On October 21, 1978 Frederick Valentich, an Australian pilot with over 150 hours of experience in the air headed out on a routine flight from Melbourne to King Island. It was a route he’d taken loads of times. But about an hour into his flight, he radioed flight service about a mysterious craft following him. Throughout the conversation, he became increasingly frightened and then the transmission was disrupted by a strange metallic sound. Despite weeks of searching, Fred and his plane were never seen again. I’m Carly Heath and This week on The Astrology of Terrible Things Podcast, I’m joined by actor and comedian Elyssa Phillips and we pull up the astrology chart and try to figure out what happened to the pilot who disappeared from the sky.

If you’ve ever seen duck on the menu of a California restaurant, chances are, that duck came from Reichardt Duck farm in Petaluma. This farm supplies all sorts of dining establishments—from Michelin-star restaurants like the French Laundry to Chinatown storefronts. In 2014, the Sheriff’s department raided the farm in response to horrific undercover footage. But, ultimately, authorities would decide to prosecute the activists seeking to save the sick and dying animals rather than the duck farm committing the atrocities.

This week on The Astrology of Terrible Things Podcast, I talk with my sister Dr. Crystal Heath about the more than 120 years of history around this Northern California Duck Farm responsible for supplying abused and diseased birds to restaurants all over the Golden State.

Join us as we find out what the stars say about disease, deception, and the law.

Have you ever noticed patterns and repetitions in your life that just seem a little too on-the-nose? Some folks call them coincidences, synchronicities, glitches in the simulation… If these repetitions happened in a fictional story, the audience would be like: “Well, that’s not realistic,” but when they happen in life, it’s like you can see gears turning in the universe… This summer, I began realizing that key events in my life always happen on an equinox and I also find, during equinoxes, I encounter people from the southern hemisphere. During the fall equinox of 2023, I discovered someone who was doing a lot of work around the same social  movement I was involved in and who was, like me, photographing and documenting the same events I was photographing and documenting… this person was also named Carly, and the parallels in our lives are uncanny.

This week, on the Astrology of Terrible Things, I talk with my very own glitch in the simulation—Carly Delso-Saavedra, the Southern Hemisphere Carly. We also talk about the other September 11th—September 11, 1973, the Chilean coup d'état, an event that’s been pretty much erased from American history books, but is something everyone should know about — and it also happens to be an event that played an important role in the events of Carly’s life. 

Interestingly, we’re recording this episode the day after Henry Kissinger, who was a key supervillain in the Chilean Coup, died. A huge synchronicity because we’ve been planning this podcast for about a week now.

The universe is bonkers and we’re about to find out what happens when we break the universe by talking to our cosmic doppleganger.