2025 will emerge out of the world in 2024.
The United Nations has designated 2025 the year of quantum science and technology and technology is changing the world fast. But on January 1, 2025 Aquarian Age technology isn’t changing the way an estimated 8.2 billion people think and behave.
It’s a record crowd and in the age of endlessly distracting technology many are addicted to their screens and forgetting to live their lives. In 2025 technology is ruining people’s lives so there’s talk about digital detoxing, disconnecting, slowing down and connecting with yourself.
In 2025 some people think the world is a cesspool of depravity.
World watches say that in the past ten years global affairs have seriously unraveled. The rules-based order that is used to keep things managed and orderly is under enormous pressure. Alternative versions are proposed so the world has become a much more complex, chaotic and uncertain place.
ISIS, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the global financial crisis, covid, Rusia’s invasion of Ukraine, the rise of China and the war in Gaza reveal a chaotic, uncertain world that appears to have no positive, concrete direction.
In 2025 individual nation states struggle with ongoing, sometimes insurmountable, political, economic and social problems. There’s even talk of a new age of imperialism and that’s something Elbert Benjamine talked about 100 years ago. Russia’s war on Ukraine is really a war against the west.
In 2025 economic and scientific espionage is booming. Science mesmerizes but no one gets wiser and as birth rates plunge politicians are pouring money into policies that encourage women to have more babies.
In 2025 the world is desperate for sensation and individuals with crazy curiosities are eager to go anywhere and try anything.
Aquarian Age politics is like watching a horror movie. If it’s not one political party ruining the world it’s the other. Countries in desperate economic situations elect popularist leaders in what seems to be a reckless Aquarian Age political experiment. Popularist politicians come and go. Some end up in jail.
In 2025 big egos think they’re the masters of the universe but we’re all dancing and singing to the music played by the real masters: The planets.
A crisis is a critical moment requiring a major decision and in 2025 humanity blindly navigates a multicrisis world; and a complex situation where multiple, interconnected crises converge and amplify each other is a difficult-to-manage polycrisis.
In 2025 the world has been unpredictable for years. There’s an absence of leadership. Who’s the global sheriff? So, expert commentators speculate on what’s going wrong. Each one offers a different opinion and solution.
The Aquarian Age birth chart is a blueprint for what’s to come and what could be and each country has its own unique version. It’s a road map for navigating the future and discords in the chart map a potential for mishap and misadventure. But what’s indicated isn’t inevitable: humanity can change and when it changes its behavior it changes its destiny.
Mars parallel Uranus in 2025
According the Global Peace Index 2024 there are currently 56 conflicts, the most since World War II. And they’ve become more international with 92 countries involved in conflicts outside their borders.
In the Aquarian Age chart Mars, the planet of war, is parallel Uranus, the planet of technology > peak power date is October 3, 2027 > and there’s technology warfare and smoldering global rivalries. The big power nations seek world domination and one tiny mistake could see hostilities heat up and escalate.
Mars and Uranus are reinventing armies and wars. Weapons production is speeding up worldwide. Defense experts are anticipating another major war; and Uranus aka the wild card can spring surprises that no one anticipates.
On the battlefields humans are being replaced with AI-enabled tools and weapons. Tens of thousands of AI-guided drones are being made. It’s the age of killer robots and the armies that deploy the latest technological killing machines are likely to prevail.
Mars parallel Uranus heralds a new era in missile warfare.
In 2025 cyber warfare is a daily reality. There are no geographic limits to cyber-attacks. The AI arms race is heating up. Russia is a rogue (Uranus) country and Russian cyber criminals (Pluto) are increasingly targeting countries that support Ukraine.
So, businesses and institutions are doing all they can to safeguard their digital data. Britain plans to set up a new Laboratory for AI security to help create better cyber defense tools and organize intelligence on attacks. It’s all because Rusia is becoming increasingly aggressive.
And Chinese hackers are already positioning themselves in US critical infrastructure IT networks intending to carry out disruptive attacks in the event of a conflict with the United States. As each day passes a major Taiwan crisis gets closer.
The tech war between America and China is high-stakes and could cost the global economy big time.
December 2-3, 2024: The US ramps up restrictions on the export of advanced chips to China, which affects the country’s ability to develop advanced weapons systems and artificial intelligence; and China bans the export of rare but critical earth minerals used in the manufacture of important semiconductors to the United States.
In 2025 the destructive side of Mars is on display every day and dissent is widespread. The discontents are seething with discontentment. They agitate for change and reform.
Uranus is the great disruptor. It knows that change is possible and Mars and Uranus ignite anger, dissatisfaction and disruption. Disruptive movements are fundamental for rapid transformative change. Disruptive crisis moments herald radical change.
Memo to humanity: On September 21, 2025 progressed Mars sesquisquare (agitation) progressed Uranus in the Aquarian Age chart starts > peak power date is February 17, 2027 > end date is July 17, 2028. It’s best described as Mars parallel Uranus on steroids.
Uranus is the planet of difference and it’s the age of core differences.
Saturn and Uranus – the corulers of Aquarius – have very different political, economic and social values.
In 2025 gender discrimination is part of Aquarian Age life.
There’s deep social discomfort and anxiety when it comes to changing gender roles. Saturn’s conservatism doesn’t like radical feminism. Uranus, the libertarian, scares many people. Change has to be slow not fast and radical.
In the Age of Aquarius gender-dysphoric souls feel an intense discomfort with their biological sex. Sex refers to a collection of biological characteristics that are determined by a person’s chromosomes. Gender is a social construct that can vary greatly depending on time period and culture. So, what’s going on when a male or female soul – and souls are either male or female – has an intense feeling of discomfort with its biological sex? Souls who feel that their transgender engage in delusional thinking and medical interventions won’t change their sex.
In 2025 countries are passing laws that lower the age at which people can change their legal gender.
Mercury parallel Mars in 2025
Mercury has the whole world talking and Mars is firing hateful words.
Communication is a vital part of daily life, but anger, impulse and impatience impair the reasoning process. With Mercury parallel Mars words can become weapons. Words are weaponized on social media. Vulgarity and hate-speech are dangerous weapons that harm and hurt.
In 2025 so much conversation is disengaged from reasoned thought.
Mercury parallel Mars advises world leaders to choose their words carefully. Otherwise, a war of words could erupt. In 2025 the chance for misunderstanding, miscalculation and reckless decision-making is high. Listening is a crucial part of the communication process.
In 2025 Mercury’s journalists are in harm’s way. You’re relying on the press to dig and probe. Investigative journalists discover what politicians and high flyers wish they didn’t.
Memo from Mercury: Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Saturn in 2025
In the Aquarian Age progressed Mars conjunction birth chart Saturn ends June 6 but Jupiter square Saturn and Saturn conjunction Neptune in the sky forecast a constant stream of despair, loss and misery.
The first six months of 2025 will see Jupiter square Saturn focus on the difficulties associated with trade and protectionism. An America-China trade spat will have destructive global consequences.
In 2025 every country is burdened with debt and sooner or later there has to be a debt crunch. China has big economic problems. Some countries are facing extreme food insecurity.
In 2025 security is in short supply and with widespread insecurity there’s little chance of peace. Defense budgets are going up and up and up.
With Saturn conjunction Neptune in the sky all year there’s a heightened need for global preparedness. In 2025 new covid-variants will emerge, mpox is a public health emergency of international concern and in Sudan there’s an ongoing cholera outbreak.
Is the world prepared for the next pandemic?
At the 2024 World Economic Summit, it was revealed that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become the leading cause of death globally and could kill 10 million people by 2050.
According to the World Health Organization some 4.5 billion people worldwide are currently without adequate access to essential healthcare services.
A new deadly virus would wreak havoc on health care systems across the world.
Saturn’s natural disasters give rise to situations where disease is able to grow. As climate change disasters ravage the world communities suffer for longer periods of time.
In 2025 progressed Sun is sextile birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart. It’s a fortunate aspect that’s at peak power and harmony on November 21, 2025 and the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30) will be held November 10-21, 2025 in the Amazonian city of Belém do Par in Brazil.
So, there’s a big opportunity for governments to make solid progress when addressing major environmental and climate change issues. But progressed Sun semisquare progressed Saturn at the same time > start date is May 2025 > peak power date is July 2026 > indicates friction between countries and criticism of them at the conference.
Neptune in 2025
In 2025 Neptune’s visionary thoughts play a key role in taking the world forward but progressed Mercury sextile progressed Neptune in the Aquarian Age chart ends September 9, 2025.
With progressed Venus – the planet of love, peace and the arts – conjunction birth chart Neptune – the planet of idealistic visions, films, drama and promotion – artistic and dramatic endeavor will feature prominently throughout 2025 > peak power date is January 21, 2026.
And progressed Jupiter conjunction progressed Neptune merges finances, trade, law, religion and prosperity with schemes, exaggerated expectations, stocks, promotion and dramatization > start date is February 6, 2025 > peak power date is September 12, 2030.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune will turbocharge the dash for cash. Investors are exuberant and stock markets are rising. Housing prices, food prices and oil prices are rising. And rapidly rising prices sets the scene for rising inflation and an asset price bubble. In 2025 governments will have to navigate Neptune’s messy confusion and overblown exaggeration as they deal with trade tariffs, financial uncertainty, currency fluctuations and inflation.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune 2025-2026
Pluto in 2025
Pluto’s group solidarity holds society together.
In 2025 repression is widespread and growing. In Afghanistan the Taliban have totally shredded women’s rights. In Europe passport free travel is giving way to border checks.
For many years now humanity has had the ways and means to murder the world. In the Age of Pluto deterrence, aka the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences, involves Lower-Pluto’s nuclear weapons.
In 2025 planet Earth is a gangster paradise. There’s a boom in organized crime and the world is losing the fight against Pluto’s international crime gangs.
In 2025 the pressure to migrate is increasing. In 2024 the number of migrants reaching Spain’s Canary Islands from West Africa hit an all-time annual record with 41,425. It’s a politically fraught issue for all concerned and there’s talk of mass deportations.
In October 2024 a United Nations panel on space traffic coordination determined that the rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space.
It called for urgent action and a comprehensive shared database of orbital objects as well as an international framework (Pluto) to track and manage them.
In 2025 AI is Lower-Pluto’s wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s taking over from human intelligence as a provider of information.
A bilateral relationship is generally for economic purposes – the exchange of products like electricity and general commodities – and in 2025 the US and China have the world’s most important bilateral relationship; and countries with similar political and economic values are forming alliances, and security and trade partnerships.
In 2025 Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto discord is contributing to a multicrisis world and a crisis is a critical moment that requires a major decision. But Mercury parallel Mars in the Aquarian Age chart inclines towards reckless, hasty decision-making and decisions that ignite strife, conflict and disputation.
Elbert Benjamine’s words are scattered throughout this article.
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