And so just from a technical perspective, Saturn is minimally capable of creating order,

which is good if you fear like a long-lasting order being imposed on you.

But like the attempt to impose like the big plan, whoever and whatever faction or person

we're talking about, is very poor. Saturn is out to lunch with Neptune and letting his eight-year-old grandson run things for a couple years. A lot of stupid things are possible. I'm Do they know it's spacemas time at all?

Austin Coppick, welcome back.

Thank you, Gordon.

All right.

Here we are, end of 2025.

I do love doing six-month episodes, if only to remind myself of how fast this incarnation is going.

Six months since the last one, here we are at the end of 2025. How things?

Things are good enough. Um, there, things are always a little hectic in Astroland in December.

You know, instead of being a light time of year, it's the time to stress out about the entire future,

like specifically the year ahead, but like it's really hard to think about the year ahead

without thinking about the context of the decade ahead and I don't know, the century ahead

and whatever. So it is a it is a time of study and the weight of history, which is kind of fun.

But, you know, in a specifically stressed out nerdy way.

Good.

Well, we hope to capitalize on some of that.

But as we usually do, let's do a retrospective.

Let's look back over, in particular the last six months, because I think that comported with what we suggested rather well.

But 2025 in general, but in particular the last six months, I think the map

matched the territory pretty well. Thoughts? Yeah, in particular, the predictions of rot

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