When Fact is Fiction and Fiction is Fact
As Neptune retrograded to the anaretic 29th degree of Pisces a short while ago, the story of how the BBC had doctored Trump’s speech from January 2021 broke into mainstream awareness. The BBC said any harm was ‘unintentional’, and yet why would you carry out such a purposeful act, which would clearly further damage Trump’s reputation, if not from an intention? Neptunian confusion was compounded by Neptunian lies. The BBC, and particularly the Panorama programme, are regarded by many as trustworthy sources, from which some will form the reality of their belief systems. But this fiasco, where something portrayed as fact was actually fiction, begs the question as to what the public can truly trust, particularly now that we have the advent of technology and AI that can create something fictional that appears absolutely real? The world is in danger of descent by deceit that is so toxic that it must be acknowledged before the self-destruct button presses itself.
Can we ever rely on anything to be real? Is there one true reality, or are there many realities depending on each individual perspective? Go a little deeper, what is reality anyway? Neptune has been in his home sign of Pisces since 2011 Neptune has been in his home sign of Pisces since 2011 and as I publish this sits at the anaretic 29th degree, preparing to enter Aries. Indeed he has many positive qualities – compassion, intuition, creativity, transcendence being just a few. But we can list many negatives – deception, confusion, illusion, absorption with glamour and celebrity status. And these negative qualities have been magnified whilst Neptune has felt totally at home in Pisces. So how can we trust anything to be real? What lies have we the public ingested, and believed to be fact, that have a far-reaching impact on our beliefs? Neptune stirs up feelings and emotions, but he rarely provides any concrete answers as to what to do about them once they have risen up within us.
Our minds shape our individual view of reality. It follows, therefore, that there must indeed be many versions of reality, dependent upon subjective thought. Joe Dispenza tells us that thoughts are the language of the mind, and feelings the language of the body[1]. Thoughts and feelings together generate our perception of the world as a whole, and individually we all hold varying perceptions of what our mind sees and shapes into our own personal version of what we consider to be true, which means there can never be just one reality. Astrologically, this is shown by the sign of the Ascendant, its aspects, its ruler and its ruler’s aspects in the chart. Whatever the sign of your Sun (your Soul path) and your Moon (how you feel), both must process through the Ascendant to create a perception of the world we inhabit, according to our own individual sense of reason.
Astrology studies planetary cycles and we can learn much from these. History shows us that events which coincide with specific past cycles do not exactly repeat at the next cycle, but they certainly very often ‘rhyme’. We have three main upcoming cycles that take us through into the next decade that we should pay attention to: the magical triangular aspect of the three outermost planets –Neptune (initially joined by Saturn), Uranus and Pluto which fully kicks off when Uranus enters Gemini in April 2026; the Saturn/Neptune conjunction of February 2026 at 0 Aries; and the conjunction in Gemini in 2032 of Saturn and Uranus. The latter two aspects bring to a close a cycle that began in 1988/89, when we saw a line-up of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in the sign of Capricorn. Furthermore there were points in this conjunction period when Pluto was in sextile to them, just as he is currently and has been for some while.
The three outer planets – Uranus, Neptune and Pluto – move incredibly slowly, and this upcoming triangular aspect forms part of a cycle that began with their conjunction in the sign of Taurus back in the 6th century BCE. A new cycle will not begin until the year 3364, this time in Gemini. The outer planets, because they move so slowly, reflect the collective both in terms of unconscious patterns and levels of conscious awareness. The 6th century BCE was significant in that it signalled the start of an astonishing leap in levels of consciousness, as we saw the paving of the way for those who have been hailed as some of our greatest philosophers – such as Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, etc. At the same time we also saw the influences of Confucius, Zoroaster, Sun Tzu, Buddha and the beginnings of Hinduism, Judaism and the monotheistic religions. This was a time when archetypal processes demonstrated at a collective scale within humanity with an awakening to a new type of consciousness containing a search for meaning at a soul level. At roughly the halfway point between the conjunction of the 6th century BCE and the next one in 3364, we stood on the threshold of the Scientific Revolution, where everything now had to have a logical and rational explanation. No longer could nature be alive with faeries, elves and goblins. Instead, there had to be a determined reality. We have come to accept this scientific view, but what if we cannot truly explain reality and we eventually return to life lived at soul level?
So, as the new cycles begin in 2026 and 2032, what rhymes will we see repeating? Firstly, what happened around the 1988/89 period? It was indeed auspicious, even revolutionary (Uranus) – a time that changed geo-politics (Saturn/Neptune, Saturn/Uranus and Neptune/Uranus) in a global way. The Berlin Wall - that had divided Berlin for virtually a complete Saturn cycle of 28 years – fell, bringing a much wider geo-political effect. It marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the communist bloc in Eastern Europe. Saturn/Neptune together indeed have a particular relationship with communism and Russia, and we see both in our faces for all the wrong reasons at the moment. However, clearly it did not actually symbolise the end of communistic ideologies, nor the end of troubles involving Russia.
Momentously, 1989 also saw the beginnings of the worldwide web, developed at CERN by Tim Berners Lee as a ‘universal linked information system’. Little did we realise at the time how central to our lives this invention would become. We now take further developments from this system very much for granted; for instance emails, google, social media, ChatGPT and smart systems, to name just a few. We have become accustomed to being constantly ‘connected’, as we stand now on the precipice of a digitally controlled system and world that has the potential to change our very civilisation in ways that most people had never envisaged back in 1989. We would not be where we are today without the invention of the worldwide web. The minor triangle of the outer planets will reflect I think the ease and speed with which society is adapting to changes that technology will bring for the future of civilisation and humanity, perhaps including an attempt of fusion between man and machine. The period also heralded the birth of children – referred to as ‘the indigo children’ – who were ‘different’. These ‘different’ children perhaps adapt better than others to such a technological takeover. And we are seeing today a huge increase in such neurodivergent children, but we don’t appear to understand why.
In January 2026 Neptune, the King of the Ocean Kingdom, where boundaries just do not exist, will fully enter the Fire sign of Aries where he will remain until 2038. He will not see his own realm of Pisces again until the year 2175. In February this supreme god of all that is not tangible and of the collective unconscious, meets up with the supreme god of everything that is real and tangible, Saturn, for an historic conjunction at 0 degrees Aries. Saturn loves a fence or boundary to make himself feel safe and secure. Not only is this meeting of two Gods who are so opposite in their natures significant, the degree and sign of their meeting hold importance globally, as well as for the future direction of humanity. With current global leanings towards levels of totalitarianism together with technocracy not seen before, will this conjunction be the point when the ‘frogs’/’fourth monkeys’ move from simmer to full boil mode? Additionally in February we see the start of the Chinese year of the Fire Horse, a completely different energy to the outgoing year of the Wood Snake. The snake has sneakily slithered silently around in the background for almost a year now but imagine a Fire Horse feeling the wind through its mane as it gallops in courageously and fearlessly.
Just as the outer planetary conjunction of the 6th century BCE encouraged man to consider his future from a deeper perspective, so the discoveries of the quantum world have changed our view of what we think reality is. Experiments within the field of quantum physics have shown us that realities can be changed just by virtue of having a person observing. The observer effect in ‘the double slit experiment’ demonstrates that the act of measuring or observing a system inevitably changes it. It challenges classical ideas of objective truth and raises fundamental questions about how we interact with the universe. The Observer Effect suggests that the act of observation itself alters reality at the quantum level. But it exists in two different contexts. In physics, it is the unavoidable disturbance caused by a measurement device. And from a social science perspective, it is the effect of human subjects altering their behaviour because they know they are being studied. The act of measuring a particle's path forces it to behave differently. This means that when we participate in an event, just by watching it we influence its outcome. As Joe Dispenza tells us, our thoughts have consequences so great that they have the potential to create our reality.[2]
Humans and the quantum field are interconnected through the concept of quantum entanglement. Once two particles can be linked in some way they will always be bonded together beyond space and time. Anything that is done to one will be done to the other even though they are spatially separated - what we do to others we also do to ourselves.[3] We cannot address the quantum field whilst ignoring chaos theory, the study of dynamic systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Within chaos theory a small change at the beginning can lead to vastly different outcomes later. For example, the ‘butterfly effect’ - where a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world could theoretically cause a hurricane in another part of the world months later through a long chain of cause and effect. In this way seemingly small things in 1988/9 are affecting us now.
Gemini is the sign most connected with our thoughts and our beliefs. Gemini is ruled by Mercury, the only God who had the power to travel between the Upper and the Lower worlds. Uranus’ entry into Gemini will be our ‘shake-up point’, perhaps ontological shock time. At this point we may indeed discover that fiction may well be fact, and fact may well be fiction. Everything we have used as our cornerstones, our anchors, may not be true – and that will be a huge shock to our systems. Imagine for instance that we address the fact that non-humans walk beside us, not necessarily looking like little green men, but looking like us.
Our world looks set to change dramatically from what we have been accustomed to – from Agentic AI, that most people have no clue about, to war drums around us. In my next blog I will trace back to 2020 and the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at 0 Aquarius that ushered in a 200 plus year Air cycle; just before was actually a Jupiter/Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Capricorn which boded something extremely harsh - consider what we have experienced since then. As Uranus finishes his time in Taurus, he is likely to up-end once again what keeps us safe and secure, perhaps also replacing the familiar fiat monetary systems with something more digital. We stand on a precipice, and yet, if we look around and observe, most behave as though all is well and will remain just as it is for the foreseeable. Perhaps it is all just too overwhelming, but we seem unprepared as financial, political and societal cycles converge for something that has the potential to completely change our everyday life in an unrecognisable fashion.
However, not only can we change our brains just by thinking differently but, as Joe Dispenza tells us, when we are truly focused and single minded the brain does not know the difference between the unreal world of the mind and what we experience in the external environment. And so our thoughts can become our experiences. We can indeed create our own realities, but to move forward from a point of true conscious awareness, our thoughts must be based on beliefs that we have come to from thinking critically and analytically rather than just an acceptance of what someone else has told us. We must truly observe as we arrive at such a critical juncture in humanity’s evolution. But we must also exert caution because, as Jung tells us, it is the ego that is responsible for testing reality and making decisions – and the ego can become over dominant.
We know so much and yet we know so little.
[1] Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Hay House, 2013
[2] Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Hay House, 2013
[3] Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Hay House, 2013