New Moon in Gemini | Solar Eclipse | June 2021
New Moon at 19 Gemini
Partial Solar Eclipse
10 June 2021
6:53 AM EST
Greetings, bright one. Welcome to this New Moon in Gemini and Solar Eclipse, the closing gate of our mid-year eclipse season. Let’s dive into what all this means.
First, I feel called to lead this month’s musings with the New Moon’s Chandra symbol. If you follow my work, you know I like to weave Chandra- wisdom into all of my reports to add another angle through which we might consider the current energies and invitations.
This Chandra symbol feels particularly potent (and, honestly, pretty darn relevant in my life) and thus I feel called to lead with it:
Chandra Symbol for this New Moon in Gemini
A bull stung by a scorpion.
The elaborate ritual of putting yourself through life-or-death crises to determine what you are made of and how far you are willing to go in this life.
Choosing from expanded faculties the optimal situations to enact this battle royale.
Selecting what is karmically familiar.
Variations on old themes involving bondage and freedom.
When you are trapped, caught, stuck, a furious inner force asserts itself and can reconfigure everything. But it is a high-stakes ritual drama and loaded with real dangers.
You must check yourself out in ultimate ways, for there is surging in your blood an impulse toward liberation, which cannot be distorted in any way.
An extraordinary journey through radical tests and trials of an initiatory intensity.
It is all about guts, and stripping away everything but the true inner direction.
And if you must slay and move through illusions on every front, that is just how it is.
You cannot survive any longer on old ways to do it –– it is time to welcome the enemy into your very midst and discover that there are no enemies.
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Mmm…. let all that settle into your bones as you wish. You might consider, if this stirs you or you wish to dive into deeper exploration:
How do you relate to this idea of the “elaborate ritual” of putting yourself in life-or-death crises to show what you’re made of and how far you’re willing to go?
What do you need to do/know/feel/BE to strip away everything but that true inner direction?
What sparks in you with this invitation to “welcome the enemy into your very midst and discover there are no enemies?”
Solar Eclipse at the North Node
This solar eclipse is the second in a pair, serving as the “closing gate” of this eclipse portal we’ve been in since the full moon on May 26. Eclipse windows or portals can be times of intensity, great change, transformation, unpredictability, and a sense being in-between (no longer “there” but not fully “here” yet). These are periods where great quantum leaps ahead are supported.
While the change ushered in by this tide is most potent in this two-week window, we may feel the effects of this portal of change for up to six months.
This eclipse will be observable from many parts of the world, including the East Coast of the US, large areas in Canada, and parts of the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
This solar eclipse occurs as the moon comes into alignment between the Sun and Earth along the nodal axis. This eclipse is happening at the North Node, or our collective destination or destiny point, meaning that it is here to highlight what we are moving toward and inviting in at this time.
This solar eclipse creates a visual “ring of fire” around the Moon. We might consider this ring or band of light or fire. We may see it as a cauldron of transformational fire, into which we can place, stir, and alchemize our intentions. We may also see it as the ring of fire those of us who’ve birthed children know: that time of crowning where something is about to be birthed and the sensations get intense AF. Both metaphors may be apt for this moment.
Lastly, just as the eclipse at the full moon made for an extra potent full moon, this eclipse at the new moon makes it an extra potent new moon, great times for planting intentions, seeding your next creations and desires, and dreaming in what is to become during this next lunation.
New Moon in Gemini
As I say all the time, new moons are a time to intentionally welcome in the new and to become “new” in your relationship and embodiment of the sign of this new lunation. This is a time for new beginnings and a time for planting your intentions.
Gemini is a masculine air sign, devoted to bringing matter into spirit (evolutionary); in service to spirit (mutable); connected to Mercury (conjunct this new moon) and 3rd house
Gemini is associated with the following archetypal energies and beings: Ix Chel, Iris, Seshat, Lilith, the Muses, Elen of the Ways; trickster/Heyoka, Psychopomp, Shapeshifter, Magical Child, the Fool, Magician, Enchantress/Songstress of Leylines, Fairy/Devic Realm
No matter where Gemini falls in your chart, or what planets may reside there, we all have the invitation to dance with the energies of Gemini for the next month.
Gemini helps us:
•reconnect to the youthful/innocent world of play, curiosity, humor and joy
•become a creator/creatress; tap into the creative Muse
•challenge + break free of old rules + beliefs
•access + embody our multi-dimensional + multi-faceted selves
•leap beyond polarity + duality
•write/tell new stories
•bring in messages from higher dimensions
•match us to playmates and co-conspirators
•Creative self-expression in service to Spirit
•navigate between worlds/ realities/ levels of consciousness
•bring magic into the world
•get moving; out of stagnation/inertia
•Social networking; social gregariousness
The shadow of Gemini can include:
•Being scattered
•Things changing or moving too fast
•Getting overly mental/airy
•Fear of losing freedom/ committing
•Passive aggressive behaviors
•Inappropriate humor
•Fails to honor or understand the emotions
Reflections:
How do you relate to this archetype at this moment?
In what ways would you like to engage with it anew in the coming month?
Muse and write what comes through, this is a GREAT time for reflective journaling.
Other energies at play this New Moon and Lunation
Earth moves through Photon belt
The earth is moving through the photon belt, which it hasn’t done for 12,000 years. This can have the effect of widening the bandwidth of frequency to which humanity (and all life on Earth) has access. This can be a time to expand our capacity to hold light in the body.
A simple but profound meditation I’ve been doing that has felt really powerful this week is as follows. Get centered and grounded within your being and imagine a column of light that passes through your body along the spine from your crown to your root and beyond.
This channel of light may stretch into the earth, anywhere from a few feet to all the way to the core of the earth.
It may stretch upwards a few feet, deep into space, or all the way into the core of Creation.
With breath and intention allow this column or channel of light to widen until it encompasses your whole body. Perhaps you expand it out a bit further from your body.
Feel and allow this channel of light to bathe you, bringing in the perfect energies, experiences and creations for you at this moment.
Mercury conjunct the New Moon
Mercury, the resonant planet to Gemini where we have our new moon, is conjunct the sun and moon in the sky. This is having the effect of potentiating this Gemini/Mercury energy. Mercury is retrograde, meaning our faculties of perception, thinking, and communication are turned inward.
How would you like to renew or create something different for yourself around how you perceive yourself and the world around you?
Your mental patterns and habits?
The way you communicate, particularly with yourself?
This is a great time to write new narratives, sourcing not from probability but possibility. Neptune, the planet of imagination and dreams, is square to this moon and Mercury, encouraging us to grow through imagining in what we most long for. And to be devoted to that new dream of our most beautiful world.
Mars opposite Pluto
This opposition can carry the theme of forceful control, especially in the realm of man-made systems and structures. This opposition may trigger our own vulnerabilities + sensitivities, as well as feelings of safety and security and our ability to nurture ourselves through aligned action, focus, and personal will.
Second Saturn – Uranus Square of the Year
If you watched my 2021 astrology workshop or have been following the astrology of this year, you know that this series of Saturn-Uranus squares is serving as a soundtrack or backdrop energetically for this entire calendar year. Put simply, this is a square dynamic between these two outer planets, one that creates friction, dynamic tension, crisis-in-action and a relentless developmental pressure on both planetary energies so that each evolve.
Saturn square Uranus is this dynamic relationship between WHAT IS and WHAT IS BECOMING. Saturn represents what IS; the existing systems, structures and forms within and around us. Uranus wants to CHANGE it up. Uranus is the planet of awakening, liberation, freedom, and change for change’s sake. This can be the clash between bondage and freedom to which this lunation’s Chandra symbol refers.
While this energy is at play all year, these two planet come into exact square three times this year: February 17, June 14 (i.e. next Monday), and December 24.
In this second meet-up, we may see this energy more pronounced or activated. We also have Saturn retrograde for this one.
We have a T-square involving these two cosmic players, as Venus comes into the mix on July 7, which I’ll say more about in the Full Moon report later this month.
For now, it may be supportive for you to consider:
How do you relate to this dynamic tension between the old and the new?
Between what has been and what is wanting to be birthed now?
Between hierarchies, old ways, and control… versus collaborative, co-creative, free new ways of embodied wholeness and liberation?
How do you see this playing out in your inner world?
This is a time to get free, dear ones, in whatever ways that lands in you.
New Offerings
A head’s up, I will be opening the doors to my 12-week Soul Seasons Online Immersion soon (a great course to learn about planetary invitations and how to work with them) and offering some great online workshops this summer and fall.
Annnnd, for my aspiring book writers out there (YES I am still super active as a book coach and editor too) I’m offering a LIVE in-person Author Activation weekend retreat in late July, which you can check out here!
Can’t wait to share all this goodness