An excerpt from the GTA Member Webinar on April 4, 2025.
Transcript edited for print.
A lot happens during these Saturn-Neptune conjunctions. Every time we see Saturn and Neptune meet, we witness empire collapses, border redrawings, wars and revolutions, ideological upheaval, institutional resets—basically, the end of an era. It always correlates with the end of an era.
And what we’re seeing right now is that central banks, fiat currencies, and global financial institutions are under immense stress. That’s why your money’s not safe. Your 401k’s not safe. Your money market might be safe technically, but the problem is that the rate of inflation is far greater than the interest you’re getting in that money market.
Public trust in governments, media, and health organizations is rapidly eroding. AI, deepfakes, virtual realities, and fake news are distorting consensus reality.
Spiritual Shifts and the New Age Revival
Ideologies are colliding: globalism versus sovereignty, spiritual renaissance versus religious decline. You’re seeing people leaving the church, abandoning the religion they were raised with. They’re becoming reinvigorated with new spiritual doctrines, or they’re getting very interested in the occult and metaphysics. We’re going to see a revival in interest in all those types of things.
We go through New Age revivals every 36 years. If you just go back 36 years to the late ’80s—that’s when all the New Age shops opened up. One of the big ones was The Bodhi Tree, a bookstore in West Hollywood—I believe it’s closed now—but we’ll see a Bodhi Tree 2.0 or some similar version of that come up. So we’re going to see more of a spiritual revivalism.
People were practicing channeling, mediumship—it went mainstream. You could turn on any radio show and they’d have psychics on for the first time. All that type of stuff, right? We’re going to have that happen again. But it’s certainly not going to be the type we’re used to. It’s going to rhyme, but it’s going to be very different compared to what we had in the late ’80s.
A lot of people in the late ’80s were getting into astrology. I actually started my practice during the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. I started doing astrology full-time—or at least not 100% full-time—but I started doing it seriously, professionally speaking, around 1989.
I remember that year—several bookstores wanted me to go on weekends and do readings for them, and were asking if I knew a good tarot reader. There was massive demand—something that doesn’t exist right now, but that’s probably going to change this year, and certainly into next year.
Society is searching for a new compass. Saturn-Neptune is the storm AND the map.
Geopolitical Rebalancing: From Unipolar to Multipolar
The other big thing is geopolitical rebalancing—from unipolarity to multipolarity. We are witnessing a fundamental rewiring of the global order. Sovereignty is back on the world stage—not just in the Westphalian sense, but in digital, monetary, and even cognitive domains.
We’re going to see challenges to the U.S. world order. But it’s not just Trump—though people call it the Trump doctrine. The new U.S. doctrine is moving away from policing the world, being all things to all people, and paying for it too.
We were paying everyone—holding up their economies, their banking systems, bailing them out—not just in 2008. Since 1945, we’ve been doing this. I mean, England was bailed out in ’67, and again in the early ’90s. All these countries were bailed out under our nuclear umbrella.
Basically, they didn’t have to build navies, because they didn’t need to escort their ships. Our navy serves all the oceans. We’re the only country with a blue-water navy. So we could ensure that oil and global trade were safe under our naval umbrella. All the different SWIFT systems we put in place so people could move their money between currencies—that all goes through the U.S. system.
The U.S. is pulling out of that. We don’t want to do that anymore. That’s why we’re going to see the emergence of the BRIC nations acting as a counterbalance.
The EU Crisis and Technological Decline
Certainly, the EU is facing internal collapse of cohesion due to the energy crisis, and geopolitical and technological irrelevance. Europe is actually—this is the weird thing—from about 1500 to 1850, they were inventing everything. But from 1850 on, it’s pretty much been America inventing. America has more patents from 1850 to present than, I think, all of Europe in the history of the world.
But the point is, Europe is way behind now. It’s behind China, most of Asia, and the United States in innovation. They are becoming technologically irrelevant. A lot of the brightest, most ambitious people in Europe just leave and come to America. And I don’t blame them. The governments there still think the Eurozone solution is going to work.
So the EU faces internal collapse at all different levels. You’re going to see Latin America come up. Southeast Asia, Singapore—they’re all going to come up strong with this Saturn-Neptune.
America’s Turn Toward Sovereignty and Self-Sufficiency
The U.S. is abandoning what it used to be and going back to trying to be sovereign and self-sufficient. We have Bitcoin. We have plenty of food, water. We don’t need to trade with you. We have Greenland to access minerals. We don’t need China. That’s the approach now.
So this is part of the seismic shift. The seismic shift is underway in the United States. And it’s bigger than just politics. It’s being dubbed, technically, as the Trump effect. And this is the emerging direction that’s decisively breaking from decades of this unipolar globalist policy.
We’re opting out of the global system. We’re moving away from that post–World War II, postmodern order. We’re like, “Hey, you’ve got a problem with X, Y, and Z country? That’s your problem. Not our problem.” Unless it’s the Panama Canal or something that’s a national security asset—it’s not our problem.
Now, I’m not saying the U.S. doesn’t want to be part of diplomatic solutions. But putting U.S. boots on the ground? That’s all over. The U.S. is stepping back from being the world’s policeman.
The New U.S. Economic Doctrine
We’re going to bring back industry. The biggest thing now—there’s consensus in Washington, except for some hardcore radical liberal Democrats—to bring back all industry. The new approach is to support a weaker dollar to make exports more competitive. You need a weaker dollar. Without it, it doesn’t matter if we manufacture everything in the world. If we have a strong dollar, no one will buy our stuff—they just couldn’t afford it.
So we have to have a weaker dollar. We’re going to have import tariffs, which help reduce income taxes. That’s why other countries can reduce their income taxes—because they have tariffs. Tariffs pay the government and give them revenue from imports.
So we’re seeing an external revenue service rolled out. We’re seeing Bitcoin strategically embraced. A federal Bitcoin reserve is now in the works. That’s going to radically change everything. We’re selling off gold. We’re even backing the dollar with Bitcoin. Smaller government. Lower taxes. Challenging the globalist institutions. We’re no longer going to be supporting these engines—NGOs and foreign media used for color revolutions, so to speak.
A Shift in Foreign Policy and Freedoms
The U.S. now recognizes Ukraine as part of Russia’s sphere, pivoting from its past role in geopolitical escalation. Freedom of speech is a core value. So while Europe is leaning deeper into censorship and digital control—especially in the U.K. and Germany—America is making freedom of expression central again, rejecting ideological suppression and restoring open dialogue.
The End of Globalist Rule
The era of covert elite dominance is over. What’s emerging is a world of independent sovereign states. And America is reclaiming its role—going back to that capitalist, mercantilistic role—being self-reliant among its peers. Not ruling them. Not saying, “Hey, here’s the top-down policy.” We’re moving away from that model.
It’s not going to happen overnight, but it’s beginning, especially with what just transpired over the past few days.
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