AI Rendition
You may have recently read, perhaps even on this blog, that every time Uranus has transited the sign of Gemini since the country's founding in the 1770s, the United States has been involved in a major war. Uranus's orbital period lasts about 84 years, so if you start with Uranus's ingress into Gemini in 1774, and add 84 years incrementally, you get the years 1858, 1942, and 2026[1]Footnote 1: Ingress Precession. Given Uranus's seven year transit through each sign, that means that Uranus was in Gemini during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II, and is now moving into Gemini again as we see a frightening rise in authoritarianism throughout the world, and in the U.S. in particular.
Uranus actually entered Gemini earlier this year, in June of 2025, ahead of the 84 year period. Similarly, it entered Gemini in August 1941, rather than 1942. The reason for these time variances has to do with a wobble in the Earth's orbital motion that causes the zodiac to shift slightly over long periods of time. After 84 years, Uranus reaches the same point in space, but by that time the zodiac has shifted backwards just over one degree, which causes a slightly earlier ingress.
Note that this does not mean we are definitely headed for armed conflict. There are encouraging astrological indications of a different kind of collective response this time around. But what does Uranus's reappearance in Gemini mean for us as a harbinger of war? To further explore the question, I want to take a deeper look at the Civil War, the conditions and major players that drove it, and the parallels and divergences between the planetary outlook of then versus now. It's a broad, deep, and rich topic, worthy of a two-part article.
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