2025: Third Quarter

The most notable ‘event’ during this period is Uranus’s move from Taurus to Gemini in early July. This is accompanied by quite a change in tone, although Uranus is always the planet of the unexpected and unusual. The planet is less than comfortable in Taurus, where it has been indicative of all sorts of economic upsets – in order, you could say, to wake us all up to the need to be more sensible and realistic. In Gemini, Uranus operates more freely, mainly at the mental level and in matters of communication; this a ‘good’ position for new and unusual ideas, scientific breakthroughs and breaking down barriers between people – and peoples. Many of us will need to watch what we say on the spur of the moment; conversely, saying something inspired at the right moment could be just what is needed!

The four outermost planets are now all in their ‘new’ sign-positions, and although except for Pluto they retrograde back into their previous signs for a while in the coming winter, we are now getting a taste of what this ‘new’ dispensation is like. So much is changing, so much seems new and different, and there is a constant feeling of ‘whatever will happen next?’ It’s all part of the move from the old Piscean to the new Aquarian age; we shall all have to get used to change being a norm rather than an occasional matter.

If we doubt the importance of these current times, it’s worth mentioning that this collective movement of all four of the outermost planets within the space of a year or two into ‘new’ signs has not happened for at least 10,000 years, apparently, so to call this, and the unsettlement on Earth that it reflects, ‘unprecedented’ is not an overstatement. We have to adapt and move forward, whatever the future may bring!

Simon Bentley, Head of Astrology