Welcoming Gemini
Heidi and Ellen welcome the sign of Gemini. It will be an ever-moving and effervescent month. Gemini knows how to light up a room and how to ask all the good questions. The pace picks up, and so too the number of things we are juggling. Gemini rules the lungs and is ever here to remind us to take a deep breath or two amidst all the activity. Gemini Season tells us that we can connect with our sense of curiosity as a form of care. What we grounded during Taurus Season will now change, morph, and evolve in Gemini Season.
What we talked about in this episode:
PRINCE’S CHART
WALT WHITMAN’S CHART
POEM
The Coast of Nowhere II by Chris Dombroski
My best friend that winter was a cardinal, male by his call. At the time I wrote in the closet of a rented house, my desk a piece of plywood laid atop stacked cinder blocks. Our unspoken competition was to see who could get working before the other. If I sat down in the dark before he called from his oak perch, I would turn on the light and tap twice against the window. But if his song rousted me from bed, I would stagger to my chair and signal with the lamp, You win, in Morse code. We didn’t bother keeping score as sleep was rare for me and dread rampant, giving me a leg up on my bird brother. One Tuesday in February he failed to show. Sleet and black rain pelting the eaves, the kind of predawn that reaches through the window, hissing, Your heart never was a bird let alone a bright-red singing one. I wondered if he’d met his fate the day before: the supreme banality of a house cat, perhaps, concealed behind a feeder filled with sun- and safflower seeds. I went to my job, worked late, drove the lakeshore home, and, on the coast of nowhere, slept for once the sleep of the drowned. Woke to: Dear-dear, the notes faint as if heard from underwater, then sharper, from high in the oak, Dear-dear-dear-dear. My room flooding with light and orbiting motes, I blinked away the glare, looked out the window: early sun on fresh snow and a bird I knew was naming me.
FILM
TELEVISION
BOOKS
Famesick: A Memoir by Lena Dunham
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
TRANSITS
May 20 - Sun enters Gemini
The Sun now enters the effervescent, ever-moving, quick-thinking sign of Gemini. Gemini knows how to light up a room and how to ask all the good questions. The pace picks up, and so too the number of things we are juggling. Gemini rules the lungs and is ever here to remind us to take a deep breath or two amidst all the activity.
Sun moves into Gemini at 5:36 pm PT
May 22 - Uranus Cazimi
This Cazimi happens once a year. This is the day of Uranus, a day of electric change and the power to reinvent. It’s a ride, and we need to be sure to bring all our stabilizing powers to this day. But it’s also a day of freeing up and making bold, interesting choices. It’s a day to experiment.
The Sun conjoins Uranus (cazimi!) at 7:24 am PT
May 25 - Mars in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius
This isn’t the easiest aspect, as it stirs up intensity. But power is energy in motion, and it needs to be wielded well. That’s our opportunity today. There are many who currently do not know how to wield power wisely, so it’s left to those who do to steady the ship and keep our attention focused on missions that benefit Humanity.
Mars squares Pluto Rx at 9:02 pm PT
May 31st - Full Moon of Gemini Season
Uranus continues to presence itself in big ways. This Full Moon is conjunct Uranus and the changes continue to accelerate. Expect the unexpected. Expect a miracle. Expect to feel a little out of control. The best way to work with Uranus is to be willing to change.
The full moon in Sagittarius occurs at 1:45 am PT
June 9 - Venus in Cancer, conjunct Jupiter in Cancer
This is one of the loveliest transits of the entire month. It’s cozy. It’s magnetic. It is full of pleasure. And it is also a deep offering of the gifts of the Divine Feminine.
Venus conjoins Cancer at 12:55 pm PT
June 13 - Venus enters Leo
Now Venus gets to roar. Now, Venus tries on her full queen self. Now Venus steps forth with confidence and regality and offers her authentic truth. It’s such a time of creativity and love.
Enjoy!
Venus enters Leo at 3:46 am PT
June 14 - New Moon of Gemini Season
This is a New Moon that doesn’t have a lot of complications. It’s a time to freely connect and build new bridges. Things can quickly slot into place. Conversations are not as fraught. This is a time of swift and potentially more graceful changes.
The New Moon in Gemini occurs at 7:54 PM PT
June 16 - Venus in Leo trine Neptune in Aries
The season of artistry and love begins. We feel inspired and ignited. Our dreams are flowing in the right direction. We give ourselves time and space to create.
Venus trines Neptune at 8:40 pm PT
June 19 - Chiron enters Taurus
This is a very significant moment. Chiron enters Taurus for the first time in about 50 years. Its journey in Aries has done its work, and now it enters the realm of our self-worth and our ability to magnetize and use resources well. It will dip back into Aries before fully moving through Taurus, but we begin to get a taste of this new healing ground.
Chiron enters Taurus at 2:20 pm PT