PEACE (ON EARTH) 2025. Caution: astrology indicates new beginning is a process, not an event.

October 14, 2025

I cannot help but participate in the sudden spirit of optimism that appears to have infected the world, thanks to what has transpired in the Middle East, with a peace deal signed yesterday, on the very day that transformational death/rebirth Pluto turned, to go into direct motion, after a long slog of retrogradation since early May. Pluto turns to go D and then to go RX, approximately once per year. So this is a big deal. I repeat: The very day the peace deal signed, Pluto goes direct!

Add to this the ongoing eruptive, unpredictable Uranus at 1° Gemini, trining Pluto all this time. Another rare and harmonious configuration of outer planets resonating through the collective unconscious.

 

However, I’m also deeply aware of the every-37-year conjunction of Saturn and Neptune which, in this exceedingly rare case, have been working out the kinks between the very end of the zodiac, Pisces, and the very beginning of the zodiac, Aries, also since early May.

Saturn moved into 0° Aries for the first time (in 29 years) in late May. Neptune had already arrived (for the first time since 1861), on the final day of March. Ever since then, they have been playing with each other in a serious way, igniting the new world, but needing to fully process the pain and memories of the old world at the same time.

Let’s go!

Wait!

No, let’s go!

Can’t yet. Gotta catch up.

What’s your problem? Let’s go!

On and on.

Get the picture?

Remember: Saturn Neptune conjunctions in the very first degrees of Aries are exceedingly rare. In other words, serious (Saturn) visionary (Neptune) new beginnings (Aries) are exceedingly rare. (I just looked it up. There was a Saturn/Neptune conjunction at 6° Aries in the year 555 AD . . . but that’s not the very beginning of Aries, like this one is.)

Here’s some gritty details of their current tug-of-war between old and new:

On September 2, Saturn retreated back into Pisces, and will remain there, turning to go direct on November 25, until February 15, 2026, when it finally re-enters Aries.

Neptune will also retreat back into Pisces, on October 23, 2025, turn to go direct on December 9, and finally re-enter Aries on January 28, 2026.

So, from February 15, 2026 on, both planets will again be in Aries, this time with no retreats. Their exact conjunction, at 0°33 Aries, will occur on February 19, 2026.

In other words, before we get too excited about the promised New Beginnings, let’s remember that for the next four months there’s still a lot of old buried pain and memories to process, to clear; needed, for the many Aquarian partners in this huge new Plutonian adventure, to build trust in one another’s common intentions.

The promised New Beginning is a Process, not a single event.

 

Here’s an interesting take on how Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff got the deal done.

By the way, Trump’s chart includes a Venus/Saturn conjunction in Cancer, right where Jupiter currently sits! He’s serious about wanting to reconnect the human family; and generous, lucky Jupiter, right now, is on his side.

And remember, Trump, like Reagan before him, who got Gorbachev to the table four times between 1985 and 1988; which turned out to be a prelude to the fall of the Berlin Wall, believes in Peace through Strength. 

AS BEYOND, SO UP CLOSE . . . Trump’s (possible) Triumph, Victories here too, plus woodland hike!

October 13, 2025

I am utterly amazed and thrilled at what Trump is apparently succeeding in spearheading. From various X posts I ascertain that this peace deal has been orchestrated over a long period time, with many nations involved, both Mideast and others.

Meanwhile, I need to concentrate on right here, right now. What is within my ability to “control.”

For one thing: I’ve decided to create a T-shirt with “UNLOOSHABLE” on one side and and on the other side, the word “argue” X-ed out with a big red X, and underneath that word, larger, and in an appropriate font, “RADIATE.”

This, thanks to dear friend Julia who used to live in the neighborhood and has now moved to the west coast; she has agreed to design it. YES!

And in the same vein, Carisa, who lives across the street, wants to start a T-shirt business with me, call it “Re-Frame.” Like that idea! She also has a couple of designs already. We sat on my front porch steps late yesterday and this idea bloomed into view; both of us excited, full of energy. YES!

And in a slightly larger vein, neighbor Bill Schaich, who patiently and steadfastly spearheaded the project to get and put Green Acres “toppers” on all our neighborhood street signs, has now completed the project, thanks to help from Mariella and her son Joachim, Margaret, and Dave, who all climbed the ladder, the crew working different shifts over a two week period. YES!

And even closer to home, i.e., in my own body, I decided to do my daily morning walk on a trail this morning, specifically a well used trail at Griffy Lake, about ten minutes north by car from where I live.

Scampi and I headed out there shortly after 8 AM.

This is a trail that I take often; not only is it in an In-Diana woodland which I treasure, but it also has a 200 feet elevation, which my nearly 83-year-old cardiovascular system requires (Today I trekked the elevation twice: on way out, on way back.)

Here we are already on top of the hill.

Now we’re about to come down the other side. Scampi way ahead, outta sight.

I’ve learned to trust that at some point he will stop no more than a stone’s throw ahead, look back, and wait for me, eyes alert, ears cocked.

On the way down now. I’m always amazed to see one tree cradling another that has fallen. In this case, creating an arch over the trail! (See Scampi, very tiny, way ahead, waiting.

Here’s the roots of that same tree. It always amazes me how shallowly rooted they are! (Apparently gigantic redwoods also have shallow roots.)

Here’s the horizontal trail at the bottom of the hill that leads upstream.

Today we stopped when the stream came into view. Usually, we keep going, on the trail down by the stream for a half mile or so. But today we headed back instead, to do another uphill trail.

The map. We did the hiking trail, and a shorter, steeper one not shown here.

A few months ago, I hiked around the entire lake with my son Sean, over 7 miles. That was an interesting experience, since the trail on the north side of the lake is extremely rough and uphill, even missing at times. I found myself clawing uphill. Laughing.

I love the trail system around and within Bloomington. Yesterday, Scampi and I did the Goat Farm/Olcott Park trail. Great fun.