New Moon in Gemini – Fiesta Estrellas

Who’s having fun? Anyone, anyone? This New Moon in Gemini might feel zippy and frenetic. It might feel like something to “manage,” but the truth is, today (while I’m writing this) we have the Nodes in exact square with the planet Uranus. There’s unexpected perks coming at you from all directions! Considering that the planet Uranus is in Gemini, the sign of the New Moon, it’s an extra-extra Uranian vibe to it. That’s okay. Weird things can work out on their own. You might have a problem one moment, and then the next moment it goes “poof.” You might have sudden insights around problems you’ve been trying to solve for a long time. Your tech: it might be acting up. Maybe your nervous system is a little bit wonky and you’re not sure what’s going on. Well, that’s kinda also been an on-going theme, right? But today and this weekend with the New Moon, the volume on the WONK is turned up, maybe past 11. In the midst of it all, we are doing the weird dance of “polishing up” things we want to have look extra good–or focused on visual projects with the artistic flare, AND, we are in a place of opportunity to have some extra fun. The reason I’m using the word extra, extra: it’s probably the Venus/Jupiter conjunction in Cancer that came and went and currently in a separating aspect. Mercury is on its way up in Cancer headed up to join with Jupiter. Mercury is the ruler of Gemini.

Fly with the butterflies my friends.

My post today is very brief because I will be away soon, and I’m busy working on the plans for that. I’m dealing with a lot of technology as well. Is there something special about this particular lunation? I think it’s the unique ability to run up against a maximum capacity, and then well, to find a way to go beyond it. It’s like the stars are reaching out for us. They want us to reach back to them. I like the connection of the hands. The hands are ruled by Gemini. This morning I saw a post where two spiral galaxies in Virgo (the other Mercury ruled sign) are in a dance. Here’s the image and the direct quote. But before we proceed to that: Set an intention. This New Moon in Gemini, I plan to go beyond what the mind can conceive and believe. I encourage you to imagine what thinking beyond your current mind might look like…

NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

“Arp 240 is an astonishing galaxy pair, composed of spiral galaxies of similar mass and size, NGC 5257 and NGC 5258. The galaxies are visibly interacting with each other via a bridge of dim stars connecting the two galaxies, almost like two dancers holding hands while performing a pirouette. Both galaxies harbour supermassive black holes in their centres and are actively forming new stars in their discs. Arp 240 is located in the constellation Virgo, approximately 300 million light-years away, and is the 240th galaxy in Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.”

With the exception of a few foreground stars from our own Milky Way all the objects in this image are galaxies.

This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.

Celebrating the beauty of duality and multiplicity. Gemini twins show us that there’s a mirror, and on the other side, is another us. Multiple mirrors make new surface repetitions. The repetitions are like an echo into the infinite potential of what we all are.

Image credit unknown, found on astroseek: https://www.astro-seek.com/seek-images/sun-signs/gemini-sun-zodiac-horoscope-sign.jpg

For your viewing pleasure, I am attaching a neat site I just found with hand-print inspired drawing ideas.

And! Just for fun…. How much can you HANDle the chaos with Gemini-style levity and banter? Happy New Moon in Gemini loves! Make it fun.

Hello Dear Readers,

I’m looking at the chart for the New Moon in Gemini, PDT, San Diego, at 11:40am. Sun conjunct Moon at 7-8 degrees Gemini trine to Mars. Assertive energies are to be balanced, and with the trine are shown to flow quite easily around the New Moon.

We are asked to initiate from our deepest inspirations, and consider what kind of inventions (Uranus) and unique inspirations (Uranus in Aries) can we create and share to assist humanity. What structures can we create to help build bridges across the debris left in Pluto’s transit?

Retrograde Pluto is part of a kite formation (a triangle of 3 points with an extra point formed by two sextiles or 60 degree angles to a 4th point, in this case, Pluto is sitting on that 4th point). Pluto is sextile to Chiron and Saturn, asking for a little bit of harmonious work in terms of healing and stabilizing some of those soul wounds. Meanwhile, Saturn in Scorpio forms a grand trine with Chiron in Pisces and Jupiter in Cancer – a continued reminder to keep sorting through those skeletons in your closet – there are many layers of shadow – including shadow puppets!

There’s no doubt to me that our greatest abundance of wound healing is taking place within the imprint of our families of the past (Jupiter in Cancer), and the history of our pain recorded in the water of our bodies. New moon square Neptune is further evidence to me of our on-going need to heal in our relationship to the spirit in water, our loss of faith and disillusionment with the world of form that holds the water.

The healing thought for this lunation is seeing a chasm in our lives (the abyss), and building a bridge over it in some practical way. Experience that the onward movement of Mars is initiation, and just keep going. You CAN find the bravery to continue crossing the chasm into unknown territory, and you will find the previously unexplored landscapes within.

Also, practicing bridge-building is evident to me in the completion/beginning of Venus’s visit at the last degree of Aries 29 – in this New Moon chart. Therefore, Venus has reached a completion point in Aries, and shall begin at Taurus 1. Venus and the North Node in Libra continue to guide us on our illuminated journeys, while lighting the way.

Interestingly Venus is sextile to Mercury, also finishing up a completion point in Gemini at 29 degrees – while forming an applying square aspect to Mars. Mercury is a little bit busy in the dream world, but with its trine to Neptune, it’s certainly doing its work in blurring boundaries, and bringing spiritual nuance to communications and miscommunications – all of it is part of the bridge-crossing.

Photography: http://lordscythe.deviantart.com/art/Bridge-over-pleasant-water-100728812