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Short trips and the way you get around town (or further afield) are important issues now. Your ruler Mars is now in your transport and short-haul travel zone. Life speeds up. And this is a revolution. Cars, planes, trains, buses, motorbikes, bicycles and taxis – they’ll all motivate you to go faster. Literally. Watch the speed limits for yourself and others on the road. Just because you’re all fired up about something doesn’t mean you have to apply so much force. Just because somebody else is overheating, does not necessarily mean you have to believe them, agree with them or even respond to them. As always with Mars, consider the angle without necessarily acting. Is it a smart move? The issue is cars, motorbikes, scooters, bicycles, buses, trains, walking and hiking, sailing and riding and so on. The radical change has to happen because you were so restricted before and may not have fully realised it. Between now and July 2026, the known world may turn upside-down, but this is ultimately so liberating.
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Mars changes signs to your finance and real estate zone this week. Life will move swiftly. There is a major opportunity with your house, apartment or any property from June 30th, 2026. It grows in size in July and August. This week is about the numbers. Later on, it will be about your home or your investment. Your family relationships, tenants, landlord agreement, flatmate relationships, house, flat or temporary accommodation will be shaped by what happens next – with long-term results! Take your time as you navigate. More will open up from the end of June. For now, what will strike you most is the price tags you and others are hanging on freedom and independence, Taurus. In your birth chart, we also find Chiron in Taurus in the same space as your Sun – the financial space. Your life budget is here to be reshuffled.
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A recurring situation involving the family will stop at the end of July 2026. Your mother, father, brother, sister and other close relatives (passed or alive) will be an issue now as you are on rewind. So will your relationship with a partner if you live with him or her and any flatmates/roommates in your life where the repetition continues. People who have a direct influence on your home life like neighbours, builders or co-tenants will also be part of a loop. One of the purposes of this loop is to prepare the ground for mid-2027 to mid-2028 when you will gain enormously from the family or your home. Perhaps, any real estate. There will be big opportunities and solutions from that point.
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Religion, Tarot, self-help, psychologists, spirituality, meditation, hypnosis, dreams, healing, crystals, counselling and mediumship are all part of a new cycle. Right now, you’ll be all fired up about an issue directly connected to the above list (or somebody else will). You’ll find it hard to be logical or rational about what you’re feeling because you’re convinced you’ve just seen exactly what has to happen. Classic Mars transit. Mars is in Gemini with Uranus in the zone of solitude, self-examination, the soul and psychology. Life speeds up. The outcome is freedom. Freedom from (insert word here) or freedom through (insert word here). A cult that was pretending to be New Age spirituality, perhaps? A morally dubious vicar? An unhelpful psychiatrist or psychologist? If it’s Independence Day through someone (or something) though, you may well be liberated by God. Or a spirit guide. Or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
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Friends and groups turn up the heat, lower the patience levels, increase the speed with which things happen and suggest the revolution cannot wait. The force with which things happen depends on how restricted you are or how confined they feel. Before you start the car, put on your trainers or pick up the phone though, ask yourself and sensible outsiders if it would all make sense without the Mars and Uranus transit you are feeling. If they don’t speak astrology, ask them about the feelings versus the common sense. You are excited and inflamed now. You are keyed up and wired. Or they are. The sisterhood and brotherhood. The community. The old chum. Find a technique (mental or physical) that will ground you, stabilise you and centre you. Do ask for outside opinions from people you trust and respect who have no vested interest in the situation but can give you excellent impartial opinions. Madonna, this is about your band. Obama, this is about the Democrats.
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It may be that you’re right about your staff, employer, professor or classmates. It may be that you’re right about your unpaid work situation. But don’t risk it. The world of higher goals and current roles is far too important to let yourself be swayed by Mars in Gemini. If your decision is basically right and you know it (even when you’re not feeling the heat from others or feeling it in yourself), then Mars will help you to finish what you start. If your decision is ill-advised, then cease and desist. Find another channel for your revolutionary impulses, Virgo. This is your desk, not the Bastille. And yet, the urge to be free is honourable. You want, need and deserve space. So, do others. So, if the situation has been tight for a while, surely there has to be a change.
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Mars is now in your zone of foreigners and foreign countries, so a lack of patience, tolerance, twitching fingers or some kind of total conviction is normal. That’s frankly not enough to make it worth taking some actions seriously – so pull back, then judge. The issue may be the global part of the web, university life, college issues or publishing. That happens. You can be travelling and feel it, for obvious reasons, or be dealing with another culture at work or home. This is the cycle when you find independence from (insert word here) or independence through (insert word here). Do not allow the emotional ‘fire’ to make others do things they would not do if they were not feeling the Mars in Gemini heat. With Uranus in Gemini too, there can and will be new freedom thanks to a break with the past, but there are ways to do these things. And ways not to.
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Your everyday working life has its own chain of command. Even if you’re working for yourself (or head of the home), you still have to think about your duty to other people. All work is a service even if you’re apparently calling the shots. If you’re a President or a Prime Minister, you still have a duty to the people who voted for you. So, in a way, you’re still in service to them just as a PA is to her boss. Right now, you have Saturn, Neptune and occasionally Chiron all in this chart zone. The hierarchy is part of your salaried work, your studies or life without pay (but with duty). The ‘chain of command’ to quote XTC is now asking you to rethink your approach. Work or routine issues will now require patience. Your health, fitness or mental health may be inseparable from core questions about who you serve first – others or your own self-care. This is a good week to stand back from the attitude you took a few weeks ago and see if your approach is still working for you.
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Chiron in Taurus enters your wellbeing and workload zone for the first time this year and will be back in 2027 for the long haul. The time has come to ask yourself what you can get away with. What happens if it fails? More to the point, what happens if it succeeds? Your health, fitness, mental health, food, drink, drugs, doctors, surgeons, dentists and psychologists are in this cycle. Your health and wellbeing (which covers everything from weight loss and teeth hygiene to serious issues) is in focus this week. Do look at the potential outcome and the issue(s). Without the punk rock need to defy convention and tradition, how do you see this? Are you the maverick or is somebody else? You will read Chiron described as ‘a wounded healer’ by some astrologers. He really isn’t. He’s a teacher. It’s true that he can teach you about health, but ultimately, he teaches you about pulling off what is popularly supposed to be impossible, beyond the pale or outrageous.
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People who are against you at work, university, college (or with your unpaid work) will turn up now or even become issues again, no matter how long they’ve been off your radar. They may have Mars signals (red face, speeding tickets or football habit). Alternatively, you will be fired up by someone else’s agenda even though they come without Mars signals. Navigate carefully, please. This is about your daily routine, sense of duty to others, willingness to serve and work ethic. If there is something out of synch, your health, wellbeing or mental health will get in the way of your hours. If that happens, use a time out to have an honest conversation with yourself, Capricorn. Assuming you are more than aware of the freedom or independence questions, you now need to get what you want. Reduce the heat and speed. That’s a first step.
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Mars enters the chat. Mars is now in your zone of courtship, the bedroom, babies, infants, children, teenagers and Generation Z. What happens next could start a battle that ends up becoming a long war. Can you feel compassion for the other side because they obviously feel so little peace in their lives? Just as hard – can you step aside from your own Mars transit, examine the issue in the cold light of day, then admit it’s better to follow the peace path yourself? That’s your challenge. Mars is here with Uranus, your ruler. Uranus describes the need to be free; the right to be independent. This is now at the core of the situation for him, her or you. You will need a strategy to get you through July as well. The upshot will be liberty. Liberation, actually.
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You’ll be all hot and sweaty about certain family or household members. Or they’ll be unusually charged up. You’ve already survived Mars in the Fourth House before – so by now, you should be an old hand at this stuff. With yourself as with them, remember that sometimes it helps to turn down the heat in the emotional oven and stick your head in the fridge. Mars and Uranus are both in Gemini – both in your Fourth House of relatives, flatmates, roommates and live-in partners. When Mars comes along, there’s a gladiator atmosphere. It’s all gone a bit Russell Crowe out there. The ability to take a detached view of your own and your feelings is half the battle with Mars. The issue is so important, though. It’s independence. Freedom. Space. Autonomy. You just need a strategy is all.
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