‘Force of Change Evolution’ Pencil mixed with natural photo-textures and digital color. Also features original writings by Charles Darwin from ‘The Origin of Species’.
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You’re headed for change, dear Gemini, the kind that will provide opportunity and perhaps force you to re-think with whom you want to move forward in life. The cooperative aspect of things may be prominent, and you will have to vet ambitions and desires against existing partnerships and collaborative ventures–and there’s no telling what kind of further change, to the point of destruction or abandonment of previously viable circumstances, this will bring about. I don’t mean to frighten you–this will for the most part be quite mild, and may spring from highly positive creative efforts and/ or be in line with the planned life direction–it’s just that when you look back from the vantage point of your next birthday, you may be awfully surprised by how much has been swept away, and how much revolutionized, revitalized, and effectively re-born. Happy Birthday, Gemini, and good luck!

This coming year is no piece of cake, but offers immense opportunity for creativity and reward, Gemini. Dessert No. 4 by Carducius Plantagenet Ream, c1870 {{PD}}

You are at a creative and inspirational peak, dear Gemini–so where do you go from here? You still have a lot of creative juice, so there’s plenty more mileage to get out of this, with the highlight being that if you haven’t already, you’re going to gain a great deal from what have been (and will continue to be) some pretty smart decisions. Profit, reward, Love–they’ll come to you, but to believe this gain will be a piece of cake just because you’re a creative dynamo would be naive–you’ve probably already discovered, you have to work for it, and what comes at you won’t necessarily be easy to handle–and with emotions running deep and possibly feeling easily hurt, you may have to make a concerted effort to stay on target. Self-discipline pays off, and so does belief in yourself. Happy Birthday, Gemini, and good luck!

You and the Universe can have a collaborative experience this coming year, Gemini. Artist Unknown c16th century {{PD}}

Your birthday this year, dear Gemini, falls on the same day as the Inferior Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury, the meeting that occurs when Merc is retrograde. It’s a seed moment for everyone, but coinciding with your Solar Return, it becomes the symbolic birth of a new, big idea or way of thinking, especially about yourself, a change that does not become apparent for some time. How will you know things are different, then? You can expect creativity and the imagination to blossom, to take wild or unanticipatible turns, to be inspired in rare and amazing ways, and to potentially lead you into new spiritual or experiential territory. If you are an Artist, this could be a potential peak in idea generation, and if you are not an Artist, your life will be full of creative alternatives and ways of dealing–you’ll see things in a way that gives you many more potential choices than ever before–and that could take you into new endeavors not previously considered. One caveat: you can be too easily mislead at this time, so do check inspirations, especially those that involve cooperative projects and partners, against facts and realities for real-world realization potentials. Otherwise, you’re in for a year when you and the Cosmos can really collaborate successfully, Gemini! Happy Birthday, and good luck!

YOu could be golden this year, Gemini. Henri Regnault, ‘Salomé’ 1869 {{PD}}

Though the inclination may be to think about things more than anything else, dear Gemini, what you really need to do this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, is exercise your intellectual understanding of yourself and events at the highest level possible. You’ll need to see and feel your personal power and reach in action; you’ll also need to fully experience your connection to Nature, whether that’s achieved through the workings of your own body or through immersing yourself in some form of wilderness or extreme elements. The result will be empowerment of the most unique aspects of the individuality and the public display of the ambitions that should draw supporters and advocates to help you meet your goals. The only thing that might trip you up could be those elements of the life you’ve neglected or denied; deal with them, head-on, and you should be golden. Happy Birthday, Gemini, and good luck!

You’ll have an almost Libran attention to balance, especially of the mental faculties, this coming Solar year, Gemini. Cornelis de Man, ‘A Man Weighing Gold ‘ c1670 {{PD}}

This coming Solar year, dear Gemini, you’ll have the chance to achieve a perfect balance among factors of identity, purpose, emotions, strength, and sense of personal authority, and this is first instigated by sorting everything out mentally. From intellectual understanding you can create with your life a holistic statement of who you are and what you’re about, and though this process occurs over approximately the next three years, you’ll early find that there’s another necessary step to attend to: knowing what you care about, specifically in relationships and money matters. Establishing values in these areas will have a kind of miraculous effect: you’ll find that the kinds of things that used to hurt you will no longer affect you. You won’t be bulletproof, exactly; it’ll be more like you drift above those previous concerns that will come to feel more petty than anything else. Elevating your consciousness will open the way to a widening of your horizons and give you a resourcefulness and optimism surrounding pursuit of goals that will be truly empowering. Happy Birthday, Gemini, and good luck!

“Gas Station #3” from “Objetos dispersos” series of Xulio Formoso Photo by Jpuelche – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estacion_de_gasolina_3_(91_x_75_cm.)_(red).JPG#/media/File:Estacion_de_gasolina_3_(91_x_75_cm.)_(red).JPG

You seem to be revving up, dear Gemini, to change your life direction–or is it that you’re preparing to change who accompanies you along the way? In either case, your focus is on the future–and that may mean you miss out on what’s happening right now. You have priorities to declare, a mate or significant other (like a business partner) to reckon with, and the home, in one way or another, needs to be tended to, and this is all in the name of getting things in order so that when the moment comes to make that big life direction change, nothing else distracts you. This Solar year, through to your next birthday, you may give out a lot of messages you’ll later want to take back, so be cautious in what you offer and in how you take the communications of others–overreaction, or imprudent action based on what is said or thought, are both strong possibilities. That same impulse has a big upside, though, as you can have an idea and act on it in an instant, as there’s no disharmony between the mentality and the action urge for you. Too, if you can silence the critical voice inside your head, you’ll be able to access an immense store of practical wisdom and re-discover a few skills you thought were lost. Best of all, if you know who you are, you can express that uniqueness and originality freely–it will only lead to empowerment, and possibly a rise in status (though don’t expect relationships and finances to be unaffected by this–they will). Happy Birthday, Gemini, and good luck!

Vincent Van Gogh – Der Zuave 1888 {{PD}}

You’re halfway there, dear Gemini–to what doesn’t really matter, your perception that you can’t quite take action yet as there’s more to do, fix, be, see, or learn permeates everything–and not moving forward when you’ve got so much juice built up is beginning to have a deleterious effect on you. If you don’t find a direction and go with it, in any number of areas, you may find yourself later in the Solar year, the one that runs between now and your next birthday, dealing with heaps of criticism, and you could succumb to nit-picky thinking and the need to deal with a thousand things up to now avoided or denied. That doesn’t sound like fun, does it? The remedy may be found in being willing to decisively edit and prune the ambitions and desires–got to let go of some options at some point–and then use instinct to inform choices, even as you work hard to discover your own ‘blind spot’ material and deal with it once and for all. It sounds daunting, I know, but Gemini, you are in an excellent position to put things not just right, but into spectacular fashion–and the payoff will be Love, Money, or both. Happy Birthday and good luck!

Claude Monet – ‘The Road to Vétheuil’ 1878 {{PD}}

You’ve got a tough road ahead of you, dear Gemini, in the area of Money, in Love, or in both. There, we’ve gotten the worst part over–and it’s really not that bad. This Solar year, through to your next birthday, will involve some long-delayed sorting-out in areas you’ve too long neglected. They’re not what you think they are, they need refurbishment–and that’s where all the good stuff comes in. New, revised assessments will tell you who really cares, and in what ways (and especially why) your unconscious mind has been leading you in directions that aren’t productive anymore. Those are some effective housecleaning energies for the psyche, and the result will be some crazy good creative impulses that you should definitely take action on. The truly imaginative will thrive in your life once those pesky relationship and/ or financial matters have been solved–it’s that simple. Happy Birthday, Gemini, and good luck!

‘Henne mit Küken’ Anonymous 19th century {{PD}}

Hello Gemini! Do you feel brand new, like a chick just hatched out of the egg? If you don’t, it may be because your reality picture for the past year has been, well, let’s call it stringent. You’re moving beyond that, now, and it may also feel like the ambition picture is so last year–and both are correct, though not exactly in the way you may think. Concerning the reality picture and the sense of oppression and limitation it may have conveyed, you need to focus more on what’s been built, what’s been accomplished–and trash the idea that these are burdens you’re carrying rather than goals that have been met, freeing you to create new ones; concerning the ambitions and desires, you may feel that there’s no way you can get the cooperation you need, or the aesthetic support you desire, to fulfill aims–but that may only be because you’ve failed to take into account that relationships are the backbone to cooperation–and you may have considered only your own wants, along the way. Resolve to be less aggressive, less defensive, and yet more supportive of your own need to shine and to be respected, and you just might reap the Love and/ or Money that is scheduled to arrive this Solar year, at some point before your next birthday. Happy Day, Gemmy, and good luck!