‘Medizin’ (Medicine) By Gustav Klimt {{PD}}

After yesterday, we may be looking for remedies; we find them in accepting as much appropriate responsibility as possible, in rejecting anything destructive, especially those things harsh on relationships or finances (including overspending), and by trusting ourselves and our judgment over feedback from the social arena, and even over facts that may present contradiction–if we’re willing to examine those, we will know whether it’s smart to go ahead with our idea or not.

(Juno enters Leo, Venus contra-parallel Pluto and nov Vesta, Mercury parallel Pallas and the NN and contra-parallel Jupiter)

‘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 29 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). It may feel very important to you, dear Gemini, to get the power situation straight. It may even present as a crisis, or a series of them, where status, reach, authority, and the support (or lack of it) of partners will be clearly defined–and from there you can choose what to do, because you will, definitely, need to be in charge this solar year, through to your next birthday–at the least, calling the shots for your own future, at most determining life direction for many many others. Creativity is high, and opportunities arrive, but they are hard-won, so appreciate how much went into making this potential avenue available, before you say yay or nay. By the end of the year, if not sooner, emotions and intuition will strongly support personal development. Good luck!

Cover of ‘Songs of the Great Earthquake’ Artist unknown, lithograph, Tokyo, 1924

Geez, what made everybody so mad? Mostly, it seems, it’s about facing various power structures and finding how really hard they are to topple, change, talk to, eliminate, make an impact on, overcome, or wrest power from, for our own use. Yesterday, and/ or our own thinking, set us up to think this would be easy, and it’s anything but. We may have to take a step back, for our own health and safety, and look for the payoffs that aren’t quite so power and reality focused–which sounds disappointing until you realize that our perceptions of things are what matter. Our upset at not achieving all we’d hoped in the blink of an eye must be put into perspective–that is, we must credit ourselves with all we do accomplish, and then use our agile minds to plan, because the reality is change happens in steps; only accidents and earthquakes happen without anticipation, and you don’t want to be in charge of one of those, do you?

(Mars and Mercury parallel, conj, and both opp Pluto, Venus contra-parallel Saturn)

‘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 28 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, your empowerment is on the agenda this solar year, through to your next birthday, but it’s only fair to warn you that the kind and shape of power you’ve longed for (and this applies even if all you want is dominion over yourself) is likely to come through crisis–that’s where you’ll prove your ingenuity, that you care, and that you are more than capable–and it will be rewarded. So, it won’t come to you the way you’ve dreamed of it happening, but it will come–and then you’ll need to make peace with how you got it, with your position, with your personal sense of authority, with your true reach, and there’ll be an inevitable reckoning of your abilities–all in preparation for the next shift. Big aids include the ability to think it and act on it simultaneously, and to bring creative notions into real-world forms adeptly. Good luck!

Photo By Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand -Sculpture By Inge King, ‘Rings of Saturn’ , Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelberg, Victoria, 8 Feb. 2009 CC BY 2.0

Wow! This should be a really good day, as long as we are clear on what our actual values are–not what we tell ourselves they are, but what we have in reality put our time, energy, and attention into, lo these many years–because that is what will provide the muscle to bring the reality picture closer to the ideal (or allow us to manifest a creative idea in material terms), that will make our actions and choices brilliantly rewarding (as well as being the smart thing to do), and thought and action will be synchronized–with all the positives and pitfalls we might expect from such a partnership (including no need to stop and think, so in the moment choices dazzle, as well as having the chance to shoot our mouths off!) An amazing period for the aware and tuned-in; a bit frustrating, for a variety of reasons, for everyone else. If you find yourself not benefiting, it’s worth examining current values and commitments, as chances are there’s something you’re not seeing about them (or specifically, your relationship to them) that’s holding up this highly beneficial flow.

(Neptune semi-sq Vesta, Saturn sxt Neptune, Venus nov Mars and trine Pallas, Merc conj Mars)

‘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 27 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 appears you’re in for some kind of breakthrough year, where your own thinking about who you are and what you’re here to do subtly becomes re-arranged. Of course, this can have a big impact on both how you see yourself and what you do, and may take the life off in unexpected directions. See it as a kind of emotional birth, where what’s been kept below suddenly surfaces, forcing the life in directions you really care about–that’s only good, no matter how disruptive, right? Know too that this is a super-creative time for you, and that ‘dreams come to reality’ is a definite possibility–really, more often than not this solar year, through to your next birthday, you’ll think the thought, and it will happen. Good luck!

Yesterday’s Full Moon is right here–

By TheTrolleyPole – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79351445

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)

‘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 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!