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13/08/2025

I went to a production of 'Twelfth Night or What you Will' at the Globe last night and the world is indeed a vampire as the man in the t-shirt told us.

It is very Gemini sort of play about lost twins who eventually reunite with a bit of gender- bending thrown in - Viola poses as a boy- but veering towards the side of woke ideology which can detract from the universal message of Shakespeare as Andrew Doyle so aptly points out.

The Globe is an exciting place if you are in the stalls among the hoi polloi and there was a Venus-Jupiter conjunction too- wonderful for a theatre outing. Priscilla Costello did an in depth analysis of astrology in Shakespeare’s plays so the dominant planet for 'Romeo and Juliet' is Mercury; for ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ it is the Moon; for 'Macbeth' it is Mars; for 'the Merchant of Venice' it is Venus; for ‘The Tempest’, Jupiter; and for 'King Lear' it is Saturn. She has no chapter on ‘Twelfth Night’ but am pretty sure it is Mercury ruling the sign of the twins. And it is a witty play with lots of fun and frolics as the twelfth night traditionally was a time of role reversal permitted. For me the crazy costumes were off-putting and the reference to the Wicker Man off the rails - do they not realise we have seen that film and survived the trauma? And diction very poor, sometimes even garbled. This was by no means equal to the outstanding all-male version in 2012 with Mark Rylance as Olivia, and all the subtleties he brought to that role, but the actor playing Malvolio was Pearce Quigley who managed to connect to the audience well- he really stole the show. But also Jos Vantyler was good as Feste the fool. It was all done as a kind of ramshackle circus romp designed for kids and there was a unexplained delay before the second half began which is not normal or professional but the audience was very forgiving and they loved it anyway as it is such a mad plot with greatness thrust upon it. Overall though, it was enjoyable. It is hard to go too far wrong when Shakespeare is your script.

29/06/2025

5: Uranus in Gemini for all Signs

When reading these general forecast please bear in mind they are very broad scope and based on the Uranus in Gemini Ingress chart and Uranus is there for seven years which is a cycle long enough for us to forget what it is doing. Many other planetary aspects happen during that time. Please read both for your Rising sign and for your Sun sign.

Uranus - or Prometheus- who brings the 'breath' of fire- could already be playing a significant role in the awakening process depending which sign it is in. It behooves readers to verify the actual position of Gemini in your chart and which house that falls in for a much more nuanced forecast. The statements here are based on the sun/rising sign on the first house and the angles and relationships that form because of that.

Uranus itself does not travel as fast as Mercury but it will aspect any planets you have in Gemini so watch for those events and make a note in your diary. Every year it will conjunct the Sun and Mercury in May/June. Uranus arrives at the midpoint of 15° of Gemini in June of 2029.

Uranus may have already formed an aspect to a planet in Gemini. In this case you'll be ready-made for this transit. For Sagittarius when Uranus arrives in Gemini, it will oppose the Sun and any other planets in Sagittarius as that is the sign opposite yours. For Virgo and Pisces Uranus in Gemini falls in a square relationship so may produce tensions over the next few years.

But everyone has Gemini and Uranus somewhere in their charts. Hopefully these brief forecasts add another layer of understanding to the picture.

Part 2: Libra-Pisces

29/06/2025

5: Uranus in Gemini for all Signs

When reading these general forecast please bear in mind they are very broad scope and based on the Uranus in Gemini Ingress chart and Uranus is there for seven years which is a cycle long enough for us to forget what it is doing. Many other planetary aspects happen during that time. Please read both for your Rising sign and for your Sun sign.

Uranus - or Prometheus- who brings the 'breath' of fire- could already be playing a significant role in the awakening process depending which sign it is in. It behooves readers to verify the actual position of Gemini in your chart and which house that falls in for a much more nuanced forecast. The statements here are based on the sun/rising sign on the first house and the angles and relationships that form because of that.

Uranus itself does not travel as fast as Mercury but it will aspect any planets you have in Gemini so watch for those events and make a note in your diary. Every year it will conjunct the Sun and Mercury in May/June. Uranus arrives at the midpoint of 15° of Gemini in June of 2029.

Uranus may have already formed an aspect to a planet in Gemini. In this case you'll be ready-made for this transit. For Sagittarius when Uranus arrives in Gemini, it will oppose the Sun and any other planets in Sagittarius as that is the sign opposite yours. For Virgo and Pisces Uranus in Gemini falls in a square relationship so may produce tensions over the next few years.

But everyone has Gemini and Uranus somewhere in their charts. Hopefully these brief forecasts add another layer of understanding to the picture.

Part 1: Aries to Virgo

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28/06/2025

(extract from Uranus enters Gemini for 7 seven years)

4: Beau Brummel: Dedicated ‘Leader’ of Fashion

Digging in to history for exemplars of those born with Uranus in Gemini is too broad to be of much use. There are way too many. It is also retrospective since Uranus is a recent addition to the zodiac pantheon- discovered in 1781 by William Herschel. Pluto was only discovered in 1930. However, natives who were born with both Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius at the same time are rare and helps to narrow it down. This gives a preview of the current era in 2025 and babies born after July 7th and for the next few years would also have both these placements.

This double placement occurred during the late 1770s. One such native was Beau Brummel (7/6/1778) who cannot be said to have followed anyone. His family had no particular social standing and despite the fact that he was born to a courtesan in Downing Street, he rose from nowhere, he had his own ideas and leveraged his own agency. He was a sovereign being and set the tone for a new kind of cult personality in the Romantic era. But it lead him into some toxic grandiosity and overspending. The bailiffs were often at the door. He was also in that perilous situation where his fate hung in the balance by being both the personal friend the Prince Regent of the time-and then his enemy.

He was described often as a ‘dandy’ but it is more accurate to say he was an ‘anti-dandy’ as his style was minimal. He was anti anything flamboyant. Style and fashion are not the same. His dress code was closely linked to his character yet it began to be followed like a fashion. He was always his own man even to the point of getting on everyone else’s nerves. He was a handsome man about town, fastidious, disciplined, dressed in a very understated manner and all this became influential. He redefined what it was to be a ‘gentleman’ through a kind of studied minimalism. He proposed a neat and sober pattern-cut of tailored suits for men and full length trousers and that gradually became the preference for the next 200 years.

The stellium of the Sun, Mars, Uranus and Mercury all in Gemini would have given him that automatic spark of brilliance and intensity. He probably could have turned his hand to music, performance, science, teaching, writing or anything else he wanted. Neptune in Virgo shows the attention to fashion detail, the obsession with hygiene and how he became famous and the key figure of the Dandy club. Neptune squares the nodes in Cancer/Capricorn and the sad reality for his was that in later life when exiled in Caen, France, he eventually suffered from mental derangement said to be brought on by syphilis.

His self-discipline comes from that Saturn/Moon in Scorpio and also the reserve-which became the style for men. The moon is in a difficult position here. But he spent hours on his own grooming, openly performing his ablutions, combing and shaving, keeping his whites white which was difficult a grimy London of that era which had an exploding population. All this to prepare for his public appearances and that Jupiter in Leo would guarantee that he was widely seen and talked about. Even Coco Chanel took inspiration for her smart suit from Brummel’s ideas on tailoring. He managed to erase his humble beginnings to rise the top echelons of society, yet fell from grace ending up first in Calais then Caen to escape his debts in England. This fate as an exile had a strange echo a hundred years later with Oscar Wilde who ended up in Dieppe.

It is also remarkable that at this Uranus ingress, July 7th, the position of Chiron has come around to the exact same point-26° of Aries- to a few minutes- that it was in Brummel’s natal chart. His Chiron is opposite asteroid Psyche in Libra so showing an immense sensitivity and it is square to Pluto in Aquarius so he was ruined by his own greatness, the punishment for a self-made man.

There’s nothing obviously scientific progressive or ‘digital’ about Brummel- except for the fact that he pre-dates all the modern psychological types. His distinctly progressive attitude could be said to be ‘metrosexual’ but that is just a journalist’s label. But he was way ahead of his time and it is significant that he maintained a very ‘self contained’ attitude – in his own bubble yes, but that attitude is what may save us today from all the gaslighting, and from the covert and overt influence of bio-metric surveillance.

It is also a fact that AI has already created a massive booster to the fashion industry involved at every level of the process from supply chains to design production. AI influencers are exactly that- sophisticated robots who know us better than we know ourselves as well as advise us what to wear. They may very well replace the old roles of fashion stylist and forecaster. Brummel’s assistant was human, but if AI had existed then he probably would have used it.

28/06/2025

(extract from Uranus Enters Gemini for 7 Years)

3: Digital Twins and AI Influencers

The fact that Uranus, which is all about scientific progress and innovations is in Gemini which is all about communications, information, learning and commercial interactions at the same time suggests we on the brink of being enveloped by a web of technological communications. This has already triggered massive job losses by Microsoft and Amazon. All this challenges us to reassert what it means to be human and remain in suitable employment. AI which can sometimes be over-hyped as having ‘god-like’ properties still manages to push at the boundaries of how we define ‘intelligence’ – does it include the emotional and human qualities, or even consciousness, or is it all just non-sentient reductive machine repetition? It would not surprise me to find that during this phase of Uranus in Gemini AI is pushed by bureaucrats who love governance over genuine education in schools and anything involving data analytics will be promoted as it becomes the job of the future. Also, people might want to experiment more with AI alter egos, avatars, VIs (Virtual Influencers) and Digital Twins as that would be a very Gemini thing to do. However it manifests, it will zip-load into to our wish baskets faster than ever.

The age of AI is here to stay heralded by this transit along with Pluto in Aquarius. However, overuse of AI can certainly atrophy not only critical thinking but the range of vocabulary. Millennials and Gen Z Students rely more heavily on technology to do their writing and hence to do their ‘thinking’ for them. There is the rising prevalence of what is called ‘Tik-Tok’ brain and ever shorter attention spans among Gen Z. Sometimes language students using Google Translate do not even know the English word for the translated word in the other language. One thing I lament is that AI cannot handle the nuances of language, those of wit, humour or any of the devices of poetry, metaphor, allusion, metonymy, innuendo and satire. So these skills could atrophy too. But we should add- ‘not yet.’

AI is a wraparound phenomenon- it is encroaching upon us from every angle and no longer by stealth. Already it is humans who are obliged online to prove to the robots that they are ‘human’-not the other way around. HAL the computer in 2001 a Space Odyssey (1968) was claimed to be ‘the most reliable computer ever made’ yet it turned on its human astronaut users and said “This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it”. This film was released 2nd April 1968 when Pluto was conjunct Uranus in Virgo (ruled by Mercury) opposite Mercury conjunct Venus in Pisces emphasising all the Uranus in Gemini themes.

This could be a warning to at least slow down the rapid proliferation of AI algorithms which monopolise the human functions of the brain. This could also constrain genuine creativity while loudly claiming to enhance it. When technology interacts with human physiology it is hard to say where the dividing line is. According to Yuval Harari in the coming reality humans are redundant and just ‘hackable animals’ without soul or spirit for the technocrats to manipulate as they wish. Does Uranus in Gemini mean this trend has been given the green light?

Gemini thankfully is about choices- it is after all the spirit of the crossroads and of cemeteries- so we still have those decisions to make in this great dilemma to go for our own agency and not follow the herd. We are only ‘hackable’ if we allow that to happen. Fortunately, Uranus is sextile to Saturn and Neptune in Aries in this wonderful grand mini-trine, so it is bolstering our sense of sovereignty and even achieving that tricky balancing act among all the opposing forces.

Uranus is wholly impersonal however and cares little for your feelings, so it will do its lightning flash to illuminate truths even if that is harsh or abrupt. Mercury on the other hand improves expression, loves to chit-chat and share information, to mediate, yet words are notoriously as slippery as soap. So, the war is on for ownership of the human mind here via perception management which rests on the concepts embodied in words spawned by the media.

Gemini is associated with the media which is double-edged. On the one hand it disseminates vital information quickly, but on the other hand, spreads lies and propaganda just as fast. That undermines our sense of true meaning. Ideas are often corralled towards a consensus type of groupthink. The challenge therefore is ever harder to be an authentic thinker. This holds the tension between Uranus, who thinks outside the box, and Mercury, who works at the more materialistic level. Topics are never permitted outside the Overton window yet people rarely realise how narrow is the frame provided by the chatterboxes and chatter bots.

But along comes Uranus to shatter the edges of that frame. Even AI can be tricked through clever prompting and dialoguing into giving away how humans can gain an upper hand. Be aware, but not hyperaware as that too can trigger a hypervigilant mindset.

We have got seven years of this bolstered by the influence of Pluto in Aquarius. Uranus and Pluto are in a fluid trine relationship. This means they are working in mutual support each other with transformations and innovations – and probably a few revolutions too-which may improve and speed up all types of communication.

Neptune goes retrograde on the 4th July just before the Uranus ingress. This happens on the same day as a Venus-Uranus conjunction at 29° of Ta**us could bring in money or some business transactions from online sources, e-commerce sites, but it being Uranus could equally take them away in a flash. This is also the aspect of the hit-and-run lover.

Then Uranus goes into Gemini. That is followed by Saturn which goes retrograde on the 14th July. The Saturn/Neptune conjunction is still close and they will back track together. They return to the the early degrees of Aries and even the last degree of Pisces reactivating all the old issues, all the stuff that needs resolving. We are not done yet but will eventually have closure.

Mercury which is in Leo goes retrograde on the 19th July. It moves from 15° of Leo back to 4° of Leo on the 28th July eventually stationing direct again from August 10th-12th .This could bring back an old friend into your life, or you may decide to visit a country you’ve already been to but it’s always time to take things at an easier pace during the summer holidays as long as plans are flexible.

27/06/2025

As usual a tumult of thoughts on this next ingress Uranus into Gemini. Are you ready for your digital twin to do better than you?
Things are moving fast. Interestingly Beau Brummel is the man about town who had both Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius.. What can we learn from his example? Also find all the forecasts for each sign.

https://proteusastrology.co.uk/2025/06/27/uranus-in-gemini-for-seven-years/

-twins Brummel

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