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Thank you to everyone who participated in Tuesday’s live election coverage. That was fantastic and I’ll be doing more of it. — efc

Dear Friend and Reader:

What happened this week — a decisive victory for Donald Trump, who could not prevail in any age but digital — was a comment on the astrology of 2025-2026, and the electronic world in which we live. They are closely related.

The New York Times headline Wednesday read, “Trump’s America: Victory Changes Nation’s Sense of Itself.” But they got that backwards. It should have read, “Nation’s Changing Sense of Self Leads to Trump victory.”

The reversal of cause and effect is revealing of our relationship to the problem. Shawn McCreesh, reporting from West Palm Beach for the Times, summed up Trump’s performance. “Mr. Trump was a ferociously effective campaigner. To watch him up close on this third run for president was to see him blend comedy, fury, optimism, darkness and cynicism like never before.”

In the digital age, that’s what feels good. That’s what feels trustworthy because it feels real. Anything not infused with anger seems to lack authenticity.

Digital technology radically alters and destabilizes the “sense of self” of both individuals and societies, making it anywhere from difficult to impossible to feel and experience who we are. The effect of digital technology is to take people out of contact with themselves, and leave us stranded there.

It has created a kind of emotional plague where many don’t understand how unfulfilled they are, and how desperate for sincerity and trust and physical experience of life, and of one another.

Digital creates a sense of parched thirst without understanding there is such a thing as water. Then we get tyranny. This keeps happening. It is exactly what happened in the 1930s. The charismatic leader swoops in and pretends to rescue people from their own desperation.

Digital seems to offer so much, but it's ultimately depleting, adding a little fee and a little plastic to everything. You get something to eat, but the box was shaken, and the food is lukewarm, and contaminated. People remember throwing the package in the trash more than they remember eating the meal. Washing someone else’s dishes would be more fulfilling.

Trump has known how to harvest that sense of desperation since he first entered electoral politics in 2015. That’s how he ran the nation by Tweet (during the Uranus-Eris conjunction). Digital is a hungry ghost environment, with the phantoms seeking to attach themselves to any free-floating rage that might come along.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) — The best way to deal with the fear of consequences is to meet the issues head-on. You will likely discover that your fear was taking up more energy than actually resolving the issue. The universe, including the highly complicated material plane, offers bonus points to those who are proactive; to those who take initiative. Stay ahead of all of your situations, and keep spin control on your message to anyone who may be concerned. Once you decree that the buck stops with you, you claim the power from nearly anyone who would hold anything over you. This finds additional information in Mars retrograde later this month, which takes place in your career angle — though if I may give you an assignment, dust off your most recent CV or résumé, read it a few times, and ask yourself if there is anything you want to do that you have not yet done.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) — If ever there was a time when you could feel cosmic love — the actual love of the cosmos — it could be right now. If there was ever a time you could call for help from spiritual agency and have it respond, that would be right now. Without going too deep into mythology and astronomy, what we think of as ‘the universe’ has a distinctive feminine expression right now. We live in an infinite cosmos which can manifest many ways, but right now, it’s a feminine presence and it might respond to the name Elbereth, Varda, Tintallë or Gilthoniel. They are all the same benevolent entity, a bringer of light, and the kindler of empathy and of healing. Say those names out loud, slowly. Her role is to ensure that the stars and the planets are where they belong. This translates to your personal stars and planets. Call on her if you need her.

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