The Broom Closet Briefing Podcast

Episode # 9: The Matchstick Economy and Why This Doesn’t Look Like Collapse — It Looks Like a Legitimacy Crisis

In this episode of The Broom Closet Briefing, we are talking about the economy not as a sterile chart, not as a cable-news stock ticker, and definitely not as some smug economist’s quarterly hallucination, but as a pressure system moving through daily life. Gas prices, oil anxiety, shipping routes, grocery costs, corporate greed, geopolitical escalation, and voter rage are not separate stories. They are one story wearing different outfits. This episode is based on recent economy readings I did, but I am not walking through the cards themselves. Instead, we are looking at the broader archetypal pattern they revealed: a nation under strain, institutions performing stability, corporations preparing to pass the bill downstairs, and ordinary people beginning to realize that “temporary disruption” is often just elite-speak for “you are about to pay for this.” And historically, when nations enter this kind of economic squeeze, the danger is not always instant collapse. Sometimes it is worse than that. Sometimes it is a legitimacy crisis. Sometimes the system keeps running, but the public stops believing in the people operating it. So no, this is not Mad Max at Costco. This is more subtle, more corrosive, and politically far more dangerous. This is the matchstick economy: a room full of dry tinder, old lies, leaking gas, and very confident people playing with fire while insisting they have a plan. The economy is talking. The question is whether anyone in power is listening before the match hits the floor. Readings discussed or referenced here in this episode: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe [https://thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Episode #8: Uranus in Gemini and our next 7 years of Revolution

In this episode of Broom and Grey, we step straight into the electric storm of Uranus in Gemini, because apparently the universe looked at the timeline and said, “You know what this needs? More chaos, more information warfare, more revolutions of thought, and maybe a little nervous-system jazz hands.” Very generous. Very subtle. Very Uranus. Over the next seven years, Uranus moving through Gemini is not just going to rearrange the furniture. It is going to rip the wallpaper off the walls, expose the wiring, and ask why everyone has been pretending the house was structurally sound. Gemini rules communication, media, language, networks, transportation, propaganda, education, messaging, and the way ideas spread through the collective bloodstream. Uranus does not enter that space politely. Uranus does not knock. Uranus kicks the door open wearing silver boots and announces that the old story is dead. This is the transit of narrative collapse and narrative warfare. It is the era where information becomes the battlefield, speech becomes spellwork, media becomes weaponized, and the people finally begin to understand that whoever controls the story has been controlling the cage. But Gemini is slippery. Gemini is dual. Gemini is the trickster with two phones, three burner accounts, and a group chat full of receipts. So this transit will not give us one clean revolution. It will give us many. Political revolutions, technological revolutions, media revolutions, spiritual revolutions, and personal revolutions in the way we think, speak, connect, and refuse to be programmed like obedient little appliances. And yes, we get into why this transit has historically shown up during moments when the country’s nervous system starts sparking like an overloaded outlet. The Civil War era had Uranus in Gemini. The last time Uranus moved through Gemini, the world was dealing with massive shifts in communication, war, technology, and social order. Now here we are again, except this time the printing press has become the algorithm, the town square has become the feed, and every person with a phone is both witness and broadcaster. History is not repeating exactly, because she has better lighting now, but she is absolutely rhyming with a megaphone. This episode is about what happens when the collective mind wakes up and realizes it has been living inside someone else’s script. It is about the next seven years of disruption, exposure, reinvention, rebellion, and the strange, glittering madness of watching old institutions try to survive in a world where the message moves faster than the monarchy, the party, the billionaire, or the regime can control. Uranus in Gemini is not here to make things comfortable. It is here to make things undeniable. And frankly, comfort was never the revolution’s strongest outfit anyway. Broom Closet Briefing is a reader supported publication. Please consider subscribing (Free or Paid) to keep this effort going. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe [https://thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Episode #7: The Exit Arc Is Not a Fall — It’s a Function

There’s a very specific kind of political shift that doesn’t announce itself loudly, doesn’t arrive with a clean scandal or a breaking headline, and doesn’t give you the satisfaction of a clear beginning. It moves quietly at first, almost politely, in the background of everything else that’s happening, until one day you realize that someone who once felt central to the narrative now feels strangely exposed, like the ground beneath them has shifted even though nothing has officially changed. That is the pattern I’ve been watching across Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem, and what’s unsettling is not the individual details of their situations but how structurally similar their arcs have been. These are not isolated trajectories, and they’re not random moments of controversy. They are expressions of the same underlying mechanism, where visibility turns into scrutiny, alignment turns into liability, and the system begins to reposition people in ways that are subtle enough to go unnoticed until the outcome is already in motion. What makes this even more interesting is that the shift doesn’t begin with failure. It begins with reinterpretation. The same qualities that once made someone valuable start to be read differently, the same associations that once reinforced credibility start to invite questions, and the same level of exposure that once elevated them starts to work against them. Nothing about the individual has to change for this to happen, because the shift is happening in the way they are being framed, and once that framing changes, everything else follows. By the time an exit becomes visible, it feels sudden, but it isn’t. It is the final step in a process that has already unfolded in layers, where support has quietly thinned, where narratives have narrowed, and where the system has already identified the most efficient place for consequence to land. What looks like a fall is actually a function, and what looks like an ending is really the system protecting itself in the only way it knows how. In the episode, I’m not going into the details of the articles themselves. I’m stepping back and mapping the arc, because once you understand the structure, you stop reacting to individual events and start seeing the pattern that produces them. And that pattern tells you far more about what’s coming than any single headline ever could. The articles are linked below: Wondering if I have a gift of reading tarot? Naah! Anyone can do this and I teach you how to. Reading tarot/Lenormand is a life skill in my opinion. I have opened door to my Patreon where I teach how I read Tarot to decode world events. If you are interested in furthering your study on Tarot and read like me (predictive Tarot reading) join my Patreon below. My Patreon is my teaching platform. If you are a practitioner of the Craft, I have a tier that is not Divination but a “Coven” where I approach Magick the same way I approach Divination: with Logic and Science. My Patreon offers that as a stand alone tier! I am starting a Level 1 through 6 Abundance magick journey in April 2026 checkout my Broom closet coven membership to access that ritual starting April. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe [https://thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Episode #6: War, Economy, and the Illusion of Control

Something is shifting—and it’s not just the headlines. Over the past two weeks, I wrote about three things that, on the surface, had nothing to do with each other: the U.S.–Iran war, rising economic pressure, and the strange reappearance of Cuba in political conversations. But when you step back and look at them together, they stop feeling random. They start looking like a pattern. This episode pulls those threads together. We’re not talking about whether there will be a crash or whether a war will escalate in the way the news frames it. We’re talking about what happens when an economic system begins to strain, when political power starts performing instead of stabilizing, and when old geopolitical ghosts suddenly come back into focus. Because that combination is never accidental. And if you’ve been feeling like something is off—but you can’t quite explain why—you’re not wrong. You’re just noticing the pressure before it becomes visible. The Broom Closet Briefing does more than news, it forecasts upcoming energies before things happen, as well as decodes them for you through a divinatory angle.The best way to support independent creators like me is to subscribe/Like/Share/Restack my work. The perks of subscribing to my newsletter is to join a vibrant and kind community! My chat is only available to subscribers (Free or Paid), consider subscribing to stay connected to the community! Please share on your Social networks for more people to find me! Articles discussed in the episode are linked below! Wondering if I have a gift of reading tarot? Naah! Anyone can do this and I teach you how to. Reading tarot/Lenormand is a life skill in my opinion. I have opened door to my Patreon where I teach how I read Tarot to decode world events. If you are interested in furthering your study on Tarot and read like me (predictive Tarot reading) join my Patreon below. My Patreon is my teaching platform. If you are a practitioner of the Craft, I have a tier that is not Divination but a “Coven” where I approach Magick the same way I approach Divination: with Logic and Science. My Patreon offers that as a stand alone tier! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe [https://thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Episode 5: Eclipse energy for the collective and our current political world, in conversation with Jenny Duceour

In this episode my lovely guest and very dear friend Jenny Duceour [https://substack.com/profile/312677727-jenny-duceour] who is an astrologer on Substack, talks about current events, political climate and how things unfold during this eclipse season. We also look at how this eclipse affects the 3 special people of interest, Trump, Vance and Stephen Miller. Below are the articles that will give you more context on what we talked about: Wondering if I have a gift of reading tarot? Naah! Anyone can do this and I teach you how to. Reading tarot/Lenormand is a life skill in my opinion. I have opened door to my Patreon where I teach how I read Tarot to decode world events. If you are interested in furthering your study on Tarot and read like me (predictive Tarot reading) join my Patreon below. My Patreon is my teaching platform. If you are a practitioner of the Craft, I have a tier that is not Divination but a “Coven” where I approach Magick the same way I approach Divination: with Logic and Science. My Patreon offers that as a stand alone tier! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe [https://thebroomclosetbriefing.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]