The Age of Aquarius, A Revolution + Tales of a Former Democrat

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

This quote is set in the time of the French Revolution, another period in history when Pluto moved into Aquarius. We are currently existing in two very different physical realities. One reality living in fear and despair and the other celebrating and excited for the future. Division has never been more clear than it is right now. It’s not just political, it’s frequency.

The day after the election results I got some messages to my inbox asking if I had predicted this based on the astrology. I don’t specialize in mundane astrology but I had predicted it based on the testimony, or evidence, I was seeing, based on where I think we’re going in the New Paradigm, which I’ve been sharing over the past several months. I’ve tried to do it less from a place of politic and more from a place of preparing you + celebrating the upcoming time, but I have shared it nonetheless. Not trying to convince you of anything, but to maybe plant some seeds of hope and even a little curiosity.

It is so sad to see how polarized we have become and recognize that often there is no space with many for even a real conversation or inquiry without being labeled or boxed in. It’s heartbreaking for us as adults but it’s extremely heartbreaking for children growing up feeling like they can’t question anything. Curiosity has been demonized. A seed that has been deeply sewn by the left.

I was aware that the timelines would split and the experiences of this period would feel different depending on perspective. Even knowing that it would happen, I have been boggled still by such an extreme reaction. By the sheer level of dissonance + disconnect from reality (Neptune in its final degrees of Pisces).

I’ve been sitting with whether or not I wanted to add to all of the noise already out there, how much I want to say, if it will even offer any benefit or just be more words in the ethers and I keep coming back to how I felt in 2016 vs. how I feel today, and hopeful that sharing a bit of my story might make someone feel seen who is hiding their stance out of fear (there are MANY), or might make someone question, who is still being pushed around by the echo chamber. This is for you. Take what works and leave the rest. Or leave all of it. I just can’t sit by and watch the manipulation of the mainstream media, the hysterical tears, the colleges shutting down for the day so they can grieve, Harris giving a concession speech sewing more division rather than uniting the country, the comparisons to The Handmaids Tale and darkest days, etc… watch this fracturing of humanity and minds, without saying anything. My business is about intentional reality crafting, holistic well-being and the cosmos and the cosmos tell us we are in fact heading for a Golden Age on the other side of this Tower moment.

Unfortunately, if you are only tuned in to main stream media you are getting a very different story. One perfectly curated by politicians, on the payroll celebrities and the media machine. It is programming on a mass scale and I bought it hook line and sinker for many years.

As a lifelong Democrat in 2016 I sat on the floor of my bathroom with my then girlfriend and cried. In a way it felt like the end of the world. Even though I intuitively knew he was going to win and had tried to prepare her I still wasn’t prepared myself for all the feels on the other side. It did feel like utter devastation. I was so intrenched in the BS of the media, like a fog I could not see through.

We need to have a national conversation about how the corporate press has literally driven people insane.
— Clifton Duncan

It took time for me to start to question. Living in Portland OR for 6 years felt like ground zero of the extreme “progressive” “woke” movement. I marched and protested. My girlfriend changed her pronouns (and then eventually changed them back). It wasn’t until 2019 that I started to feel a real sense of unease which I shared about in this podcast. Progressive started to feel like anything but. Cancel culture and performative activism did not sit right with me. I started to read more about BLM. I was baffled that a bunch of liberal artists and creatives were now advocating for censorship and that our own president eventually perpetrated it on a mass scale… I had trouble recognizing the party I had so adamantly supported my entire adult life.

I was traveling in 2020 through a lot of red states and while I still bought the medias take and programming around DJT I was genuinely curious (and baffled) as to why people were supporting him. So I started asking everyone I met. I’d run into someone with a MAGA hat in the Grand Canyon or outside my hotel and I’d have a conversation with them, about their views and how they saw things and I started to see that most of us really want the same things, to live a good life, to feel safe, to be abundant, to support our families. I connected rather than rejected. I dug a little deeper. And, I saw that his supporters were not a bunch of racist, fascist, misogynistic, bigoted evangelicals, but just people who wanted to live a good life and be happy.

But, it wasn’t until this year that I really started to see him (and so much more) more clearly. And, I’ve been hesitant to talk about this, not because I care if I’m ‘cancelled’ but because it’s not really about these people. It’s about what they represent and what they will actualize. That being said, I think it’s important to hear from people like me. So, in addition to what many have shared with me about when and how they started to see him differently, Jessica Reed Kraus of House Inhabit operating from inside his campaign really helped open my eyes and once you start to see, you can’t unsee. More information finds you. Including more actual policy rather than propaganda. In her independent reporting she brought clarity and humanity to this particular piece which I was still struggling with. And, I started to realize that while I don’t love everything about him, that I read him wrong and in many ways I had in fact been grossly manipulated to believe he was something he’s not, a built up caricature of evil incarnate. Which is fascinating, especially now, because we had him for four years and we did not implode. We were not funding war. I wasn’t paying $9 for almond milk, thousands of children were not being openly trafficked across the border into sex slavery, employment was up and people could afford to buy a house… and he, in fact, actually reached out to RFK Jr. at the beginning of the pandemic. If they had not instead shoved Fauci down his throat, we may have moved into a better timeline much sooner.

Have you ever noticed you never hear one single good thing about his policies or him as a person in media. Not one. Yet there are so many stories like the one below. Policies that support Black Americans, stories from inside his community at Mar-A-Lago that Jessica shared during the campaign, humanitarian efforts he never shares, support for all shapes and colors, as diverse as the people he united during this election even though mainstream would have you think otherwise. This guy also shares some great DJT perspective.

 
 

But again, this is not about the players as much as it’s about who will bring us into the New Paradigm, into a Golden Age. What I said to the folks in my inbox was just that. Listen to the things we talked about here, about what is coming in this New Earth and look at the team he is assembling. Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Ron Paul, and even recently he signed on to bring in a famous regenerative organic farmer into the USDA. Listen to what he and those he is surrounding himself are talking about: getting rid of taxes, ending wars, universal high wealth, less government overreach, actual health policies and oversight and making America healthy, cheap/free energy, some actual policy support for the LGBTQ community, suppressed technologies for personal health and that of the planet… World leaders are already talking about pulling out of conflict days after he won the election because Trump went around in 2017 and they capitulated to no wars as we usher in this New Paradigm, and financial system, together.  They are talking about ending Pharma’fia, the FDA as we know it, the Deep State, and unsealing the Epstein and Diddy lists. Much of this will end a lot of people in power. Getting rid of anti-life food alone will shutter many companies doors but if you’re paying attention, this is not the end but the beginning. RFK has already started something called Policies for The People where you can submit anything you’d like to see. How positively Aquarian (and American).

If you feel like you don’t fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help create a new one.
— Ross Caligiuri, Dreaming in the Shadows

I have been speaking for 5 years about the importance of doing your own research outside of the machine, beyond rhetoric, fear mongering and propaganda, of reading material from different people, sources and publications, including independents and actual documents, and of tuning in to your own still quiet center. And, I also know what it feels like to be caught up in all of it and I have compassion for those still embedded. But, especially if you are feeling disheartened, or scared today, I invite you again to ask what if….

Even on a very big issue like women’s reproductive rights in this election which was largely symbolic because Harris, even if she won, could do nothing to overturn the overturn of Roe v. Wade or bring abortion back Federal as it’s up to the states now, we can ask ourselves questions. And while we’re questioning, it has always felt odd to me the people who feel strongest about women’s medical freedom were also some of the loudest and determined people present in the camp of a sanctioned mandated medical experiment. One where people lost their lives, babies lost their lives, and MANY children now live injured. This is not conspiracy theory, the statistics are readily available as are many people’s stories. We either desire medical freedom and autonomy or we don’t, I don’t see a difference.

But full transparency, it did really bother me. It felt catastrophic when it first happened even after doing research on the actual legality of it, and why some scholars believed it was inevitable, I still felt the feels. I’m currently in one of the strictest states, as Texas has the Heartbeat Act. However, watching the election unfold, made me think a bit differently about it. Or at least get curious. Because we watched many states vote for more leniency there but vote differently for president. It is one of THE MOST polarizing + intense issues and I started to wonder if there is some benefit to it not being a part of the election for the leader of the free world as it can turn many into single issue voters, rather than allowing people to look at issues and policies more comprehensively.

And, no matter where you stand on this issue, as someone who has had ‘sovereignty’ at the top of what they share for years, it feels like a big opportunity for women to actually stand more fully in their power and autonomy with their bodies. Upwards of 95-97% of abortions are elective and have nothing to do with rape, incest or medical necessity.

What if we learned to pay better attention to our bodies. Why are women not readily taught to track their cycles? What if we stop turning our agency over to anyone, politician or OBGYN full stop and learn how to listen to, read, and honor our own soma. It is something I dove into many years ago as someone who knew early on that I did not want to have my own kids. The fact that this has not been a part of our general sex education is because cycle tracking is FREE. But powerful. And it is real freedom. True sovereignty.

  • What if we are entering a golden age?

  • What if war is ending?

  • What if anti-life food and agendas are disappearing?

  • What if we had universal high wealth?

  • What if technology will no longer be weaponized?

  • What if long suppressed technology coming out will clean up the Earth?

  • What if housing and farmland will be returned to the people?

  • What if homeschooling parents would receive aid?

  • What if taxes went away and prices at the grocery store dropped and you could afford to buy a house?

  • What if new healing technology came out that nullified big Pharma and we never saw another possible side effects laden ad on TV again?

  • What if there was an asset backed financial system that supported wealth for all countries?

  • What if none of this even matters cause much has already played out behind the scenes?

As I watch the reactions of this election unfold and the left double down on the name calling of the “right” rather than turn the finger pointing around and try some real self reflection on why the ‘red wave’ happened in the first place, I want to also remind you that you create your reality and you collectively create the reality around you. This is not a time to fight fight fight but unite. It is not a time to envision the darkest days, but the brightest. I’ve spoken a lot about preparing for this new paradigm here and I want that for you. I want folks in my circles, in all circles, who are building a New Earth and excited for the future. It does not mean you can’t feel ALL the feelings but it’s heartbreaking to see so many succumb to what is tantamount to psychological warfare and collective insanity. We are seeing a split into two very different worlds and in many ways a mental health crisis.

It’s energetic more than it’s really about the politics. It goes so much deeper. It’s much less about these personalities, but the things coming through them, though it’s hard to really talk about one without the other right now or the level of manipulation we have been and are experiencing. There is still much to come and there will most likely be quite a lot of disclosure around crimes against humanity and what has been unseen. We are still walking the path of awakening, of revolution. Take care of you. Take radical responsibility for yourself. Take care of your mental health. Process your feels. Practice compassion, understanding and innerstanding.

At the very heart of it, we are ALL moving through an upgrade, a raising of the collective frequency and into the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix. Into what can be the most abundant time we have ever known as we prepare for and welcome in a New Paradigm.

I shared a bit about all the big astrological moves coming in 2025 in last week’s Weekly Nourish.

The Astrology of 2025 is like nothing we've ever seen in our lifetime. We have heard quite a lot about Pluto's big move into Aquarius which will happen for the long haul (after it's final swan song in Capricorn right now) on November 20th. Pluto in Aquarius moves from traditions and the old guard so to speak to something completely radical and new. We are LITERALLY birthing a new Earth right now. If you've been following me for awhile you know I have been speaking about the new paradigm and changing times. 

But it's not just Pluto. ALL of the outer planets are making BIG moves in 2025 that will be keenly felt and offer us individual and collective invitations. Neptune makes a move into Aries where it will be about bold action and new visions for the future as well as a time of individuation and thriving through your own unique blue print. Uranus moves into Gemini bringing lightning fast innovation in the areas of communication, connection and transportation. And Saturn will also move into Aries (bringing a new round of Saturn Returns) as well as invitations for self actualization and doing what you need to do to cultivate courage in a time of new beginnings. It is a wild wild time to be alive and I'm excited for what's to come. 

It feels like in the Age of Aquarius, of radical change, of not just a revolution in the way we think of it, but a Spiritual one as well, that a band of outsider rebel rousers may be exactly what this world needs, it’s what founded this country in the first place. You may not feel the same (and that’s ok), but at the very least, I hope you are peering below the surface and asking yourself… what if?


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