Curious, Mercury-ruled Gemini enjoys being busy. Stimulation, communication and diversity are the oxygen of astrology’s mutable air sign. In the macrocosm of 2025, the sign changes of outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto from yin to yang signs is providing plenty of excitement. In the microcosm of the Sun’s Gemini journey, which starts on May 20th, sign changes for Jupiter and Saturn are set to capture the Twins’ attention, and ours. The cycle’s rousing start will find Pluto in the electrifying fellow air sign of Aquarius, conquesting Mars in fiery, feisty Leo and Venus and Neptune in instigating, adventurous Aries, awaiting Saturn’s entrance.
Giving everyone a feel for the transit, Saturn’s first venture into the cardinal fire sign will take place from May 24th to September 1st. Due to its retrograde, from July 12th to November 27th, the planet of lessons and limits will not re-enter Aries until February 13, 2026. Once there, it will remain until April 12, 2028. Since March 2023, the ringed planet has been laying back in peaceful Pisces, and most of that time has been spent co-mingling with groovy Neptune. Their partnership will get a reboot when Saturn rejoins newly arrived Neptune, presently in Aries. The Aries experience however, is bound to be markedly different from their Pisces sojourn. After all, the move from mutable water to cardinal fire can be a jarring one. On July 7th innovative Uranus will shift from the fixed earth of Taurus, where it has been for the past seven years, into the mutable air of Gemini, further activating the year’s highly charged atmosphere. For those in need of a watery refuge, Jupiter is set to exit Gemini and visit Cancer from June 9, 2025 through June 29, 2026.
The planet of wisdom, abundance and philosophy has been in Mercury’s home since May 25, 2024. From Gemini, Jupiter squared Saturn last August and December. Those collaborations brought forth the dissolution associated with mutable sign squares. Now the two are on tract for a June 15th square in initiating cardinal signs. In the latter part of last year, the two seemed to be making room for what they are now ready to set into motion. But before leaving the friendly and lively skies of Gem, Jupiter will make some sweet and supportive connections. They include a lunar conjunction on May 28th, in the afterglow of May 27th’s new Gemini Moon, a sextile with Venus on June 4th and a Mercury conjunction on the 8th. Those collaborations are part and parcel of a Sun cycle that is front-loaded with helpful, inspirational combinations. Others include a Venus Mars trine and Sun Neptune sextile on May 22nd, a Sun Pluto trine on the 24th, when Mercury will make its final conjunction to Uranus in Taurus, before its homecoming on the 25th, and an exceptionally well-aspected new Gemini Moon on the 27th. The initial exhilaration will gradually give way to more subdued tones over the course of this Sun cycle, as Venus gets comfortable in her Taurus abode beginning on June 5th, chatty Mercury ingresses into sensitive Cancer on June 8th, a day ahead of Jupiter, and aggressive Mars enters thoughtful, tactful Virgo on the 17th. This shortterm shift from air and fire to earth and water by Mercury, Venus and Mars in the context of the outer planets moving from earth and water to air and fire should satisfy even Gemini’s appetite for variety.