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Sun in Gemini

           You walk the path of the curious storyteller as the urge to shine and harness creative vision is expressed through the archetype of the messenger, intellectual, and scribe.  The shape of your mental charisma and youthful influence is defined by your ability to seek awareness, evolve ideas, reflect thought, penetrate concepts, and distribute knowledge.  It is through the archetype of the spontaneous eternal youth (Peter Pan) that you realize your creative potential and core identity, enlightening others through information.  The element of air is your spiritual fuel, motivating you to socialize, communicate, and live through the vibrant life of the mind. 

            You can recharge your life force through visualization, mental sensation, perceptual expression, and the quest for knowledge.  You bear important information and concepts for the world.  You are also the court jester who all people admire and the trickster (coyote) who may act foolish from the outside, but knows many secrets within.  Your light-hearted, easy-going, cheerful nature reflects your understanding that life flows in cycles of change.  After the focused tranquility of Taurus, the preceding sign, Gemini emerges to stir things up to remind us not to take life so seriously, to live spontaneously expressing versatility and laughter.  The word humor comes from the Latin root which means “fluid.”  To be humorous means to embrace life fluidly. 

            Wholeness emerges in your life when you are able to integrate the opposite sign of Sagittarius into your fickle nature.  The networking interactive conversationalist who informs life must become the explorer and lover of wisdom in order to see the deeper meaning that unifies all those facts and figures.  Then the adaptable interplay of life is infused with faith in the great rhythmic vibration of eternal being.  The spiritual principle of Gemini is conversation echoing through the universe at both the genetic and cosmic levels of being.  Universe means “to turn with the One”, while conversation means “to turn with the sacred other.”  Adversity means to “turn toward,” indicating that we need to overcome adversity by engaging it head on.  Gemini people like to engage the tough side of life by talking about it, discussing it, bringing it into full consciousness.  Think of tragic comedies and the nightly news.  For the Gemini Sun many paths of knowledge lead to enlightenment.  As long as there are words, symbols, and letters, Gemini is game.  Synthesis and analysis are vital skills you need to cultivate in order to bring all those divergent strands of thought together.  Otherwise, being scattered, nervous, and unable to commit to people, places, and projects will feed your shallowness.  An old Arab proverb says its better to dig one well sixty feet deep than six wells ten feet deep.  The rich waters of life or the depths of any field of knowledge are only encountered when we delve beneath the surface of life.  This requires commitment, a trait every Gemini needs to invest in desperately.  Otherwise, nothing ever gets done, and your life becomes a string of unfinished projects.  Your purpose involves the dissemination of knowledge, mental dexterity, and an in-depth understanding of cycles.  You are the ever-changing shape shifter.  Can you show others how to live spontaneously without becoming superficial in the process?   Can you gain skill in the discipline of realizing synchronicities when they’re happening right before your eyes?

            The planet Mercury takes on greater significance in your chart as it disposits (governs) any planets found in its sign.  Therefore, the chart position of Mercury is vital to your solar creativity, spiritual recharge, and path of self-realization.  It will also add certain qualities to the field of your charisma depending on its sign, house, and aspects.  Your highest purpose involves becoming a source of intelligence that others can draw mental nourishment and understanding from.  This is how you will be recognized in life.  Your words and thoughts have the ability to feed the multitudes.  To get there you have to cultivate faith in the images that reside in your heart.

            When you become aware of your shadow you can transmute it into light, transforming inner adversity into opportunity.  The shadow of Gemini includes being scattered, uncommitted, nervous, superficial, immature, and overly talkative.  Sometimes your mischief can cause real trouble!  With the intellectual skill of Mercury as your guide you are called to express ideas, claim your voice, conceive images, and give birth to clever thought forms. 
 

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