Gemini Gemini
May 6 ~ May 20
You can feel the wind before it fully arrives—like the air itself is changing, warm then cool, fast then slow. As Pluto in fellow air sign Aquarius slows to a standstill in the sky, preparing for its yearly retrograde from May 6 through October 15, something within your mindscape begins to slow with it—a shift in pace that surprises even you. The usual outward movement of thought, conversation, and curiosity downshifts, asking you to reflect, to reconsider, to listen more closely to what your Soul is saying. The quieter you become, the more you will hear. Take time for silence, especially over the next ten days.
A New Moon in Taurus late on Saturday, May 16, conjunct Mercury at the anaretic degree, brings a moment of closure and completion just before Mercury enters your sign the following day. This lunation emphasizes the need to step back, to float, to allow rather than direct, and to create space for the dream to land. As Mercury prepares to enter Gemini on Sunday, May 17, your mental field begins to flutter—like those moments just before waking—now with greater depth and intention. It is often in that in-between state, just emerging from sleep, that you are most open and receptive, when the higher mind is most attuned. Let this lead-up to your ruler’s return, and your solar month approaching, be a time to slow it all down. The canvas may expand, but you are focusing on a single brushstroke. Stay there, right in the center of it, until the vision begins to breath back.
Loving Venus remains in your sign until Monday, May 18, when she enters Cancer—so take in the love while she is here to offer it to you. Let yourself receive it without question, reflect it without hesitation, and express it in ways that feel natural and true. There is a grace around you now, one that softens the moment and opens the heart. That same evening, Mars enters Taurus, where it will travel through the end of June, further emphasizing the need to step beyond the confines of the mind and surrender to the potential that exists beyond time and space—for healing, for guidance, for insight.
All of the inner planets are shifting signs within days of one another, making it feel as though the seasons are changing overnight—one moment familiar, the next entirely different. What once felt steady may now feel fluid, open, in motion. You are built for movement, Gemini, for adaptation, for weaving meaning from change. But this time, something deeper is guiding your boat. Your sails are catching a different current. What you choose to say, to think, to follow, matters more than ever now. Because as everything changes around you, your clarity becomes your direction.
All we get is time and the choices we make—be wise with both.
~ Carson Anekeya
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