NOTE Unlike some folks here I literally am completely ambivalent in regards to people enjoying/engaging in astrology on an individual level (as long as they aren’t fucking with other people or their relationships because of it) but people who try to use it to predict the freaking news cycle/political stuff I have no qualms making fun of them lol I found this opening the astrology subreddit

I was very wary and a little pessimistic about this retrograde back into Capricorn… it kicked my ass last year, and caused a lot of bad stuff like the Israel/Palestine conflict to flare up in the world… but I’m actually starting to feel a little optimistic, given the event that seems to have most closely correlated with Pluto going back into Capricorn on Sept 1st. This week was highlighted most prominently, IMO, by the FBI/DOJ indictment against Tenet Media for being a conduit of Russian money and propaganda. This has blown the whole Russian interference thing wide open, and may actually have a profound effect on opening people’s eyes to how much foreign influence is going on in the politics and media landscape of western countries.

And given how it echoes all the way back to at least 2014, when it’s suspected that Russia began ramping up this whole propaganda campaign… it’s kinda providing a bit of a climax moment to the story of Pluto in Capricorn (top-down power structures, hidden secretive power involving governments or financial structures, etc), especially as it overlapped with Neptune in Pisces since 2011/2012. I think it’s been a period of extreme right-wing disinformation/misinformation causing a lot of confusion and division, as we reckon with the end-stage of a Neptune cycle, and the Pluto Return for America. We’ve also been going through the Saturn return of the fall of the Soviet Union the last number of years, and Saturn is now in Pisces, about to conjunct Neptune as it ends its cycle and crosses into Aries and a new cycle.

So… I’m actually getting kind of cautiously optimistic that this Pluto retrograde in Capricorn may prove notably positive as a last big breaking open and (hopefully) resolution of these big issues that have cropped up during this time. Then we can move forward with the air having been cleared at least somewhat. The heaviness and muddiness of Pluto in Capricorn finally wrapped up for good, as we prepare to do the same with Neptune in Pisces next year. Pluto in Capricorn having more of a foundational, institutional effect (the legal process of the FBI and DOJ indicting assets of a foreign country), and then Neptune in Pisces will have more to do with the societal zeitgeist and dealing with the social/cultural/psychological effects of learning and accepting that we’ve been manipulated and need to purge the effects of that manipulation before we can move forward into the new cycle.

Doesn’t seem to bode that well for Trump. Pluto in Capricorn may have served him well during its pinnacle, and it may be helping him again with getting his sentencing delayed… AGAIN… so he may end up having some amount of undue luck… again… during this time. What that means for the debate or the election? I don’t know for sure… but I will say that he’s gonna need a LOT of luck to pull off a win in either, given the momentum for Harris and Walz that is happening. I feel like the most likely scenario is that his “luck” goes as far as being able to delay results for the election due to all the shenanigans of the attempts to claim voter fraud and not certify results in red states, etc… but that luck will run out by Nov 20, when Pluto reenters Aquarius. The election will be certified sometime after that… Trump gets sentenced on Nov 26… and we can say goodbye to Pluto in Capricorn for good.