Astrological Predictions for July 2025

The Solatic Hypothesis

This post is just for fun and does not represent scientific or empirical findings.

Solar cycles reflect a variation in light emitted from the sun. Periods of high irradiance result in higher UV rays and red light.¹ During the high point of the cycle, humans are subject to greater amounts of testosterone-boosting red light.

The word “lunatic” means a person under lunar influence. If the sun also influences a person, that would make them a “Solatic.”

Whereas lunatism is associated with femininity, the menstrual cycle, and hysteria, Solaticism, on the other hand, produces masculinity, war, violence, xenophobia, and chauvinism. Historically, periods of peak and minimal Solatism since 1975 can be recorded as follows:

ZENITH: 1980, 1989, 2001, 2014, with a projected peak in July 2025.

NADIR: 1975, 1987, 1996, 2008, 2019, with a projected low-point in 2031.

1975

1975 was a great year for disco. It is the first year when the Bee Gees began to sing in falsetto, creating their preeminent disco sound. I will link my article, Emergence and Hegemony, for further details on how 1975 represents the absolute peak of the disco movement, and how this was essentially a feminine movement:

Emergence and Hegemony

The following election year, 1976, was the last time when the Democrat party won the south. The Republicans ran Gerald Ford — a weak, liberal “throwaway” candidate. The Republicans were deflated and demoralized. Jimmy Carter was a character out of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-2001), a maternal and feminine character.

1980

1980 was a masculine year. Ronald Reagan won in a landslide. 1980 ushered in the age of golden age of insider trading, corporate raiding and corporate sharks, leveraged buyouts, asset stripping, and hostile takeovers. An incredible look into this extreme virile, vicious, and sadistic culture can be found in James Stewart’s Den of Thieves (1992):

1. Carl Icahn began his career as a corporate raider in 1978, a practice which reached its most dramatic crescendo with the acquisition of Trans World Airlines in 1985.

2. Michael Milken came under heavy scrutiny from the SEC in 1979 for his flagrant insider trading, for which he was indicted in 1989.

3. Dennis Levine began using Bank Leu in May 1980 in order to hide his insider trading. He pled guilty in 1986.

4. Ivan Boesky, who coined the phrase “greed is good,” likely began his insider trading in 1982, after losing $60 million on Cities Services (now Citgo). He pled guilty in 1986.

5. Asher Edelman, who taught a course entitled, “Corporate Raiding — The Art of War,” began his hostile takeovers in 1982.

In the world of film, 1980 was a high point of masculinity:

1. In 1979, the first Mad Max movie was released, as was Alien.

2. Roger Ebert summarizes Apocalypse Now (1979) as follows: "unsettling juxtaposition of horror and exhilaration [..] the insane power of Wagner's music, played loudly during the attack." Coppola, the director, said that the film was not anti-war. "[An anti-war film] shouldn't have sequences of violence that inspire a lust for violence. Apocalypse Now has stirring scenes of helicopters attacking innocent people. That's not anti-war."²

3. In 1982, Rambo and Conan the Barbarian were released.

1980 was also an incredible year for extremely violent and extremely successful horror films. The first great slasher film, Halloween, was released in 1978. The Shining (1980), Friday the 13th (1980), The Thing (1982), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) all constitute an integral part of the lust that American audiences felt for horror and violence during this period.

1987

1987 represents a “toning down” of the high-octane period of 1978-1982. The most popular film was Beverly Hills Cop II, a derivative comedy starring Eddie Murphy. It preceded the ascension of George Bush Sr., who was a moderate. In 1987, the SEC began investigating and prosecuting insider trading. The era of gruesome war films, barbarians and financial pirates was coming to an end.

1989

Solar activity exploded to a maximum in 1989. This period of activity continued until 1991, and coincides with a series of revolutions of national independence in the Soviet Union. The CIA chose this period of rapid solatic increase to activate sleeper cells within the Soviet Union.

1996

The 1996 election was a defeat for the populism, and a victory for a moderate centrist candidate. Solatism correlates with periods of change, while low solar activity is associated with passivity, low conflict, preservation of the status quo, and an “easy going” attitude.

2001

2001 ushered in a new period of war-lust, xenophobia, and amygdala activation.

2008

Obama, as a repeat of Jimmy Carter, represented a nurturing figure. Obama emphasized the feminine virtues of “coming together.” Voters believed Obama could heal the racial divide in the country.

2014

By 2014, race riots in Ferguson, Missouri generated the pre-Trump alt-right. The “grassroots” and “organic” support for white nationalism in 2014 was remarkable.

2020

2020 was a year of harm avoidance and solar avoidance. People were staying indoors and covering their faces. The lack of outdoor activity in 2020 amplified depressed solar activity. Teenagers experiencing puberty during this period have reported non-reproductive sexual preferences at a greater rate than in any other period in recorded history.

2025

Predictions for 2025 are difficult to make, but some factors will necessarily play a role in the events of this coming year. Firstly, the War in Gaza must either expand into Lebanon, or result in a broader regional war with Iran. Secondly, the War in Ukraine must either be reinforced with massive amounts of aid, especially from France, or else it will be defined by Russian advances.

Surely nothing ever happens, so it is entirely possible that a Biden or Trump victory results in four more years of gerontocratic decline. But the examples of Bukele in El Salvador and Milei in Argentina show that autocratic and masculine political forces have the potential to arise seemingly out of the blue.

Conclusion

Testosterone has been declining steadily for decades, but if we adjust for the average decline per year, does the decline slow with high solar activity, and does the decline speed up in years of low solar activity?

5G conspiracy theories suggest that electromagnetic radiation might directly affect the brain. If this were true, it may be the case that such radiation is not necessarily “unhealthy,” as the conspiracy theorists claim, but that it might simply be a natural part of of the rhythm of human psychology.

Circadian rhythms might be affected at a macro scale. Heightened solar activity might create a “macro” Circadian affect, where humans feel more alert and more awake. This is, on a daily basis, caused by increases in blood pressure, testosterone secretion, alertness, higher coordination and reaction time, increased cardiovascular efficiency and muscle strength, and higher body temperatures. All of these biometric markers could be studied at a mass scale to attempt to prove or disprove a correlation to solar activity.

Just as some humans are “night owls”, a small subset of the population might be “solatic.” Studying the entire population would be unlikely to show strong behavioral or biochemical responses to solar activity, but if this small subset could be studied, then the affects would become apparent. One way to test this would be to study individuals with seasonal affect disorder, to discover if low solar activity had any affect on their overall mood.

1. Solar uv irradiance, its variation, and its relevance to the earth: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117702002028

2. The film features the live slaughter of a water buffalo. Yes, animals were really harmed in the making of the film. Additionally, the film almost used real bodies, actual real human dead bodies, before the scheme was discovered and removed from the film.