PORTLAND, OR—Preaching the virtues of breaking free from an oppressive system of mass brainwashing, local man Dan Pearson, the chosen one who will lead humanity out of its current dark age of commercialism, revealed Monday that advertising doesn’t work on him. “I actually do research online instead of just buying something because of some dumb ad,” said He Who Has Been Foretold, whose name will be celebrated for centuries as the man who finally saw through the deception of consumerism and led humanity into a golden age of free thought and spiritual nourishment. “I honestly don’t even remember most ads. I usually mute them so I can actually talk with Jen about what we’re watching. It’s so stupid that people tie up their whole identity in products just because Nike tells them its shoes will make them look cool. Honestly, sometimes the only thing an ad does is make me not want to buy a product. I actually use this thing called AdGuard that stops bots from tracking me online and completely blocks ads so I can just think for myself. I love that I’m screwing over these stupid companies. Instead of giving them my money, I just stick with high quality stuff like Brooklinen.” At press time, the all-seeing sage, who will be honored with statues around the world for freeing mankind from the shackles of corporate marketing, was telling onlookers that anyone who cares about celebrities is stupid.
Neptune entered Aries in March 2025. Saturn followed on May 25th. Jupiter ingresses into Cancer in June, and Uranus moves into Gemini in July.
This kind of astrological reset doesn’t happen every lifetime. In fact, it won’t happen again – not like this.
To support you with this process, we have prepared something very special.
RESET – Neptune In Aries, Saturn In Aries, Uranus In Gemini, Jupiter In Cancer
We are happy to announce that RESET, Astro Butterfly School’s 4-week online program is now open for enrolment.
RESET is a 4-week journey – starting June 2nd, 2025 – to explore Neptune in Aries, Saturn in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, and Jupiter in Cancer.
With Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter all changing signs, RESET is your framework to connect the dots – one planet, one ingress at a time. RESET captures the momentum of this rare planetary lineup and helps you experience the change as it unfolds – in real time.
We’ll start with Neptune’s ingress into Aries, then move on to Saturn, continue with Uranus, and finally Jupiter.
One by one, we’ll make sense of each shift – and then bring everything together to understand what it all means, both collectively and personally.
RESET was designed with 2 main goals in mind:
1. To provide you with the “Big Picture” of these important ingresses: Saturn and Neptune in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, and Jupiter in Cancer.
While analyzing each of these planets individually will offer deep insight – and we will do this too, and go in depth – the unique feature of RESET is the “connecting the dots” framework.
RESET is not just a transits overview. Yes, we’ll look at each ingress on its own – but we’ll also zoom out and use powerful frameworks to understand how all of these changes connect. That’s one of the core goals of this program: making sense of the big picture.
The 2 main frameworks we’ll use are Astro Butterfly’s “Planets and Psyche” and “WHY-WHAT-HOW.”
2. To harness the momentum of these transits, and experience them together, as they’re unfolding in real time.
It’s one thing to study planetary shifts independently, and another to get guidance as you’re moving through them.
And there’s a certain magic in working with these energies at the moment they’re happening – when we experience them in real time, we simply understand them more intuitively.
It’s easier to make sense of, align with, and benefit from the opportunities these transits bring.
RESET – Rare Timing, Real Insight
RESET is a unique offering you won’t find anywhere else. We believe it’s a game changer in the way we understand and integrate the rare, back-to-back ingresses of Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter into new signs – capturing the shift as it unfolds in real time.
These transits won’t happen again in our lifetime – at least not all at once. Going through them now, with awareness and intention, gives you an edge most people won’t have.
There’s power in timing. RESET is about understanding the astrology of these transits PLUS usingit while it’s active.
The program consists of 5 live webinars (on Mondays at 10:00 AM PST or Tuesdays at 9:00 AM BST), Q&A calls, and additional resources. You have lifetime access to all materials and recordings.
You can learn more about RESET – and enroll – at the link below:
I met him in our dormitory the day we entered college in 1964. He saw me struggling to carry my big luggage crates up the two flights of stairs to my dorm room and, without saying a word, grabbed one and hauled it to the second floor.
“Thank you!” I stammered when we reached the landing.
“Don’t mention it,” he said with a broad smile, and then offered his hand. “I’m Robbie.”
“Bob,” I said, shaking his hand.
“Good to meet you, Bob!”
He must have noticed I was exhausted by the effort, and lonely to boot. “It’s close to dinner time,” he said. “Wanna walk over to the dining hall?”
“Sure!”
That was the start of our friendship.
Robbie was intuitively kind. He combined a remarkable warmheartedness with a degree of compassion I had never known before. And it wasn’t only toward me. Every young man in our dorm, and many in our class, came to admire and depend on Robbie.
Robbie went missing in action in Vietnam on October 12, 1972. His body has never been recovered.
I think of Robbie on Memorial Day, as I do of others who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
I was strongly opposed to the Vietnam War. I demonstrated and marched against it. I was too short to be drafted, but I detested it — the cruel absurdity of that war, the lies with which it was sold to the American people, the utter waste of it. In the end, more than 58,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese lost their lives in it. Many more were grievously wounded.
But when I think of Robbie, I also remember his sense of duty. Duty was inseparable from his kindness. Whatever the situation, Robbie was eager to help.
What do we owe one another as members of the same society?
Our current president apparently believes we owe each other nothing. To him, everything is a transaction — a deal in which each of us is in it for as much money and power as we can get.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump denigrated Senator John McCain, whose plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967.
McCain became a prisoner of war. The North Vietnamese offered him early release because McCain’s father was commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam at the time. But the young McCain refused the offer in order to uphold the Code of Conduct, which stipulated that prisoners of war should be released in the order they were captured. As a result, he remained in North Vietnam for nearly five additional years, during which time he was put into solitary confinement and tortured.
“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said during the 2016 presidential campaign. Then he altered his comment: “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK?”
Trump avoided serving in Vietnam by claiming he had a bone spur in his heel. As Michael Cohen, Trump’s “fixer,” told members of the House Oversight Committee in 2019:
“Trump claimed [his medical deferment] was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment. He finished the conversation with the following comment: ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.’”
Finally now, in 2025, Trump is going to Vietnam. He and his family business are planning a $1.5 billion golf complex outside Hanoi and a Trump skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City — the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam.
According to TheNew York Times, the two projectsare part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale.
Robbie was never in it for himself. He did what he did because he felt he had an obligation to do it, for the nation he loved. It’s why I remember and honor Robbie on Memorial Day.
Headlines warn of a world in collapse, but solutions journalist Angus Hervey finds the overlooked triumphs that never make the news — from the rollout of malaria vaccines to the recovery of sea turtles. With hard data and stories from the frontlines, he reveals the hidden progress that perseveres even as it feels like the world is falling apart, and challenges us to decide which future we’ll help write.
Wake Forest Universi • Streamed live on May 19, 2025 Congratulations Class of 2025! Join us for Wake Forest University’s Commencement weekend on May 16–19. Graduation Exercises, where the President will confer undergraduate degrees, is on Monday, May 19, on Hearn Plaza, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at approximately 1 p.m.
I wonder if there is a more-feared card in the Tarot deck? Yet Death is, in many ways, a hopeful and refreshing influence if only we will let it be. It is the major card for change and alteration in the entire deck. Since life itself changes constantly, in order to harmonise ourselves more completely with it, we too must be in a state of constant change – working toward our goals, attempting to fulfil our dreams and developing the quality of our spiritual understanding.When Death comes up as Card of the Day, the first question we need to ask ourselves is – what is it that needs to be changed or finished up? What situations have been lingering on well past their sell-by date? What should we have dealt with before, that this day challenges us to face and finish?Imagine, for a moment, that your life is a plot of land. If it is completely overgrown, covered with unwanted and untended undergrowth, you cannot plant something beautiful and fruitful in it can you?The Death card requires that we spend a bit of dedicated time cutting away the undergrowth, and clearing the debris so that our lives are clear and open, ready for fresh planting.Sometimes a Death card day won’t be one in which we need to do, so much as one in which we need to think. Most peoples’ lives are very busy indeed these days. So busy, in fact, that we often tend to put off thinking about the difficult or demanding issues in our lives. Yet often it is exactly this type of issue that causes emotional and mental deadwood to accumulate, if we allow it.If life is created by what we think, what we expect and how we feel about things, our deepest emotional urges, our wildest dreams, our highest ideals require a great deal of thinking about, don’t they? If not, we stagnate, never creating new channels through which to direct our energies, never determining when a habitual action has run its course, never assessing what is useful, and what is not.So, sometimes, a Death card day needs to be a day in which you re-evaluate the general patterns of your daily existence, and re-appraise your goals. You’ll know if it’s that kind of day by measuring how dissatisfied you currently feel. If you are largely happy and comfortable, then the Death card day is one for clearing the decks in a physical sense.
Affirmation: “I welcome change into my life, embracing it fearlessly and hopefully.”
“Toni Morrison said, ‘The function of freedom is to free someone else,’ and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many excesses as you can.”
― Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Lamott is based in Marin County, California. Her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Wikipedia
On May 27th, 2025, we have a New Moon at 6° Gemini.
This is one of the most auspicious New Moons of the year – it is conjunct its ruler, Mercury, it’s trine Pluto in Aquarius, and sextile Neptune and Saturn in Aries.
The New Moon in Gemini has “opportunities” written all over it.
A new lunar cycle also means we are saying goodbye to the previous lunar cycle in Taurus – which was tense, to say the least.
The New Moon in Gemini will feel like a breath of fresh air, as if a heaviness has been lifted.
2 interesting things about this New Moon in Gemini:
1. First, it’s conjunct its own ruler, Mercury, which makes it extra potent and extra “Gemini.” Jupiter is also in Gemini, giving a magical boost to whatever we initiate.
If your intentions align with Gemini themes like writing, presentations, or online communication – to name a few Gemini themes – that’s the one to pursue!
2. Second, it aspects all the outer planets – Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto – as well as the newly ingressed Saturn in Aries. This is the first New Moon with Saturn in Aries fully, and it’s really kicking things into gear.
New Moon In Gemini – Opportunities
But the reason this New Moon is so special is that it initiates an important configuration that will unfold over the next few years: a minor triangle between the “Big 3” – Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus.
This is a spectacular configuration that supports change and progress at a rate we may have never seen before.
We are no longer in the Pluto-in-Capricorn / Neptune-in-Pisces era. The world looks very different from how it did prior to 2024, when Pluto moved into Aquarius.
Everything is being reconfigured – from alliances to systems of power and influence. Innovation and AI are changing the rules, but also opening new doors and possibilities.
We are entering a completely new world, where we have the chance to become active participants.
And Gemini will play a very important role in this new scenario. Jupiter has been turning Gemini into a prime venue for growth, paving the way for Uranus, which enters the sign in July 2025 to really accelerate innovation and change.
This shift from Earth to Air (Capricorn → Aquarius, Taurus → Gemini) means we are becoming less focused on earthy, tangible concerns like material accumulation or survival, and more attuned to how we connect with others and how we express ourselves.
Success and happiness will no longer be measured by the size of our bank account or the stability of our assets—but by our social connections, how much we stay active, and how we contribute to this new world to make it a better place (Saturn and Neptune in Aries).
How do we do this in a Gemini way? We expand our horizons. We learn new things. We stay curious and open.
How many times has an opportunity shown up either through a conversation, by reading a magazine, or by checking your emails or social media?
Gemini is our interface with the world – it’s where we take in bits of information, bits of inspiration, and from there, build something new.
Chances are, most opportunities in your life – even if you didn’t recognize it at the time – have come to you through some sort of Gemini activity.
The Sabian Symbol of this New Moon is “A well with bucket and rope under the shade of majestic trees.” The Sabian symbol speaks of quiet abundance and support – the universe is providing us with what we need; all we have to do is reach out and draw from it.
At the New Moon in Gemini, pay attention to whatever emerges – however subtle or ordinary it may seem – because it might just be the spark that sets your next big idea in motion.
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