Dear Friend;

Louis L’Amour (1908 — 1988), the popular author known world-wide for his novels about the American West, once wrote, “The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.“ We work so diligently to create stability in our lives only to have the winds of fate remind us that we are not in control of anything except our inner experience — heaven forbid if we have tied our inner experience to the outer circumstances of life! As the old timer said to the ambitious young entrepreneur, “That’s a hard way to make a livin’.” 😉

Reading the day’s headlines, one senses that every aspect of life is undergoing the tremor of change. From AI’s future effects on culture and the workplace to trade deficits and trade wars, the world is experiencing a seismic shift and no one can be exactly sure of where we will find ourselves in the future. Nevertheless, each week in this newsletter, astrology, especially Mundane astrology, the branch of astrology that considers global trends, will help us understand what we will be facing in the years ahead.

Mundane astrology examines the horoscopes of nations, rulers, politicians, and other influential people as a means to better understand world events related to natural processes and geopolitics; it is among the oldest forms of astrology. After all, in centuries past, a King was better able to rule, and keep his kingdom, if he had some idea of what was coming down the road. In your case, you don’t have to wait to be crowned a King or Queen; this newsletter will help you rule your own personal kingdom with a better eye on future possibility.

Beginning this month, we shall take a closer look at the revolution affecting the world today. Revolution may be a surprising word to use, but it is exactly what is happening across North America and Europe with repercussions throughout the world. As always, things are rarely what they seem and the revolution that is happening is an opportunity that, in my lifetime at least, has not presented itself as raw and unfiltered as what we are witnessing now. Are we humans up to the task? Can we put aside our assumptions and simply look at world events without prejudice?

In Mundane astrology, the slower moving outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, the nodes, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto offer the greatest insight into long-term trends. Taking at least a year to traverse a single sign, Jupiter, Saturn, the outer planets reveal deep and profound changes at work within us and the global community. For this reason, much can be gleaned from analysing their position in the sky, especially in reference to a particular nation through the horoscopes of that nation’s leaders, inaugurations, and the birth chart.

At the end of May 2025, Saturn moves into Aries, its sign of debilitation in Vedic astrology. On a global scale, Saturn represents the karma we must go through and our capacity to experience it with a steady mind. As we saw in an earlier issue, Saturn in the Aditya sign of Dhata (Pisces) indicates difficulty in bearing what must be borne in order to resolve what needs to be resolved. In other words, an issue in the world today that will intensify later this year and through 2028 is that many will not have the will to make the changes they must make in order to help make their lives, and the world, a better place. Aries is our capacity to give energy to what is possible and Saturn, a planet of karmic pain, dulls this capacity by creating a sense that we have been victimised, that somehow, life has given us the short end of the stick.

A question we must ask is if playing the role of victim or encouraging others to be a victim is a legitimate means to a legitimate end? Too often, victimhood is encouraged by those seeking to manipulate emotions in order to gain a foothold to more money and power. If no victims come forward, they are created. This does not mean there is never any truth in a perceived injustice, but when a person’s power to change their life is overshadowed by the greed of powerful groups, aggression and violence unfolds. Indeed, for those with nefarious agendas, violence is welcomed as we have seen in Hamas’s campaign of fear in Gaza and in the violent attacks on Tesla owners in the United States. 

The world is in need of a higher perspective and this can only come through an experience of one’s higher nature. Speaking about the need for a “meditation revolution”, Sadhguru says this:

Whenever we talk about revolution, most of the time people are talking about changing somebody, isn’t it? All the time rather. See, you wanting somebody else to change is not a revolution. This is an age old problem. Mother-in-law wants the daughter-in-law to change; daughter-in-law wants the mother-in-law to change, isn’t this an age old problem? Is there a revolution in it? What is revolutionary about it? You want somebody else to change – there is no revolution about it. ‘I am willing to change’ — this is a revolution. This will bring about genuine change in the world. That ‘I am willing to change my ways to make things happen’ – this will bring about the change.

There is a revolution happening in the world today… inside and out… but only the revolution on the inside will determine if the global revolution on the outside brings peace and prosperity… or slavery. 

I prefer peace and prosperity. Will you join me? 

 🤗

David 🔆

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