Not October, but November might do — the collapse prediction enters round three

Astrology, eclipses and the collapse that never arrives

There is a paradox that repeats every time a new chapter opens in this saga: the more "historic" transits pile up, the less actually happens. On 13 July 2018, a total solar eclipse in Aquarius was supposed to be the starting gun for something nobody could quite define. People talked about paranoia, collective neurosis, a king emeritus with his lunar nodes in Cancer-Capricorn, and a mistress named Corinna. Eight years later, the same thread is still open and the question remains the same: when?

The answer has mutated so many times that it has become a literary genre of its own. First it was October. Then November. Then January 2021. Later, the third quarter of 2026. And every single time, a new planet shows up to explain it all: Saturn in Aries, Neptune in Pisces, Pluto in Aquarius, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at the zero degree of the zodiac. The mechanism is flawless. Reality, stubborn.

The eclipse of 13 July 2018 that started it all

The documented starting point is a total solar eclipse. The analysis done at the time stressed that it directly affected Juan Carlos I and the Corinna recordings affair, that the monarch's lunar nodes sit on the Cancer-Capricorn axis, and that the moment was "uncomfortable." It also warned against getting carried away by the neurosis of those days. The warning, as usual, was lost in the noise.

From there, the forecasts piled up. One participant argued the eclipse was linked to the two eclipses of August the previous year. Another pointed to Neptune as the planet ruling Spain and its connection to the royal family. And the floodgates peine for politicians' birth charts: Pedro Sánchez, Pablo Iglesias, Felipe VI, the PP (Spain's conservative party) founded on 20 January 1989 at 12:55 in Madrid, the PSOE (the Spanish Socialist party) from 1879 at 17:25. Everything had an hour, a degree and a destiny.

From the Cardinal T-Square to "it will be in October"

The thread has a memory. The Cardinal T-Square of 2014 was recalled, described as one of the most negative aspects of recent years, with Uranus in Aries blamed for the collective "nonsense": the selfie obsession, taking offence at everything, showing off about exotic trips. That phase passed. The prediction of the great collapse did not.

The refrain took hold: "October. It will be in October." It was repeated with the conviction of a mantra. When October passed without an apocalypse, the date shifted to November, then to late January, then to the third quarter of 2026. One participant summed it up wryly: "It will be in October." Another added that, whatever peine, "we can rest easy until October." The joke wrote itself.

The pandemic as confirmation and as a problem

The great test came in 2020. And here the narrative split in two. For some, the health crisis confirmed every augury: Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn, the "great reset," the old world crumbling. For others, the handling of the pandemic became the target of frontal criticism: mass vaccination was described as an anomaly, health guidelines were questioned, and negligence in hospitals and care homes was alleged.

It is worth being clear on this point: the claims about the pandemic that circulated in the thread are not supported by the available scientific evidence. The bicho existed, the disease caused deaths, and the vaccines were authorised by regulatory agencies after clinical trials. What can be analysed is the social phenomenon: distrust of institutions, pandemic fatigue, and the feeling that the official narrative shifted as convenient. That fuelled scepticism, and scepticism fuelled the thread.

The Epstein case, the amnesty and the names that appear

Over the years, the focus shifted from planets to people. The release of the Epstein list in January 2024 was read as a confirmation of old suspicions. The detention of Prince Andrew, brother of Charles III, on his 66th birthday, was examined under a magnifying glass: the number 19, the symbolism of 91, the Queen no longer there to protect the favourite. A "collapse of Hollywood like never before in its history" was forecast.

Spanish current affairs also appeared. The signing of the amnesty by Felipe VI was interpreted as a move that "pushes things off the squares." Marlaska's detention was linked to his past as a judge in the case of Rafi Escobedo's "suicide." And it was predicted that Pluto in Aquarius will sweep away "parties like the PP and the PSOE" and "the monarchies." These are claims made in the realm of opinion and speculation, not verified facts.

The prediction that validates itself

The psychological mechanism is well known: when a forecast fails, the date is adjusted; when something vague comes true, it is celebrated as confirmation. One participant put it with clarity: "If I had read this 3 or 4 years ago, I would have thought it was madness." Another joked about the "nothing peine" and the difficulty of telling damage control apart from the absence of catastrophe.

The open question is not astrological. It is the eternal one: how many times can you move a date before the person moving it stops believing in it? The thread will soon turn nine years old. The eclipses will keep coming. And November, like October, like January, will keep lurking just around the corner.