It looks as though September through December have some key transits to pay attention to for the remainder of 2022. Nothing as alarming as May of 2023, however, but nothing to ignore either.

Mercury stations retrograde on September 10th at 8 degrees Libra. This will coincide with the full moon at 17 degrees Pisces. It will oppose Jupiter at 5 degrees Aries but that doesn’t seem particularly worrisome; however, the next day, September 11th, Saturn and Uranus will move to within 1 degree of their square and will stay there for the rest of September.

Mercury will go direct on October 2, right as Saturn and Uranus square each other within a 0 degree orb. Since we’ve been dealing with Saturn square Uranus since February of 2021, this last pass will feel annoyingly familiar but it will also be a culmination of the breakdown energy. As disruptive as it is in the moment, the aftershocks will continue for a few years to come.

The full moon on October 9th at 16 degrees Aries will conjunct Chiron at 14 degrees Aries. Mars will square Neptune within 1 degree at 22 degrees Gemini and 23 degrees Pisces. The exact square between Mars and Neptune will happen from October 11-15th.

Mars squaring Neptune can trigger feelings of suspicion, paranoia and deceit. The U.S. Sibley chart has Mars at 21 degrees Gemini square Neptune at 22 degrees Virgo. Most likely this energy will be felt (or acted upon) most intensely by the U.S. government.

Mars will enter its retrograde station in Gemini from October 30th to January 12, 2023. Mars retrogrades happen every 2 years. The last one we had was in Aries in the fall of 2020. They happen in the same sign about once every 14-15 years.

Mars retrogrades usually last between 2-3 months, beginning in one sign and ending in another; however, there are Mars retrogrades that begin in late degrees of a sign and remain in that sign for the duration. What’s significant about this Mars retrograde is that it will be happening during a Mars return for the U.S (21 degrees Gemini). That has happened only three other times in the past 125 years: 1896, 1929 and 1943. This upcoming Mars Rx is one of those times.

Mars in Gemini will also be making a quincunx to Pluto in Capricorn from October 30th-November 8th. While not as active as a square, conjunction or opposition, this will be happening during the U.S. midterm elections. Something will likely be off around that time.

The lunar eclipse on November 8th at 16 degrees will conjunct transiting Uranus. It will also oppose Mercury in Scorpio at 15 degrees. This might upset communication or make events unpredictable.

The U.S. Mars return will happen from November 23-25th during the retrograde station and then the first week of March 2023.

Because this is happening in the U.S. 7th house of relationships, Mars retrogrades in Gemini are pretty significant. Here are the Gemini Mars retrogrades that happened during a U.S. Mars return:

November 2, 1896 at 29 degrees Gemini to January 16, 1897 at 11 degrees Gemini – The months leading up to President William McKinley’s inauguration and the negotiations that led to the U.S. declaring war on Spain (over the purchase of Cuba) in The Spanish-American War of 1898.

November 12, 1928 at 9 degrees Cancer to January 27, 1929 at 20 degrees Gemini – After a speculative boom in manufacturing encouraged hundreds of thousands of Americans to invest in the stock market, the U.S. was in trouble. The financial loan-money circulation discrepancy was extreme. Compounded by an oversupply of wheat crops, the stock market crash happened in late 1929.

October 28, 1943 at 22 degrees Gemini to January 10, 1944 at 4 degrees Gemini – “The Philadelphia Experiment” allegedly happened on October 28, 1943, involving the USS Eldridge Destroyer conducting top secret experiments (google it). WWII escalated in favor of the Allies; German troops are forced out of Kiev; Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt meet for the first time in Tehran.

The full moon in Gemini on December 7th will conjunct Mars at 16 degrees Gemini and oppose the Sun in Sagittarius. Not only will Mars be retrograde, but Mars is brightest and closest to the Earth when it is opposite the Sun, so that is a particularly potent time.

Pluto will return to its natal position at 27 degrees Capricorn in the U.S. chart from December 10th-January 11, 2023. The reason a Pluto return is so significant is because it only happens about every 250 years. Pluto was first at 27 degrees from February 3rd to March 9th, 2022. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Mars was at 22 degrees of Capricorn at that time, within 5 degrees conjunct Pluto.