by Anina Malherbe-Lan | Oct 24, 2026 | EXOPOLITICS & THE COSMOS, METAPHYSICS & MYSTICISM
With Mercury and Venus retrograde and Pluto challenging the Full Moon, what are we ready to release—both collectively and individually.
There are moments when we sense that something major is shifting, even before we can clearly name what comes next. Old structures, old ways of relating, thinking and finding security begin to feel uncomfortable. Questions we have put aside return. The familiar may still be there, but our relationship with it is changing. The Taurus Full Moon on 26 October offers a powerful astrological threshold for this time of change. With the Sun in Scorpio, Mercury and Venus retrograde, and Pluto forming a tight square to both the Sun and Moon, the themes of security, trust, power and transformation come into focus. How do we remain rooted while allowing ourselves and the world to change?
What truly makes us feel safe?
Taurus brings our attention to the tangible foundations of life: our body, home, food, resources, money, relationships with the natural world, and the things we value. Scorpio, the sign of death and rebirth invites us beneath the surface. It asks us to look honestly at attachment, vulnerability, shared resources and the fears that can shape our choices. Together, these signs offer a question worth sitting with: Am I holding on because something genuinely sustains me—or because I am afraid of who I might be without it? This could relate to a relationship, a habit, a financial expectation, or an identity we have outgrown. We don’t need to force an answer. Sometimes the first step is simply acknowledging what we already feel.
Pluto: meeting the places where we grip
In astrology, Pluto is associated with deep transformation and our relationship with power. Its square to this Full Moon can be read as a symbol of tension between our desire for stability and the need for meaningful change. Personally, this may be a useful time to notice where we become controlling, defensive or caught in an all-or-nothing response. Collectively, the collective may question ild structures, authority, accountability, financial systems and whose interests those systems serve. In my latest video, I explore these themes alongside my reflections on world events and concerns about digital and financial security. Our responsibility is to stay grounded and discerning: check what we hear, leave room for uncertainty, and notice when a story pulls us away from our centre.
Mercury and Venus retrograde: listen again
Mercury’s retrograde in Scorpio offers an invitation to revisit conversations and question assumptions. Something unresolved may deserve a more thoughtful look. Before responding, we can ask: What do I know? What am I assuming? What needs to be clarified? Venus, the ruler of Taurus, is also retrograde and returns to Libra on 25 October. Her symbolism brings relationships, values, money and reciprocity into the conversation. Where are we giving beyond our capacity? Where have we confused being needed with being valued? Are our commitments making room for mutual respect? These are opportunities for greater honesty and more conscious choices.
Let the body bring you home
For all the intensity associated with this Full Moon, Taurus also reminds us of the simple things that sustain us. A nourishing meal. Time outdoors. Enough rest. A conversation with someone we trust. A few gentle minutes of TaiQi or QiGong. We can pause the stream of information long enough to feel our feet and reconnect with the life immediately around us. Remaining centred allows us to care without becoming consumed. Compassion and clear boundaries can exist together. As we approach this threshold, perhaps the invitation is to loosen our grip, strengthen our foundations and take the next step with awareness. We may not know everything that comes next. We can still choose how we meet it.
🌕 Watch my Taurus Full Moon and world energy update here
What is coming into focus for you around security, relationships or self-worth? I would love to hear your reflections.
With love,
Anina
by Anina Malherbe-Lan | Oct 14, 2026 | EXOPOLITICS & THE COSMOS, METAPHYSICS & MYSTICISM, NEW EARTH SYSTEMS
Reflections on Pluto direct, intuitive awakening, and bringing awareness into everyday life.
There are moments when a date becomes a gathering point for questions many of us are already carrying.
What is changing? What are we ready to leave behind? And how do we move forward with greater trust in ourselves?
The 15–16 October window has become one of those moments. In my recent video, I explore its astrological significance alongside Nancy Rebecca’s intuitive messages about awakening and an energy surge she describes for 16 October.
I find these conversations interesting because they invite us to reflect on our own lives. A date can offer a focus for that reflection, while the choices we make carry it forward.
Why 15 October in the US—and 16 October elsewhere?
For those of you following from the United States, Pluto stations direct in Aquarius on Thursday 15 October at 10:40 p.m. Eastern / 7:40 p.m. Pacific.
Here in South Africa, that is Friday 16 October at 4:40 a.m.
This is the same planetary event, appearing on different calendar dates because of our time zones. So when you hear me referring to 16 October, and your astrology calendar says the 15th, both refer to the same moment.
The wider conversation spans these two days, although the different planetary aspects have their own exact timings.
Pluto direct: a reflection on power and transformation
In astrology, Pluto is associated with deep transformation, power, and the patterns we may prefer to keep beneath the surface.
Its direct station offers a symbolic point at which to consider what has emerged during a period of reflection. What have we come to understand about ourselves? Where are we ready to act on that understanding?
With Pluto in Aquarius, the collective themes are particularly interesting: community, technology, shared systems, and the relationship between individual freedom and collective responsibility. If one looks around at the world, it’s clear to see that people are ready to take their power back.
For me, this brings up questions about sovereignty.
How much of our attention do we give away? Whose voices shape our decisions? Can we belong to a community while retaining our ability to question, discern and choose?
These are useful questions whether we are looking at world events, exploring spiritual teachings, or considering our relationship with technology.
We can begin close to home. A boundary we have avoided setting. A habit that drains us. A conversation that needs honesty. A project we are ready to give our attention to.
Courage needs somewhere to go
Mars in Leo forms a trine with Saturn in Aries on 16 October.
Within an astrological reading, this brings together Mars’s drive and courage with Saturn’s themes of commitment, patience and structure.
I see a practical invitation here: give your inspiration somewhere to go.
Perhaps you have had an insight, felt a new direction opening, or recognised a pattern you want to change. What would help you follow through?
It might be a regular practice, a realistic plan, or one small action you can repeat. There is something powerful about showing up for what matters, even when the first excitement has passed.
With Venus still retrograde, we also have an opportunity to reflect on our values, relationships and sense of worth. What deserves our time? What feels nourishing? Where have we continued saying yes out of habit?
These themes can help us bring greater intention to the next chapter.
Intuitive awakening: staying open and discerning
Nancy Rebecca describes a blue-light energy surge and an “operating system upgrade” connected with humanity’s intuitive development.
In my video, I explore what those messages might invite us to consider.
How do we relate to our intuition? Do we make space to listen? Can we remain open to an experience while giving ourselves time to understand it?
A vivid dream, a strong feeling or a moment of sudden clarity can be meaningful to us without requiring an immediate conclusion about its source.
I value curiosity alongside discernment. We can notice an experience, reflect on it, and allow its meaning to unfold. We can also ask whether an interpretation helps us live with more steadiness, compassion and responsibility.
If you feel quiet during this window, there is no need to manufacture an experience. Ordinary moments of presence can be deeply valuable.
Bringing awareness into the body
This is where my own QiGong and TaiQi practices feel especially relevant.
Working with breath, movement and attention gives me a way to slow down and notice what I am experiencing. It brings my awareness back to my energy, my hands, my posture, my surroundings, and the simple act of being here. They don’t call TaiQi the “Great Qi” for nothing.
Whatever language we use for spiritual growth, we still live through our bodies and our daily relationships.
We need room to rest, to feel, to laugh, and to enjoy the beauty around us. Sometimes the most useful response to an intense conversation is a walk, a quiet meal, or time away from a screen.
You might take a few minutes over these two days to ask:
● What am I noticing in myself?
● What needs my care or attention?
● What am I ready to release?
● What is one thing I can begin building?
Let the answers be simple. You do not need to solve your whole life in one sitting.
My conversation with Dr. Jorg Prinz (PhD)
Alongside this energy update, I’m sharing my interview with Dr. Jorg Prinz, founder of the Energy Health Clinic in New Zealand, released on 15 October.
Jorg discusses his transition from conventional Western medicine into naturopathy and energy medicine, and his interest in looking beyond symptom management.
We explore the approaches he describes using in his practice, including scalar-field technologies, bioelectromodulation and energy psychology. He also explains his perspective on the Aha Halo frequency healing device, its programs, and how it differs from the Spooky2.
What stayed with me was the discussion about participating actively in our own healing. Paying attention to our emotions, noticing our habits, and making room for mindfulness are themes many of us can reflect on.
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Meeting this moment
My hope for this window is that it gives us a reason to pause and reconnect with what matters.
There is room for wonder, for questions, and for practical action. We can listen inwardly while remaining engaged with the people and responsibilities around us.
Whatever you experience over 15–16 October, I invite you to give yourself some breathing space. Notice what feels ready to change. Choose one step you can take with care.
Thank you for being part of this community and for sharing these conversations with me.
With so much love,
Anina | Founder VIVIDEARTH 🤍
Watch the 15/16 October energy update: https://youtu.be/CwhNsXA17N0
by Anina Malherbe-Lan | Oct 9, 2026 | EXOPOLITICS & THE COSMOS, METAPHYSICS & MYSTICISM
The Libra New Moon, a week of heightened expectation, and the invitation to move from fear into conscious creation.
Soul Tribe, there has been a lot to take in this week.
Between the October alignments, conversations around prophecy, and the pressures many are navigating in their own lives, it can feel as though everything is asking for our attention at once.
Tomorrow, Saturday 10 October, brings what many are calling the 10/10/10 portal: the tenth day of the tenth month, in a year whose digits add to ten.
2 + 0 + 2 + 6 = 10.
On the same day comes the Libra New Moon. For me, this offers a beautiful moment to pause and ask: What am I still carrying that no longer belongs in the life I am building?
The symbolism of three tens
In numerology, ten can be read as a cycle reaching completion and opening into a beginning. The one represents initiative, identity and the courage to take a first step. The zero can symbolise potential, the circle, and the spaciousness from which something new emerges.
Together, they offer an image of returning to the beginning with greater awareness.
Repeated three times, that symbolism becomes a useful focus for reflection: completing, making space, and beginning again.
There is an important detail here. This pattern is sometimes described as a once-in-a-lifetime event, but the same calculation applies to 2017 and 2035. Its meaning does not depend on it never happening again, but if we think back to what happened in 2017, it feels pretty significant.
We will never meet this particular moment as these particular versions of ourselves again.
Think of everything you have lived through. The endings. The relationships. The disappointments that changed your direction. The courage it took to keep going when the next step was unclear.
What wisdom are you taking forward? And what have you finished learning through repetition? Because the New Earth happens through us. We’re not waiting for anyone to give it to us.
I approach a portal as a sacred marker: an opportunity to bring attention and intention to a threshold. The date offers the symbolism; we bring the choices.
A New Moon that asks for honest balance
The New Moon falls on Saturday 10 October at 5:50 p.m. South African time. In tropical astrology, it is in Libra, a sign associated with relationship, reciprocity, fairness, justice and balance.
Balance can require an uncomfortable conversation. It can mean admitting that an arrangement has become one-sided, or that keeping everyone happy has come at too high a personal cost.
Venus, Libra’s ruling planet, began its retrograde in Scorpio on 3 October. Astrologically, this invites reflection on love, trust, values and what we invest our energy in. Venus also squares Mars around this New Moon, bringing the symbolism of desire and relationship into tension.
Where are you giving from love, and where are you giving from fear? What matters enough to you to deserve time, care and commitment?
These are questions to sit with gently. You do not need to resolve your whole life by Saturday.
The distinctive astrology of 10 October
A Libra New Moon with its ruler retrograde. The Sun and Moon meet at approximately 17°21′ Libra, while Venus, which rules this lunation, is retrograde in Scorpio. Symbolically, this new beginning carries a review within it: revisiting trust, attachment and values before deciding what to build next.
Venus square Mars on the same day. Retrograde Venus in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo. This is the strongest immediate relationship theme around the lunation: depth and vulnerability meeting pride, desire and the need to be seen. It invites us to notice where intensity takes the place of intimacy, or where the need for recognition makes listening difficult. Honest communication and creative expression offer constructive outlets.
An approaching sextile to Jupiter in Leo. The Sun and Moon are about four degrees from an exact sextile to Jupiter. This provides a more generous counterpoint in the astrological reading—courage, warmth and possibility. The Sun–Jupiter sextile perfects later in the week; it is not exact on the portal.
A wider, separating opposition to Saturn in Aries. The lunation is about six and a half degrees from opposing Saturn. This secondary influence echoes the Sun–Saturn opposition of 4 October. Symbolically, it asks whether our intentions have the boundaries, patience and structure to endure.
What distinguishes this day is the combination. I read it as an invitation to begin with greater honesty: revisit what matters, make room for difficult feelings, and give the next chapter a foundation you can sustain.
The pressure of the past week
The Mars-in-Leo opposition to Pluto-in-Aquarius was exact on 3 October. It belongs to the backdrop of this past week rather than being a new alignment arriving on the portal itself.
Symbolically, it brings us to questions of power, control, courage and the shadow. We might recognise those themes in collective conversations, and also in the moments when we feel a need to defend ourselves, force an outcome, or win an argument.
Before reacting, it can help to ask: What is this touching in me? Is an old fear speaking? What response would honour both my truth and my responsibility?
There is room to feel anger or grief without allowing either to make every decision. Sometimes the most useful response is to step away from the noise long enough to hear yourself again.
Prophecy, expectation and discernment
In my recent video about Chris Bledsoe’s prophecy and the attention around 7 October, I explored the questions and spiritual significance people have attached to that date. However, Chris never got a date front “the lady”. That date was calculated by astronomers and astrologers. She mentioned a new knowledge will come to earth.. a new understanding of the truth. And sometimes, that doesn’t arrive with a bang, but rather a quiet knowing inside. Where the masses are starting to sense something is amiss. So do not discard that day. We can feel things are shifting, and that the planet will never go back to how things used to be. And that’s a good thing.
The conversations around calendars and time in my recent update raise a related question: How much of our attention lives in anticipation of something happening outside us?
It is understandable to long for revelation, relief or a turning point. Meanwhile, life continues to ask us to participate—to care for our bodies, speak honestly, support one another, make decisions and to do the inner work.
Watch my recent October updates:
Surrender without abandoning yourself
This was also a thread in my recent Conscious Conversation with Farrah Weir.
We spoke about the pressures around home, finances, family and belonging, and how deeply they can touch old fears. We explored surrender, faith and Christ consciousness, while making space for emotions to be felt fully.
Surrender can mean releasing the demand to know every detail before taking the next step. It can coexist with practical action, clear boundaries and asking for help.
For those who identify as Wayshowers or Starseeds, this is a reminder to give yourself the care you offer others. You are allowed to rest. You are allowed to be supported.
Watch my Conscious Conversation with Farrah Weir:
A simple practice for Saturday
Set aside ten quiet minutes. You might light a candle, sit outside, or simply place your feet on the ground.
- Name what you are completing. Choose one pattern or commitment you are ready to change.
- Recognise what it has held for you. Perhaps it once offered protection, familiarity or belonging.
- Write your new direction. “Today, I am ready to release ______ and begin ______.”
- Choose one practical step. Make the call, set the boundary, ask for support, or give yourself the rest you have postponed.
- Leave space to listen. You do not need to manufacture an extraordinary experience.
A quiet decision can have lasting consequences. Let your intention become something you can care for through repeated action.
What we carry forward
For me, the invitation of this 10/10/10 threshold is to become more conscious of what we keep feeding with our attention.
We can care about the world and still make room for beauty. We can face difficult truths while cultivating steadiness. We can begin again with the wisdom we have earned.
The New Earth we speak about takes shape through the relationships, communities and daily choices we help create.
What are you ready to complete—and what are you ready to begin?
With love,
Anina ✨
VIVIDEARTH
by Anina Malherbe-Lan | Sep 26, 2026 | EXOPOLITICS & THE COSMOS, METAPHYSICS & MYSTICISM
We’ve only just crossed the equinox. For a moment, it felt as though we could stand still, take a breath, and see where we are.
Now the energy is building again.
On 26 September, the Full Moon rises in Aries, opposite the Sun in Libra. To me, this brings a very human question into focus: Can I stay connected to others without losing myself?
Many of us know what it feels like to keep the peace by swallowing what we really think. We say yes when something in us says no. We wait for a better moment to have the conversation. We tell ourselves our needs can wait a little longer.
Sometimes compromise is loving. But sometimes what we call “keeping the peace” is a quiet form of self-abandonment.
Aries brings us back to the self—not in a selfish way, but in an honest one. What do I want? What matters enough for me to act? Where have I been waiting for permission to begin?
Full Moons can bring feelings into the open, and this one may feel particularly immediate. Anger, restlessness or a sudden desire to change something doesn’t mean you need to make a dramatic decision overnight. Those feelings may be asking you to listen more closely. What boundary has been crossed? What truth have you been trying to make smaller so it will fit comfortably into someone else’s life?
There’s another layer to this Full Moon. With Neptune close to the Moon, intuition and uncertainty can sit side by side. You may sense that something is shifting without yet having all the facts. Give yourself permission to notice what you feel—and the patience to check what you know. We don’t need to turn every uneasy feeling into a prediction.
Pluto and Uranus are also part of the wider astrological picture, bringing themes of deeper awareness and change. My sense is that this Full Moon isn’t simply about speaking up. It’s about recognizing an old pattern clearly enough that we can choose differently.
That choice may be small. A truthful conversation. A boundary stated calmly. A project finally begun. A day of rest instead of another promise made from exhaustion.
The equinox invited us to find our centre. The Aries Full Moon asks whether we’re willing to live from it.
So as the Moon rises, perhaps sit with one question: What is the next honest step I can take without abandoning myself—or closing my heart to anyone else?
You don’t need the entire path tonight. One honest step is enough.
With love,
Anina
by Anina Malherbe-Lan | Sep 17, 2026 | EXOPOLITICS & THE COSMOS, METAPHYSICS & MYSTICISM, NEW EARTH SYSTEMS
What if one of Africa’s oldest philosophies has something profound to say about the nature of reality?
Did ancient African wisdom understand something about interconnectedness that science is only now beginning to describe?
There is a phrase many of us who grew up in Africa know almost instinctively:
Ubuntu.
It is often translated simply as:
“I am because you are.”
But recently, while exploring quantum consciousness and the increasingly strange picture of reality emerging from modern physics, I found myself looking at those words differently.
What if Ubuntu was pointing toward something much deeper?
Not quantum physics, of course. The people who carried this philosophy through generations weren’t discussing photons, wave functions or Bell inequalities.
But perhaps they were observing something about the nature of relationship.
That we are not entirely separate.
That who I am cannot be understood independently of who you are.
That relationship is not simply something that happens betweenalready separate beings.
Relationship helps constitute who we become.
And suddenly I found myself thinking about quantum entanglement.
Ubuntu is older than the word as we know it
Ubuntu doesn’t have a single founder.
There wasn’t a particular philosopher who sat beneath a tree one afternoon and invented it.
It emerged from the lived traditions of Bantu-speaking peoples across Southern Africa. Different languages carry related words and expressions — ubuntu, botho, hunhu — built around ideas of humanity, personhood, community and relationship.
Its roots therefore reach much further back than its written history.
Researchers tracing the written record have found uses of ubuntudating to at least 1846. In those earlier texts, it tended to refer to a human quality — goodness, humaneness, moral character. During the twentieth century its meaning expanded in published discourse to encompass African humanism, ethics, philosophy and worldview.
At its heart lies a Nguni expression:
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu.
A person is a person through other persons.
It is subtle, but important.
It does not say that the individual disappears into the collective.
It says that personhood itself is relational.
I become fully human through relationship with other human beings.
My humanity and yours are somehow bound together.
From Descartes to Ubuntu
Western philosophy famously gave us René Descartes’:
“I think, therefore I am.”
The starting point is the individual mind.
I think.
Therefore I exist.
Ubuntu begins somewhere very different.
I exist through relationship.
African theologian and philosopher John Mbiti captured this worldview beautifully in his 1969 African Religions and Philosophy: “I am because we are; and since we are, therefore I am.”
One worldview begins with the individual.
The other begins with relationship.
And this is where my mind wandered back into the quantum world.
Enter quantum entanglement
At the beginning of the twentieth century, physicists began discovering that the universe behaves very differently at its smallest scales from the predictable mechanical world we experience around us.
One of the strangest discoveries was quantum entanglement.
Under certain circumstances, two or more quantum particles can share an entangled state. Their properties cannot then be completely described independently; experimentally, measurements reveal correlations stronger than could be explained by certain classical “hidden-variable” models.
This isn’t philosophical speculation. Bell-test experiments helped establish the phenomenon experimentally, work recognised by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.
In the language of quantum physics, the system has to be understood as a whole.
And there is something rather beautiful about that.
“I am because you are.”
Here we need to be careful.
Quantum entanglement does not scientifically prove Ubuntu.
It does not demonstrate that human minds are quantum-entangled across the planet, nor does it establish telepathy, collective consciousness or spiritual interconnectedness.
Those would require evidence of their own.
But as a philosophical parallel?
I find it fascinating.
Ubuntu tells us that the human being cannot be understood entirely in isolation.
Quantum entanglement tells us that, under particular physical conditions, parts of a quantum system cannot be fully described as independent entities possessing their own predetermined properties. Nobel-recognised experiments showed correlations incompatible with the relevant class of local hidden-variable explanations.
These are very different domains.
One concerns human existence and ethics.
The other concerns the mathematical and experimental behaviour of quantum systems.
And yet both challenge an assumption deeply embedded in modern culture:
that separateness must always be the starting point.
Perhaps that is the interesting bridge.
Not that Ubuntu predicted quantum mechanics.
But that African philosophy began from a relational view of existence long before modern physics gave Western thought new reasons to question whether reality can always be understood by reducing everything to isolated parts.
Perhaps relationship comes first
The more I explore consciousness, the more interested I become in this possibility.
What if we have spent centuries asking:
What are things made of?
when another equally profound question is:
How are things related?
Think about your own life.
You didn’t develop language alone.
You didn’t form an identity alone.
Your nervous system responds to other nervous systems. Your beliefs were shaped through family, culture, experience and relationship. The person reading these words today exists within an immense web of encounters stretching all the way back through generations.
Remove relationship entirely and the concept of an isolated “self” becomes surprisingly difficult to define.
Ubuntu understood this socially and spiritually.
A person becomes a person through other persons.
An ancient intuition for a changing world
There is another reason I think Ubuntu deserves revisiting now.
Our civilisation has become extraordinarily good at separation.
Mine and yours.
Humanity and nature.
Mind and body.
Science and spirituality.
Individual and community.
Perhaps the next stage of our development asks us to become equally sophisticated about relationship.
Ubuntu doesn’t ask us to surrender individuality.
It asks us to recognise that individuality exists inside a web of reciprocity.
My wellbeing affects yours.
How I treat another person changes the community we both inhabit.
What happens to one part of an ecosystem eventually touches another.
Humanity is not simply billions of isolated selves sharing a planet.
We are continually shaping one another.
And perhaps this is where an ancient African philosophy and the strange discoveries of modern physics can sit beside each other without either needing to become the other.
Quantum physics gives us an experimentally demonstrated form of non-classical correlation in nature.
Ubuntu gives us a philosophy for what it means to live as though relationship matters.
One is physics.
One is wisdom.
But both leave me contemplating the same beautiful possibility:
Perhaps reality is less about isolated things than we once imagined.
Perhaps relationship is not secondary.
Perhaps relationship is fundamental.
And perhaps Africa has been whispering something about that for a very long time.
