Monthly Astro Forecast: New Moon in Gemini
This lunation is a dynamic one, with lots of changeable air and fire energy balanced by a watery pull to be more sensitive and compassionate. I've seen it described as "soul expression", which is perfect for this balance of communication and connection, self expression and relating to others. The chart for the new moon, on May 25th, shows a confrontation with the shadow, with Pluto squaring Venus and sesquiquadrate the moon on that same day. Gemini is usually happiest on the surface, making connections and following the thread of her curiosity. Gemini is about perception, about how we understand the world around us, and about how we communicate and express those perceptions. This new moon is all about communicating, about learning and sharing who we are and what we can become.
But this chart also pulls us down deep, into the feelings we prefer to deny, the shadow side of our minds and our selves. It asks us what we value most, in ourselves and in others. Perhaps more importantly, it asks what we hide from ourselves, what we project out or blame others for. There is great potential for growth here, if we are willing to go deep, to own up to the bits of us we don't like, to take back our projections and take ownership of them. Over and over the "other" is highlighted in the astrology - Gemini is the sign of the twins, the new moon is in the seventh house of relationships, Venus makes some powerful outer planet aspects and Jupiter in relationship-oriented Libra goes direct on June 9th. As well as focusing on the relationships in your life, its time to pay attention to the "other" within you. Take your shadow for a walk. Hold her hand, look her in the eye. embrace her and let her know that you value her. Even our flaws have something to teach us, often the most powerful lesson of all.
A series of squares between the planets moving through Gemini (the Sun, Mars, and Mercury from June 6) and the outer planets currently transiting Pisces (Neptune and Chiron), suggests a clash between seeing others as different, separate from us (Gemini), and knowing that we are all one (Pisces). Gemini understands, intellectually, that we are all human, fundamentally the same. And Gemini is most likely fascinated by our differences as well as our similarities, keen to learn from different cultures, belief systems, worldviews. But Pisces truly feels, deep down, how we share sorrows and joys, that the same blood flows in all our veins. The knowing of Gemini has facts and fascination, the knowing of Pisces doesn't need them, it is intuitive, even instinctive. Those square aspects bring a clash between healing and compassion on the one hand, and logic and reason on the other. But they also bring an opportunity to balance our intellect and our feelings. This is a creative combination, so if you've been waiting to start that novel, its time to get going, using your Gemini words and your Pisces imagination. This lunation also brings a series of oppositions between the planets in Gemini and Saturn retrograde in Sagittarius, always ready to show us the limits of our quest and the boundaries of our knowledge.
Venus is active this lunation, beginning with her square to Pluto on the same day as the new moon. She's passionate and confident in Aries, knows what she wants, demands it, makes sure she gets it. There are no self worth issues here, no neediness. Venus in Aries values her self and her individual gifts. Venus square Pluto takes us on a journey into the underworld. Its time to dig down, to eat the pomegranate seeds (one of my favourite fruits!), to learn to love your darkness. Use the Gemini curiosity, even Gemini objectivity to be honest with ourselves. Let the last fires of Aries season burn away our denial, our inability to love ourselves. Venus in Aries demands that we love fiercely, all the beautiful gifts of this life and our unique offering to the world. On June 3rd, Venus conjuncts rebellious Uranus, and its time for a values revolution. Use the mental space of Gemini to find your vision for how love can change the world. And then act, make change, draw on all the mutable and cardinal energy around at this time. Venus conjunct Uranus seeks our personal final frontier, and then says go there, go right where you are most afraid to go. Plunge down to your Pluto depths, reach up to your Uranus heights. No fear.
And then on June 6, Venus comes home to Taurus. Suddenly she is curled up in a comfortable armchair, beside the fire (for the fires of Aries do not burn out, they are simply contained by the earth to fuel the journey onward through the zodiac). Now Venus is ready to build, to create, to manifest. And to revel in the powers of her senses. Venus in Taurus is the beauty of the green earth, the flowers in bloom, the bright colours of summer. She is the Green Woman, full bodied and voluptuous. Who or what are you seducing? Mercury comes home on June 6 too, to airy Gemini. Quicksilver, on winged feet, alight with ideas and inspiration. He flies in, on a gust of wind. What does he bring you, and what does he take in return? Because there's always an exchange, Mercury is the god of trade, and the trickster of the zodiac.
As well as our relationships with each other, our relationship to spirit, to the universe, to the great web of life is in focus in the next few weeks. On June 9 Jupiter goes direct in Libra, helping us to clarify our ideals. Jupiter is the traditional priest, guiding us to follow a spiritual system, a quest as much for belonging as it is for connection to the divine. On June 16, Neptune goes retrograde, taking our seeking within. Neptune ignores the system, and probably doesn't even know that there is one. Instead Neptune is our inner mystic, our personal sense of connection to source and ability to transcend our individuality. How is your perception of the divine shifting, and what does that mean for how you live your life?
On June 21st, the Sun moves into Cancer, marking the Solstice point. Mars is already in Cancer, and Mercury moves into Cancer on June 21st too. And so we are in Cancer season, moving from the realm of the intellect into the realm of emotions, the urge to nurture others and ourselves. Cancer wants to belong, to feel secure and safe. So there is a risk that Cancer shuts out anyone or anything who she perceives as threatening that safety. Subconscious fears can drive Cancer's actions, and in a lunation including a general election, I can't help worrying what we are trading to Mercury for our security, for a misguided sense of belonging which includes some and excludes others. So let's use this lunation for true soul expression, individually and collectively, to honour love and togetherness instead of separation and difference.
But this chart also pulls us down deep, into the feelings we prefer to deny, the shadow side of our minds and our selves. It asks us what we value most, in ourselves and in others. Perhaps more importantly, it asks what we hide from ourselves, what we project out or blame others for. There is great potential for growth here, if we are willing to go deep, to own up to the bits of us we don't like, to take back our projections and take ownership of them. Over and over the "other" is highlighted in the astrology - Gemini is the sign of the twins, the new moon is in the seventh house of relationships, Venus makes some powerful outer planet aspects and Jupiter in relationship-oriented Libra goes direct on June 9th. As well as focusing on the relationships in your life, its time to pay attention to the "other" within you. Take your shadow for a walk. Hold her hand, look her in the eye. embrace her and let her know that you value her. Even our flaws have something to teach us, often the most powerful lesson of all.
A series of squares between the planets moving through Gemini (the Sun, Mars, and Mercury from June 6) and the outer planets currently transiting Pisces (Neptune and Chiron), suggests a clash between seeing others as different, separate from us (Gemini), and knowing that we are all one (Pisces). Gemini understands, intellectually, that we are all human, fundamentally the same. And Gemini is most likely fascinated by our differences as well as our similarities, keen to learn from different cultures, belief systems, worldviews. But Pisces truly feels, deep down, how we share sorrows and joys, that the same blood flows in all our veins. The knowing of Gemini has facts and fascination, the knowing of Pisces doesn't need them, it is intuitive, even instinctive. Those square aspects bring a clash between healing and compassion on the one hand, and logic and reason on the other. But they also bring an opportunity to balance our intellect and our feelings. This is a creative combination, so if you've been waiting to start that novel, its time to get going, using your Gemini words and your Pisces imagination. This lunation also brings a series of oppositions between the planets in Gemini and Saturn retrograde in Sagittarius, always ready to show us the limits of our quest and the boundaries of our knowledge.
Venus is active this lunation, beginning with her square to Pluto on the same day as the new moon. She's passionate and confident in Aries, knows what she wants, demands it, makes sure she gets it. There are no self worth issues here, no neediness. Venus in Aries values her self and her individual gifts. Venus square Pluto takes us on a journey into the underworld. Its time to dig down, to eat the pomegranate seeds (one of my favourite fruits!), to learn to love your darkness. Use the Gemini curiosity, even Gemini objectivity to be honest with ourselves. Let the last fires of Aries season burn away our denial, our inability to love ourselves. Venus in Aries demands that we love fiercely, all the beautiful gifts of this life and our unique offering to the world. On June 3rd, Venus conjuncts rebellious Uranus, and its time for a values revolution. Use the mental space of Gemini to find your vision for how love can change the world. And then act, make change, draw on all the mutable and cardinal energy around at this time. Venus conjunct Uranus seeks our personal final frontier, and then says go there, go right where you are most afraid to go. Plunge down to your Pluto depths, reach up to your Uranus heights. No fear.
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| The beauty and abundance of Venus in Taurus |
As well as our relationships with each other, our relationship to spirit, to the universe, to the great web of life is in focus in the next few weeks. On June 9 Jupiter goes direct in Libra, helping us to clarify our ideals. Jupiter is the traditional priest, guiding us to follow a spiritual system, a quest as much for belonging as it is for connection to the divine. On June 16, Neptune goes retrograde, taking our seeking within. Neptune ignores the system, and probably doesn't even know that there is one. Instead Neptune is our inner mystic, our personal sense of connection to source and ability to transcend our individuality. How is your perception of the divine shifting, and what does that mean for how you live your life?
On June 21st, the Sun moves into Cancer, marking the Solstice point. Mars is already in Cancer, and Mercury moves into Cancer on June 21st too. And so we are in Cancer season, moving from the realm of the intellect into the realm of emotions, the urge to nurture others and ourselves. Cancer wants to belong, to feel secure and safe. So there is a risk that Cancer shuts out anyone or anything who she perceives as threatening that safety. Subconscious fears can drive Cancer's actions, and in a lunation including a general election, I can't help worrying what we are trading to Mercury for our security, for a misguided sense of belonging which includes some and excludes others. So let's use this lunation for true soul expression, individually and collectively, to honour love and togetherness instead of separation and difference.