Gemini Season is here…

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...Our language and behavior patterns are modeled on what we perceive regularly, rhythmically and definitely in response to affirmation and reward. Although the foundation and bulk of this development occurs when we are young children, it also continues well into our adult years. The brain’s ability to shape itself (plasticity) is what allows us to adapt to new circumstances, learn new languages, make new friends, and adopt new habits. Brain plasticity is essential for our ongoing evolution. Without it, mental/perceptual processes are rigid and stunted, resulting in the inability to comprehend, cope, communicate, connect. 

In 2020, Gemini Season will feature five planetary retrogrades. Pluto, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus will all station retrograde before the season begins (Venus is retrograde in Gemini), and Mercury (Gemini’s planetary ruler) will begin its retrograde on June 17. Astrologically, retrogrades imply periods of time in which processes are under review, when information must be re-examined, and steps must be repeated or redone. Many retrogrades ask us to remain in spaces of indecision or unknown as we renegotiate terms, rethink strategies or even reverse course. Rather than thinking of retrogrades as periods of time full of problems, we might instead think of them as opportunities for relearning and repatterning, for strengthening the brain’s ability to change and adapt as a result of experience and repetition.  

When outer planets are retrograde (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), as they are for nearly half the year, we can consider slow-moving changes in collective consciousness, as well as long-term periods of evolution in our own inner awareness. When the social planets are retrograde (Jupiter and Saturn) we might consider the reformulation of beliefs and opinions, or the questioning of truth (Jupiter) which leads to societal restructuring processes (Saturn). When the inner planets are retrograde (Mercury, Venus, Mars) we negotiate personal processes of refinement in our cognizance, communications, relationships, sexuality, actions and energetic output.

Venus’ retrograde in Gemini for the duration of Gemini Season urges us to reconsider our relationships with those we share community with. Gemini is the ruler of the lungs and breathing. Its symbol reminds us that breath is essential for life, and breath cannot exist in isolation. Our living, animate existence is supported by multiple, overlapping, interacting, ongoing exchanges. Venus’ symbol is one of attraction, desire, magnetism and preference. When Venus is retrograde, we are called to review our unconscious agreements with separation, suffering and misunderstanding. As Melanie Reinhart says, “we may then re-set them in the light of consciousness, made wiser by accepting both love and loss.” Gemini season is an invitation to explore the nature of exchange. How do we connect with ourselves and each other? How do we value our relationships, even when they are not aligned with our personal preferences, and how do we open our comprehension to the inarguable truth that there is literally no one we are not in relationship with? 

I explore the themes of Venus’s retrograde in this month’s podcast and horoscopes and offer embodied integration in all of them for working with this profound energetic portal. You can access the podcast here. Scroll down to find your free month-ahead horoscopes. In the month-ahead extended forecast for subscribers, I work through the daily aspects and lunar cycle with invitations for reflections (this is a great month to write a lot and work those Gemini word/thought muscles!), meditative practices (Gemini, as the ruler of the mind, reaches its wisdom when it learns to observe itself), and embodied integrations through movement, awareness and relational practices. Sign up by donation to receive the subscriber offerings here.

The new moon this month offers an interesting gateway with a lineup of planetary players in Gemini, a trine to Saturn in Aquarius and a square to Mars in Pisces. With Gemini’s ruler Mercury conjunct Venus and square with Neptune, we are tasked with opening our minds beyond the objective realm. For all of us who work with our intuitive senses and symbolic languages such as astrology, this is a new moon that offers great teachings. The full moon/lunar eclipse in Sagittarius this month continues the theme, inviting us to suspend disbelief and make room for the intangible. In Gemini Season’s Lunar attunement rituals I’ll be working deeply with intuitive practices to open the mind beyond objective awareness. Pre-register or sign up for the recordings here.

100% of Gemini Season’s lunar attunement proceeds will be donated to The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) COVID-19 Emergency Fund and Al Otro Lado COVID-19 Humanitarian Migrant Fund. Last month (Taurus Season) we raised $2700 for Seeding Sovereignty’s Indigenous Impact Rapid Relief Fund! One of the biggest inspirations of Venus’ retrograde in Gemini for me is the symbol it offers of wealth recalibration and mutual aid. Five or ten dollars are amounts that many of us can conceive of parting with, even in these financially stressful times, but they’re small and won’t go far on their own… when we combine our offerings however, they can have an impact. Please consider donating on your own to these organizations and help me spread the word about the lunar attunement rituals which will continue throughout the year, all proceeds given to communities hardest hit by COVID-19.

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These horoscopes are sign-specific for the month ahead of GEMINI Season (MAY 20-JUNE 20, 2020.) Check your sun sign to understand more about your inherent nature and ego, your rising sign to understand more about what's going on in your life right now, and your moon sign to understand more about your relationships and emotional landscape. Horoscopes are poetic pieces of mystical suggestion. Take what works and leave the rest. Use the affirmations as questions, metaphors, and reminders.

ARIES
Speak from your heart. Listen from your heart.
But first, find your heart.
Literally, the organ. Sense into it and breathe.
Communicate through its intelligence.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Aries here

TAURUS
Clarify your heart.
Feel radiance outpouring from your being.
Connect to your spirit.
Remind yourself that love is immeasurable, unquantifiable.
Collect as much of it as you possibly can.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Taurus here

GEMINI
Your path is illuminated and clarified
When your heart is free of misgivings
Trust the kind of love
That sustains itself.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Gemini here

CANCER
See beyond seeing.
Listen beyond listening.
Sense beyond sensing.
Know beyond knowing.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Cancer here

LEO
Recognize that there is no need to perform.
Your eminence is exalted, resonant, transcendent,
as you recognize this, the only thing you need to “do”
is listen, open, allow.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Leo here

VIRGO
Cultivate presence as a means
of moving out of habit
and into harmony.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Virgo here

LIBRA
Your highest values and deepest purpose
need to be reexamined and re-explored.
Consider how you can move towards your Truth
in ways that are softer, sweeter, more expansive, more inclusive.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Libra here

SCORPIO
Get curious about the power of your sign:
The power of working in/with shadow.
The power to wield power.
The power to die, transform, rebirth, regenerate.
Do not be afraid of endings.
Instead, look to see how they bring opportunities for new connections and creativity.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Scorpio here

SAGITTARIUS
Why do you see what you see and say what you say?
What are the habits of awareness you’ve solidified
over your lifetime of relationships?
Which habits are helpful?
Which are ready to be released?
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Sagittarius here

CAPRICORN
Your ingenuity is required,
but in order to access it, you need to relax.
It’s time to work harder at working easier, with more gentleness, more joy.
If there’s a pause available to you now, take it.
Consider all that you might discover
if you weren’t so intent upon a goal.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Capricorn here

AQUARIUS
How do you express yourself?
What longings do you live into, give into?
What’s important for you to feel and experience?
You can find a way to sustain your passions.
But, it requires trust, commitment and willingness to admit to them.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Aquarius here

PISCES
Bring curiosity into your foundation
for a fresh perspective on who you were, are, and are becoming.
It’s time for a psychological restructuring
and an intuitive reorganization.
Trust what brings you peace and the feeling of connection.
However impractical it may be.
Listen to the Gemini Season horoscope for Pisces here