If this Gemini season isn’t so, well Gemini like with so much going on and ever so much stimulation. Who can keep up? It is like a constant wind blowing in more and more shifts and changes by the moment. We can find ourselves overwhelmed and mentally fried or caught up in all the energy that we are left scattered about and disconnected from our intuition and truth. This is a potent time full of deeper revelations and clearing if we can hold our attention and focus it skillfully into a inward curiousity. We may find that instead of answers to old questions we may find new questions that beg new explorations into deeper aspects of ourselves. Let’s break it down into manageable pieces first.

Let’s first take a look at Gemini season and it’s aim for us:

With Gemini we want to get curious and we want to flex our capacity to be adaptable and roll with life. Change is your friend as it brings in new perspectives, new people and new choices. This season I feel Gemini is asking us to ask new questions. Why? So that we can be inspired by causes that invoke changes in our actions. Some times it isn’t that the answer isn’t within in us it is that the question doesn’t allow the truth to be revealed. Instead of asking “Why can’t I be happy in my job” a more inspiring question may be “what type of work makes me feel inspired and happy?”. Perhaps this question invites you to explore new aspects of yourself that are arising. This season for me has sparked many new questions for myself to explore around what makes me feel joyful, inspired, and aligned. I am journaling daily about “What am I opening to” and the answers are quite different than I expected. What questions will inspire you to do some inner exploration? Where can you freshen your ideas about how life is unfolding? What are you calling forth? Take a look around you.

On Wednesday, we have a full moon in Sagittarius and a lunar eclipse on the south node of the moon. Translation: This is a time of releasing and the heightened energy can allow some illuminations of some truths that may have been literally eclipsed by the clutter around you. Maybe the clutter is too much stimulation, too much information or opinions from others, old baggage from the past. With a Sagittarius super full moon, we want to sense the vision and the the greater meaning to life’s bigger questions. We want to find our north star and feel like we are moving through life guided from a greater calling. These times are asking us to be guided from within from the source of our greatest truth, our own wisdom and intuition. With Gemini we get an outward to expand our field of awareness, with Sagittarius we go inward to expand outward. We cannot answer our life’s questions from another’s truth or wisdom. We must learn to hear that voice of our soul and we do this by learning and growing within the presence within us. For me this time has been rich with self-study and a lot of meditation and reflection. I have been trying to cultivate a more inward attention to truly listen to my soul. I find when I declutter myself from the noise of life and the surplus of stimulants around me I have an easier time navigating. On this eclipse, how do you connect to your north star, your soul, your deepest wisdom? What practices allow you to find that inner compass. What gets in the way? Do you have some old stories to dismantle? Dependency on others to tell you “the right way”? What has life been teaching you? When the veils get cleared away, the Truth remains.

Saturday Mercury, planet of all things communication goes retrograde. Translation: If we have not gotten the message thus far, Mercury will try again to get our attention. Literally! Slow down, turn inward, get present and be aware of what is within you, around you and transpiring. This is a time to hit pause and not rush into anything be it commitments, plans..you name it. Take your time and explore your relationship with time. If you feel like you going from thing to thing to thing, what of those things can be deleted, delegated or dropped? Do we need it all? How do we be open and curious to what can be when we take more inventory fo how we are moving about life and with what amount of presence we carry with us? My tip for this cycle is to break each segment/interaction/activity of your day into pieces and before ask “What do I want or desire from this?” After take inventory in the experience. “How was that for me?” I call these presence time outs. You will be amazed what those simple questions reveal.

My favorite practice for Gemini times is breath work. It is the absolute best way to snap into the present moment. Try 5 counts in and 5 counts out for 5 deep breaths, 5 times a day. Set an alarm on your phone! I also like aromatherapy to help snap me into my body. My “Zen” spray is perfect for this season if need more Zen and less stress. If you want support navigating the questions that are arising or even learning what new questions to ask, try out an astrology reading.

Cheers to those new questions..and to the discovery that they inspire! Blessings to you all!