Uranus in Gemini Through the 12 Houses

Here's my bullet points analysis of Uranus in Gemini through the houses. My focus here is on the dualistic nature of Gemini and the way this transit is about opening to a perspective and path forward beyond the linear frame we may have developed in our minds. In my recent video analysis of Uranus in Gemini through the houses I read this outline and expand upon these ideas.

1st house
–          Freedom of the mind. A new path to walk to the beat of your own free thinking. Liberation from mental reactivity, freedom from impulsiveness and thus the ability to see the larger picture at play. Don’t be afraid of making bold new choices, asking questions and setting on  a path of new discovery.
–          The moment you think you know where it’s all going is the moment you trap yourself into an idea of the past. Keep your mind unhindered so you can access new thoughts and be completely free to make whatever new choices your higher self is signaling you to make.

2nd house
–          Sometimes being “radical” accidentally becomes a rut of self-isolation, circulating the same “unconventional” thoughts but actually getting stuck in your own convention. Don’t get so stuck in your own intellectual self-reliance. Your free thinking is your greatest resource; if you can access it, you will get in the flow of LIFE and all the things you need to live well. This is because you are literally or metaphorically stepping outside of what is known and familiar, willing to ask new questions which will in term elevate the frame from which you understand your own life, it’s value and what you are living for.
–          Being out of the familiar, far from what you know means your Gemini inner map doesn’t know where all your basic needs will be met. Well it’s because the old way won’t work anymore. It’s either boring, repressive, or simply not your way. Embrace insecurity and strive to see clearly. Uranus brings us into relationship with community, while individuation is necessary and perhaps doing your own thing, you also may find that your own needs are met by connecting to a larger, more holistic communal way of thinking about your life and how you “get” what you need.

3rd house
–          People will gather the information and ideas that “fit” one’s own tribal identity. The unspoken aim is actually not to learn, but rather to maintain intellectual security. Well, this is a time to ask critical questions; to think out of the box just a little bit. The box is the tidy intellectual frame you have in your mind of the world around you. Everything can be explained in empirical terms. And as long as all this is true, then your inner equation is sound. But it often just takes one open-minded and free-of-agenda question to render the entire equation flawed.
–          People will defend their logical ideas until they get to the point in their own soul growth where they are willing to learn. Availability to learn always precedes learning. Otherwise, the entire data of existence can be sitting right in front of us and we wouldn’t see it (actually, the entire data of existence IS sitting right in front of us – and I’m not referring to our computers or iPhones!). Don’t worry about standing out, others will get it later. Your job is to stay present and ask the questions that allow for a higher understanding of whatever you are desiring to learn.

4th house
–          What I find amazing about human behavior is that we are clan oriented, we care about family and belonging. This behavior is an essential and highly intelligent survival mechanism, one that I think this is far more embraced in more “non-western” cultures than it is in the west. For examples, large families that will stick together, multi-generational communities of several nuclear units, aunts, uncles, grandparents, grandchildren, many many cousins. These families thrive, needs are met and there is generally a strong sense of home and belonging, something that is often lacking in more westernized cultures. I have a friend in Ramallah with an aunt in Gaza who has about 70 cousins. I’ve learned from some YouTubers in Gaza that at this time people are clanning together more than ever. This makes sense, given the destruction of nearly all homes in all of Gaza.
–          It’s interesting to me, I think when our typical sense of “home” is disrupted, we get creative and find ways to care for each other. We all lean in, share what we can. Instead of every family gets their own kitchen, we’ll all cook for one another, consider one another’s needs.
–          Your sense of home doesn’t need to just be your own biological family, but the extension of your community. Expand your Gemini mind: the limited map of what makes you at home and feel at home. This might mean blending two otherwise “different” groups with each other, but finding that a unique eco-system is created that is far more nourishing and healing for you and those you care about.
–          Otherwise, don’t let yourself get emotionally stifled. Open your inner and/or outer, metaphorical or literal home to more diversity, unpredictability, experience that will just feel a lot better. Just because the world does something one way doesn’t mean you have to.

5th house
–          There is no one creative medium or expression to encompass the brilliance of your soul. Let go, break loose and use all the resources available to express your soul. Gemini in this signature operates in a deeply brilliant and versatile way. The only thing you need to do is let go of the hyper concern with what it looks like to be you; what people will like or enjoy, if you will be accepted or not.
–          Rick Rubin once taught that when we create our art, we’ll do it because we love it (even if we have to work some other job to create the time for it). I absolutely love this idea. Break all the mental boxes of how things work, what is allowed. Did you think you were an oil based painter but now you want to pick up water colors, or perhaps do online digital music and start hosting electronic dance parties?
–          It goes without saying that there is a certain vulnerability in being so seen. If you feel terrified and nervous about how courageous and bold you think you need to be, then you are definitely on the right track. It’s just that you are giving yourself more permission to open your intellectual creative resources. It’s vast and fun.

6th house
–          This signature reminds me of a fun analogy Jeffrey Wolf Green gave about the famous centipede with 100 legs. If it tries to track all of its individual legs “ok this one moves and then this one moves…” it will trip all over itself. It really just needs to walk, and the legs move on their own. It’s designed to operate in a cohesive way, it has it’s own intelligence and works just right.
–          We can get all jumbled up with too many ideas, metaphorical “computer tabs” open, and starting so many projects that we do not complete any of them. This signature invites us to step back from the tedious details of all the things we are organizing and working on, and to start to see all of it from a higher, more objective perspective. There’s a way that everything operates a whole organism but we won’t be able to access that perception if we are stuck in the details.
–          I have had a sore lower back for a while. My time with a certain healer didn’t help too much as I felt he was just dealing with individual parts, and not adequately seeing the interconnection of the whole. This signature is about liberating from control, from the need to have it all mentally organized. This keeps us narrow in our thinking and keeps us stuck in ongoing crisis management. Amazingly we often create more problems for ourselves while trying to fix the one’s we think we have.
–          Amazingly, today my back feels so much better! Do you know why? I spent an accumulative 3 hours mostly walking my 3 kids on a long (and unexpected) walk during nap time, with a shortage of food, during really hot weather. In short much of that time involved me carrying my toddler on my back simultaneous to pushing the baby in the stroller (or holding him in one arm and pushing the stroller with another) while my 5 year-old alternated between walking on her own and sitting at the edge of the stroller while I was pushing it. All very tedious, strenuous and difficult! But you know what, carrying that much weight while walking about mile or so on very rocky land with lots of tree roots means I had to pay attention to my posture. I was also barefoot out of my own choosing. Somehow all of that made my back feel much much better! I wasn’t even trying to make it feel better. Sometimes changing the conditions of one’s reality brings perspective and healing to what the mind couldn’t otherwise figure out! I was probably doing the kind of thing I would do if I took one of those core-balancing classes Facebook keeps on publicizing to me (now that I wrote it, it’ll only happen more). Being barefoot probably also makes me use my core more as I have to walk more carefully and thus shift a lot of my weight to my center, as opposed to just landing solidly on my feet. Anyway, I didn’t think of any of this until I starting thinking about this transit.

7th house
–          We know that one partner cannot ever meet all of our needs. We also know that people are who they are and we cannot change them to conform to who we want them to be for us, just as much as we can’t successfully change ourselves to become what another person wants us to become. This signature is about real, objective listening. Consider that Gemini corresponds to the physiology of hearing: actual hearing, while the 7th house corresponds to the psychology of listening.
–          We will experience immense cognitive dissonance and alienation in our relationships when other people aren’t how we have ordered them to be in our minds. It’s the fact of listening with no pre-conception or mental structure for how and what things are supposed to be that we can actually learn about one another. Consider that all of our relationships have their own evolutionary trajectory: they evolve according to the nature of the soul itself: we already are what we are, and each relationship needs the openness and space for the individuality of each individual to naturally grow into the partnership that is naturally wants to become.
–          Sometimes this signature will hold and allow two completely incongruent thoughts to co-exist. I love this about Gemini. One person has a need and the other person has a need that is completely antithetical to the other. When both are held and allowed to exist, something new emerges that neither individual could possibility predict. The mind just needs to be open and unfixed for this path to reveal itself on its own.  This is about freedom from expectation.

8th house
–          This transit invites us to step back and understand that there are deeply subconscious roots to our present perceptions. Most of us do not realize that the majority of what we see is rooted in past-life impressions. We all have a deep “subliminal” soul-level memory of our past, but we are not conscious of it. As a result we will recreate circumstances via the re-creation of our predictable perceptions, and thus often fall into the same traps over and over again.
–          Relative to the 8th house this transit invites us to become better inner-forensic soul detectives. See all the “data” of your life as pointing to a deeper bottom line understanding that all lies within you. Draw your attention within to a more single pointed stillness. This transit is liberating you from the trap of getting stuck in analyzing other people’s motives, getting lost in endless mental traps to somehow find security through the non-ending grasping mind, to explore the taboo and “dark”. All of these are a metaphor for an inner impulse to get to the core of your own thinking. Remember your soul.
–          This is also a great time to follow your own natural calling to whatever information, conversations, content, investigations seem to be drawing you in. It’s OK to become obsessed sometimes. Follow the draw, as it’s likely a part of your own soul desire to liberate and wake up. Whatever it is, be not afraid to jump in completely and let it change you.

9th house
–          What’s amazing about this signature is that our understanding of reality can in fact be explained in empirical terms. Nothing needs to become a “belief system” but can rather be understood for how it works. I’ve been listening to a meditation teacher that explains various meditation practices from a scientific point of view; referring to many of the masters and their teachings and then translating their teachings, teachings that can otherwise sound pretty mystical and in some way intangible to my own current knowledge, in a way that accounts for what is actually happening in the brain, in the body, what the actual mechanics are.
–          This signature is about liberating from beliefs. Open your mind and be curious about your own personal direct experience. Be it meditation, or a path in life that you are on – keep your mind open to ask the questions that will open the doors to greater insight. The alternative is to simply create an intellectual frame for everything you think you already know, and to truly not grow or expand your understanding of life in any way.
–          At times this transit can bring up a sense of confusion – a dissonance between our intuitive right brain and our empirical left brain – with sometimes certain ideas making total sense, while others seeming incongruent and not working well together. The key is come back to the path: the present moment where all things begin to make sense as we become available for the learning. Empirical knowledge follows intuitive and direct experience: we can know what we know because we know it and can thus talk about it, and classify it very easily. Conversely, we can’t classify what we don’t understand. Stay open to the path, don’t try to organize it before you walk it!

10th house
–          Most people in this world will adopt to the existing cultural or social ideas of what it means to be a human. The goals in life, how to participate in society, what it looks like to be a “successful” human being. This works for the majority of people that need to fit in and maintain a sense of social identity and continuity, however when it comes to Uranus, many souls will find that they simply do not fit into the boxes.
–          What do you want to be when you grow up? Perhaps you wear many hats, and perhaps those hats do not “make sense” in your existing social reality. Well, they don’t have to. This transit is about liberating from the fear of judgement and the need to mold or mask yourself to fit into some box you believe you need to fit into in order to be worthy and acceptable in society.
–          The core of the 10th house is self-responsibility and self-authority. So, think for yourself, be your own spiritually mature adult who will make their own adult decisions regardless of what society thinks you should be or do.
–          I want to highlight something essential in this transit. For some souls, Uranus in this position can express as a total disregard of “ethics” and thus doing whatever one wants to. In its negative expression, this can express as the ongoing disregard for thinking of the community/ one’s affects on others, acting more as a thorn that perpetuates alienation and disrupts stability. The example of Trump (who has this signature in his natal chart) utilizing duplicity to say whatever he needs to say for his own social/political reasons is a great example. And so, to think for yourself is to also discern for yourself what it means to be an ethical member of society WHILE also remaining true to your own soul nature. Some rules are meant to be followed, while some rules are not. Liberation from the rules and the concrete value we give to moralistic notions of “right and wrong” is a part of this. Rules serve a purpose, keep your attention on the purpose, not the rules for their own sake. Then you won’t have to make sense to the world, you will make sense to your soul.


11th house

–          I like this signature because we’ll find a lot of people surprising themselves and others when they suddenly find themselves interested in groups and communities that were otherwise “not for them.” This can be a swing towards conservatism, liberalism, or a movement away from any kind of ism and finding a community that offers another angle. The point is that we are going to continually find ourselves continually navigating the duality of polarization and “sides” the more we are identified with belonging with some kind of group identity. This is the prime signature for thinking outside of the box – which by the way in this case would be better reframed as “think of other things than the thoughts contained within the box.” This is about opening the mind to a larger intelligence and thus coming into resonance with community and groups that will offer angles and ideas that you never thought of before.
–          The magic of Gemini here is the freedom from classification and fixed ideas about reality. This also means not giving into the way masses of people constantly confuse “opinions” with “facts”. This can feel terrifying, as that kind of freedom has gotten people killed in the past! However once we have a new thought, we’ll start having conversations and meeting people we never thought we would meet. Our sense of “community” becomes much more diverse – including people that perhaps we never thought we would resonate with. This is healthy because the commonality of humanity is not really found in our group affiliations, but more so in the intelligence of humanity itself. This is something we can all relate to.
–          This signature is highly scientific and wants to look at reality from a far more objective, birds-eye lens. The point is to not accept any ideas or information at face value, but to look for yourself. It’s OK if people don’t understand you or think you are “too fringe”. It just means there are probably lots more people you have yet to meet. And when necessary, be an intellectual community of your own: don’t seek to fit in any of the boxes, just be true to yourself. Many of the thoughts that you think are in fact because your actual brain is connected to the intelligent design of creation itself. Resonate with the cosmos, there is much more to know.

12th house
–          This is an exciting transit that can highlight the extreme of confusion and cognitive dissonance on the one hand, and profound spiritual revelation on the other.  The essence of this is a total break down and dissolution of everything you thought to be true! The mind forms certain conclusions and then gives ultimate meaning to those conclusions. As a result, we feel that we understand what’s going on and can feel secure about our worldview.
–          I was watching a well known MAGA political commentator speak about his feelings about Trump telling the world that there are no Epstein files relative to Trump having run for president on the promise that there are files and that they will be released. I can tell this man was going through massive disillusionment: he believed (in a 12th house kind of way: giving faith to something) that Trump would reveal the truth, and that justice will be served to all the innocent victims of human trafficking. He really cared and really believed in Trump doing the right thing. And yet he felt that Trump was just gaslighting the entire nation. This man was actually beginning to feel sick to his stomach and on the verge of throwing up. Interestingly, the next day, this man came back with a new brilliantly organized explanation for why Trump won’t release the files. Basically a way to hold onto the illusion about Trump that gave him something to believe in.
–          Our conclusions about reality just serve to uphold our own illusions about ourselves. We give meaning to our intellectual sandcastles, giving everything names and classifying it in all kinds of insane ways so that we can feel secure. But what happens when that sandcastle gets washed away? What happens when our entire structure just falls a part? This can be a very painful experience and in general we will need to face the inevitability of disillusionment, or somehow rework our thinking so that we can continue to uphold our existing illusion.
–          Spiritually, on a higher level of insight, this transit is the realization that this life is just a dream. We collect the data of our reality and put it together to describe what is going on, but we fail to recognize that all the data we perceive are just archetypal symbols pointing to ideas more than facts. This is a vibrational reality however we make the metaphor literal and then try to give that metaphor ultimate meaning.
–          This is a great transit to begin to go within, to seek higher purpose and meaning in your life, beyond how you’ve already made it all make sense. For some this will mean becoming an instrument for spiritual knowledge or information that will serve in the “oneness”, or perhaps forming a relationship with some field of knowledge that will help you on your journey of forgiveness: of forgiving the ideas you have believed in and opening the mind much wider to grasp more of the truth. Let your mind be shaped by love, by something higher than your own current understanding.
–          There are also truly no limits to the communication means of Uranus in Gemini when placed in the 12th house. Conversing with angels is no more or less realistic than having a conversation with your friend at a cafe. All of existence, as mysterious as it is to us, can ultimately be understood in empirical terms, we just don’t understand it yet. This is why love is what it is. It reaches everything and in all ways. Let love guide your learning journey.

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