Mercury Is Currently Pre-shadow.

Full Moon in Gemini

Date: November 22nd - November 23rd (Full Moon phase begins 9:30pm central time)

Rulers: Mercury. Air, Mutable

Body Parts: Lungs, Arms, Shoulders, Brain

Affects: emphasis on communication, learning, travel, thinking, and planning, anxiety, racing thoughts, mental energy, changes in plans or events, mood swings, feeling more social, humorous, and expressive, unexpected news, creativity / sudden surge of ideas, insomnia, social media drama / increased social media activity, issues with technology and transportation

What It’s Good For: replacing technological devices, divination, writing, meeting new people, expressing new ideas in your profession, changing / improving your daily routine, learning something new, solving issues relating to communication, learning, and travel, spending time with friends, writing down your thoughts, ideas, and dreams (any sort of mental message you get during this time is important), altering your social media presence, organizing / cleansing your mental and physical space, meditation

Crystals: howlite, jade, celestite, clear quartz, crazy lace agate, aquamarine, apatite, lodestone, selenite 

Herbs: mint, fennel, parsley, lavender, dill

Incense / Oils: peppermint, spearmint, sandalwood, lemongrass

Colors: yellow, light green, blue, white, silver

Mars/Venus: Instincts + Attraction

Your rising sign can be used in addition to your Mars sign (and house placement), as Mars rules the first house. These represent an archetype you often find yourself gravitating towards whether it be situations or people who embody these themes, you also tend to embody them yourself.

I am instinctively drawn towards…

Mars in Aries: Freedom, action, adventure, self discovery. Mars in Taurus: Security, nature, beauty, leisure, whatever reflects my values. Mars in Gemini: Variety, wit, communication, language, facts, intellectualism. Mars in Cancer: Nurturing, being nurtured, nostalgia, comfort, home. Mars in Leo: Self-expression, theatricality, glamour, romance, fun. Mars in Virgo: Self-improvement, analysis, humility, perfectionism. Mars in Libra: Relationships, aesthetics, diplomacy, sophistication, fantasy. Mars in Scorpio: Intensity, power, sex, the morbid, hidden or occult. Mars in Sagittarius: Truth, philosophy, religion, other cultures, academia. Mars in Capricorn: Wisdom, discipline, social status, authority. Mars in Aquarius: Genius, science, groups, rebellion, the unconventional. Mars in Pisces: Spirituality, sacrifice, sensitivity, isolation, escapism.

Your descendant and 2nd house can be used in addition to your Venus sign and house placement, as Venus rules both the 2nd and 7th house. The Taurus or 2nd house side of Venus represents an archetype you value while the Libra/7th house side represents what you often attract into your life through others.

I tend to value or attract people who are…

Venus in Aries: Invigorating, courageous, competitive, selfish, bullying, naive. Venus in Taurus: Dependable, artistic, beautiful, stubborn, possessive, greedy. Venus in Gemini: Clever, talkative, curious, intellectual, immature, dishonest. Venus in Cancer: Nurturing, gentle, domestic, needy, moody, irrational. Venus in Leo: Confident, fun, creative, romantic, egotistical, attention-seeking. Venus in Virgo: Health-conscious, helpful, analytical, humble, critical, anxious. Venus in Libra: Polite, charming, elegant, flaky, co-dependent, unstable. Venus in Scorpio: Powerful, perceptive, deep, manipulative, destructive. Venus in Sagittarius: Profound, cultured, optimistic, arrogant, blunt, foolish. Venus in Capricorn: Ambitious, disciplined, wise, repressed, intolerant. Venus in Aquarius: Friendly, unique, rebellious, detached, unpredictable. Venus in Pisces: Compassionate, poetic, imaginative, lacking boundaries, delusional, fragile.

The Moon 🌙

Rising quietly amidst black curtains of clouds, the Moon is the ultimate celestial representation of feminine energies on Earth and is also the yin counterpart of the Sun’s yang and radiating energy. While the Sun symbolizes our ability to identify ourselves with some kind of individual purpose and consciousness, the Moon offers us the ability to identify ourselves subjectively and unconsciously with our surroundings.

The Moon’s feminine or yin characteristics start with the basic fact that she acts as a mysterious, silvery mirror for the Sun’s confident rays. When the Moon glows in our skies, she can only do so by reflecting sunlight. This is a powerful symbol of the Moon’s receptive capabilities, which are transposed into all humans on Earth in some way or another.

For example, as children, we were very much unable to react to external stimuli at first. Emotionally, children soak in their surroundings, absorbing emotional information of what’s projected onto them and reflecting other people’s sunny lights, like the Moon does. The Moon’s placement by sign and house, then, describes one’s emotional structure, which manifests in adult life as inexplicable and repetitive emotional reactions and habits. Inexplicable, because the origins of all emotional links and identifications are long lost in the watery memory of a time when there was no emotional consciousness. Such is the reasoning behind the Moon’s correlation to the emotional realm, memories and the past. And this is also why conditions of the 4th house, analogous to Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon, symbolize one’s upbringing and emotional environment at infancy.

Conditions of the Moon and of the 4th house also correlate to one’s ability to adapt. Through the Moon’s ever-changing nature, moving rapidly around Earth and reflecting various amounts of light on her way, we discover the ability to receive and accept change, an important yin attitude that allows us a more flexible path on our way to our Sun’s final purpose. This can be easily analyzed through the modality of the sign you’re looking at, in the sense that fixed signs are much more resistant to big changes than the mutable signs, for example, which are on the other side of the spectrum.

Ruling over the sign of Cancer, the Moon also describes where one finds emotional security, mimicking the child’s need to feel protected, loved and cared for. I’ll talk more deeply on emotional security on an upcoming post on Cancer Moons.

This planet’s correlation to intuition and sensitivity can also be better understood considering the Moon’s association with childhood. Babies cannot perceive themselves as individuals with an unique force of will and an unique body. Under the weak and warm moonlight, it becomes impossible to recognize the boundaries that separate their minds from the minds of those around them, and so they become one with the world they live in; their needs become those of whoever’s around and vice-versa, until, through their relatives or guardians, they finally perceive their needs are different from anyone else’s, producing an internal Sun… Watery Moons mimic this primal mechanism through which we, as adults, may discover intuition: knowledge and information from unconscious sources hidden behind the hard structures of the material and tangible Capricorn world.

I’m hoping this helps in understanding where all those meanings come from~

Tales From Shakespeare artist : George Soper

if you’re ever scared you’re not a good person, remember that bad people don’t care about being good 

examine your intentions. don’t move, why are you here? is your anger self righteous or misdirected? are you holding yourself accountable? what are the consequences of your actions? are your feelings facts, are they a tool for you to win an argument? are your actions consistent with the love you say you have for another? what does love mean to you? is your language mindful of another’s illnesses and traumas? do you respect another’s autonomy and critical thinking skills? are your emotions enriching this conversation or damaging it?

The Constellations of Summer, Francesco Levy