Rebellious Hope

Fighting Tenderly for What's Right

Dear Readers:

As I compose my reports for your destiny in 2025, I will have to deal with this conundrum: I don't want to minimize or ignore the impact that Donald Trump’s presidency will have on our lives, but I also don’t want it to dominate our awareness and define how we live.

Before I go further in this discussion, I want you to know that I will do everything in my power to uplift and inspire you in the coming months. I view it as my sacred, joyous duty to offer you rebellious hope and insurrectionary optimism. I vow that together we will find ways to celebrate our lives and flourish with gusto.

And this is also true: The Trumpocalypse will be among the most challenging ongoing tribulations that we Americans have ever dealt with. None of us will be completely spared from the problems that will arise. That includes virtually all the people who voted for Trump.

Here’s an example of the looming mayhem: Trump’s close and powerful advisor Elon Musk has repeatedly said he intends to push for reductions to entitlement programs, including Social Security. This would be disastrous for countless Americans whose sole or main source of income is Social Security payments. Musk wants to cut 30% from the federal budget, so many other programs that help and support people could also be decimated.

For another example, if Trump and Company follow through on their promise to deport millions of immigrants, the suffering will be colossal—for immigrants and their families as well as for the economy of the US, which is built on the efforts of immigrant farmworkers and other immigrant laborers.

I won’t go on at length about the other hurtful plans on Trump’s agenda. If you’re curious, here are links to essential points:

Trump hurts us: https://archive.ph/WoPQ0

Farmer warns of soaring food prices and shortages under Trump: https://tinyurl.com/SupplyShortages

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Here are links to other articles that sum up the challenges we will face:

Trump Dangers: https://tinyurl.com/TrumpDangers

Trump Cruelty: https://archive.ph/GKg4x

Trump’s Worst: https://tinyurl.com/TrumpWorst

Trump Decimates: https://tinyurl.com/TrumpDecimates

By the way, this is not a Democrat versus Republican thing. Yes, I am a very left-leaning person, but I have never had such strong apprehensions about previous Republican presidents or Republican presidential candidates. George Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney are saints compared to Trump. The problem is not Republican policies per se, but rather the demented, pathological, cruel, bigoted, misogynist, theocratic, fascist felon acting out his horrific schemes.

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HOW WE ADJUST TO THE MAYHEM

Here’s they key point: I don't want us to be utterly consumed by or defined by the Trumpocalypse. I want us to do what we can to safely and wisely escape its tyranny and help others do the same.

I want us to be resourceful in coming up with ways we can take advantage of potential opportunities, even in the face of the hardships.

I want us to meditate on how we can go on living our lives with as much vigor and verve as possible, even as we take wise precautions so as to be avoid being wounded by Trump and his fellow oligarchs’ actions.

So my approach in creating my astrological reports for you in 2025 and beyond will be to emphasize the best-possible scenarios available to you. I want to describe the optimal outcomes. I want to inspire you with hopeful thoughts and will assist you in making the best of this challenging time.

OUR RELATIONSHIPS AS LABORATORIES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

A fundamental practice in staying healthy and sustaining what we love will be the way we interact with our allies and those we love.

How can the way we do intimacy be upgraded and refined so as to shelter us from the political mayhem and empower our responses to it?

How can our interpersonal relationships be alchemical laboratories where we bolster our commitment to weathering the coming storms and slowly but surely build a more beautiful and just culture?

Let’s propose that our relationships with family, allies, loved ones, and dear animals can become luminous vessels—sanctuaries into which we pour our wild grief, our trembling hopes, and our fierce determination to remain unbroken. Let’s reimagine intimacy as both shelter and forge, where we cultivate our love as a protective shield and gift to our wider community.

Remember that every moment of genuine connection becomes a thread in the web of alternative culture we are weaving. When we dare to see each other truly and tenderly with our full, messy magnificence, we're already practicing the world we are dreaming into being.

In this way, our love for each other becomes potent magic—not just shelter from the superstorms, but the lightning that illuminates new possibilities, the thunder that shakes awake our sleeping potential, the rain that nourishes the future's blooming.

PRACTICES FOR PERSONAL POWER

One of the best ways to prepare for the Trumpocalyse is to be in daily, intimate contact with the natural world. We will be consoled and nurtured as we commune with animals and plants and the beautiful earth.

Below is a list of other practices we can embrace to uplift and inspire ourselves and each other:

Ritual Practices for Personal Power

1. Create daily ceremonies that sanctify our devotion to our vitality and self-care.

• Maybe light a candle upon awakening while speaking a specific wish for personal and collective liberation.

• Before sleep each Sunday night, write a brief prayer manifesto to transmute anxiety into motivation.

2. Energy shielding through artistic alchemy

• Weave a protective psychic cocoon for ourselves through creative expression. Paint our paradise, dance our rage, fiercely pray our grief into golden possibility, remember and revive our passion by singing as we hike out in nature.

• Perform sacred rage release rituals. Honor our precious anger through movement, through primal screaming into pillows, through writing letters we burn under the dark moon. Remember that our fury is fuel for our ever-fuller awakening.

3. Community Weaving

• Dream circles: Encourage the formation of small, intimate groups that meet regularly to share both night visions and waking dreams for the future. These become crucibles of collective imagination, where individual hopes crystallize into shared vision.

• Resource rings: Create networks of mutual aid—sharing skills, tools, medicines, meals. Each act of reciprocity becomes a spell against scarcity consciousness, a thread in the web of interdependence.

• Truth-telling temples: Sacred spaces where people gather to speak our raw truths, to witness each other's wounds and wisdom, to remember we are not alone in our feeling or their fighting.

• Energy protection while staying engaged: Learn more about how to move like water: to flow around obstacles rather than crashing against them, to be both soft and unstoppable, to find the spaces between spaces where change becomes possible.

• The art of strategic disconnection: When to unplug, when to dive deep into nature's holding, when to let the noise of the world fade so our inner knowing can speak. Not as escape but as essential replenishment.

• Transmutation practices: Methods for composting despair into determination, for spinning anxiety into action, for alchemizing collective pain into shared purpose. Being both tender and titanium.

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REBELLIOUS OPTIMISM

Read Joan Westenberg's essay, "Rebellious Optimism: How We Thrive in a Broken World": https://tinyurl.com/Rebellious-Optimism

Tips for surviving the coming months: https://tinyurl.com/c4jtkt7r

Historian Timothy Snyder tells us 20 rules for surviving authoritarianism: https://tinyurl.com/SurviveTrumpocalypse

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world: https://tinyurl.com/6ue3hwpb

Don’t capitulate! Trump is an aspiring dictator who aims to aggregate his power to reward his friends and punish his enemies: https://tinyurl.com/DontCapitulate

We CAN and MUST resist Trump's authoritarianism: https://tinyurl.com/ResistDespondency

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FEISTY TRUTH-TELLERS

Let’s identify excellent journalism that deserves our support and curiosity as we weather this mayhem. Go here for a list of feisty truth-seekers who will keep us informed of what's really happening: https://tinyurl.com/AlternateMedia

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Dear Readers,

I've gathered all the long-term, big-picture horoscopes I wrote for you in recent weeks, and bundled them in one place. Here's a compendium of your forecasts for 2025:

https://tinyurl.com/YourDestiny2025

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

For the Week of January 23

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In old Hawaii, it was forbidden for ordinary people to touch objects that belonged to the chiefs or to anyone with spiritual powers. Other taboos: Never walk across the shadow of an important person and never wear red and yellow feathers. Our modern taboos are different, but often equally rigid. For example, you are probably hesitant to ask people how much money they make or what their relationship status is. What are other taboos you observe? I won’t outrightly advise you to brazenly break them, but now is a good time to re-evaluate them—and consider changing your relationship with them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As winter progresses, each day is longer and each night shorter. Most humans feel an undercurrent of joy that the amount of light in the world is growing. But as an astrologer who appreciates cycles, I like to honor the beauty and powers of darkness. That’s where everything new gets born! It’s where the future comes from! In ancient Hawaiian religion, the word kumulipo meant "beginning-in-deep-darkness." It was also the name of a prayer describing the creation of the world. In the coming weeks, I believe you will be wise to tap into the rich offerings of darkness.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Anais Nin wrote, "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” I bring this to your attention because you Aries folks now have a mandate to expand your life through courageous acts, thoughts, and feelings. I suggest we make the Arctic fox your power symbol. This intrepid creature undertakes epic migrations, journeying over 2,000 miles across sea ice, using starlight and magnetic fields to navigate. Let’s dare to speculate that you have something in common with it; let’s propose that you are equipped with an inner guidance system that gives you a keen intuitive sense of how to maneuver in unfamiliar territory. PS: Anais Nin has another tip: "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus archeologist Howard Carter made a spectacular discovery in 1922: the intact tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, more than 3,300 years after his death. It was filled with over 5,000 artifacts, became a global sensation, and to this day remains the most famous find from ancient Egypt. A short time before he succeeded at his five-year quest, Howard Carter nearly gave up. But then his sponsor agreed to provide funds for a few more months, and he continued. In this spirit, Taurus, I urge you to keep pushing to fulfill your own dream. Renew your faith. Boost your devotion. Remember why you feel so strongly.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest telescope in space. Recently, it discovered hundreds of galaxies that no humans had ever before beheld. They are very old, too—far more ancient than our own Milky Way Galaxy. I propose we make this marvelous perception-enhancing tool a symbol of power for you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you now have a robust potential to see things that have always been invisible, secret, or off-limits to you. Some of these wonders could motivate you to reinterpret your life story and reshape your future plans.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One theory says that humans evolved to be afraid of reptiles because our early ancestors were frequently threatened by them. Among the most commonly feared creatures in modern culture are snakes. And yet, as anyone knows if they’ve studied mythology, snakes have also been symbols of fertility and healing in many cultures. Because they periodically shed their skin, they also represent regeneration and rebirth. I’m hoping you don’t harbor an instinctual aversion to snakes, Cancerian. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to call on and benefit from their iconic powers.

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EXPLORING THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LONG-RANGE FUTURE

Would you like some inspiration and guidance as you muse and wonder about your upcoming adventures in 2025?

You can still listen to my long-range, in-depth explorations of your destiny in the coming months. Each report in the three-part series is 7 to 11 minutes long.

To hear these three-part, in-depth reports, go here:

https://RealAstrology.com

Register and/or log in through the main page. Under “Select Reading to Play,” choose "Part 1" or “Part 2” or “Part 3” of the "Long-Term Prediction for 2025

The cost for the Expanded Audio Horoscopes is $7 per sign. (You can get discounts for multiple purchases.)

A new short-range forecast for this week is also available.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming months, be extra creative as you enhance your network of connections and support. Encourage your allies to provide you with tips about opportunities and possibilities that you would not otherwise know about. Ask them to serve as links to novel resources that will nurture your long-term dreams. Here's an idea to energize your efforts: Get a vivid sense of how trees use vast underground fungal webs to communicate with each other. (Learn more here: bit.ly/TheWoodWideWeb) Knowing about this natural magic may impregnate your subconscious mind with evocative suggestions about how to be ingenious in weaving the kind of community you want.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I love my job as a horoscope writer. What could be more fun than analyzing cosmic signs to generate inspirational counsel for my readers? It’s a big responsibility, though. I am intensely aware of how crucial it is that I craft my messages with utmost care and compassion. Having been scarred as a young adult by reckless, fear-mongering fortune-tellers, I’m rigorous about nurturing your free will, not undermining it. I want you to be uplifted, not confused or demoralized as I was. With these thoughts in mind, I invite you to take a vigorous inventory of the effects that your work and play have on the world. Are they aligned with your intentions? Are your ambitions moored in impeccable integrity?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Why are diamonds considered so valuable? I’m skeptical. High-grade diamonds are not as rare as public perception would lead us to believe. Yes, they are extraordinarily hard and scratch-resistant, but is that a reason to regard them as a sublime treasure? I acknowledge they are pretty in a bland way. But other gems are more intriguingly beautiful. Maybe the most important reason they are so prized is that diamond sellers have done effective marketing campaigns to promote them as symbols of love and luxury. All this is a prelude to my main message: Now is an excellent time to think and feel deeply about what is truly beautiful to you—and take steps to bring more of it into your life. For you Libras, beauty is an essential ingredient in your life’s purpose.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The way that ancient Romans made concrete was more ingenious than modern methods. Their manufacturing materials included "lime clasts," which gave the concrete self-healing qualities. When cracks arose, they fixed themselves. That's why Roman aqueducts built 2,000 years ago can still convey water today. Metaphorically speaking, I hope you will work on building similar structures in the coming weeks. It’s time to create strong foundations that will last for a very long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Do you harbor a yearning to learn a new language, new skill, or new trick? The coming weeks will be a favorable phase to get serious about doing it. Have you fantasized about embarking on an adventure that would expand your understanding of how the world works? The time is right. Have you wished you could attract an inspirational prod to unleash more creativity and experiment freely? The astrological omens suggest that inspirational prod is imminent. Have you wondered whether you could enhance and fine-tune your receptivity—and thereby open up surprising sources of fresh teaching? Do it now!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Bristlecone pine trees grow very slowly, but they are hardy and long-lived. Their wood is so dense and strong that it’s virtually immune to disease, insects, and erosion. They grow in places that are inhospitable for many other trees, flourishing in cold, windy environments where the soil is not particularly rich in nutrients. For the bristlecone pine, apparent obstacles stimulate their resilience. I don’t want to exaggerate the ways they remind me of you Capricorns, but you and they certainly have affinities. I believe these shared qualities will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks.

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