Insights for Gemini
These insights, are meant as contemplations of a sort: Astrology is 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.
If you need some real world, Jupiter in Taurus inspiration I heartily recommend this.
May 21
Sun enters Gemini: 03:09 AM EDT
Sun trine Pluto
When curiosity meets intense focus, amazing things happen. It is possible to see a world in a grain of sand. To get the most from this, clear away the distractions. Each of us benefits from putting our mind to work at solving the equations that we are most interested in or troubled by. Gemini reminds us that the world is always shifting, communicating with itself and perhaps the Cosmos. It’s a mad flirtation of birds, bees, words and trees, pollen and hormones, bodily sensations. We are all at the party, like it or not. Might as well dance!
Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash
May 22
Sun sextile Mars
There are opportunities in all situations but they aren’t always about getting ‘likes’ or growing rich. They might be about listening fully with our heart and guts or maybe just a simple offering of kindness. Any opportunity that fosters bonds between living things nourishes the world and is well worth engaging.
May 23
Mars square Jupiter
If you fostered and/or nourished some bonds yesterday, today requires a bit of discrimination in that some bonds are more worthwhile than others. If you are brought up sharp, finding yourself face to face with something you can’t tolerate or get rid of, stop right there; tune in to the ground below, the sky above. Measure your immediate reaction against the vastness of time and distance. This too shall pass. We are imploding and exploding at the same time.
May 24
Venus square Chiron
Triage is one of those words that sound better than the actual task. Picking and choosing which crisis wants attention first is a hard call. It’s easier to let the Great World spin when we position ourselves at the center of the wheel.
May 26
Venus sextile Uranus
As busy as we are, saving and destroying the world, there is also, for most of us room for an opening of the heart, a feeling of tenderness for life. In the dark wood there are shafts of sunlight that dapple green with gold.
May 28
Sun square Saturn
The tension between the brightest light (Sun) and the dimmest (Saturn) reminds us that friction is necessary to start a fire. There is such a thing as compassion burnout but if there is a flaw in your thinking it might be that it requires a dose of this magic ingredient which has the power to change everything. Results may not show for a while. Practice, practice, practice.
June 2
Venus trine Neptune
To be human is to have longings. Living as we do in Consumer-ville our longings are easily subverted into addictions. What if longing is actually a blessing? Not meant to be satisfied by some ‘thing’ but used to help us feel and express that rather ephemeral quality called soul? Write a poem; read one; listen to music; sing it; play it; love just about everyone. Encompass the cosmos with your deepest longing that all beings be happy, safe, at ease.
June 3
Full Moon: 13 degrees Sagittarius: 11:41 PM EDT
They used to say that a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? It wasn’t good advice. Let’s just say. All that grasping in the hands of domination leads to things such as clear cuts, space junk, colonization, bigger and better weapons as well as continued appetite for fossil fuels long after we know better. Of course this mind set has also improved sanitation, envisioned public education, birth control and even the notion of liberty and justice for all. Still, it’s time for a new slogan: Man should stop grasping, or what’s an earth for? would be a start. Grasping, no doubt, is nothing more than a perverted manifestation of longing in which case we might appreciate those who reach for things other than profit and power.
June 4
Mercury conjunct Uranus
Looking for a new idea or way of doing something? Observe the natural world and consider how nature accomplishes a similar task. Given that we are aspect and expression of the natural world this should not be too difficult.
June 5
Venus enters Leo
Venus opposes Pluto
At times, the light of reason shines so brightly that it blinds us and the world goes dark. Too much head, too little heart creates real-world problems and yet, like rats in a lab we keep clicking on the T.M.I. button for our dopamine hit, letting the algorithm determine our choices. Venus will be in Leo for a longer time than usual (till October 8th) as she does her descent and return (retrograde). Pluto is about to regress back into Capricorn for the rest of this year and into January 2024 (see below). We could say their meeting is a short but intense dive into this notion of how reason and logic must be tempered with love. How can your mind bow to your heart, something an artificial mind (A.I.) could never do. Pluto in Aquarius has already begun to stir the question of what it actually means to be human and belong to the human race.
June 9
Mercury sextile Neptune
We can locate the heart in the the body, feel when it responds in joy or distress. But where does the soul reside? People have pondered this question for a long time. We know we have souls on a spring morning, wet with rain, birds and squirrels not to mention a host of other creatures hard at work in dances most of us can only marvel at. When I see stars in a black sky at night, or feel the warmth of the sun sinking into my bones after a chill I sense my soul responding. I’m sure you have your version of this. All it requires to access it is a moment of stillness and a bit of receptivity to the constant movement of the natural world. Perhaps the soul responds to our sense that there is a season for everything under heaven.
June 10
Sun sextile Chiron
Anyone remember, Free to Be: You and Me? A book for children of all ages, dedicated to the notion that everyone matters, that each of us has unique gifts which matter to the whole village. Times have changed. People haven’t. What will it take to appreciate our differences and grow a cohesive world? After all, diversity makes the world go ‘round.
June 11
Pluto Retrogrades back into Capricorn: 5:45 AM
Mercury trines Pluto: 6:26 AM
Mercury enters Gemini: 6:26 AM
Venus square Jupiter
Mercury and Pluto in a trine is a good combination for thinking deeply about anything that requires it. Don’t be afraid to look into the shadows or to research more than what’s obvious. It’s almost magical what these two can cook up together.
The astrological picture of Pluto crossing back into Capricorn while Mercury crosses into Gemini conjures the sorcerer’s apprentice or perhaps spies successfully exchanging secrets. One in the light, one in the dark.
Venus adds a bit of extravagance to this day. Try not to spend more than you can afford…
June 15
Mercury square Saturn
Mercury is quite busy this week carrying messages from the underworld and now being asked to prove they are not lies. For some it’s a test they will fail. For others a challenge to do the extra work to make your message clear. A wonderful day for editors to do what they do best.
June 17
Mercury sextile Venus
Saturn stationery retrograde
Be still and allow the stirrings of your soul to reveal something that lives in the depths. No matter what the circumstances, we all need a rest. In the gentlest of ways, what you turn yourself toward will turn toward you.
June 18
New Moon 26 degrees Gemini: 12:37 AM EDT
Sun square Neptune
Make an intention to attune yourself to the stories that you count on to guide you best through the froth of dis- and mis- information surrounding us all. Goes without saying that there are those who would purposely mislead or con us into or out of what serves us best. Everyone has a soul: True or false? The soul is smaller or bigger, depending on what? The soul cannot be measured (it does not weigh 21 grams). And your soul? What makes it ache? What does it long for? What purpose does it serve?
June 19
Jupiter sextile Saturn
Having solved the riddle of the soul… today’s question is about faith. Is it about believing in something? Are faith and hope related? Do you have faith in the invisible or is it grounded in the world you can taste, smell, touch, feel, see and hear? These days, with Jupiter in Taurus it seems if you want to believe in something it ought to be something real.
