Is It Goodbye to the Global Order?
Official photo being taken at the Bretton Woods Conference 2 July 1944.
This month’s horoscopes came with this short essay. I think it’s important to know.
Things fall apart, slowly at first, and then it happens all at once.
We’ve been experiencing the “all at once” phase.
The global order with which we are familiar was established after World War Two with the Bretton Woods agreement, the creation of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This arrangement put the United States at the centre of power, with the dollar established as the world reserve currency in 1944.
These agreements took place under Uranus in Gemini (7 August 1941*-30 August 1948). The planet of innovation in the sign of trade. This July, Uranus will be returning to Gemini for the first time since those accords. Its cycle corresponds to the span of a human life — around 82 years. It’s a moment of death, or of reinvention.
In 1947 the Truman Doctrine came into effect, offering a guarantee that the United States would come to the aid of any democratic country under threat from “internal or external” forces. The following year, the Marshall Plan, which provided Europe with massive investment to rebuild (while also stimulating the US economy) came into operation.
So the last Uranus tour of Gemini began in the midst of a raging world war, and ended with the new order that we have all grown up in. In that post-war period, Pluto and Saturn made a conjunction in Leo: it’s significant that three states that would become nuclear powers (Israel, Pakistan and India), were born under that conjunction.
The established setup began to unravel back in 1989, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the concurrent growth in China’s economic power across the world. That year American academic Francis Fukuyama published his influential book The End of History, outlining his argument that capitalist democracy had won.
Welp. Maybe it was the beginning of the end. Uranus had, in fact, exited the opposition to its 1940s placements, which had been a feature of the 1980s.
Astrology 2025
Which leads me to this year. Holy moly.
Uranus enters Gemini on 7 July 2025, guided by Venus, planet of harmony. The great awakener will electrify all things Gemini — the news, the grid, the air, deals, sibling rivalries and bonds, words, tennis matches… (So looking forward to this Wimbledon!)
As the god of lightning enters airy Gemini, he forms an incredible pattern across the sky which will influence the entire summer. Then he will retreat back into Taurus on 8 November. So this is just a taster session over the summer, but the collective pattern-making of the outer planets is very powerful in these early degrees of the signs.
July, August, September
Uranus in Gemini — 0°-1°
Neptune and Saturn in Aries — 0°-2°
Pluto — 3° Aquarius
This creates a powerful, tight mini-grand trine, with Neptune and Saturn on the point in the earliest degrees of the entire Zodiac. Expect more action and changes here as the retrogrades of both those planets intensifies their energy in July. This means that the beginnings we experience this month are digging in, like tent pegs, making a mark and tethering down the transformation we will come back to.
This month, Jupiter will be in Cancer — 4°-10°, joining in with this pattern. In early September, Saturn will fall out of step and retreat to Pisces, followed by Neptune in October.
The recent New Moon in Cancer on 25 June, the coming New Moon in Leo on 24 July, and the following New Moon in Virgo on 23 August all click into this great configuration. You will feel them strongly, especially if you have planets or points in or near the early degrees of almost any sign.
As you know, I don’t view a New Moon as the moment to begin, but as a space sometimes of endings, a pause, but also when we should be paying special attention to synchronicities and symbols. Some of us feel quite depleted or just sleep very deeply at the New Moon. This lunar rhythm is exceptionally strong this summer season. Allow yourself to flow with it.
Take courage, drink water, love the Sun and the Moon, and remember that we’re here to live our lives as profoundly as we can.
*A few days later The Atlantic Charter was signed.
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Christina, that was superbly delineated. Big thanks for this–there’s an awful mess to make clear, and your explanation helped greatly. (My head isn’t hurting as bad now. Owww, the U.S. perspective.)
Warmest regards!
Thanks for the thumbs up, Mitch. It’s chaos out there!