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New Moon @ 02 degrees Gemini 04’
May 22, 2020
10:39 AM PST
1:39 PM EST
With the Gemini archetype dominating the astrological landscape, the pace of thoughts, ideas, or experiences can appear accelerated. It's easy to feel overwhelmed. Gemini emphasizes diversity applied to the variety of life's constructs and manifestations. In other words, Gemini's fate is encountering multiple ways of seeing or doing things that can lead to well-roundedness as much as confusion.
Strong Gemini individuals will deeply understand this. For those not natally attuned to the Gemini frequency, see the value in sometimes scattering your attention--a strategy that can help you see possibilities you'd miss with a myopic focus. Meandering your way through this New Moon is a good starting point, but that can be frustrating when wanting or needing to pursue a specific objective.
Keep in mind that Venus appears to be in retrograde through Gemini alongside this New Moon. Venus is conjoining the New Moon ruler, Mercury, too. Also, Venus/Mercury is square Neptune. On the surface, we can interpret this to suggest caution with information, data, and perceptions. Be hyper-aware of obfuscation as a natural synchronistic correlation. Use that awareness to take your time with this lunation in stepping out and gathering knowledge and experience.
A Gemini New Moon can relate to an impulsive desire to break out or attempt multi-tasking beyond what's healthy (or possible). Neptune's square can also correlate with an abundance of distraction or as feeling like mundane issues or concerns are increasingly dis-interesting. Neptune pressures us to open ourselves to new worlds, dreams, and fantasies, making it hard to attend to the fact-based reality we typically reside in.
Indeed, Mars' square to this New Moon can correlate with increased frustration over specific targets evading your grasp or focus. Impulsivity is also enhanced, but desirable objectives may seem ambiguous. What can you do with this subjugated energy and desire? New Moon's are natural moments to reset, refocus, and start on a new creative direction. Use this time mindfully to channel your mental and spiritual strength toward fleshing out this inundation of stimulation and possibilities. And transform uncertainty or fear into curiosity.
Relationships are likely to play a significant part in this New Moon, too. We tend to gather information or ideas from other humans, so that part is obvious. Yet, consider how Venus' retrograde suggests that heart perception is significant, such as news or information that changes how we feel about someone or something specific. The past (as in past relationships, connections, ideas, or experiences) might come into sharper focus here, seeking integration, closure, or future elaboration.
Beyond the overt idealism that Neptune brings to the surface, there is also the potential for mystical, visionary, and transpersonal experiences. There is equally the possibility to slow down the pace of events, thoughts, or activities, and find amid the flurry, a break in the clouds revealing brief moments of something ineffable. And there lies the difficulty in fully articulating whatever may be emerging for many of us. Being adaptable in the moment, in whatever way it shows up, is the key.