Category: gemini

2024, astrology, gemini, jupiter, taurus

Jupiter in Gemini – Fortune for the curious!

Karena

Jupiter basics

Jupiter moved from Taurus to Gemini on May 25th, and will remain in Gemini until June 9th, 2025.

Traditionally, Jupiter is viewed as an extremely positive planet that represents “more” in the same way Saturn represents “less”. Jupiter is by far the largest planet in our solar system – Jupiter is 2.5 times bigger than all of the other planets in our solar system combined! So it makes sense that Jupiter’s meanings include growth, expansiveness, and “more”!

However, there is more to Jupiter than just “more”. More isn’t always better, and Jupiter understands that. Jupiter represents the archetype of not only “big”, but also “good”. He represents the King of the Gods and the traditional “Santa Claus” figure – big, larger-than-life, and bearing many gifts.

From a health perspective, Jupiter represents the physician, the medicine that helps us feel better, the test that finally shows us the root cause of our problem. Whereas Mercury represents learning and categorizing new information, Jupiter represents synthesizing that information into something greater (or “more”) than the sum of its parts. Jupiter turns disparate bits of knowledge into wisdom.

Jupiter in Taurus – the old!

Whenever Jupiter changes signs, both the way we synthesize information into wisdom and the area of life in which we find wisdom, shifts.

Jupiter in Taurus allowed us to find wisdom in nature. Wisdom in freeing ourselves from the past and from the future and just “being”. Wisdom in earthy grounded things like the most supportive place for us to live, the most supportive job we could have, the foods we could eat that would help us feel the best.

As this giant, gaseous planet moves from grounded, 3-dimensional Taurus to airy, curious Gemini, we will begin to find wisdom in ideas and philosophies.

Jupiter in Gemini – the new!

One thing I always tend to forget is that Jupiter is in detriment in Gemini. I often forget this because Jupiter feels so positive and productive in Gemini. However, positive and productive doesn’t necessarily mean “at home”. Where Gemini wants to gather facts for facts’ sake, Jupiter wants to synthesize existing facts into something profound. So there is something inherently at odds about what Jupiter wants to do, and what Gemini wants to do.

What Jupiter in Gemini is incredibly good at, however, is getting more facts and evaluating them objectively. Gemini is one of the least emotional of the zodiac signs and, when given enough objective facts, Gemini can generally make excellent, if not wise and profound, conclusions. So with Jupiter in Gemini, we get an expansiveness of fact-collecting – more than enough to let us evaluate the merit of an idea. We may not make profound connections between facts, but we can definitely see what the “connect-the-dots” picture of facts is painting for us!

What is Jupiter in Gemini “good for”?

Jupiter in Gemini tends toward a clarity of ideas. In our current era of artificial intelligence (AI) and an increasing skepticism over what is real vs what is fake, Jupiter in Gemini will come in like a deep breath of refreshing air – giving us an intense clarity on reality. This is especially true since Jupiter in the early degrees of Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius – the biggest signifier in the rise of AI. So even as Pluto in Aquarius ushers in AI on a red carpet, Jupiter in Gemini gives us a clearer view of what is real and what is fake within that AI.

One of Gemini’s most notable traits is its curiousity. This of course results in accumulating many facts, but it also encourages us to consider ideas we wouldn’t previously have considered. If we have become stuck in a mental model and been blindly following it, Gemini will encourage us to re-evaluate that model. Gemini will ensure we have looked at other alternatives before just accepting a default set of beliefs, or a set of beliefs that may have resonated with us five years ago but actually doesn’t anymore.

As a result, Jupiter’s time through Gemini over the next year will be a wonderful time to discard limiting beliefs, whether about ourself or others. i.e. “He will never change.”, “I will never be any better than this.”, “I don’t have enough money”, “I can never get the job I want”. Jupiter doesn’t believe in the word “never”, and Gemini refuses to stick with a single thought or idea, no matter how ingrained that thought or idea might feel to us. Jupiter in Gemini will be open-minded enough to picture all of the ways our lives could be more amazing. Sometimes all we need is to be able to visualize the change we want, and we feel more confident about making it happen. If nothing else, Jupiter in Gemini will shake us loose from feeling stuck hearing the same repeating thoughts from our inner voice. Even if Jupiter in Gemini doesn’t result in profound wisdom and deep philosophy, there is something pretty valuable about that!

Also, in the spirit of considering new ideas with Jupiter in Gemini, after this article, I am moving my blog from this website to an email-only newsletter. With Artificial Intelligence scraping the web and copying all content from authors, I want to use this Jupiter/Pluto trine to keep the content I create available just to the people who want to read it – not to the AI that wants to use it as training data! 🙂 If you want to continue receiving my blog posts, please either subscribe to the blog by entering your email at the bottom of this page, or send me an email at magicofthemoonastrology@gmail.com. I will only send emails for two things.

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I look forward to seeing how particular Jupiter in Gemini idea will play out. 🙂

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2024, aquarius, astrology, gemini, jupiter, pluto, saturn

Dec 2023: The World is Changing

Karena

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. – J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings

We have just celebrated the Winter Solstice, and the days are ever so slightly growing longer. The seasons are changing as Winter gradually thaws to spring over the next several months, and the light progressively grows each day. Just as the seasons change each year as a result of the earth’s tilt respective to its axis around the Sun, so the larger eras change as a result of other planets moving in their cycles around the Sun. As we move toward 2024 and reflect on all of the change that happened during the past year, most of us would agree with the sentiment in J.R.R. Tolkien’s quote above.

This morning, a blanket of fog surrounded my house as I looked out the window at the pre-dawn world. I was reminded of the power of the Air element, and how different the world can look depending on the condition of the air (foggy, smoky, clear). Astrologically, we have been in the midst of big shifts to the Air element since early 2020 (the start of the pandemic), and we will get even more shifts to Air in 2024. The two big outer planet changes happening this year are planets moving from Earth signs to Air signs – Pluto to Aquarius, and Jupiter to Gemini.

At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, the Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions which happen every 40 years moved from occurring in Earth signs to Air signs. For the next 200 years, when Jupiter and Saturn meet, it will be in an Air sign, not in an Earth sign. What does this mean? Jupiter and Saturn are the two most outer planets that are still visible to the naked eye and so have been foundational throughout the history of astrology. The meeting of these two slow-moving giants every forty years marked a change in “tone” that astrologically-minded societies followed. This Jupiter/Saturn cycle moves us from an earthy world to an airy one. And that will be increased even further with specific planets moving from Earth to Air signs this year. The pandemic definitely “knocked us off our feet” and out of the earth element in early 2020. Our fears moved toward the Air – an invisible virus we can’t see, an enemy that we couldn’t easily face. Our interactions moved to Air – more video calls where we ephemerally talk into our computers instead of talking to people in person. As the Jupiter/Saturn cycle shifted, we have all moved from a more stable, well-understood earthy place to a more phrenetic airy place.

However, this is a 200 year cycle that has happened before – many times – during human history. So this isn’t the end of the world; it’s just the beginning of a new era. And the beginnings of new eras in which we have to adapt to changing energies is always a little challenging.

Furthering the focus on Air, after a brief time in Aquarius earlier in 2023 before dipping back into Capricorn, Pluto will be moving into Aquarius again in mid January, setting the tone for our entire year. The Plutonian depths will be plumbed in the areas of social and technological advances. What humans can do and what we can do responsibly have often been two very different things, and we will see a spotlight shown on that for the next 20 odd years. What lessons do we have to learn about the potentially “scary” underbelly of society and technology? What can we learn from that scouring of the depths that helps us move forward as better humans and better developers and users of technology?

For the past year with Jupiter in Taurus we have seen a lot of themes around material goods…. inflation and the rising cost of food, more difficulty purchasing houses because of high interest rates, labor movements in various sectors. Food, shelter, work…. these basic needs are very Taurean. What will Jupiter in Gemini look like? Rather than focusing on a rising cost of food, we will be focused on the rising cost of ideas. What ideas have we held that may not be relevant anymore? What have we outgrown that we just haven’t been ready to let go of yet? Likewise, what new ideas are emerging and just waiting to be embraced? Gemini is curious, and this will definitely be a time of rampant discovery. We may not know how to use all of the tools yet, but we will definitely develop the tools!

Whereas Earth signs anchor us downward into our feet, Air signs pull us up into our heads. Earth is about concrete things; air is about philosophical ideas. Earth is about slowness and denseness; Air is about speed and “airy-ness”. Unlike the Earth, Fire, and Water zodiac signs, the Air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) all represent either human figures (the twins of Gemini and the water-bearer Aquarius) or human-made tools (the Libra Scales). Where other signs are more nature and animal-oriented, Air signs have always been very much about the human journey and the human collective.

It makes sense that there would be an astrological focus on Air instead of Earth this year. 2023 has been a year for many of us of emerging from several years at home during the pandemic, and we are learning how to be social and “in the world” again. After focusing on our basic earthy needs the past few years (health, our homes, the economy), we are ready to move into the world as humans and as thinking, feeling, talking, socializing entities. It also is striking to me that 2024 is an election year in the United States. This will likely bring people out in droves, attending debates, campaigning for their favorite candidate, and advancing their human ideas and opinions in a way very resonant with both Pluto in Aquarius and Jupiter in Gemini.

Air and all of the ideas and imagination around it are where technological and social advances come from. If we get past the hype around Artificial Intelligence and AI “taking over the world”, what we see is that we are actually starting to define what it means to be human. If AI can respond like humans, answer questions like humans, have conversations like humans…. what does it mean to be human? As we think about the ways humans have historically treated humans, does this Pluto transit give us an opportunity to think about what unites us as humans rather than what divides us?

Grounding rituals are important this year; otherwise we are likely to spend the entire year wrapped up in phrenetic, chaotic thoughts in our heads! But there is opportunity with air too… it has no weight, it has no baggage… it relentlessly moves. If anything in your life or in society has been feeling stuck, this is the time to shake it free! As with all astrological weather, the energies of 2024 offer us both challenges and opportunities. It’s time to get off the couch, move into the world, and shake things up! If we do this intentionally and thoughtfully we will be able to look back on 2024 as a year where we experimented a lot and learned a lot. 2024 can be a year that fundamentally changes us and shapes who we are as a society (Pluto in Aquarius) and what we believe in (Jupiter in Gemini). It’s an absolutely phenomenal time to set intentions and then get moving!

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