When Power Loses its Moral Center (Pluto Activations)

Dear one—

I was just about to send a very different newsletter.

I’d been deep in my own process — completing five Legendary Self Activations in five weeks, while also finishing the first full draft of my book, Your Legendary Self: Living in Sovereign Power and Truth. I was writing about the thirteen principles that allow us to live in alignment without shrinking, negotiating, or abandoning what we know to be true — and about the real cost of that kind of unflinching integrity.

And then the news landed about Alex Pretti.

When power loses its moral center, it shakes us out of whatever interior work we’re doing and asks a harder, more collective question:

What does it mean to live in sovereign power and truth when authority itself feels unmoored from accountability, compassion, and restraint?

I do want to name what many of us are feeling plainly: grief, anger, fear, horror, and a deep recognition that something is profoundly out of alignment.

This is not just a political moment.
It is a moral and spiritual one.

On the morning of 26 January, Neptune leaves its home sign of Pisces and enters Aries, where it will remain for the next fourteen years. Neptune governs ideals, dreams, and collective myth; Aries governs action, assertion, and the will to initiate. This is a long transit in which what we believe will increasingly demand embodiment — not just words, but deeds.

The last time Neptune entered Aries, in 1861, the United States entered the Civil War. Then, as now, oligarchic power distorted democracy. Then, as now, white supremacy — another face of patriarchal domination — justified the dehumanization of entire populations in service of wealth, comfort, and control.

That is what power looks like when it loses its moral center.

And yet — the conditions today are not the same as they were in the 1860s.

We are also living in a Pluto in Aquarius era. The last time Pluto moved through Aquarius, the American, French, and Haitian revolutions erupted — collective responses to authoritarian overreach and systemic dehumanization. Those movements were not perfect, but they were unmistakable expressions of a people refusing to consent to tyranny.

I believe we are in another such threshold moment.

This is where the work of the Legendary Self becomes essential — not as an abstract ideal, but as a lived practice:

To stand in sovereign power without becoming cruel.
To speak truth without surrendering empathy.
To resist injustice without losing our humanity.
To remain aligned even when alignment costs us comfort or safety.

This is not a time to despair or dissociate.
It is a time to remember who we are — and to live from that knowing, together.

I’ll be sharing more soon about what this moment is asking of us, and how the principles I’ve been writing about are meant to support us not just in personal awakening, but in collective resistance rooted in truth.

With Love, solidarity, and steady resolve,🔥 

Elizabeth

P.S.: This is a moment which requires lots of self-care. Please take care of yourself, stay in joy and service to others. Pleasure is an act of resistance!

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