Astrologically, 2018 has been the year of navigating the waters of uncertainty.
But I don’t need to tell you that.
• Do you feel pulled in a few directions, not sure which direction to take?
• Do you feel a bit lost, ungrounded, and unsure?
• Do you feel confused, stagnant, or like you are swimming upstream but not getting anywhere?
• Do you feel afraid, anxious, and uneasy?
• Are you extra busy and feeling overwhelmed with opportunities, choices, and events?
• Are you being thrust right into the center of significant change?
If so, you are feeling the uncertainty principle in action.
This Full Moon in Gemini rises in the midst of a powerful Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius, which asks us to pause and assess the concept of truth in our lives. Full Moons are both the culmination of a cycle, and they highlight the way forward. Thus, this Full Moon reveals another tool in our arsenal of discovery.
Curiosity.
We have certainly been thrown into the gap of change collectively. Where suddenly, our world looks vastly unfamiliar and you think, “how did I end up here? Again.”
At times like this, we have a choice.
To see the world as it is happening for us, or to us.
One perspective offers evolution and expansion. The other contraction and stagnation. One is accountable, and the other is projecting. One takes the role of victim and the other the victor. One is curious. The other is assuming. One is a closed system with no chance of growth. The other cracks the door to possibilities.
It is always a choice.
Gemini at its finest is the gift of curiosity driving the quest for knowledge. Its power is its openness, receptivity, and ability to explore new ways to solve old problems. Gemini says with giddy excitement “I don’t know” and “I wonder how this will work out?” It is the healthy exchange and gathering of information by exploring new terrain. It is brainstorming and problem-solving at its best. It welcomes the hard questions because it knows those offer the most space to learn.
The shadow, of course, is the opposite. It speaking to be right not to understand. It is unexamined arrogant truth that discounts any questioning and leads to more division. It is interrogation without intent for real discourse. It is about winning not growing. It is about hustling for certainty by trying to speed up the process. It is about resisting the natural placement of wisdom along the path by demanding immediate clarity. It is about letting fear take us down the rabbit hole of what if’s instead of the present moment flow. It is arguing with our present reality.
Curiosity and fear cannot coexist because fear assumes certainty and curiosity opens the door to change, transformation, and evolution.
(Take a look at where this Full Moon is in your chart to better articulate what and how this force of curiosity is meant to be used. To schedule a reading, Contact me.)
Some questions to ponder:
How did I get here?
What is actually happening?
What am I learning, growing or being shown?
How might this actually be happening for me rather than to me?
When we are curious, we allow our perspective to shift from fear to trust, from cynicism to skepticism and from control to allowing. An open mind cracks open the door to potential, possibilities, and opportunities we might not otherwise see.
The Gemini path is one of presence through uncertainty. It is about embracing the fact we often get what we need to know on a need to know basis and right now we know enough. We get our stepping stones one at a time. Our job is to keep looking for the next one and not focus on the end of the path itself. The destination is the journey. Thus, the road may not be linear or even make sense at the moment. The magic of Gemini trusts all will become clear in time.
Along those lines, I want to share a story that exemplifies this concept. It is a Zen tale called the Taoist Farmer. It illustrates Gemini wisdom with the guiding light of curiosity and the greater perspective it offers. It reminds us in the shadows of uncertainty if we allow the light of curiosity to lead, the path will appear before us.
There was once a Taoist farmer. One day the Taoist farmer’s only horse broke out of the corral and ran away. The farmer’s neighbors, all hearing of the horse running away, came to the Taoist farmer’s house to view the corral. As they stood there, the neighbors all said, “Oh what bad luck!” The Taoist farmer replied, “Maybe.”
About a week later, the horse returned bringing with it a whole herd of wild horses, which the Taoist farmer and his son quickly corralled. The neighbors, hearing of the corralling of the horses, came to see for themselves. As they stood there looking at the corral filled with horses, the neighbors said, “Oh what good luck!” The Taoist farmer replied, “Maybe.”
At that same time in China, there was a war going on between two rival warlords. The warlord of the Taoist farmer’s village was involved in this war. In need of more soldiers, he sent one of his captains to the village to conscript young men to fight in the war. When the captain came to take the Taoist farmer’s son he found a young man with a broken leg who was delirious with fever. Knowing there was no way the son could fight, the captain left him there. A few days later, the son’s fever broke. The neighbors, hearing of the son’s not being taken to fight in the war and of his return to good health, all came to see him. As they stood there, each one said, “Oh what good luck!” The Taoist farmer replied, “Maybe.”
