On the Erotic Ecliptic for July 2025

Air America: Uranus returns to Gemini for the first time since the 1940s

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Dates to Note July 2025

2nd: Sun in Cancer trine Black Moon Lilith (11:35 am ET)
4th: VENUS CONJUNCT URANUS IN TAURUS (12:44 pm ET), VENUS ENTERS GEMINI (3:31 pm ET), Neptune stations retrograde in Aries (9:33 pm ET), INDEPENDENCE DAY
6th: Venus in Gemini sextile Saturn in Aries (8:42 am ET), Venus in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries (2:46 pm ET)
7th: Mars in Virgo sextile Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio (4:26 am ET), URANUS ENTERS GEMINI (7:46 am ET), Venus in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius (8:43 am ET), Mercury in Leo square Black Moon Lilith (5:25 pm ET)
10th: FULL MOON AT 18 DEGREES OF CAPRICORN (8:36 pm ET)
13th: Saturn stations retrograde in Aries (4:07 am ET)18th: MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE IN LEO (4:45 am ET), Mercury in Leo sextile Venus in Gemini (1:36 pm ET)
19th: Sun in Cancer square Chiron in Aries (12:48 pm ET), Mars in Virgo conjunct South Node
22nd: SUN ENTERS LEO (1:30 pm ET), Mars in Virgo opposite North Node in Pisces (10:01 pm ET)
23rd: Venus in Gemini square North Node in Aries (2:40 am ET), Sun in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini (5:31 am ET), Venus in Gemini square Mars in Virgo (8:23 am ET)
24th: Sun in Leo trine Saturn in Aries (11:23 am ET), Sun in Leo trine Neptune in Aries (5:31 pm ET), NEW MOON AT 2 DEGREES OF LEO (7:10 pm ET)
25th: Sun in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius (6:32 am ET), Mercury in Leo square Black Moon Lilith (1:46 pm ET)
28th: Venus in Gemini sextile Chiron in Aries (4:55 pm ET)
30th: Chiron stations retrograde in Aries (2:42 pm ET)
31st: VENUS ENTERS CANCER (3:57 am ET), Sun conjunct Mercury in Leo/MERCURY CAZIMI (11:41 pm ET)

We’ve officially made it through the first half of 2025, so pat yourself on the back, or better yet, book yourself a massage, because July is one of the most pivotal, pressurized months of the year, and it’s essential for us to remember that we live in bodies. We’ve been tightly wound in threads of Mars and Venus during the last nine months or so, but this month Mercury enters the chat, and immediately proceeds to act like Animal from the Muppets, so everything is likely to feel a bit unhinged.

Yet July is a hinge month. It might feel like history is cracking open just wide enough to let the future slip through. Though the sky may not fall, it seems to warp in a way that may make you question reality. If you’ve been paying attention since late 2024, you already know that July isn’t an isolated moment — it’s part of a larger atmospheric pattern shift, a tilt into a stranger era. I usually organize these forecasts chronologically, but because several long-brewing shifts reach their next threshold now, I’m going to skip around a bit.

Independence is a whole vibe on July 4, when Venus collides with Uranus in the final degrees of Taurus, sending a jolt through our romantic, esthetic, and financial lives. Hours later, Venus glides into Gemini, and word games are the hottest kind of distraction from the world imploding around us. If you’ve been stuck on one person, idea, or expectation, this energy invites in permission to stay curious without locking anything down. Flirt your way through it.

America’s birthday is one of the busiest days of the month, as Neptune stations retrograde in Aries later that afternoon for the very first time in this sign in our lifetimes. This retrograde peels back the edges of illusion around personal identity, gut instinct, and the stories we tell ourselves about what we’re meant to dive into headfirst. Over the next few months, you might realize that your best revelations come not through pushing forward, but through letting the Neptunian fog lift on its own timeline.

After they station retrograde, Neptune and Saturn are at their closest conjunction in Aries before their exact union in early 2026, melting the scaffolding of what we thought was real. When I wrote about this in the 2025 forecast, I said: “This planetary relationship speaks to erosion. Ocean waves turning rocks into sand. Our hardened ideologies softening and opening to other patterns of reasoning.” We’re in beach season now, and this is that erosion at work. Reality is warping and we might feel like we’re stuck in a hypnogogic state, paralyzed by what we think we’re seeing. AI is getting too, too real as the world itself becomes more and more unrecognizable.

The saturation of Aries energy from earlier in the year may have felt explosive, but July leans more into entropy than eruption, because Uranus and Pluto join the conversation. “If Saturn and Neptune close together in Pisces gave us blurred lines, their stake in this sextile feels more like the fog of war. So much happening all at once, things moving so fast that you can’t see the outline of the moving objects.” The shape of this month is nonlinear, disorienting, and mutative. Don’t expect clarity. Expect to move through the fog with only the instincts of your body and the memory of community to guide you.

On July 7, Uranus exits fixed earth for mutable air. With Uranus entering Gemini for the first time in 84 years, it may feel like we’re moving from a known and well-trod plane to the hypersphere. The destabilization I’ve been writing about for several years, since Pluto first entered Aquarius, might no longer seem hypothetical. Think about your media habits this month, the information you consume and transmit, including who controls it, who shapes it, and who profits from your confusion. That Peter Thiel interview that’s been going around is creepy, yes, but it’s also a stark warning about how far along the techo-broligarch project really is. We’re about to get a volatile but clarifying taste of how fast destabilization can travel when powered by tech and ideology.

As Uranus enters Gemini for the first time since 1949, it reminds us that every time Uranus has been in Gemini since the American Revolution, this country has been at war. At war with our colonial daddy, at war with our own white supremacist shadows, at war with the Nazis — but always in a shooting war. But now that Pluto is in Aquarius, my worry is that drones will be far worse than bullets, because they can’t just shoot us, they can see us.

When I wrote about this in the yearly forecast, I said: “We have been in the Age of Air since December of 2020, and now that the planet of technology and revolution is joining Pluto in a sister air sign, we enter a new level of life as videogame. This has a further pixelating effect on our concept of reality, with Saturn and Neptune already blowing it up with the dynamite of confusion, but with supersonic speed in the coming years.”

This month, we begin to feel that acceleration in our nervous systems and our media ecosystems. Gemini governs not just language and communication but the infrastructures that deliver both, from telecoms, code, satellites, to social media platforms, and because Uranus is the electric shock that destabilizes and liberates, it’s hard to know what will happen next. In the 1940s, Uranus in Gemini coincided with WWII, the development of atomic weapons, and the rise of fascist propaganda. We are in eerily similar terrain now, except with weapons that talk back: deepfakes that destabilize elections, AI-generated war footage, and algorithmic psyops calibrated to hijack attention at scale. Yet this isn’t just a technological revolution, because with Saturn and Neptune so close, it’s a fight for reality itself. The propaganda isn’t on the radio anymore, it’s in your purse and your pocket and sitting on your nightstand, optimized for doomscrolling.

It’s not all scary shit, though: it could have a cool cyberpunk vibe, a kind of Jetsonifcation energy. I wouldn’t kick a Foodarackacycle out of bed; that was my favorite part of the Jetsons. Flying cars, maybe? I’m not ready to get in one, but I’d certainly enjoy watching them flit around the sky. I may start re-reading some of my sci-fi faves again for light beach reading.

Uranus in Gemini wants to shatter the narratives we’ve inherited. The problem is that it doesn’t care if what replaces them is liberatory or totalitarian. That part is up to us, as the fash build a concentration camp in the Everglades. If your news feels warped this month, if the dissonance between what’s happening and what’s being reported becomes too much to hold, try to trust your gut and dig deeper. Stay human and tethered to your body’s needs and desires, because that’ll help you avoid simulcrums and the singularity, and know when you need to show up in person to protect people in peril.

Meanwhile, Jupiter in Cancer, exalted and full-bellied since June, is doing what it can to wrap us in a little softness, and now that it’s past the square with Saturn and Neptune, the fabric doesn’t feel scratchy anymore. This is a buffering transit; less of a solution, more of a salve. Jupiter here says: feed the people, hold the babies, share your space, keep your siblings safe in the streets if ICE comes for them. If something within or around you feels too sharp, July is your invitation to soak in the warm bath of kinship and let your nervous system remember what safety feels like. Co-regulate like it’s your job.

Mercury stations retrograde in Leo on July 17, and by the end of the month, communication snarls and travel get even weirder. Vacations may beckon to get away from it all, but getting there? Trains, planes, and automobiles could be problematic. Pad extra time into all trips, short distance and long. With Mercury in the sign of drama, there could be political theatre that rivals George Orwell’s vast imagination, and performative ego displays could flood the public stage.

If you’re someone who’s been inhaling information, trying to make sense of the chaos with more research, more articles, more feeds, July may break your intake valve. Uranus in Gemini teaches discernment through overwhelm. And as Saturn and Neptune erode the concept of truth as a stable structure, we may need to return to the oldest forms of knowing: storytelling from physical books, body wisdom, touch, and trust. Expect to see more media disruptions, more AI hallucinations, more fake “realness” and real “fakeness.” Consider printing out things that mean the most to you.

Speaking of discernment, Mars in Virgo is conjunct the South Node on the 19th, and this feels like trying too hard to purge something we want to get rid of, like massive overexfoliation in the attempt to create a “glow” that ends up with red, exposed welts we definitely did not want. When you want to feel “clean,” examine where that urge is coming from, and if there is rage involved, know that it’s okay to scream yourself clean.

Let’s look at the two lunations now…

Full Moon in Capricorn, July 10

This Full Moon is ruled by Saturn, still hovering near Neptune in the earliest degrees of Aries — this is what I called “the fog of war” in the 2025 forecast. That fog is thick this month, and the Capricorn Full Moon tries, valiantly, to cut through it with the blade of so-called objectivity. But objectivity isn’t clean or neutral in a moment like this, it could be the lie we tell to preserve our privilege or avoid taking sides as fascism unfurls all around us. Note: this lunation could begin to puncture our collective daddy complex. If you feel the pressure to “stay out of it,” or to flatten your response to the world’s chaos into something more palatable, this Full Moon might provoke a rupture.

Capricorn lunations bring reckoning. They illuminate power dynamics, demand accountability, and draw attention to what we’ve institutionalized, whether through law, policy, or unspoken family rules. With Saturn–Neptune’s influence nearby, we may realize how the very structures we’ve leaned on for reality checks (education systems, mainstream media, governments) are warping under pressure, or worse: complicit in spreading falsehoods that endanger the collective. The moon in Capricorn asks: Who gets to define “truth” in a collapsing empire? Who is excluded from the archive?

The invitation here is to sober up, but not to dissociate. You don’t need to become a fatalist. You do need to become more committed. Let the Capricorn Moon remind you that grief can be a portal to discipline, that love requires infrastructure, and that your anger is sacred when it’s in service of the future that is strong enough to support all of us.

The Leo New Moon: July 25

Two weeks later, the Leo New Moon arrives like a megaphone in a blackout. This is our first New Moon since Uranus entered Gemini and began transmitting from a rebellious frequency, so the air is already charged with dissonance and contradiction as we add in a little more fire. Leo doesn’t do nuance, and this New Moon is opposite Pluto, so the transformations could feel like they’re being forced on us.

Leo governs performance and self-expression, but also our sovereignty, that unapologetic right to live in our own truth and take up space. Yet in this media environment, saturated by AI-generated chaos, authenticity itself might feel a contested terrain, especially because Mercury is already retrograde in this sign. This New Moon stokes our hunger to feel, to express from heartspace, but reminds us our stories aren’t something we upload or download — they’re in our bodies, and the body keeps the score.

Set intentions now around visibility, courage, and creative resistance. Make art that refuses to be scrubbed from the feed. Speak out, even if your voice shakes. This is not a time for aesthetic passivity. The Leo archetype at its highest doesn’t perform for applause — it shines because it has no choice. Let this New Moon ignite your own refusal to be erased.

If you feel unmoored this month, it’s not all bad. This means you’re paying attention and not trying to hide out and pretend that we’re not in a fascist collapse. This is a time to anchor in the people and practices that remind you of who you are. Take care of your voice and your mind and your body and your sacred spaces. Don’t let algorithms narrate your story for you. As I said in January, “With everything collapsing all around us, perhaps there is a way to co-create a new reality for the first time in several centuries.” July might be your invitation to begin.

Phew: I have been DEEP in projects and deadlines the last few days (just published this over at The Forward, and I’m proud of it) and I’m exhausted, but I have sweet news: I’ll have sign-by-sign forecasts for paid subscribers returning in a few days! Stay tuned, my pretties…