The New Moon in Gemini, exact at 12:44pm PST on Thursday, May 25th, ups the pace for the coming month. The pattern of background energy shifts from mellow and sustaining to energetic and staccato. As the weather warms we naturally feel more active and curious. This month we are likely to be busy with many different activities, tasks, and social engagements. We leave the home, we leave the garden, we go out into the neighbourhood, we go out and explore. We do many things, maybe all at once.
Gemini is supreme curiosity, hungry for information. Gemini eats facts and data whole, hardly chewing first. Gemini needs to be quick, needs to jump from point to point, to connect seemingly unconnected data. Gemini can’t linger, it must move on to the next alluring and interesting thing; it’s this movement that make the story. This is Gemini’s genius, to connect the dots and weave the strands of information into stories that entertain and educate; that provide meaning and soul sustenance.
Mercury, the moon’s ruler, sextile Neptune, lights up the imagination, and brings a spiritual dimension to this New Moon. The New Moon aspects Pluto and Venus which are square to each other. As the light of the moon grows over the next week, our way forward will become clear. But first, Pluto asks us to face our fears, compulsions, demons. Pluto square Venus brings intensity, and hidden issues to light in relationships. Our relationships mirror our internal dynamics. What are the hidden expectations, desires, conflicts, and gold within you that your relationships reflect?
With the North Node recently shifting out of Virgo and into Leo, we transition out of a period of intense internal processing in which we turned our critical capacities within, and really looked at ourselves, sifting through the contents of our souls. This work has the quality of a prolonged crisis of the self and is accompanied by a persistent low-level anxiety and irritation, an unspecified sense that things aren’t quite right. This kind of work doesn’t usually feel like work. But now that it’s over, perhaps you can see what you’ve accomplished. Perhaps you feel lighter now after having cleared the clutter of your soul.
It’s so easy to release old hangups, insecurities, negativities right now. You may surprise yourself with how you can put down the bags you’ve carried for years. Once you let go of those struggles, once your load is lighter, you will look up and see that the path you wish to walk is right there, shimmering, beckoning. It’s so clear now; this is the way forward.
The North Node in Leo forms a grand fire trine with Saturn in Sag, and Uranus in Aries. So not only does the North Node in Leo light the way for us, but we’re given energy, grace, and discipline to move forward. The trine to Saturn makes planning, organizing, committing to our destiny easier. But Saturn is retrograde till August 25th, so the planning is still internal, working within to find alignment between our desires and what we wish to accomplish. The trine to Uranus brings a revolutionary force into alignment with our personal creative power, brings inspiration and innovation to our means of self-expression. Where do creative self-expression, revolution, and commitment intersect? There is an opening now to locate this secret and potent point of manifestation.
At the New Moon, the sky is dark, there is emptiness and silence. Listen. Theory suggests what this cycle may be about, but only our hearts truly know. Gemini reminds us to look for knowledge not only without but also within. It’s not until the days following the New Moon, when the light of the moon begins to grow, that we usually glimpse the meaning of the cycle, that we begin to see what seeds to sow. It’s not until the Full Moon, when the moon is brightest that we can expect to understand this month’s themes with full clarity. So at the New Moon, listen to your heart. If there is silence, settle in, silence is golden, in silence magic grows.
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In true Gemini Fashion, Mystic Sandwich is on the road! I'm hitting up London, Paris, Barcelona, and Lisbon! Email me to book a reading in one of these cities, or on Skype. Follow my travels on Instagram. <3
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