THE GOOD
Mother Moon departs from her Garden of Taurus and enters into the cerebral, fast-paced, double-talking sign of Gemini. This is the yang, masculine sign of Mercury, the God of speech, communication, travel, and magic.
My fiancé and I call Mercury/Hermes/Thoth the God of Nerds. T-shirts forthcoming. Here the Moon as Prom Queen jumps into a role-playing game with her nerdy friends and quickly spitballs references to Marvel Avengers comic books (not the movies, the books), all while designing an app for her compsci class that she is planning on selling to make serious cash right out of high school.
As such, you can expect your mind to seriously activate over the next few days. New ideas, shifts in perspective, puzzle solving, and increases in social activity and conversation are all par for the course.
There are so many fantastic aspects beaming in from other planetary deities that will continue to help us transform our perception, expand our minds, and totally rewire our consciousness. First off, the Lord of this sign - Mercury - forms a sextile to the Moon: the work done around your thought patterns and modes of communication will take you far, and will be rather easy.
Jupiter and Saturn both provide great support by the way of trines. Saturn’s trine will provide a dose of realism and groundedness that is sorely needed during most Gemini periods. This will keep you from getting lost in the clouds as you go exploring the vast world of thought and imagination. Jupiter will provide you with optimism and enthusiasm that ensure that your thoughts and intentions truly take flight. This is an excellent time to journal and consider taking new perspectives on things.
The Sun also forms a sextile to the Moon during this period. The Sun and Moon are like a marital pair - when they are in a sextile aspect, they create more harmony in the world. This is a happy marriage. We on the earth feel more ease and flow, and it is easier to enact our agenda onto the world.
THE BAD
The greatest challenge here comes from the conjunction Moon forms to Mars, God of War. This is a very challenging aspect, known in air signs such as Gemini to overstimulate the nervous system, create tension in the body, and cause a lot of mental exhaustion from overthinking and over-analysis. Your mind could keep spinning and racing during this period without any end to it. I would recommend leaning more heavily into a meditation practice in order to detach from the constant stream of thoughts.
THE WYRD
The PGM (Greek Magical Papyri) assigns Gemini as the sign best used for winning favor. The glib, chatty, charming nature of the Moon in Gemini can be very persuasive indeed. Have fun talking other people into giving you what you want!
You could do a solid Venus ritual Friday evening to cultivate relationships, strengthen connections, and bring more friends and allies into your life. Wait until the Sunset hour after the Moon begins applying to the sextile to Venus. How can you shift your mindset? What has your mind not taken notice of that could actually help you settle into the level of abundance and wisdom you desire?
Remember, everything that I tell you here needs to be indexed to your natal chart, especially the house placement of the Moon, any major transits and the time lords in your life. A strong period for one person may be more challenging for another. I am currently taking on new clients for readings, and I would be very happy to walk you through your own chart and astrological weather - book a session with me here!
Astrological Signatures
Entry: Thursday the 15th at 2:35am EDT / 6:35am UTC.
Departure: Saturday April 17th at 3:25pm EDT / 7:25pm UTC.
Moon in Gemini: Peregrine - the Moon is in a foreign place without much support. Gemini is very heady and intellectually stimulating. Conversation, connection with other people, trying to get a million things done, glibness. This placement can create anxiety and nervous tension, easy to get overwhelmed.
Triplicity and Quadruplicity: Bicorporeal Air. Bicorporeality indicates activities and moods which are a mean between the extremes of tropicality (cardinality) and fixedness, not as erratic and changing as the former, but not as solid and steady as the latter. The air element promotes mental stimulation and any activities which involve communication and language, and air Moons tend to be very chatty and conversational, preferring discussion and the medium of language to anything else.
Moon’s ruler: Inferior Sextile to Mercury in Aries. There is support for grounding the Moon’s significations into reality. She will have protection from some of the heavier sides of the Moon-Mars conjunction.
Relationship to the Sun: Inferior Sextile to the Sun in Aries. There will be harmony and flow between your own desires and intentions and what your environment and circumstances support. Things will work out very easily.
Aspects
Conjunction to Mars in Gemini. This will create a desire for quick change and provide you with initiative. But generally that initiative is being fueled by intense frustration with one’s own life and current circumstances, which can create a lot of inner suffering and turmoil. The airy nature of this conjunction can create a lot of mental disturbance and anxiety.
Inferior Air Trine to Jupiter in Aquarius. The square from the last period has relaxed into a trine. Help and support from authority figures. This shows up especially through conversation and dialogue due to the airy nature of the trine. Emotional buoyancy, good luck, and a potential for financial opportunities to develop.
Inferior Air Trine to Saturn in Aquarius. The square from the last period has relaxed into a trine. Hard lessons come through which effectively push people closer towards maturity and wisdom. Difficult experiences that teach you something profound and ultimately make you thankful for them. Slightly greater propensity for rumination and thought-loops, due to the airy nature of the trine.