There are almost imperceptible subterranean rumblings in the Australian real estate market. Not yet enough to rattle the normies, but noticeable nonetheless. Even intelligence agency subcontractors are noticing.
Anecdotal data – house across the street from me in Brisbane has failed to sell for like 6 months.
It’s like a new build McMansion. Would be worth maybe $500K USD on the outskirts of Austin, but they want something like $3 million AUD for it lol
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) November 10, 2026
There aren’t many signs up around our place right now, but if you look at the map on the real estate apps it’s a sea of dots for sale around the suburb. We know a few people trying to sell right now and they’re reporting viewings are way down. That’s all anecdotal though, of course.
When looking at real estate cycles around the world, people often point to something known as the Skyscraper Index, first proposed in 1999. According to the index, the world’s tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns far more often than the modern random theory of reality would admit. The index correlates with tallest structures in 1907, 1929, 1973, and the Burj Khalifa in 2009.
We don’t have a world’s tallest structure nearing completion this year when the 18.6-year land price cycle I wrote about previously is expected to turn down. Instead, we have something perhaps just as significant. The largest construction project ever planned, the NEOM project in Saudi Arabia with the famous The Line launched in 2017, was shelved this year. The Saudis had planned on using the outrageous and unearned wealth they have received from oil extraction to pivot toward some type of Arab Elysium in the sand as part of Saudi Vision 2030. They won’t. Instead, they’re getting Houthi missiles hitting Riyadh’s financial district.
And while we don’t have a world’s tallest structure being completed, we have something else. On February 20, 2026, just a week before Israel got Trump to start the war on Iran that has begun the destruction of industrial modernity, the Sagrada Familia was completed in Barcelona, Spain. While not the tallest building in the world, it is now the tallest church in the world.
Fascinatingly, the Sagrada Familia was completed on the exact day that Saturn and Neptune went conjunct at 0° Aries. Saturn-Neptune conjunctions occur about every 35 years, and are associated with the dissolution of the religious and ideological belief systems that underpin institutions and structures of authority. The last conjunction occurred in 1989 in Capricorn, the sign to do with the power structure of a society. That was when the ideological superstructure that maintained the Soviet Union and the old CCP began to collapse. Three conjunctions ago correlated with the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Not only was the Sagrada Familia finished on the exact day Saturn and Neptune went conjunct in 2026, it was begun on 19 March 1882, just two months before the conjunction of 12 May 1882. Among astrologers, that’s known as a ‘hit’.
To have the tallest Christian structure in the world that had been under construction since a previous conjunction completed on the day of that same conjunction at the absolute start of the zodiac 0° Aries is beyond compelling. I do not believe that astrology can or even should be used reliably to predict the future, despite what astrologers will tell you. So what it meant, we can’t know yet. As time goes on, however, I think we will, and I think it will be very significant.
Might it be something to do with the end of organised religion, and institutional Christianity in particular? Time will tell.
In my previous piece on the 18.6-year land cycle, I outlined that the cycle corresponds to the lunar nodal cycle. I did not, however, outline what it is about that cycle that drives these waves of economic sentiment. The mechanism is even more precise than just the lunar nodes. It also points to the coming of Jesus.
As the moon orbits the Earth, the path of its orbit sits at an angle to the path of the Sun through the zodiac, known as the ecliptic. The point at which the Moon crosses the ecliptic from south to north is known as the North Node; where it crosses from north to south, the South Node. The two points move backwards, or retrograde, through the zodiac, taking 18.6 years to complete the cycle.
This is the celestial basis for the 18.6-year land cycle spouted by many newsletter sellers and real estate investment advisors. It’s not about inflation or population or land availability. All of that is secondary. We are governed by the celestial forces appointed by God as his divine council. That’s the ultimate explanation for these cyclical phenomena.
The North Node of the Moon is known as the Caput Draconis, or Dragon’s Head. It signifies increase, amplification, acquisition, and intensification. The South Node, the Cauda Draconis or Dragon’s Tail, indicates decrease, depletion, dissipation, and release. As these move through the zodiac, the various signs determine how these will manifest. The Moon governs many different aspects of life including bodily wellbeing, love and relationships, and the oceans, but here we are focused on economic factors. Therefore, the Nodes can be understood to affect public sentiment, economic confidence, and the relationship of the people to the land.
In short, real estate. The public religion of our Antipodean dystopia.
I mentioned that the Nodes move retrograde, i.e. backwards. The ‘crash’ phase of the well-known 18.6-year real estate cycle occurs when the North Node, which amplifies and increases, moves from Pisces backwards into Aquarius. This is a jarring and harsh transition. Pisces is associated with delusion and transcendence, religious devotion, prosperity and sensuality. It’s ruled by Jupiter, which gives it the themes of religion and abundance. It is also associated with drunkenness and disconnection from reality.
Aquarius is the cold bath afterward. The Water Bearer is ruled by Saturn and associated with coldness, constraint, privation, discipline, and hardship. It is harsh reality hitting you mercilessly after you’ve been living too large on the credit card and partying it up. It’s 1991 after Expo 88 and the Bicentenary, which was two lunar nodal cycles ago.
The movement of the lunar North Node drives the cyclical swings of the real estate market, with Pisces being the final 1.5 years of rampant overconfidence, profligacy, and extremes. Aquarius brings the crash.
The lunar North Node moved into Aquarius on 18 August 2026.
While reflecting upon Gen X retirement plans being about to go down the gurgler, something occurred to me. In my most recent book, I outline my theory that the cosmological worldview of Second Temple period Jews and the earliest Christians was based on something known as the Great Year. It’s a 25,772-year cycle that progresses through the zodiacal Ages.
Since the ministry of Jesus, we have been in the Age of Pisces. It has been the Age of religious devotion, oceanic travel and maritime activity, abundance and patronage, the exploration and taming of the deepest and furthest places, and relative wealth, particularly for elites. These are all Piscean themes, and Jesus inaugurated this Age with his very piscatorial and sacrificial ministry. In the Great Year framework, Jesus’ ministry was God’s rescue mission for humanity before the judgement. This is the great and terrible Day of the Lord that we await at the end of this Age, some time in the next few centuries or before.
Jesus can come back whenever he likes. After all, he’s Jesus. He’s not bound by astrological forces. He governs them. He is the Lord of the Ages (cf. Hebrews 1:2).
The apocalyptic end of this Age and transition into the next, which many Christians believe will be when Jesus will rule on Earth directly with a rod of iron (Psalm 2), is the transition from Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius in the Great Year. It’s the midpoint in the Great Year in my theory.
If you want a picture of the apocalypse, you’re about to live through one. The Great Australian Gotterdamerung of the House Flippers we’re about to live through is going to be one of the most dramatic real estate crashes in history, should the 18.6-year cycle play out.
If it does, take a moment to reflect on how blessed we are. We get to see a picture of the apocalypse, with all the accompanying weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Repent of your extractive rent-seeking and substandard renos, Australians. The great and terrible day of historically normal interest rates is at hand.
Originally published at Metaphysical History. You can purchase Dr. Hilton’s books here.
