New Moon in Gemini

Sun in Gemini conjunct Moon in Gemini at 2 degrees occurs on Friday, May 22, 2020 at 17:38 UT.

Gemini new moons are an interesting time of year, because when the sky is dark in this sign, our deepest and innermost thoughts and ideas feel free to come out and play. New moons generally soften and quiet our mental states as we make space for new beginnings, and alongside Mercury and Venus, our intuition is allowed to reveal some very interesting tidbits about our relationships, but only if you are listening closely.

This year, Venus is making a beeline toward the new moon as it moves backward during its retrograde, so it presents an opportune time to shine a light on the shadows that loom over your relationships with lovers, friends, and business partners. This could be a time of powerful insights if you’ve been tuned in to Venus’ frequencies, or it could be a challenge if your thoughts and feelings are not aligned. If you have placements in Gemini or Sagittarius, but especially your Sun, Moon, or Rising (I have 2 out of 3, lucky me), you’ll feel that shift in your personal relationships more than any other sign.

Communicative Mercury is also transiting through Gemini at the moment, so you have the power to open up to the important people in your life, and you might find that once you start talking, you won’t be able to stop. Things might come out of you that you have been holding onto for a while. Try not to shy away from these complicated emotions. Responsible Saturn’s retrograde is at a close supportive angle to the new moon, so this outpour of sorts could create a new feeling of love and safety that strengthens and solidifies your relationship bonds.

Be careful, however, that you don’t force your relationship shadow work. Just because we have 4 planets indicating productive communication doesn’t mean everyone will always be on the same page, and with a challenging influence from Neptune, there is a chance to slip into a state of denial and avoidance if these people in your life are still not quite ready to open up and do the work with you. Neptune also rules viruses and poisons that invisibly attack our immune system, so it’s unfortunately possible that we could see an uptick in COVID-19 cases around the world, or a new breakthrough could influence this situation as well. Hopefully it’s the latter, and a positive one at that, but regardless it will be interesting to see how and if this new moon changes the novel coronavirus game.

All in all, this week the dark shadows of your thoughts may weigh on your mind, but there are so many opportunities to shed some light on them that you may feel like this heaviness goes just as quickly as it came. Transformations are likely to occur whether you want them to or not, so best to confront these changes head-on instead of waiting for them to happen to you. Clean your room, light an incense or burn some sage, and allow the force of the Twins to guide you. You can trust right now that they’re pushing you in exactly the right direction, and that you’ll land exactly where you’re supposed to be.

I highly recommend Astro.com and CafeAstrology for information on general astrological placements. For questions about personal astrological placements and house qualities as it relates to the aforementioned transits, send me a message with your birth date, time, and place and I will try my best to reply before Friday’s new moon.