I’m having a hard time believing Taurus season ends today. We’ve had so little nice weather in Maine to get out and enjoy the re-awakening of the earth (I have done virtually ZERO gardening so far, which is unheard of for me during the four weeks of Taurus). So I’m letting this photo from a week ago stand in for some actual sunlight.
At 2:54 pm EDT today, the Sun will enter Gemini. Symbolized by a pair of twins, it’s an air sign ruled by the planet Mercury (planet of mind and communication), and it’s the final sign of spring.
As the Sun arrives in Gemini, it receives an infusion from Neptune (idealism) and the asteroid Ceres (nourishment) in Aries. This looks to me like an awareness of what others need, and the willingness to actively support and feed them.
Gemini’s duality can manifest as “the two sides of a coin” (when two things seem like night and day yet share a common bond) or the kind of “both/and” thinking that helps you to see and hold two seemingly opposite truths. Or, to put it in the context of the Gemini Sun’s sextile to Ceres and Neptune in Aries, the ability to envision solutions that benefit both parties mutually while staying sensitive to their individuality.
** What would feel supportive to you today yet simultaneously nurture your independence?
** How can you actively encourage and nurture the self-sufficiency of someone else while still being sensitive to their needs for assistance?
** Perhaps more importantly: why does this matter? **
On Saturday, May 24 — two days before the Gemini New Moon — Saturn leaves Pisces and enters Aries for just over three months (a little trial run before it enters Aries in 2026 for a longer stay).
Saturn in Aries could describe a stabilizing effect on bold actions, especially if you tend to be impulsive and scattered, or often leap before you look.
However, Saturn in Aries could also describe a dip in confidence or a sort of “stop and go” approach, especially if you already tend to be inhibited and cautious, or often second-guess your impulses.
FINALLY — and importantly — Saturn’s entrance into Aries brings it into close proximity to Neptune in Aries. This is the planet of ultimate boundaries, immovability, and solidity combining with the planet of ultimate boundary-less-ness, slipperiness, and intangibility.
It’s a tricky mix: containment combining with dissolution in the sign of action and initiative.
WTF?
On the one hand, I suspect this could feel like a brilliant mix for creativity and taking inspired, measured, deliberate action toward your dreams and ideals in a way that is uniquely “you.”
On the other hand, it could also feel like a confounding mix for feeling confused about what you want, the steps to take to get there, and who you are in the process.
These two extremely dissimilar planets are merging over the course of many months. And they’re meeting up in a slice of the zodiac known for hosting events in which “the personal” intersects with “the political” in society-wide — and even global — processes of transformation and reckoning: very early Aries.
(The first degree of Aries is called “the Aries Point.” According to some astrologers, its zeitgeist-channeling effect extends to the first few degrees of Aries and the other cardinal signs: Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.)
Saturn+Neptune on the Aries Point deserves some serious consideration in our current moment of increasing authoritarianism and rampant illusion and lies. And yet I have had a very hard time giving this event its due consideration, thanks in part to the ways political upheaval in the U.S. has thrown “thinking about the future” into a certain amount of chaos. They’re also simply a damn challenging pair of energies to interpret in a conjunction.
So I wanted to bring these ideas to the forefront today. Saturn’s visit to Aries from May 24 through September 1 this year could be seen as a “trial run” of sorts. We get to notice what sort of “Saturn in Aries” and “Saturn plus Neptune” experience we’re each having on a personal level, and then observe how our personal experience relates to collective events.
Then when Saturn returns to Pisces for a few months over the fall and winter, it may be a good time to shore up our more Piscean inner resources — whether that’s spiritually, creatively, emotionally, or in some other way related to how we experience interconnection and unity.
I suspect those months could be an ideal time to revisit the containers and disciplines we need on the inside to support whatever initiatives require a hotter fire or more solid foundation next year. Though you certainly don’t need to wait until the fall to do that work (and I have some ideas for ways you can engage with it now, including working with me one-on-one).
But, I get ahead of myself…
I asked above, “why does this matter?” in relation to the Gemini Sun entering a supportive aspect (called a sextile) with Ceres and Neptune in Aries over the next few days. Here’s what I’m thinking:
** The more we can nurture and nourish each other’s independence and confidence as well as our own, the better we’ll be positioned to make constructive use of Saturn’s conjunction to Neptune on the Aries Point.
** The more mutually beneficial solutions we can see, the easier it will be to connect — at times across great differences — to find the commonality that connects us on seemingly opposite sides of the proverbial coin. Because no matter how that coin gets spent, both of its sides are part of the deal.
With love,
Amanda
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