This could be the most interesting week in quite a while — and that’s saying a lot. I guess “interesting” is a charitable way to describe the rise of tyranny by ignorance, chaos and pixels, and any possible resistance, and events that seem outside our control — but it’s the holiday season.

On Tuesday, Saturn enters Capricorn, making contact with the Aries Point and commencing the Saturn-Pluto conjunction that will shape and in some way define our lives for the next three years.

Then 36 hours later, the Sun reaches solstice, aligning with the Tropic of Capricorn, thereby entering the sign Capricorn and making a conjunction with Saturn; ramping up the Aries Point activation by an order of magnitude.

Then Friday, Mercury stations direct, releasing a dam of pent-up energy that’s been collecting through these exceedingly eventful few weeks that it’s been retrograde. Mercury is currently stationing direct in mid-Sagittarius, conjunct a deep-space point called Laniakea/Great Attractor, one of the most prodigious, mysterious and indeed massive elements in all of astronomy.

Combined with the approaching end of the year and, more notably, the political situation — a wounded, cornered, angry and frightened animal as our president; the Special Counsel’s investigation closing in on him and his family; most of the public against him; and many other details — we have a setup for a rapid turn of events in just a few days. This is the week when something has to give.

Will Trump attempt to fire Robert Mueller III, the specially appointed federal prosecutor who is investigating him? Will Mueller’s office reveal more indictments against members of Trump’s in-group, including family members who are “advising” him? Will this absurd debt-financed, trillion-plus-dollar tax cut for the wealthiest few Americans sail through, or will someone have the guts to resist it? What else is brewing? (Clue: there is plenty, like those fomenting plans for a land invasion of North Korea.)

The current astrology’s rapidly shifting emphasis from Sagittarius to Capricorn (which includes the Moon on Monday, and slow-moving outer planet Quaoar two weeks ago, and centaur planet Pholus on the way) all points to government and, more personally, the structure of our lives as impacted by society’s institutions.

Note a potent conjunction between the Moon, Pholus and Saturn Monday in the pre-dawn hours of the United States, late morning in Europe. This aspect describes something emotional or related to the body that needs to release or be released.

Aries Point involvement makes this all intimately personal. The Aries Point is the first degree of the tropical zodiac (1 Aries), which is also sensitive to aspects, particularly those with a 45- or 90-degree structure.

This is coming in through extra channels, not just the first degree of Aries taking squares from Saturn and the Sun at the same time. The midpoints of the fixed signs also tap into the Aries Point; and currently the lunar nodes are in mid-Leo/Aquarius, and Jupiter and Vesta are square the nodes in mid-Scorpio.

This is about us. All that stuff out there, involving celebrities and powerful organizations and executives and senators, is really about us. We’re at the point where a review of sexual conduct, government reform and corporate accountability must begin on the ground: in our homes, in our families, in our relationships, among our friends and in our actual work environments.

Hypocrisy in any form fragments and diffuses life energy. It’s the root of much sickness. It may seem to work for a while, though it eventually collapses on itself. If we want the strength to improve our lives and the world we live in, that’s going to come from the power concentrated in integrity.

Integrity also includes flow and flexibility. It includes a balance of the elements: earth, air, water and fire.

Though it’s a form of blasphemy to say this, sexual healing comes not only from identifying and shaming perpetrators (to the extent that has any positive effect at all) but also from relaxing the intense armoring we’ve been packing around our personalities. Under the assault of all this fear, shame and disgust — going back many years, though particularly in recent ones — many people have grown numb, rigid and averse to vulnerability.

Any healer will tell you there are two ways to work through that: one is to have it be cracked by some impact, and the other is a conscious, gentle and voluntary unraveling.

The choice is ours, though we must work together; this is much more than just a private, individual thing. Find your healing partners. Contact the people you trust being vulnerable around. Associate with people whose intent you’re certain is centered on healing, creativity and love. Then get busy.

Tuesday on Planet Waves FM, I’ll catch up with the astrology and world events as they develop, and then I’ll have a two-hour interview with Rachel Marco-Havens, who you met in last week’s edition.