Power In Flux
Power Outages, Solar Storms, and the Planetary Clock — A Stefan Burns Perspective
This past week, as April gave way to May 2025, the skies over Europe weren’t just putting on a light show for astrologers — they were whispering warnings to anyone paying attention. Stefan Burns, known for his cutting-edge correlations between heliocentric planetary alignments and geophysical events, has often pointed out that when celestial forces cluster and intensify, terrestrial systems can strain under the weight.
On April 28, just as Venus, Saturn, and Mercury arranged themselves in a striking heliocentric arc, southern Europe was plunged into one of its most severe blackouts in modern peace-time history. Spain, Portugal, and southern France experienced massive power outages after a sudden 15-gigawatt frequency collapse in Spain’s grid — enough to sever the country’s electrical tie with France and ripple across borders. Millions lost electricity, public transport halted, and the cascading failure raised urgent questions about grid resilience.
What makes this blackout even more compelling is the concurrent surge in solar activity. Just days prior, active sunspot region AR4079 rotated into view, producing a series of M-class solar flares. On April 29, an M2.03-class flare caused minor radio blackouts on Earth, intensifying speculation about whether geomagnetic disturbances could have nudged Europe’s energy infrastructure closer to the brink.
From an astrological standpoint, solar-focused astrologer Stefan Burns reminds us that heliocentric (Sun-centered) alignments mark deep, systemic cycles — and when layered with geospace triggers like heightened solar wind, they act like a cosmic amplifier. Even though mainstream science stops short of drawing a direct causal line between planetary positions and power grids, Burns argues these moments are “windows of susceptibility,” when Earth’s systems, already under strain from human load, tip into sudden breakdown.
While the official investigations by Red Eléctrica de España (REE) and Portugal’s national grid are still underway, astrologers, space weather experts, and systems thinkers alike are watching carefully.