By Madame Dana Zia
This Gemini Full Moon is a cosmic trickster inviting you to get the celestial joke of being on Earth. Gemini is the sign of the twins, the duality plane that exists here on our blue planet. This Moon reminds us that we are just passing through and not to take life so seriously.
Gemini embodies curiosity, creative genius, quick wit, intelligence and an ever seeking mind, roaming constantly for the answers to anything possible. Gemini presides over all things written, spoken or involving communication, music and literature.
When the sky has a Gemini Full Moon, the Sun is directly across from it in Sagittarius and at this Moon, Mars is also in Sag conjunct the Sun. Sagittarius is the sign of the philosopher, the explorer and the wise one. Life is better lived as a quest with Sagittarius, whether it be external or internal.
So the Sagittarius/Gemini axis is founded on curiosity and the need to seek and grow. The realm of opportunity is alive and well in these two signs and we can feel very twitchy with this combo. Questions might be burbling up to the surface such as “Why are we here?” “What am I doing and does this bring meaning?” or “Where can I buy a plane ticket to in the New Year?”
This restlessness is encouraged by our culture to never be satisfied with what we have. It is particularly powerful during this holiday season where we are all being urged to attain more more more. Saturn is also square (an aspect that requires action) this Full Moon/Sun which can activate the inner critic that we have not done enough….ever never. Mars is also in there urging us on to do more.
The way to work with this energy is to practice gratitude for what we have. One of my yoga teachers used to say “cultivate contentment” at the end of every practice. I love that.
I know that a gratitude practice is rather cliché but there is a way to do it that is potent and satisfying. Find one person/thing you really appreciate and breathe in and focus your thankfulness on it wholeheartedly for a few breaths. As you focus on them/it, really FEEL how gratifying it is to have them/it in your life. Then during the day, touch it and feel the gratitude again.
This gets your mind focusing on what is special in your life now, opposed to what one doesn’t have. It reminds me of the Rumi quote “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life” which I translate to “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will warm your entire being and follow you everywhere.”
It is easy to get caught up in the hamster wheel of not having enough but that is the ultimate joke of the duality plane, we will never feel satisfied if we focus on what we don’t have. Use this Moon to focus on the abundance you have in your life and cultivate contentment.
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