In March of this year, I wrote about an astrological movement of Neptune (on 30 March 2025), breaking all illusions, allowing truth to come out into the open. Neptune, the planet of dreams, deception and spiritual awakening, moves purposefully through this transit of touching a zero degree in the Aries point of the astrological wheel. This is important as Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and the zero point marks a totally new beginning, a reset, a total shift.

With that transit, the veils of illusion that have long obscured truths in our collective consciousness started to be taken down. In the Philippine context, we are seeing the deep corruption exploding now and clarity of our government’s systems’ rot. We see the muck and stench of a system breaking and imploding on itself.

But this is global, too. Closest to us is Indonesia with extreme violence expressed by a people in sheer anger and frustration. Neptune’s fog can confuse, but it also dissolves falsehood — inviting us to awake, to question, and to reclaim our soul sovereignty as a nation.

This is the moment where the whole curtain is being drawn back, revealing things we all knew, heard about and many even practiced. Truth: corruption in our country has been on steroids through decades. This Neptunian veil of illusion is not only present in our governance, but is also painfully visible in the glaring contrast between those who benefit from corrupt systems leaving the majority in suffering.

Moving through social media, we gape as we see contactors and politicians greedily embracing money and power. Plus flaunt luxury lifestyles with no social conscience. If the leaders can do it, surely why not those below? This is the spell of Neptune: the seduction of glamour masking a deep social and spiritual disconnect. Yet beneath the illusion today, the collection soul of the nation stirs.

It is infuriating and enraging at the utter shamelessness of how these “nepo-babies” and contractors, drooling with blood money, flaunt their lavish lifestyles. Meanwhile, millions of Filipinos cannot even afford a decent meal.

Every post, every display of excess, is a slap on the face of all of us Filipinos who endure hunger and injustice, who pay taxes or struggle to carve out a decent living. They strut in designer clothing, sip imported drinks in luxury resorts, and show off cars worth more than entire barangays.

Are these people for real? Either they are completely blind and indifferent to the daily suffering of the poor — even managing to say in interviews that, “These were gifts from the Lord” — or it is pure arrogance, entitlement and a total disconnection from reality.

Here we see Neptune at its most enticing, revealing the illusions of the world, taking away the veils and letting cold reality come through for all in our right minds, to see.

A contractor friend of ours said that he has sat through meetings when congresswomen would straight out ask for 20 percent of the project budget. He would just politely stand up and leave the room. Many of us hear of corruption from the very top, where government projects would allocate percentages all the way down through the agencies and into contracts. It is corruption in steroids, with the next generations taking on ever expanding national debt.

Now there are questions whether anything will come of all this whistleblowing and investigations. Is this all an act? Political posturing? We have become so blasé because of the past. Who will be accountable — as it goes straight to the top?