<![CDATA[WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness with Clarissa Dolphin]]>dbd875fd-a962-5a33-95ae-37e7ac3ba814Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:22:57 +0000Captivate.fmClarissa Dolphinhttps://artwork.captivate.fm/404802af-9a2d-49c6-9752-fa6280fc7fb2/WTF-USA-artwork-1400-x-1400-px.pngWTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness with Clarissa DolphinClarissa DolphinClarissa DolphinWTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness is a deep-dive podcast where astrologer Clarissa Dolphin brings in experts, thought leaders, provocateurs and full astrologer panels to decode what's really going on in America: the culture wars, the economy, the collective unraveling, and the real unabashed impact of what it feels like to be living through all of it. Through serious, technical, unapologetically badass astrology, we connect the cosmic to the real: your relationships, your body, your bank account, your rage, your freedom. There will be no doomscrolling or gurus here, just the chart, the lived experience, authenticity and the truth.https://www.clarissadolphinexplainsitall.com/trueepisodicnopodcastWTF USA? Trailer: 12 Episodes, 19 Astrologers on One Chaotic CountryWTF USA? Trailer: 12 Episodes, 19 Astrologers on One Chaotic CountryWhat if you could ask 19 different astrologers what's actually going on with America right now. WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness is a deep-dive podcast bringing in experts, thought leaders, provocateurs and full astrologer panels to decode the culture wars, the economy, the climate and the collective unraveling, with an emphasis on what it actually feels like to live through it all. This trailer gives you a taste of what's coming: dating apps and the second house, race in America through the Sibley chart, an astrologer's run for city council, and the culture war over queerness nobody's decoding through astrology but us. Full season launches September 22, 2026.

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]]>What if you could ask 19 different astrologers what's actually going on with America right now. WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness is a deep-dive podcast bringing in experts, thought leaders, provocateurs and full astrologer panels to decode the culture wars, the economy, the climate and the collective unraveling, with an emphasis on what it actually feels like to live through it all. This trailer gives you a taste of what's coming: dating apps and the second house, race in America through the Sibley chart, an astrologer's run for city council, and the culture war over queerness nobody's decoding through astrology but us. Full season launches September 22, 2026.

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]]>2e866a9d-1c1d-418c-8af2-4dc35d916e81Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:00:00 -070003:07truetrailer11The USA 2026 Solar Return: America's Birthday Trajectory with Celeste BrooksThe USA 2026 Solar Return: America's Birthday Trajectory with Celeste BrooksOh boy, America just had its 250th birthday. In this episode of WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness, I sit down with OPA-certified astrologer Celeste Brooks to break down the United States' 2026 solar return chart, which took place on July 5th with a 15° Gemini rising. We discuss what it means for the economy, the midterm elections, the ongoing war in Iran, immigration, and the wild, unstable "roller coaster" energy so many of us are feeling right now. We get into Mercury retrograde in the money house, the Mars-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto configuration behind the country's institutional upheaval, the Leo solar eclipse that Celeste calls "the fall of kings". I bring in my own historical parallel – Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) as a ninth-harmonic leader whose New Deal answered a moment eerily similar to this one – and call out exactly what harmonic is running the current administration. And yes, there's an impromptu tarot reading for the soul of the nation.

Biggest Takeaways

  • The 2026 solar return's Gemini rising + retrograde Mercury points to a "herky-jerky," communication-and-tech-driven year: AI, data centers and surveillance are spotlight themes
  • Mercury retrograde in the nation's money house, paired with Saturn in its fall, signals real financial strain ahead: Celeste doesn't sugarcoat the economy concerns
  • The Mars-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto lineup in the chart ties directly into institutional upheaval and secrecy: Celeste calls it "the emperor has no clothes" energy
  • The August 12th Leo solar eclipse is "the fall of kings" whiplashing a potential turning point for high-profile leaders
  • My own historical parallel: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was a ninth-harmonic leader (Lunar North Node in the ninth harmonic) whose New Deal and Social Security emerged directly out of a Great Depression-era crisis – the same harmonic now activated in this year's solar return
  • When Celeste asked what harmonic the current administration is running on, my answer: an 11th harmonic – chaos, entropy, insatiable restlessness
  • The chart's ninth-harmonic-dominant energy triggers community, healing and pooling of shared resources, it is the throughline of hope in an otherwise heavy outlook

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]]>Oh boy, America just had its 250th birthday. In this episode of WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness, I sit down with OPA-certified astrologer Celeste Brooks to break down the United States' 2026 solar return chart, which took place on July 5th with a 15° Gemini rising. We discuss what it means for the economy, the midterm elections, the ongoing war in Iran, immigration, and the wild, unstable "roller coaster" energy so many of us are feeling right now. We get into Mercury retrograde in the money house, the Mars-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto configuration behind the country's institutional upheaval, the Leo solar eclipse that Celeste calls "the fall of kings". I bring in my own historical parallel – Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) as a ninth-harmonic leader whose New Deal answered a moment eerily similar to this one – and call out exactly what harmonic is running the current administration. And yes, there's an impromptu tarot reading for the soul of the nation.

Biggest Takeaways

  • The 2026 solar return's Gemini rising + retrograde Mercury points to a "herky-jerky," communication-and-tech-driven year: AI, data centers and surveillance are spotlight themes
  • Mercury retrograde in the nation's money house, paired with Saturn in its fall, signals real financial strain ahead: Celeste doesn't sugarcoat the economy concerns
  • The Mars-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto lineup in the chart ties directly into institutional upheaval and secrecy: Celeste calls it "the emperor has no clothes" energy
  • The August 12th Leo solar eclipse is "the fall of kings" whiplashing a potential turning point for high-profile leaders
  • My own historical parallel: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was a ninth-harmonic leader (Lunar North Node in the ninth harmonic) whose New Deal and Social Security emerged directly out of a Great Depression-era crisis – the same harmonic now activated in this year's solar return
  • When Celeste asked what harmonic the current administration is running on, my answer: an 11th harmonic – chaos, entropy, insatiable restlessness
  • The chart's ninth-harmonic-dominant energy triggers community, healing and pooling of shared resources, it is the throughline of hope in an otherwise heavy outlook

Connect with Celeste Brooks:


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Want to go deeper into harmonics?

The ninth harmonic we talk about in this episode (the one behind the community-and-healing thread I keep returning to) is the novile and is prominent in all of our lives. Harmonic Astrology 101 teaches you how to read this in your chart and beyond. If this conversation made you want to understand how your harmonics vibe, that deeper layer of how you’re wired, HA101 is self-paced, $155, yours forever — and as a podcast listener you get 15% off with code WTFUSA15. Harmonic Astrology 101

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]]>175e8b9e-a4f2-4f98-8d32-f28caf01cb54Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -070001:06:07truefull1111WTF USA? Culture Wars: Race with Tasha Beg and Diana VanessaWTF USA? Culture Wars: Race with Tasha Beg and Diana VanessaIn this episode of WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness, astrologers Tasha Beg andDiana Vanessa join me for a wide-ranging, unflinching conversation about race and power in America and the astrology underneath it. We dig into transit Pluto in Aquarius conjunct the USA's South Node, which is occurring as the demographic makeup of the country shifts into a direction triggering racist backlash. We trace a direct astrological line from the 1950s Saturn-Neptune cycle in Libra (Brown v. Board of Education) to today's Saturn-Neptune in Aries squaring the US natal Sun, and we talk about whose story the Sibley chart was really built to tell. It's heavy, it's honest, but it ends somewhere hopeful.

Biggest Takeaways

  • Transit Pluto conjunct the USA's South Node in Aquarius tracks with a real demographic shift: by the end of this transit, the country's racial majority changes and much of the current political backlash reads as a subconscious reaction to that
  • The Sibley chart itself carries a non-neutral perspective: Tasha frames it as the chart of "whoever's in charge," built by and for the people who broke from Britain. Conceptually, it wasn't a chart that was ever built to represent everyone demographically speaking
  • My point of view on narrative control: Hans Christian Andersen (the source of nearly every fairy tale we grew up on) who had his Lunar North Node in Capricorn speaks to a bigger pattern of whose stories get framed as THE quintessential cultural story and whose don't
  • The Saturn-Neptune in Aries transit squaring the USA natal Sun directly echoes the 1950s Saturn-Neptune cycle in Libra that produced Brown v. Board of Education and integrated schools. This current transit seems hellbent on upending what came before
  • Diana's framing of the USA as "an eighth house country" sustained by resources extracted from others, historically and presently
  • The hopeful counterpoint: New York City. With its Cancer Lunar South Node and this year's prior Jupiter-in-Cancer transit, Mamdani's win and the cultural momentum there is a real, live example of where seeds of change are already taking root in the whole country and where Cancer’s tribalism can actually be unifying

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]]>In this episode of WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness, astrologers Tasha Beg andDiana Vanessa join me for a wide-ranging, unflinching conversation about race and power in America and the astrology underneath it. We dig into transit Pluto in Aquarius conjunct the USA's South Node, which is occurring as the demographic makeup of the country shifts into a direction triggering racist backlash. We trace a direct astrological line from the 1950s Saturn-Neptune cycle in Libra (Brown v. Board of Education) to today's Saturn-Neptune in Aries squaring the US natal Sun, and we talk about whose story the Sibley chart was really built to tell. It's heavy, it's honest, but it ends somewhere hopeful.

Biggest Takeaways

  • Transit Pluto conjunct the USA's South Node in Aquarius tracks with a real demographic shift: by the end of this transit, the country's racial majority changes and much of the current political backlash reads as a subconscious reaction to that
  • The Sibley chart itself carries a non-neutral perspective: Tasha frames it as the chart of "whoever's in charge," built by and for the people who broke from Britain. Conceptually, it wasn't a chart that was ever built to represent everyone demographically speaking
  • My point of view on narrative control: Hans Christian Andersen (the source of nearly every fairy tale we grew up on) who had his Lunar North Node in Capricorn speaks to a bigger pattern of whose stories get framed as THE quintessential cultural story and whose don't
  • The Saturn-Neptune in Aries transit squaring the USA natal Sun directly echoes the 1950s Saturn-Neptune cycle in Libra that produced Brown v. Board of Education and integrated schools. This current transit seems hellbent on upending what came before
  • Diana's framing of the USA as "an eighth house country" sustained by resources extracted from others, historically and presently
  • The hopeful counterpoint: New York City. With its Cancer Lunar South Node and this year's prior Jupiter-in-Cancer transit, Mamdani's win and the cultural momentum there is a real, live example of where seeds of change are already taking root in the whole country and where Cancer’s tribalism can actually be unifying

Connect with Tasha Beg:


Connect with Diana Vanessa:


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The Lunar Nodes Are Running This Whole Episode.

Pluto on a Lunar Node, generational nodal shifts this episode is saturated in nodal astrology, and if that's got you curious about what your own Lunar Nodes are actually pointing you toward, The Lunar Nodes: Unstoppable Living is where I break that down. It reframes the nodes as points where you are unstoppable in life, not karmic debt. $99, self-paced, original research, yours forever, 15% off for podcast listeners with code WTFUSA15 The Lunar Nodes: Unstoppable Living

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]]>f1846a79-5864-414a-927d-5b5e8069ac62Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -070054:21truefull1221WTF USA? The Economy with Rachel LangWTF USA? The Economy with Rachel LangAstrologer Rachel Lang says there's no such thing as a "bad money chart" and in this episode of WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness, she breaks down why. I connect Chiron's upcoming move into Taurus — the sixth house of the US Sibley chart, ruling jobs and service work — to a very specific history: the 1971 Powell Memorandum, where corporations organized to fight back against civil rights-era gains, and the 2010 Citizens United decision that opened the door to unlimited dirty money in elections. We dig into transit Pluto hitting the USA's Lunar South Node sitting in the second house of the Sibley chart. The second house of national resources says so much about corporate power, wealth concentration, and who's really running the show when it comes to economic disparity. Rachel connects Pluto in Aquarius to historic political upheavals (1776, the Copernican Revolution) that reshaped how humanity understood its place in the cosmos, shares her own Mars-Uranus story of running for Ojai City Council and out-hustling opponents who underestimated her, and leaves us with genuine, hard-won optimism about where the country is headed by the 2030s.

Biggest Takeaways

  • My read on the sixth house and Chiron in Taurus: the throughline from the 1971 Powell Memorandum's corporate response to civil rights, straight through to 2010's Citizens United, is how corporate money ended up controlling government policy
  • Pluto and the Lunar South Node in the second house of the US Sibley chart map directly onto corporate power and the concentration of national wealth
  • Rachel's core reframe: "there is no such thing as a bad money chart"
  • Pluto in Aquarius has historically coincided with massive shifts in how humanity organizes itself politically, tied to breakthroughs in how we understand our place in the cosmos
  • Rachel's own city council campaign is a real-world case study in Mars-Uranus energy: written off as "a young weak female," she won by knocking on every door in her district
  • The long view we both land on: Uranus moving into Cancer in 2032, conjunct the US natal Venus and Jupiter, points toward a cultural shift away from military spending and toward care, connection and collective wellbeing

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]]>Astrologer Rachel Lang says there's no such thing as a "bad money chart" and in this episode of WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness, she breaks down why. I connect Chiron's upcoming move into Taurus — the sixth house of the US Sibley chart, ruling jobs and service work — to a very specific history: the 1971 Powell Memorandum, where corporations organized to fight back against civil rights-era gains, and the 2010 Citizens United decision that opened the door to unlimited dirty money in elections. We dig into transit Pluto hitting the USA's Lunar South Node sitting in the second house of the Sibley chart. The second house of national resources says so much about corporate power, wealth concentration, and who's really running the show when it comes to economic disparity. Rachel connects Pluto in Aquarius to historic political upheavals (1776, the Copernican Revolution) that reshaped how humanity understood its place in the cosmos, shares her own Mars-Uranus story of running for Ojai City Council and out-hustling opponents who underestimated her, and leaves us with genuine, hard-won optimism about where the country is headed by the 2030s.

Biggest Takeaways

  • My read on the sixth house and Chiron in Taurus: the throughline from the 1971 Powell Memorandum's corporate response to civil rights, straight through to 2010's Citizens United, is how corporate money ended up controlling government policy
  • Pluto and the Lunar South Node in the second house of the US Sibley chart map directly onto corporate power and the concentration of national wealth
  • Rachel's core reframe: "there is no such thing as a bad money chart"
  • Pluto in Aquarius has historically coincided with massive shifts in how humanity organizes itself politically, tied to breakthroughs in how we understand our place in the cosmos
  • Rachel's own city council campaign is a real-world case study in Mars-Uranus energy: written off as "a young weak female," she won by knocking on every door in her district
  • The long view we both land on: Uranus moving into Cancer in 2032, conjunct the US natal Venus and Jupiter, points toward a cultural shift away from military spending and toward care, connection and collective wellbeing

Connect with Rachel Lang:


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