Seek your special place and path on the Gemini New Moon
The New Moon in Gemini at 22 degrees, occurs on Wednesday, June 13 at 3:32 PM EDT/12:32 PDT. This New Moon will be affecting those with major aspects (Sun, Moon, Ascendent, and other transits and aspects) between 19-27 degrees in the Mutable signs: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces. The New Moon will highlight whatever area of your life you find Gemini. In the third decan of Gemini, this New Moon is presenting you with results and direction for whatever you have been preparing and planning for.
The day before the New Moon, June 12, Mercury enters Cancer. And the few days leading up to the New Moon is the period when the waning lunar cycle is in the dark of the moon. This is a time we become more reflective. Coupled with the fact that Mercury is ready to change signs (and therefore in the critical last/anaretic degree), we may be dealing with some old patterns and habits or some unfinished business related to goals, dreams, and communication that needs to be finalized. I've certainly noticed that trouble spots have been appearing that require some last minute fixes. Get chores and overdue issues handled so the New Moon will usher in the next lunar cycle in good shape for a new path.
Venus leaves Cancer the same day as the New Moon, entering Leo where it will transit until July 9. This is a time when love, creativity, and all forms of self expression become the key motivators. Deep seated needs rise up and become a chief motivation for much of what we seek. Venus makes a number of aspects to other points of interest, including her conjunction with the North Node on June 18-19. The North Node is the gateway to the future, so it may be we begin a new relationship or a new phase in an existing one. It may also mean we let go what has held us back from a new start. On June 20-21 Venus forms an opposition with Mars, bringing into the equation a mixture of eroticism and emotional tension that gets acted out in heated and antagonistic ways. Mars is also conjunct the South Node (opposition to North Node=future) and karmic and past ties are activated. Some unfinished business requires attention, and something we’ve carried into this experience in order to make peace or cope with, must be attended.
The twins, Gemini, where the Sun and Moon form a conjunction on Wednesday, raise the specter of Duplicity and Forced Choice. Like the three-in-one goddess/god, (upon which the concept of the Trinity was based-three aspects of the One), Gemini activates the psychic energies within each of us. Whatever gifts we have can provide us with a steady source of information. Dreams may become more prescient. Intuition is likely to be stronger than usual, and though our minds may flit from flower to flower or have trouble finding a place to alight and focus, our inner voices will be strong and we’ll be able to connect, energize ourselves and others, to see more long range solutions to issues that have been difficult to resolve.
The New Moon in Gemini aspects Ceres. Both represent archetypal energies of the Mother. Ceres one of the most recently discovered planets, joins the traditional ruler of the feminine, the Moon, as the Corn Goddess or Earth Mother. Ceres reigns over the cycles of life: fertility, birth, harvest, aging, death, rebirth. The Moon rules over our individual emotional well being, health, and temperament. Ceres rules over all who provide nourishment in some way, including chefs, spiritual guides, counselors, caregivers, healers, and of course mothers and grandmothers. When our need to nurture and support is thwarted, we tend to suppress our emotional needs and may feel weighted down and burdened. At this New Moon we might want to acknowledge what needs we do have and find ways to express our love and concern for those in need.
With our karmic past appearing in our current life path (Mars conjunct the South Node), we will be spurred to meet ourself on the karmic road again. And we’ll meet those with whom we have unfinished business or ties that need renewing. Jupiter and Neptune are both in a loving, fortuitous trine to one another, making a kind of magical combination for conjuring up or manifesting what our hearts desire. We seek now, the fulfillment of our hopes and dreams, our desires, and our goals. The New Moon in Gemini may give you a much clearer vision of how that might be achieved; clearer than at any time in the past. “Jupiter trine Neptune could symbolize courtly love, the kind that was celebrated in medieval times. Troubadours would sing slushy love songs to married ladies, knights would joust in honor of the Queen. However, these pining wannabe suitors would never, ever take it to the physical.”
As we harness the power of the New Moon in the air sign Gemini while at the same time not allowing ourselves to be enslaved or entrapped by our own thoughts, beliefs, expectations, or opinions. Watch out for painful judgments and self criticism (or critical remarks from others). During a Gemini New Moon transit, we want to know our own minds, without being led into confusion and illusion. The process of discernment is crucial right now as we can experience freedom in our choices when we refuse to give into fears, self doubt, bad advice from others, or mental confusion. When the Moon and Ceres, both keepers of our emotional well being and balance, are in airy Gemini, we need to use our spiritual and physical skills and practices to stay grounded and in tune with our own breath and the beating of our own hearts. The rhythm of life is within our control through our breath, body, mind, and emotional balance. Now is the time to honor our multifaceted nature and embrace our ability to transcend limited and fear-based thinking.
By maintaining honorable and honest ways of communicating and respecting diversity, we work gracefully into a more harmonious way of living. We are able to both give and receive love when we live with an ethical heart and open, generous soul.
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