Gemini New Moon
European Bird Cherry
Photo: Stephany Steele
Monday May 30, 2022 @ 5:30am MST. @ 09degrees Gemini
As far as other planetary influences and aspects go, this Moon Phase feels pretty relaxed- especially if we look back on the eclipse season we have just past through. Though, this is in no way is less important. I just feel like I can breathe a little, take in the sights and smells of the flowers and fresh grass around me.
Grandmother moon, please share with me an aspect of my relationship within my soul that needs to become more aware during New Moon in Gemini?
“It’s hard to care for something you do not know. It’s hard to care for yourself when you do not know yourself.”
That is truly ironic statement in a world with so much emphasis on knowing everything. It feels to me that in all of this drive to know things I don’t know myself and the natural world around me, becoming more and more disconnected.
Reconnection has this feeling of being taught about ourselves through the context of the world around us. But we have lost contact with the nature and the world around us, leaving us lost to never know ourselves. As is above so below, from the outside in. The world as our mirror, our teacher, infinitely exposing ourselves to who we are and the potential of what we can to become if we are simply brave enough to look, learn and listen.
This is all a paradox to the young Gemini within all of us. The clear sight of seeing all of the situations and possibilities, yet stuck by paralysis to walk the middle ground or path. Being sucked into either side can be very easy or stuck making no movement at all. In this new moon we also know that choosing sides or not walking through the middle would be what pulls us apart internally from the inner knowing, that instinctual guidance we just have harnessed or received a glimpse of during the eclipses of Taurus and Scorpio. All of that energy is still coming to fruition, those seeds have not even germinated, or if they have those sprouts are so tender and young that they still need to take in more of their environment to fully assess the situation they have come to be in. The young dreams of our souls are not much different. We have the plan- that was the seed. That plan slowly takes shape as it leaves the warm embrace of the soil- that fertile soil we dug into some moons ago, sprouting into the world above.
When I personally sit with all I know, the paradox becomes clear- that I actually know exceptionally little. The Gemini/Sagittarius axis in me needs to embrace and embody the wholeness of this paradox. For when I become saturated in one area of learning there are whole other worlds and languages for me to dive head long into with every part of me that deeply wants to know about it. And yet, when I am saturated that desire, there will be another. The reality is there is that part in each and every one of us that wants to read 5 books at a time digesting how they all weave into the great plan and desires of our lives at the same time. When we come to realize other paradoxes- such as that they all really say the same thing: that every thing is an expressions of love and truth, always bringing us back to ourselves and the environment around us, to further along the deepening of our relationship to the universe and god herself.
How sweet that all of our learnings and desires weave a beautiful tapestry of how we can express love.
The mind can get caught up in the unsavoury shadows. I know all to well the pull of my arrogance when I doubt that there is more to the learning, to the infinite plan ahead of me. I imagine we have all at some point acknowledged the ‘know it all’ in each of our psyches.
At this point in my journey I do (mostly with some resistance) accept (sometimes not so humbly) of this arrogance in me. It’s when I step out into nature with all I know at this very time, I breathe deep and remember there is so much more.
Sometimes we forget that air has boundaries to navigate and move around. A tree will only allows the wind to push it around so far. The wind of Gemini has a choice- back off or snap the tree out of the way. Who is “right” in this situation? No one. The wind looses a tree to dance with, the tree looses the support of standing tall with the wind. This feels like a respectful ebb and flow of knowing when I back off or push harder- the wind knows that if she doesn’t push the tree can’t build tolerance that takes her to her greatest heights. Too much and the dappling never leaves the ground- forever stunted.
The tree knows what it knows and it also knows it knows very little in the big cinematic universe.
It is through this time we need to keep learning and finding the middle path. Learn more, decide less.
The caring path forward always reveals itself in due course🌞🌚🌱🌬
Stephany