Experientially, this transit (like the Cruelty card) betokens things like warring ideas, worry, and even sleeplessness caused by an overly restless mind. This card usually depicts a woman crying, unable to sleep, with 9 ominous swords in the background. In Tarot, Mars-in-Gemini is represented by one of the most difficult cards, the 9 of Swords, also known as Cruelty. In addition to brutal speech, anticipate frenetic mental activity (too many thoughts, the mind racing. While Gemini deals with conversation, typically of a more airy nature, the Warmonger Planet is going to make pleasant discourse far less breezy. Expect reactive and heated exchanges over the next few weeks–online, over dinner tables, on public transportation (basically wherever other people are). Indeed, the ancient’s called Mars the Knife because it can be so cutting. Let’s prepare for intense and confrontational modes of communication, where words will be especially weaponized. This year it will march through Gemini for a whopping 7 months and 5 days due in part to a hellacious two month retrograde, beginning Halloween, October 31st (more about that transit closer to the time).Īside from the Halloween retro, the other intense moment of this transit will last from August 20th until September 4th, when Mars’ ingress into Gemini will be most potent.

Usually Planet War spends roughly six weeks in each sign. Whenever a planet overstays a welcome, as Mars will be doing soon, we should be on high alert. Three major transits in particular are vexing us this month: the aggressive triple conjunction of war-like Mars/North Node/Uranus on August 1st, which has coincided with China’s geopolitically destabilising military drills near Taiwan after US politician Nancy Pelosi’s rash, pro-Taiwan trip to the Pacific Rim wildcard Uranus going retrograde in Taurus on August 25th, which will double unpredictability around Taurean themes of food, money, and security and now, on the 20th, Mars entering talkative Gemini for an abnormally long jaunt until March 25th, 2023.

Despite the good placements this year (dreamy Jupiter-in-Pisces, say), we’ve also known that the dreaded late night flight of August was coming.

Shards of war gemini