Welcome to Gemini Season: Writers, Creatives, Magic Makers All

This, my dear, is a glorious moment.

In spite of it all. Because of it all.

Here, when the new moon is in Gemini and the Zodiac just turned to the sign of the twins, it is a remarkable time to be alive.

This time isn’t just for the lucky ones born in this glorious month that precedes the solstice that sets us in the Northern Hemisphere right at the threshold of summer. (Though truly, it’s an endless delight to be a Gemini…) 

Instead, it is an invitation for all of us to connect the power of intention, the spells we cast with words, and the ability to make magic - simply by practicing the art of changing your mind and consciously shifting your thoughts.

Thought creates action, after all, and action is what transforms your day, your life, your world.    

And, it’s a time to play.

Welcome to Gemini Season, a time of transformation in the face of all that cannot be changed

This moment feels particularly special. It’s as if we are all standing at a great threshold.

We have wandered through a long, dark spring to get here. And no one knows quite what will happen next - other than “normal” will never be the same and this crisis did little to bring the warring factions together. (Certainly there is much to be said about division and separation as we dance with the Gemini twins? Let’s look at that in another post soon…)

This threshold doesn’t bring us back to “easy,” mind you. (If anything, it reveals the illusion that life wasn’t all that easy or OK before.) We’re not crossing into a new realm  where the yucky germs have simply gone away and we can get back to business as usual just because we want it to be so.

No, magical thinking will not eradicate the virus. Acting as if it does not exist will not make it so.

Though I am a fervent believer and practitioner of magic who believes that we do have the power to change consciousness and shift reality, denial never healed anyone.

Instead, this is an invitation to take the world as it is - with all of its dangers and all its necessary precautions - and to thrive and connect and fill ourselves with wonder anyway.

This is a time of innovation and imagination even if we cannot go to the beach. Especially because we cannot celebrate the summer as we always do.

It’s Your Gemini Season, Dear Seeker, Dear Writer, Dear Maker of Magic

I’ll be honest. I need this new moon and this time in the sign of Gemini like a mermaid needs her ocean home.

In part, it’s because I am a citizen of Gemini myself. (I was born on June 17. My mother was, too. I have a unique understanding of what it means to be a twin, and I know it to be full of poignancy and power.) 

I think we all need it though. There’s nothing like a pandemic to silence you, to steal your creative flair, and to make you doubt the necessity and validity of your own voice. 

Gemini Season is the time of the writers, the creatives, the people who play with their words.

Gemini Season is the time of the sun worshippers, the strawberry pickers, and all of us who believe in the kind of magic you can only make on a warm, late spring day.

Gemini Season belongs to everyone. 

Gemini Season is when we celebrate the power of expression and the gift of the active mind. It’s when we embrace spontaneity and everything that’s possible when we look at the world in a new way. 

As my new astrology crush, Sabrina Monarch describes it, this is the time of the Poets, the Priestesses, the Magicians.

Gemini Season is the time to do #7MagicWords

Have you been part of #7MagicWords, the free weeklong challenge that inspires your creativity and invites you to play with your words?

It’s coming back on June 1, 2021.

I didn’t intend to run this challenge again, but this new moon is whispering and the tides of stars will not be denied.

This challenge (I’ve lost count… I think this is the tenth? I first offered it in June 2017) is going to offer the sweetness of strawberries right off the vine and the balm of almost-summer afternoons.

Come create with us.
Come delight with us.
Come make magic with us.

This sweet June, we all need to savor this Gemini Season together.

A New Moon Ritual for Sovereignty Seekers

There’s a section in The Sovereignty Knot called Dark Moon Love.

It describes one of the loneliest, most important moments in my marriage:

One dark night, years after the vows were said and the babies born, I stood alone, pressing my face against the bathroom window, looking up and hoping for the impossible. It was a new moon night. There was nothing to see, but I longed to find some measure of comfort in the light I knew I wouldn’t find. I sought confirmation in the shadow…

That particular new moon happened several Aprils ago. Now, our marriage is strong and I know a lot more about what it is to stand Sovereign in a relationship.

On this new moon night in April 2020, the entire world seems to be staring up to the empty sky, hoping to find truth and solace in the shadow.

Here’s the thing… there is confirmation and solace to be found in shadow. We are called to find our way in the dark, to trust our footing, to hold hands, to remember that the sun will rise and the moon will grow full.

And, we’re called to remember that once we get through this dark stretch and come out on the other side and reenter the light, the sun will inevitably set and the moon will invariable wane again.

Dark Moon Wisdom

Elsewhere in the book, I tell the story of encountering the Celtic goddess Morrígan. If ever there was a new moon goddess, this phantom warrior queen of the underworld is one of them.

I was in an Irish cave when, “the Morrígan whispered to me that she knew I had spent a life enamored by the light, with appearances, with the demands of seeing and being seen. She needed me to become as comfortable and nimble in the depths of the otherworld as I was in the spotlight of the everyday.”

My wish for you, sweet Sovereignty seeker, is that you find comfort in the shadows as well as the sunshine. I hope that you can learn to sway beneath an empty sky as surely as you know how to howl to a full harvest moon.

And so, I offer this new moon meditation to you.

We’re called to stand strong under the glory of the sun, taking the throne and wearing the crown, yes, but it’s just as important to lay quietly in the dark, calling in the guides and quietly releasing all that does not serve.

Deepest gratitude to my mentor and teacher, Eleanora Amendolara, the founder of the Sacred Center Mystery School who taught me a version of this meditation many years ago.

And thanks to my clients and members of the Sovereign Writers Circle who inspired me to pull this practice out of my own interior spiritual archives.