a Click on image for larger view	Gemini New Moon Sun and Moon joined at 19.54 Gemini June 10, 2002 4:46 pm. PDT; 7:46 p.m. EDT Sabian Symbol: A self-service restaurant displays an abundance of food.
What does listening to the zodiac do for us at each moon cycle?  It attunes us to the yet living quality of this ancient rhythm.  It sharpens our senses to new ways to bring ourselves forth.  It puts us on the alert -- as an animal living in the wild -- to something new in the air...

Gemini New Moon
June/July 2002

by Dana Gerhardt

I’ll spare you the details of how I learned about the angry dog in my heart.  More interesting is what I learned to do with it.  On the morning of the most recent full moon (this is the moon-phase laced with insights), I was reading on the deck, when my 5-year-old step-daughter, buzzing around me as 5-year-olds do, suddenly sang:  “Like my mom always said, curiosity killed the dog!”  I looked up:  “You mean cat.”  We stared at each other in confusion.

Oh, she was remembering a line from one of her dog-and-cat videos.  But the way it came out so suddenly, from nowhere, gave me pause.  This is how full moon insights come.  And indeed, I had a dog to kill.  Would curiosity do it?  I reflected on the situation that had made me angry.  I allowed myself to walk past the barking inner dog and get curious about all the details around the situation.  After a few minutes, my heart had relaxed and the dog was gone.  My curiosity hadn’t turned up any startling new information; rather, just being curious had softened the whole thing and made it disappear!

Curiosity is one of the powers of Gemini.  Given that this New Moon just might unleash a pack of angry dogs all over the planet, we might think of drawing on curiosity’s power as deftly as Obi Wan his light sword.  The New Moon brings a solar eclipse and is conjunct rigid Saturn, opposed by an I-won’t-back-down Pluto.  Tension spots around the planet and in our homes may flare.  But instead of playing either policeman Saturn or terrorist Pluto, we might get more deeply curious about what’s happening.  We might listen to what our initial instincts want to shut out.  We might soften and open our hearts.  Do that and I think we’ll all know exactly what we’re supposed to do next.  Blessings, dear friends.  Have a potent Gemini moon cycle! 

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• The daily moon sign, phase and aspects... 

• "At the New Moon refresh your animal nature, senses awake, happily, simply aware of being alive..." (Today's Moon)

• Meditate on becoming A Light to Oneself, with Pythia... 

"For many, the only way through the impasse between stern taskmaster Saturn and heavyweight Pluto has been to step out of the boxing match between these two opponents - and center within. Traditionally, we are taught to repress our own instinctive self-knowledge in favor of outer authority. But as the mystic J. Krishnamurti wrote, "To go into the question of meditation, you must be wholly, inwardly free from all authority, from all comparison -- Otherwise you can never be a light to yourself. When you are a  light to yourself you are a light to the world, because the world is you,and you are the world." ..." 
(Moon Meditations)
 
• Rebuild the Invisible, with April...

"...The two weeks either side of a solar eclipse seem to be times when intuition is especially strong, stronger even than the ego's need for certainty and supremacy.  For this reason, it's a time when we sometimes feel a little unhinged, but when wisdom is uncommonly available to us.  And in these last unhinged pre-eclipse couple of weeks I’ve had an insight into why so much of my life is in turmoil at the same time. ..."
Moon Teachings
 
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