Time to find your sparkle during Gemini season
Dear Reader,
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been following the daily doings of a pair of magpies from my kitchen window. They’ve been working from dawn until dusk to build their bulky, spherical nest all the way up in a large ash tree, occasionally protecting it from neighboring crows. Watching that tree, the birds who visit it, and the ever-shifting sky that surrounds it, is one of my favorite pastimes.
What are you noticing in your surroundings?
How are you experiencing this time of year?
Guided by the Sun in Gemini
As the Sun skips through Gemini from May 20th to June 21st, spring is turning into summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and we’re fast approaching the maximum light in the cycle of the seasons. Sunrises and sunsets are continuously growing farther apart in time by smaller and smaller increments each day, until they’ll come to a halt and prepare to reverse their course at the Cancer Solstice.
Gemini, the Twins, is a mutable air sign and temple of Mercury. An eternal student, curious, communicative, and quick to learn, Gemini never runs out of fascinations. It’s the young child who never stops asking questions so as to discover more about a world they don’t fully understand.
Forever in motion, always looking for something new, Gemini isn’t one to be tied down. While too much Gemini can be over-stimulating, get us sidetracked, or leave us scattered, we need Gemini’s lightness and liveliness to connect, convey, converse, circulate, adapt, and approach life from as many angles as possible.
As the wordsmith of the zodiac, Gemini has a love for language and play and charms us with its wittiness and way with words. It knows how to read a room, shapeshift, and cast spells of levity to bring about a flurry of fun, fluent, and friendly exchanges.
Are you a child of Gemini season, having been born during this time of year? Or do you have placements in Gemini other than the Sun?
If so, how does it inform your way of being in the world?
What makes this Gemini season special
When the Sun entered Gemini on May 20th, it joined Jupiter, planet of generosity and growth, who is coming to the end of its passage through this sign. Jupiter has been traveling through Gemini since May of last year, amplifying our need for novelty and nuance and helping us to find our sparkle.
With Jupiter entering Cancer on June 9th, we'd be wise to gather our blessings and ask ourselves how we’ve been growing through curiosity, variety, and play and what we’ve been learning in the past year, especially in the area of life signified by the Gemini house in our birth charts.
As soon as Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, joins the Sun and Jupiter in its home sign on May 26th, we’ll be extra supported to go all in on our dreams and desires around learning, language, and real-time connections. This is our chance to make sure we’ve clocked all the ideas, insights, and inspirations we’ve collected in the past twelve months.
Are you ready to kiss spring goodbye?
What have you been learning this spring?
Where is your curiosity taking you now?
What conversations are most inspiring to you?
What connections are most fun for you?
Where do you feel a sparkle in your life?
You can take the questions in this newsletter on your walk or into your journal, your dreamtime, or any other kind of creative or contemplative practice, either solo or with others. I hope they tickle you and help you move gently into summer.
Until next time...
I very much look forward to writing to you again at the time of the Cancer Solstice, which coincides with the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and heralds a time of fullness and illumination. This year, the Summer Solstice falls on June 21st at 4:43 am Central European Time. If you want to mark the precise moment, you can find your local time here.
As always, you can find the exact dates and times of all eight seasonal stations of the Sun in this little table here.
In the meantime, I’m wishing you a joyful transition from spring to summer wherever you are!