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Use Your Mind - Moon in Gemini 8/12-8/15

Timing: The Moon will occupy the sign of Gemini starting on Tuesday September 8th at 10:27pm UTC until Friday 9/11 at 9:22am UTC.

Moon in Gemini: Place of Sectmate - the moon is provided with support as if from a friend. Very heady, intellectually stimulating. Conversation, connection with other people, trying to get a million things done, glibness. 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 moon tend to be very chatty and conversational, prefer discussion and the medium of language to anything else.

Moon’s ruler: Mercury. The Moon forms a Superior Masculine Sextile to Mercury in Leo. She will still have support during her time here, without getting too far up in the clouds and disconnected from reality. Communication will flow more easily. This will also serve as usual to help ground her significations and make them longer lasting.

Aspects

  • Superior Masculine sextile to Sun in Leo. Moderate flow and harmony between your own moods and desires and the situations that your environment and context provide for you. You can count on the road rising up to meet you, and support should come to you to help you enact your will.

  • Inferior Masculine Sextile to Mars in Aries. Positive energy for productivity, making positive strides. More initiative, more inspiration, and more enthusiasm.

Summary: This is an excellent time for making connections, meeting new people, and engaging in heady activity in general. Support from the moon’s ruler and other planets without any difficult aspects from malefics indicate that these days will be beneficial and fruitful. The sextile to the sun ensures that things will go smoothly. The air will be rife with possibility, especially around tasks and activities related to the mind and language. Meet with friends, read a good book, journal, etc. It will take you far.

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