The New Moon in Gemini 2018 -- Part 2
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Remember what we've talked about before -- how the energy of each new sign is a reaction against the excesses of the sign that precedes it -- in that wonderful yin-yang system of checks and balances we learn intimately as we progress through life.
Where Taurus energy is laid-back, composed, affectionate, gentle, devoted, loyal, placid, and "nice," Gemini energy is high-strung, diffuse -- often scattered, unemotional, logical, intellectual, perceptive, analytical, curious, imaginative, and concerned more with the world of the mind than with the world of physical things.
Its emphasis is on understanding, collecting facts, being mentally engaged and stimulated, being clever and creative, inventing something new and interesting, and making connections between otherwise unrelated pieces of knowledge in ways that are memorable, delightful and even humorous.
It sees the world as a place virtually devoted to its desire for entertainment ... and new subjects to explore.
Yellow is a Gemini color!
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It needs something new going on all the time because it gets bored mighty quick. It never met an idea -- or a novel situation -- that it didn't want to look at ... twice. It loves differences!!! It needs to circulate ... and to be always on the go.
Like the swift messenger of the gods, Mercury, whose planetary metaphor rules this sign (the planet which zips through its circuit of the Sun in less than three month's time) Gemini people -- like the thoughts that transcend the physical limits of time and space -- are here one minute, gone somewhere else the next.
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Gemini is Mutable Air energy. Mutable ... as in "plastic, changeable, adaptable, fluid, vacillating." Air ... as in "free as the breeze." It is legendary for being hard to pin down, hard to hold onto, not given much to things like "forevermore" or "lasting commitments."
They make wonderful friends and companions ... not so wonderful lovers and mates. That "variety thing" they are so fond of ... well, it tends to cause problems with partners who think they should be "the one and only."
It's not that Geminis don't need relationships. They do. In fact, they need an awful lot of them. People and the products of their existence, the ideas, the possibilities, the adventure, the toys!!, provide the most exciting diversion of all for the restless Gemini mind.
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This emphatically intellectual slant on life is echoed, of course in the other two Air signs, Libra and Aquarius. In Libra, it assumes culture, grace, an indispensable sense of fairness, and a focus on more acceptable arrangements of one-to-one partnerships -- although even here the exact partners may change again and again over time.
In Aquarius, it expands into an impersonal, independent, idealistic, but more generalized perspective of wanting connection with friends, acquaintances, and "humanity" in general. But, somehow Aquarian detachment and altruism is a little easier to take overall than Gemini's often "two-timing ways."
That willingness to connect mentally, though, in ways that are attractive, exciting, and productive ... begin here, in the eclecticism of Gemini and its willingness to try anything once. (Ok. Twice.) The basic statement of Gemini energy is "I think." The hidden part of that phrase is, "I think a lot!!"
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Its ingenuity can rival that of Aquarius. It's razzle-dazzle is second to none. What it lacks in persistence and tenacity, it makes up in incandescent brilliance. It is one of the best examples of what the human mind -- all by itself -- can achieve.
But as with Aquarius, Gemini inspirations can dance on the far edge of practicality ... and then trip four or five steps farther into some theoretical never-never land, where the concepts look fine on paper, but there's no possible way to execute them in the real world.
Then, of course, Gemini may set about to invent something that changes that limitation into something possible. Before the invention of computers, for example, musicians could write music that could not humanly be played. The technical and physical demands on the performers was just too much. (Spans that human hands couldn't possibly reach, for instance.)
Although with overdubbing and other tricks (and oh, my how Geminis love tricks!! And gadgets!!) technicians (probably nimble Geminis themselves!!) could cobble together something acceptable.
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