Edge Cases
From nothing ever happens to everything's happening.
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If you started the year out with a fire in your belly, but then felt it wane, you'll be excited to know that a fresh burst of energy is landing at your feet.
I've said that spring is the starting line for 2026, whereas winter was a compression chamber that pushed us into a Global Reset.
We were put into position during winter, but now is the time we’re deploying action.
As a result, we will see rapid developments in personal and political matters, sometimes too fast.
And that's what I want to talk about with you today—the world moving so fast that it bypasses our logical capacities and forces us to deal with things at a gut level.
This is not to alarm you, even though I do think that anger and violence will see a rapid uptick during this time. This is a calibration phase.
Remember that we've already gone through the Libra Full Moon, so we've already gotten the full moon for Aries season. We discussed last time how it gave us a burst of peace, even though it was temporary.
You can catch up on this back discussion also on my YouTube channel:
That peace is being broken now by the Aries New Moon and yet the ultimate message is to channel this aggression into a force of individual change.
And I think a lot of us really want that change. We've been wanting it since January and it wasn't quite there. We felt the Global Reset deeply impact us during eclipse season and Mercury Retrograde season in February.
At times you might have felt immobilized or simply perplexed.
Now we get traction. So let us therefore dive into how one can channel raw instinct at this time.
2026: Deconstructed
Mars really is the star of the show. He always rules an Aries New Moon and we find him happily placed in his home sign.
A fiery, happy warrior—absolutely burning through karmic contracts now.
Mars in Aries is bunched close up with Saturn, Neptune and Mercury. That’s quite a stack, not to mention the fact that the New Moon itself falls on Chiron—but we’ll get to that in the next section.
Let’s begin with Saturn. A karmic heavyweight. Mars last met Saturn in Aries during April 1998. NATO expanded. School shootings increased.
Mars will cut things, creating severance and endings. He is warfare and violence and gut instinct. He wants things to be new and fresh.
Saturn enforces the karmic contracts that we sign. In Aries, this could look like the forced end of expired contracts and the beginning of new ones.
For example, Pol Pot, the communist dictator responsible for millions of deaths in Cambodia, died of a heart attack in April 1998. Contract done.
Mars is also a frontiersman. Massive Attack released “Mezzanine” in April 1998—a landmark album still fresh today. They broke away with old limitations of siloed genres. Old contract done, new contract signed.
Neptune was not in Aries during the 90s, though. He was there during the Civil War. We weren’t alive to see Mars meet him there.
Neptune doesn’t enforce karmic contracts. He does the opposite—he dissolves them.
Neptune’s dissolution of karmic contracts usually occurs through death, delirium, spiritual inspiration.
For example, in April 1863, Neptune occupied the degrees that he currently occupies for us now. Lincoln’s wife held her best attended seance at the White House, spurring a nationwide trend.
Widespread casualties during the Civil War dissolved the belief that the living and the dead must remain separate. Lincoln used his wife’s channeling session for political guidance.
Putting this all together in April 2026: People will abruptly end old alliances and worldviews, in favor of enforcing new ones. Chains that seemed impossible to break will be dissolved. What once seemed impossible to discuss will now become possible.
Of course, one way dissolution may occur is through hysteria, panic and mass hallucinations. In other words, we may see breaks from consensus reality as groups of people entertain the extraterrestrial conversation or become euphoric over potential market rallies or debate the Iran conflict.
But on a personal level, you may feel the instinct to break with old contracts of your identity to pioneer something new.
It could feel like fighting an old self but also communing with your new self.
This next stage of the Global Reset is certainly strange. Let’s keep going.
Metaphysical vs Physical War
So we’ve established that while Mars helps us focus on our gut instinct, it may register as a kind of metaphysical ultraviolence against an old ego or egoic patterns.
If suppressed, this could pour outwards, into physical violence.
That’s why it’s so curious that Neptune the planet of spirituality is in the mix, along with Saturn the planet of materiality.
The internal spiritual battles that we are facing could easily spill into material public battles.
What we haven’t talked about is Mercury, who often serves as the mediator between public and private or conscious and subconscious.
He is the go-between, the guardian of logic.
But as this planet of logic travels in Aries, our thought patterns are subservient to gut instinct.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is at the center of this astrology. He has Mercury in Aries by birth, in particular at the early degrees of Aries, which makes him a controversial public figure who people may sense as operating more from primal gut instinct than pure logic.
For example, The New Yorker published a piece titled, “Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?” There was also a Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam’s house when Mars entered Aries and met his Mercury.
But as Mercury now moves through Aries for us all, it can collectively feel a bit like Lord of the Flies.
Instead of cool dry logic, people are operating on a spectrum of irrationality. You may feel as if frenemies or open enemies are throwing Molotov cocktails at YOU.
If you own your power fully, this could be a productive time. If your instinct to reinvent yourself is vilified by an outside party, this could sharpen your resolve.
After all, Aries ultimately represents our first point of contact with the world—the self in its crudest form. That’s what is undergoing deep transformation now, as this New Moon lands on Chiron the Wounded Healer.
Since 2018, Chiron in Aries has made us self-conscious about asserting ourselves. Now, as he prepares to leave for good, this New Moon comes in and says:
“You must fight for yourself.”
Let’s keep going.
Smash The Control Images
To understand this moment in time, we should also look at Uranus, the planet of disruption and community.
He’s at the final 29th degree of Taurus. That is important on its own, because it’s taken Uranus since 2018 to reach this degree.
But you can also consider that the next time we have a lunar phase (the May 1 Full Moon) he will be in Gemini.
So this feels like a precipice.
Venus rules anything in Taurus, so we should notice what she’s doing—and look, she’s already there, traveling in her home sign. In fact, she’s almost on top of Uranus for this New Moon.
She’s enacting a review of what’s been happening on her home turf since 2018. Venus wants fair relationships, but Uranus has been making them transactional with a distracted and fragmented culture.
As she forces Uranus to face what he’s done, she is allying with the instinctual energy of Mars in Aries, who is her natural counterpart.
I think this will show up as people ending contracts that have them competing with each other in a negative sense—like genders seeing each other as the enemy.
Competition can be good, if it’s about keeping each other sharp and in the game.
But so much of current culture has been this performative dance of who can appear to care less—while urgently trying to secure one’s place in the hierarchy.
And so what we’re really smashing is not each other but this externally imposed algorithmic ideal, that makes us distrust ourselves and each other.
Under these skies, I think we’ll see people fed up with chasing a selfhood that no one can live up to, and that has caused us to be at each other’s throats.
We’ve been swiping left on each other, now we’re swiping left on the machine.
Let’s wrap up with some final thoughts.
Nothing Ever Happens/It’s Happening
There’s a scene in “The Social Network” where Jesse Eisenberg (playing Mark Zuckerberg) says:
“It’s not like people are walking around with a sign on them saying if they’re single or not.”
And it’s an AHA moment for Zuckerberg, because he realizes the entire value proposition of Facebook in an instance. A platform where you can be you—as long as you become the platform.
We are fracturing away from that, but the fracturing is also bringing a lot of destabilization in our relationships because these are all new forms of identity that we haven’t digested.
We’re at this starting line of what could be, of what could happen.
Each person individually can be an edge case now. This will revolutionize how platforms are experienced soon as Uranus goes into Gemini in a week.
Instead of conforming to the platform, people will look for ways to make the platform work around THEIR identity.
The violence will be smashing these algorithmic ideals of what we “must” be, in order to participate in society.
Instead of companies figuring out how to put people in boxes and then market that back to them, they’ll have to start keeping up with where customers and users are going.
This is the disruption coming to communication models.
This is the happening. It’s movement.
The top-down world in which we are all static nodes receiving a transmission—that’s gone.
So much for the “nothing ever happens” crowd.
Sure, some companies will try their best to get around this, by constructing what I call The Glasslands: a fast-moving hyper-algorithmic streaming universe that tempts the user to live under a cascade of nostalgia and familiar smooth surfaces, like remakes, sequels and spinoffs.
But in that case we have an arms race. Speed versus speed. Fast moving rogue users against a fast moving system based on the pleasure of utilitarian efficiency.
We’ll have to save that topic for another newsletter. Until next time, be well—and keep moving.
Backed by 16 years of astrological study and 100s of client sessions, I help people break stagnant patterns and make successful transformations in times of change.
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