LIBRA Horoscope for Gemini Season (May 20-June 20, 2021)

LIBRA
Who did you think you would be when you were a child?
Who does your inner child think you can be now?
Tune in with your childlike (not childish) wisdom.
Embody and encourage curiosity and playfulness.
Make decisions that make you laugh and smile.

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Hello Libra, welcome to your month ahead audio horoscope for Gemini season, May 20 through June 20, 2021. This is Embodied Astrology and my name is Renee. I'm an astrologer, a somatic movement educator and embodied intuitive. I blend these languages of embodiment and astrology. As you listen, please take what works, leave the rest. Listen through your own intuition and make the meaning that's most meaningful for you. I always recommend that folks listen or read horoscopes for both their sun and their rising signs. If you don't know your sign, you can get a free chart at embodiedastrology.com in the horoscopes section. 

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So you may know that Gemini season is bringing a Mercury retrograde. You might also know that it's bringing a couple of eclipses. It is not only bringing a Mercury retrograde, we're getting two other planetary retrogrades and that's a lot. Two eclipses, three planets stationing retrograde. This is definitely a time for some energy changing. Gemini is a changing kind of energy. You might be familiar with its archetype, the twins, one is looking up and one is looking down one looks left one looks right. Gemini likes variety and choices, and sometimes it can, you know, get pretty enthusiastic about all the possible directions one could go. Now, as a Libra, you might be familiar with this kind of energy, because Libra and Gemini are similar that way, you're both air signs. And Gemini season, therefore is bringing a lot of movement into the kind of personal places in your chart, the places that really speak to you as a being, your energy, your vitality, and your purposefulness. Why are you here? What's the point of your life? Only you can answer that and Gemini season is definitely a time when you might be thinking about that. So as I'm tuning in with your solar chart, I am feeling that there is a lot of energy for you to be reflecting and reworking your personal philosophies. What are you doing with your life? Why are you here? Why does it matter? Why are you making the choices that you make? Why do you keep making those choices? Why might you change them? Big questions, not easy answers. These are the kinds of questions that are often better kept as questions, you know, better to live into the question and find yourself kind of living the answer than think that you're going to get a solid answer, or that it's going to stay the same. Your life philosophy can continue to change and evolve as you change and evolve. And this is certainly a time when there is a lot of support and probably need for you to consider what it is that you believe in. What is your personal truth? Why are you on the path that you're on? Do you want to be going in the direction that you are going? What kind of adjustments are you ready to make or are you needing to make? Big questions on the table have to do with relationships. They have to do with your personal happiness. They may have to do with money, with finances, work, a sense of responsibility. Again, why are you here is a pretty big question. And for a lot of us that has at least something to do with what we feel we are here to do when it comes to some kind of calling, whether or not that is a career. 

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So as we move into Gemini season, the first 10 days from May 20 until the 30 are chock full of all kinds of provocation for questions. And again, this is a time to be asking the questions, not necessarily looking for the answers. During this period of time, you may find that you feel a little taxed, that you feel mentally overloaded or maybe depleted. One can easily lead to the other. Anxiety, inertia, and depression often go hand in hand. If you find that your thoughts are circling, or if you feel mentally tired, this is a really good time to replenish yourself with what you find the most sustaining and nourishing. And the sense that I get is that you want to tune into deep sustenance right now. And if you are a nature lover, I would say get outside, sit yourself next to a tree or next to a body of water, really try and pay attention to your breath. If you're a person that has a spiritual practice of any kind, a meditative practice, or any guides or teachers or teachings that you have found really support you in your path, then this is a really good time for you to be tuning in with them or with those offerings. Anything that you can do right now that helps you to center in with what you feel is your essential nature and really like your highest self or your biggest self is so supportive for you right now. And it's super supportive as we come to these questions. Like what are you doing with your life and why?

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On May 23, we get the first of the planetary retrogrades. Saturn is stationing retrograde in Aquarius, it will be retrograde until early October. So for you, what does this mean? This means an opportunity to really think about your energy, your vitality, and your personal expression. How do you want to be feeling yourself right now? What is it that you want to be expressing? Are you a creative person? Hint, everybody is creative whether or not you make art. What is it that you do that really brings a smile to your face, that uplifts your heart, that makes you feel like you get to be in the present moment? This is a time to pay attention to what those things are and to make more space for them. I've been talking about this for you all year. It's a big theme for you. And I keep saying it. I've said it every month. You are getting serious about having fun this year in 2021. You really need to look at where do you feel constricted, constrained, and held back. There are plenty of reasons you might feel like that right now, in 2021, there are plenty of reasons to feel depressed, to feel angry, to feel overwhelmed, to feel deeply in grief. And there's still joy, there is still the opportunity for you to tune in with your own personal spirit, your soul, your vitality, your essence, this is a time to do that for yourself. This is a time to really ask yourself, what makes you happy? And if there are things in your life right now that are not feeling so happy, how are you attaching to them? Are you hooked with them? You might be hooked on certain narratives, you might be hooked with certain people, you might be hooked with certain habits, if there are ways that you feel that your energy continues to be shut down, restrained, polluted, whether that's by you or other people, you have to take responsibility for that and you want to be thinking about how you can do that. What can you focus on, what actions can you take that can help you feel happy and fulfilled to whatever degree is possible in the world right now? If you have children, this might also be an important retrograde in terms of either something that's happening for them or something that is happening within your relationship with them. Your kids could be any age. So it's a little bit hard for me to give a kind of general piece of advice here but a couple things that are coming up for me. One, it's been a hard year for kids, especially kids who are school age and aren't really able to socialize. If there are ways that you can support your children right now to feel more social or to investigate for themselves how they want to be interacting, connecting, participating in the social realm, that would be a great support, probably for many of them. Another little piece that's coming for me is that of course due to the circumstances in the last year and a half but also because this is the time that we live in, a lot of young people are really hooked into their devices and the virtual realm and electronics. If you feel that your children are too hooked in, or if you're noticing detrimental effects of this kind of engagement, this would be a good time to have conversations with them about long term effects. When it comes to their eyesight, their mental health, their social, emotional health, etc. And to really give them information and try and you know, treat them as responsible, intelligent people, but give them information in terms of long term, how can they be supporting themselves in this digital age, this virtual age to not be completely disembodied? And if you yourself aren't really sure, then research it. Think about how can you be more in your body, less on your devices, if that's what your life is like? And certainly for them, how could you support them in that way? In general, you might also want to be having conversations with your kids about long term kinds of situations, either for them, for you, for your family. There may be ideas or plans or changes that are happening right now that you want to bring them into a process with you and help them feel agency. That they can be part of creating their own future and even if you are making decisions for them or making decisions that are influencing them a lot, in any way you can help them engage with the process and help them to feel whatever amount of empowerment they can feel. Now, if you don't have kids, listen to everything I just said, for your inner child. And think about the part of you that is your most you know, cherished child like self, and how they want to be acting and reacting, responding in the world. Do you want to be spending a bunch of time online? What does that do for your vitality? How does that help you connect? Or does it disconnect you socially? And when you think about your long term plans, I'm going to say it again, get serious about having fun, this is your life. You know what are you setting up for yourself? Think two, five, ten years into the future. What do you want to be feeling then? And what choices can you make now that your future self will thank you for, you know, give you a high five from the future and go Thank you. That was helpful. I'm having more fun. 

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Okay, we get the second retrograde on May 29 and this is mercury stationing retrograde. Mercury will be retrograde until June 23. Mercury is retrograde in Gemini, the sign of its rulership. In general, this is definitely a period of time when you want to be mindful about communications when you want to think twice before pressing send on that text or that email. It is a time to take time. You can afford to move slowly right now. I want to particularly say take your time when it comes to any kind of communications that might be going to large groups of people or multiple people. And any negotiations or planning you might be doing around travel would also be another place that I would say check and double check your plans, make sure you've got your roadside assistance and your plan B set up. It might be a time when your plans are changing a little bit and so you want to be adaptable during this time. I'm a big fan of the idea of intentional adaptation, it's like have the idea of the end goal and then be flexible about how you get there. And if you are a teacher or anybody who is involved in news or broadcasting or any kind of dissemination of information on a large scale, this is a really important time for you to pay attention to what kinds of information you're putting out into the world. There may be adjustments that you want to be making when it comes to how you deliver that information. Finally, for all Libras This is definitely a period of time when you're doing a lot of this investigation around your personal philosophies, your life beliefs and your path, right? And if you're on a spiritual path, you're on a path. It's not about getting somewhere, it's about being where you are. And one way that you can really tune in right now and fine tune with your path is to notice your thoughts. Where are your thoughts taking you? What kind of language do you use with yourself? What language do you use with others and what language are you tuning in within the world? I mentioned a little while ago that it would be a really good time for you to connect in with teachers or teachings that you find supportive, and definitely during this Mercury retrograde that is emphasized for you. If there are allies and guides in your life, and that could be a book, it could be a song, it could be a human being, it could be your own inner self, but support for you to really tap into your heart and really tune into your like deeper ideals, this is definitely a time to do it. 

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Now between these two retrogrades, on May 26, we have our first eclipse. This is a lunar eclipse at five degrees of Sagittarius. If you happen to have any planets or points in the early degree ranges of either Sagittarius or Gemini, take note of this eclipse, it's going to be an important one for you. In your chart, I see that this is an eclipse that really can help support you do this work of mental recalibration, of noticing how language works, whether it's arising for you internally, being directed at you or you're participating in it externally, or if it's something that you're cluing in with or tuning in with in terms of sources of information, education or inspiration that you're accessing. This may also be a time when you have some insight into your personal energy and how you want to be spending your time and using your energy. For some people, this will include their jobs. For a lot of people this might mean other areas of your life that have more to do with your kind of just general vitality, your to-do list, your calendar, your schedule, your sense  of wellness. What I'm getting here is that I feel like you want to make some changes right now. And you know, it could be anywhere from like fine tuning what already feels pretty good to making massive changes for yourself. #NotAllLibrasAreTheSame. So whatever changes that you're making, I'm going to say that you are supported again, when you tune in with a sense of like your deeper purpose or your higher purpose. And think about living on a day to day in ways that allow you to connect and align with that sense of purpose deeply. That might mean that you want to just shift your schedule slightly so you have an extra half an hour every day to read poetry. It could mean that it is time for you to really confront some long standing health issues. It could be that it's time for you to start your own business. So I don't know what it is for you, but it does feel like there are opportunities for you to change your daily existence right now and it's something that you're thinking about. You want to be, I mean, I always kind of struggle with this phrase of being in control, so maybe I won't use that. But you want to be in choice with your energy as much as possible, you want to feel like you are being with your energy and ways that you're choosing. And on some level, fundamentally, you are always choosing. And this is where it comes back to your mind, to your mental process, to the way that you organize around language. Because a lot of times we are choosing our experience unconsciously, because of how we're talking to ourselves, or how we're thinking about something or the perspective that we have. And so around this eclipse, you might find that your mind is changing or that you want to change your mind about something. Now, I do want to say that eclipses are times of very powerful change, very powerful kind of karmic patterning coming up and working and reworking itself. These are times in general where it's better to lay low than try and be active in terms of forcing something forward when it comes to change. So I really want to encourage you to pay attention, to open your mind, and to notice your energy, but also to chill.

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The last couple days of May, the first couple days of June, we get a lot of support in the water signs. For you, this feels like things might start to move and flow in some different ways. You get some great support coming into the part of your chart that has to do with work, vocation, calling, career, what it is that you're building and want to be building in the world. This is a good time to be thinking about passion projects, what you love, what you want to be doing, and also who you want to be connecting with and how you want to be organizing and orienting around your own values.

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As we get into June and the last two weeks or so of Gemini season, again Gemini season ends on the 20, we go right back into some of the more intense kind of change oriented energy of this season. This could definitely be a time when folks are feeling challenged and challenge does different things to different people at different times. Sometimes it's incredibly dynamic and motivating. Sometimes it's overwhelming and fatiguing. Sometimes it is terrifying. I don't know what it's gonna be for you. I do want to say that it feels like you are making some choices, making some decisions. These are not decisions that are leading to a final kind of change or outcome. That won't happen until later this year, or maybe even the beginning of next year. But you are entering into some kind of process around this change that now over the next several months is going to start to land and reshape many areas of your life. 

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On June 10, we have a new moon and the second eclipse this season. That is an eclipse at 19 degrees of Gemini. If you have any natal placements there, you definitely want to pay attention to them. This is an eclipse that is conjunct with Mercury retrograde. So definitely a time to be watching your words, paying attention to your communication, how you're thinking and what you're putting out into the world when it comes to your thoughts and to your words. Especially on June 10 and the couple of days leading up to and after June 10, really try to work medicine with your words. Really try to not say things that you don't mean, or that you don't want to put out into the world. Your words have an extra heavy emphasis right now. They are incredibly powerful. So are your thoughts. I'm tempted to say take a couple days and just be silent and listen, be in a space of meditation and really consider the power of language. And if you're not going to be silent, then choose your words very wisely. Practice breathing, practice calming breath, and be present with your words and how you use your words and how they affect your energy and the energy of everybody around you. 

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The 11 and 12 of June there are some significant aspects and planetary movement in the chart. I get the sense that your social landscape can start to change pretty significantly around this time. You may have more emphasis on particular relationships, there's again, this kind of feeling of you are wanting to get serious about having fun. Think about how you want to use your energy. If there are long term projects or creative projects that you want to get involved with, this is definitely a time to be thinking about that. There is a need for you this year to be growing when it comes to your intimacy and intimate exchanges. Any areas of trust or vulnerability in your important relationships that are ready to level up, now's the time to do it. Be honest, try and be transparent. For Libras it can be hard to really be honest because you do so much work taking care of relationships and if it feels challenging to really speak what's on your mind, this is definitely a time to get support from a therapist or from your own kind of inner practice, your higher self, your guiding philosophies as I'm talking about. But when you can open to new states of vulnerability and honesty with your relationships, there is an incredible potential for growth. There's also an incredible potential for your relationships to support you to have more fun, and you know, this is what we want for you. 

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Okay, the third and final planetary station retrograde happens the last day of Gemini season or really technically the first day of Cancer season. This is Jupiter's station retrograde. So what I want to say here is that this essence, this feeling of getting serious about having fun, is something that you are working on. You're working on something and I don't know what it is. But it feels to me like you are trying to reclaim some part of yourself that has to do with your vital essential energy and shaping or reshaping your life in some way so that this energy can express itself more fully and more regularly. And as Jupiter stations retrograde, you're in some kind of process around this and I just want to give you a high five. I just want to say good work, keep it up, keep tuning in with your heart, keep tuning in with your center, with your sense of highest self, of biggest self, of best self and make choices right now that your future self will thank you for. Even if in this moment it doesn't feel so easy, you will thank yourself for it in the future if you're making choices that help you live more fully into the truth of your heart, live more presently with your relationships because you're being honest, because you're opening to trust and having more fun. 

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Okay, Libra. I hope any or all of that is helpful for you. If you would like more astrology from me, check out your Year Ahead report. I have reports for all signs that are an hour and a half long. They go over the major movements of 2021, the opportunities and challenges, I give you suggestions for working with them. You can also get more information about astrology every month by becoming an extended content subscriber. You can subscribe by donation. And in your subscription you get access to my extended month ahead calendars with worksheets for learning astrology. You also get invitations to my twice a month subscriber only meetups and workshops where we go over the month ahead astrology and the major themes and how to apply these themes when working with your own chart. Follow me @embodiedastrology on Instagram for regular astro updates and more there. If you like this horoscope and if you want more of it, please support this work by sharing it with your friends and family, becoming a monthly subscriber, or leaving a one time donation and of course rating and reviewing five stars on iTunes podcasts. Thank you so much for listening. I am wishing you all the best in Gemini season and beyond. Bye for now.