January 12 MARS, the red warrior action planet will finally stop moving Retrograde and STATIONARY DIRECT Jan. 12 at 12:56 m PST/ 3:56 pm EST/ 8:56 pm GMT at 8 degrees+ GEMINI after 73 days of no forward moving energy.
How are you all doing? If you are like me you are all feeling exhausted in the bone -Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn and in the brain-MARS RETROGRADE since October 30, 2022. y and our brains will be fully functioning again and we will be able to start to feel alive again.
Gemini rules everything of the mind, intellect, communications, social media, flying,short journeys, sales, merchandise, fighting brother siblings-note the big reveal brothers fighting in Prince Harry’s tell all book Spare.
But it will take until Mars surpasses its Retrograde Stations degree of 25 degrees 36′ GEMINI from October 30, 2022, that will take until MARCH 15th till we can really get moving.
Synchronistically MARS STATION for the last few days saw most airplanes grounded in the US. Gemini rules everything in the AIR, and short domestic journeys, as opposed to Sagittarius opposite which governs International flights.
The apparent glitch in the machinery is also because the U.S. has its natal URANUS the planet of technology and also modern ruler of AIRY AQUARIUS at 9 degrees GEMINI. ASTROLOGY IS REAL
Plus hundreds of passengers were trapped on an AMTRACK Train in remote Southern Gerogia for 29 hours. Trains planes and automobiles- the BUggati that got Andrew Tate in Trouble originally with Greta Thunberg and he is now under arrest-yeah all those are GEMINI ruled things.
If you have planets at 8 degrees of the MUTABLES GEMINI, VIRGO, SAGITTARIUS and PISCES you have been feeling the retro much more personally. As I have, so exhausted.
Things that have been stalled since late October will start to move ahead now. That was 73 days of slow torture. Frustration levels with arranging and rearranging info has been off the charts. I hope you have had time to rethink, retool, reflect, regenerate, reject, renew, reboot, recommend, recycle, relegate, regenerate, remedy, etc etc. during this 2.5 month period of mental rest.
I have noticed that traffic and people moving almost somnambulistically. We will see how soon they will shoot back to life.
But slowly we will begin to feel our red blood cells functioning again.
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Mercury in Gemini again May 3 until JULY 11. Thats over 2 months of rapid fire communications. BUt the communicator planet it will turn RETROGRADE May 29 to June 22 from 24 degrees 41′ Gemini to 16 degrees 16′ Gemini.
This means Mercury Shadow period starts when Mercury hits 16 degrees on the 14th of May. But mercury Retrogrades can be used to review, rewrite, renegotiate all communications and social media things.
It is GEMINI appreciation time.
HEADS UP! there are two more Mercury Retrogrades this year and also September 27 to October 17 in LIBRA – 25 degrees 28′ to 10 degrees 10′ of the social network sign for those who love to plan ahead. Virgo this means you ruled by Mercury too.
Mercury rules Gemini, and every time Mercury returns to his daytime sign the planet/ God is incredibly happy. Mercury governs two signs Gemini and Virgo.
Gemini is the fleet-footed, and winged hatted and sandaled messenger of the Gods, he is the Ancient UPS, and a form of Amazon, the Internet, every salesperson, FTD Florists, the Mercurial trickster God. MERCURY, known as HERMES to the Greeks and THOTH to the Egyptians.
Mercury in the Tarot is the Magician #1 because Mercury symbolizes our consciousness, thinking, analysis and communications.
Mercury’s metal is Mercury or QUICKSILVER like Gemini energies MERCURY used to be in thermometers, and in dental fillings. Mercury’s properties made it hard to pin down, which describe Gemini energies perfectly. Quicksilver is a toxic poison and an Alchemical metal as well. The Quicksilver Messenger Service were a band in the 60’s.
Mercury is a PSYCHOPOMP. I love that word. It means he can travel between the three worlds. This third dimensional world he can go visit Hades/Pluto in the Land of the Dead, Hades or the Underworld and return to the land of the living. Very few Gods even had this power. Shamans have the power to travel between the worlds as well.
Mercury’s symbol is like the caduceus. Modern and ancient Medicine uses the caduceus to signify the healing profession. The caduceus was originally employed by Chiron and Asclepius as snakes were used to help heal people in Ancient Greece and snakes were used in the Oracles at DELPHI. These reptiles are magical animals of the Earth Goddess since always, two snakes entwined around the central staff or spine also symbolizes Yogic KUNDALINI sexual energy.The caduceus is an ancient symbol of DNA; the twin poles of consciousness, balance and the combining of opposites in ALCHEMY to produce something entirely new. This symbol is a deep psychological image associated with GEMINI and mental health. Which is not usually what we think is associated with this sign. This also symbolizes the power of our minds to create our health as in modern Positive thinking or intention setting. As Gemini follows the first earth sign Taurus it also symbolizes Mind over Matter. I just had an epiphany and got this while Mercury is in Gemini since yesterday!
Gemini is a dual AIR sign, and they never get old if their minds are stimulated. Mercury is the frequent flyer and chief communicator between Mount Olympus, the above, the Conscious and the below.
Unconscious, Mercury/Hermes is a mediator, a listener, an eavesdropper, a go-between. In modern days, a MERCURY ruled person, and we all are, is a compulsive twitterer or FB junkie whose iPhone never leaves their body.
Mercury in the TAROT is the # 1 symbol, THE MAGICIAN /TRICKSTER
#1 The Magian from The Muse Tarot
famous as COYOTE wisdom in Native American legends.
When your mind plays tricks on you…guess who is to blame?
HERMES is a hermaphrodite; His name means HERMES & APHRODITE Mercury is both male HERMES and a female VENUS/APHRODITE.
The sign’s ruling planet comes HOME- when a planet is at home it feels, relaxed, in its own element, STRONG. Mercury in Gemini stimulates nanosecond thinking, uber talking- hope you have a great chat plan during these Gemini times.
PETER PAN is GEMINI’s God
Peter Pan is a symbol of what Psychologists called PEUR mentality. A childlike, fun time, curious and non-committal. There may be much mental Ado about not much during Gemini times. Gemini loves to play devils’ advocate.
But ya gotta love ’em, they are very charming and move too fast for you to pin them down. Yes, social butterflies those Gemini’s are…
Their main thrust during GEMINI season is to gather information, move like the wind, gather info, be mentally stimulated, ever young, upbeat, charming as hell.
Mercury is the God of merchants, the word Mercury is contained in that word, Thieves, pirates, travelling and snake-oil salesman, Gemini’s are actors, open, changeable, quick-witted, exciting, philanderers, shysters,
VENUS is, of course, Retrograde in Gemini.
so, can’t make up your mind between Frank, Harry, or Justin? or which job to take? or which school to go to or which….or that old friend/ lover enemy, frenemy just re-entered your life again, what to do about that? or what to do…
If only they/we can get over the tendency to do one or the other ANGEL or DEVIL DUALITY is their thing, But the TWINS are not opposites but complementary pairs.
In the TAROT the symbol of GEMINI is associated with THE LOVERS
and the opposite sign of GEMINI is SAGITTARIUS which is associated with ALCHEMY again back to HERMES/ MERCURY.
There are many famous GEMINIS’s.
TOP of the list. Paul McCartney, DONALD TRUMP
WRITERS:
Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer and artist Maurice Sendak, William Butler Yeats, Ian Fleming, Salman Rushdie
ARTISTS: M.C. Escher, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin
ACTORS and ACTRESSES
Mary Kate and Shelley Olsen real twins, Natalie Portman, Marilyn Monroe, Angelina Jolie, Courtney Cox, Octavia Spencer, Isabella Rossellini, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Brooke Shields, Annette Benning, Lucy Hale, Zoe Saldana, Kate Upton.
Johnny Depp, Mark Wahlberg, Morgan Freeman, Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Ian McLellan, Shia LeBeouf, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael J. Fox, John Goodman, Liam Nelson, Colin Farrell, Mark Wahlberg, Tony Curtis, Christopher Lee, Russel Brand, Errol Flynn, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood, Vincent Price, Sir Laurence Olivier, Jay Silverheels,
MUSICIANS, SINGERS
Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Prince, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Tom Jones, Lionel Richie, Lenny Kravitz, Barry Manilow, Dean Martin
COMEDIANS: Mike Meyers, Bob Hope, Gene Wilder, Billy Wilder, Animator of Looney TUNES Mel Blanc, Joan Rivers, Amy Schumer
Politicians:
John F Kennedy, Harvey Milk, Newt Gingrich, Henry Kissinger, George Bush Sr. Benazir Bhutto, Muammar Qaddafi, Peter the Great, Che Guevara, Wallis Simpson, Rudy Giuliani, Poncho Villa.
ROYALTY: Queen Victoria, Prince Philip,
DANCERS: Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker
PHILOSOPHERS: Jean-Paul Sartre, Blaise Pascal
and a few more- Venus Williams, Jackie Collins architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Dr. Ruth, Naomi Campbell,:
MARS in AQUARIUS trine VENUS and VESTA in GEMINI and trine JUNO in LIBRA
That’s a GRAND AIR TRINE to open our hearts and minds.
Make the most of this lovely supportive higher consciousness energy.
Great for internet dating, higher idealism, group work, radicalness, open relationships, organization, management,
If you have planets at 8-14 degrees of all AIR SIGNS you get the uplifting detached love magic benefits blowing on you the strongest.
FIRE SIGNS
ARIES, LEO, and SAGITTARIUS get sextiles from all the airy planets and asteroids that easy supportive energy too. If you have planets at all 8-14 degrees of these signs you will have a 6 pointed star appear in your natal chart that is sUPER BENEFICIAL
EARTH SIGNS get squared that’s a hard aspect
TAURUS VIRGO AND CAPRICORN
if you have all planets, rising or other objects at 8-14 degrees of ALL earth signs. you can still use this beneficially, the squares pressure you to open your heart and mind
WATER SIGNS
are not directly affected although everyone can benefit from the overall energies.
Traditionally if you create a triangle, it is a place of power. You can draw a triangle or use three crystals to hold the boundaries. Put the person or persons you wish to connect with in a beneficial loving way in the triangle with your mind or with photos or momentos or something that represents them and blow love over them. NO NEGATIVE HEXING WHATSOEVER. THIS IS FOR LOVE AND BEAUTY AND HARMONY. You can also place images of the children of the world, and the people you want to see uplifted in consciousness and positive symbols or energies of peace, prosperity, love, equality, equal rights, freedom. That’s all there is to it.
Air is what we breathe and these signs rule the lungs, it’s important to think about thein breathe, the pause between the breath where enlightenment occurs and the outbreath.
I implore you to see COVID-19 as a higher perspective PAUSE bringing a great new higher level of consciousness great optimism and radical change in our lives.
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It’s a relatively easy day from the planets today June 22. We are still in Solstice “standstill” sun energy.
Gemini Moon makes a trine to Jupiter in Libra
it‘s nice and polite and good to socialize with. Your mind should feel happier lighter and more balanced. Just chill and enjoy other peoples company. Good for sales.
Moon squares Neptune
Confusion about what to choose sets in. Listen to your psychic side.
Moon inconjuncts PLUTO in Capricorn in the evening in PDT/ June 23 in EDT and GMT
this can lead to power struggles and shadowscoming up that a Gemini mindset would much rather ignore but do so at your own and other’s peril.
REMEMBER to mark July 2nd on your calendar
MARS will OPPOSE PLUTO on that date
that is a heavy dangerous, difficult power struggle energy both emotionally and in the world.
get ready for the New Moon in Cancer on the 23/24 at 2+ degrees.
I am in transit on Thursday and will be out of town leading a workshop at the Grail Springs Spa all weekend. I need to chill and be in nature and meditating with the high crystal energy on that sacred land. I will be posting a bit and plan to record videos too.
It’s gonna be a very emotional New Moon with Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars in Cancer plus Neptune and CHIRON in PISCES. Let the tears flow. Expect more rain and very wet weather as well.
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VENUS enters earthy, sensuous. sign of beauty, TAURUS, her Feminine home sign where she is in her glory from June 6- July 4th.
That’s one whole month to smell those roses and enjoy being a living Goddess in the Garden of Eden. Especially for Taurus and Libra, this is YOUR time.
VENUS is the GODDESS herself, She loves sex and love. She is the Queen of romance. She is sensuality, flirty, romantic, artsy, creative energy. She has great taste and loves beautiful things. She wants the best of everything.
Venus makes a 5 pointed star pattern in her cyclical orbit and that is the pentagram of VENUS. Cut open an apple and see Venus’s pentagram symbol there.
On June 6 2012 Venus made a very rare crossing in front of the SUN. This won’t happen again until another 125 years.
5 things to do to make LOVE WORK with Venus in Taurus
Turn on your Venusian sex appeal. Indulge in being the beautiful Goddess. Stand in front of a mirror and say I am the Goddess of love beauty and abundance five times. Dress the part. Believe that you are the most desirable irresistible woman in the world and you can attract any man or anything you want.
Bring more beauty and self-esteem into your life.Not just all about buying pretty clothes and makeup. Bring real beauty, earthy beauty, beauty from inside, real self-esteem. Know you are beautiful and valuable and priceless. Learn to love being the Goddess. Treat your body like a temple. Get thee to a spa, get massages, roll around naked in the grass. Tell your woman friends how beautiful they are. See beauty everywhere you go. Decorate your home with fresh flowers, incense, aromatherapy. In classical mythology, Venus was irresistible while wearing her sacred girdle or corset.
3. Fall in love. Passion is high.Simply fall in love with yourself or anyone. Venus loves to flirt. Love the one you’re with. 4. Be creative, start painting, singing, dancing, toning, acting, gardening, buy art, learn about art, take art classes or photography. 4. Let your creative juices flow. This can manifest in many ways. Get some watercolor paper and watercolors. Just paint from instinct, close your eyes and choose from your intuition. Dance authentically. Sing, Tone or chant mantras. Taurus rules the Throat. Masturbate. Think erotically. Get your own juices going. Orgasms are healthy. Women use crystal dildos these days. Use your imagination.
5. STOP and smell the ROSES, this is important in an overly busy world. Be here in the Garden of Eden. Practice Gratitude. Do take time to enjoy with all of your 6 senses all the pleasures, smells, tones, sounds, of the beauty of the earth. Really practice it when you eat when you cook when you make love. This is all S_L-O-W hand love making. Forget about time.
Venus in Taurus is ROCK SOLID, REAL. Let’s get physical. Yes, they can be lazy couch potatoes lounging on chaise’s eating bonbons. While VENUS is in TAURUS it’s very easy to TRUST YOUR GUT instincts.
Venus in Taurus favors all Artists and Musicians -all creative, hands-on stuff- resources, money, IY.
Traditionally imaged as a pregnant Queen on her Throne in a beautiful garden. This is Venus in TAURUS.
VENUS MAGICAL attributes:
Her day is FRIDAY. VENUS’s metal is copper. Her colors are greens and blues.
Gemstones: Pearls and Emeralds and pink stones, rose quartz.
Essentials Oil. Cardamom, Rose, Ylang-Ylang.
Her birds are the doves, and the swans, sparrows, swallows and geese.
Fishes, pigs, and rabbits are her sacred animals.
The apple is her sacred fruit as well as pomegranates.
Where is TAURUS in your Natal chart? What sign is it in and what house and what aspects is it making? That’s where and how according to the house, all the love goodies and beauty self-worth and money issues will be affecting you. I will write full horoscopes tomorrow.
Bring your Goddess self to my WORKSHOP at the beautiful GRAIL SPRINGS WELLNESS CENTRE in Bancroft Canada June 23-24
This is one of the top 10 healingHotels in the World!
My popular workshop INTO THE MYSTIC is a 2-night intro into the magic of the tarot, numerology, dreamwork, ceremony, and ritual. IIt’s on a NEW MOON in CANCER right after Summer SOLSTICE. A magical time for setting new intentions. Womb cleansing, sacred fire ceremony. I offer private readings at these events. Treat yourself. The Grail is an awesomely beautiful and healing. http://www.grailsprings.com/
The planets have the answer. Daniel Craig is a perfect example of following your truth and showing the world that it isn’t all about the dough.
DANIEL CRAIG PISCES,
His turn as James Bond has been the most successful of all the Bond Franchises. Are you a JAMES BOND fan? Who is your favorite Bond? Sean Connery? Daniel turned down SIXTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS to escape doing two more Bond films. He must have really hated it. Daniel Craig is a PISCES born March 2, 1968 Chichester England no birth time
His SUN is at 11°56′ Pisces, remember that famous photo of him from Casino Royale, walking out of the ocean like Venus did?
His Moon at noon for a public figure would be 18°16′ Aries conjunct his NORTH NODE his highest spiritual goal at 19 degrees Aries which Pluto is now squaring and will continue to square in the next year. Look for Daniel to create produce or launch or helm something new which is meaningful to him.
Retrograde Mars will also cross his Natal Neptune at 26+ degrees of Scorpio over the next month. Also a sign of an ending, a “I give up the fight” meaning.
JUPITER will conjunct his Natal PLUTO at 21+ degrees of VIRGO and then his URANUS at 27+ degrees VIRGO in August. This is a very rich rewarding time for Daniel in terms of his health and his sanity. Uranus in ARIES has been transiting in a quincunx to his Natal Pluto already. His soul needs have won out.
UNDER THE SPELL OF NEPTUNE
With Neptune exactly on his SUN, he isn’t in it for the money. Plus SATURN in SAGITTARIUS is testing him with a reality check an JUPITER in VIRGO is keeping him humble and grounded. He’s rather sweat the small stuff. Neptune rules Hollywood, films, photography, glamour.
He would rather do projects which have a deeper meaning to him.
All of you who are born around March 2 PISCES and also SAGITTARIUS born around December 3rd and GEMINI born around June 2 and VIRGO born around September 4 YOU are also under the SPELL of NEPTUNE enchanting you and putting you in a fog, are you feeling confused? Neptune is waking your up, spiritualizing you. Booglarizing you baby as Captain Beefheart used to say.If you need guidance I am here to be your spiritual and planetary guide.
You are not into material things these days. You are into Love, creativity, compassion, Oneness, creativity, Soul mates,communing, yoga, dreams, healing your wounds, needing to create boundaries, healing your addictions, delusions and illusions. Life is magical and bewildering.
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Moon enters Aries June 10- 12 Wednesday symbolizing a brand new monthly cycle. A new day…
Grand Fire Trine energy will make us feel upbeat, happy, optimistic, almost free from Mercury Rx.
Moon trine Saturn in Sagittarius very early in the morning when yogi’s, spiritual people and those who want to get ahead rise.
Moon then trines Venus in Leo at 4+ degrees in mid afternoon
all aspects are A-OK today.
Mercury Sweetly sextiles Venus also very early.
Mercury is very powerful now almost stationary. Say sweet things from the heart today all day.
Moon also sextiles Venus later in day
Sun sextiles Uranus so think outside the box.
Tomorrow is the day.
Remember to keep doing your Vesta Venus Saturn Grand Fire Trine heart flame initiation
Prepare for Saturn re-entering Scorpio June 14 @ 5:36 pm PDT/8:36 pm EDT
its goodbye Upbeat Sagittarius energy for three months.
Get ready for your voyage into Pluto Land with Father Time.
Inspirational Card of the Day
#20 Judgement Gilded Tarot
This version of Trump #20 shows the Angel Gabriel blowing the trumpet and the dead rising seemingly dancing to the music. Oh what Heavenly music Gabriel’s trumpet blows.
This is a wake up call, a horn blower, a card of release and freedom.
This card is very synchronous for me. It is my personality card. I had a majorly important dream years ago wherein a trumpet was blown in front of a judge and jury and Bette Middler stood in for Angel Gabriel. Andy Warhol was also in the dream. It was a BIG DREAM. I am free was the title of the dream. I also did some energy clearing work with a friend of mine today. Totally synchronous this was the entire theme.
Yes everything is synchronicity. Each one of us holds the energy of the Universe.
As each of us as do our inner work, we unlock the blinds, binds, fear and shame which keep us from being free of judgements. We free up the entire universe. We free ourselves. We are Holograms of the whole. Do you know what it feels like to be feee?
to bring us lots of talking, youthful thinking, bi-curious,uncommitted energies. Gemini is a happy, charming, Peter Pan energy. Do you believe in fairies? – More Gemini stuff below-
GEMINI time May 21- June 21 Mercury is Retrograde in Gemini and stays there till July 8th. Mars is also in Gemini until June 24.
We have triple the Gemini dual energy going on until the Summer solstice June 21st.
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3 x 2 = 6 which is the Tarot trump that Gemini is associated with- see below
Three Lovers by Gericault 1817-1820 Getty Museum
Lots of heady mind stuff going on. You will need to work harder to stay grounded.
Moon is in Cancer May 21
home, family, comfort, food, children, Mom and nurturing are numero uno on the list till tomorrow.
A couple of HEAVY energies today
Jupiter in Leo is inconjunct Pluto @ 15 degrees 15 minutes, very powerful degrees.
Egos and Plutocracies are battling it out. Many will want to stand up against tyranny.
Moon conjuncts Venus in Cancer and opposes Pluto in the afternoon
How does one soothe Pluto’s soul? What kind of chicken soup-Moon & Venus in Cancer – does Pluto need? It needs to be triple strength with some poison in it.
Call a Jewish Mother and ask her for her best chicken soup recipe.
Then VENUS and PLUTO oppose each other at 6:56 pm PDT/ 9:56 pm EDT/next day @ 1:56 am GMT
This is another part of the Cardinal Cross energetically. Jealousy, insecurity, power struggles between Woman and the corporate power structures, rape accusations coming out, dirty trade deals, laundered money, gristly things.
There is a major change going on but it may be hidden in the basement.
Moon trines Chiron at end of day
there is healing.
May 22 Sun opposes Saturn in Sagittarius at 9:35 pm EDT use that time to help yourself ground.
May 23 Mars trines the North Node in Libra @ 8 degrees Gemini/Libra
MAY 25 is WORLD TAROT DAY
celebrate the tarot for all of its wisdom. see link below
Sun is semi-square to Uranus
expect some oddball energy today. Open your mind to new ideas and experiences.
GEMINI ASPECT calendar till end of May
May 25 Mars in Gemini squares Neptune in Pisces
This could be good for making a detached objective analysis of your dreams, and that romantic dreamy fog of unreality you are in. Mars in Gemini says get your assets in order. Listen to objective advice.
May 27 Mercury Retro conjuncts Mars at 10 degrees GEMINI
This may require re-doing, all kinds of things. Expect back to the drawing board. People will be angry and impatient about things not moving fast enough. Men may re-appear on the scene ladies.
May 27 Sun semi-square Venus
Semi-squares are irritating. Issues with your home, women, children, your mom, or family in general may prove irksome today. The Gemini sun will be prattling on and on. Venus in Cancer will patiently listen but may not be too happy about it underneath.
back to the dream board and re-arrange the pieces of that dream. Some information may appear which rocks your world. You may be second and third guessing your direction. The head want what it wants and the soul something completely different.
Sun semi-squares ERIS Goddess of Discord
Sure to be an irritating day. Yes people will be disagreeing and arguing and re-arguing the same old topics.
May 30
Mercury semi-squares VENUS
rehashing those old conversations with family, or your Mom could be nagging at you. Love isnt smooth. Expect disagreements to be in the air. Stay in your heart and love unconditionally. It will pass.
SUN CONJUNCTS MERCURY @ 8 degrees Gemini
Our minds are being re-lit by the Sun’s beams. Sol is heart energy so your heart will be stronger than your mind today. This is good.
If you have planets around 3-13 degrees Gemini its a great day to SHINE! also peeps with the same degrees of mutable Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces.
May 31 Sun squares Neptune
Shine the Light on your soul, your spirit, your dreams. this is an uplifting positive energy day.
Mercury Trines North Node in LIBRA at 8 degrees Air – also good for Aquarius
Review where you are going in terms of balance, life, relationships,
GEMINI is the sign of the LOVERS in the TAROT
TRUMPS #6 = Merkaba the 6 sided star which in 3-D is an energy vehicle.
Gemini is ruled by MERCURY- The Magician #1 in the Tarot-
THE LOVERS in the Tarot
When I started studying the tarot seriously 23 years ago, the connection of Gemini to the Lovers drove me crazy. From studying Astrology I knew Gemini as the most immature, ambiguous, curious, detached sign of all. Not what I would think of associated with the qualities of Love.
Libra, ruled by VENUS would be the sign I would first associate with love and marriage. I won’t go into all the correspondences of the Tarot and the Tree of Life, in the Kabbalah suffice it to say the Lovers is in Tifferet at the center of the Tree of Life.
The Lovers and Gemini are about opposites,masculine and feminine, yin and yang, North and South, Good and Evil, us and them and this is the energy which creates attraction.
Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer and artist Maurice Sendak, William Butler Yeats, Ian Flemming, Salman Rushdie
ARTISTS: M.C. Escher, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin
ACTORS and ACTRESSES
Marilyn Monroe, Angelina Jolie, Isabella Rossellini, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Brooke Shields
Johnny Depp, Mark Wahlberg, Morgan Freeman, John Goodman, Liam Neeson, Christopher Lee, Errol Flynn, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood,Vincent Price, Sir Laurence Olivier,
MUSICIANS, SINGERS
Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Prince, Tom Jones, Peggy Lee, Nancy Sinatra, Miles Davis, Judy Garland,
COMPOSERS: Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky,
COMEDIANS: Mike Meyers, Bob Hope, Gene Wilder, Billy Wilder, Mel Blanc, Joan Rivers,
Politicians:
John F Kennedy, Harvey Milk, Newt Gingrich, Henry Kissinger, George Bush Sr., Benazir Bhutto, Qaddafi, Peter the Great, Che Guevara, Rudy Guiliani,
I think I lost a day today already as Mercury stations turning Retrograde in Gemini where it is at its most powerful.
MERCURY turns Retrograde from 13 degrees Gemini @ 6:48 pm PDT/ 9:48 pm EDT and May 19 @ 1:48 am GMT back to 4 degrees on June 11th.
Do mark where those degrees are in your natal chart. The Retrograde affects everyone differently event though it affects all of us. check which houses and aspects too.
The Presciption is: Don’t start, launch, buy, sell, or initiate anything during this time period unless it is unavoidable.
But Mercury Retrograde especially in Gemini can be very useful for breaking down old ways of thinking, and communications breakdowns which are a good thing. Things must break down to grow.
“Turn off your mind relax and float downstream” in the immortal words of John Lennon. Stop fearing Mercury Retrogrades.
The Moon is in Gemini May 18th, one of the pair of signs that Mercury rules, the other is Virgo highlighting this Super Mercury Retro. where we are deconstructing mind games.
It begins as a sobering Mercury Retrograde as Moon opposes Saturn Retrograde in Sagittarius.
Review long-term educational, travel, writing, publishing and of course communications.
Moon conjuncts Mars so this is a hyper chatty, flirtatious, high energy but serious Retro.
You may also be feeling very wired and angtsy, Mars heightens the split personality energy. Use it for selling, marketing, and meeting new people or clients who could turn out to be long-term clients/friends/lovers.
Moon squares Neptune a few minutes after the Retro. to make you feel lost at sea without a GPS- be careful of liquids and computers and phones during this time period. Do tap into your dreams during the Mercury Retrograde.
Mercury is the TRICKSTER archetype, connected to coyote wisdom, the Fool, the sacred jester.
Watch your mind, become the watcher.
MEDITATE daily during the Retrograde
Watch how the ego/mind plays tricks on itself.
Mercury is The MAGICIAN in the Tarot.
These two archetypes the Fool= zero and the Magician emanate from the 1st Sephirot in the Tarot called Kether, they represent the initial emanations from the Godhead.
Note the Mercury record label. The Fool #0 & #22
This 60’s album has the masculine/feminine balance. The Magician #1 in the Tarot
Hermes is Mercury’s name to the Greeks, he is the messenger God. Hermes/Mercury carried a magic wand called a Caduceus given to him by Apollo the Sun God. The Caduceus is a staff with two intertwining snakes on it topped by two wings. This magic rod is a symbol of the spinal column, the central conduit for Kundalini energy. The snakes cross on the chakras. The twin snakes represent complementary halves of the nervous system which Mercury rules. Snakes have since time immemorial symbolized wisdom, psychic powers, women’s menstrual cycles, the process of change, life and death, healing, the brain, our wiring.
Mercury is also a hermaphrodite. This issue of gender bending and transexuals is very much a Mercurial topic.
Mercury is duality in all of its aspects, yin/yang, polarity, balance. Normally we largely operate in logical masculine analytical, Virgo left brain thinking. During Mercury Retrograde the intuitive, Feminine right-brained thinking is what gets turned on.
All planets during their Retrograde phases visit the Underworld, our unconscious to rest and renew. The God and Goddess also need to rest and renew..
As with all Retrogrades do all the Re things, relax, rewind, review, recalculate, etc etc. Rx the symbol of retrograde phase is the same as a Pharmacy. It is always Good Medicine.
HOW TO GET THROUGH IT WITH POISE
Do back up all computers, as information is likely to be lost, tampered with, misplaced, screwed up, and computer viruses run rampant during Mercury Retrogrades. As Mercury is in his own sign I predict this Retro could be a hair-puller but can be very good.
The symbol of Mercury Retrograding close to the New Moon symbolizes that we wipe the slate clean of old stale ideas, outworn attitudes, ways of communicating and mental images of your own identity and the world which need Re-energizing.. It is definitely time to change your mind and keep the change, a title of an old NLP book.
Do be careful about losing, dropping or damaging your cell phone or computer. Double and triple check everything use that Virgo influence to nit-pick over everything during the Retrograde.
Tara Greene,Tarot Reader, Astrology Psychic 