This, my dear, is a glorious moment.
In spite of it all. Because of it all.
Here, when the new moon is in Gemini and the Zodiac just turned to the sign of the twins, it is a remarkable time to be alive.
This time isn’t just for the lucky ones born in this glorious month that precedes the solstice that sets us in the Northern Hemisphere right at the threshold of summer. (Though truly, it’s an endless delight to be a Gemini…)
Instead, it is an invitation for all of us to connect the power of intention, the spells we cast with words, and the ability to make magic - simply by practicing the art of changing your mind and consciously shifting your thoughts.
Thought creates action, after all, and action is what transforms your day, your life, your world.
And, it’s a time to play.
Welcome to Gemini Season, a time of transformation in the face of all that cannot be changed
This moment feels particularly special. It’s as if we are all standing at a great threshold.
We have wandered through a long, dark spring to get here. And no one knows quite what will happen next - other than “normal” will never be the same and this crisis did little to bring the warring factions together. (Certainly there is much to be said about division and separation as we dance with the Gemini twins? Let’s look at that in another post soon…)
This threshold doesn’t bring us back to “easy,” mind you. (If anything, it reveals the illusion that life wasn’t all that easy or OK before.) We’re not crossing into a new realm where the yucky germs have simply gone away and we can get back to business as usual just because we want it to be so.
No, magical thinking will not eradicate the virus. Acting as if it does not exist will not make it so.
Though I am a fervent believer and practitioner of magic who believes that we do have the power to change consciousness and shift reality, denial never healed anyone.
Instead, this is an invitation to take the world as it is - with all of its dangers and all its necessary precautions - and to thrive and connect and fill ourselves with wonder anyway.
This is a time of innovation and imagination even if we cannot go to the beach. Especially because we cannot celebrate the summer as we always do.
It’s Your Gemini Season, Dear Seeker, Dear Writer, Dear Maker of Magic
I’ll be honest. I need this new moon and this time in the sign of Gemini like a mermaid needs her ocean home.
In part, it’s because I am a citizen of Gemini myself. (I was born on June 17. My mother was, too. I have a unique understanding of what it means to be a twin, and I know it to be full of poignancy and power.)
I think we all need it though. There’s nothing like a pandemic to silence you, to steal your creative flair, and to make you doubt the necessity and validity of your own voice.
Gemini Season is the time of the writers, the creatives, the people who play with their words.
Gemini Season is the time of the sun worshippers, the strawberry pickers, and all of us who believe in the kind of magic you can only make on a warm, late spring day.
Gemini Season belongs to everyone.
Gemini Season is when we celebrate the power of expression and the gift of the active mind. It’s when we embrace spontaneity and everything that’s possible when we look at the world in a new way.
As my new astrology crush, Sabrina Monarch describes it, this is the time of the Poets, the Priestesses, the Magicians.
Gemini Season is the time to do #7MagicWords
Have you been part of #7MagicWords, the free weeklong challenge that inspires your creativity and invites you to play with your words?
It’s coming back on June 1, 2021.
I didn’t intend to run this challenge again, but this new moon is whispering and the tides of stars will not be denied.
This challenge (I’ve lost count… I think this is the tenth? I first offered it in June 2017) is going to offer the sweetness of strawberries right off the vine and the balm of almost-summer afternoons.
Come create with us.
Come delight with us.
Come make magic with us.
This sweet June, we all need to savor this Gemini Season together.
