Welcome to Gemini season, the time of year when curiosity peaks and Spring quickly dissolves into Summer. How can you best use this period ahead?
You’ve just been through a massive cycle of change, and now the focus is on reckoning with that change. Let’s dive into the themes of this Gemini season and how it will impact you.
Gemini Season Quick Takes
Duration: May 20 to June 21, 2022
Archetypes: The Observer, Teacher, Journalist, Storyteller
Element: Air
Mode: Mutable
Lunations:
- New Moon: 9° Gemini on May 30 at 4:30 am PST
- Full Moon: 23° Saggitarius on June 14 at 4:52 am PST
Retrogrades:
- Mercury stations direct: June 2
- Saturn stations retrograde: June 4
Additional planetary shifts (ingresses) during this period:
- Mercury Rx enters Taurus: May 22
- Mars enters Aries: May 24
- Venus enters Taurus: May 28
- Mercury enters Gemini: June 13
Reckoning with Change
When the Sun entered Gemini on May 20, it found us in the aftermath of major waves of change and unpredictability delivered by the Taurus/Scorpio eclipse season. Whether you experienced that change as positive or negative, you’re likely still adjusting to your new reality.
Good thing the Sun bumps right into retrograde Mercury upon its entrance into Gemini. When the Sun conjuncts Mercury, your perspective abilities get a boost. Since Mercury is retrograde, there is a greater focus on channeling the Sun’s energy into analytical, detailed-oriented projects. Pay attention to your connections by reviewing something from the not-so-distant past. Don’t rely on your memory to keep track of your new insights. Write them down to come back to them when you need to.
The changes you were dealing with during the Sun’s transit through Taurus have some breathing room. You’ll find it much easier to detach from the emotional reactions to those changes to assess what happened and what needs to happen next logically.
Reckoning with change during Gemini season won’t be a one-and-done activity. Whatever change occurred will need consistent tending—likely daily attention for you to understand what’s required and how best to respond.
Gemini season is a time of increased socializing, especially after June 2. As you account for the changes taking place, reach out to your network. Allow them to fill in any missing information. Try to include different voices that challenge and improve your facts, assumptions, and opinions.
Your Mercury Retrograde Story Coming into Focus
Every Mercury retrograde tells a story. The Sun’s movement through Gemini (a Mercury-ruled sign) will highlight that story.
When did this story begin?
Your Mercury retrograde story had its start back in late April. This story will finally come full circle on Jun. 2, 2022.
How’s it going?
This will all depend on where the retrograde is taking place in your chart. Generally, some storylines you may be working with include: simple misunderstandings, the impact of going on outdated information, boundary resets and communicating with power. If you’re paying attention, one or more of these storylines provide you with the opportunity to make a correction so you can move ahead with confidence when Mercury goes direct.
A Slow down of the maturation process
Saturn Stations Retrograde 25° Aquarius
It’s easy to forget the impact the slower-moving planets have on our lives. Saturn, for example, takes about three years to move through a sign. Yet it shapes the trajectory of our lives in profound ways. Saturn helps us to mature through challenges. When Saturn stations retrograde on June 4, 2022, you’re tasked now with catching up to the hard-won Saturnian lessons.
The lessons you are mastering are Aquarian in nature: the ability to stand alone and the ability to stand together, being at the cutting edge while doing so responsibly, breaking free of control while establishing effective boundaries, and directing your actions towards inclusivity while embracing the marginalized aspect of self.
Use this Saturn retrograde period (until Oct. 22) to review and integrate. As you do, be aware of the tendency to see your outcome as bleak. Instead, focus on how far you’ve come since December 2020.
Quite some time has passed since then, and your journey towards greater freedom and individualization hasn’t been easy but necessary. Celebrate you for doing what you knew had to be done. You’re developing into the person you need to become for the next phase of your journey. Trust your pace and what has gotten you this far.
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