Posted  originally on Mar 1, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

QUESTION: Marty, According to NASA, on Feb. 28, the rare phenomenon occurred, with six planets appearing to align and form a parade across the evening sky. I recall back in 1989 when you were forecasting the fall of Communism, the planets also aligned. Socrates pinpointed February for Iran months in advance and you have said this is no blip like 2025. Do the planetary movements play any role in Socrates? Does this alignment foretell of your war cycle taking us into 2032?

SL

ANSWER: No. Neither astrology nor religious prophecy are part of Socrates. If I pick up my coffee cup, both my dogs know I am going to the kitchen. If I pick up my keys, they know I am running to the store. My dogs are smarter than most politicians. They look for patterns and connect the dots. Politicians live in the world where everything is haphazard and random so they have the power to manipulate society. Yet they are always surprised and cannot predict the future even to the extent of my dogs.

Astrology and Prophecy are both based on cycles and patterns. The universe is NOT random and neither is human nature or Prophecy. The fact that Socrates pinpointed February and on the 28th the planets aligned is interesting. My dogs understand pattern recognition. Those who use technical analysis look for repeating patterns. But those patterns are the footsteps of human behavior – not random noise. Socrates is just looking at the data, so when it aligns with Astrology or Prophecy, perhaps it is just because the universe is cyclical based.

This time it is different. The Neocons have infiltrated EVERY administration including the more recent Clinton, Bush I & II, Obama, Biden, and now Trump. Trump has allowed the Neocons to undermind his legacy. He may have thought attacking Iran would be in and out like Venezuela and the people will rise up after killing the Ayatollah. The Neocons said the same thing about Iraq and that never happened. Regime Change cannot be accomplished from the air. Like Iraq, it requires boots on the ground. Iraq was NOT religious. This time it is. Shia Muslims are NOT confined to Iran. They are a large part of the population in all Middle Eastern nations. They have proxies, but also sleeper terrorist cells in American and Europe.

This has the danger of a religious war and the Neocons NEVER think beyond the end of their nose. They are traitors to America, for they NEVER stand for election. They weasel their way into every administration and seize our Foreign Policy for personal objectives. They do not care about the country or the people. Anyone who wants to blame Trump, is an absolute fool. They will infiltrade every administration no matter who you vote for.

Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala because Trump was anti-war. His daughter did everything she could to undermind Trump and tried to prevent him from winning the presidency. Do you really think they gave a shit about the economy, the people, or the country? This was always a military agenda. They are, in my opinion, a cancer within society filled with irrational hatred.

If the stories of the Devil sending his agents to undermine humanity are true, the Neocons are perhaps such agents of evil. Under cyclical analysis, there should be a Devil because you need the opposite to create the cycle. You need the bad to oppose the good to create a cycle. That believe in good vs evil actually began in Persia under the Zoroasters.

The computer has been targeting 2026 since 2014. As my mother always told me, “there is a time and place for everything.” This year was a target for a Panic Cycle in War. Pakistan just attacked Afghanistan. When I have been warning that the computer was projecting World War III, it would NOT be as World Wars I or II where there was one adversary.

This is world war around the globe where whatever old grudge existed, they are all rising again and this is set in motion by the Sovereign Debt Crisis because the fiscal mismanagement since World War II is coming home to roost.

When I stood up at our 2011 World Economic Conference in Philadelphia, I warned that the war cycle was turning up in 2014. That proved to be correct for it was the Ukrainian Revolution that was instigated by the Neocons, and they installed an UNELECTED government and instructed them to attack the Donbas to draw in Putin to come to their rescue. The computer in 2013 forecast that Ukraine was the place to watch one year in advance. These Neocons are traitors to not just America, but to humanity. None of this has been my personal opinion. I an merely relaying the forecasts from the computer because NOBODY can possibly be correct most of the time using opinion.

The concept of a cyclical universe undergoing destruction and rebirth is a core, defining doctrine of Stoic cosmology. The Stoics believed the universe is governed by a rational principle called the Logos. This divine reason is perfect and orderly. A perfect, rational God would create the best possible world. After it is destroyed, the same perfect, rational God would create the same best possible world. It couldn’t be any different, because that would imply a lesser, or at least a different, creation. The cycle is a necessary consequence of divine perfection and rationality.

The Stoics were materialists; everything that exists is a body, including God. They saw God as a creative, artistic fire, similar to but more refined than the fire we know. Just as a seed contains the entire plan for a mighty tree, this divine fire contains the logoi spermatikoi (“seminal reasons” or “generative principles”) for everything that will ever exist in the universe. During ekpyrosis, everything is contracted back into these seeds. During palingenesis, the seeds unfold again to create the cosmos exactly as it was.

The first Christians rejected everything from the Greeks and argued that the world was linear – not cyclical. They based that on the idea of a final conclusion of Armageddon and the final battle. They saw the Greeks assuming there was no final conclusion but it would start all over again. This interpretation led to centuries of a Dark Age rejection all the knowledge acquired previously even in medicine on the assumption that it was all just paganism.

Yet, to the Greeks, and followed by the Romans, they knew of the story of Noah and how the world was destroyed and reborn. They also saw that every empire rose and then fell. The Romans indeed also understood that they too would fall. Here is a coin of the Roman Emperor Philip I depicting the story of Noah from the Bible but it was issued in the very place where even the Bible said the Ark came to rest.

The Bible does predict a sequence of Armageddon, then the Second Coming, then a 1,000-year period (the Millennium) . However, according to mainstream Christian theology, it does not “begin again” as an eternal cycle. Instead, it leads to a final, permanent state.

After the final judgment, the old order of things passes away. Revelation 21 describes a “new heaven and a new earth.” This is where your question about the Bible “beginning again” comes in. While there is a pattern (Creation -> Fall -> Judgment -> Renewal), the Bible insists it happens once.

The Bible presents a linear timeline: Creation -> Fall -> Redemption (through Christ) -> Consummation (New Creation). The Stoics believed in a circle: Creation -> Destruction (Fire) -> Exact Re-Creation -> Repeat.

What is clear, is that the entire universe is based on cycles. To reject cyclical understand of the world we live in, all because of the idea of a final conclusion seems to be absurd. For in life we are born, we live, and we die. That is the cycle of life – nothing is forever thanks to cycles. We make mistakes and hopefully we learn from them individually and progress. In that sense, I would disagree with the Stoics and a cycle of rebirth after Noah would make no sense if it always repeated the same. We know that there was a great flood from many sources. That is not just a biblical story. After that event, there was a “new earth” but it was not the same. Technology also has a cycle and that too advanced. In part, that is also way I disagree with the Stoics that each cycle does not repeat the same.

Does the the Bible insist it happens once? That is interpretation. It may be just a description of the current cycle whereas there was a civilization that was wiped out before with the Great Flood. Who really knows? It is always interpretation and opinion. All I can say is that there is a cycle. Does it all end permanently? Or does it indeed begin all over again between Gog & Magog?