How to Use Astrology as a Resource in times of Great Change
Today, as I’m writing this, there is a great flood moving through Ruidoso, New Mexico. Someone captured a video of a whole house floating through the streets in the midst of the storm. Three people were pronounced dead and two of them were children.
Yesterday, I saw another news story about Central Texas floods and how over 100 people were confirmed dead due to the disaster, most of them children.
Last week, I spent significant time with friends in Asheville, NC who were land-locked to their home for weeks because, during Hurricane Helene, the road from their home into town was completely eroded and destroyed.
In Gaza, the death toll continues to rise, nearing close to 100,000 people dead due to violent casualties, starvation, and disease.
Many people are speculating that the World War III draws ever closer as the US continues to fund Israel with billions of dollars in weaponry, being one of few nations to not take a stand against the state of Israel and declare Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people since May 15, 1948, Nakba a crime against humanity.
If you tune in closer, you’ll see that apocalyptic conditions (ecological crises, war and genocide, severe storms, outbreaks, famine, disease) are already happening all over the planet and they have been happening for quite some time. Many of these crises will never make the news, but people are dying and our world is being completely reconstructed from the inside out.
Now, I’m not a journalist and I don’t share these things to scare anyone, but there is a somewhat-stoic part of me that has to look at the things as they are so that I can adjust my lens to the suffering and the deep change that is occurring and call forward new futures without bypass or collapsing into disenchanted nihilism altogether.
Why? Because there is a thin, trembling, tenuous line between disenchanted nihilism and radical, practical, intercessory hope.
In our culture, we’re often asked to give up our grief and exchange it for raw, glassy-eyed belief in human goodness, an amorphous "New Earth", and our spiritual "power". But to me, striking this contrast is a wasteful use of our creative will because it keeps us disempowered and fragile in the face of real change when we think we have to choose between our grief and a blind hope that closes it's eyes to the atrocities of our world. It allows us to get away with continuing to talk about change as if it is all happening out there, versus happening very close to home and within our own bodies.
What I love about Astrology is that, at its best, it doesn’t promise escape from change. It doesn’t ask us to choose between our grief and our hope. It teaches us how to hold both in ways that are resourced and innovative.
It is a system for tracking the psychic weather and a deeply felt, real-time map of energetic conditions, inner seasons, and emerging thresholds. It is a way to locate ourselves psychologically, energetically, and emotionally when the external world is rapidly changing.
Three Tasks for Moving through Deep Change
Astrological transits don’t just point to what’s coming, they show us how to be with what is already unfolding at the core levels of our lives. They give texture to our grief, names to our initiations, and language to our deepest longings. When we work with astrology from this place, it becomes less about prediction or personality typing and more about cultivating presence with the internal and societal energetics shaping our world.
To me, that is where the medicine lives: in recognizing how we are being invited to participate in what is already underway. When we track transits with the world’s evolution in mind, astrology offers us three invitations for how to meet this moment:
Face technological acceleration with curiosity while expanding our capacity for wise and conscious innovation.
Rather than bracing against the speed of change or outsourcing discernment to institutions, we’re invited to meet technological advancement with expanded nervous system capacity and spiritual maturity. This isn’t an invitation to embrace uncritical optimism. It’s about learning to metabolize disruptive circumstances and evolve our ways of thinking, sensing, relating, and creating. Astrology helps us track these shifts as initiatory thresholds, guiding us to participate in innovative revolution with consciousness.Reimagine our relationship with power, success, and economy through ecological thinking.
The old metrics are rapidly collapsing. Extraction and domination no longer pass for power. Astrology offers us language for rooting into a more relational paradigm where success looks like mutual thriving, and economy grows through its support for cultural and ecological regeneration. Through this lens, the generation of power becomes a more intrinsic process (vs. externally-sourced from metrics, wealth, and validation) that connects us back to Source, the Earth, and makes us interdependent again. Value becomes context-dependent. And our natal charts become living maps of how we contribute to the health of the whole.Cultivate emergent multidimensional infrastructure for reimagining and regenerating our world.
We don’t just need better systems, we need systems that deepen our positioning within an interdependent world. Infrastructure is no longer just about roads, buildings, and institutions, it’s about ritual, relationship, repair, and psychic scaffolding. Multidimensional infrastructure means tending the unseen patterns that hold communities together. Astrology helps us name the cycles, archetypes, and energetic rhythms we must work with to co-create futures that are coherent, sacred, and sustainable.
Astrology, when approached as this kind of technology, supports us in strategically navigating these tasks as deeper pathways into presence and conscious participation in the worlds unfolding.
Let’s explore these three tasks together.
Task #1: Face Technological Acceleration and Expand Our Capacity for Wise and Conscious Innovation
Rather than bracing against the speed of change or outsourcing discernment to institutions, we’re invited to meet technological advancement with expanded nervous system capacity and spiritual maturity. This isn’t an invitation to embrace uncritical optimism. It’s about learning to metabolize disruptive circumstances and evolve our ways of thinking, sensing, relating, and creating. Astrology helps us track these shifts as initiatory thresholds, guiding us to participate in innovative revolution with consciousness.
One of the most disorienting forces we face now is the speed of technological change. From AI to biotech to climate engineering, our lives are increasingly shaped by tools that evolve faster than our emotional, cultural, or ethical capacities. This speed creates a deep nervous system overwhelm and a feeling that too much is happening too fast for us to keep up.
The wisdom of astrology offers a pace reset. It does not reject technological advancement, but rather offers us an animate language through which we can metabolize its impact. For example, we can track technological transits like Uranus in Gemini to explore not only global communication shifts, but also how our own mental circuitry is being rewired in real-time. Pluto in Aquarius, for instance, reflects the growing global awareness of domination templates—those entrenched patterns of control and coercion—and marks a collective impulse to interrupt, dissolve, or subvert our entanglement with empire, not just politically or institutionally, but internally and psychically as well. Neptune in Aries offers us a fiery approach to disillusionment that does not dissolve us into passivity but instead calls us into active embodiment of our self-leadership and discernment. It invites us to lead from radical inherent belonging and creative courage. It invites us to risk being visible with emergent ideas and new stories and to animate new forms of visionary capacity amidst ecological and economic collapse.
Rather than using astrology to escape into overly-specific prophecies or certainties, we can use it to ask real questions like, “How is my thinking changing? Where am I becoming more dissociated, and where am I being called to deeper discernment? Which planetary transits correspond with my desire to integrate or resist new technologies? How do I remain in dialogue with my body while navigating increasingly abstract experiences?”
When we treat astrology as a system for mapping relationship, versus as just a prediction tool, it helps us be with the unease without needing to resolve it right away. It helps us to listen for emergent answers and participate in shaping the values we want embedded into the technologies of tomorrow, without collapsing into a nihilistic crisis.
Task #2: Reimagine Our Relationship with Power, Success, and Economy through Ecological Thinking
The old metrics are rapidly collapsing. Extraction and domination no longer pass for power. Astrology offers us language for rooting into a more relational paradigm where success looks like mutual thriving, and economy grows through its support for cultural and ecological regeneration. Through this lens, the generation of power becomes a more intrinsic process (vs. externally-sourced from metrics, wealth, and validation) that connects us back to Source, the Earth, and makes us interdependent again. Value becomes context-dependent. And our natal charts become living maps of how we contribute to the health of the whole.
Before we go deeper into task number two, it’s important to orient to shared definitions around the concepts of Power, Success, and Ecology.
What are they? And what do I mean by these terms?
Power → Power is the energetic force that fuels life. Power is inherently ecological. True power is not just who has the most money or the most leverage in society, but how energy moves through bodies and ecosystems to move life forward. In ecological systems, power is not just about dominance but about circulation, transformation, and sustainability. It is the aliveness that moves through everything—its effectiveness depends on its flow, not its control.
Success → In Western capitalist culture, success is often reduced to individual wealth, visibility, or achievement. But when viewed through an ecological lens, success is relational. Success can look like an organism that fulfills its purpose in balance with its ecosystem. It can look like mutual thriving, like sustainability, like deep-rooted belonging.
Ecology → The word "ecology" refers to the relationship between all things—seen and unseen. It's not just about how plant microorganisms interact within an ecosystem. It's also about how humans interact with one another, with the land, with the elements, with the cosmos. Ecology is about relationality at every scale: how we shape and are shaped by the solar system, how our political systems mimic or disrupt natural systems, and how all of these interactions co-create the living context we inhabit.
Much of our inherited understanding of power and success is shaped by extraction, domination, and linear thinking. These definitions have been steeped in scarcity, competition, and isolation—the very logics that fuel ecological collapse and spiritual nihilism and burnout.
Ecological thinking invites us to consider systems that thrive through reciprocity, regeneration, and interdependence. It challenges us to reimagine our relationship with success as participation in life-giving processes. In this lens, power becomes less about control and more about stewardship. Economy becomes less about ever-expanding profit margins and more about resourcefulness, balance, nourishment, and mutual benefit. Success becomes less about material accumulation and more about niche, ecological potentiation.
Astrology helps reorient us toward this ecological lens. For example, the Earth signs of Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn remind us to root our values in tangible practices and natural cycles. The House System offers us insight into how we build, sustain, and exchange energy. A natal chart can show us where we may be clinging to hierarchical models of value and where we’re being invited to return to our ecological place (our niche) within a living world and contribute whole heartedly there.
3. Cultivating Multidimensional Infrastructure for Regenerating Our World
We don’t just need better systems, we need systems that deepen our positioning within an interdependent world. Infrastructure is no longer just about roads, buildings, and institutions, it’s about ritual, relationship, repair, and psychic scaffolding. Multidimensional infrastructure means tending the unseen patterns that hold communities together. Astrology helps us name the cycles, archetypes, and energetic rhythms we must work with to co-create futures that are coherent, sacred, and sustainable.
If we are to thrive in this age of change, we must reimagine infrastructure for the full range of the living experience on Earth, not just for political and economic aims but, ecological ones—for the sake of supporting the growth and development of each species in relation to the other.
Astrology can help us map and design these infrastructures. It teaches us to work with rhythm, with timing, with archetypal energies that affect not only individuals but movements, collectives, and natural ecosystems as well. For example, Pluto transits often signal themes of collective descent and rebirth and offer us an invitation to compost old ways and build new relationships with power. Saturn transits often signal thematic opportunities for us to fall in love with the base materials and cellular structure of the material world. Saturn invites us to remember that much of the human life on Earth is composed of varying levels of material density and that in order to be in right relationship with ourselves, our places, and the Earth, we need to grow our maturity and conscious capacity to engage and nurture the material parts of reality.
Multidimensional infrastructure may include ritualizing these transits. It may include languaging and re-languaging how they move through us. It may include trauma-informed leadership, place-rooted planning, and soul-centric strategies that put us in deeper touch with the building blocks of our world.
Visionary Praxis for Building the Capacity to Meet Change without Collapsing into Fear or Detachment
These tasks are not linear goals. They are ongoing areas of practice that help us build the capacity to meet change without collapsing into fear or detachment. They give us a framework for staying engaged, clear, and responsive, especially when the world feels overwhelming or chaotic.
In a similar way, Astrology doesn’t provide certainty, and it won’t prevent disruption. But it can help us recognize patterns, work with timing, and make meaning in a way that supports wise action. It helps us stay in touch with what matters most, even when we can’t see the full picture.
