Eyes to the Skies!
There's lots going on...watch out for the New Moon in Gemini! <3
On Tues. June 12, Mercury moved from Gemini to Cancer and will be in this sign until June 29. When Mercury is in Cancer, we move from the desire for quantity to the need for quality in terms of the information we are attracted to. We think, speak, and take in information on a deeper, more instinctive level now. We have less interest in what is universal, and more interest in what affects us personally and what affects the people around us. Our thoughts are coloured by our emotions, so it is more challenging to be objective.
On Wed. June 13, Venus moves from dedicated, warm, devoted, affectionate, cuddly Cancer to warm-hearted, proud, extravagant Leo. Love becomes a game for this Leo Sun, where Venus in Leo is forever stuck in the romance stage for a relationship. We feed on attention, acknowledgment, validation, and adoration. Venus in Leo loves to be adored, pampered, and admired. Pride and passion are hallmarks of this cycle. We have a strong ego investment in our love lives during this period. The negative expression of this placement is overstating our feelings simply for the effect, as well as extravagance.
On Wed. June 13, a new cycle begins with a New Moon in Gemini at 3:43 p.m. EDT, which has already passed (sorry in posting this late) but its energies will still be with us until the Full Moon.
I'd like to quote Tanishka, The Moon Woman, because she says it all so well...
" We’re now approaching the new moon in Gemini. Gemini is an air sign so it asks us to harness the power of the mind without being enslaved by it.
So this is a time when we may experience anxiety generated by fearful illusions of the mind that cloud our judgment & create mental confusion.
One of the biggest challenges during a Gemini transit is to know our own mind so we can discern truth from illusion. So if something’s caused you to question what you thought you knew to be true…come back to you heart by connecting with your breath until you can feel what resonates as truth.
This minimises the chance of giving one’s personal power over to a ‘false teacher’ – someone who undermines rather than affirms our intuition…usually by claiming to have all the answers & asserting other viewpoints are wrong.
Another form of this is submitting to a group mind that undermines our ability to think for ourselves.
This Gemini influence may also reveal how our mind can sabotage our heart’s deepest desires as a habitual pattern by projecting multiple reasons that diminish the plausibility of our soul’s intent. (More about that further down!)
Since Gemini is the sign of creative manifestation do consider harnessing the power of this new moon by visualising with gratitude and affirming your highest hopes. The first 8 hours after exact new moon is the optimal power window to invoke assistance for help with communication, multi-tasking, research & networking. ...
New Moon in Gemini Archetypal Energy: Hermes, the Magi / Trickster Lesson: To honour our multi-faceted nature and transcend limited thinking
Master Your Manifestations!
One of the ways we empower this aspect is to master our thoughts by identifying how we’re projecting limitations on to ourselves, or on to others or situations with negative self talk that limits the greatest possible scenario manifesting.
... we may delude ourselves that our waking reality has nothing to do with our subconscious expectations or we may try to control the apparent chaos of fate using deceitful means in the hope of turning circumstances to our advantage using manipulation.
How to Harness the Power of this New Moon
As the Moon wanes down to its lowest ebb at new moon it tends to evoke the shadow traits of the sign the new moon is in. So since Gemini can see our rational mind running us ragged, do try to find some time to reflect on the relationship between your subconscious and rational mind so you can use your higher mind to manifest your highest destiny.
Secondly, do be aware of the potential scams of shadow Hermes by questioning deals that sound too good to be true. The key is to observe your subtle senses and act upon your intuition if something doesn’t feel right.
Behaviours of shadow Hermes, the trickster:
– enchanting others using charm (telling them what they want to hear) & then not honouring their word
– hypnosis (imposing their will) by misusing techniques like NLP (neurolinguistic programming) to personally profit at your expense – online scams
Heal Separation By Bringing All Facets Together
Gemini is the sign of multiplicity. So this influence is now assisting us to acknowledge, honour and integrate all the parts that are needed to create a functioning whole, whether that’s identifying all the needs of the aspects that make up our psyche, appreciating individual team members skills to create a cohesive project or honouring all facets of yourself and your partner to create a harmonious partnership.
When we become tunnel-visioned with our focus we can forget to consider the multi-dimensionality of life, so we can end up operating in a state of rational arrogance and superiority. For instance, judging others or ourselves only on the criteria we’re focusing on while negating and neglecting all the facets we / they have to offer and contribute. Once we make the mental correction and adopt an attitude that’s more inclusive we can create an integrated unity that dazzles because of its multi-faceted form.
We often negate certain facets in ourselves or others based on the attitudes we took on from our parents. For example if a particular archetype wasn’t valued by our mum or dad we learn not to value it in ourselves or others.
Gemini is ruled by the planet, Mercury so it brings to the fore the stories we’re carrying in our mercurial or mental body. We access our mental body through our solar plexus, our inner sun. So if we’re subscribing to negative self talk it diminishes our light by sabotaging our ability to be decisive, due to a distorted self identity which undermines our self worth.
When we transcend the rational mind by awakening all the aspects that comprise our soul, we open the central pillar within our energy body so we can access the higher universal mind. This enables us to download insights intuitively which bring all the pieces of cryptic puzzles together, giving us greater understanding into life’s mysteries (the lesson of the Sagittarius, the opposite polarity on the Gemini axis.) "