New Moon @ 16 degrees Gemini 18'

June 6, 2024

5:38 PM EDT

8:38 PM PDT

We enter June with the New Moon in tropical Gemini. It features a prominent conjunction with Venus and a notable and challenging square from Saturn in Pisces. A New Moon in Gemini, especially with its ruler Mercury in the same sign, is a mental and perceptual reset. New ideas and conversations are beginning to emerge, and ongoing dialogues are reaching a critical testing and evaluation.

With Venus' conjunction to the New Moon, creative projects, relationships, and material affairs get especially highlighted and brought into more focus. This is a perfect starting point for beginning a challenging conversation, course, book project, research endeavor, or for improving communication skills and proficiency.

Saturn's square is a reflection of a call to take on a mental and perceptual challenge, to push ourselves further in our understanding and ability to generate more effective rapport in personal and societal relationships. Gemini's weakeness can be a tendency to get overwhelmed in excessive stimulation, facts, or data. Indecision or even moral ambivlance can ensue when entrapped in the intellectual crossfire.

This New Moon also has the benefit of helping to narrow choices, priorities, and focus. It is a time to get more realistic about objectives and relational commitments. The higher end of Gemini is also its innate curiosity and ability to comprehend complex and nuanced issues and situations. Consider also how this New Moon can assist in better understanding a different viewpoint or perspective through asking questions and opening ourselves to uncomfortable conversations.

Ultimately, the New Moon is a personal and collective starting point that can reflect the need to take on new challenges that can significantly alter our understanding of a situation or even result in a transformation of worldview. Hard work will be required of any relationship or task we take on here, but if it is worth it, we can build and sustain powerful communicative threads that will improve how we see the world.