The Moon has spent the past two weeks dimming in light, and the energetic charge of the full Moon two weeks ago has all but faded; the energetic crescendo we felt as the Moon became full of the Sun’s light has now tapered off into relative quietude in the aethers. Now we prepare for renewal, and the beginning of a new lunar cycle.
This New Moon occurs in Gemini. Gemini season is associated with sociability, charm, and intellectual dexterity, as well as deftness with the use of craft, tools, and language. Coinciding with the final zodiacal portion of spring and the brightest portion of the year, Gemimi privileges inquisitive curiosity, open-ended play, and other activities that are best suited to this fecund, carefree time of year that deeply supports learning, integrating new skillsets and practicing new trades. In keeping with its brightness and caree free qualities, Gemini is often optimistic agreeable, and sociable.
Gemini denotes a strong mind, and like all strong minds it carries a duplicitous, trickster-esque quality: sometimes it is your best friend, playful and curious, and sometimes it can trap you in a web of thought and judgment. Like any tool, it can turn on its user. In keeping with its duplicity, Gemini is associated with the deception and unseen shadow that accompanies any bright exterior. Just like inquisitive, playful children, sometimes they’re completely innocent, and sometimes they’re up to no good.
In keeping with such cerebral, circuitous, ambagious tropes, Gemini is ruled by the divine trickster Mercury. Gemini is Mercury’s yang, externalized, masculine expression - Gemini employs tools, technology, language, and all other products of the linear mind. Gemini verbalizes, communicates, and solves problems. In Gemini, we see Mercury as the clever, fast-talking, tool-using trickster god: as the gifted, clever child prodigy who stole Apollo’s lyre and killer of the hundred-eyed Argos; as the many-masked magician who creates worlds through the use of the word.
The Moon’s rebirth in this sign is the best possible time to cultivate skill and craft. It supports experimentation, trying new things, learning new skills, and letting the mind roam unhibited as it tests possibilities through trial and error, without attachment to any results. Play and curious exploration for its own sake is the ideal. You’ll be surprised at just how much can be accomplished when you aren’t working in response to deadlines or feelings of responsibility.
Try new approaches to your work. Experiment with new techniques and styles. Have conversations with coworkers about different, out-of-the-box things you can try. Pick up new crafts and skills that you have been wanting to learn. Try your hand at new things. Hold all that you do lightly - don’t take things so seriously that you become overwhelmed and obsessive.
How can you bring lightness and curiosity to the serious parts of your life?
What can you do to infuse play and openness into your work?
This new Moon happens in sextile with Saturn, the planet of darkness, death, and time. As with all aspects from the greater malefic, obstructions will arise to sour the work that you are doing during this period, but they will more manageable. Expect them to arise and dissipate quickly, with Saturn in cardinal sign of Aries.
The Moon also forms a conjunction with Mercury, the ruler of this sign. This is a very positive alignment - your mind will be very strong, and you’ll be able to find solutions to problems with ease. Learning and studying are greatly supported.
Opal is a classic Mercurial stone that was associated with good luck and success, and said to restore lost hope. In traditional chinese medicine, opal is said to restore kidney function, and the kidneys are traditionally ruled by Mercury in that modality. Malachite is a good stone for finding external, concrete success from actions, in particular financial success.
Ginkgo biloba tea strengthens the mental faculties and promotes intellectual work. It’s frequently used to treat alzheimer’s, dementia, and memory problems.
As always, examine the house in which the Moon conjoins the Sun. If you’re Taurus rising, it will be your 2nd house of resources 1st house of self. If Libra rising, then your 9th house of study and travel. This will tell you where to expect the most developments in your life to occur during this upcoming lunar cycle.
In sum, give your mind free reign to experiment, explore, and revel in its inquisitive, curious nature. Try new ventures, and allow yourself to play, just like the divine child of the heavens that stewards over this sign. Though our work may be serious, it can still remain serious play. Don’t let anything rob you of your peace, or steal the hope and childlike joy of your original mind.