Tuning Out the Babble to Hear Your Own Voice
When you connect the dots, it’s easy to see the fraternal spirit of Gemini in its stars. Myth invites us to see Gemini’s twins, Castor and Pollux, holding hands, and engaged in a lively conversation for all eternity. Yet on the night of Gemini’s new moon, we can’t lie back and watch this pair strolling across the night sky. The Sun is in Gemini, which means this constellation is now hidden by the bright light of our closest star.
But not its spirit. Esoterically, the Sun is feeding us Gemini now. More of Gemini’s curiosity, wit, mischief, chatter are floating through the culture. And that’s saying a lot in these times, with its river of babble pouring through our devices from dawn to dusk.
Perhaps less talk would be more centering—which is a perfect way to honor this new moon. Give yourself a moment of silence, then take another look at Gemini’s constellation. Let it be a Rorschach test. Your interpretation may reveal something about where you are at this new moon. Over the years, the longer I’ve looked at these stars, the less certain I’ve become. Sometimes I see two figures facing each other. Sometimes one pulls ahead, while the other, reluctant, pulls back. Sometimes they look like merry dancers. Sometimes there’s a palpable tension between them.
Where are you in this picture? At the beginning of a new adventure? Being pulled in several directions? Bouncing with curiosity—or struggling with overwhelm? During noisy times like these, oddly, one of the first things to disappear is the inner conversation between head and heart. The outer voices can become so loud that we stop hearing our own.
There are many ways to repair this, but a fine one for this particular New Moon is the journal, a very Gemini instrument of magic. Gemini’s ruler, Mercury, was the first Magician and is remembered on the Tarot’s Magician card. Mercury gave us journals to help us re-connect our own dots during babbling times. He gave us journals so we could hear ourselves think.
How is your journal doing? Has it been sitting on a shelf? Has it lately heard the sounds of pen on paper? Or is your journal typed?
Gemini is the cycle for using words in a magical way. And one of the best techniques–without risking the mischief that thinking out loud can cause–is to talk silently to yourself. You’re Castor and Pollux. Discover what you didn’t know your inner twin was thinking.
Anne Frank is one of the world’s most famous journal keepers and not surprisingly, she had Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter in Gemini. If you like to journal as a way of deep thinking, you’ll enjoy my magical monthly Moon workshop, which not only brings you closer to the Sun and Moon, it brings you closer to you! Enroll here.
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