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For some of you this may be parsing things a little too finely, but I’d like to point out that the asteroid Hygeia receives quite a few contacts from other transiting bodies today, and to me this suggests a theme: what occurs offers us the chance to sort what’s good for us from what isn’t. It’s a point when our attention goes to the suddenly emphasized, the suddenly obvious, all in service to assessing what we need more of, what needs to be eliminated. We are likely to see the physical manifestations of our state of Being (another way of saying ‘health’), the ways social pressures and dictates have caused us to modify our behavior (in forms that may be either positive for us or harmful), and we get a glimpse forward to what our actions and choices are creating for the future. What we want to be, in the largest and most complete sense, is what we are considering at this time, and we see exactly how reality and our behaviors intersect, and the results.

With the Fist and the T-square we may get even more specific. The Fist offers us the ways the reality picture and our own ambitions and desires have intersected, and the ‘reward’ of such; the T shows us values and relationships and the ways these have caused conflict acted out and on via our own agency–that is, this shows both a measure of our own responsibility for the state of things, and how and why our relationships and what we care about have tested and been responded to in proportion to how much personal power and authority we believe we hold. The end result of that is the sum of what we are ignoring or denying, and the hidden anger that may be driving our behaviors–and it’s these intersections and combinations that we see the physical result of today.

We may all be tempted to vow to diet, exercise, reform our habits, ‘clean up’ in some way–and that would be positive, though we don’t want to miss the real message: that our actions and choices are the building blocks in a more concrete way than we may imagine. We have more control, and more ‘say’, than we think we do–be ready to wield it.

(Saturn trine, Venus parallel, and Jupiter qnx Hygeia, Jupiter sxt Zeus, Mars conj NN, Venus as apex to a Fist of God with base of Saturn sq Zeus, Venus opp Ceres as base of a T-sq with arm of Black Moon Lilith, the Sun parallel Pallas)

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For those born with the Sun at 22 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, big change is coming, and if you don’t modify yourself and your approach when you first see that a shift is occurring, then choice and control will be taken out of your hands. Whew! Do I have your attention? Things are getting a wee bit drastic because you’ve been plowing ahead, thinking you can ignore pretty much everything in pursuit of your goals–and now what’s been neglected is catching up with you, and maybe even overtaking you. By that I mean a certain amount of control is inevitably lost by you, through the very fact that you have let some structures, supports, and ‘security blankets’ crumble. In the end this may be a good thing, but will put you through some stressful times in the coming solar year, through to your next birthday. What’s working for you? An immense sense of determination, and the ability to see the value of spontaneity and accident–and it’s this latter that can turn your year into a highly rewarding time. Good luck!

By Robert Henri 1914 {{PD}}

You know what happens when we have ambition but see no opportunities before us, right? We try to make our own–and today is one of those days, when we’ll need to step up and advocate for our own causes, push our own agenda, and make what we care about or want our priority. What’s making the scene seem so bleak is every matter ignored or denied by everyone, now creating barriers and preventing easy movement, and this root cause in most cases won’t be visible to us–we’ll probably believe the landscape is barren due to ‘luck’, or more specifically its lack, but common sense tells us circumstances did not create themselves. We don’t need to place blame, but an awareness that current issues and blocks are man-made will help us deal with them–as anything done can in some form be undone–so that should give us heart, and prevent a fatalistic point of view dominating.

Two warnings, while we’re dealing with this set of influences: 1) our thinking is too materially-focused and in itself too ambitious to actually be wise–it’s a prime situation with the potential for mistaking what we want for what’s smart–and 2) the reality picture is not showing us any encouragement, any clear avenues on which to go forward–and that’s because at this time, we need to be willing to build those roads ourselves. Once we accept our own agency, we’ll find our attention going exactly where it needs to–so even if it doesn’t appear that what we’re dealing with serves our ultimate ends and ambitions, know that it really does.

(Zeus sesq and Saturn semi-sq Black Moon Lilith–and Saturn also squares Zeus–Mercury sq Pallas, Sun trine Zeus, qnx Saturn, and opp Jupiter)

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For those born with the Sun at 20 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 solar year, through to your next birthday, you have the right combination of ambition, goals, serious intent, and real-world practicality to make significant gains, attract Love, or create profits or Art. There’s a swell of creative energy that can drive your dreams; all you have to do is go after them, be aware of the reality picture, and look for opportunity. You may balk at some of the things you might be required to do, and if you find yourself unwilling, then you know that wasn’t really your dream, it was a distraction–in which case, your duty is to go out and discover what you really want. You have the energy and the mojo to be successful–use this period of clear perceptions and fortuitous judgement to make it happen.

‘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)

‘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 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!