#uranus trine pluto

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uranus in gemini makes a trine to pluto in aquarius. uranus and pluto in trine is positive energy that allows for transformation (pluto) to come, through the form of unexpected (uranus) sources. uranus in gemini is revolution to the way you think, act, or communicate, and pluto in aquarius is transformation in community, connection, and humanity. use this energy to find connection with others in new and better ways. open up to community, others, and humanity in ways that allow for ideas to flow with ease.

AKA my notes on The Astrology Podcast’s July forecast, hosted by Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock. Graphics are from Honeycomb, except the Planetary Alignments Calendar which is made by Paula Belluomini for the podcast. It's a little late, but I finally made it...!

Major themes this month:

Saturn conjunct Neptune 

Uranus’s first foray into Gemini

Uranus trine Pluto

Mercury Retrograde in Leo

June Recap

There was a Mars-Uranus square on June 15th,and during the buildup to this aspect we saw a number of militant and disruptive events occu.r.. In the US there was the flop military parade for Trump’s birthday and accompanying No Kings protests around the country, and a Minnesota politician was assasinated. In world news, this aspect came with the ramping up of military tensions beween Iran and Israel, as our hosts predicted in their forecast for the month. With Mars in Leo, conjunct the royal star Regulus, we’ve seen some eerie parallels with lion imagery in the above events.

July Forecast

July 4th - Venus enters Gemini, Neptune stations retrograde This marks the first retrograde in Aries for both Neptune and Saturn this month. A planet’s first retrograde in a new sign loudly emphasizes what the rest of the transit will be about. For example, the first Pisces Saturn retrograde heralded the lost millionaire submarine disaster. More about the conjunction with Saturn below.

Venus conjoined Uranus at the end of Taurus, and Mercury reached his longest evening star elongation (at his brightest and most visible) before disappearing during retrograde later this month. What Mercury significations were particularly loud at this time?

July 7th -  Uranus enters Gemini

Pay attention to which house this enters in your chart: new chapters and disruptions will open up in your Gemini house. Similarly, events from your Taurus house will come to a close. What was happening in 2011-2018, Uranus in Aries? In retrospect these 7-year periods seem very different at the end than the beginning. Determine if Uranus is going from a more influential or less influential part of your chart and you can get a good idea of what to expect. (For example, angular houses, rising signs, and planetary rulers will feel this more intensely, while Uranus moving out of an influential place will close up a disruptive chapter for you.) Make note of any themes that start to arise around this time, as they may become more important later.

Uranus entering Gemini brings up more questions involving disrupted information and new technologies in communications. This ingress will also likely give us a preview of the upcoming Uranus-Pluto aspects:

We'll get five exact conjunctions from 2026 to 2028, with another close pass in 2029. Austin describes this alignment as the cyberpunk dystopia finally arriving for real. Uranus accelerates things it's involved with, supporting the massive social changes that Pluto in Aquarius is bringing us. Uranus in Gemini also often sees the widespread implementation of inventions made before the transit, like airplanes and tanks in World War 2. Drones don't seem to do a whole lot that previous technologies didn't at the moment, but check back in 2033...

Here's the chart of Uranus's ingress into Gemini:

Pluto is already at two degrees of Aquarius, and Saturn at one degree Aries, so Uranus's trine to the former and sextile to the latter are immediately starting to take effect upon ingress. This is also a great time to bring up historical Uranus in Gemini periods:

Uranus was in Gemini during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the United States's entry into World War II, a striking and foreboding correlation for what's ahead. While Uranus in Taurus did see some disruptions in farming and banks, in the tech sphere initial "disruptors" that arose during Uranus in Taurus like Apple, Facebook, and Google ended up simply becoming new static monopolies themselves.

There is also a communications & messenger archetype associated with Uranus. For example, previous Uranus in Gemini periods gave us advances in the telegraph (1860s) and two-way radios (1940s).

July 10th - Full Moon in Capricorn

This Full Moon is at 18 degrees of Capricorn, making it ruled by Saturn, who in turn is slowing down in Aries and about to make a loud statement about what his trip through the sign is going to entail. Generally, Capricorn Full Moons highlight an area that could use some more structure and reordering, but with Saturn in fall, slowing down, and conjunct confusing Neptune, we'll get equal parts of clarity and illusions. Order is needed, but exactly what we need isn't available to us, so what's the best we can do under the circumstances? Pay attention to which house this occurs in for you to see, as this lunation's proximity to Saturn's and Neptune's first stations in Aries means a preview of what the planetary transits have in store for you.

July 13th -  Saturn stations retrograde 

July 14th -  Retrograde Saturn conjunct retrograde Neptune

We’ll feel the peak of Saturn-Neptune tensions this month, raising questions about what’s real or not real, boundaries and traditions. The rise of AI image & video generators is one such theme that may reach a new climax around this time. Saturn also has a tendency to solidify things, so rules and habits may be set in stone soon. This near-conjunction will be followed up exactly next February, so this is the next chapter in a building series of events.

A Saturn-Neptune conjunction went exact in 1953 when the US & UK overthrew Mossadegh in Iran, utilizing CIA disinformation techniques and false flag operations. They used illusions to change the structure and leadership of a country. The son of the Shah installed in that event & ousted by the current government has now started making more press appearances, so our hosts speculate he may be a player in events to come...

July 14th - Electional Chart (not pictured)

This month's election has the Ascendant at 24 degrees of cancer, which occurs at about 6:00AM local time (A/N: eek!). Exalted Jupiter is making his heliacal rising (discussed below) at this time, in the first (whole sign) house, which is mainly what this election takes advantage of. The Moon in Pisces trines Jupiter with mutual reception (each planet is in the other's sign, making a strong point of communication and cooperation in favor of the native, or in this case, the event being initiated). The Moon is also square Venus, bringing in some of her help. Mercury is about to station retrograde, unfortunately something we can't avoid this month, so Chris doesn't recommend starting anything huge and life-changing this election, but it can be a good time to do something that involves fond reflections of the past (see Mercury rx below). Be prepared to run into some delays or miscommunications and launch something that can stand a couple bumps in the road. With Mars in the 3rd house of neighbors, short-distance travel, siblings, and communications, it's not great for any of those topics, but for other areas of life this Jupiter in his exaltation illuminating the Earth can be helpful. Saturn is a little close to the Midheaven, so make sure it's a day chart to have Saturn and Jupiter both cooperating best for you.

July 15th - Jupiter's Heliacal Rising (not pictured) Jupiter will be very brightly visible as a morning star just before sunrise, having been under the beams (invisible because he's too close to the Sun) for most of his Cancer transit up to this point. Jupiter is stepping back into view astronomically, telling us more loudly what he's going to do in our charts. A morning star this close to the Sun illuminates the Earth brightly with its own light, and we interpret this as a planet being stronger to bring forth its significations. If you haven't been feeling this Jupiter in Cancer transit much lately (this is his exaltation, isn't it?!), no fear--he'll start helping you out more once he's visible (and no longer squaring Saturn so closely).

More generally, exaltation indicates where you can stand out from your peers or rise to the occasion. Jupiter in Cancer can help us take the high road.

But Jupiter won't necessarily heal all evils. For example, this is a Jupiter return for the U.S., and the last one coincided with 9/11 and subsequent launch of the Iraq War. However, the United States did get a lot of international sympathy and (my opinion ahead) indeed the ruling class of the US was able to secure a lot of geopolitical power, natural resources, and alliances using 9/11 as a pretext. Thus, Jupiter's help does not eliminate everything bad, nor does the "good" occur equally for everyone...

July 18th -  Mercury stations retrograde 

This Mercury retrograde actually starts better and ends in a rougher position this time around, with Mercury opposite Pluto and Mars entering Libra (opposing Saturn in Aries) soon after. Things will actually get crazier once Mercury's confusion clears up. But for now the retrograde begins with a nice sextile to Venus, making it a good time to look back fondly on the past.

July 20th - Mars conjunct South Node (not pictured) Last year when Mars conjoined the North Node & the Moon the South, the president of Iran mysteriously died in a helicopter crash, and considering world events at the moment this other nodal contact will likely involve a new phase of war. The South node (AKA Ketu or the Tail of the Dragon), there's a strong association with sweeping things away. Mars-Ketu often involves going to far when trying to purify things and ending up purging it completely. Mars is also approaching the eclipse points from this Spring, though that reaches a head later this year.

July 22nd -  Sun enters Leo

July 23rd - Venus (♊) squares Mars (♍)

Venus-Mars contacts often bring up gender politics and topics of sex & sexuality. Squares put planets at cross-purposes with each other, making it difficult to reconcile our Venusian and Martial pursuits. Plus, both planets are ruled by Mercury, who's about to station retrograde! This transit is rough on mutable signs.  

July 24th - New Moon in Leo 

This lunation opposes Pluto exactly, making it much rougher than the Full Moon. Pluto topics like power struggles, covert control, and hidden forces and paranoia are all at work here. This lunation does make a harmonious trine to the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries and a helpful sextile to Uranus in Gemini, providing us some possible creative outlets for this tension.

July 30th -  Venus enters Cancer She's heading towards an auspicious conjunction with Jupiter next month, but first she has to get through this square to Neptune and Pluto. She's having a bit of cold water dumped on her before she becomes one of the very good influences next month (where we'll have double benefics and double malefics simultaneously!).

29/1~ Transiting Moon conjunct Uranus in Taurus trine Pluto in Capricorn

~As if you’ve been living a double life, one by one you’ve been slaying the Heads of the Hydra while building a way to your prosperity, I want you to remember time only exists on this dimension, and You are all the time in the Universe

Hey hey, sorry I took a while to answer this, but I have the energy now so let's get into it 😊

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Neptune Conjunct Uranus

In my own opinion this is such a fun placement to have, although I can't actually speak for it, cuz I don't have this placement.

Basically you are not shy when it comes to expressing your true and natural self to the world, bold and unapologetic of who you are. You don't prescribe yourself to the restrictions of tradition, religion or any other societal standard. You are quite the rebel in this regard and can often be seen as someone living life eccentrically and unconventionally. Often times this is met with strong reactions from society who find you provocative, scandalous and morally ambiguous. Yes, you are quite unorthodox in your morals and even spirituality, taking the bits and pieces that suit you and discarding that which does not live up to your ideals. This also makes you a uniquely creative individual, breathing life into places others would refrain from associating with. You are a trendsetter by nature and can easily understand the shared beliefs, ideas and morals of the people in your surroundings; giving you an advantage when it comes to dealing with people from different backgrounds.

Uranus Trine Pluto

Ok, so this placement through me for a loop, because based on my research the last time these 2 planets trined was in the 1920's and we are also apparently gearing up for next trine somewhere in the mid 2020's. Either way, people with this placement are either really young (or not even born yet) or super old. Understandably, this is not a common aspect and thus I don't have too much info on it for ya, but I'll try.

So based on my research, this person was born at a time marked with technological innovation and scientific progress. This results in an individual being optimistic about furthering human progress and will rebel against establishments that do not want to encourage this change...aka political powers that have fallen into the hands of tyrants & dictators who do not want to lose their powerful position to the changing environment or their control over the people. (Which we can see irl with the decline of democracy and countries having an individual person rise to power) Often times it'll feel like their constantly bumping heads with higher authorities in life. These individuals will also go thru great and significant amounts of personal transformation to fit their changing environment and will feel a duty to change or aid the the change in their surroundings. These natives will often wonder if they can be doing more or should be doing more with their potential in life.

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this is a slightly big trine because these outer planets move so slow but a trine like this imo is not as big as a conjunction of these types of planets and requires substantially less preparation than a hard aspect. anyway, both are destructive energies (uranus is the shock, pluto the demolition. both are like the lightning struck tower.)

the trine makes this significantly less scary. rest assured destruction that occurs right now (at least the kind reflected by this; there are other kinds of destruction too) results in something good, and not just good for one or a few folks but for the world. this is ongoing for some time and you may have seen glimpses of it already for sure.

as individuals there's very little we need to do although we may be trickle-down affected.

My Generation--April 1-4

A few things will be happening this week after the Aries full moon--some that affect most people, but some that specifically affect those of us born in the latter part of the 1950s, who are around the age of 60.  Outer planets, like Pluto, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn, move more slowly than other planets around our birthcharts, so they are at the same degree point for everyone born in a specific few years.  

On Easter Sunday, for example, Venus will be exactly opposite the spot where Neptune was in the sky when we were born.  Venus will be at about 2 degrees of Taurus and Neptune was directly opposite that point at 2 degrees of Scorpio.  Venus is creativity, beauty, love and prosperity as well as happiness and harmony.  Neptune is the higher octave of Venus, and it is a spiritual level of creativity, of fantasy and imagination, of compassion, peace, and caring.  So the connection of Venus to our generational Neptune on Easter Sunday can bring us into a spiritual state of love and compassion, a creative vortex, and a connection between the heavens and the earth.  Pray, meditate, connect with beauty, water, earth, plants, food, and creative expression -- through music,dance, video, art, and photography.  Venus in Taurus reflects gardens and a bountiful table.  Fill your table with food, plants, flowers in creative displays.

The moon will be opposite Venus on April 1, too, which means it will meet up with our Neptune.  The moon represents mothers, parents, women, family members, our home or the people and places that feel like home and family.  The moon represents what makes us feel comfortable and secure, or it can be emotions and feelings that touch our hearts most. With the moon meeting our Neptune, there is a chance for some very emotional or spiritual experiences.  Being with family at the holidays--or conversely, NOT being with family, can affect our emotions in a more intense way.  Feeling a spiritual connection to family members who have passed,since Neptune is higher spirituality and the moon is our family and home, home town, home country.  And Venus, across from the moon and our generational Neptune brings in our love and what we value most, the comfort we seek (in Taurus), and the happiness and harmony of the connection.  There is also the sense that these are in opposition,which can mean either/or. Either the love and comfort of feeling secure and stable, or the emotional connection to family that could possibly (with the dark side of Neptune) lead to depression and addiction.  Choose to play Neptune the way you can choose to play an Ace in a poker game -- high vs. low.  If you choose the higher aspects of Neptune--creativity, meditation or prayer, music or art, performance--you are saying to the Divine, “I got this one. I’ll take the higher level of Neptune, thank you,” thereby taking a detour around the lower levels of the aspect. 

On the 2nd, everyone will feel Mars and Saturn connecting in Capricorn. It is the aspect of getting busy in a smart, thoughtful way, and doing so responsibly and efficiently.  Getting the biggest bang for your buck, putting your energy and focus into a worthwhile cause.  Do something worth doing, that is both responsible and practical that energizes you and fuels your passions.  As Janis Joplin once sang, “You know you’ve got it if it makes you feel good.”  

The chart above is the April 4th chart, wherein Mercury in Aries is squaring (90 degrees from) Mars--kaboom!  Aries is ruled by feisty, energetic and sometimes angry and combative Mars. Mercury in Aries has already got us thinking inside a tinderbox, and I don’t mean the Tinder where you swipe right.  I mean the tinder that is on edge for blowing up.  Mercury will be connecting with Mars on the 4th in a way that is even more challenging.  Mercury is also square to Saturn, as well.  In the sense that Mercury in this set-up could cause our tempers to FLARE UP, Saturn, the down-to-earth, taskmaster, could keep things responsible and step in before things get too hot to handle. After all, when you have a campfire you are trying to put out, some good old earth is the best way to smother the flames as well as the sparks.  The way that Saturn could ADD to a Mercury, Aries, Mars problem, is that another possibility with this aspect is vehicle accidents or even road rage.  Mercury is transportation, Mars and Aries can be explosive or aggressive, they can suggest a crash or an attack, and Saturn also represents barriers or limitations, restrictions.  So be careful when driving on Wednesday to avoid crashes or angry drivers. If someone seems to be looking for an argument or is getting aggressive on the road, remember, it is a bad alignment of Mercury and Mars, and let it go, since Mercury moves along within a day. 

But that day, for us ‘50s babies, Uranus in Aries is at a highly positive angle to Pluto in our charts.  We were born with Pluto at the very end of Leo--a very formidable placement for us, since it was conjunct the royal star Regulus when we were born (We could be Royals). Well this highly positive connection can mean a drastic, unexpected change.  It is rare, and this positive connection between Pluto in our birthchart and Uranus in the sky has not happened since late 1987 or early 1988, except that it was in Sagittarius, the other fire sign.  It was still at the same positive angle, though.  Sagittarius is a much more humanitarian sign, but adventurous and ready to do new, exciting things.  That was us half a lifetime ago. Now, Uranus is at the end of Aries--the end of our passions and energy, going into the land of comfort and security and being settled (in Taurus). But this may be our last great hurrah, where we have the energy, drive and passion to take charge, to be powerful, to feel reborn, transformed, and to do the unexpected, the unusual, and to take control of our vision for who we want to be regarded as.  And we may not just surprise those around us, but surprise ourselves, as well.  Venus has been there, too, last week and this week, bringing in love, happiness and maybe a little money.