I was asked this week when I could tell people the current US president would go…’please bring us some good news’…one viewer implored. I replied that I had delivered important information in past readings that could point to reasons for cautious optimism for future US stability. My past predictions had included:
Trump would not see out a full term
He would fail miserably and one critical way would be economic failure which would turn most against him
Some Republicans growing more uneasy due to backlash from their constituents, would push back against his more extreme and chaotic proposals
Jesse Donald Vance, the VP lackey, would also fail and would never be able to hold the Maga base as Trump has. In short, when Trump goes, Maga fragments as a political movement
Trump’s health is not robust and he is being treated with medication for an illness. The letters MVM are somehow important in this regard. He could face another more serious assassination attempt in March/April
Opposition to Trump’s presidency grows with the economic downturn. No amount of spin or lies will protect him from this backlash.
Elon Musk is in a downward spiral and likely to retreat from the political scene in the near future following huge monetary loss
In 2026 the Democratic Party is likely to take the House back
In 2028 an election will be held and a middle aged man, likely a businessman, will be elected. He inherits significant damage from the Trump years but does bring stability back to the US.
All these predictions have been made since November 7th 2024, and we are now seeing them play out. I cannot waive a magic wand and make Trump/Vance/Musk disappear but I can tell you that chaos and destruction are not sustainable and, in the end ‘as you sow, so shall you reap’. They will reap only destruction and failure if that is the course they are hellbent on pursuing.
Hello readers and viewers, it’s been a little while since I last wrote to you. I have been busy promoting my new book and juggling a serious arthritic flare in my hands that has dislocated the thumb CMC joint on my left hand, and because I am using my right hand more it has become quite painful too. Needless to say, I have been neglecting what I love to do the most which is writing. Let’s catch up.
So much has happened since my last entry. We have been subjected to a daily barrage of chaos, destruction and unconstitutional action from the new president Donald Trump. For months I refused to name him calling him 45 or 47, or under my breath something infinitely worse. However it struck me that not using his name, at least in my case, meant that I was reticent to speak his name and I did not want to give over to any form of fear or even allowing him to escape responsibility for the destruction he is wreaking not just on the US but on the world. In Trump we see lawlessness, vindictiveness and retribution, and most obviously heartlessness.
Tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of civil servants are without jobs in less than a month since Trump took office, whether they come from red states, blue states or purple states…good and talented workers have been thrown on the scrap heap, ridiculed and belittled, mocked and marked and callously booted out of the door they once walked through with pride as those with the privilege of serving the public. Billionaire and clown Elon Musk, behind sunglasses and a black cap carried a chainsaw onto the CPAC stage recently to highlight how he has taken a chainsaw to the government and its staff. It reminded me of national wrestling championships crossed with the Roman Colosseum. Real people, real families and communities are suffering as a result of his actions, yet he continues to mock them after he has destroyed them.
Trump and Musk, and Musk’s band of juvenile techno’s have been accused of breaching the privacy of Americans, potentially accessing their Social Security data and their financial and banking data too. All of this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wrecking ball Trump, Musk and JD Vance, have taken to American society, government and way of life. And what is the end game? As a psychic and intuitive I have long felt the object of all of this is pure and utter greed and a lust for power and retribution.
Such are their travesties that those who voted for him, aside from his Maga base, are regretting their vote. A little late don’t you think? Sometimes karma arrives in real time and when it does, it leaves us in no doubt what our mistakes have been.
Internationally, the damage is equally as bad. Trump has taken that same wrecking ball and swung it high against America’s allies. He has all but pulled the US out of NATO, extorted Ukraine for its rare earth minerals and other resources, and upset Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Denmark, Panama and Colombia, all in the space of weeks. Germany France and the UK ready to string him and his sycophantic government from the nearest tree after the way in which he has sold out Europe for a partnership with dictator and war criminal Vladimir Putin. My own country, Australia, has been mercifully spared thus far, however I wonder for how long before it is our turn, and in what way he is going to try and extort us. My guess is that he will want even more military bases on our sovereign soil.
Heartbreakingly, he has told Ukraine to either accept a deal for America to take 50% of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals and other resources in perpetuity or he will turn off Starlink internet in their country. This would leave Ukraine unable to defend itself and unable to launch or repel drone and other attacks. Of course, a threat to turn off Starlink with the full backing of Starlink owner Elon Musk, should be a warning to other countries to find another satellite provider or be at the mercy of Trump/Musk’s blackmail in the future.
Now we are seeing fully the corruption greed, and cruelty of the highest order.
Yet for all the worry and anxiety we are labouring under, there is much to take heart in. Weekly street protests across all US states, unified legal action amongst civil rights groups and strong pushback from the state governments against Trump and Musk, show that we are with power and the freedom to exercise it.
A few weeks ago I caught up with Erika Robinson from In the Company of Cards, to talk about my new book Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint. We spoke about how I took back my power when I was at my lowest ebb after my cancer diagnosis. I know only too well what it’s like to be at the bottom of that dark well, fearful and with no idea how to climb out. However, as soon as we look up, not down, and as soon as we find our courage and resolve, the light flows to us, illuminating our pathway upwards and onwards.
No matter how tough the going gets in the US and in the world, I choose to put my confidence into each and every one of us who stands strongly against the tyrants and cowards, and for a free, fair and prosperous future in which peace is our cornerstone.
My new book Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint is distributed far and wide, on Amazon and beyond. In some places it is on backorder due to the first print run selling out, however you can find it still available here:
Welcome to 2025 – what a phrase and what a year it will be. Many of us are not enamoured with what 2025 might bring. That’s understandable.
In the US, a former president who would have been found guilty of charges relating to the January 6th, 2021 insurrection attempt at the Capitol – according to the Special Counsel and his team investigating the charges – will be inaugurated as the 47th US President.
Many of us are unwilling to bend the knee given the past. In fact, this President would have been found to be ineligible for presidential office under Section 3 of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment, had it not been for the Republican majority Supreme Court’s intervention giving the incoming 47th not just one but many lifelines. As it is, the soon to be 47th president enters office as a convicted felon having failed to stop a jury of his peers convicting him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a payment to an adult film star on the eve of the 2016 election. He is the first president in the US history to enter the White House as a convicted felon. Many are dubbing him F47 (felon 47) as a result.
His election throws up the possibilities (with some already occurring) of media censoring and suppression, vindictive retribution (is there any other kind), financial corruption – he was found to have syphoned off $7million during his last time in Office – mass deportation and loss of due process for asylum seekers, welfare cuts and general lawless and rule breaking behaviour. Little wonder some, if not a majority, of Americans find looking forward to 2025 distasteful.
Across the rest of the world some of our major western nations will face elections in a climate of rabid political interference and collusion by US tech and social media giants. We too (I am Australian) must fight back against the erosion of our democratic rights and corruption of our free election processes.
In the Middle East a fragile peace deal has been done. I celebrate that going into 2025 but I wonder how long it will be until Israel’s rogue, extremist leader Netanyahu breaks the deal in favour of totally consuming Gaza once hostages are returned. Another tragic war is being fought in Ukraine, a country that must now face a hostile US President who has few real allies and even fewer friends other than, it appears, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Astrologically, the sky is ominous though hopeful I would wager. Major movement of the outer planets promises that what we think may occur in 2025 may be the opposite of what actually transpires. We may find our power yet when we think we have none. Expansive and benefic Jupiter moves from Gemini into the cardinal sign of Cancer in June – it’s going to be all about our feelings and nothing motivates more than emotion. I don’t underestimate the anger and pushback against incoming 47 in 2025, including from allies. Take for example the anger emanating from the usually mild mannered Canadians who railed against the incoming president when he said their sovereign and much loved nation should be the US’s 51st State.
Neptune and Saturn currently in Pisces will move into cardinal sign Aries (direct action) in March and May of 2025 respectively. Time for a much needed reality check and concrete steps to course correct and find new ways forward. Any new plans will need hard work to pull them off.
As I write, the lunar nodes have moved into Pisces and Virgo – again showing us in great detail what we need to see but also giving us an opportunity to create a different future without the smog of illusion.
All in all, it’s going to be a bumpy ride in 2025 however it will not be without its opportunities for change too. In the US, voters should remember it is just over 21 months until the midterm elections will be held. If incoming 47’s power will be curbed it will be then. For nervous allies like my own country, Australia, it’s time to remember our sovereignty and independence. If lessons can be learned from the US it is how oligarchy and corruption go hand in hand and how, if not checked, will corrupt the very system that holds it to account – the majority then loses its power to those with money, power and influence who seek undemocratic rule…a kleptocracy.
In other 2025 news, my book Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint will be published on January 28th. You can read more about it here in this feature story in Mystic Living Today: https://mysticlivingtoday.com/view_page.php?ID=4310
I have spent the last few days listening to international authors talk about our world…as it once was and as it is now. We reflected on the rapid changes we have undergone this century and, particularly, in the last decade or so. The constant theme in all the discussions, was the impact of social media.
Yesterday a panel asked the question: Do books still matter?
Authors agreed they did, however all spoke of the downgrade in discourse, language and literacy and the rise of populism resulting from ‘social media’. Prominent UK author Alexander McCall Smith gave a fictitious example in a recent short story of the taxi driver who was reasonable and pleasant to his customers and then had to ‘go to taxi driver school to learn how to be confrontational’.
Other panel members spoke about the reactive and ‘angry’ discourse on social media. People were always reacting to something yet it was initially thought social media would help build positive interactive communities. In some ways it has fulfilled its initial reason for being, yet we cannot ignore the damage it has wrought on our civil society when AI generated militia pages are circulated to contest a free and fair election if the result does not go the way of a particular candidate, and where violence is threatened and organised, and activated.
When Pluto moved into Aquarius on November 19, 2024 we all breathed a sigh of relief. Surely now the power was in the collective hands. What we failed to realise is the extent we would have to wrestle power back from the all pervading oligarchy that has been built around social media…the so called tech billionaires, among them the reported richest man in the world Elon Musk (yes I did nearly forget his name after calling him Leon Musk for so long).
Ironic indeed that their fortunes have grown on the content ‘we the people’ provide them with daily, free! Ironic isn’t it that this free content we provide empowers them into positions where they become unelected officials in a government with the power to take away our social security pensions, and our cries fall powerlessly on their social media. If it seems like a giant con, it’s because it is and has been.
And when we consider all of this, we realise why Pluto in Aquarius will uncover corruption and, with effort, return the power to the collective. Already we are building new social media less prone to oligarchical takeovers, and using and nourishing independent media while rejecting legacy media.
After the US election I felt the energy of revolutions of the past, not the American revolution but the French Revolution. Yes, a revolution is coming, one where the people will stand up to the privileged and the obscenely corrupt profiting from power. They should watch themselves. As we’ve seen in Syria and are witnessing in Georgia, people power is a force that can overturn corrupt regimes and, with persistence, be a rallying cry that would curdle the blood of the tyrant and his armies.
Time to reflect. My break away with authors, writers and journalists on the ocean and traveling to Tasmania, has been good for the soul. New perspective has altered my bitterness and cynicism post US election, into a healthy realism that has new insight and purpose. This is a time for collective power to rise.
It’s an odd time, confusing, unbelievable. Most of us are apprehensive at best; filled with anxiety and dread at worst. When it appears there’s a way forward, it seems to lead nowhere. It really does feel like there’s scant hope at times.
What if I were to tell you the present-day astrology is reflecting our discombobulated state post November 5th US election. Many of the major planets are retrograde, except our old friend Pluto which has only just gone direct in Aquarius (the collective) after 15 years in Capricorn (money, wealth, oligarchy). The other forward motion can be found in Saturn in Pisces (boundaries, commitment & hard work meets the need to create and rebuild).
However retrogrades take us back over old ground to learn the lessons. They can catapult us into the past and we go inward, not outward, as we attempt to reset. Retrogrades also bring opportunities for rebalancing and refocusing of our goals and, for many of us, that goal is how we move forward managing the president-elect.
Let’s do a headcount of the retrograde planets, Mercury (communication), Jupiter (luck and good fortune), Uranus (sudden and unexpected change), Neptune (inspiration, dreams, psychic receptivity, illusion, and confusion) and Chiron (our wounds and healing). Is it any wonder we feel we are stuck in a 2016-early 2021 Groundhog Day, contemplating ‘how on earth did we get here, again, and how the hell are we going to move forward)?
There are some clues in the current astrology. We see how destructive the election of the former president has been on relationships. For almost half the US 2024 voting population, there is a real need to break away from anyone or anything remotely associated with the former president. Personal relationships, business dealings and patronage, social media platforms…and it appears there won’t be any let up in this process of cutting away what you can no longer ‘stomach’. The Moon (feelings) in Scorpio (endings and new beginnings) is making a trine (harmonious flow) to Saturn in Pisces. People really are considering their options, from moving countries, to moving states, to boycotting businesses and Thanksgiving too. This trend will continue when Saturn moves into Aries in 2025. Something new is brewing and people are working out right now, how to launch this new and necessary pathway forward.
Adding to this is the mighty Sun (I am) in future oriented Sagittarius, in a grand trine to the North Node (purpose) in Aries (new identities and beginnings and a new cycle) and Mars. The North Node (purpose) makes this trine to Mars (assertion and action) in Leo (leadership, perseverance, drive).
It seems going back over old ground and making definitive decisions on how we move forward, and importantly, the way we move forward and why, will eventually bring concrete and solid plans for the future. The planets will not be retrograde for long. Neptune (confusion) retrograde moves forward on December 7 and Mercury (communication) ends its retrograde on December 15. Uranus moves forward on January 20, 2025 and, importantly, Chiron (the wounded healer) ends its retrograde on December 29.
Believe it or not, this period of inwardness and regression is actually a necessary reset. There is no doubting the reelection of the former president carries with it tremendous lessons for all. What emerges after the chaos and volatility will be something new. As to what that is, look no further than Pluto in Aquarius. It both exposes the underbelly and corruption while putting the power in the collective to act for the future. Through seeing and experiencing the truth of what is no longer serving us, we get to decide how we move forward. Many assume they will be powerless in the future, however Pluto in Aquarius assures us we won’t. There is real power in the collective…history proves that suppressed people take back their power eventually. It’s often through a revolution.
Aquarius is the sign of the innovator, the humanitarian and the visionary. Pluto will help clear away what no longer serves us, personally and collectively whether we like it or not.
Remember it is in times of great change and challenge that the best of humanity emerges. Resilience, stoicism, innovation, drive, talent, ideas, motivation and commitment. We will learn the lessons well, as we must, and create something new.
Pluto in Aquarius will eventually bring the reset we need, even though there is a need for commitment and hard work in the coming days. Even now, there are new communication channels forming on new social media, alliances for the future being built and old partnerships are ending. Remember that faith is not something that miraculously drops out of the sky, it is something we hold to in desperate and hard times.
At the end of last week in the US, one of the former president’s Cabinet picks Matt Gaetz withdrew. Surprising to some, especially given the threatening atmosphere that prevails in Washington DC post election, and more broadly across the US. However when former congressional rep Gaetz spoke to his own party’s Senators, it became clear they wouldn’t support his nomination.
For Democratic Party voters and the former president’s critics, this is a time of great vulnerability and, for some, great fear. Already there are threats of retribution and weaponising the Department of Justice – something he and Maga congressional representatives falsely accused the Biden government of doing. I do not need to labor the obvious fact that the former president projects what he himself is either planning to do or is doing. In other telling news, Maga Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul has decried the former president’s plan to use military on the streets of America to round up migrants. While we’ve seen many of the GOP congress eventually bow to the former president…opposition thus far, at least, shows that pushback can and will work. The midterms loom in less than two years. We all remember the ‘blue tsunami’ days of 2018 when the Democratic Party won back the House and in 2020 retained the House and took the Senate. Perhaps enough GOP reps and Senators do too.
Right now, lines are being drawn in the sand. Everyone is deciding what side of those lines they will stand firm on. Some will waiver and others cave like the Morning Joe anchors who travelled to Mar a Lago in what they described as a ‘civil meeting to keep communication lines open’. Many Democratic Party and Independent democracy warriors have already made it clear they are not taking one step back from their positions before, during and post election. That is, that the former criminally convicted president is more than unsuited for office; he’s a threat to the US Republic, the rule of law and to US citizens and its allies. Highly qualified psychiatric and psychology professionals maintain the former president is in the initial stages of Alzheimer’s. Before the election there was ample evidence of a decline in the former president’s health which has been well documented even by the legacy media.
I took this photo one evening post election and immediately the words to the Beatles 1960’s hit Golden Slumbers came to mind. The Universe will always have the last say…we should still have faith in the benevolence of yesterday and its renaissance in the future.
All this adds to feelings of instability and impending doom that has spread across Democratic Party voters, illegal migrants awaiting certain deportation and those who voted for the former president and are experiencing ‘buyer’s remorse’.
One particular demographic, that of women, are also fearful given emboldened Maga males who perceive they’ve been unleashed by a former president who is a self confessed sexual predator of women.
We could all be forgiven for thinking that the US and even the broader and often unstable world, is a cross between a dystopian horror film and the equally dystopian television series The Handmaid’s Tale.
Yet, when push came to shove and even with the newly minted former president’s decree to punish GOP Senators if they didn’t bow to his will, several thwarted his DOJ Senate pick who has been accused of sex with minors. Do not be surprised though when they pass his newest pick, former Florida AG Pam Bondi…truly weaponising a future DOJ will suit their political needs.
Lines in the sand…we are all drawing them. For some, retreat and rest away from a weak and inadequate US legacy media is the answer. Indeed, the legacy media’s sub standard reporting on the former president’s campaign is one reason he was reelected. They failed to push back against the gross and continual lies and distortions of reality in their reporting, nor call out his bigotry and violent rhetoric in their Opinion sections and when commentating.
However, while the Democratic Party regroups there are many in diverse communication spaces who are pushing back. The electorate still has power which is not so quickly and easily eroded. President Biden’s Democratic Party Senate is passing judicial nominations speedily. The law in the US is an intricate and often unwieldy beast that fails sometimes and holds often. Blue States are banding together to offer greater protections for their citizens. Many of the swing states who voted for the former president have Democratic Party Governors. We should remember, State’s run elections in the US.
There was also some surprising Democratic Party and non partisan judges who won seats on State Supreme Courts…and don’t assume all Republican Party appointed judges will not rule fairly and innovatively in this dystopian-like climate. In Wyoming, a GOP Governor appointed judge struck down the state’s overall ban on abortion by using a law passed following approval of the Affordable Care Act.
There are multiple checks and balances within the US Constitution that, yes, will be sorely tested if the former president takes office, however it is a mistake to assume that fierce opposition to his worst and most destructive actions will fail. It’s now up to everyone to decide where the line in the sand is drawn. For those who continue the fight, the resistance, know you are not alone.
Post US election and since the Covid pandemic hit, we are all still searching for the why? Why has the world become such a tough and brutal place. If you’re empathetic in any way, you’re having trouble reconciling all of this with your belief that the Universe is mostly benevolent.
After November 5, 2024 particularly, the world has changed for many of us. There is significant grieving in the US, so much so that it feels palpable. We are still searching for a reason why a serial liar, self confessed predator of women and would be insurrectionist got picked by 49% of those Americans who turned up to vote. The other choice was an ethical, female politician offering $25,000 to Americans to help them build homes. Understandably, we are looking for a narrative to explain the travesty. Was the election stolen? Let the incoming president blow himself and those who voted for him up? The media is to blame? Russia interfered in the election and tech bro Elon Musk did too? Ignorant MAGA and its supporters know no better? The vote was suppressed? Our society is misogynistic, racist and bigoted?
What if I said there was a degree of truth in all of the above to explain the why. Russia did interfere with massive misinformation campaigns and bomb threats, Musk potentially violated Pennsylvania lottery laws when he offered $1m to eligible voters who registered GOP voters and the US Department of Justice warned him about ‘buying votes’. The voter suppression was a fact. Huge swathes of voters were purged off roles in North Carolina and Texas. The media hasn’t even begun to investigate the real extent of voter purging and something else too, missing ballots.
The real kicker…all the fraud theories under the sun do not disguise the obvious misogyny, racism and ignorance out there in certain sections of society and the clear drift towards fascism.
There is no doubt that Trump will fail this term for many reasons including that he is a ‘lame duck’ president – one who is elected for one term only with no possible chance of a second term, and expiring by a set date under law. His bent for retribution, using the military to round up illegal immigrants, his shocking and unqualified cabinet picks, the razor thin majorities, his undoubted weakening of the economy in the future with tariffs…all of that is true and so is the buyer’s remorse that goes with it. Already record numbers are flocking to google to search for ‘how can I change my vote’.
There is ample evidence from recent studies that X was used to distort and boost algorithms in favour of the incoming president. Facebook AI allowed an enduring number of militia pages to spring up as MAGA supporters readied for another round of Stop the Steal violence. Intimidation at polls, burning of ballet boxes, all added up.
The recount in Pennsylvania between incumbent Democratic Senator Bob Casey and MAGA would be Senator McCormick is a litmus test for the electoral system. If any fraud is present, it will be outed in that recount. We will know if the election interference by Musk and his satellites is mere conspiracy and election denial or if it holds credence.
And so confusion, grief, outrage and denial is all well founded in the US and around the world at this time and we should recognise that is the space we are coming from…as people search for their narratives to ease their pain, it is important to remember that all is not lost. We will see that in time when the fog clears.
In the meantime, we can resist any attempt to back away from our values. While we may be cynical for awhile, and reclusive too, in the end we know we must continue to stand up to fascism, to fight for voters’ rights and to create the kind of world we want to live in, and for generations to come.
Stop searching for a narrative. Be in the present moment and know that, ultimately, MAGA will implode and its leader will one day be a nightmare from which we awoke. Stay away from election analysis because it’s currently distorted. A week ago they were telling us MAGA had a mandate. Today they’ve gone silent because after votes were being finalised in places like California, it turned out MAGA’s lead was about 1%. Vice President Harris finished on 48% and the MAGA leader on 49%.
Over the next months and years, if the election recounts don’t uncover fraud, you can take heart that this is an era where Trump voters get that kick in the ass, and you get your vindication.
