<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">Below is a very insightful piece of writing by David Nicol ~ </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">David presented the ASTROLOGICAL REPORT at the Spring Equinox last Saturday.</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">This is a very comprehensive over view of what is reflected through the Astrological lens~. </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">~Even if you are NOT adept with Astrology, what is so skillfully laid out in David’s writing </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">will most likely resonate with you~. </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">~~ I feel we all have have a sense of the tension, pressure and awareness that a major shift is in </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">the unfolding at this time~. Knowledge is power that also lends it’s self to personal strength, </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">individual stability and preparation as may be needed in the face of change ~ both for the pos. and neg. </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">physical and psychological~.</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">Thank You David</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">One Love</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">Ron </div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;"><font color="#ff2600">note: </font>This Sunday David will be sharing a free live transmission for the astrological year ahead~!</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><img src="cid:4D023E64-D65A-402A-8438-86486D69F9DD" alt="OIP-4.jpg"></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Nicol from Geistic Musings <davidnicol@substack.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>At the Edge of a New Era</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">25 March 2026 at 7:31:37 a.m. PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ron@spirithousehealing.org<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Nicol from Geistic Musings <reply+36byha&vl6mg&&9e52e61fe49a369c41786dc019f125a00d416606a4a11a2e63d5ab4b13f8d1a0@mg1.substack.com><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><img src="https://eotrx.substackcdn.com/open?token=eyJtIjoiPDIwMjYwMzI1MTQzMTM3LjMuZGQ3M2Q0ZjQxZTQ0ODkzM0BtZy1kMS5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20-IiwidSI6NTMwNTY0NTYsInIiOiJyb25Ac3Bpcml0aG91c2VoZWFsaW5nLm9yZyIsImQiOiJtZy1kMS5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20iLCJwIjoxOTIwMzQxMjYsInQiOiJuZXdzbGV0dGVyIiwiYSI6ImV2ZXJ5b25lIiwicyI6NTI2OTA4LCJjIjoicG9zdCIsImYiOnRydWUsInBvc2l0aW9uIjoidG9wIiwiaWF0IjoxNzc0NDQ5MTI3LCJleHAiOjE3NzcwNDExMjcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoiZW8ifQ.RQju_8TSmiO8H30865xiOuJkEK99RhdyyWkIjwGiXKA" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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line-height: 0;"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="post typography" dir="auto" style="--image-offset-margin: -120px; padding: 32px 0px 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><div class="body markup" dir="auto" style="text-align: initial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; width: 550px; word-break: break-word; margin-bottom: 16px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">It’s been a while since I wrote here on Substack. I’ve been on a long journey in the Underworld these last few years, dealing with a chronic illness that made intensive writing difficult. I expect I’ll write about it at some point, as it was a very challenging, humbling, yet meaningful passage.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">For now, at this highly emotional and volatile time in our world, I want to share some reflections on an underlying pattern in the astrological year ahead that I think is important to understand so that we don’t lose our heads in the developing storm.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><span>In 2021 and 2022, I wrote an essay series —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em>Navigating the Storm of Global Change</em><span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>— that offered an astrologically-based framework for understanding the overarching mythic structure of this tumultuous phase of history. In that series, I suggested that the years 2020 to roughly 2025-26 represented a critical historical threshold, akin to a collective birthing process, that would give rise to a fundamentally new and more Aquarian era for humanity.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><span>Now that we’re here in early 2026, I still think the framework holds. While</span><em><strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong></em><span>the passage ahead looks turbulent, I maintain that</span><strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span>we are not descending into a dark age but are in fact on the threshold of a new integral one</span><em>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><span>The turmoil we are currently experiencing belongs to a moment of profound transition, in which one era is losing coherence as another begins to take form.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">2025 was an extraordinary year in astrological terms.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">Within an 8-month window – from November 2024 to July 2025 – all of the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) changed signs, along with Saturn and Jupiter. These slower-moving planets set the tone for the cultural zeitgeist and it was historically unprecedented for so many of them to change signs within such a short span of time. Most years go by without any of the outer planets entering new signs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">To me it symbolized the final, intense push through the birth canal of the dawning era.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">During this period there was indeed a widespread sense that the world was on the brink of a historic transition — for better or for worse. Trump’s election signaled a political sea change, both domestically and internationally. For supporters, it represented a radical reclamation of national sovereignty, but for many others it raised profound fears about the future of liberal democracy and signaled the end of the so-called ‘rules-based’ international order established at the end of World War II.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">This same period also saw the initial mass adoption of AI — a technological explosion of almost unimaginable consequence — alongside a new phase of mainstream engagement with the subject of extra-terrestrial intelligence. Topics long regarded as science fiction are entering mainstream discourse, suggesting that this period may represent not only the end of a geopolitical era, but the beginning of a profound shift in human consciousness itself — perhaps even constituting a defining moment in our evolutionary relationship with non-human intelligence.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">But if 2025 marked the crossing of the threshold, 2026 is the emergence.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">When I wrote the original essay series, I was primarily focused on the big picture pattern and did not look closely at the granular details of this year. Now that we are here, it is clear that the astrology of 2026 points toward the potential for escalating conflict and war.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 1.5; max-width: 560px; margin: 24px auto; align-items: flex-start; display: block; text-align: center; padding: 0px 32px; direction: ltr !important;"><div class="preamble" style="margin-top: 16px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; max-width: 384px; width: fit-content; line-height: 22px; display: flex; align-items: center; text-align: center; font-weight: 400; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">Thanks for reading Geistic Musings! 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The new moon forms a conjunction with Chiron (the wound), while Mars (will, drive, force) simultaneously makes a conjunction with Saturn (limits, constraints, hard-nosed reality). This combination will likely create conditions in which painful wounds can be easily triggered, within a milieu of heightened irritability and frustration.</p><div class="captioned-image-container-static" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><figure style="width: 550px; margin: 0px auto;"><table class="image-wrapper" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" data-component-name="Image2ToDOMStatic"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="content" align="left" width="518" style="text-align: center;"><a class="image-link" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/ce9e454f-dfab-4e03-9c92-e1a707408ffa?j=eyJ1Ijoidmw2bWcifQ._LwW4wrZtS1BDqxZQ_FDEa8i1tzchshM5VWNR0P6wP4" rel="" style="position: relative; flex-direction: column; align-items: center; padding: 0px; width: auto; height: auto; border: medium; text-decoration: none; display: block; margin: 0px;"><img data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1cdde2f1-b554-483d-b0f8-da555568951c_874x754.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":754,"width":874,"resizeWidth":518,"bytes":359267,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://davidnicol.substack.com/i/192034126?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cdde2f1-b554-483d-b0f8-da555568951c_874x754.png","isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" alt="" width="518" height="446.8787185354691" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!amer!,w_518,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cdde2f1-b554-483d-b0f8-da555568951c_874x754.png" style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; border: medium !important; width: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" data-unique-identifier=""></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">New Moon in Aries chart April 17, 2026</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">And almost immediately after this intense period, Uranus enters Gemini (April 26), where it will remain until 2033. Historically, the passage of Uranus through Gemini has consistently coincided with America’s involvement in major wars — including the Revolutionary War at the nation’s founding, the Civil War, and World War II.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">In the US natal chart, both Mars and Uranus are in Gemini. This is a combination that can express courage and daring, but also volatility and rapid escalation. When Uranus returns to this part of the chart, it excites these qualities, giving rise to a national impulse to fight for the principle of individual freedom.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">In multiple instances, key turning points in these historical conflicts occurred when Mars joined Uranus in Gemini — an alignment that typically happens three or four times during Uranus’ approximately seven year passage through the sign.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">This year, Mars will join Uranus in Gemini from June 28 to August 11, forming an exact conjunction on July 4 at 3 degrees Gemini. Because the conjunction occurs on the nation’s birthday, this aspect will be present in the US solar return chart, indicating that this combustible Mars-Uranus energy is likely to be a major theme in the year ahead.</p><div class="captioned-image-container-static" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><figure style="width: 550px; margin: 0px auto;"><table class="image-wrapper" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" data-component-name="Image2ToDOMStatic"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="content" align="left" width="1446" style="text-align: center;"><a class="image-link" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/dc5a67d5-17d2-4e14-8c5f-7c7f82892f6a?j=eyJ1Ijoidmw2bWcifQ._LwW4wrZtS1BDqxZQ_FDEa8i1tzchshM5VWNR0P6wP4" rel="" style="position: relative; flex-direction: column; align-items: center; padding: 0px; width: auto; height: auto; border: medium; text-decoration: none; display: block; margin: 0px;"><img class="wide-image" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/942b53ec-2a20-4134-8302-708551437f98_1446x1262.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1262,"width":1446,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":887311,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://davidnicol.substack.com/i/192034126?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F942b53ec-2a20-4134-8302-708551437f98_1446x1262.png","isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" alt="" width="550" height="480.01383125864453" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i35m!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F942b53ec-2a20-4134-8302-708551437f98_1446x1262.png" style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; border: medium !important; width: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" data-unique-identifier=""></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Inner wheel shows the USA natal chart, outer wheel shows transits for July 4, 2026</p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">While this may not be welcome news, I think it’s important to know what’s coming so that we are not caught off-guard if events intensify.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">For there is another incredibly rare configuration taking place this year that tells a very different story.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">When Uranus enters Gemini, it immediately forms a harmonious trine aspect to Pluto in Aquarius and a flowing sextile to Neptune in Aries. With Neptune also forming a sextile to Pluto, this means that all three outer planets are harmoniously aligned, an aspect pattern known as a Minor Grand Trine.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">The pattern is particularly strong in the northern hemisphere summer months of 2026 and 2027, but remains in effect until mid-2028.</p><div class="captioned-image-container-static" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><figure style="width: 550px; margin: 0px auto;"><table class="image-wrapper" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" data-component-name="Image2ToDOMStatic"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="content" align="left" width="1456" style="text-align: center;"><a class="image-link" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/5a1afcb4-8e77-47fa-8c0f-de6b492d3f1f?j=eyJ1Ijoidmw2bWcifQ._LwW4wrZtS1BDqxZQ_FDEa8i1tzchshM5VWNR0P6wP4" rel="" style="position: relative; flex-direction: column; align-items: center; padding: 0px; width: auto; height: auto; border: medium; text-decoration: none; display: block; margin: 0px;"><img class="wide-image" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e7148c9e-ffe1-4933-9251-60f94c6492f8_1556x1266.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1185,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":884754,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://davidnicol.substack.com/i/192034126?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7148c9e-ffe1-4933-9251-60f94c6492f8_1556x1266.png","isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" alt="" width="550" height="447.6304945054945" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!60Fk!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7148c9e-ffe1-4933-9251-60f94c6492f8_1556x1266.png" style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; border: medium !important; width: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" data-unique-identifier=""></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Minor Grand Trine of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto: July 20 2026</p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">As mentioned earlier, the outer planets exert by far the strongest influences on the cultural zeitgeist. When all three are aligned harmoniously, it’s unquestionably a historic occasion. This exact pattern has not occurred since the Fall of Rome, and won’t again for many centuries. Renowned (now deceased) French astrologer Andre Barbault called it “the most beautiful configuration of the 21st century.” If ever there were a window for a civilizational rebirth, this is it.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">I don’t think this pattern overrides the other signals of conflict and war, or means that we will instantly enter a golden age. But it does suggest that on a deep level of consciousness and culture, a rare and profound coherence is developing.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;">To me the overall picture is that of a complex system approaching a phase change. While the volatility of our world is of course frightening, it may also be the violent reorganization of a system on the verge of transformation. 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