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 conjunction with the Moon: the work done around your thought patterns and modes of communication will take you far, and will be rather easy.
Saturn both provides great support by the way of a trine. 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.
Venus also forms a sextile to the Moon during this period, ensuring that friends and lovers can successfully enjoy good quality time together, and coworkers will be able to problem solve and troubleshoot like nobody’s business.
THE BAD
The greatest challenge here comes from the sextile that the Moon forms to Mars, God of War. This is a moderately 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!
Mercury ritual! Best done during the sunrise hour on Wednesday morning. Ask for whatever you want related to your mercurial needs. Mercury is direct in motion, in Gemini, and on a Wednesday in the Mercury hour, he will be exceedingly powerful.
Astrological Signatures
Entry: Monday, July 5th at 9:23pm EDT / Tuesday, July 6th at 1:23pm UTC.
Departure: Thursday, July 8th at 9:50am EDT /1:50pm 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: Conjunction to Mercury in Gemini. There is great support for grounding the Moon’s significations into reality. The Queen of Heaven is tuned to the mental plane at this time and is in the mood to talk with her children.
Relationship to the Sun: Aversion to the Sun in Cancer. This is a neutral position. Circumstances are not helping you ground your projects, but they are not going out of the way to disrupt your plans either.
Aspects
Superior Sextile to Mars in Leo. 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.
Inferior Bi-corporeal Square to Jupiter in Pisces. Help and support from authority figures, though not always easy and comfortable. 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.