{"id":67167,"date":"2013-05-21T00:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T04:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=67167"},"modified":"2013-05-21T00:21:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T04:21:35","slug":"sun-enters-gemini-talked-to-your-inner-twin-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-enters-gemini-talked-to-your-inner-twin-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun enters Gemini: Talked to your inner twin lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday at 5:09 pm EDT the Sun left Taurus and ingressed Gemini. Gemini is the first air sign of the zodiac, and the first mutable sign, coming at the end of spring. It\u2019s as though Gemini not only starts loosening up the current season, but it also asks us to hold the ending season and the one about to begin in our consciousness simultaneously.<\/p>\n

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Simplified chart section showing the few planets left in Taurus (lunar South Node, Mars and Pallas Athene) and planets gathering in Gemini (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Black Moon Lilith). Mars will arrive just as Mercury leaves for Cancer. View glyph key here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mercury rules Gemini, and its current presence here lends great mental agility (though its square to Neptune last week seemed to throw many of us for a loop). <\/p>\n

One of the first things most people learn about Gemini is that its symbol is a pair of twins, yet the dualism those twins represent can be one of the trickiest concepts to get comfortable with. <\/p>\n

Western culture typically wants things black and white, yes or no. Many Eastern cultures and religions seem to have an easier time with the concept of holding opposing or multiple viewpoints simultaneously. Dualism might actually be one of the most fertile facets of this sign, but making use of it can mean seeing, acknowledging and embracing sides of yourself you\u2019ve been told don\u2019t (or shouldn\u2019t) exist. That can come up against resistance at first. <\/p>\n

Sometimes getting the ball rolling means making use of Mercury’s role as Trickster to find a side door or a game; Gemini is a highly creative sign (and its natives tend to ‘be’ their creations, and vice versa). Sometimes you just need the right timing and to be emotionally\/spiritually ready for the inner dialogue to flow.<\/p>\n

Eventually, conversation is the first concrete step toward integrating ideas (internally or in talking with another) — and communication or a facility with words is another signature of Gemini. With Jupiter in this sign now, that may translate into multiple conversations, held out in the open — the open space of your full consciousness (or the open space between you and another person).<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t mean getting into an endless mental ping-pong match between inner facets of yourself (that would be resistance). Actual integration will have something to do with the space between your inner twin (or twins) and what you present to the world. The season of solar Gemini is a great time to practice holding these multiple facets of ourselves side by side where we can see them. This holds for multiple points of view and the sides of things we don\u2019t usually look at, as well. <\/p>\n

Last year at this time, we were all preparing with great excitement for Venus\u2019s transit of the Sun in Gemini (which was June 5 or 6, depending on time zone). Many of us were buying viewing goggles, crossing our fingers for clear skies, and marveling that we were alive in a time when it was possible to see such a thing, with technology making it far easier than in past centuries.<\/p>\n

Venus was retrograde in Gemini at the time, leading to many discussions about what an inwardly looking Venus in a sign ruled by Mercury and symbolized by twins might have to tell us. There was a lot of discussion about the Venus transit specifically being about integration of one\u2019s secret, inner, female \u2018twin\u2019.<\/p>\n

Was your twin a \u2018dark\u2019 shadow of your feminine side, or a \u2018light\u2019 side that was begging to be embraced? Who did you meet last year while Venus moved backwards and passed over the face of Sun? How integrated would you say that twin has become in your consciousness?<\/p>\n

And perhaps trickier to ascertain: has Gemini been somehow altered by this once-in-a-lifetime event? (Or twice-in-a-lifetime, if you caught the 2004 sister transit of Venus across the Sun, which also occurred in Gemini and in retrograde motion.) Did you learn anything new about Gemini, in addition to yourself, as a result of the transit? Does having the Sun and Venus in Gemini now feel any different to you compared to how it used to?<\/p>\n

The Sun has just joined Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and the calculated point Black Moon Lilith in Gemini. The trend of planets clustering in signs continues, now giving us a taste of Gemini in full Technicolor detail. What do you think? Or maybe more to the point, how<\/em> are you thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday at 5:09 pm EDT the Sun left Taurus and ingressed Gemini. Gemini is the first air sign of the zodiac, and the first mutable sign, coming at the end of spring. It\u2019s as though Gemini not only starts loosening up the current season, but it also asks us to hold the ending season and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67167"}],"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\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}