A Collapse of the World As We Know It is Coming: Here's What You Need to Survive
- Catrina Chatelain
- Aug 17
- 9 min read

We are in “end times” and about to experience a collapse of the world as we know it; Here is the key to surviving and thriving through the inevitable to build the new world.
There is a great awakening happening across the globe; fatefully, it is running in tandem with the “great reset” of the world as we know it. The pain of our current existence has become urgently unbearable for many. People who have been the greatest benefactors of the modern era and its technology are becoming aware that those chains that bind humanity, be it poverty, authoritarianism, fascism- to name a few- remain, now as a slick repackaging of a neo-slavery paradigm. The great fight for life-sustaining resources and the never-ending question of ‘who will do the work?’ is once again turned against the masses. The progress and achievements made in a society that provided exponentially more chances to more people to pursue individual ideas of success, of autonomy, and to build wealth more than any other time in history is reaching the chaos stage of its intended collapse.
The abundance of opportunities that provided the reprieve of perceived freedom is quickly being destroyed. The grand plan of the small group of money interests that run the world is to bring back a greater version of a time when considerable numbers of the world population was enslaved. This time around, their long-held desire to enslave all of humanity is within reach; the technology exists now for an almost inescapable global digital prison that will keep the “Have Nots” from ever having.
Nations will be decimated.
Many people will lose their health and vitality and suffer through sickness.
Many will lose their material wealth and be forced to scavenger and fight for vital resources.
Many will lose- or sell their souls in hopes of escaping the reckoning.
Many people will die.
There is a dystopian darkness that is pushing down on humanity right now, and the question at hand is do we beat it or succumb to it? The answer to how we beat it is as readily available to us as the fingerprints at the tip of our hands. In fact, it is your “cosmic fingerprint” that holds the answers to how you can thrive and survive the inevitable collapse of the world as we know it; your birth chart is the key to living through these “end times”. Astrology is the guide to life.
The Age of Aquarius, 2,160 years
This great battle we’re in is the prophesied opening to the Age of Aquarius. The beginning of the Aquarian Age in the cycle of the procession of the equinoxes marks the shift from the zodiac sign of Pisces to Aquarius, beginning a new 2,160-year cycle and prompting humanity’s collective evolution from Piscean energy of spirituality, and sacrifice into the Aquarian energy of an uplifted collective consciousness, intellectualism, innovation, and a much-evolved version of mankind.
Astrology is a system of pattern recognition. It is a process of observation and recognition that when the planets interact with each other in specific aspects they create archetypes of energy that affect all living things on our planet, especially humans. Nearly every element of the human body was made in a star and cycled through several supernovas in a reprocessing system referred to as “galactic chemical evolution.” The phrase “we are made of stardust” holds literal truth; the transits of the planetary bodies do engender physical, emotional, and mental changes for life on Earth; As above so below.
The Age of Aquarius is marked as a time of profound technological leaps and achievements. Aquarius is the sign of “The People” or “the collective;” this era portends of great uprisings of the masses and eventual evolutionary shift in humanity. A reshuffling of the collective social progress and ideas of community left over from the Piscean Age’s rigid hierarchies and traditional institutions will happen- disrupting, discontinuing, decentralizing power and restructuring the tenets of collaboration and equitability. A rise of the people through grassroots movements, wildly innovative solutions, and a collective urge to establish more humanitarian systems for sustaining life for everyone on the planet will shape the new shared paradigm.
Aquarius is doubly-ruled by Saturn and Uranus. Saturn is the planet of authority, hierarchy, restrictions, and traditions while Uranus is the planet of rebellion and revolution. The duality of Aquarius’s rulers will greatly influence the collective energy throughout the beginning of this era as humanity witnesses the collapse of its hierarchal world and its traditions ruled by Saturn, and fights to build a new paradigm through Uranus’s rebellion and revolution against the old one.

Above All Else, We Are in a Great Spiritual War
This is our destiny.
The universe and Divine Source are witnesses to the cosmos’s turning and orchestration of life on Earth in preparation for these specific times. To be alive during the next great revolution is profound; to be awake and fully participate in the next great evolutionary leap of mankind is our sacred charge. The wisdom of the zodiac is divine knowledge; our individual birth charts are the maps uniquely created to guide our souls in accomplishing this life’s mission.
The way for each of us to survive and thrive during these challenging times is to utilize astrology for achieving body, mind, and soul wellness.
The answer to all that ails us and all that compels us is in the cosmos, and the once-in-a-lifetime aspects of the current planetary transits is unwavering proof that the cosmos has been preparing this time for us since the beginning of time itself.
The Major Planetary Transits That Are Setting the Stage for Individual Evolution for the Collective Revolution
Pluto in Aquarius, January 2025 – March 2044
In January 2025 Pluto, the planet of transformation, power, death and regeneration ingressed into Aquarius fully for the next 20 years until 2044. Pluto transits prompt times of great life upheavals, destruction, and social change. Always seeking to break through illusions and reach truth Pluto pushes us to face the dark things in life, including our personal shadow side. The transformation and rebirth that Pluto brings is the real-deal and holds no punches in its delivery. Pluto’s insistence on personal transformation is key to the first step of surviving the collapse of the old into the new; each of us must first have our own personal evolution before we can affect the collective revolution. Pluto is in Aquarius to bring power to the people at the individual level first, then the collective. The key is to remember that there cannot be a collective revolution without the personal evolution first. This is the difference between an outcome that uplifts humanity and freedom and one that does the exact opposite.
The Ecliptic Nodal Axis Changes to Pisces/Virgo, January 2025 – July 2026
The shift of the Ecliptic North Node to Pisces and South Node to Virgo is giving the emotional energy that inspires personal reflection followed by real action. The Pisces North Node is asking humanity to dream the dream of the world yet to come and the South Node in Virgo is asking that we release anything that no longer serves our well-being so that we are free to put measurable, tangible effort into actualizing that dream. The next year and a half humanity will need to create and hold tight to the vision of a world on the other side of the chaos while concurrently doing the actual work required to bring the vision to fruition.
Neptune Enters Aries, March 2025 – March 2039
The planet of dreams, influence, and spirituality is at the beginning of a 14-year transit of the cardinal sign of the zodiac. Aries’s “I AM” principle and prolific energy as the “fire-starter” is exactly what’s needed to help humanity initiate the profound changes inspired by dynamic times. But before the masses take to the proverbial streets in revolution we each need to fight our individual battles with Self. There can be no collective revolution without personal evolution first. Neptune in Aries will require us to focus on our individual identity and belief systems, absent of the collective. Neptune in Aries will inspire new creative action and a reckoning with our personal agency. The Universe is telling us that the individual innerwork is required in order to actualize a successful collective revolution. This 14-year transit is challenging us to fix the micro first (Me) to build the new macro (We).
Saturn Enters Aries, May 2025 – April 2028
Saturn represents structure, responsibility, boundaries, and hard work. Its transit through fiery, headstrong Aries throughout the next three years will support the masses in taking action to create and establish push back against the greater ruler systems- those that are internal which we each face alone and those being experienced in the collective. Saturn’s thoughtful, disciplined energy will reign in Aries’s impulsive, fire-starter energy, encouraging the masses to move forward in laying the foundation for a new paradigm, but with caution and control of our emotional inner-world. Strategy and action versus emotions and reaction.
Uranus Enters Gemini, 2025 – 2033
The planet of ice brings sudden change and upheaval. Uranus energy drives disruption and innovation and represents rebellion, revolution, and the collective. Its eight-year transit through Gemini will likely engender paradigm-shifting technology for how we communicate, how we define and shape our local communities, and how we move about those communities. Gemini also represents learning, and we can expect our education system and the infrastructure of how we educate to change dramatically. The history of the Uranus in Gemini transit supports the expectation of major life-altering changes to occur during this time on a global scale. Uranus in Gemini is the energy of nations collapsed through war and a reconfiguring to create something new. Again, Uranus in Gemini historically is connected to war and a reconfiguring of nations.
Notably, the United States will be experiencing its Uranus Return, meaning that Uranus will return to the exact point in the sky it was at when the United States was born. For America, this will be a time of reconsidering and reevaluating life’s purpose, values, and beliefs for the collective. Uranus’s energy will encourage us to embrace the risk of change to achieve societal progress. It will place much focus on the soul of the nation, but our physical body state as well.
We will experience massive change in how we care for the collective body.
Americans must hyper-focus on making necessary changes to heal and support their physical health. Uranus’s energy is fast-moving and often denotes a cutting-off or sudden change to something. Considering the dire state of the nation’s collective health we can expect this Uranus Return to greatly affect the staples of our physical wellness- our national food source, our water quality and supply, our pharmaceuticals- basically any and everything that affects our physical vitality.
Jupiter Enters Cancer, June 2025 – June 2026
The planet of expansion and blessings is always looking to expand blessings, making this transit through Cancer a possibly auspicious year for the United States, as Cancer is the nation’s sun sign. Jupiter brings luck and abundance, aspirational energy, and positive experiences. It’s transit through the sign of home and family, memory, domesticity, nurturing, tradition, and the mother will be asking us at the individual level and collectively to hold tight to the traditions that are the fabric of our culture, but let go of those that only serve our demise. Patriotism and nationalism are also within Cancer’s domain, and will have an elevated prominence under this transit. Jupiter’s expansion principle can enlarge and increase anything, including the shadow elements or soul challenges we face individually and collectively…basically the bad shit can grow too. This is an opportunity to experience exponential growth in healing for every individual in their own story, and for us collectively, as we all face profound change of the familiar.
These Are the Times That Make Heroes
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” The first line of Thomas Paine’s American Crisis pamphlet series during the American Revolution ring as true today as when they were written some 249 years ago, the last time Pluto was in Aquarius. We find ourselves in a very similar time with many of the same challenges that will require the best of our individual and collective selves to overcome. But this time on the wheel of destiny is different. The war we are fighting is fought with a technology of the likes never experienced by mankind. The technology has the power to destroy our beautiful planet, we’re all keenly aware of that. But an even greater power exists now, is growing in strength every day, getting implemented into every aspect of human life…and it has the power to eradicate human life as we know it. The inception of AI in our systems and environments present a danger to the very meaning of what it is to be human. We are facing the greatest spiritual battle of mankind. How and if we grow and evolve as a species will be decided over the course of the next 20 years throughout these planetary transits. Humans will have to evolve body, mind, and soul to remain human throughout this period. The better version of ourselves awaits on the other side of chaos.
Astrology can help you heal, so that you can evolve body, mind, and soul. The practice of astrology provides a map to all of mankind for navigating these dynamic times. Use astrology to heal. Use astrology to revitalize your physical, mental, and spiritual health to win this war. Use astrology to fulfill your soul’s purpose. Astrology is the living proof that YOU are the hero you’ve been looking for. We can save each other, and we will. But first we have to rescue our Self, and that’s a must.
Aquarian Age Hero
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