Happy Birthday, dear Gemini! This Solar year you may find yourself reaching a very unusual place for you, one where you feel caught (psychically, mentally, and emotionally speaking) between the social sphere and your own need to retreat from contact and explore the depths of the inner nature. The inclination to hide away and meditate (in some form or another) will win out, at least at first, and it should: you need and deserve that time to consider just exactly where you’re headed according to current efforts, and where you really want to go, and you need access to your deepest feelings in order to know what should change and what should stay the same. So, don’t feel badly about taking the time to address your needs; putting yourself first is necessary right now. You’ll be ready to emerge from your cocoon as soon as you have your feelings about how best to expand your horizons worked out–until then, relax, and do things that ground you, that make you feel you belong.

Featured Solar Return aspect: a Full Moon! It’s time to wrap up one phase of existence and begin another–what and who you know will have to be sorted through, and soon you’ll be clear about who and what you should carry with you into the future, and to whom and what you should say good-bye.