Insights for October 2025
AWAKENING
“Life is short and you are here to live it.” The Insight Center
“Embrace change as your soul’s alignment.” The Insight Center
“What if you give something up and there is a void? Allow. Allow the void. The void is freedom.” The Insight Center
"Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary." Eckhart Tolle
“During uncertainty (as in always), roll with uncertainty. When you aspire for certainty, you will suffer. Certainty is an attachment. And attachments equal lack of freedom - and suffering. Roll with it. Be on board with change.” The Insight Center
“You can be one with everything and trust and believe. It’s all part of the mission.” The Insight Center
“Imagination is crucial in ethical acts.” Stephen Batchelor
“If you think you lost friends because you leveled up, you didn’t.” The Insight Center
“We want to feel aligned (true) happiness in our heart.” The Insight Center
“Alignment is truth. Are you aligned with your truth!? Is your mind, your body, and your spirit aligned with truth?” The Insight Center
“This is not narcissism or arrogance. This is truth. We are allowed to be aligned with our truth. We are meant to be aligned with our truth because we are here in bodies on the planet to be us and do our work. Know yourself. Know your work and purpose and do it. Then your life will have meaning.” The Insight Center
“Fear of death is attachment to life.” The Insight Center
“Do not be afraid. Fear is the enemy of progress - your progress and the progress of all of us. Fear shows up to keep us stuck. Don’t be stuck. Be brave. With action, fear turns into courage.” The Insight Center
“Use courageous compassion with yourself. Don’t be a wimp with your karma. Know yourself and your path to awaken and you will step bravely through fear.” The Insight Center
“Hold your sword high and march through the darkness. No matter how big your sword is, hold it high and no matter what the current darkness is, you can do it. It is what it is, and it is meant to be.” The Insight Center
“Find your peace
Know your peace
Be your peace.” The Insight Center
“For me peace is vipassana meditation, reiki, astrology, spiritual work, gardening, cooking, active engagement, contemplating, creating, connecting, holding dear ones, and letting go. Letting go follows contemplative awareness.” The Insight Center
“Resistance. Revolution. Recalibrate. These are the words for these times.” The Insight Center
ASTROLOGY
“Reminder: Uranus can carry anxiety into your psyche - because Uranus wants you to wake up. Uranus just moved into Gemini - an air sign. How does Uranus powerfully want you to wake up?” The Insight Center
“If you want to be happy, appease the moon. If you want meaning, do your Pluto work.” The Insight Cente
“Saturn and Neptune are conjunct. The last time the two met was in Capricorn in 1989. The upheavals of that time, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, still reverberate today. We must patiently deal with the challenging relationship between endings (Pisces) and new beginnings (Aries). [Edited slightly for people who don’t understand a lot of astrology jargon.]
The conjunction of Saturn and Neptune heralds a turbulent phase. Complex and often chaotic processes begin now, which are particularly visible in collective events. The underlying theme is a deep conflict between ideal and reality. Collective dreams, expectations, and hopes that no longer relate to reality lose their justification and dissolve. This also includes social consensus about right and wrong.
Social and political structures that lack support can come under severe pressure or even collapse, especially where people have long been disappointed or systematically deceived. Like a dam bursting, a small weak point could quickly lead to the collapse of the entire structure.
Paradoxically, the positive side of this quality of time includes the current disillusionment. The dreams that are now dissolving leave behind the space in which the new zeitgeist - a new collective myth - can manifest itself.
Saturn and Neptune are retrograding between Pisces and Aries – eventually moving into Aries. One of Aries' outstanding qualities is its deep, innocent trust in new beginnings. If you meet people now who have mastered this art, let them inspire you. If you struggle with doubt and lack energy, try taking small steps. If you can act with basic trust, you can achieve a lot and experience great satisfaction during this time.” Astrodiest Newsletter
"Truth can heal you, if you are brave enough to endure it.
That is why the universe gave you
Mars and Pluto." Steven Forrest, The Book of Water
“Saturn = Make your necessary life checklists are notate when they are successfully completed and integrate the accomplishment into your psyche.
Uranus = Affirm that any and ALL changes have been fully transacted and integrated. There is no going back now.
Neptune = Hold all aspirations with the clearest of vision and impeccable understanding how these all fulfill your soul’s needs.
Pluto = Everything has transformed. You are no longer who you were. You are who you are now and that’s the truth of the matter. You did this. This is of your creation, so make sure you love the results. If you don't love what's staring you down, make corrections and fix it.” Philip Sedgwick
Uranus in Gemini: “Whether it’s the happy news that “you just won the lottery” or the sad news that “Jane just died,” sometimes a few words can hit your life with the force of an earthquake, shifting everything. Welcome to Uranus in Gemini, where it will remain until 2033. The shock of the unexpected will be everywhere, both in the headlines and in your own life.
How can you prepare? A good way to start is to recognize what’s actually going on. Uranus is always about the endless process of liberating your real self from all of the distorting influences in your life. To dance with this Whirling Dervish without tripping over yourself, everything depends on two superpowers: alertness and an open mind.
Opportunities will pop up then disappear – but not so quickly that you can’t grab them, assuming that you’re agile enough. Clues will appear and then vanish in seconds. Are you quick enough recognize them? And be careful: what you expect might blind you to what’s actually right there before your eyes.” Steven Forrest
I recently found Daniel Colòn (@colorwecrazy on IG) on Instagram. Yes, I still look at Instagram, I just don’t share my information there, and I think his work as a “revolutionary astrologer” is really good.
“The astrology right now is exposing the machine. Pluto in Aquarius is breaking down the obsession with celebrity worship, showing us how we built digital altars to fame while real communities collapse.
Neptune in Aries is shaking us awake, reminding us that dreaming of a better world is not enough. We have to build it.
Uranus in Gemini flips the script and asks: where are you spending your attention, because your attention is currency.
And the North Node in Pisces with the South Node in Virgo says stop moralizing and start feeling, healing and acting together.
This is not just about gossip or the latest headline. This is about how our attention has been hijacked. We have been taught to pour our energy into parasocial attachments while ignoring injustice. Congo, Sudan, Palestine.
School shootings. Housing crises.
Authoritarianism on the rise. The astrology is clear: what we feed grows, and if we keep feeding distraction, we starve the soul.
Here is the invitation: practice algorithm hygiene. Audit your signals Detox your feeds.
Pick one issue that your heart cannot let go of and take action in real life. Support your people. Redirect your care. Because freedom that depends on someone else’s suffering is not freedom.
Pluto in Aquarius reminds us that the future belongs not to the most famous, but to the most awake.
Neptune in Aries says courage is the medicine.
Uranus in Gemini says attention is the revolution.
And the Nodes remind us that our healing is collective.
So ask yourself today: where is my attention going, and what world is it creating?” Daniel Colòn
“What it is a coup.
What it is Pluto in Aquarius in full effect: the archetype of revolution,
of ripping the mask off power structures that were never built for "we, the people."
When authority moves to consolidate control, Pluto forces us to stare into the shadow in full daylight.
With Aquarius in the mix, the question becomes:
Will we stay fractured and reactive, or unite into something stronger than any tyrant's will?
We have been here before.
During the last Pluto in Aquarius cycle, monarchies fell.
Governments restructured.
The collective soul rewired itself toward freedom.
Now it is our chapter.
The solutions we need have never been tried before.
The answers do not exist yet and we must invent them together.
Pluto in Aquarius asks us to be architects of new systems:
Transparent
Participatory
Impossible to hijack through fear.
Every act of decentralizing power counts.
In your workplace.
In your community.
In your relationship to authority.
Tyrannical control will always summon its equal and opposite
a people who remember their power.
You are part of that equation.
Keep speaking up.
Keep showing up.
Do not disengage.
Fear does not need your obedience.
It needs your transformation.
This is only the beginning.
Buckle up.” Daniel Colón
“It’s just a trap. So while the world screams about engagements and gossip.
While your soul aches for something real. Listen to that ache.
You don’t have to worship the machine.
Reclaim your attention.
Redirect your care and remember the future doesn’t belong to the most famous; it belongs to the most awake.” Daniel Colòn
VIPASSANA AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION
“Our inherent nature is pure. All we have to do is rediscover who we really are, and that’s what the path is for. It’s very simple.” Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
“I’ve come to understand that emptiness isn’t nothingness, it’s spaciousness. And spaciousness isn’t empty; it’s full of possibility.” Christopher Rivas, Non-Self Storage
“Equanimity helps you to act from a place of centeredness and calm.” Margaret Meloni, Pd.D.
HEALING
“Meditation is the medicine you bring. What is the path to becoming a medicine person? Bring your medicine.” The Insight Center
“Meditative awareness increases, and is followed by moment-to-moment awareness, in meditation and in everyday existence.” The Insight Center
GRIEF
“In this world where everyone dies, where every song ends, where every achievement is undone, where every treasure is lost, all of us are left behind. All of us leave.
But everywhere and always there is the hum of continuing.
Though always incomplete, always there is the sound of love, forever and at the core unfinished. We talk, write, make gestures and marks to slow, to hold back, to share, to join, if only momentarily, the torrent of things lost.” Douglas Penick
“The solitary body is a figure in a tapestry and cannot be isolated from other figures, landscapes, colors, lines, threads, stories. And so when a single figure is removed, is excised, dies, there is an unraveling, a feeling at both edge and center that our embodiment is coming apart. The uniqueness of the vanished one is the dark horizon of our fragile and temporary lives.” Douglas Penick
“Grief is not a thing, or even a feeling, it is a process—a continuum of emotions that unfolds at its own pace. We don't get to know in advance how much time it will take, and no one can tell us. Just like everything else in our Buddhist practice, we have no choice but to be present with what is, in each moment. Sometimes grief feels like an open, gaping wound, sometimes like an immense purple bruise, and sometimes like just any other day. We can even laugh.
The dharma teaches us how to be present to grief—the same way we are present to our breath as we sit, noticing our thoughts and feelings arising, letting them go, and returning. When we feel ripping sorrow, we stay with it, feeling it deeply, breathing, letting it go. And just as we stay present to the sorrow, we can also stay present to the lack of sorrow. This happens too. Grief can include anger, joy, guilt, depression, tears, loneliness, comfort, or nothing at all. The dharma teaches us that everything that arises falls away.
Rituals help. Rituals give us a structure, a map, and a supportive community.” Tenku Ruff
"When the force of our grief slows, we can come to a point where we simply treasure the parts of our self that came to be through that other. We can live taking care of what was born in us—or born as us—through the time we shared with those who have gone, and thus carry them along within us as a deeply valued part of ourselves.” Damchö Diana Finnegan
“When you die in this body you become an ancestor.” Author unknown
ENGAGED BUDDHISM
“We live in interesting times. Take care of yourself. Take care of loved ones. And help to take care of those who are unprotected. Work on your equanimity so that you can do all of this from a place of calm. This will help you keep your focus. This will help you keep and build your resilience. And remember to pace yourself.” Margaret Meloni, Pd.D.
“The underlying sense of uneasiness that we have now is actually a good thing: it is the expression of our sensitivity. Those who go through life without feeling ill at ease are unconscious. The uneasy feeling caused by our awareness holds tremendous potential for transformation. It is a treasure of energy that we can grasp with both hands and use to build something better. Indifference doesn't lead anywhere.” Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche