2015 Gemini Full Moon – Lessons in Letting Go (of What You Don’t Know)

The Full Moon in Gemini is happening today, Wednesday 25th November at 2:44p PST. Here we have the Sagittarius Sun opposing the Gemini Moon.

While the Sun in Sagittarius loves seeking truth and wisdom of experience – the Moon in Gemini loves gathering information and asking why. In other words, the Sun is shining light on the all we have learned in our life and we are questioning our feelings about it.

A personal reflection to explain what I’m talking about:  A little over a week ago I was feeling pretty solid with my sense of self. Then, I got confronted with some unresolved self-doubt issues. I was beginning to think my own life experiences was not enough wisdom for me to actually move forward with my life’s work. This brought up my own feelings not being “qualified or capable” enough in guiding people towards their own healing and awareness. In short,  I figured that  I needed to collect more data before moving forward in any way. This had me feeling stuck, frustrated and mentally overstimulated.

Follow along here, I promise all of it will connect…

Mercury Re-Enters Cancer – July 2014 – Second Time’s The Charm?

Mercury’s second entrance into Cancer in 2014 is a bit more subtle this time around.  Coming in at 9:45p PDT on 12th July 2014, Mercury sneaks back into Cancer under the hype of the Capricorn Full Moon and the combustible Libra Mars-Ceres conjunction.  It does not directly aspect any other astrological bodies upon its entrance, which makes its energetic shift somewhat unnoticeable at first.  Whether this quiet entrance is for better or worse has yet to be seen.

Mercury’s mindset shifts back to emotional nurturing, caring, and protection in the sign of Cancer.  However, this is not an easily fulfilled role for Mercury as Cancer is a water sign, which means it is rooted in emotion.  Not only that, Cancer is known as the Zodiac mother, making this the sign of fundamental emotional energy – it is where the basis of our individual emotional principles is established.  The Moon (the ruler of Cancer) represents our emotional core, but where Cancer resides in your individual chart is where you feel most emotionally stable and secure and where in your life you are inclined to nurture, care for, and protect others, especially your loved ones.

Mercury is not comfortable with any of this, as it is a quick-minded intellectual.  Curiosity, reason, and mental playfulness are its preferred methods of operation.  Mercury takes emotions and tries to process them intellectually – it tries to make logical sense of them.  It’s not easy or fun as emotions rarely make logical sense, which makes this a very challenging combination as Mercury has to modify its usual emotionally-detached approach to accommodate Cancer’s emotional sensitivities and needs.

The objective for Mercury in Cancer is to bring a consideration of emotional investment into the logic and reasoning process, and to do so with efficiency, charm, and wit. 

The 2014 Gemini New Moon – Communication is An Action

The Gemini New Moon occurs at 7.35° Gemini at 11:41a PDT today, 28 May 2014.

Gemini is an air sign that I like to think of as the student energy of the Zodiac.  This is the sign of childlike wonder and curiosity – the energy behind the kids that frequently ask “why?”, “how?”, “what is it”, and other popular simple questions used to gather information and expand their base of knowledge.

Children ask a lot of questions because they are trying to understand the world around them and figure out their place in it.  Ideally, that curiosity doesn’t diminish as we get older.  It is important for us to continue asking questions as attentiveness and inquisition prevent us from taking the ideas and information within us and around us for granted.

This 2014 Gemini New Moon occurs at a time when there isn’t much earth energy to stabilize us.  In fact, the only body in an earth sign right now is Pluto Retrograde which is busy destroying stuff – not really a good place to look to for steadiness.  Here’s the breakdown of which energies are where at the time of the New Moon:

Full Moon in Gemini – The Wisdom of Curiosity

Life is a series of lessons, designed for us to learn from as well as to teach from.  During this 2013 Gemini Full Moon, we each and all have an opportunity to experience both sides of this educational coin.

The Full Moon was at its maximum fullness in the sign of Gemini at 1:28a PST this morning, 17^th December 2013.  Gemini is the perpetual student of the Zodiac.  It seeks out information – eager to learn, gather ideas, and exchange information with others in order to increase its knowledge base and have more intellectual tools at its disposal to create from.

The Sun is still in the sign of Sagittarius, representing the wisdom of the Zodiac.  Sagittarius wants to get out in the world and put Gemini’s theories to the test, then to come back and tell Gemini what is true or false about its theories based on the wisdom of experience.

The Gemini Full Moon reflects the Sagittarius Sun’s Light – you will now have the opportunity to see how what has been accepted as truth stands up to questions and doubts.  You will now get to see if what you’ve known to be wise and true really has the experience and genuine wisdom to back itself up.  This is also wonderful as students – often thought to be powerless in the face of wisdom – have an opportunity to realize the wisdom and intelligence inherent in their simple curiosity.

The real truths of matters are revealed in the answers to the questions asked of you and those that you ask of others.  True wisdom will often speak from first-hand experience, while pretentiousness tends to speak from theory or intellect alone.   This is not to say that ideas and theories don’t have merit – it is to say that just because we think it doesn’t make it as real as the experience.  In fact, we can make ourselves believe whatever we want to.  The question then becomes how much do we choose to live into that belief?

Belief doesn’t make something true.  It just means that you believe in it and live into that belief.  Yet our beliefs are not always the actual reality of things.  What if your actual experience reveals something different to you – perhaps that one of your long-held beliefs is false?  Then what?  Do you continue to seek proof or create evidence to prove that your belief is true, or do you adapt the newly-revealed truth as your own and experience life newly?

Many of us spend way too much time trying to believe our past to be true, to be valid. We identify ourselves so strongly with our beliefs that it can be challenging for us to let go of old, outdated beliefs to adopt new ones that empower and enable us to follow through on the extraordinariness of our individualities.  Yet we must let go of what has been proven false if we are to live into our real truth – we must let go of the time-worn beliefs that have been proven wrong so we can allow ourselves to be healed and made right and true for our life purposes.

This Gemini Full Moon opposite the Sagittarius Sun is a special opportunity for you to see how much wisdom you already have, yet also how much wisdom you still have to gain.  Life is a never-ending education – just when you think you know it all, you find there is still more to learn.  Just when you think you know the truth about something, you find that a truth you’ve held no longer applies.  You will never know it all.  You will always have something to learn, and therefore you will always have something to ask.  This Full Moon is a chance for you to ask yourself “why” you believe what you believe.

With the Gemini Full Moon’s quick progression into the sign of Cancer, we are encouraged to nurture our curiosity and ideas, no matter how far-fetched they may seem.  This often slow process may seem tedious, yet it is necessary in order for us to emotionally mature into the wisdom necessary to follow through on bringing our ideas to into tangible-experiential reality.  The Sagittarius Sun reveals to us on some level the development that will be necessary, and we may better understand which theories and ideas (or which parts of them) and which parts of ourselves (mental, emotional, material-physical, and/or intellectual) will need protection and nurturing during our process to discover truth within us and around us.

This is also a good time for you to ask how you may best go about nurturing your ideas and theories.  Which steps can you take to seek out new truths? Which places can you go to find/have experiences that will reveal truths to you?  Which people can you look to as teachers, mentors, or guides in your journey to truth?

Most important, remember that the ultimate truth within you is always seeking union with the ultimate truth around you.  Honor what you know to be true from within, and be willing to keep an open mind and an open heart as you travel forward into the world.  The truth is out there, waiting for you to discover it for yourself.

Embrace the journey, and learn from it.  Learn how much wisdom you have, and how much wisdom you still have to gain.

Thank you for reading and sharing Signs and Numbers.  Until next post…

~ Light, Love, and Blessings,

Grace