2025’s Summer of Child Endangerment

By Alex Miller

From the resurgence in visibility of child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, to deadly flooded summer camps, starvation in Gaza, attempted deportations of hundreds of undocumented minors, and school mass shootings, the summer of 2025 has had a subtheme of potential damage, injury or destruction aimed at children, consciously or otherwise.

That this should be so is perhaps no surprise, given an ongoing relationship in the sky between asteroids Nemesis, signifying ruin, destruction, enemies or opponents, and roadblocks or brakes on progress; and Child, indicating individuals who are legally underage.  These two points have been in opposition (180 degrees), staring each other down from across the zodiac, for months, commencing in mid-May and continuing through mid-September, when this troublesome pair will finally part ways.

Due to the similar rates of movement of asteroids in the Main Belt, between Mars and Jupiter, once these points come into resonance by aspect (1), they can remain locked that way for days, weeks, months, even years.  So the four-month duration of this opposition (2) is a fairly short one by that cosmic yardstick, but fraught with numerous manifestations of its effects.  Throughout the period, there is a pervasive undercurrent of this theme of danger, injury or harm to children, felt in the collective subconscious and becoming part of the zeitgeist.

Among the verifiable outworkings of this energy, we see the focus, since early July, on renewed interest in the crimes of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.  The barebones report from the US Justice Department on 6 July, stating that there was nothing further to see in the Epstein matter and the case was now closed, flew in the face of specific campaign promises made by Donald Trump that full disclosure of the files on the matter would be released, creating a firestorm of controversy across the political spectrum.

This put the issue of child sexual abuse and trafficking, a decidedly Nemesis/Child issue, on the front burner of public awareness in the US, followed by flashpoint moments, as Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed an incarcerated Ghislaine Maxwell (who received preferential treatment in the aftermath, with transfer to a minimum-security prison where, as a sex offender, she would not normally have access) on July 24^th.  This was followed by the testimony before Congress from Epstein survivors on September 3^rd, and a growing movement for a discharge petition in the US House of Representatives to force a floor vote on releasing all the files, resisted by the administration and congressional leadership.

Child mortality has been a significant element of the Nemesis/Child opposition this summer as well, led by the expanding health crisis in war-torn Gaza, where UNICEF reported on July 29^th that up to 12,000 children under five were acutely malnourished, 2500 with severe acute malnourishment, and 24 had died of starvation in the month of July.

This illness and death was manmade and preventable, but Nemesis in the form of a natural disaster also took the lives of 38 children in Texas when the Guadalupe River overflowed its banks in flash flooding on July 4^th, swamping several adjacent summer camps.

A mass shooting increased the Nemesis/Child headcount in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when Robin Westman opened fire during a mass at the Annunciation Catholic Church school on August 27^th, killing two students and wounding 14 others.

On August 31^st, a Trump administration attempt to deport more than 600 Guatemalan minors who had illegally entered the US, without granting due process, was halted by a federal judge.  The children were unaccompanied when they immigrated, and the Guatemalan government had agreed to accept the return of 17-year-olds, but some of those slated for deportation were as young as ten years old, with families in Guatemala that had not even been notified of their return.

The capstone on this Nemesis/Child opposition period (so far) is the announcement on September 3^rd by the Florida Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, that the Sunshine State would no longer mandate childhood vaccinations for admission to public schools, thus putting the entire population at risk of contracting such contagious diseases as measles, now on the rise in the US.

Even when unintegrated into major planetary patterns, these extended aspects between asteroids create an entrenched focus in the collective psyche, with far-reaching implications for the population at large.

Notes:  (1) an “aspect” is the astrologic term for a set of geometric relationships between celestial objects, which describe the manner or quality of their interactions.  Aspects which derive from divisions of the circle by 2, 4 or 8 (oppositions, squares, semisquares and sesquiquadrates) are considered difficult, or “hard;” those obtained from divisions of the circle by 3 or 6 (trines, sextiles) are considered easy or “soft.”  Conjunctions, when two points appear in close proximity to each other, are neutral by nature, and can yield negative or positive results, depending on the energies combined.

(2) The opposition extended from mid-Aries/Libra into early Scorpio, with the exact aspect occurring August 20th at 28 Aries/Libra.

Sources:  reporting from AP, NPR and CBS News; chart data from serennu.com

Title Image Credit:  drawn by ChatGPT