Uranus in Gemini, an ingress reflection

A peal not appeal, a ringing of bells, a clamor

Skylight with light fixture reflection

How to question everything without breaking your mind? 

Since Uranus’ ingress to Gemini on July 7, there has been a clanging in the air, a cacophany of information that disrupts our worldview. For some, this means questioning a belief that you now understand is not just a conspiracy, but a knot of lies intended to manipulate. For others, the ringing of the death toll is so loud, you can no longer ignore it. Half of the population of Gaza is dead. Children are being starved on purpose. Evil abounds. 

While the chart for the Uranus ingress is seemingly benign by aspect: Venus in new phase conjunction; Moon in opposition trying to make sense of the chaos; South Node and Pluto in grand air trine; Saturn stationing and Neptune retrograde in sextile, the sheer force of planetary connection is overwhelming. Our values are coming into question. We are asked to not just evaluate what we stand for, but to overhaul the foundation. We are required to question everything we know. How do we do this without psychic splitting? How do we hold ourselves together? How do we face the real without shifting to denial? 

What’s new is coming through Neptune retrograde in a crescent sextile with Uranus. The crescent sextile is Taurean in nature. New information needs to take root, to consolidate. Neptune has traversed the early degrees of Aries and is now moving backward, preparing to dip into the final degree of Pisces one last time. What unifying piece is missing? It has something to do with collective grief, with loss so overwhelming we cannot process it. We short out. We split. We seek revenge. 

The early degrees of Aries are about the quest, the spark, the initiation. There is danger in igniting something new when the old is unresolved. There is danger in trying to fill the gaping hole of dread and despair with a plan to make it all better. 

Grieving is our only way through this quagmire. We need to make time and space to grieve. In whatever way that looks for you. We need to allow, to hold space for ourselves and each other. We need to feel rather than blame. We need to fall apart. We are not ready for repair. We are not ready to fix things. 

In the ingress chart, Ceres in Aries is in balsamic semi-square with Uranus. The balsamic semi-square is irritating in a familiar way; it’s that old injury that resurfaces periodically. In Aries, Ceres is asking us to look at lingering grief related to our identity, to our sense of self, to our ability to act, to our agency. 

There is a paradox here in that if we act without grieving, our actions will be reactive and potentially violent. On the other hand, inaction or freezing locks in the grief. What Uranus in Gemini offers is a new way to look at this dilemma. What if we considered grieving as an action? Grief alone, grief as a noun, is an object that can solidify and lodge in the throat or stomach. Grieving is active, grieving looks like pulling out drywall or crying in the shower. Grieving is releasing. 

So just be with and in it. For the next few months. As Neptune slips backwards. And now Saturn, too. And eventually, Uranus will fall back to Taurus. Let the grieving flow in and out. As this happens, we may sense a shift in what matters to us, what is significant. And without full awareness, our values change. Once Uranus returns to Gemini for good on April 25, 2026, we have the opportunity to move forward with a revelatory new value system and a mental framework that is truly liberatory.