LET'S TALK

Sun is moving into Gemini, as it does every year May 20 or 21 to June 20 or 21. The sign Gemini is a celebration of the miracle of human communication, the amazing ability to have perceptions, to form thoughts in your mind, and to express your experience in language. Gemini is the mental clarity that gives names to awareness, and compares and analyzes, and looks at how each thing is related. Gemini wants to make connections, between concepts, and between people. Gemini is the network of conversations and agreements that is the fabric of community. And Gemini is the energy of Facebook, all social media, and the Internet itself.

When Gemini is highlighted in our astrology charts as it is this month, the invitation is to sit down and talk. And the challenge is to really communicate, to speak what's in your heart, and to open up a dialogue where both you and I are learning something about each other. We don't want to keep having the same conversations over and over, or pontificate or lecture. We can go to the creative edge of our language and find new words, new thoughts to describe what we're seeing, feeling, knowing.

The art of Gemini comes from the ability to ask the right questions, both in conversations and in your own private inquiries. What do you want to know? What are the most passionate questions you want to ask of life, or of those closest to you? What ideas of yours will make the greatest contribution to your community?
In the spiritual practice of self-inquiry you ask "Who am I?", and ponder who is it that is asking this question and observing the answers that come. These are questions that take you deeper into yourself. In relationship counseling, powerful questions are "tell me what's bothering you", or "how do you feel about me?". Walking in nature you might say to a tree "how does it feel to be a tree?" In prayer or meditation we might inquire "God, are you really there, and if you are, do you have a message for me?" The sacred dance of Gemini is to ask your questions with your whole heart. And then to listen, deeply, fully, with every fiber of your Being.