Gemini New Moon

Gemini New Moon - Extraordinary Potential

"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."

— James Joyce

We are likely to see extraordinary potential this week, ahead of Thursday's Gemini New Moon (5:37 AM PDT 16° Gemini). The Moon resurrects last week's Mars-Chiron conjunctions at the beginning of this week, which provides a boost of self-confidence. Jupiter also completes a trine to Pluto to begin the week, stirring our idealism and ambition to extraordinary levels. The strong Gemini influences help us to make the intellectual connections that suggest the possibility of some pretty grand achievements. The landscape seems to transform magically before our eyes. But our minds can quickly become overwhelmed by the inflow of new information and expanding potential if we aren't able to maintain some balance through a broader 'wide view' perspective. Excitement and new information swirls even faster once Mercury arrives 'home' in Gemini on Monday, ruling Jupiter, Venus and the Sun. Mercury also rules Thursday's Gemini New Moon which is conjunct amiable Venus. However, Venus, the Sun, and the New Moon's developing squares to Saturn in Pisces are likely to produce some complications, challenging our ability to clearly communicate the eye-popping potential that we see developing. The Gemini-Pisces square asks us to shift quickly back and forth between logic and intuition. But Saturn's involvement can produce complicated doubts and fears that may increase the nervousness of Gemini, making it difficult to balance intellect and intuition effectively. Our minds may be brimming with new connections and new 'data downloads' but making constructive use of all of the intellectual activity is going to require us to employ our intuition in order to balance material and spiritual perspectives. While we may be inclined to focus solely on material achievement, the squares to Saturn are asking us to incorporate a sincere concern for others, increased humility, and an authentic 'live and let live' perspective. The tension is likely to feel quite chaotic and extremely difficult to manage. The involvement of Venus with New Moon may seem amiable on the surface but that also suggests that we have some difficulty in saying or doing anything to 'rock the boat', even if we feel doubtful or anxious. Most of this week's challenges are centered on keeping our intellect and intuition balanced. However, by the end of the week, Mars arrives in Taurus and begins to form a fixed-sign square to Pluto, creating some potentially explosive obstacles to deal with if we haven't managed to keep our material aspirations balanced by spiritual perspectives such as compassion and humility.

There is an extraordinary feeling of excitement and potential in the air on Sunday. Our self-confidence is boosted. The intellectual swirl of excitement and information increases on Monday but there are challenges to seeing just how to make constructive use of everything that we are seeing. Nervousness may keep us from understanding how to blend intuition with intellect in order to make the most of what we can see all around us. We find a bit more grounding on Tuesday, bringing forward strong determination. However, we may be tempted to try to manage or control the perspectives of other based on our own level of confidence. We find that there are some amazingly constructive resources and capabilities available to us on Wednesday. However, over-stimulation is a real possibility. The developing challenges on Thursday may not be readily apparent. We'll need to try to find a way to step out of a purely materialistic perspective in order to incorporate a broader, spiritual perspective. Emotions are unsteady on Friday and we may be looking for a way to step back from the intellectual swirl of activity. We need to find ways to balance the 'duality' of our intellect and emotions by finding someone to talk things over with. There is an undercurrent of chaotic tension on Saturday. The tension could produce some emotional or self-destructive outbursts.