Shocking personal fireworks on July 4th early morning walk

July 4, 2026

I’ve been inundated by internal Uranian explosive turbulence ever since it began to make its one and only (unless I live to be 168 years old . . . ha!) 84-year return to its own natal place — first in the summer of 2025, and now, summer 2026, with the entire process to finish up in March 2027 (while heading directly into its first ever conjunction with my natal Saturn; — so this once in a lifetime ordeal is nowhere near done).

Uranus was conjunct Saturn at my birth (1-7° Gemini), a rare generational signature that occurs about every 45 years. Those born around 1988 also have it. For them the conjunction occurs in early Capricorn, Saturn’s sign. Anyone with this dynamically polarized combination must, through often painful experience, learn how to consciously channel, direct (Saturn) the explosive Uranian energy. For my Saturn/Uranus generation, in mental Gemini (most of us now dead or dying), is it no wonder I am constantly describing in language my Saturn/Uranus experiences?

I have written at least 15 posts that deal with this topic, the closure of the first cycle of Uranus (“Uranus Return”), likely one that most of my readers have not lived through, whether or not they are familiar with astrology. So, you might say, I am documenting how the closing of this immense cycle is being lived through by one conscious being.

 

Okay, so on to today, which happens to be July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the birth of the U.S.A. It’s also the final day (in a three day process or so), that the transit of fiery, impulsive Mars (an 18-month to 2 year cycle), is exactly conjuncting transit Uranus at 3°+ Gemini. . . .

This conjunction also happens to echo my own chart, where my original Uranus (at 1°36 Gemini) sits, opposite my natal Mars at 2°42 Sagittarius! So, for me, all my life, sudden shocking (Uranus) events are to be expected (Saturn)!

Given the volatile temper of the times, and also for me personally, I am more than usually careful when driving, and usually avoid it, if possible. Who knows what Uranian accident is waiting to happen?

On the other hand, I’m aware that I am protected, that intuitive guidance has always steered me out of the way of dangerous situations.

Or it usually does.

 

So, what happened this morning.

Out on my usual early morning walk with Scampi, I saw a young man ahead on the path with a large black hound of some kind. As usual, I called out, “Okay if they meet?” — expecting that he would say “sure!” or “yes!” or “okay.” Which he did, after first hesitating (something I didn’t notice at the time). As we came close he dropped the leash. An unusual move, but okay. That way their leashes wouldn’t get tangled up.

Suddenly, instead of nosing down to Scampi who was eagerly trotting up to meet him, his dog swerved, came up to me, so suddenly and powerfully that I worried he might, in his eagerness, jump up and accidentally knock me down. Looking back, I have a sense that this instinctive fear in me triggered his aggressive nature, because he suddenly bit me on the upper right arm, hard!

He then tried to attack Scampi too, as his owner, having retrieved the leash, was dragging him away from both of us.

Of course I was shocked, looking at my arm. The young man, right as it occurred said, alarmed, “Are you okay?”

“Yes,” I responded. The bite did not break the skin.”

The two of us, with our restrained dogs, looked at each other, both trying to digest what had just occurred, as the young man murmured, “Yes, sometimes he’s . . .”

So that’s why he hesitated in the first place!

 

Whew! Of course both of us were relieved. And of course, I was concerned about his dog, and he knew it. And he felt bad. And likely wished he had said to begin with, while steering around us, “I don’t think so. He’s not predictable.” Something this does happen once in a while on our walks, and of course Scampi and I honor it,  both parties steering a wide birth.

 

In any case, I bring this up to illustrate the sudden shocking, dangerous event that happened to me on our walk, on July 4th, as transit Uranus was being conjuncted by transit Mars at 3° Gemini — which just happens to resonate with the Mars/Uranus positions in my original chart.

It’s not just when driving that I need to be careful . . .

BTW: dog attacks are a recurrent part of my long herstory, three of them vicious and long-lasting, with two of these involving multiple dogs! Only once was I actually seriously bitten. Hmmm . . . Should I look back and see what was going on with transiting Saturn and Uranus on those occasions?

Astrologer Maureen Richmond considers “THE (secretive) BIRTH OF A NATION: 1776-2026”

July 3, 2026

I very much appreciate astrologer Maureen Richmond’s perspective on the U.S., as we reach our 250th anniversary. She returns to its 1774-1776 founding to see, even empathize with, the complex, difficult circumstances in which the lives of its founders were embedded — and then moves forward through time, with astrological correlates.

If you’re like me, you’ve never thought seriously about, or even noticed, paid close attention to, both the fact that the founders had to operate in total secrecy, as well as how this fact correlates with the Cancer stellium the U.S. chart!  

She points out that Sun, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus — all in Cancer — guaranteed that Americans would be not just home-loving and protective, but tending to exhibit as well the Cancerian quality of secrecy, wanting to keep things private . . . This secretive tendency has played out in many ways, of course, not all nefarious — and given the original design of the U.S. chart, as long as we remain an intact country, she views secrecy as bound to continue.

In other words, and this is me talking: there’s no sense in judging this quality of secrecy as inherently bad, evil, nefarious, to be avoided — which is what I tend to do!

https://maureenrichmond.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-a-nation-july-2-4-1776

 

 

Excerpts:

Cancer is an introspective and self-protective sign. It does not give up information about itself willingly. Retrograde Mercury in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn in the natal chart of the USA has manifested in numerous ways, but most often in the dynamic of secrecy. The nation itself was born in the most urgent form of secrecy, as colonists met behind locked doors and communicated by code and sign as they contrived to buck the greatest economic and military power of the world at that time. Their lives on the line, the rebelling colonists could do no other than hide their true intentions.

The business of hiding the truth would continue as the nation evolved. In 2026, some of the hidden truth has bubbled to the surface in the form of Congressional hearings on suppressed information, including presidential assassinations, elimination of racial leaders, devious CIA programs, ufo materials, and more. Though the nation was born in a secrecy necessary at the time, that secrecy spawned by natal retrograde Mercury in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn has continued in deeply problematic forms in the years, decades, and centuries since the founding. Perhaps with Pluto again in Aquarius just like it was throughout the Revolutionary War, a different management of the natal chart will emerge. Aquarius is the sign of the people, the demos, the mass of persons – a stark contrast to Capricorn with its emphasis on power, prestige, status, and elitism. As Aquarius is emphasized via the transit of Pluto in that sign throughout the early twenty-first century, the USA natal Moon in Aquarius will be made to shine more brightly.

 

She then points to an amazing set of synchronicites:

As is evident, the sign of Cancer figures largely in the natal astrology of the American nation, with the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter in that sign. Gemini weighs in as a secondary influence, with Mars and Uranus positioned in that sign. It is of note that again at the 250^th Anniversary, not only is Mercury back in Cancer and recently turned retrograde at 26 Cancer as before, but also are Mars and Uranus back in Gemini. And to beat all, not only are Mars and Gemini back in Gemini, they are also precisely conjunct on July 4, 2026 – an astounding synchronicity to say the very least.

 

WHEW! Much to unpack here, and she does a lot of it. Grateful for both her perspective that denotes not just idealism, but realism — in her detailed recounting of our beloved nation through time.