This Friday 19 December, the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS makes its closest pass to Earth - a visitor from another solar system, older than our Sun, travelling on a one-way trajectory through our neighbourhood, never to return. It’s not a threat - it’s millions of miles away from us, and as it passes it likely most people won’t notice it at all, and yet, its timing is uncanny.

3I/ATLAS was first identified in early July - the same week Donald Trump abruptly announced there would be no further releases of the Epstein files, igniting a six-month scandal as he scrambled to bury what he had promised to reveal, racing against the clock to stall the inevitable collapse of his identity. As the interstellar visitor quietly slipped into our solar system, a very loud effort unfolded on Earth to suppress rising truth. Legal obstacles appeared, procedural excuses multiplied, and the United States lurched into its longest-ever government shutdown, seemingly to delay exposure - all while this object from beyond our solar system began its long, silent approach toward the Sun: the heart of our planetary system, the source of light by which all masks are eventually seen.

When astronomers first observed 3I/ATLAS entering our solar system, it appeared as a glowing red mass, moving through the heavens with uncanny precision, threading planetary lanes like a needle through silk. As it approached the Sun in September, it appeared to change colour from red to green. While some speculated wildly about alien craft, others, more mystically inclined, wondered whether this visitor carried symbolic weight - a consciousness passing through to amplify what was already stirring.

When 3I/ATLAS swung around the Sun in late October, the Sun responded violently - a storm of flares, light, and magnetism hurled directly into its path. The eruptions were immense. Had they been Earth-facing, they would have crippled satellites and drowned electronics. And yet the wanderer survived - not dimmed, but brighter; not scattered, but intact.

As the comet emerged from behind the Sun, astronomers noted another change - this time from green to blue. In scientific terms, blue signals ionization, but in symbolic terms, blue has always been associated with voice, clarity, and truth. To many watching closely, it felt as though this traveller was tracing a progression: from grounding to empathy, from empathy to expression - from feeling to revelation. Like it was moving up the chakras. 

And so 3I/ATLAS became known, in some circles, as the comet of truth. Not as an agent of change, but as a witness. That it would make its closest pass to Earth this week, on the very day Congress has demanded the release of the full Epstein files, feels more like correspondence than coincidence.

Throughout history, moments when power attempts to suppress reality are often mirrored by moments when the cosmos seems to lean closer, not to interfere, but to record. Comets have long arrived at the fall of kings - not as executioners, but as witnesses - and this one, as it passes, seems to underline something unmistakable: the effort now required to keep truth buried has become louder than the truth itself. The mask is no longer seamless. The refusal is now part of the record.

3I/ATLAS sailing past at this moment is a quiet reminder: nothing hidden stays hidden forever.

Not from history.

Not from the public.

And not, it seems, from the sky.

Whether the files are released tomorrow or not hardly matters now. Under these skies, what’s true has already surfaced. Truth is bursting at the seams, and the likes of Donald Trump can no longer outrun it.

Those who built their power by hiding the truth might want to look up tonight. The comet of truth has your number, and it’s not messing around.