Insights for Gemini
These insights, are meant as contemplations of a sort: Each one fashioned using the astrological aspects of the moment. Astrology can be thought of as a kind of sky writing which invites the muse. No two perceptions are exactly the same but any of us can find insight through the images if we look. These are mine, happily offered for you to reshape and fashion into something of your own. Follow the links, where you find them for further musings on the planetary aspects.
May 20
Sun enters Gemini: 09:22 PM EDT
Blame it on Gemini. All if it. The sorcerer’s apprentice is at it again. Alone and unsupervised in the house of magic: Curious, brilliant and unaware of consequences: Too young, too immature to believe that some doors are better left unopened until you have more skills.
Of course this apprentice is the mind, the human mind at work. Consider the relentless human dexterity in making new and better weapons, in our ability to manipulate the human psyche and make it believe something, buy something, fight for something; not because it is necessary but because it seems as though it is. It seems we have arrived at the point where it has become increasingly difficult to tell truth from a lie, fact from fabrication, virtual from real.
Gemini is the guy with the 3 shells and the pea. You’ll never guess which one unless they want you to but you’ll keep trying. Yet we need Gemini the way we need little flying creatures, pollinators, to make the crops grow. It is definitely has its part in the Big Twelve of the zodiac.
The thing is that the human mind was never meant to be severed from the heart. If we imagine that the year unfolds around 12 major tasks, this month would be the task of mastering or at least focusing the mind. If the mind is the apprentice, the ever curious student, let the heart be the sorcerer, the teacher, the guide. To do this you must unplug, at least for some time each day. Move, breathe. Allow the chatter to subside. Listen to your heart.
As the Sun journeys through Gemini it will sextile Jupiter once again, square Neptune and conjunct Mercury, underscoring Gemini themes for the month.
May 21
Sun conjunct Mercury retrograde
I tend to think of this as the hidden-in-plain-sight, secretly most powerful day of the retrograde period. A day when Mercury, the mind, sits in the heart (the Sun) and is renewed for another round. Hidden because it only shows itself to those with ears to hear and eyes to see. (The mystical part of this is that when the mind sits in the heart all polarities and paradoxes resolve. If only for a moment.)
Navigating as best we can, the free-fall of change that seems to move so fast we can only think of it as chaos, we come to a moment of stillness. We allow the moment to be just as it is. We could listen for a message at this pinpoint of awareness which may allow a glimpse of coherence amidst wildly fluctuating energies. Like a stone falling in still water, concentric ripples will follow.
May 22
Mercury retrogrades back to Taurus
Mars sextile Pluto
Stay close to nature the natural world as well as your own nature as part of that world. We are human animals, gifted or perhaps cursed with abilities uniquely our own. Our purpose, whatever the circumstances has something to do with awareness which requires presence. This gives us the ability to inhabit the world as it is even as we imagine what it might become. This is both mystical and practical. To be present to things as they are opens doors to rooms where sustainable change can happen. We can only get ‘there’ from ‘here’.
May 23
Sun sextile Jupiter
Mars sextile Mercury Rx
“Been there, done that,” signals the end of learning but it could be the beginning of application. Open yourself to possibilities for dealing with your circumstances, remembering that you weren’t born yesterday. You have a wealth of experience that has taught you, for better and worse, about the world in which you live. The more you are aware of this the better the application to the conditions you meet.
May 24
Venus sextile Saturn
Mars enters Aries
The justifiable anger and indignation of Venus these days benefits from Saturn’s steady hand. Look for opportunities to plan your campaign, whatever it is. Mars in its home sign wants to ride wild horses or cause massive breakthroughs. As Mars catches up to Jupiter shortly before the New Moon we can expect escalations of all kinds. We know where that thought leads. But there are other uses. We can use reason to navigate our vision. We don’t have to use force. Harnessing this ability we could, at least in our own lives, escalate the breakthroughs that we know need to happen. ‘Escalate’ and ‘war’ do not need to go together.
May 25
Mercury retrograde trine Pluto
This aspect is with us till June 12th. Think ‘empowerment”. The effects may be more obvious after June 3 when Mercury goes direct but we are approaching. It’s a slow trine, an unfolding, a time to be honest about your outrage in a season of terrible events and impending disasters. Harm comes if this outrage takes shape as the familiar mantra of ‘coulda, shoulda, woulda, but if only’. It is what it is.
Uncontained rage is said to be like picking up a hot coal to throw at someone. We all have those kinds of scars. To contain this force and direct it toward your best hope could work wonders. Outrage can become a diamond laser cutting through difficulties and pulling the world, broken as it seems, into a sustainable shape. If not now, when?
May 27
Venus square Pluto
The women have had it. They are convinced in spite of thousands of years aimed at a lie that we, and all of our children are human. In all of our manifestations. We are all feminists when we recognize the equality and full humanity of all genders. To do less is to destroy the web of connection that allows for human existence.
May 28
Venus enters Taurus
What does it mean to be at home in your body: To take in the actual sense perceptions of the environment? We need to slow down, to allow the spell of the sensuous at least until the New Moon on the 30th. This, in spite of Mars who has a different agenda (tomorrow). Even if you can only do this for a moment, a breath, there is much to be gained by anchoring the mind in the body, by slowing down and sniffing your world. Maybe it’s time for some flowers or a deep appreciation of the scent of your doggie darling’s fur.
May 29
Mars conjunct Jupiter
Here is the possibility of a hot coal landing in our lap and the sense that something must be done right NOW. But the New Moon isn’t until tomorrow and it’s always better to wait till after this to actualize our impulses. Give it one more day if you can before you do the thing you can’t undo.
May 30
New Moon: 09 degrees Gemini: 07:30 AM EDT
Today’s New Moon, like all New Moons is a time to plant a seed of intention, or even a real seed in the dirt. What we plant at the beginning of this particular cycle will take until mid-January to come to fullness. By then we may have lost track of this moment. But the connection is strong and specific. (This in reference to a Mars retrograde period from October 30 – January 12 when it goes direct at this exact same degree. Given the Mars Jupiter conjunction yesterday this seems quite worth making note of.) The seeds of today will be energized beyond our imaginings at the beginning of 2023.
June 3
Mercury stationery direct
Whatever supports the shape and structure of your real life, matters more than ever now. It’s not a time to acquire more things or experience. It’s about making the world around you livable, sustainable for as many living beings as possible. The last 3 weeks were time for consideration, exploration of ideas. What did you learn? Now you get to be the change or at least start the ball rolling. It beats simply waiting for the apocalypse.
June 4
Saturn stationery retrograde
Pressure turns coal into diamonds. It’s a natural fact. We love diamonds for their glitter, for the sharp beauty that fractures light into rainbows. Now would be a good time for a bit of awe at the earth’s ability to create such wonders. We humans are a bit like diamonds: All that pressure turning us into gems of earned wisdom.
June 6
Sun sextile Chiron
Think of all the clever ways that life has taught you to be just you: Ways you never expected, lessons learned on line at the supermarket, on mountain trails, messages in dreams and books (rarely bottles). How might you pay it forward? We are all teachers as well as the taught.
June 10
Mercury trine Pluto
A continued reminder since May 22nd that we are making the world even as it unravels. In mythic terms we might imagine we are guided by the three fates; Clotho who spins the thread of our fate by clothing us in conditions, Lachesis who dispenses it by twirling us into the dance of living and Atropos who cuts this thread at the end, dispelling the enchantment of existence. From a more mundane perspective we might just appreciate the hard work of shoring up the reality that sustains us.
June 11
Venus conjunct Uranus
Be amazed by beauty. Even if only for a moment or maybe an hour. Look for it in the natural world which is closer to Creation: A flower or a tree, maybe up in the sky or inside your own heart. Is creation the same as love? Does it always start with a bang?
June 13
Mercury enters Gemini
At home in the realm of the 10,000 things we marvel at butterflies, birds, thoughts and feeling flying in the air. To do this we must steady the breath. Otherwise a marvel becomes a nightmare of 10,000,000 things which swarm rather than fly. Which overwhelm rather than delight. As the wise man said, ‘I breathe in, I breathe out.’
June 14
Full Moon: 23 degrees Sagittarius 07:51 AM EDT
What stories do you tell yourself? What stories do others tell you? Bred in the bone of our being, humans are made of stories. Our stories are changing, collapsing, transforming and new stories are arising. Take the journey, risk opening your mind. Live and learn some new stories, some of which will take us through this time of Great Transition to the birth of a New Age. It’s unnerving, creative, exciting, stressful, chaotic, exhilarating, devastating and even dangerous. There’s a list for you. Story that.
June 15
Mars conjunct Chiron
Humans make love and they make war. They are tender and they are cruel. They are healers and they are killers. They are US. All of us. Life is the teacher. The mere act of being born alive is the teaching. Paradox and mystery in everything.
June 16
Sun trine Saturn
Sun square Neptune
There is no point in building a house on shifting sands or flood plains. How are your plans unfolding in these times of uncertainty, when the way can so easily seem lost? It’s a question that doesn’t have an answer, although it needs to be asked over and over again: by all of us together not one at a time. Consensus takes time which we have somehow broken so that it appears to be linear rather than cyclical. Cycles give us more time, lines are finite and seem to limit time. Time is a real mystery and our perception of it can mess with our plans.
June 18
Venus square Saturn
Today’s gift reminds us we can bend not break if we hold our ground, not with resistance but with conviction, a deeply rooted sense that it matters. Hold back the punch in favor of asking questions about why things are done in a particular way. Paradigms shift because we shift them.
June 19
Venus sextile Neptune
Having stood firm for that which matters, today is for beauty, in unexpected places and for no reason. Maybe because beauty is love and hallelujah anyway seems like the right idea.
June 20
Sun trine Pluto
Mercury sextile Jupiter
Choose your adventure. Like the Fool with one foot on the rainbow bridge we walk the path not really knowing where it leads. It teaches us everything: The getting of wisdom, the only game in town.
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