The Revolution of Summer 2026
Echoes of the French Revolution
Jupiter moves into Leo on June 29th, 2026 and stays until July 26, 2027.
Jupiter in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius is the French Revolution. That started as soon as Jupiter entered Leo in 1789.
This chart is intense. We’ve got:
Pluto and Mars in an exact square
Jupiter conjunct Uranus—the planet of revolution
a sign-based fixed T-square between them all
The Reign of Terror (the part with all the guillotining) didn’t start until 4 years later, and this chart is packed with tension.
Now we’ve got a sign-based fixed grand cross:
Jupiter in Scorpio
Pluto in Aquarius
Saturn in Taurus
Uranus and Mars conjunct in Leo. With Chiron conjunct Venus for good measure.
The Sun is in Virgo sextile Jupiter - Virgo in mundane astrology tends to correlate to the pursuit of purity. Neptune had also just moved into Scorpio—the sign of paranoia and investigation. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity turned into Liberty, Equality or death.
So, how is our Jupiter-in-Leo moment looking?
Here is the ingress Chart:
Is that Mars-Uranus conjunction in Gemini worrisome?
Yes, yes it is. The Iran War started the day after the last Mars-Uranus square was exact.
We also have Jupiter immediately opposing Pluto by degree. We are jumping in hot.
And Chiron will have just moved into Taurus. Chiron in Taurus is about suffering related to physical, material existence—the pain of simply not having what you need. The French Revolution started with bread riots.
Clues
Jupiter went direct in Cancer on March 11 from its last retrograde. I like to look at the direct-before-ingress moment because this is when a planet is turning toward its future direction. It is contemplating its destination once again. So did anything of note happen around March 11?
We were already at war with Iran. That started Feb 28.
March 11: Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian lists preconditions for ending the war …includ[ing] recognizing Iran’s legitimate rights, payment of reparations, and firm international guarantees against future aggression. Wikipedia
March 12: The first statement attributed to Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was read in Iranian state media…[He] vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed and warned countries in the region to stop hosting US bases. Wikipedia
So at this juncture we got clarity that the regime had not changed at all, and Iran was not going to capitulate despite the U.S. and Israel dropping several billions dollars worth of bombs on their heads and killing their leader. Regardless of the military might of the American Empire, you apparently can’t unseat a regime of hardliners by dropping bombs on them. That just makes them even more entrenched. Who knew?
What strikes me about Iran’s demands is that they are not revolutionary at all. They boil down to, “treat us like a sovereign country you cannot just bomb on a whim”.
Where did the French Revolution come from?
It arose out of financial crisis. The antecedents were:
Social inequality due to wealth concentration
Debt crisis caused by supporting foreign wars (the US revolution) and extravagant spending by the royalty
Bad harvests leading to food shortages
Enlightenment ideals promoting equality and reason
Political rigidity resisting attempts to reform
We already have social inequality and political rigidity. So we just need to add financial disaster, shortages of basic goods, and some kind of ideological shift in the winds to be in the same position.
Our metastasizing supply-chain crisis
If you have been following the Iran situation at all, you already know that the Straight of Hormuz blockage is really bad news for the global economy. But there are some underlying connections that not everyone is aware of.
First, both LNG (energy) and helium (required for chip manufacturing) are inputs into AI—and both supply chains are not only blocked, but the infrastructure to produce them are being actively destroyed right now. Qatar supplies about a third of the global helium supply. Recent US stock market growth has been fueled by AI investments for several years now. This puts the global financial system in a precarious state.
People often talk about “the AI bubble”—I don’t think it is a classic bubble where hype outpaces demand, but it is definitely a huge debt-financed rollout of infrastructure that depends entirely on chips. Taiwan is the classic chokepoint for chips, but chips can’t be made without helium either.
But that’s just one part of the global system we all rely on. A non-exhaustive list of the critical supplies that are produced in the Gulf and flow through the Strait of Hormuz:
oil and LNG (liquid natural gas)
helium, neon (used to make chips)
fertilizer (urea, ammonia)
sulfur (fertilizer, metal refining affecting battery materials)
aluminum
plastics precursors and chemicals like methanol and naphtha that go into making everything from automotive parts, clothing, medical supplies and pharmaceuticals, packaging, etc.
This amounts to the material basis of modern civilization.
So I think we have the financial disaster and shortages of basic goods covered.
All we need is some kind of ideological shift to take hold—something like the summer of 2020 George Floyd protests.
The emotional underpinnings of change
The ideas that fueled the French Revolution were not really new. Revolutionary ideas are perennial—for a revolution to occur, you need a population desperate enough to act on them. There has to be a moment the pain becomes bad enough that a critical mass of people choose to risk defying power.
During the French Revolution, Neptune was in Libra—the literal sign of liberty, equality, fraternity. The emotional underpinnings of that moment were about the desire for harmony and fairness—right up until Neptune moved into Scorpio. 🫠
Aries is the opposite sign to Libra. Neptune in Aries is fighting the good fight. Being a soldier in a cause you believe in, and you at least believe is good for everyone (they might disagree—but you don’t care, they clearly don’t know what’s good for them).
Chiron in Taurus will create the desperation. Neptune in Aries will provide the meaning-making framework that transforms that desperation into collective action.
Our revolutionary moment is in a different key
There are some crucial differences between the French Revolution’s charts and ours. The historical charts above were full of fixed energy in opposition and squares—stubborn signs locked in a tense pattern that unsurprisingly erupting into violence. That is a chart of energy building until the container shatters.
What we have is actually a lot less tense in terms of the whole chart - Jupiter and Pluto will be opposite, but they are supported by harmonious aspects (trine/sextile) to Neptune in early Aries and Uranus-Mars in early Gemini. Saturn will be almost halfway through Aries already, so the sea-commerce-blockages that Neptune-Saturn represents will be gradually easing up.
The Uranus-Mars conjunction could actually be the end of the crisis that started at the third quarter square, and the seeding of a new beginning.
Caveat: it’s important to not conflate “harmonious” with “good/beneficial”. Harmonious aspects relative to oppositions create pathways for energy to flow, which prevents explosions—but that doesn’t mean the outcome is in your best interest. Sometimes trines and sextiles create collusion—energy that all flows strongly and easily in a certain direction—not necessarily in the direction you want. All we know for sure is that there probably won’t be any guillotines involved. 😅
An excess of heat and light
The other striking pattern here is all the main players (Aquarius, Aries, Gemini, Leo) are masculine/yang signs. Fire and Air. Active, moving, up and out signs. They challenge limits, innovate, inspire, lead, change.
The shadow of excessive Fire + Air is ignoring limits, hubris, indifference, insensitivity, impatience, lack of introspection, chaos, burnout. Moving too fast, changing too much, and ignoring the consequences.
If you need a concrete example of this shadow—Trump has Leo Rising (Fire), Sun in Gemini (Air), Moon in Sagittarius (Fire), and Jupiter in Libra (Air). He is the personification of the worst of Leo and Libra’s need to be liked and admired, Sag’s hubris, and Gemini’s chaos. His only yin-sign planets are a stellium in Cancer—in his 12th house, out of sight.
So what does this all add up to?
As far as I can tell: real material deprivation that sparks a revolution that is innovative, not explosive.
Uranus is the revolutionary, the awakener—and with Mars in Gemini they are chaos-fueled change agents.
Neptune in Aries is a holy war—but we have that already. It’s also compassion in action. Neptune is a collective planet. It wants everyone to be fed.
Pluto in Aquarius is the transformer of systems.
And all of this is emerging right after the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. We are at the beginning of a deep re-architecting of our reality.
What it will feel like: Overwhelming disruption to the material status quo. Ideological battles over the power of technology to change reality. Movements that provide a righteous sense of collective belonging—and look to outsiders like cults.
What is actually happening: transformation emerging through chaos. A demand for human needs to matter forcing a renegotiation between our technological potential and our material reality. 💥