When wild glocal (global-local) things happen, in an era where everything is interconnected, I like to invite those who are interested to check the signs in the sky and try to understand the larger cosmic symphony shaping our lives on Earth. The ancients did this. And it is wise for us to do so, too.

The cosmos mirrors the pulse of our times. The movements of planets and stars are not simply distant occurrences but energy waves that inform, influence and inspire the unfolding of global and local trends. It has been wild and continues to be so, with the way events are unfolding in the country. Decades of a systemic and sickening lifestyle of corruption is unmasked and the people are not keeping quiet. With the veils of illusions pulled away, we see the truth for what it is. Government has decayed into the crassness of the ego, power, money and greed. So it is outright anger we all feel. We, the people, feel.

When we say “we the people,” it is not just a constitutional phrase. It is a consciousness. It is the recognition that every individual carries responsibility as part of the collective whole. We are the farmer tending crops with no proper subsidy or support from government; the mother raising her children against almost insurmountable expenses of education and healthcare; the entrepreneur innovating with purpose and painfully paying taxes; the youth daring to dream of cleaner air and opportunities seemingly beyond their reach.

It is the collective soul of our nation seeking dignity, justice and freedom. In our local context, we rose in the streets during EDSA. We are the bayanihan spirit when neighbors help each other rebuild after storms. We are now the growing restlessness against corruption, inequality and environmental destruction. We are the energies of the planets now.

This year, we entered a threshold of a powerful astrological transit: Pluto’s entry into Aquarius. Pluto, the planet of transformation, death and rebirth, has moved away from Capricorn’s realm of structures, hierarchies and material power. As it entered Aquarius, the sign of collective ideals, innovation and humanity, the energies call us to break free from oppressive systems.

This is no small transit — Pluto stays in a sign for decades, reshaping civilization in its wake. In Aquarius, Pluto declares: the age of people power is not only political but planetary. So “we the people” today is the same energy that Pluto in Aquarius amplifies: that true power no longer resides in the towers of the few but in the voices and actions of the many.