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October: a steep fall

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October: a slip below $4,000

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October: up, down, and back up

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I have had enough. Enough of the backbiters, the hypocrites, the modern-day Judases selling their souls for money, influence, and another seat at the table of power. Enough of oligarchs treating nations like private property, technocrats believing humanity is just another algorithm to control, and politicians preaching morality while behaving as if the Ten Commandments were merely ten friendly suggestions.

And I have developed something I can only describe as a stupidity phobia. I cannot take it anymore. Not the lack of education, because a diploma doesn’t make anyone intelligent, and some of the wisest people I’ve ever met never set foot inside a university. I’m talking about willful ignorance. The intellectual laziness of people who repeat slogans they don’t even understand, who scream words like freedom, patriotism, socialism, communism, democracy, and fascism without being able to explain what the hell those words actually mean. They memorize three sentences from a politician, repeat them like a broken record, and suddenly consider themselves experts on history, economics, international relations, and constitutional law. They don’t read. They don’t investigate. They don’t question. They just find another person who agrees with them and call it research. And God forbid you ask for evidence. Apparently, thinking has become an offensive activity.

And here’s what truly makes my blood boil. If you have children, if you love your family, if you call yourself a believer in God, then don’t stand in front of me and casually justify the killing of another human being. Don’t tell me innocent children dying somewhere else is simply the unfortunate price of war. Don’t tell me those families are different, that their suffering is necessary, or that their lives are worth less because they were born beneath another flag, speak another language, or pray to God differently. You hold your own child at night, kiss their forehead, pray for their safety, and then find a hundred political excuses for another parent’s child being buried beneath the rubble. How dare you call that morality? How dare you preach compassion on Sunday and celebrate destruction on Monday?

And don’t misunderstand me. I believe people have the right to defend themselves and protect the innocent from immediate danger. But defending human life is not a blank cheque for cruelty, collective punishment, or treating civilians as disposable. If your compassion ends at the border, if your religion only recognizes the humanity of people who look and think like you, then don’t lecture me about love. You’re not practicing faith. You’re performing it. You’re a pretender wearing holiness like a costume, and the moment that same violence comes close to your own family, suddenly you remember that every human life is precious. Well, congratulations. You’ve discovered empathy. What a shame it took your own suffering to find it.

I have had enough of pedophiles, predators, traffickers, and powerful institutions protecting abusers because exposing them might embarrass somebody important. I don’t care about your wealth, your political party, your celebrity status, your religious title, or the expensive suit you hide behind. Harm a child, face justice. Knowingly conceal abuse, face accountability. No crown, no bank account, no political connection should place anyone above the law. And don’t come waving a Bible in my face while defending people whose actions contradict everything you claim to believe. Faith without conscience is theatre, and I’ve seen enough terrible performances.

And Mr. Politic Man, what exactly is your job? Because from where I’m standing, you have confused public service with personal enrichment. We have money for bombs, weapons, military contracts, and endless geopolitical games, but apparently there’s never enough for teachers, hospitals, housing, hungry children, veterans, or mental healthcare. The richest people keep accumulating wealth while working families are told to tighten their belts, be grateful, and make another sacrifice. Isn’t that convenient? The poor must learn financial responsibility while the powerful can gamble with entire economies and send ordinary people the bill.

I’m sick of oligarchy disguised as democracy. I’m sick of political theatre funded by billionaires, corporate interests, and foreign influence. I’m sick of technological power growing faster than accountability, while ordinary people are expected to surrender privacy, autonomy, and common sense in exchange for convenience. We are surrounded by machines that can produce information in seconds and human beings who cannot be bothered to verify a single bloody sentence before spreading it.

And let me tell you something about being a rebel. I carry the spirit of an Amazon woman. Not because I want to destroy, but because I refuse to surrender my courage. I wasn’t born to kneel before wealthy men, worship politicians, kiss anyone’s ring, or smile politely while cruelty masquerades as strength. I don’t need another loudmouth telling me what to think. I have books. I have a brain. I have a conscience. And I intend to use all three.

I believe in education, not indoctrination. In faith, not religious performance. In justice, not revenge disguised as righteousness. In patriotism that loves its people without requiring hatred of another nation. I believe in protecting children whether they are born in America, Hungary, Palestine, Israel, Ukraine, Sudan, or anywhere else on this beautiful, exhausted planet. Because a grieving mother is a grieving mother, and the earth does not ask for a passport before accepting another body.

And yes, people need to participate in democracy. Vote. Read. Investigate. Understand what the words on those campaign signs mean. Examine the record of anyone asking for power. Challenge corruption, demand accountability, and never offer blind loyalty to a politician simply because their slogan looks beautiful on a bumper sticker. Your vote is not a declaration of religious faith. Your elected representatives are not prophets. They work for the public, and they should be held responsible for their decisions.

What frightens me most is not that evil exists. History has already taught us that lesson repeatedly. What frightens me is how easily ordinary people can become comfortable with cruelty when someone packages it in the language of patriotism, security, religion, or national greatness. How easily decent people can be persuaded to stop asking questions. How quickly empathy disappears when the victims are described as strangers.

And this is why the astrology of 2027 matters to me symbolically. Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Aries, and the lunar nodes across Aquarius and Leo speak to enormous questions about collective responsibility, information, ideology, leadership, and power. But no transit will save humanity from its own indifference. No eclipse is going to descend from the heavens and teach people basic compassion. That is our responsibility.

I have the heart of a humanitarian and the temper of an Amazon warrior, and I am perfectly comfortable being both. Compassion does not mean remaining silent. Kindness does not require obedience. Spirituality does not mean looking away from injustice. And loving humanity certainly doesn’t mean pretending every human action deserves our approval.

So when someone asks why I’m angry, the answer is simple. Because I give a damn. I give a damn about children, about families, about people who work their entire lives and still struggle to survive. I give a damn about the mother who is terrified of losing her home, the father watching his child suffer, the teacher trying to make a difference, and the ordinary human being who wants nothing more radical than to live in peace.

I am not afraid of people who disagree with me. I’m afraid of a world where people stop thinking altogether. Where ignorance becomes an identity, cruelty becomes entertainment, greed becomes ambition, and hypocrisy becomes a qualification for leadership.

And I refuse to accept that.

So know yourself. Educate yourself. Question your leaders. Protect the innocent. Hold the powerful accountable. And for heaven’s sake, stop allowing someone else’s slogans to do your thinking.

Because if your God teaches love, then love must include people beyond your own family, your own religion, and your own borders. If you believe every life is sacred, act like it even when that life belongs to someone you have been taught to fear.

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I have always believed that music tells the truth about a person long before they find the courage to tell it themselves. You can learn a lot about someone’s soul by discovering which songs make them cry, which lyrics make them angry, and which melodies make them get up and dance even when life has kicked them in the ass.

And perhaps that is why I love reggae so deeply. It speaks the language of my heart. It has rebellion in its bones, compassion in its blood, and hope in its heartbeat. It can confront the most powerful men in the world without losing its tenderness toward the most vulnerable. It speaks about war, greed, poverty, corruption, love, freedom, and the beautiful, ridiculous experience of being human.

As a little girl in Hungary, my grandfather told me I could talk to the Moon, and I believed him. I still do. I think that was the first time someone gave me permission to see the world differently, and I have never given it back.

I was born with a rebellious soul, although I never believed rebellion meant simply being against everything. I believe in questioning things, especially when everybody else has become too comfortable accepting them. I question politicians, religions, governments, institutions, and anyone who believes power makes them morally superior. I have a particularly low tolerance for people who preach kindness while practicing cruelty, or talk about freedom while trying to take it away from somebody else.

Bob Marley taught me something I carry everywhere: freedom begins in the mind. You can live in a beautiful house, drive an expensive car, have millions of dollars in the bank, and still be a prisoner of your own fear, prejudice, envy, or ignorance. And you can have very little materially while possessing something infinitely more valuable: a mind that thinks independently and a heart that refuses to hate. Somewhere between that childhood sky in Hungary and this Florida sunrise, I learned that no one is coming to unlock my mind for me. The chains we carry are mostly the ones we agreed to wear, and the key has always been in our own hands.

I believe that deeply.

I also believe that nobody should have to earn the right to be treated like a human being. I don’t care what country you were born in, what language you speak, what God you pray to, whether you pray at all, or what color your skin is. Every child deserves food, water, safety, education, and love. Every mother deserves to kiss her children goodnight without wondering whether they will survive until morning. Every person deserves dignity.

And when I see governments spending fortunes on weapons while families struggle to feed their children, something inside me gets very fucking angry.

How did we become so sophisticated at destroying life and so embarrassingly incompetent at protecting it?

We build rockets, artificial intelligence, billion-dollar financial empires, and weapons capable of eliminating entire cities. Yet somehow, providing clean drinking water and a safe home for every child remains an impossible dream. Apparently humanity can figure out how to travel to Mars, but sharing the damn planet we already have is still too complicated. The sufferers keep tightening their belts while the few keep counting their billions.

That is the kind of absurdity that makes me furious. But I refuse to let that anger turn me into someone who hates humanity. I am angry precisely because I love humanity, and because I know we are capable of so much better. When I see injustice, I will name it, gently when I can and fiercely when I must.

I love the message in the music of Kabaka Pyramid, Buju Banton, Damian Marley, and Skip Marley because it questions our obsession with wealth, status, and appearances. We have created a society where people are admired for what they own rather than who they are. We celebrate extravagant lifestyles while ignoring the loneliness, dishonesty, exploitation, and emptiness that can hide behind them.

I have nothing against money. Hell, I would love to have plenty of it. I enjoy beautiful things, traveling the world, and a great massage 3 times a week, and I certainly wouldn’t refuse a Range Rover if someone parked one in my driveway.

But there is a difference between enjoying wealth and worshipping it.

I have fallen many times. I have lost money, lost certainty, and lost faith in people who smiled a little too sweetly. Every time, I chose to stand up again, because I have seen what happens to those who chase only gold and forget their health, their hearts, and their humanity. They fade. The loud ones who act tough are often the softest underneath, and the quiet ones who keep their dignity are the ones who last.

Money should give us freedom, experiences, security, and the opportunity to help others. It should never become the measurement of a person’s worth. I would rather sit at a simple table surrounded by people who genuinely love one another than attend a luxurious dinner where everybody is competing over whose life looks more impressive. I would rather be real than impressive, and free rather than bought.

I don’t want a world where the richest person wins. I want a world where kindness still means something.

And that brings me to one of the songs that lives particularly close to my heart, Courage to Grow by Rebelution.

I love this song because it understands something that becomes clearer as we get older: there is no expiration date on becoming who you were meant to be.

I am not twenty anymore. Life has changed my body, challenged my beliefs, humbled my ego, and occasionally reminded me that gravity is a ruthless little bastard. I have made mistakes. I have trusted people who disappointed me. I have believed things I later had the courage to question. I have changed directions, started over, and discovered that sometimes the person you thought you were is simply the person you needed to be until you learned something more. It took me years, two countries, two religions, and a lot of espresso to understand my purpose, and it was hiding underneath my fear the whole time.

But I am still curious. I am still learning. I still want to travel, write, create, study astrology, make beautiful things, laugh until my stomach hurts, dance with my family, and discover something about this extraordinary world that I didn’t know yesterday.

I never want to become one of those people who stop growing because they have decided they already know everything.

Good Lord, what a boring way to live.

I believe real intelligence begins with curiosity, and real wisdom begins when you understand how much you still don’t know. I admire people who can change their minds when presented with better evidence. That takes more courage than defending the same opinion for forty years simply because admitting a mistake would bruise the ego.

And I believe courage matters enormously.

Not the noisy, theatrical courage of people who need an audience for every heroic gesture. I mean the quieter kind. The courage to leave something that no longer feels right. To admit you were wrong. To apologize to your children. To begin again at fifty. To speak against cruelty when remaining silent would be so much easier. To love someone even after life has shown you how fragile everything is.

I also believe courage without compassion can become another form of arrogance. You can be fearless and still be an asshole. History has provided us with an impressive collection of examples.

What I admire is courage guided by conscience.

I came to understand through Buddhism that compassion is not weakness. It does not mean approving of cruelty, ignoring injustice, or allowing people to walk all over you. Sometimes compassion requires confronting uncomfortable truths. Sometimes it means protecting someone who cannot protect themselves. Sometimes it means refusing to join the crowd when the crowd has lost its humanity.

I believe in karma, not as a magical punishment system where the people I dislike eventually get struck by lightning. Although, I admit, there are days when the idea has a certain theatrical appeal.

I understand karma as cause and effect. Our choices matter. Our words matter. The way we treat other people matters. What we teach our children matters. And the world we leave behind will carry the consequences of what we choose to do today.

That is why peace means so much to me.

I don’t want peace only for people who agree with my opinions. I don’t want freedom only for people who share my religion, my nationality, or my political beliefs. When I chant, I chant for every human being, for the child in Gaza and the child in Tel Aviv, for the mother in Kyiv and the mother in Tehran, because peace is worth more than any war and a peaceful mind is worth more than any fortune. If peace depends upon somebody else being denied their humanity, then it isn’t peace. It is simply power wearing more attractive clothing.

And despite everything happening in the world, I remain hopeful.

Not because I am naive. I have seen enough suffering, hypocrisy, and injustice to know that humanity can be astonishingly cruel. But I have also witnessed generosity, forgiveness, laughter, extraordinary courage, and people helping complete strangers without expecting anything in return.

I have seen the sunrise over oceans in different parts of the world. I have watched my children grow into their own personalities. I have loved the same man through years of change, chaos, responsibilities, and all the unglamorous little moments that eventually become the substance of a beautiful life.

I have stood under a Full Moon and felt grateful simply to be alive, still talking to her the way my grandfather taught me.

And I have danced.

Oh Lord, how I love to dance.

I might not move like the woman I was at twenty-five. These days my menopausal body occasionally has the grace of a confused manatee, but I couldn’t care less. Turn on the right reggae song, and I am alive from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. I don’t need perfect movements, a perfect body, or anyone’s approval to experience joy.

Perhaps that is another kind of freedom.

I want my boys to understand that life is not a competition to accumulate the most possessions, impress the most strangers, or become the loudest person in the room. I want them to be intelligent, curious, brave, compassionate, and funny. I want them to question what they are told, recognize manipulation, defend people who are vulnerable, and understand that kindness and strength can exist in the same person.

I want them to build bridges where others insist on building walls.

I want them to understand that winning means very little if you have to betray everything you believe in to accomplish it.

And most of all, I want them to remain capable of love.

Because I believe that is what survives us.

Not the car. Not the bank account. Not the titles, the applause, or the carefully constructed image we present to the world.

What remains is how we made people feel, the courage we inspired, the kindness we offered, the injustice we refused to accept, and the love we gave while we had the chance.

I want to be remembered as a woman who loved fiercely, questioned relentlessly, laughed loudly, spoke her mind, made mistakes, learned from them, and never stopped believing that humanity could do better.

A woman who could be sarcastic as hell and still cry over a stranger’s suffering. Who believed in astrology without abandoning curiosity, in spirituality without surrendering independent thought, and in peace without pretending that injustice should be tolerated.

I want a life filled with music, family, books, oceans, moonlight, meaningful conversations, and enough courage to keep growing until my very last day.

If I have to choose between being admired and being authentic, I choose authenticity.

If I have to choose between wealth and my conscience, I choose my conscience.

If I have to choose between being right and becoming wiser, I hope I will always have the humility to become wiser.

And if the world tells me that compassion is foolish, freedom is dangerous, and peace is impossible, then I suppose I will remain a very happy fool.

My soul is not for sale. Not to a party, not to a nation, not to a bank, and not to fear.

I would rather spend my life believing in the possibility of a better world than become so cynical that I stop caring whether one exists.

Because the greatest tragedy would not be failing to change the world.

It would be allowing the world to change everything beautiful about my soul.

And if you think it is too late for you, it is not. Take the road less traveled. Find the courage to grow. The stars only show the way. The walking is yours.

“Do it for the love; don’t do it for the likes. Success don’t come overnight.”-Chronixx

Moonlight and miracles,

Krisztina Simon
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The strongest theme I see around the November 3 midterm election is the struggle between political authority, public confidence, and the information circulating between them. Who wins seats matters. So does who controls the explanation afterward. Using Mercury for the Republican incumbents and Jupiter for the Democratic opposition, my astrological lean favors Democratic gains. However, the chart contains competing indications, including substantial activity around the asteroid markers chosen for Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, and Elon Musk. This is a symbolic interpretation.

The federal election date is November 3, 2026.

The underlying national chart is July 4, 1776, at 5:10 p.m. in Philadelphia, with Sagittarius rising at 12°21′. I retain Whole Sign houses. Virgo is the tenth house, Pisces the fourth, Libra the eleventh, Scorpio the twelfth, Cancer the eighth, and Leo the ninth. The geometric Midheaven is at 1°03′ Libra, inside the eleventh Whole Sign house. The national chart supplies the houses throughout this reading. These are not newly calculated houses for Washington on election morning.

For the political comparison, the tenth represents the governing power and the fourth its opposition. This gives Mercury to the Republican incumbents and Jupiter to the Democratic challengers. These assignments describe their roles in this particular model. They are not permanent zodiac identities for either party. The eleventh contributes Congress, legislative alliances, and support networks. The ninth contributes legal argument, publishing, international affairs, and political belief. Executive authority, legal judgment, and the legislature must remain distinguishable if we want to understand their relationships.

I am also using 33538 Jaredbergen as the chosen name marker for Jared Kushner and 29053 Muskau as the chosen marker for Elon Musk, alongside 12410 Donald Duck for Donald Trump. These are deliberate name associations. Positions described as natal belong to the adopted U.S. chart in 1776, not to these men’s personal birth charts. A contact between these markers cannot establish that the real people are coordinating, committing wrongdoing, or interfering with an election.

Mercury is the first significant difficulty for the governing side. At the supplied chart’s reference time, it is retrograde at 14°16′ Scorpio, in the national twelfth house, approximately 3°41′ from the Sun. Under the traditional longitude criterion, it is combust. The symbolism places the messenger close to the center of authority while reducing its independent visibility. Statements may require revision. Instructions may be reconsidered. An explanation that sounded settled may need another paragraph, another qualification, and possibly another person explaining what the first person supposedly meant.

If Mercury were writing the press release here, I would check which version I had received.

Scorpio and the twelfth house make private information, confidential discussions, institutional records, and restricted access useful subjects for interpretation. That could describe renewed attention to documents, correspondence, administrative decisions, or the gap between an internal account and a public statement. It does not tell us what a particular document contains. The practical question is whether a claim can be supported by an identifiable record.

Mercury is neither in detriment nor in fall in Scorpio. Its difficulties here arise from retrogradation, combustion, and its placement in the national twelfth. Its dispositor also matters. Mercury answers to Mars in Leo, while Mars answers to the Sun in Scorpio. The Sun and Mars occupy each other’s domiciles. This mutual reception gives the governing side a symbolic route for coordination, mobilization, and response. The incumbents may have difficulty maintaining a clear message while still possessing the ability to organize an effective political reaction.

Jupiter has a comparatively clearer position. It is direct at 24°34′ Leo in the ninth house. Under the selected party assignment, that gives the opposition a more outward expression through constitutional argument, political principle, education, international questions, and a larger account of the country’s direction. Leo seeks an audience. Jupiter wants a story large enough to gather people around it. The opposition’s opportunity, symbolically, is to make its argument coherent enough that voters understand what a change in legislative power would accomplish.

Jupiter is not in its own domicile or exaltation in Leo, however, and the ninth is cadent. It also approaches an opposition to the U.S. natal Moon at 27°10′ Aquarius. Public expectations may exceed what political leaders can deliver. At the same time, the transiting true North Node lies within approximately 14 arcminutes of that natal Moon. Public feeling, local conversations, news, and the circulation of information carry particular interpretive weight.

Venus supplies the more encouraging connection. At 25°19′ Libra, it occupies its own domicile in the national eleventh house. Although retrograde, it applies to a sextile with Jupiter, with an orb of approximately 45 arcminutes at the reference time. The aspect becomes exact early on November 4. Within the Mercury-versus-Jupiter comparison, this supports the opposition’s access to legislative allies, negotiation, and a possible change in political leverage.

Venus also rules the national Midheaven and the eleventh house itself. Its strength therefore belongs to the wider institutional picture. It may describe Congress recovering leverage, an agreement becoming workable, or governing authority having to negotiate. This is one reason I would distinguish Democratic gains from a guaranteed Democratic majority in both chambers. The national chart does not resolve every congressional district or the particular Senate map.

Mars at 19°37′ Leo applies to Jupiter, with their conjunction becoming exact on November 16. That brings force, urgency, ambition, and a willingness to fight into the opposition symbolism. It can support mobilization and a forceful legal or political argument. It can also produce overstatement. The South Node is approximately 2°22′ from Jupiter, another qualification against assuming that confidence necessarily becomes durable support. Because the Mars-Jupiter conjunction perfects after voting, its timing belongs partly to the argument over what the outcome permits each side to do next.

The Moon adds an important shift in the atmosphere. The Moon then enters Virgo at approximately 3:28 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 3. During the main voting period, the symbolism shifts toward procedures, workers, details, documentation, and the practical administration of the election.

The performance gives way to the work.

Donald’s marker has two separate layers. The U.S. natal position of 12410 Donald Duck is 1°57′ Taurus in the sixth house. Transiting Pluto at approximately 3°09′ Aquarius squares that position within about 1°11′. This is a valid transit-to-natal contact. Within the selected name association, it places the presidential marker under pressure through the national third house of communications, information, and the channels connecting people.

Transiting Donald Duck is at 12°38′ Leo in the ninth, not the sixth. It squares retrograde Mercury within approximately 1°38′ at the reference time. That square becomes exact around 6:33 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 3, during the U.S. voting and early reporting period. Symbolically, I would watch presidential messaging, public statements, and how information becomes politically consequential.

The Jared marker sits close to Donald. Jaredbergen is at 11°51′ Leo, approximately 47 arcminutes from Donald Duck. Both occupy the national ninth house. This is a close but separating conjunction. I would read it as an existing association receiving attention under the election’s wider pressures, rather than claim that a new alliance forms precisely on Election Day.

Jaredbergen also trines the national Ascendant within approximately 31 arcminutes, an applying contact. In the election chart, it provides visibility and access within the national story. At the same time, it forms a square with the Sun within about 1°16′ and a wider square with Mercury within about 2°25′. These combinations connect the marker with political authority, public presentation, and contested explanations.

The Mercury-Jaredbergen square becomes exact around 7:28 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 4. The Sun-Jaredbergen square follows around 1:42 p.m. that day. I would use those times as symbolic checkpoints for statements, responses, negotiations, or the public framing of a position. The ninth-house setting makes legal argument, diplomacy, publishing, and political belief relevant interpretive channels. The aspects could question Jared Kushner’s private actions.

This layer also shows supportive contacts. Venus trines the U.S. natal Jaredbergen position at 26°23′ Gemini within approximately 1°04′, while Jupiter sextiles it within about 1°50′. These could symbolize access to cooperation, advisers, or an audience within the chosen name-based model.

Muskau produces the closest new Mercury contact. The U.S. natal position of 29053 Muskau(closest to Musk; I didn’t find Elon) is 14°10′ Taurus in the sixth house. Transiting Mercury at 14°16′ Scorpio opposes it within approximately five arcminutes. In the election chart, this opposition is applying. It becomes exact around 8:39 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 2.

That is a very close symbolic connection between the chosen Musk marker and the planet representing the governing party’s communications in this model. Its sixth-to-twelfth-house axis introduces administration, workers, institutional processes, and information handled away from public view. I would ask the list of subjects to follow questions about communications, operational decisions, and explanations of procedures.

A second Mercury-Muskau contact appears in the other direction. Transiting Muskau at 22°39′ Capricorn in the national second house opposes U.S. natal Mercury at 24°12′ Cancer within approximately 1°33′. This opposition is applying and becomes exact around November 11. The second-to-eighth-house relationship brings resources, financial commitments, obligations, and access to information into the symbolic picture.

Together, these two contacts make the Muskau (Musk) marker particularly prominent in a reading about communications and resources. They still cannot distinguish a public endorsement from campaign spending, a platform decision, a business controversy, or an accusation about any of those things; however, I trust astrology, and it seems obvious to me what will happen again.

Muskau also trines national Neptune at 22°25′ Virgo within approximately 14 arcminutes. This contact is separating, having perfected around November 1. A trine can describe an easier channel for propaganda, lies, persuasion, idealization, or an appealing account of events. Neptune’s symbolism requires attention.

Musk is also in close opposition to transiting Ceres at 22°44′ Cancer, within about four to five arcminutes at the reference time. It perfects early on November 4. Symbolically, this can mean Musk will be sold out by one of his baby mamas.

If the question is whether Jared Kushner or Elon Musk will interfere with the election, the chart cannot establish that factual conclusion; however, symbolically it shows a very strong possibility. Both are active, and the Mercury-Muskau contacts are especially close.

Epstein remains an important part of the eighth-house symbolism. Transiting 2928 Epstein is at approximately 3°33′ Cancer, conjunct the U.S. natal Venus at 3°06′ Cancer within about 26 arcminutes. Its conjunction with natal Jupiter at 5°56′ Cancer is wider, approximately 2°23′, and its square to the natal Midheaven is about 2°29′. The Venus contact deserves the greatest weight.

I used Epstein as the selected name marker for the files, so we should watch whether the political argument included disclosure, access, institutional relationships, or accountability. The eighth house supplies questions about shared resources and dependencies, while the Midheaven connects the discussion to public authority. These contacts could identify a judge, senator, or official as suppressing evidence.

Neptune at approximately 2°03′ Aries opposes the U.S. Midheaven within about a degree and squares natal Venus within a little over a degree. This reinforces a broader interpretive theme involving confidence, appearances, values, and the difficulty of evaluating an emotionally powerful story. Propaganda is one possible expression of Neptune, but so are idealization, uncertainty, and disappointment.

Israel is at 27°49′ Virgo in the national tenth house on the November 3 reference chart. Its separation from natal Neptune is more than five degrees, too wide for a tight asteroid conjunction to be the central argument; however, I still feel it matters, since we can check AIPAck influences and it is toxicly interfering with our politics. The closer contact is its trine to natal Pluto at 27°33′ Capricorn, within approximately 15 arcminutes. Under Israel, the asteroid that directs attention toward executive priorities, resources, policy commitments, and the material consequences of an alliance.

The Benjamin marker also requires its natal and transiting placements to remain separate. 976 Benjamin is natally at 16°50′ Pisces in the fourth house, but it is currently transiting 17°44′ Capricorn in the second. I used it as the selected proxy for Benjamin Netanyahu, the current symbolic emphasis is on resources and commitments. Its natal fourth-house placement makes Netanyahu a significator for the Land of the Free political destruction.

For Iran, the chart contains 18987 Irani at 12°52′ Capricorn. Using that object as a deliberate word-association proxy, it opposes the U.S. Sun at 13°19′ Cancer within approximately 27 arcminutes and squares natal Saturn at 14°48′ Libra within approximately 1°56′. This activates the natal Sun-Saturn relationship through the resource axis. I would watch how expenditure, security commitments, diplomatic obligations, or sanctions are framed politically. False flag, military event?

Russia at 6°57′ Sagittarius opposes natal Uranus at 8°55′ Gemini within approximately 1°58′. The first-to-seventh-house axis concerns national identity and foreign counterparts. Uranus adds disruption, technological change, and instability to the symbolism. It provides a framework for debates about foreign relations and technology, but it could also indicate a foreign operation against the vote.

America at 19°13′ Libra in the eleventh places its selected national marker in the legislative house. It squares transiting Benjamin within about 1°29′ and trines the national Lot of Victory closely. Also, the natal Aqua Moon trines asteroid America and is conjunct Victory. America first? Together, they allow both friction over commitments and a constructive institutional possibility.

The Arabic Lots supply a separate mathematical layer. They are calculated longitudes derived from the adopted national chart. Their historical labels describe symbolic topics, not findings of wrongdoing. I keep the same day-chart formulas throughout, rather than changing a formula to get a more dramatic result. Al-Biruni’s published table also shows why the formula matters: different applications can attach different names to the same arithmetic.

The national Lot of Treachery is 20°24′ Scorpio in the twelfth house, using the formula Ascendant + Mars − Sun. At the November 3 reference time, Mars at 19°37′ Leo applies a square to this Lot within about 47 arcminutes. The square becomes exact around 9:08 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 4. As an interpretive theme, this raises questions about broken agreements, accusations of disloyalty, and conflicting accounts of what was promised.

Mercury has already crossed that degree directly in October and returned to it during its retrograde, with another passage around November 29. This gives a sequence for following a statement or agreement that is reconsidered more than once. It does not let the astrologer declare a betrayal and then select a culprit.

The Lot of Enmity calculated as Ascendant + Mars − Saturn falls at 18°55′ Leo in the ninth. Mars crossed it on November 1 and is about 42 arcminutes away. That is a separating contact. Its symbolic emphasis falls on antagonism expressed through political belief, publishing, international argument, or legal confrontation.

The Lot of Victory is at 19°47′ Aquarius in the third house, calculated as Ascendant + Jupiter − Spirit. Mars opposes it within approximately 10 arcminutes at the reference time, reaching the exact opposition around 2:46 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 3. America simultaneously trines it within approximately 34 arcminutes. Symbolically, that combines a contest over communicating and recognizing victory with the possibility of a functioning institutional outcome.

The Lot of Nemesis is at 23°45′ Virgo in the tenth, using Ascendant + Fortune − Saturn. It is approximately 1°20′ from natal Neptune. Transiting Muskau forms a trine with this Lot within about 1°06′, perfecting on the evening of November 8 in U.S. Eastern time. The transiting Moon reaches Nemesis around 10:12 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 4. I would use those contacts to follow questions about an official account, public reputation, and institutional explanation. A trine to Lot of Nemesis could indicate punishment or exposure.

Al-Biruni’s combined Despair, penury, and fraud formula, Ascendant + Fortune − Spirit, produces 10°03′ Pisces in the fourth. His Trickery and deceit formula, Ascendant + Spirit − Mercury, produces 16°40′ Virgo in the tenth. These place difficult symbolic subjects on both sides of the governing-opposition axis.

The Moon opposes the Pisces Lot around 9:24 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 3, then reaches the Virgo Lot around 9:19 a.m. on November 4. These are brief, repeating lunar contacts. In a broader sense, they offer times to follow public reactions and how claims are handled. They can show the opposition party’s despair and the governing party’s fraud.

The Lot concerning information being true or false is 15°20′ Cancer, calculated as Ascendant + Moon − Mercury. Mercury trines it within approximately 1°04′ at the reference time, while Vesta squares it within about 13 arcminutes. This is a useful reminder that Mercury retrograde can contribute to checking, correction, and reconsideration. The same symbolism that describes a disputed account can also describe the work required to improve it.

The Lot of Fortune is 26°12′ Cancer, calculated as Ascendant + Moon − Sun. Retrograde Venus squares it within approximately 53 arcminutes, a separating contact. The Lot of Spirit is 28°30′ Aries (Ascendant + Sun − Moon), with Chiron about 31 arcminutes away. These bring the interpretation back to material conditions, collective confidence, and the relationship between what political leaders intend and what the population experiences.

The immediate aftermath deserves attention. Venus sextiles Jupiter around 5:31 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 4. Mercury squares Jaredbergen around 7:28 a.m. Mars squares the Treachery Lot around 9:08 a.m., the Moon reaches the Deceit Lot around 9:19 a.m., and Mercury conjoins the Sun around 9:24 a.m. The Sun-Jaredbergen square follows around 1:42 p.m. I would follow revisions, statements, legal arguments, and negotiations across that period.

Mercury’s conjunction with the Sun also brings it through the traditional cazimi interval. Symbolically, its relationship to authority briefly changes from being obscured to being brought into the center of attention. That could fit a concentrated explanation, an authoritative statement, or a revision that becomes the focus of discussion. It supports the idea that Mercury remains in a uniformly weakened condition throughout the election period.

Muskau’s opposition to natal Mercury peaks around November 11, keeping that selected marker connected with the national information-and-resources theme after Election Day. Mercury and Venus both station direct on November 13 in U.S. Eastern time, followed by the Mars-Jupiter conjunction on November 16. These dates give the symbolic narrative a period of revision and response. They are not election-certification deadlines.

My conditional astrological lean favors Democratic gains and pressure for a change in legislative leverage, with significant strain on the governing party’s communications. The Jared and Musk markers add activity around visibility, alliances, information, and resources.

What I would watch most closely is the relationship between the first public explanation and the records that eventually support or correct it. Who says what? What changes? Which documents are available? What do the official counts establish? The symbolism repeatedly returns to information and authority, but the outcome will ultimately be determined by votes, lawful procedures, and the evidence available for examination.

Moonlight and miracles,

Krisztina Simon
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Israel Votes

Disclaimer: This newsletter is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It reflects astrological indicators and my personal opinions. Statements about real people and events are alleged unless presented as documented fact. Astrological timing describes possibilities, not certainties.

A Confession Before We Begin

I have a confession, my wise astrology tribe. I already recorded this topic multiple times, and I deleted it. I started to ramble, my anger got in front of my astrology, and it simply did not make sense. So I sat down and started to write, because I still want to show you what I see in the charts around Israel’s election.

Some of you know that I came from Christianity to Buddhism. My practice gave me so much peace because, at its heart, it is chanting for kosen-rufu, for world peace, for the happiness of every single person, and for doing no harm. A few days ago, during chanting, I ended up in a conversation with a fellow practitioner that shook me. She is an immigrant to the United States, just like me, and yet she stands firmly against immigration, and her view of the bloodshed in the Persian Gulf could not be further from mine. I came home upset, I vented to George, and he tried to calm me down, bless him.

Here is what I believe, and what I chant for every day: every human being deserves a peaceful life, education, healthcare, food, clean water, and shelter. No exceptions, no matter their passport, their religion, or which side of a border they were born on. When someone in the same practice does not share that belief, it challenges you deeply. Maybe that is the point of practice.

So let me explain the chart for you now.

What Is Actually Happening on October 27

Israelis vote on October 27, 2026, for all 120 seats of the Knesset, after parliament dissolved on July 17. A party needs at least 3.25 percent of the vote to enter, and a government needs 61 seats, so every Israeli government is a coalition.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud leads the governing bloc, which held 60 seats when parliament dissolved, together with Shas and the far-right parties of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. Against them stands an opposition alliance that includes Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Avigdor Liberman, and Yair Golan, with former army chief Gadi Eisenkot, whose Yashar party is polling evenly with Likud, seen as the most likely challenger for prime minister. Polls show neither bloc clearly reaching 61 seats, and the Arab-led parties, whose bans were overturned by the Supreme Court on October 2, could hold the balance.

Netanyahu remains on trial for corruption, charges he denies, and he stays on as caretaker prime minister until a new government is sworn in, whatever the result. He is also the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant issued in November 2024 for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, which Israel rejects. So whatever happens at the ballot box, he cannot simply disappear from the courtroom.

The Leader’s Chart: A Birthday Under Pressure

Benjamin Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv????, so his 77th birthday falls today, just six days before the vote. In the chart I work with, he has Sagittarius rising, placing Leo in his 9th house of international law, foreign courts, foreign affairs, and belief, where his natal Mars and Pluto sit. In mundane astrology, the Sun is the king, the head of state, and the leader’s vitality; in his chart, asteroid Israel squares the Sun, creating a lifelong tension between his identity and the nation’s fate.

Right now Jupiter is moving through Leo, across his natal Mars. Jupiter expands whatever it touches, and when it touches Mars, it can amplify anger, aggression, and the appetite for war, as well as legal battles. On November 16, Mars and Jupiter meet in Leo near the South Node, in that same 9th house of international courts. In my reading, the 9th house and the South Node together point to judgment, consequences coming from abroad, and the past catching up. I am not predicting the outcome of a court case. I am saying the international legal pressure on this man is written very clearly in this part of the chart.

Mercury stations retrograde on October 24 in Scorpio, in his 12th house of hidden matters, isolation, confinement, and hidden enemies, and the Sun is moving through that same 12th house during the vote. Mercury retrograde tends to bring old information back to the surface. In the chart I used, Saturn in Aries at about 10 degrees exactly opposes his Midheaven at 10 degrees Libra, the point of public reputation and power, along with his natal Mercury, while Uranus in Gemini, moving through his 7th house of open enemies, opposes his Ascendant and Chiron. In forensic and investigative astrology, when I see this many hard contacts to a leader’s Sun, Midheaven, and 12th house at once, I look for a fall from power or a withdrawal from public view.

That does not have to happen on election night. It could unfold weeks later, or stretch until the next eclipse season, which begins in February 2027. Even if his government falls, I do not believe it would change the region’s fate overnight. The policies of expansion run deeper than one man, and whoever comes next will face the same question: whether they are ready to stop the killing and create real peace for Palestinians and Israelis alike.

His Solar Return and Solar Arc Directions

For this birthday, I also cast Netanyahu’s solar return for the year ahead and his solar arc directions for October 22, 2026. Both are built on the same Sagittarius rising chart, so please read the house placements with that in mind.

In the solar return, Virgo rises at 10 degrees 17 minutes, squaring his natal Ascendant at 9 degrees 37 minutes Sagittarius almost exactly. A solar return Ascendant that squares the natal Ascendant often describes a year of friction between who a person is and the circumstances he is forced into. The solar return Midheaven sits at 3 degrees 44 minutes Gemini, with retrograde Uranus right on top of it at about 5 degrees Gemini. Uranus on the Midheaven of a solar return is one of the classic signatures of a sudden reversal in status, reputation, or position, the kind of change that arrives without asking permission.

Mars and Jupiter fall together in Leo in the 12th house of the solar return, the house of hidden enemies, confinement, secret plans, and self-undoing. When the planet of war and the planet of law and expansion share the 12th house, I read a year in which aggression and legal consequences work behind closed doors, and in which a leader’s own overreach can become his undoing. Saturn, Neptune, and Chiron fall in Aries in the solar return 8th house of crisis, endings, debt, and other people’s money, while the Sun sits in the 2nd house of resources. The Moon, at about 24 degrees Aquarius in the 6th house, travels with the North Node and opposes his natal Mars, a picture of the public, which the Moon represents, standing against the warrior. And Mercury, the ruler of this solar return’s Virgo Ascendant, stations retrograde in Scorpio just three days after his birthday. When the ruler of the year turns backward almost immediately, plans tend to reverse, stall, or come back to haunt.

His solar arc is now 77 degrees 51 minutes, and the directions are just as heavy. The most striking is the solar arc Sun at 15 degrees 26 minutes Sagittarius, exactly square his natal Saturn at 15 degrees 24 minutes Virgo and exactly opposite asteroid Palestina at 15 degrees 26 minutes Gemini, both within minutes of arc. Natally, Saturn and Palestina already square each other, so the directed Sun now completes a T-square between the leader’s vitality, the planet of limits and consequences, and the asteroid that carries the name of Palestine. Solar arc Sun square Saturn is one of the heaviest directions a leader can have: burdens, loss of authority, restriction, and the weight of past actions arriving at once. Solar arc Palestina has also reached his natal Benjamina in Leo, within about a degree.

The solar arc Ascendant at 27 degrees 28 minutes Aquarius opposes his natal Mars at 26 degrees 46 minutes Leo, within a degree, describing open confrontation and enemies coming at him directly. Solar arc Mars at 14 degrees 37 minutes Libra sits on his natal Neptune, a direction associated with deception, scandal, confusion, and fading strength. The solar arc Moon has reached his Ascendant and Chiron in Sagittarius, bringing public emotion and old wounds to the surface. Solar arc Chiron sits on his natal asteroid Israel at 25 degrees Capricorn, within half a degree, an image of the wound and the nation becoming one. And solar arc Epstein, at 17 degrees 48 minutes Scorpio, squares his natal Pluto, the planet of hidden power, within a quarter of a degree, which I read as secrets about power and money pressing toward the surface. Not every direction is hard. The solar arc Midheaven sextiles his natal Sun almost exactly, which shows he still has supporters and a platform. That is why I speak about pressure, not certainty.

Then the transits press on these same points one after another. On October 23, the Venus Star Point at 0 degrees 45 minutes Scorpio falls on his solar arc asteroid America, within about a quarter of a degree, a revaluation of his relationship with the United States and its money. The Full Moon of October 26, the night before the vote, forms a grand cross with transiting Pluto across his natal Benjamina at 4 degrees Leo and asteroid Donald Duck at 4 degrees Aquarius, which oppose each other in his birth chart. Pluto has been sitting on that Donald Duck point, which I read as a transformation, or a breaking, of the bond between Netanyahu and Trump. Mercury stations direct on November 13 at about 5 degrees Scorpio, square that same axis. On November 16, transiting Mars returns to his natal Mars at 26 degrees Leo, his Mars return, while Jupiter joins it, both near the South Node and opposite his solar arc Ascendant. And on February 6, 2027, the solar eclipse at 17 degrees 38 minutes Aquarius falls exactly opposite his natal Pluto and square his solar arc asteroid Epstein, within a quarter of a degree, which is why I will be watching that eclipse season so closely.

The Far-Right Partner and the Taurus Full Moon

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the National Security Minister and leader of Otzma Yehudit, was born on May 14, 1976, with a stellium in Taurus. The Full Moon of October 26, the night before the election, falls at the beginning of Taurus, on his Venus, which is strong in its own sign. On the other side of that Full Moon, the Sun sits on his natal Uranus in Scorpio. He also has a Leo Moon, and transiting Pluto in Aquarius is opposing it while squaring his Taurus planets. Together, the Full Moon and Pluto lock his chart into a grand cross, one of astrology’s most pressured configurations, where every direction pulls against another.

His chart also carries Mars in Cancer, where it is in fall, alongside Saturn in Cancer, where it is in detriment. These placements can show a very defensive, patriotic, tribal kind of force that fights hardest for its own group. Under a grand cross, that force can turn against itself. Full Moons describe culmination and endings. If Netanyahu falls, his far-right partners may fall with him, and this Full Moon describes the kind of pressure that can bring that about.

One more timing to watch is the Mars, Jupiter, and South Node conjunction on November 16. The South Node releases and removes, and when it meets Mars and Jupiter, I often see corrupt or abusive figures losing their grip. This is not only about Israel. Around the world, including in my own Hungary, there are political figures facing investigations, and this window may show some of them falling.

Washington, the Epstein Files and the February Eclipse

You cannot read Israel’s chart this month without reading Washington’s. President Trump has publicly backed Netanyahu ahead of the vote, an endorsement that even some of his own allies have questioned. In the US chart I analyzed for the midterms, asteroid Epstein is sitting on the national Venus, and many people, me included, suspect that the Epstein files are part of why American leaders stay so loyal to this Israeli government. That is my opinion and a suspicion, not a proven fact. But I will say this: if the files come fully into the open, they can’t hold anyone hostage anymore.

People write to me online defending the president, and I keep asking the same question. A jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse in the E. Jean Carroll case in 2023, and in 2024 he was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records connected to a hush-money payment. Those are documented facts. You have children, you have grandchildren. How can you defend that and still clap? In July 2024 the Supreme Court also ruled that presidents have broad immunity for official acts, and I do not believe that shield will hold forever.

The annular solar eclipse of February 6, 2027, falls in Aquarius. Trump has Leo rising, so this eclipse lands in his 7th house of open enemies, alliances, and partners. In my reading, this can show allies turning their backs, support drying up, and his own health or ability to stay visible coming into question. I am not predicting death or impeachment. I am saying that the protection around him may weaken, and when that happens, the protection he gives to others, including Netanyahu, may weaken too. I see similar pressure around the people close to him, including Elon Musk, whose ties with China I will keep watching.

Follow the Money, Even in My Own County

In Israel’s national chart of May 14, 1948, with Libra rising, the Sun is now moving through Scorpio, the 2nd house of the national treasury and resources, and opposing asteroid Benjamina, the point I track for Netanyahu. I read this as less financial support flowing to the leader. And yet, here at home, the money keeps flowing. My own Palm Beach County announced on January 7, 2026, that it bought another $350.5 million in Israel bonds, bringing its total to about $1 billion and making it the largest local government investor in Israel bonds in the country. Palestinian-American residents have sued the Clerk’s office, arguing the investments are risky and politically motivated, and the Clerk has said he will seek to have the case dismissed.

On top of that, the United States provides Israel with about $3.8 billion in military aid every year under a ten-year agreement signed in 2016. As a mother and as a Buddhist, I cannot understand how anyone justifies the killing of children, the killing of women, or sexual violence, no matter which side commits it. Nobody has the right to do that. Under the Mars and Pluto opposition between Leo and Aquarius we have just lived through, and with Pluto in Aquarius until 2043, I believe ordinary people will keep asking harder questions about where their tax money goes.

Karma Is Cause and Effect

Sometimes we do not see karma work in this lifetime, and that can be the hardest part of watching the news. But karma is not a punishment. It is simply cause and effect, action and reaction. If you bring good into this life and help others, good returns to you as well. That is why, even when I feel angry, I go back to the altar and chant for peace, for every child in Gaza, every hostage family, every Palestinian Christian and Muslim friend of mine, and every Israeli who wants this to end.

I want to be very clear about where my heart stands. I pray for world peace for every single human being: for Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and people of every faith and of no faith at all. I pray that every person is treated with respect and dignity, that every child grows up safe, healthy, fed, and educated, and that every mother can sleep without fear for her children. My compassion does not stop at a border or a religion, and neither does my practice.

And because I care about all of them, I cannot pretend not to see what I see. Unfortunately, the Israeli government and the movement behind the Greater Israel project are behaving like an imperial power, expanding by force instead of seeking a just peace with their neighbors. In August 2025, Netanyahu himself told an Israeli interviewer that he felt very connected to the vision of a Greater Israel, remarks condemned by Arab and Muslim countries across the region. It makes me deeply sad that those in power, and too many of the people who keep voting for them, do not seem to want peace on Earth. I hold that sadness right next to my prayers, especially for the Israelis who march for peace, for the families of the hostages, and for every Palestinian family that has lost everything.

Shadow exists in this world, and darkness, too, but each of us has a voice, and that voice matters. Pluto in Aquarius is a long, hard transit, but I truly believe the world can look much better by around 2032 than it does today. I will be talking about these big cycles with Krasi, Lada, and Lori in our four-astrologer panel in December, so stay close.

Now I want to hear from you. What do you see in these charts, and what are you watching on October 27 and November 16?

“Do it for the love; don’t do it for the likes. Success doesn’t come overnight.”-Chronixx

Moonlight and miracles,

Krisztina Simon
LunarGrace Astrology
www.lunargrace.org
www.youtube.com/@LunarGrace-v8o
karmakriszta@gmail.com

Instagram: @lunargrace

Published book: Uma Kriko: Let’s talk about THAT

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This content is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It reflects my personal opinions and astrological interpretation, not statements of fact about any person, and it is not financial, legal, or medical advice

Disclaimer: This newsletter is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It reflects astrological indicators and my personal interpretation, and it is not medical, financial, or legal advice.

The Night Venus Disappears

When I was a little girl in Hungary, my grandfather told me I could talk to the Moon. Nobody told me that Venus, the brightest light in the sky after the Moon, sometimes disappears. Five times every eight years she slips between the Earth and the Sun, vanishes into the glare, and then returns as the morning star, rising before dawn. The Greeks gave the morning star its own name, Phosphoros, the light-bringer, because it announces the new day.

That disappearing act happens this week, on the very first night of Scorpio season. For me, with Sagittarius rising, it falls in my 12th house of dreams, solitude, and inner life, the sign where my natal Uranus sits, so I expect a week of vivid dreams and sudden realizations at strange hours. Wherever Scorpio falls in your chart, that is the area of life where Venus is asking you to look again at what you value.

What Is a Venus Star Point?

On October 23 at 11:44 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, retrograde Venus meets the Sun at 0 degrees 45 minutes Scorpio. In Universal Time, that is October 24 at 03:44. The Sun enters Scorpio earlier on October 23, so this meeting happens during the very first night of Scorpio season.

Astrologers call this an inferior conjunction, or a Venus Star Point. “Inferior” is simply an astronomical word for Venus standing between the Earth and the Sun. It does not mean the meeting is less important. From our point of view, Venus disappears into the Sun’s brightness, and afterward she gradually becomes visible again before sunrise, beginning her morning-star phase. Venus is the planet of attraction, pleasure, affection, money, values, and exchange, so when she goes dark for a little while, our usual ways of measuring worth may become harder to trust. What once felt desirable may need a second look, and what we have tolerated may become more obvious.

These meetings follow a beautiful pattern. Five Venus cycles take almost exactly eight years and trace a five-pointed star across the zodiac. Each point returns close to where it was eight years earlier, slowly shifting backward. The earlier Scorpio points in this sequence fell at about 7 degrees 54 minutes Scorpio in 2002, 5 degrees 30 minutes in 2010, and 3 degrees 6 minutes in 2018. The 2026 meeting at 0 degrees 45 minutes closes this Scorpio sequence, and the next corresponding point eight years from now moves into Libra. You may read claims that this is the last Scorpio Venus Star Point until 2177 or 2181, but published calendars differ about that distant date, so I would not make either year the headline. The pattern does not mean the same events repeat every eight years. It gives us a question to carry through time: what were we learning about love, money, trust, and value then, and what has changed since?

Love, Self-Worth and What We Value

Venus is not only romance. She describes what we welcome, what we want, the resources we exchange, and the standards by which we decide that something is worth keeping. In Scorpio, those subjects become intimate. The sign asks about trust, loyalty, shared resources, privacy, dependency, grief, and power, and it tends to bring the hidden terms of an agreement into view. Who has the leverage? Who is taking the risk? What does each person give, and what is each person actually receiving?

Because Venus is retrograde, the emphasis is on looking again, not on ending things. A Venus Star Point rarely arrives as a dramatic event. More often it is a realization that grows clearer over time. You might notice that a relationship has become one-sided, that your spending no longer reflects what matters to you, or that you have been chasing approval instead of pleasure. The questions can be uncomfortable: What have I been calling love? Where have I mistaken intensity for intimacy, or security for affection? Where am I giving freely, and where am I giving because I hope it will make someone choose me?

The answer will not always be a breakup. Sometimes it is a boundary, a new agreement about money or time, or an honest conversation about intimacy and emotional labor. If you are single, you may see more clearly what kind of love you no longer want to settle for. If you are married or partnered, you may finally name who has been holding everything together. Scorpio can make feelings feel urgent, so when fear or jealousy rises, pause long enough to ask what you actually know and what you are imagining. A question asked directly brings more clarity than a test, a phone search, or making someone guess what is wrong. And honesty is not the same as cruelty. A truth is useful when it helps us choose more clearly, not when we use it to punish.

Health: When Pleasure Needs a Second Look

In medical astrology, Venus is linked with the kidneys, the skin, blood sugar, and the hormones, while Scorpio governs the organs of elimination and reproduction, the bladder, the colon, and the pelvic floor. When Venus disappears into the Sun in Scorpio, some people notice that the body is asking for a different kind of care. Sweets may stop feeling sweet, the skin may react to stress, or hormonal changes, including the slow, strange journey of perimenopause and menopause, may ask for more attention than we planned to give them.

This is a good week to look at your pleasures with honest eyes. Which treats are truly nourishing you, and which have become habits you no longer enjoy? Drinking more water, reducing sugar and alcohol, and moving your body gently can all support the Venus side of health. Scorpio adds a reminder that emotional stress often lives in the body, so a long walk, a warm bath, journaling, or a conversation with a therapist may help as much as anything on your plate.

One practical note: Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio on October 24, the morning after the Venus Star Point. If you are reviewing test results, medication instructions, or insurance paperwork this week, read them twice and ask questions before you assume. And if something has been bothering you physically, this is a good time to finally book the appointment you have been postponing.

Education: Learning What Really Matters to You

Venus retrograde is a wonderful time to return to something you once loved learning. Maybe it is a language you abandoned, a musical instrument gathering dust, a painting class, or an astrology book you started three years ago and never finished. Venus loves beauty and pleasure, and Scorpio loves depth, so this combination favors studying one subject deeply rather than collecting ten shallow certificates.

With Mercury stationing retrograde in Scorpio on October 24, this also becomes a strong time for research, review, and rereading. Students may find it easier to go back over old material than to start something new. Parents may notice that a child needs more emotional support around school, not just more homework help. And for those of us who teach, it is a good season to ask whether our lessons reflect what we truly value, or only what we think others expect. As a special education teacher, I learned that the best learning happens when someone feels safe enough to be honest about what they do not understand yet. That is very Scorpio, and very Venus too.

A Grounded Ritual for the Venus Star Point

My ritual for this Venus Star Point is simple. Write down one thing you value, one arrangement you need to review, and one action that would make the exchange more honest. If the subject is money, look at the numbers. If it is love, identify the conversation. If it is self-worth, name one place where you have been accepting less than you truly want. Then choose a step that can happen in ordinary life: set a budget meeting, ask for clarification, review a shared bill, or tell someone what you need. If the situation is complicated or emotionally unsafe, take time to plan and get support from someone you trust.

You might also keep a record of this Venus cycle. Write the date, the question you are carrying, and what you know for certain, and return to it when Venus rises again as the morning star and the intensity has settled. A ritual will not make another person behave differently or guarantee anything, but it gives your attention a direction.

The question I would carry forward is this: What do I value enough to protect, and what am I ready to renegotiate because the old terms no longer fit? Tell me your answer in the comments; I read every one.

“Do it for the love; don’t do it for the likes. Success doesn’t come overnight.”-Chronixx

Moonlight and miracles,

Krisztina Simon
LunarGrace Astrology
www.lunargrace.org
www.youtube.com/@LunarGrace-v8o
karmakriszta@gmail.com

Instagram: @lunargrace

Published book: Uma Kriko: Let’s talk about THAT

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Let Me Start with My Own Chart

I have Sagittarius rising, which means Libra is my 11th house and Aquarius is my 3rd. My Midheaven and Pluto sit in Libra, so my career, reputation, and deepest sense of power live in the house of friends, audiences, subscribers, and community. That is you, my dear readers. My Mercury sits at 10 degrees Aquarius in the 3rd house, the house of writing, teaching, speaking, learning, and everyday conversation, and it trines my Pluto in Libra. My North Node joins Neptune at 5-11 degrees Sagittarius in my 1st house, on the royal star Antares, so my destiny is tied to who I am and how I show up, with a little mysticism mixed in. They explain why my soul keeps pushing me to write, teach, and talk to you every week, even when the laundry, the dog, and my boys have different plans for me.

Right now, the transiting North Node is moving through Aquarius, my 3rd house, the sign of my Mercury. On October 21, the Sun in Libra moves through my 11th house, over the sign of my Midheaven and Pluto, and trines that Aquarius Node, lighting up the same Libra-to-Aquarius trine I carry between my Pluto and Mercury. At the same time, it opposes Chiron in Aries in my 5th house of creativity, children, joy, and self-expression, the house of my natal Venus. So I feel this day personally: the call to share more of my voice, and the old ache of wondering whether I am giving enough to my family while I give so much to my work.

Wherever Libra, Aquarius, and Aries fall in your own chart, you may feel a version of the same story. Let me walk you through it.

A Fork in the Road

On October 21, the Sun in Libra trines the North Node in Aquarius. The Sun is our vitality, purpose, and visibility. Libra represents balance, fairness, partnership, contracts, and beauty. The North Node is the point of destiny, the direction the soul is being pulled toward, and in Aquarius it points to the future, to community, technology, learning, and doing things in a new way. A trine is an easy, flowing aspect. It does not force anything to happen, but it makes the right step feel natural, almost obvious.

This is the breath of divine alignment. A fork in the road appears, and this time, the “risk” feels like truth. You may get offered a job that makes no sense on paper but sings to your soul. Or you fall into a connection that feels eerily familiar, in a good way. Destiny isn’t dramatic here. It’s soft. You recognize the right step because your body exhales the moment it’s offered. Walk toward what feels both calm and bold.

For some people, this may look like signing up for a class, a certification, or a course in a completely new subject, because Aquarius loves learning that points to the future. For others, it may take the form of a new purpose taking shape through a group, a cause, a community project, or an online audience. In career, Libra favors fair agreements and partnerships, so a collaboration or a better contract may appear. In money, you may choose work that pays fairly over work that only pays loudly. In love, if you are single, someone may arrive through friends or a group; if you are partnered, the relationship may find a new, more equal rhythm. The ancient Greeks believed the three Fates spun the thread of every life. A trine to the Node can feel like noticing that thread in your hand and finally deciding to follow it.

The Praise and the Itch

On October 21, the Sun in Libra also opposes Chiron in Aries. Chiron is the wounded healer, and in Aries he touches our identity, our courage, our body, and our right to take up space. The opposition stretches across the Libra-Aries axis, the old tension between “we” and “me”: keeping the peace for others versus standing up for yourself. An opposition often plays out through another person, a mirror who shows us what we have been avoiding.

The praise lands, but the wound still itches. You may be celebrated at work, only to go home and feel like a ghost in your own family. This opposition reopens old identity injuries, especially those rooted in being overlooked, underestimated, or misunderstood. You might confront a friend about always being the “giver,” or finally admit that your people-pleasing started when a parent’s approval became the currency of love. The wound isn’t a weakness. It’s a compass pointing to where you buried your truth.

In mythology, Chiron was the wisest of the centaurs, the teacher of Achilles and of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Struck by a poisoned arrow he could not heal in himself, he became the greatest healer of others. That is the paradox of this day. In love, it may bring up the feeling of being chosen only when you are useful, and invite a more honest conversation. In career, recognition can arrive at the same moment you realize what it has cost you. In health, Aries rules the head, so stress may show up as tension headaches, jaw clenching, or old injuries flaring when you push too hard. This is a good day for gentle movement, a long walk, a real meal, and saying no to one thing you would normally say yes to out of guilt.

The Wider World

The same signs tell a story about the world. Libra is diplomacy, justice, and the search for peace. Aquarius is the crowd, the people, and the future they are demanding. Aries is war, soldiers, and leaders who strike first.

We can see the Aquarius North Node in the streets as protests over the cost of living, rent, and public services spread across Europe. We can see the Libra and Aries tension in the Middle East, where Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia have escalated this month, even hitting Riyadh’s main airport, and the wounded Chiron in Aries reminds us of the civilians and soldiers who carry the cost of every conflict. Libra asks the old question that every negotiating table asks: what would a fair peace actually look like?

The hopeful side of the trine is that people everywhere are reaching for a more just future. The painful side of the opposition is that old wounds, national and personal, do not heal just because we want them to. Both are in the sky together this week.

Two Messages on One Day

It is rare to get both messages on the same day: walk toward your future, and tend the old wound as you do. For me, it means writing for you with my whole heart, and then closing the laptop to sit with my boys and actually listen. For you, it may mean saying yes to the new path that makes your body exhale, while finally saying no to the role of the endless giver. Chiron could not heal his own wound, but he never stopped teaching. Maybe that is enough for one Tuesday.

Now I want to hear from you. Did a fork in the road appear for you this week, or did an old wound start to itch? Tell me in the comments; I read each one of it.

Moonlight and miracles,

Krisztina Simon
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Apollo’s arrows, the plague of Thebes, and a death in Irkutsk

The very first scene of Western literature is a plague. In the opening lines of Homer’s Iliad, Apollo, angered because Agamemnon dishonored his priest, walks down from Olympus “like the night” and fires his silver arrows into the Greek camp, first into the mules and dogs, then into the men, until the funeral pyres burn day and night. A few centuries later, Sophocles opens Oedipus the King with another plague, this time on the city of Thebes, and the oracle says it will not lift until a hidden truth comes to light: who killed the old king? In that story, the plague is the symptom. The concealed truth is the disease.

I keep thinking of both stories this week, because of what happened in Irkutsk.

Here is what has been reported. A 28-year-old laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East fell ill, was hospitalized on September 29, and died in the early hours of October 2. The independent regional outlet Lyudi Baikala reported that she had accidentally broken a test tube containing pneumonic-plague bacteria on September 25, which is why that date has become so important. Russian authorities have not confirmed that account. The federal health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, diagnosed “pneumonia of unknown etiology,” denied that any accident involving pathogens was recorded at the institute, and said no dangerous pathogens were found in any of her contacts. The regional governor called the sanitary and epidemiological situation in Irkutsk “stable.”

And yet the response was anything but ordinary. More than 60 institute employees were reportedly confined inside the facility from October 2, sleeping on floors and chairs. Quarantine measures and visitor restrictions were put in place at two Irkutsk hospitals and a maternity facility, and NBC News reported that around 200 people entered medical observation. The US State Department said it was aware of “a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague” and urged Russia to “share accurate information quickly and openly.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked Russia to be more transparent, and President Trump offered help. The World Health Organization rated the international risk as “very low,” with spokesman Christian Lindmeier saying there is “currently no indication that we are dealing with anything similar to the pandemic.”

So we are left in an uncomfortable middle ground. There is clearly enough concern for an unusually serious public-health response. There is not enough verified evidence to call this the beginning of a plague outbreak, let alone a new pandemic. That middle ground is exactly where forensic astrology is most useful, and most dangerous, so let us walk into it carefully.

What we know, what we do not, and why the region matters

Plague is a bacterium, not a virus. Before anything else, let us be precise, because precision is our protection. Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, not by a virus. Its pneumonic form, which attacks the lungs and can spread person to person through close, face-to-face contact, is serious and can be fatal when untreated. But modern plague is generally treatable with antibiotics when it is recognized quickly, and the WHO says recovery rates are high with timely treatment. Experts quoted this week, including virologist Ian Jones and infectious-disease physician Dr. Glenn Wortmann, said the bacteria do not travel far and that a COVID-scale event is not what the evidence describes. So if you see posts about a “new plague virus” or an unstoppable second pandemic, that is not what is known.

Why Irkutsk. The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute was founded in 1934 for one reason: plague lives naturally in Siberia and the Far East. There are natural plague foci among wild rodents in the Altai, Tuva and Transbaikal regions, and institutes like this one exist to study and contain the bacterium where it occurs in nature. So a plague research lab in Irkutsk is not mysterious in itself. It is a frontline post.

The Disease X exercise. There is another fact worth separating from conspiracy. Russia and China really did hold cross-border infectious-disease exercises in late August, and public reports describe scenarios involving an emerging tick-borne “Disease X,” an imported plague event, epidemic notification, risk assessment and coordinated cross-border response. That is genuinely interesting, and I am not going to pretend I did not notice it. But an exercise held before an emergency does not prove the emergency was created. Public-health agencies run simulations all the time precisely because infectious outbreaks are predictable categories of risk, and the WHO itself maintains plague and emerging-zoonosis simulation exercises for that reason.

Why people do not simply trust the official word. And still, I understand why so many people are skeptical, because this region has history. In April 1979, anthrax spores escaped from a Soviet military facility in Sverdlovsk, today’s Yekaterinburg, and around 66 people died. For years the Soviet authorities insisted the deaths came from contaminated meat. Only in 1992 did Boris Yeltsin admit the outbreak came from the military lab. In September 2019, a gas explosion and fire hit the Vector virology center near Novosibirsk, one of only two places on Earth officially holding smallpox samples, and the public got very little detail. And in 1910 and 1911, a pneumonic plague epidemic tore through Manchuria, just across the border from this same part of Siberia, killing around 60,000 people, until a young doctor named Wu Lien-teh convinced the authorities to use cloth masks, quarantine and cremation, and stopped it. So when an official statement says “pneumonia of unknown etiology” while 60 colleagues are locked in a building and hospitals restrict visitors, people remember Sverdlovsk. That memory is not paranoia. It is history. But history is also a reason to demand evidence, not to replace it with fear.

The chart’s ruler: Mars in fall, under pressure

Now the astrology, and it gets extremely interesting. I cast the chart for September 25, 2026 at 12:00 noon in Irkutsk, using Whole Sign houses. Scorpio rises at 24°24′, and Scorpio is the sign of the hidden, of death and regeneration, of what lives below the surface, of quarantine and of things sealed away. That immediately makes Mars the ruler of the event.

And Mars is not comfortable. He sits at 28°15′ Cancer, in his fall, the weakest place he can be, in the 9th house. The 9th is the house of foreign countries, borders, international affairs, science, higher learning, law and the movement of information across jurisdictions. So the ruler of this event describes a crisis mechanism that travels across borders: international attention, foreign governments, scientific authorities, and questions crossing from one country to another. Mars also rules Aries, which falls on this chart’s 6th house, the house of illness, workers, daily routines, hygiene, laboratories and medical procedures. So the ruler of the event and the ruler of illness and work are the same weakened planet. That alone makes Mars the planet I watch most carefully here.

Mars, Pluto and Chiron. Mars is approaching an opposition to Pluto at 3°10′ Aquarius, and he forms a very tight square to Chiron at 29°43′ Aries, sitting inside that 6th house of health. I will not translate that into “bioweapon,” because astrology cannot tell us what happened in a laboratory. But symbolically it is powerful crisis language. Mars is acute action and rupture. Pluto is concentrated power, dangerous material, containment, and processes running below ordinary visibility. Chiron is the wound, here in the house of illness and workers. The picture is entirely consistent with an acute medical crisis inside a highly specialized institution. It is not proof of which pathogen caused it.

Ate beside Mars. The asteroid Ate sits at 27°03′ Cancer, only about 1°12′ from Mars, and this is one of the asteroid contacts I would actually stand behind, because it is tight. In Greek myth, Ate is the goddess of blindness, rash action and ruin, the moment when judgment breaks. Zeus himself threw her out of Olympus, and in the Iliad, the same poem that opens with Apollo’s plague, Agamemnon later blames Ate for the reckless decision that nearly destroyed the Greek army. Next to an already weakened chart ruler in the 9th house, Ate adds another layer of possible error, mishandling, overreach, or a situation moving beyond someone’s intended control. Symbolism, I repeat, not evidence that a test tube was dropped.

Phaethon on the Sun. I also find the asteroid Phaethon at 0°41′ Libra, conjunct the Sun at 2°07′ Libra, unusually evocative. Phaethon was the son of Helios who begged to drive the chariot of the Sun for a single day. The horses felt his weak hands on the reins, bolted, and scorched the earth until Zeus struck him down. It is the story of someone handling an immensely powerful force, losing control of it, and causing destruction because the power exceeded the handler’s capacity. For a chart investigated around a possible laboratory exposure, that is astonishingly fitting as an image. But we keep our forensic discipline: symbolism can describe the archetype without proving the literal mechanism.

The hidden authority: the Sun, Neptune, Mercury and Panacea

The Sun opposite Neptune, within 54 minutes. The single most important aspect in this chart may be the Sun at 2°07′ Libra opposing Neptune at 3°01′ Aries, an orb of only 0°54′. This matters enormously because the Sun rules the 10th house here, with Leo on the 10th. So the Sun represents government, authority, leadership, the official public narrative and the people responsible for managing the situation. And that ruler of government sits in the 12th house, the house of hidden processes, isolation, confinement, institutions, secrecy and things happening beyond ordinary sight, while opposing Neptune in the 6th house of illness and workers.

If I were looking for one signature to describe the public story right now, this would be it: the ruler of public authority hidden in the 12th, exactly opposite Neptune in the house of illness. Neptune does not automatically mean lying. It can mean uncertainty, an unclear diagnosis, incomplete information, contamination, confusion, invisible processes, contradictory explanations, and genuine difficulty knowing what is actually happening. That is almost exactly the factual situation: serious reports, sweeping precautions, an official diagnosis of “pneumonia of unknown etiology,” claims of plague that remain unconfirmed, and people everywhere trying to decide which information deserves their trust. Remember Thebes: the plague would not lift until the hidden truth was spoken.

The air network. The signature grows stronger because the Sun also trines Pluto within 1°03′ and trines Uranus within 3°29′. So the Sun sits inside an air-sign network linking Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius, while opposing Neptune. That is a stunning picture for a story where government, advanced science, technology, laboratories, information networks, digital reporting and collective systems all meet. Uranus in Gemini speeds up information. Pluto in Aquarius magnifies systemic power and technological infrastructure. Neptune fogs certainty. The result can be enormous amounts of information arriving while clarity does not improve at the same speed. That is exactly why I would be extremely careful with social media around this story.

Mercury hidden, squaring Mars. Mercury at 22°37′ Libra is also in the 12th house, and it is applying to a square with Mars in the 9th. Information and reporting are tangled with hidden institutional material and international tension. Mercury in Libra wants to compare accounts and weigh competing narratives, while Mars says everyone wants an answer right now. This is the kind of chart where twenty people can each hold a fragment of the information, and all twenty become convinced they understand the whole story.

Panacea beside Mercury. And here is a contact I love. The asteroid Panacea sits at 23°32′ Libra, just 0°55′ from Mercury in the 12th house. In myth, Panacea was a daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine, and the goddess of the universal remedy, while her sister Hygieia ruled prevention and cleanliness. Asclepius was so skilled that he began raising the dead, and Zeus struck him down for crossing the boundary between healing and the power over death. Panacea next to Mercury does not tell us there is a cure, or that someone is hiding one. Symbolically, it links Mercury, testing, information, lab results, documentation and communication, with the search for treatment and solution, inside the hidden institutional house. That is a far more sophisticated reading than treating every 12th-house planet as a cover-up. Somewhere behind those closed doors, people are testing, documenting and trying to heal.

The house of illness and the house of death

The 6th house is loaded. Neptune sits at 3° Aries, Saturn retrograde at 12° Aries, and Chiron retrograde at 29°43′ Aries, with Pallas and Vesta there too. Saturn in the 6th is almost painfully literal: restriction around illness, workers, medical routines, isolation procedures, containment and institutional protocols. Saturn retrograde describes something being reviewed, repeated, restricted, or handled through an existing system rather than a clean new beginning. Neptune beside it brings uncertainty about what the illness actually is. And Vesta, the keeper of the sacred flame, the goddess of sealed sanctuaries, here is the closed facility itself, the workers locked inside with the doors shut.

Saturn is also in his fall in Aries. That does not mean containment necessarily fails. It suggests containment happening under pressure rather than under ideal conditions, urgency competing with procedure, sixty people sleeping on chairs and floors instead of a calm, orderly protocol. And Chiron at the final, anaretic degree of Aries adds the image of a wound or medical vulnerability reaching an extreme point just before it changes sign. Something is at its limit.

Uranus in the 8th house. Uranus, retrograde at 5°36′ Gemini, sits in the 8th house. In event astrology, the 8th becomes central when a story revolves around death, fear, mortality, shared risk and consequences spreading beyond the original person. Uranus brings sudden disruption, scientific technology, shocking information and the unexpected. I read this as one reason the death of a single lab worker became an international story so quickly. One death would normally stay a local tragedy. Put it inside a plague research institute, quarantine the contacts, add uncertainty about the pathogen, and Uranus in the 8th suddenly has the entire internet doing amateur epidemiology before breakfast. And remember, this is the same Uranus that trines the Sun: the shock and the official authority are tied together in one network.

The Arabic lots: Fortune, Spirit, Necessity and Sickness

This is where the chart becomes truly fascinating, but first an important methodological warning. The 12:00 time needs to be a real event time before we treat the angles and the lots as exact. If noon is only a placeholder because nobody knows when the alleged exposure happened, the Ascendant, the houses and every lot built from the Ascendant can move dramatically. I am sharing these lots with you because they are remarkable in this chart, but please read them as provisional. Arabic lots are not wallpaper. They are time-sensitive mathematics. I calculated them as a day chart, since the Sun is above the horizon at noon.

The Lot of Fortune at 5°30′ Taurus. Using the traditional day formula, Ascendant plus Moon minus Sun, Fortune falls at about 5°30′ Taurus. Fortune describes the body and the material circumstances of an event. Here it sits in the 7th house, the house of other people, contacts and direct encounters, opposite Venus at 7°16′ Scorpio within about 1°47′, and square Pluto at 3°10′ Aquarius within about 2°20′. I read that carefully but seriously: the bodily circumstances of this event are tied to other people and contact networks, while Pluto brings crisis management and concentrated power. That is a striking picture for an incident whose entire significance depends on one question: contact and transmission.

The Lot of Spirit at 13°19′ Gemini. Spirit, Ascendant plus Sun minus Moon, falls at about 13°19′ Gemini in the 8th house, and here is the astonishing part: it squares the Moon at 13°12′ Pisces within just seven minutes of arc. Spirit traditionally describes intention, agency, action and what is deliberately undertaken, while the Moon in mundane astrology describes the public and the flow of circumstances. So conscious decisions and the public’s emotional reaction are under extraordinary tension. And Spirit’s ruler is Mercury, hidden in the 12th house, repeating the theme once more: agency and decision-making are tied to information that is not fully public.

The Lot of Necessity on Uranus. For me, the most interesting of the Hermetic lots is Necessity, named after Ananke, the primordial goddess of compulsion, whom even the gods could not resist. Using the Paulus-style day formula, Ascendant plus Fortune minus Mercury, Necessity falls at about 7°16′ Gemini, only about 1°40′ from Uranus at 5°36′ Gemini in the 8th house. That is remarkable. Not because it proves plague, and not because Uranus means genetic engineering. What it describes symbolically is a sudden, imposed necessity arising inside an 8th-house crisis: quarantine, emergency containment, sudden compulsory procedures, abrupt changes because authorities believe a potentially dangerous condition cannot be ignored. Uranus makes the constraint unexpected and scientifically complicated, and Gemini makes information part of the necessity itself: testing, communication, reporting, data, and who knows what, and when. If the noon time is accurate, Necessity on Uranus in the 8th would be one of my headline signatures for this whole chart.

The Lot of Sickness beside the Moon. Then there is the traditional Lot or Part of Sickness, for which one historically attested formula is Ascendant plus Mars minus Saturn. Traditional medical astrology tied it to the tension between Mars as acute affliction and Saturn as obstruction and chronic difficulty, and it is a symbolic technique, never a diagnostic method. In this chart, the Lot of Sickness falls at about 10°38′ Pisces, roughly 2°34′ from the Moon at 13°12′ Pisces. If the time is authentic, that is significant. The Moon in event astrology describes the public, the unfolding story and what carries the situation forward. The Lot of Sickness beside the Moon can describe illness becoming the thing the public follows and reacts to emotionally. Its ruler, Jupiter, sits in Leo in the 10th house, which routes the whole sickness theme straight to public authorities, leadership, official visibility and an enlarged public narrative.

How the chart loops back on itself. Notice how beautifully, or disturbingly, the whole chart circles back. The Lot of Sickness is ruled by Jupiter in the 10th. The ruler of the 10th, the Sun, is hidden in the 12th and opposes Neptune in the 6th almost exactly. Mercury, the ruler of both Necessity and Spirit in Gemini, is also hidden in the 12th. The chart keeps repeating the same message in different symbolic languages: a health event becomes publicly important while crucial information stays institutional, incomplete, uncertain or out of reach. That is a far stronger astrological argument than simply shouting that Neptune means lies.

The reassuring piece. There is also a wider Jupiter-Saturn trine linking Jupiter in the 10th with Saturn in the 6th, and I consider it one of the reassuring parts of this chart. Jupiter-Saturn describes institutions coordinating large-scale response and containment. The existence of quarantine or monitoring does not automatically mean catastrophe; it can mean the containment machinery is working. That matters, because a responsible forensic reading must look for both the danger and the control. And it fits what we have heard so far: contacts tested, no pathogens found among them, and the WHO calling the international risk very low.

What I will be watching, and what this chart is really saying

So, do I think this chart is meaningless? Absolutely not. It is one of the strangest health-event charts I have looked at this year. The ruler of government is hidden in the 12th house, opposing Neptune in the 6th house of illness within less than one degree. The ruler of the event and of the 6th house, Mars, is weakened in Cancer, beside Ate, and under heavy pressure from Chiron and Pluto. Phaethon, the boy who lost control of the Sun’s chariot, sits on the Sun. Uranus sits in the 8th house of crisis and mortality. And if the noon timing can ever be confirmed, the Lot of Necessity falls almost directly on Uranus while the traditional Lot of Sickness sits beside the Moon. That deserves watching.

But astrology does not give us permission to manufacture facts. Right now, we do not know that this is a new plague outbreak. We certainly do not know that it is a new virus, because plague is bacterial. We do not know of any engineered resistance, any deliberate release, or any second pandemic. What we do have is an unexplained death of a young woman who worked at an anti-plague institute, an unusually serious precautionary response, conflicting information, and a chart absolutely saturated with the symbolism of hidden medical uncertainty, institutional containment and fast-spreading information. That is enough. We do not need to make it scarier than the evidence.

Where this investigation goes next. I am treating this as a continuing forensic series rather than declaring a verdict today. The next step is to cast charts for her hospitalization on September 29, her death on October 2, and the WHO statement this week, and then track the Lot of Sickness, Mars, Mercury and the rulers of the 6th house across all of them. That is how we will learn whether this September 25 pattern repeats, or whether the noon chart is giving us a seductive coincidence. And if a confirmed time for the alleged exposure ever surfaces, I will recalculate every angle and every lot and show you exactly what changes.

And I want to end with a thought for her. Behind every chart there is a person. A 28-year-old woman went to work at a laboratory dedicated to protecting people from one of humanity’s oldest diseases, and she did not come home. Whatever the final truth turns out to be, she deserves an honest accounting, and her colleagues and family deserve the truth spoken plainly, the way Thebes needed it before its plague could lift.

The astrology says: watch the information. The epidemiology says: watch the evidence. And Neptune says: do not confuse the two.

Tell me in the comments what you are seeing and hearing about Irkutsk, and which date you want me to chart next. I read every one of your messages.

Stardust and shimmer, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

Krisztina Simon LunarGrace Astrology karmakriszta@gmail.com lunargrace.org YouTube: LunarGrace Astrology

This piece is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It presents astrological interpretation and open questions about an ongoing public-health event. It is not medical advice and does not claim any confirmed cause. For health information, follow your local public-health authorities and the World Health Organization.

Sources

• RFE/RL: Siberian anti-plague institute staff isolated after worker’s death

• PBS NewsHour: How Russia and the world are responding to a possible case of pneumonic plague

• NBC News: Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation

• NBC News: Russia says no plague found in contacts of Siberian lab worker who died

• UN Geneva: Irkutsk suspected plague death, WHO

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