Gemini New Moon With Scorpio On Its Arm

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. ~ Jean Houston

Jean Houston’s words (above) have become so well-worn by that we run the risk of dismissing them, finding it hard to imagine a personal storyline which isn’t overshadowed by worry. Tomorrow’s new moon would have you remember that options continue to abound.

The thing about options is that the really interesting ones come with no historical context, no guarantees. They are pure in origin. They offer us something we’ve not yet experienced. Tuesday’s new moon delivers energy which reminds that within your mind reside hidden gems.

Caution: When Gemini gets carried away with mind play, we can spin into mental dizziness.

The trick is to learn how to field so many thoughts without becoming attached so that when one of the multitude is actually a keeper, is an idea that could take root and ground you, you’ll feel the difference between it and all the static that has been running through.

This ability to sift thoughts with discernment will come in ever-so handy these next three months as our old friend, Saturn, backed into the deep water of Scorpio last night and will have you refining the emotional excavations you began in the autumn of 2012. Saturn expects us to take responsibility for our lives and our part in creating their architecture.

Just when we thought we might be headed out of the woods with Mercury finally going direct last week, we are asked by Saturn to plow ever more deeply into our fears . . . or our shame.

We can moan and groan at the Universe as it seems to refuse us a soft landing. Or we can use this precious few months to turn our attention to emotions which continue to drag at our hearts, to face down old patterns of behavior which we sense are driven by voices we’d like to silence for good.

Until it leaves Scorpio (not to return for 30 years), Saturn will draw back the curtain on situations still awaiting exposure in order to free us from our own and other’s secrets, to liberate us from those lingering sensations which reside in the gut and which can be dissolved only if we’re willing to see ourselves and anything or anyone in our lives exactly as they are. This kind of honesty is phenomenally liberating. We feel the mantle of anxiety drop away when we tell ourselves the truth.

It’s as if Tuesday’s Gemini new moon offers a way through despair and longing and anxiety. It turns on its little sparkly brain lights and says: Here. Here is another way for you to look at this. See yourself with absolute honesty and you will see a noble soul navigating a wild time with a mind opening ever more and more and more to a lighter way forward.

Can we release what we’ve been holding onto for longer than we remember? Let go of them. Let go.

As we find ourselves merging Gemini explorations with Scorpio’s deep tides, you might seek out a new and, for you, unusual little ceremony even if all that means is changing the color of your candles or the direction your feet take through the duff on the path. Try walking the other direction or write your thoughts from the back of the journal toward the front. Lift away from the overly-well-trodden. Read Natalie Goldman’s Wild Mind. Realize you, and only you, can change out the lenses in your metaphorical glasses.

Please drop a note if you’d like to explore these energy tides more personally or if you’d like a relationship reading, a locational reading or want to start from the beginning with your first-ever birth chart reading.

Deborah O’conner