Your Guide to Gemini Season
By the end of Taurus season, with its focus on dependability and stubborn commitment to your principles, you may find yourself stuck in a rut, sick of your routines, even yourself. Just in time, the sun enters Gemini, sign of curiosity, adaptability, and fun. All of a sudden, it’s as though the old rules no longer apply. If you’re in need of excitement, ready to make a change, or just desperate not to be so bored, then this is your moment.
Gemini is the first air sign of the zodiac year, and like all the air signs this one is quick-witted and charming. Even more than the other air signs, Geminis are able to hold a dozen contradictory ideas in their head at once. While the sun is in Gemini — from May 20 to June 20 this year — your own brainy side is likely to be activated, too. It’s a fun time to keep a journal or to send lots of voice notes to your friends. During this season, expect your mind to be buzzing with ideas, planning adventures, or untangling intellectual puzzles.
Because Gemini is ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication and connection, this air-sign energy can take on a chatty, highly verbal, extra-extroverted shine. Geminis are intellectually curious and broadly observant of the world and people in it, and are probably the least brooding of all the signs. Why endlessly stew when you could simply say what you’re thinking and talk it through with someone? Even if you’re typically private and introspective, Gemini season lends itself to discussion and collaboration.
This is also an occasion for seeking out a variety of new experiences. While some signs find routines comforting, predictability quickly becomes mind-numbingly tedious for Gemini. So even if you’re usually a creature of habit, try switching things up this month. Take a different route to work, talk to strangers, or simply watch a movie that ordinarily might not interest you. Don’t imagine that you must travel to the ends of the Earth to find newness. Gemini is a champion of finding the novel and exciting in our own neighborhoods and everyday lives.
The downside is that this can be a difficult time to attempt work that requires deep, sustained focus. Your attention will likely be more scattered than usual, and while you may find it easy (and thrilling!) to start a dozen projects or make plans for every night of the week, it might be harder to actually follow through. Be honest with yourself about your capacity right now, and avoid making big commitments you’re unlikely to be able to keep.
All of this affable, open-hearted curiosity gives Gemini an undeniable charm — this is a sign that knows how to have fun with just about anyone. Gemini’s symbol, the twins, points to its essential adaptability. It’s so innate that Geminis can seem like two separate people — able to be just as happy in the club as in the library, as much at ease on a crowded bus as in business-class seats.
It’s this dazzling sociability, this ease in adapting to be comfortable anywhere, that can lead other people to imagine Gemini to be “two-faced” or duplicitous — as though in order to feel so at home in so many disparate contexts, some kind of fakery or inauthenticity must be involved. This can manifest in some weirdly strident anti-Gemini sentiment. Remember when Lizzo, a Taurus, dedicated a song to every woman who has ever “been victimized” by a Gemini? (“Should I slander Gemini? … You know what? Yes. Give us a reason to like you, Gemini.” Ouch!) Like every sign, Gemini has its shadow side, and all of its magnetic charm can easily be used to selfish, nefarious, or just chaotic ends. Still, there are so many reasons to love the sign. Gemini season has so much to offer!
In Gemini season, you can let go of the idea that you can only act one way, that you can only be one thing, that you have to choose between all the different sides of yourself. In Gemini season, you can recognize that every part of yourself is equally authentic, equally real. See Walt Whitman’s classic statement of Gemini intent: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” In Gemini season, you can follow your curiosity, and you don’t ever have to be bored.
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