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)

‘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 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)

‘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 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!

‘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)

‘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 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)

‘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 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!