, maybe it has good aspects. I

won't deny that there are some good

aspects to the technology that we have.

It does some useful stuff. Like it would

be foolish to deny that completely, but

there are great problems with it as

well. So, we have to keep that in mind.

Um now a viewer of my channel who I

won't name at their request but they did

send me um some information about this

aspect which I find interesting and

relevant I want to share with you. So

this is a quote taken from this book

aspect pattern astrology by Bruno and

Louise Huber, Michael Huber. I think

these were Swiss uh psychological

astrologers who did a lot of study of

aspect patterns. And this is a quote

from their book on the aspect pattern

that they call the cradle, which

essentially is another word for the

basket, right? They they call it the

cradle. But this is what they say about

this aspect pattern. The cradle derives

great stability from its symmetry. If

something unpleasant approaches, this

person can just switch over and is

suddenly protected by an invisible wall

from any criticism or attack. They would

like to have the security and protection

of a stable life situation and actively

pursue this. In other words, they try to

avoid falling out of the cradle. They

cling to it and like to be clung to. But

it is just those people with a cradle in

their horoscope who have the development

task of leaving the security of the

cradle and going out into the world

which can be likening which can be

likened to going into the empty space of

the horoscope in order to become

independent.

Now, this is supposed to be a

description of the psychology of

somebody who has this aspect pattern in

their natal chart. This book isn't about

mundane astrology. It's not about uh how

this stuff plays out in world astrology.

But nevertheless, I think we can still

take something from this because if you

think about what these totalitarian

systems are, they are totalizing systems

that are supposedly aimed at kind of

keeping the system safe from those who

would do it do it harm. And but also it

will also justify itself as like this is

going to keep you safe as well. This is

going to keep your children safe. This

is one of the lines of argument that's

being used right now to roll out digital

ID. It's supposedly being rolled out to

protect children because, you know, our

elites really care about that. Um, which

I'm not totally convinced about given

certain things we've found out about

this year.

But, um, this is, you know, if this is

for our own good, this is for our own

protection. The thing that's being

rolled out is going to keep us safe.

keep us safe from crime, keep us safe

from bad ideas and disinformation and

all this kind of thing, right? So, we're

trying to create something here that's

going to supposedly protect us, but um

does it does it really help people to

sort of wrap them up in cotton wool too

much? Um I would ask that question. And

again if you think about this

psychological description

um even in this book they argue that

people who have this aspect pattern in

their horoscope have the development

task of leaving the security of the

cradle and going out into the world. So

I think that this uh this astrology is

kind of challenging us in some respects.

It's we're we're going to be presented

with a very powerful system that is

going to have its benefits as well. It's

not only stick, it's carrot as well. It

will make things very convenient and

easy and the alternative will be less

convenient and less easy and less quote

unquote safe. But this is what we are

being challenged with in my opinion as

as a species.

I don't think they will have things all

their own way. meaning those people who

are rolling this system out. So, I think

it's fair enough to use the word they

here. Uh I was listening to the the

Higherides Chats podcast the other day.

Shout out to Greg from Highside Chats

and

him him and his guest Ian Davis were

discussing the rollout of this system

and they were talking about how the

rollout has encountered certain

problems. One of the problems is

essentially that the data centers that

they are constructing require vast

amounts of data. They they chew up

resources, water, etc., etc. And these

are resources that you know aren't

unlimited, at least some of them. Um

certainly water in some cases is a

scarce resource. Um and yet at the same

time the some of the same elements have

also driven the the whole um climate

change narrative. We have to reduce our

energy use supposedly but we also have

to build these massive vast energy

consuming data centers. Those two things

don't fit. So there's been some kind of

you probably have to say strategic

blunder has been made along the way here

and this might I think uh cause this

this plan some problems in its roll out.

Now let's just take a quick breath.

We're going to go back to the 1890s

again because as we've seen the Pluto

Neptune cycle that I talk about a lot on

my channel started with conjunctions

1891 1892 but that whole period those

planets were in orb. So this is the

conjunctional period of our current

cycle. Everything probably you'd ever

want to know about our world

as say I'm not really exaggerating much.

You can go and look at the 1880s and

1890s. It's all there in embryionic

form. It's all flowing around the

zeitgeist. It's all there in

uh less developed form. But the themes

that we're dealing with today, they're

all there. We saw it already with the

global telegraph network. All right.

Now, somebody to pay very close

attention to work whose work is very

relevant and interesting to our world.

HG Wells, one of the first science

fiction writers, together with Juul

Vern, HG Wells was putting out some of

his most famous books in the 1890s in

this seed period. Now, one of those was

the War of the Worlds, a story about a

alien invasion of Earth.

And hasn't that story stayed with us

since then?

Yes, it has. You'd have to say. And it's

something that we are still very much

thinking about today or at least some

people.

HG Wells is an interesting figure. He

was very connected to the the British

establishment of the time. He was in the

Fabian Society

and he had visions of like how the world

should be run which was basically a

technocratic

socialist vision where the world was

controlled by those who supposedly know

best.

Um, I don't know exactly what HG Wells

was involved with behind the scenes, but

somehow most of his ideas seem to have

come to pass in certain ways. Now, we

haven't been invaded by aliens, but the

idea that we might be is certainly being

put around.

Something else that happened in the

1890s,

the mystery airship wave of 1896 and

1897.

There were hundreds of sightings of

these strange airships all over America

and then beyond America in that time

period. And it seems quite likely

because there are hundreds of newspaper

clippings of reports of these things. I

don't think it was just some kind of

mass uh hysteria or delusion or panic or

something like that. I think there

really were craft in the sky and they

were advanced further advanced than

anything that was publicly known to have

been made at that time. They moved quite

quickly. They had strong headlights and

so forth. And it seems

quite likely that somebody was ahead of

their time in terms of what they knew

about how to make flying machines. So

note what we have there. We have the war

of the worlds. We have the idea being

injected into the zeitgeist that we

might get invaded by aliens. And we also

have

probably real craft in the sky uh that

are using technology that is somehow

hidden or and is also advanced based on

what is publicly known. Have a think

about that. Now, this is a recent tweet

this year from President Donald J. J.

Trump. Based on the tremendous interest

shown, I will be directing the Secretary

of War and other relevant departments

and agencies to begin the process of

identifying and releasing government

files related to alien and

extraterrestrial life, unidentified

aerial phenomena, UAP, and unidentified

flying objects, UFOs, and any and all

other information connected to these

highly complex but extremely interesting

and important matters. God bless

America.

So,

as you'll probably know by now,

especially if you watch my channel and

but many others, of course, is that the

Trump administration and the Pentagon

are now releasing files purporting to

show strange craft in the sky. So,

something is being rolled out here. What

it is is hard to say, but could it be

the suggestion that we could be getting

invaded by aliens as HG Wells wrote

about in the 1890s?

I'm coming to suspect that this is more

of a

more of a narrative than something real.

I do think that the UFO phenomenon is

real in that people do see lights in the

sky that aren't explainable.

But whether they're aliens coming to

invade us, I am increasingly

skeptical.

And of course, we have Disclosure Day

just released. I believe it was released

yesterday if I'm not mistaken.

Spielberg's new film on this topic.

Spielberg has played a important role

over the years in rolling out seeding

the collective imagination with regards

the idea of aliens and UFOs. We have

close encounters.

We have ET

and so on and so forth. And he's just

released another UFO film at the same

time as the Trump administration are

releasing these files. And once again,

there's a sort of weird confluence

there. What you tend to find is that

we're being told things

by the government at the same time as

popular culture is seeding imagination

around the same topics. If you go back

through the history of the UFO

phenomenon, you see that confluence

happening over and over again.

So

the reason I'm highlighting this, I

think this is relevant. I think this

theme is relevant.

I think it could come up in July

somehow. And I think certainly it will

over the next couple of years in more

important ways. And somehow this kind of

UFO narrative I think is is being used

as some sort of

ability some sort of uh tool let's say

to mold our civilization somehow.

Perhaps it it will influence how money

is spent. you know, budgets get funded

by these things, but also the threat of

something bad happening. Um, in the West

particularly, there's always the idea

that we're we're about the apocalypse is

nigh goes back hundreds of years, if not

thousands of years. It's it's I guess

back to the book of Revelation and

beyond there into Judaism. this idea

that the end is coming and somehow

more than ever we are told that and I

think it's perhaps something that's used

um by the powers that be to essentially

manipulate how society is is formed and

how money is spent and so on and so

forth.

Anyway, this I think is also relevant to

where we find ourselves because this

theme goes all the way back to that

foundational 1890s period.

Now, let's go back to a quote from Andre

Barau that we already saw and

particularly this part where he says the

new world civilization the beginnings of

which appeared around the year 2000 is

in full flight here. Now

something that I want to highlight here

and I think one of the problems with

this quote is he talks about the new

world civilization.

Um but that doesn't really capture how

divided things are right now. And I

think the world is divided in quite a

number of ways. And I'm not sure it

feels like we're all one world. And I

think we need to think here about the

sign Gemini.

The sign of Gemini is expressing itself

in very important ways right now and

through this basket. Now, one of the

reasons for that is that Uranus, the

awakener planet is in Gemini itself. But

the other reason is that Pluto and

Neptune last conjoined in Gemini in in

1891 and 1892. So there is a Geminus

about their cycle and that regardless of

which signs they're in, they are going

to bring Geminus into the world. Now,

Geminis is a bit of a stupid word, but

you get what I'm saying. Tunis, one of

the things about Gemini is Tuness,

bifocation, the twins, splits.

That theme, I think, runs through the

present time. And it's it's not one

maybe that's captured there with Barau's

phrase, the new world civilization.

Which civilization?

So, of course, we have in terms of

bifocations, we have what looks like a

second cold war, a split between the US

and rising China pictured here. And so,

one of the things I think we're probably

going to be dealing with over the next

few years is this kind of second cold

war essentially. And that will probably,

I would have thought, take us through to

early to mid 2030s.

We have splits between, well, political

splits between the left and the right.

You know, those splits aren't

healed. They're very real. So, it

doesn't feel like we're all one thing.

We've got Zoran Mandani here, but we

have, you know, who's the socialist

mayor of New York now, but then we have

Donald J. Trump, the right-wing

president. So, we have this these kind

of big splits in our societies which

have not been healed at all. And I think

we have to factor in the gemininess of

the current moment to understand that.

And then something else which I think is

very important

which is the split between those who are

comfortable with this

technocratic

um maybe even transhumanist

digital civilization that's being rolled

out right now and people aren't

comfortable with it. And that I think is

the the really important split right now

or one of them. We've got people logging

off right now. We've got people saying,

"No, I'm not going to live staring at my

phone." Um, got people that are

deliberately leaning into doing things

in real life with real people. Here's

people making pottery, doing things with

your hands, getting out into the nature,

touching grass, getting rid of your

smartphone and getting a dumb phone.

That's something I'm on the cusp of

doing myself. And so, you know, a lot of

people are saying no to all of this.

They they're they're saying no to this

totalitarian digital system which is

being constructed right now. And I think

a lot more people will continue to say

no to it. and that system, the

construction of it, they're not going to

have everything their own way. You know,

we already looked at what's going on

with the contradiction between the idea

that we need data centers and we

supposedly uh have to conserve energy.

You know, those two things don't fit

together. So I think there is a split

that's emergent at the moment between um

this kind of civilization that's

emerging this digital

uh totalitarian to some degree

transhumanist civilization and those who

want

the freedom that's basically our

birthright and to live more more free

and to embrace the natural world rather

than the limiting structures that are

being put up around us. Now to be clear,

I personally my suspicion is that the

impulse on the left is going to be

dominant for quite some time, not

forever, but probably for the time

that a lot of us are around is going to

be the dominant impulse and this is

going to be the kind of junior partner,

the smaller twin. But I think that the

impulse on the right is going to grow

and this is going to eventually meet

meet its nemesis and fade away. But I

don't think we're there yet and I I

don't think we should expect that it's

going to go away anytime soon. I very

much doubt that.

Now um I also want to talk about

something specifically related to the

basket a specific aspect of the basket

in particular not just the minor grand

trine but if we add on the opposition

between Pluto and Jupiter here this is

an important part of this configuration

right we have the Pluto Jupiter

opposition also uh going exact next

month in July

now oppositions are hard aspects where

those other aspects are flowing.

Oppositions

are turning points and literal times

when an impulse is opposed and has to

change form or direction.

What does Jupiter Pluto mean mean?

Jupiter Pluto among other things is

great ambition and big money. You think

about Pluto, Pluto, putoaucracy ex etc.

Jupiter is also bigness and Jupiter also

is associated with wealth, king of the

gods, etc. You put Jupiter and Pluto

together and often you get great drive

and ambition and you frequently get

great wealth. This is Bill Gates's

chart. This is his second house of

money. What has he got there? Jupiter

Pluto conjunction very tight second

house of money. And we had we have

somebody who used to be the richest man

in the world in a very simple astrology.

Warren Buffett

also has a Jupiter Pluto conjunction.

His is in the eighth house. Another

money house, house of investment and

other people's money. Extremely rich man

as well, multi-billionaire. Of course,

Elon Musk even doesn't have the Jupiter

Pluto conjunction, but he does have the

Jupiter Pluto sexile, and it's pretty

tight in his chart. At 27 degrees

Jupiter, 27 degrees Pluto there. um

richest man in the world again has tight

aspect between Jupiter and Pluto. So

Jupiter and Pluto big money what does

that mean for July?

Uh well I've been thinking a bit about

this and one way to have an idea of what

it might have to do with besides maybe

the theme of big money is to look at

what happened at the conjunction

of this cycle. So we in 2020 the

pandemic year Jupiter and Pluto made

three conjunctions in April, June and

November

launching their current cycle.

So what was going on at that time

particularly as it pertains to big

money? Well, this was when the COVID pan

pandemic happened and we had these

massive bailouts done all over the world

in order to try and keep the economy

afloat, but particularly keep banks and

corporations afloat. So that the Federal

Reserve started buying corporate debt.

We think about this Jupiter Pluto

conjunction was in Capricorn sign of

institutions. We have the Fed buying up

corporate debt to basically keep

corporations afloat. It didn't do much

for the little man. We had the the

stimulus checks, I remember rightly, but

small business suffered. Big business

kept afloat by the system. We have the

printing of vast amounts of of dollars.

This is showing this chart here shows

the uh money supply bill and billions of

dollars. Look at that enormous

uh leap in the money supply happening in

2020 at the time of this Jupiter Pluto

conjunction. So

perhaps we can think that

it could be something like the chickens

coming home to roost somehow from this

era of massive printing

or something that kind of thematically

relates to that. Something that maybe

changes the direction of the current era

and perhaps some kind of problems

involving money. Um, you know, I'm not a

financial astrologer as I regularly

emphasize. So, not financial advice and

this is really uh kind of speculative. I

I haven't studied these cycles in great

depth. So, just keep that in mind. Um,

I'm

trying to come up with some angles to

figure out what might be on the way.

But, let's see. These are some headlines

I just picked up recently.

The stock market is at its frothiest

since the global financial crisis

proclaims city. Why dip buyers shouldn't

bail yet. Yet another way in which 2026

is looking like 1999. Top analyst fears

bubble popping with investors and Wall

Street out over their skis. Warning

signs in markets are emerging that

should not be ignored.

When bond markets start reminding us of

the great financial crisis, investors

need to protect themselves. So there's a

lot of people warning that we might be

about to see the pop of a bubble.

Uh the Virgo eclipse of last year, I

think

in October, u it was October, September.

I think that kind of signaled that we're

on a countdown now to some kind of

serious

financial crisis probably. And those

eclipses tend to last two or three

years. So, you know, it could be

sometime during that period, but you

know, I'd be looking out for watching

the economy, watch what it does in July.

Are there serious problems emerging?

But then we also have to bear in mind

this is somehow also probably going to

be related to this kind of digital

society civilization that's being rolled

out. So, how are those things connected?

And here again this is very speculative

but might we see

something that enables the um

the roll out of this plan that the Trump

administration has

to uh bring in the use of uh stable

coins as a kind of digital currency. And

essentially I think what they want is

they want the whole world to start using

dollar pegged stable coins. Um, the

companies that issue these stable coins

have to buy dollars to back these stable

coins which potentially could keep the

US dollar a float and we all know how

much national debt the US has these days

vast amount which is probably

unsustainable. So there is this plan to

somehow switch to dig digital currency

that can also kind of rescue the current

US dominated financial system. So, I

would say look out for developments

along those lines. Are there things that

happen here? I'm not saying it all goes

pop at this point, but you know, who

knows? Maybe, but maybe at least look

for signs of trouble involving big flows

of money.

One final point, fruits. What we're

seeing are the fruits of things that

were planted a long time ago. I doubt

that what we see in July is going to be

something completely

new and unexpected.

I sus I mean there may be some element

of that but I think that the things the

themes that this stuff is going to

concern has already been in play for

quite a long time and again you can look

at those cycles that I was pointing out

and what was going on at the times of

those conjunctions to have an inkling of

what it is that's been planted some time

ago and is coming to an important stage

of fruition in July.

I thought I would make a little

prediction

just to keep myself right essentially.

There's a part of me that doesn't really

want to because this is all so

unprecedented. It's it's very difficult

to know what's going to happen. But um

as uh as argued by Dr. H she was on my

channel quite recently. It I think it is

positive thing for astrologers to force

themselves to make uh somewhat specific

predictions

if only to just hone our ability to be

clear and specific and to uh go through

the process of evaluating was I right

was I wrong if I was right good if I was

wrong why was I wrong etc. So a little

prediction developments in July will

reflect moves towards multipolarity and

totalitarian digital societies.

Opposition to these trends will also be

evident.

Not a mega mega specific prediction. I I

realize but let's just look out for the

major

major world news and the major events

and see if they reflect some of these

themes. I suspect that they might.

All right. So, that is the end of this

stream or part one of this stream. I

hope you've found it interesting and

somewhat enlightening or at least it's

given you something to think about. I'm

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