When Uranus Moves (into Gemini)

ie. when your anus gets to fuck you back

Like mine, Uranus sows chaos (we are literally using this joke throughout). It is the planet of individualism and genius and the parts of you that maximize themselves without you really even trying (also sometimes they maximize themselves but kind of like me maximizing myself on rum… just not in a way you would prefer the precise execution). If Jupiter screams “LET’S LEARN IT” and Saturn bellows “STOP - ARE YOU SURE?”, Uranus condescendingly sneers, “WELL GO ON, TRY IT”. And… you do. It is the planet that shakes the system until it resembles something else; it is change forced (or resisted, pointlessly) from outside yourself. It is growth via rebellion (so you might have to try a few times, if we are being honest), and it won’t necessarily be the stuff you’re aiming for, like Jupiter or Pluto. Uranus walks up, kicks you in the nuts, gives you a topic, and then kicks you in the nuts repeatedly until you go and do something about it.

Uranus this morning moved out of Taurus, where it has squalidly perched since 2018, and into Gemini. It will spend four months in Gemini before it retrogrades into Taurus again in November, stations direct (it turned around) in March, and then swims more permanently into Gemini on April 26th next year.

Where Uranus in Taurus asked, “What is your comfort?”, Uranus in Gemini asks, “What is your logic?” What happens when everyone has a microphone and no one has a fact-checker or editor? What happens when language turns into vibes? When meaning becomes decentralized? When no one agrees on what’s real, but yet everyone, in bespoke fashion, agrees on what’s true for them? I plan very much to do a future post about this because there is big change afoot, and we have some waves of precedent to ride.

Be prepared to feel the stilettoed boot of the sign of jazz hands, and the sign of announced entrances. This is the planet that seeks individuality within a planet-sign relationship, so during its long stint in Taurus we witnessed the inevitable death of “one size fits all” comfort. We have algorithms that sate our specific tastes. Our career paths no longer overlap like the older Gen Xs and Boomers who went school → job → home → retirement with a market- yet -structured economy that sustained explosions of wealth into a more egalitarian society, and I mean that relatively, not actually (and certainly not equitably). In fact the last time Uranus was in Taurus was 1934 to 1942, when macro-and almost micro-level post-recession programmes presented the Boomers with the first opportunity as a generation able to fulfil the suburban dream. Uranus in Taurus (well, anything in Taurus) wants comfort and stability, and an age of successes of The New Deal were precisely that, and set the generations that aged into it up rather nicely.

She wore a different veneer this last time around, where an injection of individualism into comfort resulted in the most bespoke set of consumer preferences our species has thus far managed to sustainably serve. Uranus’s trip through Gemini is going to inject this same principle into communication and thinking. Where your routines and day-to-day life took a smack from the Aquarian planet’s jig through Taurus, your thoughts are going to be mangled by Gemini. Where your comforts may have been experienced differently, your thoughts are now going to be dragging you around by your ball-skin. Uranus in Taurus sees forced change in structure. That bitch in Gemini is going to attack literal concepts of truth; do not be dissuaded from the meaning of that which you can literally see. You will be closed on figuring out who pulls the strings, and open to figuring out exactly what truth is, both objectively (it is or it isn’t), and practically (if enough people believe it, is it true?).

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So who needs to pay attention? If you have a chart that is: