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Jupiter Trine Uranus (4°59’, Applying)
This harmonious aspect gives people independence - in opinions, business, thinking and speech, depending on in which house the planets are located. This aspect also gives people idealism, but in a positive sense. These people are very reflective. They want to give others the impression that they are strong and powerful and that they want to exercise their rights.

Uranus Conjunction Neptune (4°03’, Applying)
This conjunction is responsible for urge for changes. These people tend to change their lives and to interfere with political affairs that they are never satisfied with. If they are publicly engaged, then their reformist efforts have some chances to be successful, otherwise they live in discontent with the circumstances all their life. This conjunction gives people immense originality, intense creative abilities and innovative inspirations.


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PERSONAL PLANETS

Sun Square Uranus (2°54’, Separating)
This aspect creates people that are too individualistic, selfish and eccentric. They are very independent and they guard their independence carefully. They are not always considerate towards other people and they sometimes suffer from mental exhaustion. These people have the need to be different and they want to show their uniqueness. They want to be teachers, mentors and examples to others. These people are willing to go to the extremes in order to show their originality. They have trouble accepting authorities. They use rebellion as means of attracting attention of other people.

Sun Square Neptune (1°09’, Applying)
This aspect creates people that are overly empathetic and too willing to sacrifice themselves, and thus they may easily be used by others or cheated. These people should stay away from drugs, alcohol and tobacco because they have considerable tendencies to use drugs and alcohol to solve their problems.

X & other Media

Elon Musk

Freedom of Speech

Divisiveness - Polarity

Civil War

Twins - Brothers at War (Will+Harry)



I have been watching the current Mars cycle since its inception last year. The tragic events transpiring on the set of the movie Rust, when Mars began its cycle, inspired me to trace it back to see what longer term patterns emerged. Not surprisingly, there is a reoccurring theme of wrongful conviction and forced consent, as well as some really smart, pointed inventions. It's also been interesting to discover who was born with Mars in Gemini and how they wield their sword. I will share some of them with you here.

With Mars turning retrograde on October 30th, we can rest assured that Musk buying Twitter, debates around free speech, and ongoing protests in Iran and genocide of the Ukrainian people will be no small blips in history. How is Mars showing up for you? I'm curious to hear :)


Nothing wring with natural intelligence - Dru Ish

Mars crashing through Gemini is the perfect time to reassess your own relationship with technology, and to reaffirm what you do and don’t consent to. I know a lot of people are taking social media breaks right now, so I hope you’re taking care and reconnecting with yourself.
In true Mars in Gemini fashion, there is another bot account impersonating me on IG, so please don’t give them any money. Just report and block. I have turned my account to private for now.
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Mars in Gemini: Crossing Thresholds
Last night I dreamt I was handed Hermes’ Caduceus as I was being asked how to pronounce it. “Kah - doo - see - us”. With that, I offer you an excerpt of my Dru~musings on the current Mars Retrograde cycle in Gemini. For the full meal deal, you can read it here on my website.

Seeing the Crescent Moon this month felt significant. As a carrier of light, the Moon’s first line of site after the conjunction (which was also an eclipse) marks the continuous, ever-onward passage that is reiterated throughout the Lunation cycle. We can expect this eclipse energy to continue to play out until the next new moon on November 23rd, as well as feel its effect throughout Mars’ retrograde cycle.
Long shadow days
I have noticed very literal expressions of eclipse energy crashing in, such as being granted something great, only to have it taken away by something unfortunate, eclipsing the joy. Personally, I was hanging out with a mate who was detailing his own awakening when suddenly the power went out. (It didn’t help that we had also been talking about aliens). The following day I had a beautiful synchronicity unfold, only to have my computer die within minutes.
The way technology mimics life reverberated out in that moment. Just as when someone dies there is a void that reinforces your inability to access them, I was made immediately aware of how far and wide my computer impacts my life. (For those of you wondering if now is a good time to buy a computer, it’s not!) On the flip side, throughout this eclipse season I have also heard heart warming, beautiful accounts of loved ones showing up from the other side in dreams, random strangers and in prayer.
Mars initiated its retrograde passage this year in this time of long-shadow days when the veil between worlds was thinnest. It’s a time when nature is losing leaves and we are drawing our energy inward, preparing to close the life cycle birthed in Spring.

Numerous cultures around the world mark this calendar time as a period to honour the dead. The sky reflects this with the Heliacal rising of the nebula, or open star cluster, The Pleiades. Traditionally used as an eyesight test for archers, the symbolism of this cluster rising can translate into relying on insight, our third eye and seeing in the dark, over what appears on the surface. This serves as reinforcement for Mars who will be crossing thresholds in its passage through Gemini.
Mars in Gemini 2022 - Dru Ish

9 GEM - ARCHERY



Functioning well, Mars’ malefic nature is channelled into being protective, direct, and to the point. Inhibited or far from home, it misses the mark and becomes disruptive. Being hot and dry, governing weapons, sharp objects, and accidents, Mars misfiring can be devastating. Acting out anywhere along the spectrum from tantrums and arguments, to forced entry, killing and bloodshed, Mars in retrograde motion increases the potential for martial things to go awry.

Air is an unseen force. Its terrain encourages visioning, information sharing and new understandings of frequencies and quantum physics. Carrying the air triplicity, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are all tempered by Sanguine qualities. They are both hot, speeding things up, and moist, drawing things together. Just like baking a cake, the eggs, milk and butter bind the flour and sugar together, while putting it in the oven transforms the ingredients from one state to the next. Without the moisture, everything stays separated. If we put the pre-baked cake in the freezer, growth ceases.

From the big picture birds eye view, the dynamic adaptability of the Sanguine quality is part of our broader transition from Earth to Air, put into high gear on December 21, 2020. Since then, our new normal is a Sanguine high speed data download. This explains why it feels like it was February just yesterday, and it’s difficult to find solid, secure footing. Everything is in flux and nothing is as it was. What ever was built in the reliable tangibility of an analog world, is being digitised, whether we like it or not.
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Mars in Gemini

If we think about zodiac signs as accommodation for the planets in their orbit, Mercury (ruling Gemini) makes sure Mars is well connected during its seven month stay. There is no shortage of games, maps to get around, office space, a desk for writing, gadgets and devices: phones & computers, VR, AI, high speed internet and satellite TV all keep Mars occupied. The house itself is located high up on a hill where it catches the afternoon zephyr. Inside there are long hallways with panelled rooms containing chests, with boxes inside boxes. The owners of the property are a couple called Belle and Whistle.

Mars isn’t one to relax and take in the scenery, though. Staying in a Mercury ruled Sanguine sign, the combined heat only increases speed, while the moisture of Gemini meeting Mars’ dry, separating quality suggests we are likely to be pulled in multiple directions at once, with the simultaneous desire to separate from things we are forced to bind with.

Mars accelerates our Geminian issues: accessing information, how and what we think about, speech patterns, and altering the ways in which we connect, trade and learn. Questions about facts and tangible reality can morph into demands as Mars wields its sword. Search engines, algorithms and influencers reinforcing a centralised agenda, coupled with fact-checking services not being as neutral as they sound, means questions around freedom and access to information have a high potential to devolve into heated, sometimes fatal, exchanges.
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With the air influence kicking up a storm, we likely won’t land on one agreed understanding. Instead, it might feel like our nervous system is plugged into an electrical socket! With scattered and diffused energy, we can open up to new understandings of our interconnectedness as we find ourselves everywhere at once. Reflecting Gemini’s opposite sign, Sagittarius, we may have to get lost in the minutiae to find the truth.

Gemini is represented by the Twins, Castor and Pollux. With one twin being mortal and the other immortal, questions will likely rise from within about how we embody our divinity, and how we keep the lines of communication open between our physical, mortal selves and our eternal, Spirit selves when there is so much external distraction.

As we use technology today, the technology is simultaneously using us. Twins are being created to match literally everything in our physical world. All of us, right now, have a digital identity being created. Regardless of age or location etc, each time we use technology our data is being mined and harvested. Digital versions of cities, parks, transport and financial systems are being created alongside our lived reality. People are buying up digital real estate which they can visit while sitting on their couch using a VR headset. Marketed as far more appealing than our boring lives, the power of suggestion, coupled with a lack of transparency and consent, means that a digitized world is forcing its way in, with no way for us out. When everything is duplicated, how do we know what’s real?
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If we are predominantly using devices to connect with one another, and ourselves, then only one of the Gemini twins is satisfied. There lies the potential to lose, or diminish, connection with our own eternal nature. While we can never be severed from Spirit, without dedicated attention to remaining connected to Source, we hand over our abilities and essentially submit to life in the underworld. If we predominantly strengthen the muscles that are required in a digital world we offer less attention to what is happening in front of our eyes.

Gemini gets a bad wrap in pop astrology for being superficial, light and lacking depth. However, this is where Gemini’s older associations with Hermes are overlooked. The only deity able to travel between all three worlds; from conversing with the Gods, to being with mortals, to facilitating the transition of souls from life to death in the Underworld passage, means that while Mars stays in Gemini, we will swiftly move between worlds. We will have to confront our relationship with technology, and how devices are intercepting our reliance on natural intelligence. A true and honest investigation often results in having to usher oneself out from this forced underworld of dependence. Once free, we can more easily remember and connect with our eternal self by generating vitality through connection, creativity and the abundance within silence.
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Hermes wore a hat of invisibility, winged sandals and carried a caduceus wrapped with snakes. One could easily be distracted by the technology of how the cap, shoes and caduceus all work together, but it’s where the technology take us that Hermes, and this Mars Rx cycle, comes to life.

With freedom comes great responsibility. If there is nowhere we cannot go, no threshold that cannot be crossed, once there how do we tread respectfully and ensure we can leave? A shape-shifting energy, neither Mercury, nor Hermes nor the air of Gemini, functions well when contained, or limited in movement. Air trapped in a jar becomes stale, just like hearing someone repeat themselves over and over gets old pretty quick. We need fresh air for survival.

Mars’ passage through Gemini offers us a jump start. Where we have been severed from connection, where our minds have been hijacked, and how our thoughts and speech have been coerced will likely become apparent. As both aggressor and defender, Mars prompts us to identify both sword and shield.

If you'd like to read more about Mars' cycle through Gemini, cross this threshold!


Mars on the street in 2022
Mars crashing its way through Gemini is showing up in multiple ways. The blow by blow tweets from Chief Twit, to the Red Cup Rebellion by Starbucks workers...it's definitely on! These are a couple of stories I have been watching, with some others on the website.
Chief Twit ignores the canary in the coal mine
Mars in Gemini 2022 - Dru Ish
The bird icon for Twitter is more like the canary in the coal mine at this point. Calling himself “Chief Twit,” Elon Musk announced to us that he is taking on the role of Mars in Gemini (Mars ruling soldiers, Captains, Generals & Chiefs – Lilly p.67). Executing his first mission, he callously cut 50% of Twitter staff and charged Twitter users $20, then $8, for a Blue Check mark badge of authentication.

Mars in Gemini offers us tools to crack the code for our own benefit, too, and Twitter users armed themselves with the masters tools and successfully dismantled the master’s house. An $8 purchase resulted in millions of dollars loss in stocks and a loss of trust in Musks’ abilities. Bear in mind that we haven’t hit the worst part of the Rx cycle yet.

With the Titanic also sinking in this cycle, carrying a sink into Twitter HQ on his first day was more likely a warning about him sinking the ship than any Dad joke he could have imparted.

What his purchase of Twitter does on a grander scale is create a trifecta between social media, AI and colonising Mars. Let’s talk about crossing thresholds and forced consent! Having already sent a string of satellites up into our atmosphere without consulting the public, he is now close to blanketing the entire planet with internet service. There is no public consultation and no opt-out button with his vision for our future, and our use of technology. You will not be able to be on this planet without being trackable by technology. This f’sure has its advantages for some, but the disadvantages are conveniently not discussed nor put to public, planetary vote. It has been decided for us, even though it impacts literally everyone on the planet.
Information warfare
Mars in Gemini 2022 - Dru Ish
We can expect some half cocked tweets to inflame the internet through this Mars passage. Speaking of which, Ye (formally Kanye West), stands side by side Musk on the Gemini battlefield. Armed with Mars in Gemini as a word gun, he disseminates information and data at an alarming rate, illustrating how words can be weaponised and hurtful when not used with consideration.

Caught on the wrong side of a Martial debate, you can be shot down by reams of texts and pages of emails dissecting every detail, or in Ye’s case, spitting out sound bites that get strung together in some form of semi-cohesion that apparently qualifies one as a genius. Ye is clearly feeling the impacts of Mars’ turnaround and has taken a 30 day verbal fast. Let’s see what happens when Mars crosses his ‘visionary’ Sun-Jupiter-Neptune configuration.
Sibling rivalry
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Kathy Hilton, born with Mars in Gemini, is having her anger issues aired publicly for the first time. It seems she’s done a pretty good job in the past of controlling the narrative about her, but a couple of rich lady meltdowns on a trip to Aspen is now on the public record. This has activated the underlying sibling story within Gemini, and caused a divide between her and her sister, Kyle Richards.
Mars in Gemini 2022 - Dru Ish
As uncomfortable as malefic presence can be, Mars’ passage through Gemini will likely agitate us into action, so we can see clearly where we have let our defences slip. Being the intruder, oppressor and pillager, Mars offers us plenty of opportunity to ask: What has penetrated my mind? What have I been forced to consent to? What am I fighting for?

I hope you're taking care out there and not getting too frazzled, or caught up in someone else's mania. May you be inspired to reconnect with lost, or stolen, parts of yourself, still the mind, and come out the other side knowing you're secure and whole.

I will be keeping my eye on Mars' tantrums along the way, so keep an eye out on IG and my blog for updates.
See you on the other side,

~ Dru


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MARS RULES OVER - AGITATORS, ARMED FORCES, ARMAMENTS


Mars: The time for increased activity, for those pursuits which require determination, courage, physical efforts, for sport, for work with fire or sharp in