What does the next six months hold for the United States?
On September 22nd, the Sun enters Libra and Autumn begins. The chart for that moment can be read as a forecast of future events.
I asked Mychal Bryan to read this year's chart for Washington, D.C. Mychal is one of my own teachers: the author of several books on traditional astrology, founder of the Oraculos School of Astrology, and a specialist in blind chart readings — delivering analyses of natal charts without ever speaking to the person they belong to. He'd never seen this chart before we started recording.
What follows is not a comfortable watch. Mychal doesn't pull his punches. He sees serious trouble ahead for the American housing market, and a financial picture he describes as pointing towards great financial damage. He reads Mars in hard aspect to the ascendant as conflict making landfall on American soil. He returns to the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, a pairing that comes around roughly every 36 years and which the Uranian tradition associates with sickness and disease, and argues that the outbreak this conjunction promised hasn't arrived yet. He has a blunt reading of Donald Trump's position, one that happens to match a pattern I flagged independently in my last forecast video. He makes a call on the November midterms. And he sees a possible change of government in Iran.
Then, at the very end, he attempts to reframe the whole thing positively — with results you'll have to see for yourself.
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Fighting and war and pain is making landfall
within the United States of America
within this coming six-month period.
We have to be definitive.
We have to actually say what we see.
Jeez louise, why does this look like this?
Ha ha, hold on, hold on, I need time to regroup.
This is an awful chart, oh my God.
That just knocks all of the philosophy right out of me.
Everything in this chart speaks towards financial decline
and speaks towards financial damage,
great financial damage within the coming six-month period.
That could represent a great level of brutality,
and we'll call it unexpected brutality,
and maybe that unexpected brutality
is a retaliation of the United States towards them.
Something that comes to mind, obviously,
is that the midterms are coming.
Would you say we can draw any conclusions
about what's going to happen in those midterms
based on this chart?
From my perspective, it looks like.
I asked the best traditional astrologer I know
what he thought was coming over the next six months
in the United States,
and what you just watched is what he sees.
If you're the kind of person who demands love and light only,
this video will not be for you,
but if you want an honest account
of what a top astrologer, Michael Bryan, sees
when he looks at the near future of the US,
you'll want to watch this episode.
This is World Astrology Report.
I'm your host, Dan Waits,
and welcome to another journey into the past
to understand the present and the future.
Michael Bryan runs a school.
He's written several books on traditional astrology,
and he's an amazing chart reader
whose skills inspired me earlier on
in my astrological career.
He specializes in blind chart readings
where he reads natal charts
without speaking to the person the chart belongs to,
and I've seen him deliver scarily accurate reads
on people he's never met many times before.
So you, everything you said was so on point.
Like, I have never heard of a chart
analyzed like this before, and it is fascinating.
So I asked Michael to come on this show
to predict the future of the United States
because just as you can cast charts for people,
you can cast them for a country over a specific time period.
I asked Michael to read the chart for the United States
for the coming six months,
from the autumn equinox on September the 22nd
to the spring equinox next year in March.
This is technically called the Libra ingress chart
because it represents the exact moment
when the sun enters the sign of Libra.
If you cast this chart for a country's capital,
you get a forecast for that country.
Casting this chart for the location
of Washington, D.C. this year gives us a chart
for the next six months for the U.S.
What you're about to see is Michael reading that chart
which he'd never seen before,
and something to know about Michael
is that he doesn't generally pull his punches.
If he sees something that looks good, he'll say that.
If he sees something that doesn't,
he's gonna say that too.
Michael also gives his calls
on the coming midterms in November.
He has calls on Donald Trump and his war with Iran,
and he sees some worrying signals about events
that could affect ordinary Americans.
But let's start with the theme of real estate
because it looks like there's trouble ahead
for the housing market.
If you're enjoying this video so far,
then please do give it a like and subscribe to the channel
to catch more of this sort of thing.
If you wanna get a quick read on the chart,
a good place to start is by looking at the rising degree
and then what the planet that rules that degree is doing.
The way I read the chart in general
is the way I read the chart always.
So in natal astrology, in horary astrology,
in mundane astrology, the rules are the same.
We start with the first house.
And it's a pretty obvious place to start
because it literally has the number one in the house.
So this is where we start reading charts.
My approach is often to see where the ruler
of the first house is located.
Here we have 26 degrees, Aries 15 minutes,
which means that Mars is ruler of the first house.
Here we have the rule of the first house
present within the fourth house of the chart.
And this is Mars at 26 degrees Cancer,
58 minutes in the fourth house.
The ruler of the first house within an ingress chart
is going to indicate the people of that country
for the particular period of time under question.
So I've already said that where we find
the rule of the ascendant,
we are going to find where the people of that country
are most psychically focused for that year.
Here we see the people of the country
most psychically focused on their real estate.
Why?
This is because we have the planet
that represents the people, i.e. Mars,
present within the fourth house
that represents the real estate, the property,
the actual physical land that belongs
to the people of the United States of America
or the physical land that is inhabited
by the people of the United States of America.
And with Mars being present here representing those people,
we can see that issues of the land,
issues of the ground beneath the feet of the American people
are going to be very high ticket items for them
within this coming six-month period.
Mars is not supposed to be in Taurus.
Mars is not supposed to be in Libra.
And Mars, sure as hell, is not supposed to be in Cancer.
In traditional astrology,
the planets are said to behave differently
depending on the sign they're in.
And for each planet, there's one sign
in which it's said to be in a condition called fall,
where it feels disrespected and ignored
and generally uncomfortable.
For Mars, that sign is Cancer.
So in this chart where we see Mars in Cancer,
this adds another layer of intrigue
because the question is now,
why the hell are the people of America in their fall
within this coming Libra ingress period?
And not only are they in their fall,
but they are in their fall in the house
that directly impacts their real estate affects.
So now we have, oh, maybe there is a threat
to the physical real estate of the people
of the United States of America
within this coming six-month period.
And as a result of that,
that's probably why they find themselves
experiencing the level of discomfort
that Mars feels in Cancer, the sign of his fall.
Maybe that's why they find themselves
feeling the level of stress that's manifesting around them
in relationship to this topic of real estate and housing
and the housing market,
because either they don't have the ability
to adequately support or sustain themselves
with the rising issues surrounding the housing market,
or perhaps there are larger issues
that are directly adversely impacting the housing market
and causing the housing market
to be the primary topic of interest
for the people of the United States of America
within the coming six-month period.
So that is our backdrop.
One, we have the housing market
because we're talking about the fourth house.
Two, we have that it's not gonna be great
because we're talking about Mars,
a universal malefic and a sign that he hates
in the fourth house.
So this seems to spell trouble for the housing market
and the people of the United States of America
within the coming six-month period.
So it looks like the next six months
are gonna see problems with the housing market
and unfortunately the financial situation
of the country in general looks no better.
So once again, astrology is based on accumulation
and it only seems magical to people who don't understand
how that process of accumulation works.
If it looks like a duck and smell like a duck
and waddles like a duck,
it most definitely positively is a duck.
Everything in this chart speaks towards financial decline
and speaks towards financial damage,
great financial damage within the coming six-month period.
And it's not because that's how I desire to see it,
it's because that is how it actually is.
And a lot of people, financial astrologers
have been warning of some sort of financial crisis to come
and not only astrologers, but more generally.
And I don't know, looking at that chart,
you'd have to wonder if sort of ---- hits the fan
in this period starting with this chart.
But remember, Mars is the war planet.
And in this chart, it's saying that conflict
could be coming to the US homeland.
In this chart, you can see that the ascendant,
the rising degree is at 26 degrees of Aries
and Mars is at 26 degrees of Cancer.
This makes what we call a square aspect,
which is an aspect of friction.
But from a Uranian astrology perspective,
the ascendant represents the environment.
And the reason why the ascendant represents the environment
is because the ascendant is created
from the crossing point of the zodiac, which is heaven,
and our local horizon, which is Earth.
So the ascendant represents the intersection
between heaven and our location here on Earth.
Therefore, the ancients said that the ascendant
represents our personality,
but the Uranian astrologers said,
well, that's kind of stupid.
Or if it does represent our personality,
it can only represent our personality
because it represents the exact location
on this planet Earth where we find ourselves located,
where we live and breathe and have our being.
And therefore, if the ascendant
should represent the personality at all,
it is only as a result of the ascendant
representing the environment
in which we were raised and cultivated.
So I call the ascendant the early childhood environment
within a natal astrological perspective,
but in a mundane astrological perspective,
particularly within mundane Uranian astrology,
the ascendant represents the locale,
the location of Washington, D.C.,
essentially within the coming six-month period.
And Mars, the ascendant, is war within Washington, D.C.
Mars, the ascendant, is war that makes landfall
within the United States of America.
Mars is the god of war, he's the god of attacks,
he's the god of fighting and arguments
and severance and cutting and bloodshed
and crude behavior.
And with all of these things being present,
Mars in this relationship to the ascendant
is saying that all of these elements,
but particularly fighting and war and pain
is making landfall within the United States of America
within this coming six-month period.
So this could be indicating that war
continues to be a major topic of discussion
within the United States of America
and that this part of the year, more than any other part,
war will become that much more prominent
within the actual physical reality
of the actual soil of the United States of America
because ascendant is environment, Mars is war,
war in the environment is what we see.
Now, this could be civil war.
This isn't me necessarily saying that the people
with whom America is currently in conflict
are going to come on boats or land on planes or do whatever,
but this could be guerrilla warfare,
this could be civil warfare,
this could be something akin to the George Floyd situation
where people were storming the streets
and rioting and looting and polluting
and doing all the things.
So this is war on the land, that's all that means.
And we need to keep our eyes open
to see how exactly that war on the land will manifest
and when exactly that war on the land is likely to manifest.
But those two things only mean one thing,
environment plus Mars is war
or fighting within the environment.
Before we go on, a quick announcement.
What you're seeing in this video are Michael's conclusions
based on his chart analysis.
He's not guessing, he's not picking up on the vibes,
he's applying principles that you can learn,
but it takes time to apply this stuff properly
and I had to cut a lot of material from this video.
And so the full conversation,
which is one and a quarter hours long,
is up for channel members with Michael's whole analysis
from start to finish with nothing
but a couple of light edits.
It's basically a masterclass in mundane chart reading.
See the description below for details.
All right, back to it.
Right now, we're experiencing a conjunction
of Saturn and Neptune,
something that only comes around every 36 years or so.
I've covered this conjunction
in many videos on this channel
and I really do think it has to do
with changes to regimes and borders
for certain countries in the world
that resonate to this energy,
which include Russia and Iran.
But there's another association of these conjunctions
and that's with sickness and disease.
That's certainly what the Uranian School of Astrology
believes, which Michael is also trained in.
This conjunction came into effect in 2025
and it will run into the first few months of 2027,
but we haven't seen a pandemic
or any truly major disease outbreaks so far.
I've been keeping my eyes open for major illnesses
and nothing that I've seen has been major enough.
One, there was the breakout of, I think, Ebola this year.
And so that was a thing.
But then after the Ebola,
we ended up with the diarrhoea lettuce,
the lettuce that caused you to have diarrhoea
because they found the virus in the lettuce
or the bacteria in the lettuce.
And that wasn't much of a sickness either.
And then actually people wanted to eat the lettuce
because the lettuce caused you to lose weight
at a precipitous rate and I even wanted to eat the lettuce.
And so I was like, no, this lettuce situation,
that's not what this Saturn-Neptune is indicating.
And then there was another one.
So we've had these things
and then there was this other virus
that broke out in Florida or something
and they had people in quarantine
and that never spread.
So nothing that's happened
has really met my Saturn-Neptune expectations
and not that I wanna be like a bearer of bad tidings.
So if the Uranians are right,
you'd expect that the year as a whole
would be likely to see a major outbreak,
something significant enough
to rise above the usual background levels of illness
that we always see on this planet.
The year started with Saturn-Neptune.
Tis the season now
when we're going to see the manifestation
of the chronic illnesses
and the manifestation of the diseases
and the sicknesses that the Saturn-Neptune portended
or pre-signified.
Why am I saying it?
At this Libra ingress,
we're seeing a recapitulation of the Sun
in relation to Saturn and Neptune,
which means that this Libra ingress portion of the year
is a further extension of the truth
that the Aries ingress gave us.
And what was the truth?
It was a truth of sickness.
It was a truth of disillusionment,
but it was really a truth of sickness.
In the full interview,
Michael points to many of the factors in the chart
that point to this.
I'm not showing those here just to keep things simple,
but one of them was that the Sun of the chart
was in the sixth house of sickness.
It's opposing Neptune, which also often indicates disease.
And the Sun also rules the fifth house of children,
which suggests that any illness
could affect them in particular.
First of all, we have many things in this chart
that would indicate infertility
if it happened in the chart of a man or a woman.
So if I were looking at this as a chart of a person,
I would say, hey, this is not a good chart for children
because this chart actively looks like
it either greatly gets in the way of children being born
or it looks like a chart that greatly
puts the children that are born
into a great state of both peril and disease.
Now, I don't usually try to get too political
in these videos, but I did ask Michael
to look at what the chart said
about the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
And the picture, perhaps unsurprisingly, wasn't great.
We have to be definitive.
We have to actually say what we see.
And even right now, I'm at an astrology conference,
and I'm just in awe of the hyper-positivity
that a lot of people have when they look at a chart
and read a chart because it's as if
the chart can do no wrong.
And that's a lie.
Many people's charts do much wrong
every single day of their lives,
and they suffer greatly for it
because that's just life.
Life has all of these shades of nuance,
and we as astrologers have to be able to say,
is this a good chart, is this a bad chart?
This is not a good chart.
The ruler of the 10th house in the chart
represents the ruler of the country, i.e., Donald Trump.
And in this chart, the sign on the 10th house cusp
is Capricorn, which is ruled by Saturn,
so Saturn represents Donald Trump.
But Saturn is in very bad condition in this chart.
It's retrograde.
It's in full in the sign of Aries,
and it's in the 12th house of the chart.
We see the president in the 12th house.
Who wants their president in the 12th house?
Not I, said the cat.
Saturn is bad.
The sign that's in is bad for him.
He's retrograde, which is bad.
He's in a house that's bad.
Those factors do not make a positive.
If it looks like a duck, it smells like a duck,
it quacks like a duck, it's negative.
And so that is the state of the Saturn.
So that Saturn is saying that
the president of the United States
is in a state of disrepair.
The government that he has arranged around him
is in a state of disrepair as well,
and it is causing the very president
of the United States of America
is manifesting as a hidden enemy
and as a source of silent suffering for the people
because that's the things that the 12th house represents.
Hidden enemies as well as silent suffering.
So it looks like a bad six months for the president.
And that accords with things I've seen.
If you watched my last forecast video,
I talked about an interesting pattern involving Saturn
and the sun of the US chart,
indicating a potential for scandal for Trump
in the next six months.
And of course, in November,
the US will see its midterm elections,
which are generally seen as a verdict from the country
on how the current term is going
for the president and his administration.
And Michael was very clear about what he saw there,
and it's not good news for Trump.
It looks like the Democrats are gonna win.
But before we go,
there's another area I asked Michael to look at
because the US is in an ongoing war with Iran.
And it seems like there's gonna be
a significant change in direction with that.
A lot of people believe that Iran
has come through the first few months of this war
in a pretty strong position,
but it looks like things are gonna get
a lot more difficult for Iran in the coming months.
And in particular, there were some bad indications
for the country's leadership.
Maybe one last thing we should probably talk about
here with this chart.
Do we have this ongoing Iran war?
And I'm just looking at the seventh house there.
We have Venus and Scorpio.
We've got Mars squaring the ascendant-descendant axis.
But I wonder, from your perspective,
do we get any indications in this chart
about what's going to happen with that?
Now, clearly, we're trying to interpret their outcome
based on the chart of the US.
We're assuming that this Venus
is going to represent the entirety,
or that the seventh house is going to represent
the entirety of Iran.
But I think it will be better for us to look up
the Iran Libra Ingress chart
just to see how they're situated.
I think it might be quite possible
that Iran is in for a change of government,
possibly in the midst of all of this chaos and war.
And finally, I asked Michael to just summarise what he sees.
You know, in the spirit of being a more positive person,
which I definitely am trying to exercise
within my current chapter of life.
And I went to a workshop today, or a talk today,
in which the lady was very positive.
And I was like, girl, this is stressful.
But it was very positive.
And she said, at the end of the talk,
that I can reframe anything to make it positive.
So let me try to reframe this.
Let me try the exercises,
because I just learned how to do it today.
So in reframing this positively,
I would say that this is a wonderful time.
I would say that, hold on, hold on.
It's gonna be an amazing year for the United States,
amazing year for Iran.
Everyone's gonna be friends, everyone's gonna be rich.
Good times all around.
Okay, hold on, let me try it, let me try it.
This is a new skill for me.
I would say this would be a wonderful time
for the people of the United States of America
to really cherish the land that they have beneath their feet
and to really be better custodians of that land,
because it does seem as if there are some influences
that are manifesting within the real estate market
that could make people really underestimate
the value of their own homes
in a way that leads them to greater challenges
and difficulties later on.
So it would be a wonderful time
for people to really be more aware
of the value of what they have
and not allow it to fall into disrepair,
not because of themselves or because of their government.
It would also be a wonderful time
for people to be mindful of the health
and the safety of their children
during this coming period of time,
because chances are their children
are going to require that much more attention
because of larger forces manifesting
within the surrounding world.
And it could also be a great time
for every American to be a little bit more conscious
of their relationship with their money,
how they're spending,
and also how they, as a sovereign body of people,
are allowing their government to make major demands
on their financial resources
within the coming period of time,
because oftentimes when the government
is in a state of crisis,
it turns towards the taxation of the people
as a means of helping it avert, avoid,
or alleviate themselves of that crisis.
The government this year seems to be a major area
of karmic learning for the American people.
And it does seem quite possible
that the American people, in assessing their government,
will come to the realization
that they are truly in need of a change,
which is why the Democrats are going to win the midterms.
All right, that's such a diplomatic term.
The government is gonna be an area of karmic learning
for the American people.
Exactly, I just made that ---- up.
I don't even know where that came from,
because I don't talk like that in general.
But that is a positive reframing
of this absolutely crazy chart.
So that's the picture for the next six months.
We'll continue to track it all on this channel.
The full interview is available for channel members.
See the description for how to access that
at my website, worldastrologyreport.com.
Thanks so much to Michael for joining me today.
Do seek him out, and especially his amazing new book,
which I was honored enough to write the foreword for.
So my latest book is
Mastering Natal Astrology,
Interpreting the Language of Cosmic Destiny.
And Dan Waitz of the World Astrology Report
wrote the foreword, and I'm really happy about that.
And this book really has within it
every single thing that I've ever done,
or said, or known in my entire life as a natal astrologer,
which is quite a lot.
And so the reason the book is so small
is because I've written three other volumes before this,
which has led up to the publication of this book.
So I would highly recommend people to purchase this book
if you want to understand and learn
the ways in which I am as accurate
as I am as an astrologer,
because I've put every single thing that I know
about the topic of natal astrology in this book.
Also, if you want to learn how to interpret aspects
in the way that I interpret aspects,
then we do have an upcoming program
on Midpoint Mastery at the Eraclitus School of Astrology,
which is my school for which I am the Boston CEO.
And we have an upcoming
Uranian Astrology Certification Program,
which starts this at the beginning of 2027.
And if you want to find out more information for that,
you can check us out at oracleousastrology.com.
I'm also giving readings
now that I have finished writing this book.
I'm working on the next book,
which is going to be on solar returns,
but at the moment I am available for a consultation.
So if you want to book a reading with me,
you can go over to my website,
which is oracleousastrology.com
and book a reading with me there as well.
And I just want to let you know
that I currently have a small number of consultation slots,
which you are welcome to book.
Members of my website get 20% off the usual fees.
Just head to worldastrologyreport.com.
And finally, both Michael and I are speaking
at the UK Astrological Association's
annual conference next weekend.
I'm talking about the century-long Pluto-Neptune sextile,
which is culminating between now and the mid-2030s.
And Michael will be giving two presentations
on one of his specialties, medical astrology.
You can attend that conference online
and I've linked to the AA's website below.
All right, thanks for watching.
That's it for this episode.
Let me know what you think in the comments
and I'll see you again on this channel very soon.