Gemini Moon: What’s the Quality of Your Mind?
January 20, 2024
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Saturday morning to Monday afternoon (Jan. 20 to Jan. 22), the Moon is in Gemini. There’s a tension we can feel when the Moon is between her exaltation (Taurus) and domicile (Cancer). Here, she’s a wanderer. A nomad ruled by Mercury’s yang, double-bodied, air temple, while Mercury is out-of-sight (aversion), busy in Capricorn. The host is blind to its guest. Sometimes this short-lived breakaway provides a sense of freedom we desire and sometimes it stirs up chaos and discomfort.
This journey will shower us with a friendly trine to the Sun, tense squares to Saturn and Neptune, followed by an opposition to Venus. And under this Moon, Pluto settles into Aquarius. The anticipation of this generation-shifting moment is greeted by the waxing gibbous Moon but not without coming to terms with the tensions it raises.
After all, we know what we know with Pluto in Capricorn but now in Aquarius it’s all new. We’ve been fed the same type of meals for 15 years, but the menu is changing. How will it affect us? What will Pluto demand of us this go-round?
Perhaps these thoughts churn up busy mind-stuff, and we fall into imagination and our mind dwells between states of manic thoughts or complete inertia.
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In yoga, there are five states of the mind. These define the mood or quality of our thoughts …
- restless — overflowing or manic
- stupefied — shut down or inertia
- distracted — disturbed by restlessness or obscured by inertia
- one-pointed — focused, in flow and finding concentration
- arrested — silence, liberation from world of change; unbounded consciousness realized
And in yoga, there are five kinds of mental activity. These are the thoughts themselves and they are shaped by our mood or the quality of our mind. The thoughts may or may not cause suffering …
- understanding — correct knowledge based on direct perception, inference, or reliable testimony
- misunderstanding — delusion based on a false impression of reality
- imagination — based on an image, conjured up by words, and without substance
- sleep — a sense of nothingness
- memory — a return to past experience
The Pluto ingress, and the Moon’s squares to Saturn and Neptune, followed by the opposition to Venus all occur without support from Gemini host Mercury. This has the potential to stir up mind-stuff over the next few days. Perhaps we get stuck in imagination or memory while vacillating between states of restlessness and inertia. This wandering into the depths of the mind while being in between the Moon’s favorite places of comfort and cozy can feel jarring, even exhausting.
Are Gemini-turning mind distractions pulling you away from your center? Is it troublesome? Tiring? Can you find yoga: the settling of the mind into silence? Yoga Sutra 1.1 says, “And now the teaching on yoga begins.” Really, “now” is “now” in any moment. Now can begin at any time, over and over again.
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