‘An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump’ By Joseph Wright of Derby 1768 {{PD}}

Ideas may be original or unusual today, and it’s this breath of fresh air that makes it prime time for negotiating our ‘territory’ and for getting what we want. What occurs to us may be so out of the ordinary that it takes us out of our comfort zone–and in this case, that’s very good, creating circumstances where it’s exceptionally safe to roll the dice, to experiment (mostly–the exceptions may be if we are merely power-seeking, or if we intend to cause harm). Too, once we step up and show ourselves to be fully present, we have the chance to resolve ambiguities with something or someone we care about, and so have the chance to heal the relationship or the wounds to our psyche caused by this connection previously.

(Mercury sxt Uranus, qnx Ceres, and sq Chiron)

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For those born with the Sun at 17 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Dear Gemini, it’s clear as day that you need to review your past, resolve it, and then modify the path you’re treading so that it takes you, in as straight a line as possible, in your desired direction. It appears what happened before has somehow exerted too strong an influence, and you’ve allowed this to alter the dream, to the point you may not even recognize it, anymore. This solar year, through to your next birthday, is your breakthrough year, the one where you set your course precisely as you want it to be. Eventually, this adjustment will lead to greater creativity and attract opportunities you never would’ve seen if you had stayed compromised by the past. Good luck!

By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1895 {{PD}}

Today the goal may be to show our uniqueness, to display our originality, and what we must negotiate is how much leeway we actually have to show who we are. The guise we normally take in order to move through the social milieu safely may be slipping–or maybe we’ve thrown it off, no longer willing to hide those things that might bring social disapproval, not because they are morally or ethically wrong according to our sphere, but because they aren’t judged to be cool. And holding oneself back out of fear of being judged is a total shame, my friends.

Be who you are, without reservation, without intimidation, and be confident in this expression. You’ve got two big positives going for you: 1) what you love is firmly aligned with instincts and deep Self-knowledge, meaning that surrounding yourself with what’s loved, whether people, other living things, your creations, or your surroundings, will open the way to understanding, and so make any Self-expression you undertake absolutely true to you, and 2) whether consciously or unconsciously done, you are facing, dealing with, and making the most of those matters you’ve been ignoring or denying–and again, the way is opened for Self-expression unique to you.

It’s this expression, almost unavoidable today, that draws opportunity and expands our world and our reach, largely through a variety of unexpected reactions, accidents, surprises, and revelations. To be free of fear in expression is to accept yourself completely–and from there, living free follows.

(Jupiter sesq Uranus, Venus conj Sedna, Mercury trine Black Moon Lilith)

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For those born with the Sun at 16 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Dear Gemini, one of your surprising strengths this solar year, through to your next birthday, will be an uncanny ability to understand what other people are really about. This may come without words, in images in the mind or in sudden ‘knowing’, but however it arrives, you will have an advantage–use it wisely–that is, use it to elevate yourself by treating the other person in a more sympathetic way than you might have otherwise. Doing so will win you friends in places you never would have found them in earlier times, and also purifies your own interactions with the world so thoroughly that you gain (status, rewards, partners) by no more effort than visualizing what you want for your future. So that sounds good, right? Good luck, Gemmy!

‘Shade and Darkness – The Evening of the Deluge’ By J. M. W. Turner 1843 {{PD}}

Whether it’s internal or external, in our minds or in our relationships, whether we experience it alone or in the company of countless others, we’re due some brilliant chaos, a crashing and colliding of ideas that will take unexpected shapes and offer inventive options and answers to questions we didn’t even know we were asking. This may come in the form of opposites: wounds that show us our strengths, dangers that reveal the extent of our empowerment, passions and what we love versus doing what’s practical and smart, and of course, testing the validity of our ideals through real-life implementation and commitment. Not necessarily an easy day, but a massively illuminating one, if we can assess what happens impersonally and then see how it can be applied in the most personal of ways.

(Chiron trine Ceres, Pluto opp Juno, Neptune nov Vesta, Venus sesq Pallas, Sun nov Uranus)

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For those born with the Sun at 15 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). This coming solar year, dear Gemini, through to your next birthday, may be one long, sensitive time, when feelings are acute and tender and will affect the health of every life area–and in so doing, bring about some distinctive learning or exploratory situations. Your surroundings may change as a result of challenges to your feeling nature and perceptions, and you may find yourself repeatedly weighing the power balance. This is good, as you see just where your ‘muscle’ lies. This year, to gain or within relationships you do best to listen to instincts and those ways you ‘know but don’t know’–just take care not to confuse knowing with wanting. Good luck!

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By Godfried Schalcken c1677 {{PD}}

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Are we confused about what we’re dedicating our lives to, or is it that we don’t understand it, don’t see it clearly, or is it that we’re following an ideal that may or may not have a real-world application? Something in us is stirring, an inner knowing that’s trying to bring vital info to consciousness, so that our actions and choices have meaning relevant to us, as individuals, as necessary keepers of our own flame. Our dreams are calling, and if we can’t pinpoint the corollary to what we’ve imagined and long for, then what are we doing? Today we might have to face this, maybe via a challenge to our personal authority, to our sense of worthiness or beauty or talents, or through the social sphere as it asks us (not in a disapproving way) to show the world who we are. We think in terms of caring, what we and others are motivated by and for, and this helps jog loose that sense of knowing, but feeling it’s just outside our grasp. Something today brings that closer to our awareness–watch for it.

(Neptune contra-parallel Vesta, Mars semi-sq Sedna, Venus contra-parallel Ceres, Mercury enters Cancer, Sun contra-parallel Jupiter)

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For those born with the Sun at 14 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Dear Gemini, What in the world do you want most? This solar year, through to your next birthday, you must use a combination of instinct and active, present-moment intuition to get it, and that might be a real challenge for someone who wants to apply their brain to literally every task–as I’m guessing you are. The other things you can do include using your personality in new ways (that will bring new responses from the world around you) and working to take real-world (rather than just mental) steps toward building what you want. In case nobody’s told you, you have a right to have it, just as long as you put in the effort, and don’t cause any harm along the way–now go get it, and good luck!

‘Morning Light’ By William McGregor Paxton {{PD}}

We’re trying to go forward and we keep stumbling; we’re in a dark room and are refusing to turn on the light. Why are we being so contrary? At present we’re confusing what we dedicate our energy to and our wounds; we think what we honor is the source of our hurt–and that may or may not be accurate. We are, reasonably or not, expecting to wrest reward from the current scenario–and that could come to us, or not, if our expectations are misplaced. And worst of all, we are just being pig-headed, wanting to ignore what we know to be wise in favor of exercising our Will.

If we’re willing to at least make our way to a window and pull back a curtain, we’ll be able to see the outlines of things, the shape of what surrounds us–and that’s not just smart, but empowering, enhancing our position, as others may continue to feel around in the dark and get nowhere. We should also consider that certain things that are currently being treated as, ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ should be brought out into the open, exposed, dealt with, judged, because it’s only when we ignore them that they can affect us without our knowing.

(NN sesq Black Moon Lilith, Chiron parallel Vesta, Mars sq Pallas, Venus trine Saturn, sxt Juno, and semi-sq Chiron, Merc qnx Pluto, Sun nov Juno and trine Pallas)

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For those born with the Sun at 10 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). This year, dear Gemini, through the solar year to your next birthday, you have the Will, and the Wisdom and/ or skills, to do exactly what you want to–but how will that play out? You may have to find some sort of balance between idealism and reality, chasing the dream and fulfilling duties, playing by the rules and winging it, before you can go forward with shaping things to your Will. It’s a matter of answering the questions: What will it cost, if I get what I want? And what do I believe? Do those beliefs support my wants? Believing in yourself is necessary to successfully building what you desire. And one other thing: the emotions may be at odds with the identity or the sense of mission; the feeling nature may be too focused on material matters and security needs to allow the ‘I Am’ to truly, freely express. Deal with those ‘side’ matters, and the way is clear to be precisely who you intend to be. Good luck!

By Matt Pearson, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52771526

Today we absolutely, without a doubt, feel we know where we’re going–but we may be completely deluded about how empowered we truly are. Or maybe it’s that we are both on track and mustering massive amounts of creative and generative energy in order to move forward. Or is it that we think we’re rejecting exercising our own authority overtly, possibly because we’re under some illusion about what is really ours to do, to change, to affect? Think it through, sort it out–mental clarity is our strong point at the moment (plus a dose of rewarding creativity), and the one factor that allows us to pinpoint what’s smart and then carry through on what’s wise.

(Saturn opp Juno, Venus trine SN, sxt Neptune, and qnx Zeus, Merc trine Zeus, semi-sq Uranus, qnx Saturn, and opp Jupiter, Sun contraparallel Pluto)

‘Cakes, 1963’ Photo By Pplachigo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28954794

For those born with the Sun at 09 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Dear Gemini, This year, through to your next birthday, what you do, what your ego asserts, what choices you make, your temper, and what you care about that stirs you to action is precisely what will shape your life direction, and so your future. That may seem obvious, but in the coming solar year, for you, there will be a much more direct line to be drawn between the exercise of your Will and the future that comes into being. That means you must do your best to foresee the consequences of any chain of events you set in motion, or any choice you make. Don’t worry, though, as you have vast amounts of energy at your disposal (so much it may surprise you) and you are more empowered, and hold higher status, than you realize–and that means once you’re in action, you’ll be able to go a long long way. Good luck!

‘Young Woman in a Window Feeding a Parrot’ By Caspar Netscher 1666 {{PD}}

It appears there’ll be a lot of push back and challenges, the gauntlet thrown by anyone concerned about the power situation and the distribution of privilege and reward. Those merely trying to stake out their territory could be confronted by those who think it’s their prerogative to dictate circumstances, and many will choose fight over flight, as it may seem a showdown is unavoidable. Add to that it may be impossible to communicate without infusing our words with assertive energy, and it could be a rough day. Part of the purpose behind all the turmoil might be this: destructive or angry acts, or those meant to seriously transform a situation, may uncover what really needs to be addressed, and a do over for past actions or circumstances that we’re not happy with are a distinct possibility. Take advantage of the way we’re able to ‘see behind the curtain’, as with only a little effort we see the reality behind the material world. Too, there’s a lot of potent creative energy around; make sure you channel it into something positive, as ignoring the creative surge may draw to you deceptions or illusions you may mistake for that peek behind the curtain, when you’re really just staring at the draperies.

(Juno sq Zeus, Pluto nov Black Moon Lilith, Mercury parallel Mars, qnx SN, and sq Neptune, Sun contra-parallel Saturn, sesq Pluto, and nov NN)

‘Cakes, 1963’ Photo By Pplachigo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28954794

For those born with the Sun at 08 Gemini. Check your natal chart for the correct Sun degree (you may want to read both the degree number and the one that follows, if you have minutes on your Sun position–together these offer a more complete picture of your year ahead). Dear Gemini, it’s your time to do, to be what you like, to assert yourself, to take action that can shape your role and your world–but it requires you make the effort. What you do (or don’t do) this solar year, through to your next birthday, will be very public, and may affect the career and the reputation (and this could be positive or not), so keep the inevitably easily seen nature of your actions and choices in mind as you make them. Change to those structures, rules, boundaries, and other forms that have given your life shape and contained both your expression and your sense of Self will happen this year, and if you’re willing to face the unpleasant or deal with what you’ve up to now hoped to ignore, you can have a significant say in the shape those new support and containment structures take. Good luck!