Nancy Reagan. JP Morgan. Copernicus. And Tinder.
Power has always consulted the cosmos. You were conditioned to ignore it.
There is a version of your life where you wake up, work hard, push through, and keep going — because that’s what you were told success looks like. Over-effort. Hustle. Prove yourself. The meritocracy promises that if you just do enough, you’ll arrive. The matrix and the system of patriarchy, and I’m talking about the system, not men — is designed to keep you in that loop. So is capitalism.
The Invictus poem promises: I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. And there is power in that — in owning your agency, your choices, your life. But what about the version of that idea that gets sold to you? The one that feeds the matrix? It stops there. It doesn’t ask the next question: master of your fate within what? Captain of your soul navigating what larger currents?
Because we live in a cosmos. There is a Divine Intelligence woven into the fabric of this universe. Energies swirl through our solar system — planetary cycles, transits, alignments — and they do impact how our lives unfold. This isn’t mysticism. This is math. This is pattern recognition. This is the kind of knowing that used to be taught alongside mathematics, philosophy, science, and the classics at universities around the world — that is before the Copernican revolution and the cultural divorce that followed, which separated astronomy from astrology and declared one respectable and the other something to dismiss as woo woo and silly.
They were always the same thing.
And while you were made to feel like one of them was silly, the people running things never stopped using it.
The Powers That Be Never Stopped
Here’s what I want you to understand about astrology. It is not what the culture has told you it is. It is not sun sign horoscopes in the back of a magazine. It is not silly. It is not woo woo. And many of the people who made you feel like it was woo woo have been using it the whole time.
Conservative Christian and former First Lady Nancy Reagan had an astrologer. Her name was Joan Quigley, and according to Donald Regan — Ronald Reagan’s own Chief of Staff — virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during his tenure was cleared with Joan in advance. She determined when Reagan would travel, when he would speak, when events would be scheduled. The Reagans were conservative Christians who not only identified as believers but strategically aligned themselves with the Christian right — evangelicals were central to both of Reagan’s landslide victories.
They presented a firmly traditional face to the world. And behind that presentation, an astrologer was running their schedule and their whole lives. Yet, Christians are saying that astrology is evil. Meanwhile, the Reagans were selling a version of Christianity that won votes.
And on astrology being evil—let’s also not forget Yeshua/Baby Jesus was found because they literally “followed a star” … make it, make sense?
Industry Titans And The Clockwork Of The Skies
Then there is the quote widely attributed to J.P. Morgan: millionaires don’t use astrology, billionaires do. The exact wording has proven difficult to source definitively — but what is documented is that Morgan himself retained astrologer Evangeline Adams for regular counsel on politics, business, and the financial markets. The quote, sourced or not, holds. The people who move money and power have always understood that there are larger forces at play.
Financial astrologers are a rare breed. But they are a real thing. And I know this not from the outside — I am speaking from seventeen years working finance within the federal government, and being self-taught in astrology. These things go on.
Steve Jobs was another one, as a young man he took a transformative trip to India to seek spiritual enlightenment and explore Vedic astrology and numerology.
Then there’s Arch Crawford — apparently he’s former Merrill Lynch analyst who built a market timing newsletter using financial astrology. In 2008, when the market collapsed and most investors were wiped out, he was on CNBC explaining that the astrology told him it was coming. I wish I was making this up.
If you don’t think these titans of industry aren’t timing product launches, IPOs, and movie premieres to the clockwork of the cosmos … you really are underestimating the power of astrology.
The Mainstream Is Catching Up
And then there’s Tinder.
Tinder — the world’s most downloaded dating app — just launched Astrology Mode, allowing users to add their birth details, unlock their Sun, Moon, and Rising signs, and see compatibility insights with potential matches based on their charts. It was announced at their first-ever product keynote in 2026. Early testing showed a nearly 20% increase in Likes sent by women on astrology-enabled profiles.
You cannot make this stuff up.
And while dating apps are very much “old earth” … when the largest dating platform on earth builds astrological compatibility into its core product, something has shifted in the culture. This is no longer fringe, okay. This is the mainstream acknowledging what a growing number of people already know.
You may say … these are terrible examples of people leveraging astrology for purposes that are greedy and selfish. Exactly. They are using an ancient, reliable framework for knowing while you’re out here raw dogging it and working your ass off to earn anything. Stop it. Let me explain how we got here …
Before the Split: The Copernican Revolution and What Was Lost
Before Copernicus, astrology and astronomy were not two disciplines. They were one. The study of celestial bodies and their mathematical relationship to human experience was considered a legitimate science — as I said, taught in universities alongside mathematics, philosophy, and the classics. It was observational. Precise. It was not considered solely mystical.
Nicolaus Copernicus was a 16th-century astronomer whose model of a Sun-centered solar system fundamentally reshaped how Western science understood the cosmos. The revolution that followed in his wake formalized a dividing line between what counted as science and what did not. Astronomy kept the credentials. Astrology was handed a crystal ball and told to sit down.
But something more was lost in that split. What got quietly pushed out alongside astrology wasn’t just a technique. It was the feminine — energetically speaking. We all carry both divine masculine and divine feminine energy. Our inner masculine energy organizes, strategizes, and plans. The inner feminine energy knows — deeply and truly from within — what is right for us, what is aligned for us, and when something is off. When we began dismissing anything that felt mystical and connected to that feminine inner knowing, we didn’t just reorganize academic disciplines. We diminished an entire way of knowing and a whole other part of ourselves.
The stars were always both things at once. They are science and math. And they are mythology, intuition, magic. They work on the intellect and on the deep inner knowing simultaneously. That’s not a weakness — it’s the wholeness of the framework. When Copernicus removed the mysticism, the mythology, the intuition from our understanding of the cosmos, he removed the very intelligence astrology was always designed to cultivate. The knowing that says: this is who I am, this is what is happening, this is how I align.
You cannot disappear that. And the people who tried to did so in part because feminine wisdom — associated with intuition, with mysticism, with attunement to invisible forces — was a direct challenge to systems built on the suppression of exactly that.
The stars didn’t change. The cycles didn’t change. The Divine Intelligence didn’t change.
On Free Will
Some people resist astrology because they think it takes away their free will. That somehow knowing what the planets are doing diminishes their ability to choose. I want to address that directly, because it’s exactly backwards.
Astrology doesn’t replace your free will. It supports it. When you have better information about who you are, why you’re here, and what energies are moving in the collective — you can make more empowered decisions. You can organize your life for harmony and peace and success on your own terms. You can choose from a place of actual knowledge rather than the mold that was handed to you or the broken family dynamic you inherited.
Co-Creation
So here is the actual question. If you could know yourself more deeply — not the self that society handed you, but the actual energetic design you were born with — why wouldn’t you? If you could understand what’s happening in the collective, in the world at large energetically — and make better plans, align your choices and your actions with where you are and what you are genuinely trying to create — why wouldn’t you?
If you don’t desire to know yourself, that is worth sitting with. Because what you end up doing instead is forcing yourself into the molds that culture hands you. The ones built for the matrix. The ones that require over-efforting in someone else’s direction.
This is about co-creation. Co-creation with Divine Intelligence. Co-creation with humanity. Holding the intersection of your divinity and your humanity, and actually participating in your own life with some awareness of the larger energetic unfolding you’re a part of.
This is not a belief system. It is a choice. But it’s worth making with your eyes open.
If you’re just starting out, I’d begin with You Don’t Believe in Astrology, Do You? by Pam Gregory — one of the most grounded, accessible entry points into this work I know of. Her YouTube channel is also an extraordinary resource for what’s happening globally, whether you’re tracking financial markets, social shifts, or just trying to understand how to better support yourself through what’s unfolding. Her work is remarkable, and she’s one of my favorite people (I never hear better sense from anyone than Pam).
The cosmos is not waiting for you to believe in it. It is already doing its thing. The question is whether you want to participate consciously — or just keep pushing?
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