Mars in Gemini

[Jim Eshelman]

Mars entered Gemini May 8 and will stay until June 23. I've been trying to track what major themes the news correspond to this.

So far, I've found one: Given Gemini's relationship to commerce, I suspect trade war is a main expression of the passage.

Let's see how it turns out.

[Veronica]

This is typically the month of graduation from school. I hate to say it but it would seem that this would possibly be a month of heavy drinking in celebration.

[Jim Eshelman]

Mars has left Gemini. As far as I can tell, the primary manifestation was trade wars.

We can watch, of course, to see if this continues now that Mars has left Gemini.

[Jim Eshelman]

Mars re-entered Gemini today. We're off on a new cycle of primary news stories.

[TheScales_BothWays]

During the first few days/weeks of when Mars got into Gemini, two hashtags were trending in Malaysian twitter that seemed quite fitting to this transit:

#KerajaanGagal, which is Malay for "Failed government". People are upset at the government's handling of the pandemic (we had 0 new cases one fine day last year, but now we're having thousands per day) and the double standard of fining ordinary people thousands of ringgit for not wearing a mask correctly, but ministers and MP's are travelling here and there scot-free without quarantining, and they don't even get a slap on the wrist. And now, people aren't allowed to go back to their families for Eid-ul-Fitr (the largest Muslim holiday following Ramadan fasting) if they live in another state or even district.

The second hashtag is #DengkiKe? which means "Are you (bitterly) jealous?" The royal family of the current King had allegedly secured a few thousand doses of vaccines for themselves from the UAE. Someone in the Queen's Instagram page commented "Are the chefs vaccinated too?" under a picture of some dishes made by the kitchen crew. The Queen replied "Dengki ke?" and it caused a huge uproar, especially because the word "dengki" has a particular implication of jealousy against the wealthy and able. A prominent political satirist also made political artwork and a Spotify playlist named "Dengki ke?" full of songs about jealousy. He got arrested under sedition laws but he got out with bail.

How about India's oxygen crisis? India had a huge surge of COVID-19 cases and is severely lacking oxygen in its hospitals. Do you think it fits Mars in Gemini, since Gemini is ruled by Mercury, and Mercury is related to air? Also, Gemini is opposite Sagittarius, the sign that corresponds to the lungs in the Libra-Head system.

[Jim Eshelman]

Probably the most characteristic feature of this last pass of Mars through Gemini: cyber-attacks. The U.S. had an epidemic of these by foreign players, some of them quite serious (and the whole escalating pattern worrisome).