Uranus in Gemini is deadly for big empires

In July 2025, Uranus enters Gemini. If you’ve been following any astrologer for the last couple months, then you’ve probably been seeing a lot of talk about the Uranus in Gemini transit. The last time Uranus went through Gemini was actually from 1941 to 1949. That transit started during WWII and ended during the Cold War. Before that, Uranus transited Gemini between 1859 to 1871. That was around the time of the American Civil War.

I have another perspective to offer. The Uranus in Gemini transit of the 1800s actually coincided with multiple civil wars including the Taiping Rebellion, the Dungan Rebellion, the Panthay Rebellion, the Mexican Civil War, Deccan resistance, Ashanti resistance, Dahomean resistance, and Comanche resistance. The Taiping Rebellion alone, one of the world’s deadliest wars, cost between 20-70 million lives.

And guess what? All of these resistance movements were interconnected. Uranus in Gemini put a lot of pressure on the British empire.

For instance, did you know that the reason why the British did not interfere militarily in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy was because it was too busy repressing peasants in China?

Historian Stephan R Platt writes in Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom that, “Americans should know about the Taiping Rebellion not just for the sake of understanding China’s history, or because their own countrymen were involved in it, but also because it helps to illuminate the wider effects of the U.S. Civil War far beyond America’s borders. The simultaneity of the Chinese and American civil wars was no trivial matter…The United States and China were Britain’s two largest economic markets, and to understand Britain’s role in either war we need to remember that it was faced with the prospect of losing both of them at the same time. Order had to be restored on one side or the other, and while Britain could have intervened in the United States to reopen the cotton trade…it chose to launch itself into the civil war in China instead…Britain’s neutrality in the U.S. Civil War came at the expense of abandoning it in China.”

Americans remember the last and freshest Uranus in Gemini transit, the one between 1941 to 1949, as being the end of WWII. That is true but, around the world, the period between 1945 and 1949 was not about exiting war but about fighting for independence. From Vietnam to Palestine to Indonesia to Korea, decolonial independence movements sparked off. Borders shifted. The British declared Partition between India and Pakistan in 1947, right in the middle of the last Uranus in Gemini transit.

Uranus in Gemini is deadly for big empires because Gemini is about splitting and fracturing. Empire imagines itself to be big. Gemini likes to break big things down into small pieces and Uranus does that through rebellion.

Uranus in Gemini is a time marked by fragmentation and splitting. Gemini is Mercurial and likes to split things apart. Uranus is the planet of rebellion. Obviously, yes, Uranus in Gemini has historically been a time of civil strife. It’s a time of big unions breaking apart.

Now, Uranus in Gemini isn’t the only thing happening in July. But I want to focus on Uranus in Gemini. Uranus is about rebellion and is actually sometimes visible in the night sky. Why? Because Uranus is not like the other trans-Saturnians. It’s sometimes visible as in you can sometimes see it in the night sky. And Uranus, being visible, is fast moving enough for you to understand it in the context of your personal history. You’ll notice that the last Uranus transit is usually something that your grandparents would have remembered. The Uranus transit before that one would have been something their grandparents would have remembered.

Pluto needs around 250 years to make a full cycle, Neptune needs around 165 years, but Uranus only needs 84 years. That’s not that far away. That’s just three generations. Neptune and Pluto often feel too big and unwieldy to understand because they talk through big histories but Uranus? Uranus is much closer.

The nice thing about the modern planets in astrology is that they can help us scale history. Uranus, as the planet who holds the stories that your grandparents tell you, has a special role to play in this work of scaling history. Uranus isn’t that slow. The civil wars that Uranus in Gemini brought last time and the time before that, they’re not that far away. You might have even grown hearing first hand accounts of the rebellions that occurred under Uranus’s fractured beams.

The period of decolonial nationalism post WWII wasn’t that long ago. The civil war era of the 1800s wasn’t that long ago either.

What did your grandparents tell you about the last Uranus in Gemini transit? What stories did you hear when you were growing up?

Did they tell you anything about the things that their grandparents told them about the Uranus in Gemini transit in the 1800s? How does this intergenerational storytelling help you scale the multiple histories of multiple rebellions?

Anyway, you didn’t come to read horoscopes expecting to hear about history. Someone complained that I was talking about myself too much last time. Uranus is entering Gemini. This is a time of big unions dissolving. I’m supposed to say some inspiring words here about revolution and rebellion but you know what?

I have a feeling that nothing I can say will stand up to the valuable lessons that your older folks, with direct experience of the last fragmenting transit, might have taught you.

Some other transits that will be happening:
1. Leo season arrives and marks the middle of summer in the northern hemisphere. It’s fruit eating season.
2. Both Jupiter and Pluto come back within bounds by the end of July, making our beliefs and existentialism much more manageable.
3. Venus enters Gemini early in the month and squares Mars in Virgo. You will learn something about communication within intimacy and conflict this month.
4. Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune all join Pluto in retrograde in fire signs. Fire signs will confront fears of self, air signs fears of relationships, earth signs fears of rest, and water signs fears of ambition.
5. Full Moon in Capricorn on July 10th and New Moon in Leo on July 24th opposite Pluto. You will see anything that has become unnecessary to your life fall apart.

Cancer July 2025 Horoscope

July will be about rebelling against any mental habits that seek to bind you. For most of us, the most typical mental habits that trap us and make us get stuck tend to be the following: blaming and romanticizing.

Blaming happens when you point the finger at someone rather than honestly trying to describe your situation. Sometimes, we point the finger at other people and, sometimes, we point the finger at ourselves. Self blame is also a way of avoiding accountability because blaming yourself will prevent you from understanding your world with accuracy.

Romanticizing is the other side of blaming. When we blame, we try to find a villain to scapegoat. When we romanticize, we try to look for a messiah who will save us. We try to look for the ideal slogan or magic bullet. Romanticizing is just like blaming because it will prevent you from understanding the world with accuracy.

July will be about disenchanting yourself. Disenchant yourself from blame and idealism. Your goal is to build power, real power, with the tools that you have. You will need to describe your real world accurately and honestly. Honesty will set your mind free.

Questions for Cancer for July 2025:
What is an accurate description of your own responsibility?
What is an accurate description of your collective responsibilities?
What is an accurate description of what you need?

Leo July 2025 Horoscope

Did you know that freedom is more possible than you previously assumed? Your friends, your communities, and any big movements or big groups of people will teach you just how much more freedom is possible than you otherwise assumed. Now is the time to get excited about something.

For the last seven years, you’ve been put through the wringer in many ways. You’ve been challenged to be more resilient. Life has put you through big changes and you’ve had to grow more flexible, more inventive, and more honest. July 2025 marks the end of a seven year long period of dealing with chaos.

Now, you’ve become the one who builds change and rebellion. You’ve grown flexible over the past seven years and you now believe that no rigid structures can withstand participation without falling apart. You’ve become more inventive over the last seven years and you’ve shown yourself that you can figure shit out when you need to. You’ve become more honest. You’ve shown yourself that you will commit to what you can actually participate in.

The next seven years bring you a period of opportunity. Opportunity is nothing if you don’t use the inventiveness that you have wrung from yourself from the last seven years. This is about building your own future together with a community. You will have more opportunities. Use them to make more possible.

Questions for Leo for July 2025:
What do you know to be true about how relationships work?
What does that tell you about what truth means to you?
When are you most willing to participate?

Virgo July 2025 Horoscope

These days, you’re tormented by your work. You’re trying to define what your work is. You’re trying to empower yourself by defining your work, not by working more or less. You’re trying to break free from all versions of authority including your own and that means that you will become quite grumpy if you attempt to maintain responsibilities that you no longer need to hold.

Maybe you’re unemployed and trying to figure out what’s next. Maybe you’re in a job but trying to leave. Maybe you’re self employed but trying to leave what you built to someone else. Something in your work life has got to radically transform.

I’m not sure what you’re looking to change so I just have one word of advice for you. Your work comes from your body and is an extension of how you treat yourself. By looking at the mental, emotional, and ritual habits that you have developed at your workplace, you’re actually able to see into some of the deeper habits that you have around how you treat yourself.

How are you treating yourself? Are you allowing yourself space to think about whether you want to say no or do you immediately jump into “yes and how can I appease?” Are you allowing your experience and responsibility to bring you authority as you age or are you doubtful of your place in your community?

Questions for Virgo for July 2025:
What responsibilities are no longer yours and can be passed down?
What does your work life show you about how you treat yourself?
What are you no longer going to do?

Libra July 2025 Horoscope

People have all kinds of opinions over gossip. Some people think that gossip is a form of community care and other people think that it’s a form of social discipline. Gossip is a way to keep you in an existing neighborhood, town, or community. What people say when they gossip about you will show you what they think your place is within the context of that community. It’s a form of attachment. We sense it as attachment, which is why we care about it.

But guess what? You don’t have to accept other people’s opinions passively. Community needs your participation and you get to break the assumptions that other people make when they talk about you. Attachment requires consent.

July makes you quite powerful. You’re obsessed with power right now. You don’t want any superficiality at all because you want to understand your power and the leverage that you have in your life.

If you come from a community that is afraid and tries to keep you small because of fear, then you’re not going to worry about what people think of you right now. If you worry too much, then you’ll just get mad. You have the ability to consent to how you function within your neighborhood or community. You’re not just stuck with a role because that’s how people read you.

Questions for Libra for July 2025:
When do you usually experience social anxiety?
Who does your anxiety sound like?
Does that person listen to you about who you are?

Scorpio July 2025 Horoscope

July is about understanding the ways you share the joy of taking responsibility over the life that you share with your family, lovers, friends, and coworkers. Yes, taking responsibility over life is a joy! Making decisions about how you live, what you eat, when you rest, and where you live is a joy. This is joy that you don’t hold alone. You share this joy with everyone who you playfully build life with.

In your home life, you’re reflecting on the habits that have lingered in your body from your childhood. These are sentimental habits because you inherited them from your parents who inherited them from their parents. I’m talking about regular domestic habits that you have around how you eat and sleep and love.

If you share your home with people, then all of you are bringing your different habits and ancestors and culture together into the same life. All of the different ancestors who linger in your habits are now going to have to sit down and have conversations about security. You can imagine that these different personalities are going to define security in vastly different ways. But you know what? This cast of various ancestors probably have some agreements too.

Don’t let your ancestors dictate your responsibilities. They live in your habits but your habits don’t make decisions for you. You do and in collaboration with the people who you love. Life is for the living. Understand your habits but make your own choices.

Questions for Scorpio for July 2025:
Who did chores at home when you were growing up?
Who made decisions at home when you were growing up?
What gives you security in your home life?

Sagittarius July 2025 Horoscope

July initiates a very important seven year period where you will break free from patterns of control within relationships or groups. You might be very invested in a particular group or social setting right now. You’re looking to radically transform something about that group and, with it, your own attachment style.

I just have one word of advice for you for July: never neglect reality by trying to accommodate someone else’s fantasies about you.

If you neglect reality, if you avoid trying to describe reality as honestly and accurately as possible and with as much precision that you currently hold, then you will feel neglected on a mundane level. You will feel numb or sad because there’s these vital parts of you that you need and you can’t cut off because you want to fit some kind of mold.

Other people will have all kinds of fantasies about you but those fantasies can be adjusted. They aren’t rules because other people aren’t tyrants. Even people who jump to wild assumptions about you usually mean well. They just don’t know you yet. And if they refuse to listen to you about who you are? That’s a pattern of control.

You will stay in relationships that welcome your honesty. You will transform the relationships that haven’t learned how to be honest. You will leave the relationships that refuse or neglect reality. The next seven years will bring you love—real love.

Questions for Sagittarius for July 2025:
What are you trying to do with other people right now?
How might that social transformation be reflected in the group’s current needs?
How would you describe the reality of the group right now?

Capricorn July 2025 Horoscope

Your definition of rebellion has changed during the last two or three years. Your definition of rebellion has changed because the way that you sense and seek control has changed. July offers you a window into just how much your practice of rebellion has changed, a chance to realize and honor what has been happening.

Because your definition of rebellion has changed, so has your work. You no longer believe that your work looks a certain way. You’re more open to other forms of work. You can’t really stop this from happening. The things that you are willing to worry about have changed and that’s a physical change that you can’t really help. You can’t conjure up more energy for old worries. It’s just now emotionally possible.

Find your source of energy. A lot of the changes that are currently happening in your life feel just like that—they are happening to you instead of you being the initiator. But you are the initiator even when you don’t realize it. The more passive you feel, the less energy you will have. Right now, you must find your source of energy.

You might find energy by moving around. You can do jumping jacks in the morning, take a stroll after dinner, or drive around to get some physical momentum. Yes, you are currently releasing old ideas about what you need to survive and going through big changes in your work. You can handle all of those changes as long as you have enough energy. Move around. Find energy by moving around.

Questions for Capricorn for July 2025:
How do you move on a daily scale?
How do you move on a monthly scale?
How do you move on an annual scale?

Aquarius July 2025 Horoscope

In July, I want you to increase your tolerance for boredom. This is very important because boredom plays a crucial role in helping you add depth and dimension to your life.

Let’s call boredom by its real name: loneliness. Boredom’s real name is loneliness. We hate being lonely! Most of us do at the very least. We’ll do all kinds of things to avoid the feeling—neglect our own boundaries, fall into codependent habits, or get addicted to the internet where we feel a false sense of socializing. But guess what? You’ll never feel more boredom than the amount of loneliness that your life can currently hold. If you feel something, then you confront it. If you confront something, then you can change it. If you avoid something, then you’ll never make the changes that you need.

Your boredom or loneliness will never define you. You can tolerate loneliness because you can make choices informed by your understanding of your solitude without being controlled by patterns of neglect.

Right now, you might feel more bored than usual because you’re not sure about your long term goals. When you don’t have a strong sense of direction, it gets easy to fill in the gaps of life by distracting yourself. Break free from distractions. Instead, sit in your boredom. Stop pretending. You have more purpose than your boredom thinks that you do and you have more control over your habits than you think you do.

Questions for Aquarius for July 2025:
What are you sick of pretending to be?
What does distraction look like in your life right now and why are you distracted?
What is pretense or distraction helping you avoid?

Pisces July 2025 Horoscope

In some modalities of therapy, we have what is called “exiles.” Exiles are the parts of our personality that we were told to fear or get mad at. Exiles usually help us hold onto old stories about chronic neglect. In a personality, exiles aren’t truly alone because they function alongside other parts of the personality that are called protectors. Protectors suppress exiles and worry about what will happen if they come into your awareness.

Right now, you are getting to know your exiles. You’re getting to know the deeply neglected parts of your personality, the parts of your personality that you were told were “bad.”

How do you do that? Not just randomly, no. You have to look at your habits. You see, your emotional needs aren’t ideas. You can’t just think differently or learn different ways of approaching emotions and solve your problems. Your personality isn’t a problem in the first place so you don’t need to solve it with your mind. Your emotional needs are real. You will understand them when you look at your daily habits.

You will run into exiles and protectors in your mundane, everyday life. You will find your exile in the feelings of resentment that your body holds when you take on more housework than your partner. You will find your protector when you worry about your kid more than necessary. These are your habits. They don’t make you a bad person. They just show you who you are.

Questions for Pisces for July 2025:
What do your everyday habits tell you about your worries?
What do your everyday habits show you about what you were taught to neglect?
What do your everyday habits show you about what is important to you?

Aries July 2025 Horoscope

July is about making your politics less ruthless and more sincere. Most of us are attracted to ruthless people. They just look so cool and determined and disciplined, don’t they? They know what they’re talking about and their judgment is so decisive. Ruthless people are charismatic because they give you the impression that they can make decisions for you.

But ruthlessness is expensive. There’s a human cost.

You’re looking for movements that are sincere right now. You’re looking for scalable actions, adaptable strategies. You’re not looking to get siloed or to join into an opinion cult. You will refuse environments that rebuke fresh ideas.

A lot of people get more ruthless when they experience more insecurity. You—you’re not going to feed into all of that by taking people at their word. You’re going to look for connection because you know that every single movement from racial justice to climate justice to gender justice is interconnected. You will refuse to narrow your imagination because you have allowed your fear to talk you into studying what actually works.

You’re going to see what has been in front of your face all along. That’s called connection and it’s available if you look around.

Questions for Aries for July 2025:
Who wants to get to know you?
Who do you want to get to know?
What can you do together?

Taurus July 2025 Horoscope

Right now, your goals in life are drastically changing. You will not allow yourself to live a life that keeps you small anymore. You have ambition and you are no longer afraid of it.

The most important thing right now? Trust your own intelligence. Don’t take shortcuts. They won’t work because you’re actually looking to set up long term plans right now and shortcuts will only lead you astray. Shortcuts are going to distract you from your own potential and the possibility that you are creating with your potential.

In the past, you might have neglected your ambition for whatever reason. You will be doing work on that too. You just have more ambition and more energy right now and this is sacred because it’s temporary. That’s why you will do well to use that energy to think long term.

You are smart enough to make a plan that works. You’re a powerful thinker who thinks collaboratively and in connection to people who challenge and accept you. You have enough expertise to know what to do. Trust yourself and trust your boundaries. You got this!

Questions for Taurus for July 2025:
What is the biggest goal that you believe in?
What if that goal is realistic?
How long term can you plan?

Gemini July 2025 Horoscope

I want you to thrive and I know that you want to too. In July, you’re not going to accept your old limitations anymore. Here’s what accepting limitations usually sounds like: “Oh no, I’m not the kind of person who is capable of organizing my life/doing math/showing up/etc. I’m just too (fill in the blank).”

You are an extremely competent person. Your creativity is unmatched. You are competent in the things that you already know how to do and you are also curious enough to learn how to do things that you don’t know how to do yet.

You might want to teach something. A lot of people think that teaching is just about distributing some type of skill, like you’re going to be a really good music teacher if you’re good at playing the guitar. No. That’s not how it works. Teaching is its own skillset and you’re going to be good at teaching anything if you know how to teach. As a skill set, teaching is about seeing, believing, adn expanding someone’s potential. It’s unrelated to guitar playing or pottery or whatever you’re teaching. People take classes not just because they want to learn some specific skill but because they want to learn how to learn.

In July, teach yourself how to teach. You’re going to see, believe, and expand your own potential. You’re going to believe in your creativity and your competency. You will doubt your limitations.

Questions for Gemini for July 2025:
Who was your favorite teacher when you were growing up?
Why did you connect with that teacher?
How do you believe in yourself?