An excerpt from the GTA Member Webinar on August 2, 2024.
Transcript edited for print.
We need to keep in mind the larger umbrella here. If you take a 50,000-foot view and look at this from that perspective, the largest outer planetary alignment—and the most powerful one for the remainder of this decade—is the Saturn-Neptune conjunction occurring on the world point. We’re really going to see this pick up in intensity by 2025, but we’re already getting very strong intimations of it now. We’ve talked about this before. It happens every 36 years.
These alignments correlate with significant global markers of societal and political change. They often show up during major moments in history—periods marked by the dissolution of established structures, shifts in political landscapes, and deep transformations.
Why Saturn–Neptune Always Signals Major Systemic Change
The Saturn-Neptune alignment correlates with the inevitability of inflation. That’s where the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government are right now. They really have little choice but to continue inflating the monetary supply. This comes from the dual need to avoid the severe repercussions of a recession and to manage the ever-growing national debt, which is completely out of control at this point.
We’re sitting at about $35 trillion in debt as of Thursday. That number is projected to climb toward $100 trillion by the time we reach 2026, right at the exact moment of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. By February or March of 2026, we could be looking at $100 trillion in debt, escalating and intensifying.
To contain that, they have to continue debasing the currency and inflating the money supply to prevent an outright economic collapse.
Inflation Is No Longer a Choice—It’s Built Into the System
So what we’re seeing is that inflation isn’t just a policy choice—it’s an inevitable consequence of the current fiat-based, fractional-reserve banking system. There is no alternative within this structure. They have no choice but to continue doing what they’re doing.
From a larger perspective, what we’re really seeing is asset-price support. The government is compelled to support asset prices. As inflation accelerates, asset prices will continue to rise nominally, but in real terms they’re losing value. The goal is to prevent a collapse caused by a sharp drop in asset values.
They can never allow the stock market, for example, to drop more than 50%. Honestly, even a 20% drop would trigger massive intervention. You’d see monetary stimulus, the plunge protection team stepping in, and stealth liquidity injected into the system. They won’t call it monetary easing because that’s politically incorrect and not going to get people reelected, but that’s exactly what it is.
Asset Prices as Collateral for a Debt-Based Economy
This is what’s happening now. Real estate and stock markets are massively overinflated, and the government will do whatever it takes to keep those prices rising. Asset prices are used as collateral across the entire debt-based economy, so protecting those prices is essential to maintaining financial stability.
That means continuous liquidity injections—quantitative easing, low interest rates, public or private interventions, overt or stealth. All of it is necessary to prop up a contracting economy. This constant flow of money is designed to encourage borrowing and spending by the “too rich to fail.”
A Bifurcated Society: Who Really Benefits
We live in a bifurcated society. Ten percent of the population owns 93% of the stocks, 85% of the bonds, and over half of all the gold. That small segment continues to benefit, while everyone else loses ground. If you’re not in the top 10%, your wealth continues to erode.
Even when the government claims it wants wealth equality, the reality is different. The system won’t allow a true reset. The too-big-to-fail institutions aren’t going to write checks to any politician who threatens to let the system correct itself. They won’t allow a recession to run its course, even if that reset could lead to a healthier economy over the next 20 years.
The debt load is simply too large.
How Debt Became the Asset After 2008
Since 2008—and especially after 2009—policy changes during the Obama administration transformed the system so that cash became the liability and debt became the asset. Debt now fuels money creation. That makes the economy increasingly leveraged, and any meaningful contraction of debt through defaults or reduced lending would be catastrophic. That guarantees more intervention.
This is why Saturn-Neptune matters. Things are going to get chaotic. We’re going to see extreme volatility across all markets.
The Illusion of Market Gains
If you measure the stock market against M2 money supply, it’s made no real gains. Measure it against gold, and it’s lost value. Measure it against Bitcoin, and it’s deeply negative.
The only way out of 2008 was to double down on a debt-based system. Anything that threatens that structure risks systemic collapse. Authorities are willing to sacrifice currency strength and confidence in the dollar if that’s what it takes to keep the system going.
The Dollar Monopoly and the Global Consequences
Globally, everything hinges on the U.S. dollar. Nations have to swap their currencies for dollars just to maintain purchasing power. Our monopoly money is considered better than everyone else’s monopoly money, even though its purchasing power continues to decline.
This is the Saturn-Neptune crisis unfolding in real time, and astrologers, economists, and politicians are largely in denial.
Extend and Pretend—Until You Can’t
What we’re seeing is an economy built on debt, combined with monetary policies that require perpetual inflation and asset support—extend and pretend, prop it up at all costs. But this doesn’t just continue forever without consequence.
Saturn-Neptune correlates with political and social polarization, global upheavals, economic inequality, and class conflict. All this fighting between groups ultimately comes down to massive inequality and the stripping away of upward mobility for 90% of the population. It’s hidden in plain sight and denied by the same institutions people continue to trust.
Most people are losing purchasing power, even when they think they’re doing everything “right.” The system rewards compliance while quietly draining wealth. The majority of people have far less money than they realize, and this process is accelerating.
We’re going to see societal relaunches and shifting worldviews. Those deeply invested in the 401(k) mindset—the blue-pill system—are likely to be hit the hardest.
History Repeats When Money Breaks
We’ve seen this pattern before. Look at Venezuela. It was once one of the richest countries in the world. Step by step, it followed the same pattern: socialism, income redistribution, nationalization, suppression, shortages, and eventually revolution.
Every major revolution in history has been about money. The Russian Revolution. The collapse of the Soviet Union. These weren’t ideological accidents—they were economic failures. And the belief that “it can’t happen here” is one of the most dangerous assumptions we make.
The Saturn–Neptune Mood: Disgruntled and Awake
The best word to describe this Saturn-Neptune period is disgruntled. Discontent with the media. Discontent with government. Discontent with academia, elites, and institutions. Beneath all of it is a growing awareness that our standard of living is declining rapidly.
And this reality is continuously denied—by the government, the Fed, Wall Street, financial advisors, 401(k) managers. But it’s happening right now, hidden in plain sight.
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