Something that was stuck is starting to move.
A ritual for the first real momentum after the New Moon, and what Pluto direct means for your actual life.
Six days ago, the New Moon in Libra planted something. A beginning in the territory of relationship, balance, and honest exchange. Something you seeded in the dark of a Venus retrograde, which means it was seeded with more honesty than comfort.
Today Pluto stations direct in Aquarius.
Pluto has been retrograde since May, moving slowly backward through the collective themes of power, transformation, and what needs to die so something truer can live. When Pluto stations direct, things that have been stuck, not just personally, but structurally, start to move again. The momentum is slow. It's Pluto. But it's real.
What this means in your actual life: Something you've been waiting on (a decision you couldn't quite make, a pattern you could see but couldn't shift, a structural change that felt necessary but impossible) may suddenly feel more possible. Not because the obstacle disappeared. Because something in you has finished the underground work it needed to do.
This is waxing crescent energy. The moon is thin and new. The direction is set, but the momentum is still gathering. This isn't the week to sprint. It's the week to take the first deliberate step.
✨ SPELL
Even when the moon isn’t new or full, we don’t have to wait for a “special” sky to practice reclaiming ourselves.
Ritual isn’t about the calendar—it’s about interrupting the grind, reorienting to what matters, and reminding yourself you’re not just here to produce.
Here’s a ritual for this week, aligned with the current zodiacal season. Minimal supplies. Maximum reclamation.
Earth + Water for Slow, Deliberate Movement
A ritual for Pluto direct. For the things that are finally, slowly, starting to move.
Supplies:
A bowl of water
A stone
Steps:
Hold the stone over the bowl.
Name one thing out loud that has felt stuck and that you're ready to release into motion.
Drop the stone into the water.
Watch the ripples.
Say aloud: "Slow. Deliberate. Real. I don't need it to sprint. I need it to move."
Let the water settle.
The ripples are the spell. They start small, and they reach the edges of the bowl.
✊ HEX
You don’t need a rundown of the headlines. You’re living them. Whether you’re in the U.S. or just suffering under its ripple effects, the harm is real—and relentless.
This isn’t catharsis. It’s counter-spell.
Each HEX is a ritual of refusal—a channel for holy rage, spiritual disruption, and deliberate, directed dissent.
Here’s who we’re targeting. And what to do about it.
The Information War Has No Clean Victories
Let me tell you what happened this week. All of it. Including the part where I got played.
On October 10, Donald Trump announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to lift sanctions on Russian diesel, letting Russia export over a million tons of diesel to the world market through 2027. He announced this while a bipartisan American delegation was simultaneously in Kyiv backing Ukraine’s access to Starlink. He announced this one month before he was supposed to enact sweeping Russian oil sanctions he had already signed into law. He announced this while diesel hit $6.23 a gallon and he called that Zelenskyy’s fault. He called for Zelenskyy to be replaced. He said, of the Ukrainian president, “He wants to make problems for the world, for our farmers with diesel.”
Russia’s response to this deal was to kill 17 people in Ukraine. Missiles struck Kyiv the next morning. Russia attacked Ukraine’s power grid, damaged 26 power facilities, and left at least 600,000 people without electricity.
Twelve bipartisan senators called the deal “a betrayal.”
On October 14, SpaceX throttled Starlink service for Ukraine’s military. Specifically: The drone interceptors Ukraine uses to shoot down Russian attack drones. The ones that protect civilians from the Shahed drones Russia sends en masse. Those drones rely on Starlink. SpaceX slowed the connection without warning.
On the same night, Russia launched 39 ballistic missiles and 128 drones at Ukraine’s power grid.
Zelenskyy said the Russians were deliberately exploiting the Starlink problems during the attack. Ukrainian officials accused Washington of helping Russia. Ukraine did not receive its usual warnings from Western allies before the assault began.
Trump had a diesel deal with Putin.
Musk had throttled Ukraine’s defenses.
Russia was bombing the power grid.
And 600,000 people in Kyiv and Kharkiv lost power.
That’s the week.
Now let me tell you about the part where I (and a lot of people I respect) got something wrong.
Between October 8 and 11, Ukraine struck three Yandex data centers inside Russia. Sasovo. Kaluga. Vladimir. Yandex is Russia’s Google — its search engine, its cloud services, its AI development infrastructure. The Sasovo strike took out two of Russia’s three AI supercomputers. The Cloudflare data showed bot traffic from Yandex’s network dropping to 0.4% of its peak.
And across the internet, across social media, across group chats, across the places where people who have been watching this war and watching the information war go to process what’s happening, something spread quickly and felt like a breath of air.
The right-wing bot farms went quiet.
Ukraine took out the disinformation machine.
It suddenly got easier to breathe online.
The Lithuanian Prime Minister said it at the Warsaw Security Forum: “When Ukrainian strikes hit Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms.”
Zelenskyy himself claimed the internet noticed fewer bots, less hate speech.
I felt it. You may have felt it too.
And it wasn’t true.
Cybersecurity experts, including internet security analyst Lukasz Olejnik, and a bot-tracking account called antibot4navalny that monitors Kremlin-controlled troll farm activity were clear: What dropped was Yandex’s web crawler traffic. The automated bots that index websites for search results. Not the political troll farms operating on X and Facebook and TikTok. Those stayed exactly where they were. Overall bot activity on social media did not change.
We wanted it to be true. It felt true.
The data said otherwise.
And here is the thing I keep sitting with: That wanting — that desperate, exhausted, gulping desire for something that feels like a clean win in an information war that has no clean wins — is itself something the information ecosystem exploits. Not just Russian state actors. Not just right-wing bot farms. The ecosystem as a whole. Because a story that confirms what we want to be true spreads faster than a correction. Because hope is a vulnerability as much as it is a resource. Because the people fighting disinformation are not immune to it.
This is not a reason to stop hoping. It is a reason to hold our hopes more carefully.
So today we hex the whole architecture.
We hex the diesel deal that funded the war machine while 17 people died.
We hex the throttled Starlink that left Ukraine’s drones blind while missiles fell on power plants.
We hex the fact that 600,000 people lost power this week while Trump negotiated with Putin.
We hex the information war that runs in both directions: the bot farms that spread coordinated hate and the wishful thinking that spreads coordinated hope, both faster than the truth.
We hex the desperation that makes us want clean victories in a war that has none.
We hex the systems — political, technological, informational — that profit from our confusion and our exhaustion and our hunger for something that finally makes sense.
And we bless what rigorous, unglamorous truth-telling actually looks like:
The cybersecurity researchers who said: Wait, look at what the data actually shows.
The bot trackers who said: I hate to disappoint you, but this is what’s real.
The senators who called the diesel deal a betrayal on the record.
The Ukrainian officials who named what was happening to Starlink while it was happening.
Zelenskyy calling the attack “ostentatious disrespect” toward the United States; naming the dynamic clearly, without softening it for diplomatic comfort.
Truth-telling in an information war is not satisfying.
It doesn’t give you the breath of air you were hoping for.
It gives you something more durable: The ground to stand on.
We need the ground.
📞 Action
Call your senators and demand they enforce the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. This is the law Trump already signed that gives him the power to sanction Russia with tariffs of up to 500%. He signed it. He is now violating the spirit of it with his own diesel deal. The number is 202-224-3121. (Did I ever think I’d be encouraging you to stand behind something named after Lady Graham? *sigh* No. Of course not. Yet here we are.)
Demand a full accounting of the Starlink throttling: who ordered it, when, and whether it was coordinated with the timing of Russia’s October 14 attack.
And follow the bot-tracking work of researchers like antibot4navalny, who do the unglamorous work of checking what’s actually happening in the information ecosystem rather than what we want to be happening.
With slow, deliberate momentum,
Keli Lyn Jewel
PS: The Sacred Systems course bundle is open: Reclaiming Your Nervous System, Reclaiming Spirituality, Reclaiming Intuition. If the Pluto direct energy is pointing you toward structural change in how you relate to your body, your spirituality, or your inner knowing, this is the container for that work. Find it at kelilynjewel.com/sacred-systems.
