I don’t like to get too biblical too early, but since I’m writing this at the Vatican and musing on The Full Moon in Gemini, I’m thinking of, “In the beginning, there was the Word” (John 1:1). Gemini is the beginning of the Word. After we have Aries giving us life and Taurus giving us the body, Gemini gives the us the Word. I think Words are both given too much primacy and undervalued. The Gemini paradox strikes! Carl Jung calls the paradox "the greatest witness to truth", and I think the paradox witnesses this.

 

You see, I think we value the mind/Word at the expense of the body, spirit, and heart. And I don’t think we spend enough time talking about talking in real time. I think most of us are unprepared to talk and listen effectively in life-defining moments. We either say too much, and derail the focus of the moment, or we say too little and wonder what would’ve happened if we were braver, sooner. That’s what I mean by, "we don’t talk enough about what it means to talk in real time." We don’t talk enough about how having access to a well timed, “I’m so sorry my behaviors hurt your feelings” or “so what I’m hearing you say is [XY+Z], did I get that right?” could open up immeasurable pathways to love, forgiveness, second chances, and closure.

 

The highest expression of Gemini is the cognitive imperative to recognize those moments as they’re happening and use the power of language and listening to live into connection. That’s why, as the introduction of humanity in the zodiac is symbolized by The Twins, Gemini appears in partnership. Here we can interpret that Gemini leverages the power of the Word to secure what we are all neurologically hardwired for: connection, partnership, and relationship.

Of course we are both hurt and connected by behavior, but I also think we’re comparably hurt and connected by the words we did or didn’t say. That’s the focus of this Full Moon. It’s exact conjunction to Mars Retrograde in Gemini echoes this idea, since the Sun is also opposing Mars and reinstating the value of using our cognition and communication skills effectively in conflict, perhaps to find our way back to each other. Because, as the Gottman Institute explains, conflict can be a bridge to greater closeness or polarization, depending on how we communicate across fundamental personal differences.

 

So that’s what this Full Moon will give us progress towards. Maybe this is the Gemini stellium speaking in me, but I think the most valuable decisions we can make are in improving the quality of our communication skills. Because none of us were born knowing how to do it, and it probably wasn’t modeled to us as well as we deserved either. So let the Full Moon be the moment when you make that decision, and remember that when you expand your language, your Universe expands too!

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces