{"id":15143,"date":"2009-05-21T08:42:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=15143"},"modified":"2009-06-01T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:19:29","slug":"astrology-sun-in-gemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/astrology-sun-in-gemini\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun in Gemini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

I always feel a touch of excitement when the Sun enters a new sign, and as of last night it’s in Gemini.<\/p>\n

But as far as I’m concerned, Taurus never got old, not for a minute. I have to say this has been one of the most lush experiences of the Sun in Taurus that I ever remember; though we are currently aided and abetted by sitting in the cascade of the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction: a fountain of cosmic energy.<\/p>\n

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Now the Sun is in an air sign; the one mutable air sign, Gemini. Mutable signs show up right before one season is about to yield to the next; they hold what is called disseminating energy. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is spring turning to summer. In the Southern Hemisphere, this is autumn turning to winter, granted, in most places a scaled down version of winter than we are accustomed to places like New York or Chicago.<\/p>\n

The energy of Gemini is light, breezy and if it’s contentious, there’s an element of sparring to the energy. Gemini is very much about the flirtatious play of opposites, polarities and contrasts. This sign drops all the moral baggage and attachment to the past that can show up with the darker shades of Taurus; it is more concerned with focusing on the moment than marauding the future, as we can sometimes get with Aries.<\/p>\n

And who are these twins? Now that psychology has been added to astrology, we have many possibilities: such as ego or core self; anima and animus; one’s identity and one’s sense of shadow. If we follow mythology, we are taken back to an old story about Castor and Pollux. Here is Wikipedia’s summary:<\/p>\n

In the myth the twins shared the same mother but had different fathers which meant that Pollux was immortal and Castor was mortal. When Castor died, Pollux asked Zeus<\/a> to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together and they were transformed into the Gemini constellation<\/a>. The pair were regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo’s fire<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, in Gemini we actually do get a deep question: the mortal and immortal aspects of consciousness, looking at one another in a mirror. This may indeed be the ultimate dualism we face as humans; the ultimate paradox of consciousness. While Gemini is not the first place that dualism begins in the zodiac (we begin with the horns of Aries and Taurus) it seems to be the place where that issue comes to consciousness, apropos of an air sign, a mental sign, and the first human sign.<\/p>\n

I think we are here for a human experience. Part of that experience is about honoring the transience of our journey. Sometimes in order for tomorrow to have any meaning at all, we must live like it’s not even there.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: I always feel a touch of excitement when the Sun enters a new sign, and as of last night it’s in Gemini. But as far as I’m concerned, Taurus never got old, not for a minute. I have to say this has been one of the most lush experiences of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}