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| Guitarist/Songwriter & co-founder of the Rolling Stones Keith Richards has Mars in Gemini Rolling Stone magazine credit Richards with creating ‘rock’s greatest single body of riffs’ After over 50 years as a band the ‘Stones’ headlined Glastonbury Festival 2013 and Hyde Park 2013 |
On the 1st June 2013 the warrior planet Mars set off once again on its ongoing route march through the 12 astrological signs. This time it darted up and into the air space of Gemini the Twins, before it began further manoeuvres from the 13th of July 2013 in the water sign of Cancer.
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| Former Spice Girl/Designer/Stylist for ‘Brand Beckham’ Victoria Beckham has Mars in Gemini |
While Mars was in Gemini, it became quite flighty, lighter than air and hovered over us, restlessly shifting, adjusting, swooping and rising like a kite in the wind or like the twins on bikes.
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| London Mayor Boris Johnson has Mars in Gemini ‘Brand Boris’ and his ‘Boris Bikes’, available to pedal around London, sponsored by a bank. He has just unveiled a giant blue cockerel on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square to celebrate a British win in the Tour de France. With bodybuilder, Terminator actor Arnold Swazanegger, ‘Brand Arnie’ ‘I’ll be back’ served two terms Governor of California. |
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Sean Taro Ono Lennon has Mars in Gemini Born on his father John Lennon’s birthday brought up by his house-Dad until Lennon’s murder 5 years later. ‘Brand Lennon/Ono’ Sean is also a musician/activist founding Artists against Fracking with his mother Japanese artist Yoko Ono ‘Imagine theres no Fracking’ |
Mars love a good fight and is ambitious to get to its desired target, and during its stay in Gemini the ‘Action Man’ planet would have tried to achieve its goals by using the power of words and quick thinking. So Mars whilst in the sign of the writer meant the world saw over 100,000 signatures for a petition to pardon Edward Snowden, people fought with the pen. Edward Snowden fluttered from one international air space to another, neither here nor there, waiting in the liminal no-mans-land ready to move to somewhere-elsewhere at the drop of a hat.
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| Famous US Whistleblower on the run Edward Snowden has Mars in Gemini Already ‘Brand Snowden’ a German lingerie company poster shows a young woman seductively suggesting ‘Dear Edward Snowden there’s still a lot to uncover‘ |
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| Iconic Singer for The Doors Jim Morrison has Mars in Gemini He died from a drug overdose in Paris but ‘Brand Morrison’ has always and still is a poster staple. Buried in Pere Lachaise Cementry in Paris his grave did not have a marker then the French authorities placed a shield over it which was stolen, the previous site was always covered with shells and letters. Mars loves to get physical and in Gemini, with revel in using dexterous hands, brilliant hand eye coordination or being fleet footed. The Tour de France got underway in Corsica and ended up with a British winner. |
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| British Cyclist Chris Froome has Mars in Gemini Winner of the 100th Tour de France July 2013 ‘Brand Froome’ soon to start a sponsor frenzy started with a free Jaguar F-type. |
There was also the gladiatorial tennis battle that took place in Wimbledon.
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| British Wimbledon Mens Singles Champion 2013 Andy Murray has Mars in Gemini He is signed to Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment connected to Brand Beckham and the Spice Girls . |
Check out the Gemini zone in your own chart. This area will have Mars in the zippy chattering Twins buzzing through it. This is where we would have been urged to act quick witted, flirty or even used a degree of espionage.
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| Scottish Actor Sean Connory has Mars in Gemini Started off as a bodybuilder ended up as ‘Brand Bond’ ‘I want you to die Mr Bond’ but he still goes on. In July 2013 was told to |
Used wisely this could have been healthy and much longed for, for instance if through your 6th zone you could employed your skills to further your employment and your brand.
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| French Iconic Designer Coco Chanel has Mars in Gemini Her initials became the ultimate marque, her shop number the ultimate perfume, her ‘little black dress’ part of fashion mythology, even her birthdate became part of ‘Brand Chanel’ |
We can all use the power of Mars to motor us through to our goal to ignite our passions and fuel our issues and drive us ever onwards, but we would also be wise to choose our targets and desires wisely and think more about the opposition and consequences of our decisions and actions.
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| Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has Mars in Gemini ‘Brand Blair’ began with ‘New Labour’ and he was the US Liberty Medal, an annual award of courage and conviction for people who strive to secure ‘liberty’ for people around the world. For example Tony Blair is seen as being instrumental in ending the conflict in Kosovo and boys born in that country following that war have been given the name Toni or even Tonibler. However ‘Brand Blair’ took a hard knock after what is seen as ‘PR lies’ about’Weapons of Mass Destruction’, the ‘War on Terror’ and Blair’s apparent strong support of American foreign policy under US Hawk President George W Bush to the continuing extent of UK participation in the Invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq. (manufactured image) |
With Mars in Gemini the mind will want to drive the passions, the mind will be a weapon of inspiration or can just spit out weapons of mass destruction in the form of harsh, hurtful words.
Pink Floyd Band Member Roger Waters has Mars in Gemini
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group has urged other entertainers to denounce the rock musician anti-Israel activistism of Roger Waters after a giant pig shaped balloon emblazoned with a Star of David was released at a concert in Belgium on the 18th July 2013. ‘With this disgusting display Roger Waters has made it crystal clear. Forget Israel, never mind limited boycotts promoting Middle East Peace. Waters is an open hater of Jews‘ Rabbi Abraham Cooper. Waters has been a vocal activist in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel accusing Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’, ‘apartheid’ and ‘international crimes.’ The inflatable pig is totally associated with ‘Brand Waters’ in many contexts over nearly 50 years.
Arguments are favoured battle grounds but often the real battle is simply boredom. Has the energy of Gemini benefitted us just recently or did we just get too fidgety and feel like our mental cogs and wheels have just been spinning or did something start up that may never stop.
credits: BBC & the Times & armani & max keiser & the guardian
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Guitarist/Songwriter & co-founder of the Rolling Stones Keith Richards has Mars in GeminiRolling Stone magazine credit Richards with creating ‘rock’s greatest single body of riffs’ After over 50 years as a band the ‘Stones’ headlined Glastonb…
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Iconic Actor Johnny Depp has Sun in Gemini In Depp career he has played many outcasts. for the role of Tonto he drew on his Native American heritage. (Depp’s co-star in the Lone Ranger is Armie Hammer) |
As it does every month, on the 20th May 2013 the Sun traveller, moved country darting hither and thither in a whirlwind of excitement and fascination around the Air space of Gemini and exited 21st June. During that time it felt good to change and experiment, to try stuff out and decrease all the previous attachment in Taurus. We all had a chance to try and stretch out into our minds, move on the wind and surrender to our whims. After all, how can we really know something until we try it, until we take a taste and nibble at the edges of the unknown before alighting once again onto the next attention-grabbing interest? Ah! Variety, it is so fascinating.
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| Actor Josh Pence has Sun in Gemini Played Tyler, one half of the famous Winklevoss twins in The Social Network Armi Hammer played the other twin, Cameron but the finished film superimposed Hammer’s face over Josh Pence’s body to play both. |
During Gemini the Twins time, our core purpose, the Sun would have been analysing and distinguishing, by activating the delicate art of tasting and we were all called to partake, at some level of our being, in something either mental, physical or spiritual. So many delicacies, so little time, just as well we could split ourselves into two in order to catch up with ourselves! We needed to spread ourselves out and diversify with Gemini, stretch our boundaries and on the way pick up a little bit of this, a little bit of that, scrunch them all together and Voila! Something entirely novel may have emerged. Of course this ‘something novel’ may be have been entirely inappropriate, unfit for purpose, exactly perfect or merely mildly invigorating. The point is that this is all irrelevant, the point is to keep trying and keep on trying and that is the purpose. It may not be the slogan.
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| Chairman of the British Conservative Party Maurice Saatchi has Sun in Gemini Born in Bagdad to a Jewish-Iraqui family co-founder of the 1980’s most famous advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi with his brother. Most famous for the Conservative Party slogan ‘Labour isn’t working’ with a picture of a long dole que. They brothers have a joint fortune of £120 million. ‘If you cant reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument’. Brother Charles Saatchi reduced his argument even further by publicly physically silencing his wife, celebrity TV chef Nigella Lawson, she moved out, he announced their divorce, 7th July 2013. Mars in Aries – The Primal Punch |
The Sun, our purpose, found itself extremely favourable to our efforts to learn, connect and gather during Gemini time. It supported our efforts to change, to increase variety and exercise curiosity and by consequence discovered new pathways. We needed to resist rigidity to increase our potential, there is always more to reach for, just flex, stretch and relax. We were encouraged to direct our energies into exploring apparently random, unrelated strands of interest only to find ourselves surprised at the fresh perspective and unanticipated results. Fascinating. There was a shift to the imaginary, the mental, the more ethereal, as were drawn to things that transcend or defy the tangible. There is always other alternatives, other possibilities, other truths, various versions and sliding scales.
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| Celebrity Solicitor Baroness Fiona Shackleton has Sun in Gemini Wanted to be a doctor, not deemed ‘clever enough’, after getting a third at university trained to be a Cordon Bleu chef, her mother’s family owned famous Lyon’s corner-house tearooms empire and her cousin is celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, who she will be representing in her divorce from Charles Saatchi. Known as ‘Steel Magnolia’ Shackleton. The Telegraph newspaper reported that Shackleton had been ‘overcharging’ clients, sometimes by hundreds of thousand pounds, she admitted being ‘a bit slack with time sheets’ to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, privately remarking in an e-mail about another ‘over-charge’ and eventual payment from Madonna,‘This is good news as I was worried that they were cross about the bill,” she wrote, adding: “We obviously shd have asked for more?!!!!! F x. ( before/after ‘wet look’ photo above, after Heather Mills poured a jug of water over her head in court) |
The one and only was less of an option, more like the many and the multiple. This would have been most welcome after the all the deliberations and contemplations of the Sun traveller’s environment in Taurus, as we changed to adopt a more inquisitive and flexible eye upon what was, or apparently was, in front of us. Things may not have seemed quite as solid, dependable or convicted as they were during the Taurus month, and our curiosity was peaked and we wanted to break out of certainty and move into the less substantial, after all we needed to be light to fly and flitting off would have seemed mightily attractive. We would have been less inclined to be weighted or burdened down, wanting to be ready at a moments notice to shift and move.
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| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has Sun in Gemini Born in Greece to Danish Royal family and exiled from Greece as a child, sometimes known in the Uk as ‘Phil the Greek’. Consort to Queen Elizabeth, William & Kate’s baby is their third great-granchild. The Prince is known for his clangers and ‘gaffes’ that can often be offensive, stereotypical or just blunt and rude, for example, whilst looking at a fuse box in a factory he remarked, ‘Looks like its been put in by an Indian‘, later correcting himself with ‘I meant cowboys’ ‘Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practised for many years. He was also linked to conspiracy theories over the tragic death of Princess Diana. |
As we all journey with the Sun, we will all have moved into Gemini and it’s facility to learn and be lighter. It has as it’s symbol the Twins so it is no surprise that ‘two-ness’, the concept of duality, will feature strongly. Just as light is knowable only because of the darkness and visa versa, so too does Gemini carry opposites so artfully they actually appear as one unified symbol. Ironically we may have felt as if we were eternally looking for the lost part, something irks and itch’s so we needed to hunt out the missing X factor, there is always one more piece to find. Strangely we may not feel unified or whole, when in fact we are just that, perfect and unified just as we are.
Greek/American Actress Olympia Dukakis has Sun in Gemini
Here are a couple of Geminian secrets: 1) they will ALWAYS keep looking and 2) they just long to rest. This is a combination of course, of abstraction and humanity, body and mind, most welcome to ‘Gemini&Gemini Sun Inc’. These issues and behaviours would have been all around us, whether we liked it or not, whether we pondered or not, answered deliberately, evaded everything, debated, at some level we were destined to met them face to face and sometimes head on and sometimes from the past.
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| The legendary original Lone Ranger’s partner Tonto Jay Silverheels has Sun in Gemini |
As Gemini energy poured down to us through the Sun’s rays how did it effect us all, indoors, outdoors, sleeping or waking, we were saturated in its far-reaching power. We could have been more buzzy, more active and a touch hyper-active! We could have been constantly intrigued and enticed, prone to sudden ideas alternating with moments of torpor as we attempted to catch up with our restless selves as they moved in and out of all the various activities they got caught up in. We may have felt that we had to be always observing, to always be on the look-out. After all even butterflies must be on the watch for the net.
credits: firstpost & guardian & telegraph
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Iconic Actor Johnny Depp has Sun in GeminiIn Depp career he has played many outcasts. for the role of Tonto he drew on his Native American heritage. (Depp’s co-star in the Lone Ranger is Armie Hammer)As it does every month, on the 20th May 2013 th…
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| British Tennis Champion Andy Murray has Mercury in Gemini Wimbledon Champion Men Singles 7th July 2013. Has he got it covered after 77 years waiting for a British Champion at Wimbledon? Oh yes he has!!! |
Mercury moved country on the 15th May 2013 from the sure and certain terrain of earthy Taurus in order to briefly flit on the airy and changeable winds of Gemini for a brief few weeks, moving out on the 1st of June 2013. Gemini and its ruler Mercury enjoys things brief, short and sweet and varied therefore a quick fling with this sign for a few weeks will have suited it admirably. After all why bother to labour a point if it can be made succinctly, despatch adroitly and then dispassionately leave behind in order to give air space for something new, perhaps.
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| Spanish Tennis Champion Nadal has Mercury in Gemini French Open Mens Singles Champion 2013 |
Mercury in Gemini can bring in, carry around or trade directly in information. Sound bytes within bites, chunks and slices of data scrambled and mixed into a variety of and diversity. Evolution is achieved by minute adjustments and amendments, flexibility and adaptability giving the evolving entity the edge. To quickly shift direction, to catch the change before it catches up with you, to anticipate, premeditate and out maneuver what could potentially annihilate, are just some of the attributes that can ensure survival – or at least give a fighting chance so that progress progresses. We look for the upper hand, and indeed, Gemini and its ruler Mercury have the hands, arms and shoulders as part of its symbolism.
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| Serbian Tennis Champion Novak Djokovic has Mercury in Gemini World No1, Runner up Wimbledon Mens Singles final 2013 & Runner up French Open Mens Singles 2013 ‘Pressure is a privilege in a way and a big challenge for every professional athlete..It’s just a matter of understanding it, and maturing as a player and getting that necessary experience to use it at the right moments to cope…It’s a privilege because it means that you are doing something that counts. And all my life I have been dreaming to be the best in what I do and my dreams came true.’ |
The roads in this land may sometimes seem meandering, and may appear to go ‘off piste’, with many side roads to choose and with no one clear obvious path ahead but instead what faces us are multiple choices and varied options, all offering signs of attraction and fascination. We may have found that there was just not enough time to do all justice, some may have been only briefly explored and then discarded, some may have held us longer than we may have wanted, however all would have had us in their thrall and we would have been grateful for that no matter what the eventual outcome.
This is a time that generates so many questions, quite a few answers, and all the wonderful variants in between. Communications, conversations and connections would have sped up and lit up many more branches of investigations, things could not have been ‘just as they are’ instead things would have been ‘more than what they are’. It would have been in our best interests to have kept our minds, hearts and palms open to even the slightest movements and changes constantly taking place. A butterfly is as light as a feather but holds up and opens out wings of saturated colours. The more we look the more we find and with Mercury in Gemini we most definitely want to look more, the list can be endless and so can the results.
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| German Tennis Champion Steffi Graf has Mercury in Gemini Graf retired in 1999 after 107 Singles titles, 11 Doubles, a Golden Slam – 1988 French Open, 1988 Australian Open, 1988 Wimbledon Championships, 1988 Olympic gold medal, & 1988 US Open has been playing a role in supporting and sending good luck messages to German 2013 Wimbledon Ladies Finalist, Sabine Lisiki ‘It’s not easy for anybody to come back and play the next day after such a big victory but Sabine Lisicki stayed focused, played smart and truly seemed to enjoy herself as she continued her winning streak at Wimbledon’ Graf wrote on Facebook after Lisiki beat Serena Williams on her way to the final. Lisiki responded with ‘I am overwhelmed….I am just so happy. I was just fighting for every single point. I fought my heart out. Becoming the first German in the final since her has not really sunk in yet and winning Wimbledon would be a dream coming true’ Unfortunately Lisiki’s nerves meant she was runner up to the 2013 Ladies Champion the beautiful, unique Marion Bartolli of France. |
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| US Tennis Champion Andrea Jaeger has Mercury in Gemini She reached both the French Open & the Wimbledon singles final and was World No2 at 16, coached by her reportedly abusive father there were many teenage temper tantrums and she was known as ‘the brat’. Her career ended early due to shoulder injuries and she has complained subsequently of the competitive pressure she endured, the offers of steroids and cocaine and the attitude of the more mature players. She briefly became a nun, Sister Andrea but has since left her order. |
You and others around you, remember we all felt this Mercury’s shift, will have seemed to be that much more flighty and flirty. We may have become more light hearted and fancy free, open to trying different options and tasting unknown fruits. We could have got bored easily and craved that blade of grass outside our boundaries.
All of us, our children, our friends, on Twitter, or Facebook, our partners, teachers, bosses, neighbours, the person sitting next to us on the bus and the our leaders will have been a lot more chatty, or a lot more scatty, a lot more curious and inventive. With this Mercury in Gemini our communications will have got much more varied, for good or bad. Whatever symbols we use we will want to say or stand for something.
British Tennis Champion Fred Perry has Mercury in Gemini
He was the first player to win four Grand Slams singles titles and also won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships 1934/1936 and was World No1 for 4 years. He was the last British player to win the Wimbledon Mens Singles Championship,and was the last British player to win any Men’s singles Grand Slam title until Andy Murray won the US Open in 2012.
Belgian Tennis Champion Justine Henin has Mercury in Gemini
Known as JuJu she was known as the ‘Lioness of Liege’. Her mental toughness but also the variety of her all court game, her footspeed and footwork are all acknowledged as her talents, Her one-handed backhanded stroke has been described as ‘the best single-handed backhand in the women’s or men’s game’ by John McEnroe and ‘the player I most like to watch’ She has a tennis academy, Justine No1 pronounced like Henin in French.
credits: marc aspland & the times & tennis.com & wikepedia
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