URANUS IN GEMINI: TRICKSTER FOR TRICKSTER
You may be noticing a new quality of energy emerging after Uranus entered Gemini July 7. Whatever has felt previously comfortable in the Gemini parts of life will probably start itching for something different. Uranus often makes us feel restless and hungry for unexamined alternatives - it breaks time, breaks plans and gambles on change without any guarantees.
The fixed signs know what I'm talking about, Uranus has been in Taurus since May 2018 - pummeling us with awakenings around money, values and the wisdom of our physical body. And yet, Taurus' steady nature is prone to slow Uranus' reforming spirit down, delaying and staving off a lot of collective change that fast moving Gemini will likely release. Now more than ever, change can no longer be avoided...the status-quo has exceeded its limits.
Unlike Taurus, Gemini doesn't care about keeping things comfortable, it risks all kinds of stability-promising paths for the pursuit of...a kajillion other random interests. Gemini's are the holy polyglots of curiosity and connection, learning new things and getting to have weird conversations about it - is their definition of security. As a mental sign, Uranus in Gemini will swiftly update how we learn, think, communicate, and pay attention to life. It will unshackle our minds from oppressive perspectives in both exciting and chaotic ways.
Likewise, Uranus' tech-savvy inclinations mixed with Gemini's hunger for variety may create a maze of AI inventions. It will be extra important to ward off distractions, monitor tech use and not spread ourselves too thin. Jupiter in Gemini over the past year has primed us to recognize the mental overwhelm of too much info or options.
Another quality about Uranus is that the planet is literally and figuratively cold. It's mathy and unemotional. This is advantageous for equation-solving advancements in technology, science and medicine but because of its abstract detachment, one must be extra careful to consider the moral consequences of their pursuits.
Many Uranian myths are of people coming out of an innovation-tunnel only to realize they’ve created a monster (yes, Frankenstien's Mary Shelley had natal Uranus right on her Sun). Last time Uranus was in Gemini, the atom bomb was born - igniting the Anthropocene of which we are now reaping the failures of.
Historically, Uranus in Gemini has coincided with War...the American Revolutionary War (1775), the Civil War (1859–1865), and U.S. involvement in World War II (1941–1942). The USA also has Uranus in Gemini in their birth chart, along with the current president.
As we cope with these surreal conditions, we may want to lean into the virtues of Gemini's chameleon qualities, constantly adjusting to a shifting game board and ready with a multiplicity of countermoves. It will be more important than ever to cultivate the fearlessness to stay present and be okay with uncertainty, creating mental boundaries around overly-negative predictions.
I gave a lecture about how to handle uncertainty through a URANUS lens at The Astro Fest Conference in LA April 2025, called Uranus’ Vagina. Watch here.
What gives me hope about Uranus in Gemini is that Gemini is a trickster, and so is Uranus - and so I see this trickster 4 trickster combo promises to up-level our collective wit. Even more, Uranus in Gemini is making a harmonious aspect to humanity-seeking Pluto in Aquarius, a signature other historical Uranus in Gemini transits did not include. This clever-core configuration asks us to respond to every oligarchical limitation with agile bizarre-ness, weaving a riddle of collective genius impossible for dominator culture to catch up with.
The most interesting part about Uranus entering Gemini is that it starts to connect all the outer planets into some kind of golden ratio aspect with each other.
I like to think of Saturn/Neptune in Aries, the Fire part of the equation as representing the rise of authoritarianism and the Uranus/Pluto in Air Sign aspect as collective refusal. It’s Fire vs. Air, and you cannot put Fire out by aggressively blowing in its face, it will only make it bigger. With each pairing being in easy aspects to each other (trines and sextiles), it feels like revolution is more of a cunning breeze that wafts the enemies flames into its own trap, ie: systemic collapse is already built into the system itself, as Terry Pratchett says "magic is easy, find the fulcrum and push." I see us using Uranus in Gemini to craft collective quagmires and surprises or better yet, become our own Saturn/Neptune authority and pull back oxygen supply all together.
In Jenny Odell’s book How To Do Nothing, she inadvertently describes what I feel is the Saturn/Neptune Aries combo with Uranus/Pluto. She talks about how successful collective refusals "emerge as a product of intense individual self-discipline...like a crowd of [Henry David] Thoreaus refusing in tandem. In so doing, the “third space” - not of retreat, but of refusal, boycott, and sabotage - can become a spectacle of noncompliance that registers on the larger scale of the public."
I imagine this would take consistent efforts, over and over - finding new trickster methods every time. This is not to downplay the importance of direct in-your-face resistance and protest, my hope is that Uranus in Gemini will add extra ninja moves to it...and give us smarter, collective tactics for traversing this historical threshold together.
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and didn't just give it to Jeff Bezos, he gave it everyone. Uranus always holds a vision of interdependency. Gemini is about neighbors, siblings, commerce, exchange, nearby travel and keeping things local. With Jupiter in Cancer now, we've all got Babysitters Club credentials, a necessity for little community-units of care, expanding our inner circle to include more and more and more…ramping up new levels of relational rigor, an interdependent web of Thoreaus.
