A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space.
— Albert Einstein
The Sun enters Gemini at 5:10 pm EDT Monday. Just as with Mercury’s entrance to Gemini yesterday, the Sun’s first aspect after ingress will be a conjunction with the centaur Asbolus. That particular combination means solar Gemini this year will symbolically begin with an emphasis on the fundamentals of what you are, and how the rest of us know you are here with us.
We know the Sun is in the sky by its light. We know you are with us by the light of your consciousness. That is how the Sun is correlated with consciousness in astrology.
So long as you are conscious, your consciousness is apparent to you. In order for your consciousness to be apparent to the rest of us, however, it must be communicated.
Communication is the core of Gemini’s nature. Hence, communication of consciousness is the most distinguishing feature of solar Gemini. The means by which you are conscious, and through which your consciousness is communicated to the rest of us, is through your physical, biological being. So far as we know, carbon is essential to the physical structure of all biological beings.
Thus the name Asbolus, which means “carbon dust,” unavoidably corresponds to your physical being. The category of solar system objects to which Asbolus belongs are centaurs, which correspond to something uniquely human.