Final Reflections on Jupiter’s Stay in Gemini

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today we are going to do some reflecting on the final moments of Jupiter in Gemini. Jupiter will be in Gemini for just a few more weeks before entering the sign of Cancer, where it will stay for a full year. This makes it a very good time to look back on Jupiter's transit of Gemini.

So we're going to do that today. I'm going to give you some prompts that you can use to reflect on the past year of Jupiter's transit in your chart. And then tomorrow, we're going to take a look at horoscopes and do a little final reflecting on that whole sign house of Gemini.

Given that we've just had a New Moon in Gemini, that there's a Mercury cazimi coming up in Gemini, and Jupiter will be culminating in the sign, I think it's a really good time to refresh with some Jupiter and Gemini horoscopes. So we'll add that into the mix tomorrow.

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I thought it would be a good time for us to reflect on Jupiter in Gemini this week. We have a lot of different things going on. Because it's end-of-the-month week, we have, of course, our horoscopes for June and our breakdown of the astrology of June that will come Thursday and Friday of this week.

We talked a little bit about the New Moon yesterday, but one of the features of this New Moon is that it is the last moon cycle that will feature Jupiter in Gemini.

And so it's as though these are the final thoughts, the final lessons, the final things that Jupiter in Gemini has to impart for us—fittingly, coming under the moon cycle in Gemini, while Mercury, the host, is also in Gemini.

So I think, the way I was thinking about it this week, it's a good time to sort of say thank you and goodbye as Jupiter's concluding its time in this part of our charts.

Tomorrow, we'll do horoscopes. Today, I want to give you five things to watch for. But before I give you those five things to watch for, I want to go back over the timeline that Jupiter has covered since being in the sign of Gemini, so that we're very clear about the time within which to ask or consider these reflective questions today.

Now, if we go forward just a little bit, we're going to see that it is right around the time of the Full Moon—this is around June 9—that Jupiter enters Cancer.

And then by the 11th, we have our Full Moon in Sagittarius, Jupiter's sign, that makes this moon cycle so much about the transition of Jupiter into Cancer, where it is exalted.

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And it's about two hours worth of a very deep dive into Jupiter in Cancer. Anyway, so I'm not going to say so much about that now, but this means that we have just a couple weeks left of Jupiter in the sign of Gemini.

So on that note, let's now go back about a year. If we go back about a year to June of 2024—I'm actually, it's like late May—so we're going to see that Jupiter enters the sign of Gemini.

And I'll go down to the hour here, just to be super exact. Yeah, so it's about 7 PM, May 25th of 2024, a year ago today, that Jupiter entered the sign of Gemini.

Jupiter spends about a year per sign total. Sometimes its retrogrades will take it back and forth through the end of a sign in the early part of a new one.

Right now, we're in a cycle where Jupiter has been entering a new sign and not retrograding back into the old one—the previous sign, I should say—and going through the whole sign over the course of a year with its retrograde solidly in the sign it's transiting.

That's not always the case, but the point is, you get about a year worth of Jupiter in any given sign—about 12 years to go through the full zodiac.

So May 2024 to early June of 2025, Jupiter's in the sign of Gemini. That's the timeline that you should really consider.

Now, if you wanted to, you could get even a little bit more precise. Let's take out everything in the chart view except for Jupiter, and let's just map out some really important moments within the cycle.

Jupiter enters Gemini last at the end of last May, and its initial retrogradation is going to take place right about here. Station to retrograde is in October.

So that station to retrograde happens in October. The retrograde takes it all the way to—whoops—right about here, and that's about February.

So early October through early February is the retrograde phase when you're applying Jupiter to the house position in your natal chart. And if you need help with that, we'll be doing the horoscopes tomorrow.

You could look at that period as a really important turning point within the overall process of Jupiter's time in Gemini in your birth chart, with a period of revision, reflection, and deepening insights that Jupiter is providing during that retrograde phase.

From that point forward—early February—things are moving forward, and we're then into the completing stage of Jupiter in Gemini, which now wraps up around June 9th.

So you could play with that October—early October to early February—phase, '24 into '25, if you wanted to get a little bit more nuanced. But otherwise, that's the timeline that we've been working with.

Now, on that note, I want to talk about five things that we have to reflect on that are in line with Jupiter's archetypal meaning in the sign of Gemini.

First of all, let's remind ourselves that in the language of ancient dignities, everything is based on planetary logic and a kind of underlying philosophy.

So Jupiter in Gemini is considered to be in its exile or detriment. That doesn't mean anything really, other than telling us that Jupiter is in the sign of its natural planetary contrary—that is, Mercury.

So Mercury (Hermes) and Zeus (Jupiter) are like opposites in terms of the archetypes they represent—in the qualities that are kind of like a yin to the yang or a yang to the yin.

When we think about Mercury, I think a lot about the very sacred process of deconstruction, of analysis, of mental breakdown, and of the process of taking things apart or calling things into question.

The sacred process of skepticism and doubt is also fundamental to any path of faith or belief. Any sense of hope is embedded in some sense of doubt or worry.

Mercury is one half of how we learn and grow in wisdom, in knowledge and skill and ability, and how we build some sense of meaning and faith and trust in the process of life.

Jupiter, broadly speaking, tends to represent that buoyant, optimistic sense of faith, trust, and hope—coherence, unity, the unified sense of a body or school of wisdom, and the felt sense that everything is going to be okay.

There's a teleological sense of meaning that's unfolding in life, and we just trust it. Jupiter represents all those things, and it has for thousands of years.

Mercury is not amoral or without faith or without direction, or simply the chaotic presence of skepticism or doubt. It does represent those things, but it isn't—I would say, if you carefully read any of the great texts from the Taoist tradition—you'll find that anytime something is full, there's a natural way in which it gets emptied.

In any time that there is certainty and it gets too big, the sacredness of doubt has to come in as a natural contrary. This is the way that, in a sense, we have to understand faith.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand. Questioning, careful scrutiny, having to understand the details go along with some gnosis or sense of knowing that transcends the mind.

So Mercury and Jupiter are truly working together in the process of learning, faith, growth, wisdom, doubt—all of the time. So I think I've labored that enough. You get that idea.

When Jupiter is in Gemini, it is therefore not uncommon for the process of learning to take place through a natural exploration of opposites, through doubt, through curiosity and inquiry, through breaking things into parts to make sure you've really understood it.

And for there to be a meaningful period of reconfiguring things, taking them apart in order to put them together in a more intelligent manner. That process can feel sort of chaotic, but ultimately can be very fruitful and productive.

But this is why people may describe Jupiter in Gemini as a little overwhelming. For example, you may go through a process that feels somewhat chaotic or disorganized.

Or there may be so many questions or so many different irons in the fire that there's a feeling of overwhelm or a lack of clarity or organization or purpose. You can get lost in the minutia.

And yet, if you stick with the process and tend to it with some degree of acceptance—rather than trying to control the chaos—we often emerge from Jupiter in Virgo or Jupiter in Gemini periods better understanding things.

And having learned new ways to deal with the restlessness of our minds, our nervous systems—having embraced doubt, concern, skepticism at a deeper level, including careful, thoughtful, more detailed approaches to things.

And not feeling like it's just a buzzkill to have to do that more detailed level of work. Sometimes it feels that way for Jupiter—it's like, "Don't force me to sit here and think about the details. I just want to cruise."

All of these tensions are present when Jupiter is in Gemini. And I'm going to let my dog out because she is getting anxious, because Ashley just arrived home downstairs.

Okay, she was like—I could feel it—the garage door vibrates below, and she's like, "Oh my god, Ashley's home. This is the best possible thing that has ever happened."

And then I'm like, if I don't let her out, she's just going to start whining and get more anxious. And then I have a hard time continuing to record because I can feel her wanting to get out and go say hi.

So anyway, that's very Jupiter in Gemini, isn't it? Here, I'm trying to do something coherent, but there's interruptions. There's a kind of sparkly chaos that you have to embrace when you're talking about things in Gemini-land.

So anyway, given all of that—just the setup here is to understand Jupiter. By its transits, it's always giving us new ways of developing faith, wisdom, understanding, and a felt sense that the cosmos is meaningful and purposeful, as are our lives.

That's what Jupiter is always doing. But it's a real adventure with the way we keep deepening that process. Jupiter can represent many other things.

In the broadest philosophical sense, that's what Jupiter is up to. Put it in a Mercury-ruled sign, and these are the kinds of tensions that come up as we continue to develop wisdom and a sense of meaning and purpose.

So what are the five things to reflect on?

Number one: This is a very simple, very basic quality of Jupiter in Gemini, but one that absolutely can't be overlooked. And that is, quite simply, what new ideas have we considered or embraced or brought into our lives that previously we rejected or were not open to?

Or we were closed down to, or we had assumptions about someone or something that we've since changed our minds about? Another way of putting it is: What have you changed your mind about?

The mind and its ability to change is one of the most beautiful things ever. We can get so rigid, so fixed, so stuck. And the spirit of Gemini is that of open-minded, ongoing, flexible, curious inquiry.

"Well, I want to know why," or "I want to learn more," or "What about this?" or "What if I started doing something like that?"

Now, some of that can be overwhelming if we don't have focus, or if we don't have—it can go too far, where we can be so open that we become, ironically, resistant to committing to anything on the level of principles or on the level of meaning.

Or what we're committed to learning or doing with our lives, or who we're committed to being. So Gemini can almost resist being defined or pinned down or committed, or it can resist landing on something—maybe for fear of missing out or for fear of being trapped by a commitment.

But the hallmark of open-mindedness is not just being open 24/7. It's about being able to fluidly open and close our minds as the context requires.

So life—open-mindedness, when you think about Jupiter and Mercury as a dyad—is really about opening and closing fluidly, appropriately, within each unique context and moment.

Jupiter in Gemini has very much been—at least I reflect that out of my own life and the lives of people around me—a lot about opening your mind to new ideas.

If there's been rigidities—or paradoxically, for some people, it might have been about becoming more committed where there's been a resistance to commit. And Jupiter in Gemini can represent either end of that dichotomy.

Number two: What have we deconstructed and built back up? I think it's really important to just tip our caps to Jupiter in Gemini and be like, "Thanks. You helped me completely dismantle a paradigm, a way of doing something, a way of thinking about something."

But you also helped me build it back up. And maybe the thing that we're building back up now, newly redesigned, is just about done with Jupiter finishing up in Gemini.

Where maybe we've gotten the blueprint for something we're going to build, having carefully looked at all the parts and maybe done some deconstructing.

Either way, we think about a process while Jupiter's in Gemini of taking something apart, looking at it very carefully, and then thoughtfully building it back up.

That process is something that you might want to reflect on. Where has something like a deconstruction and reconstruction been taking place organizationally, relationally, psychologically?

Number three: Where have doubts, curiosity, and inquiry existed? What have you felt skeptical about over the past year? Where have your doubts been, or toward whom or what have you experienced doubt?

Where have you been curious to know more, to learn more? Where has the path of inquiring taken you?

I think one of the things Jupiter in Gemini does is it makes sacred and purposeful and rewarding our path of doubt or our path of curiosity, by saying, "I acknowledge I struggle with something. I'm not sure how I feel or what I think about this or that, or I have my doubts."

And by just honoring that and allowing that to be, we may find that we come to some understanding or some resolution.

Also, where have you been super curious? Where have you been just—where has your inquiring mind led you in the past year?

What have you sought out as expertise or understanding of something that maybe you yourself wanted to know more about?

Jupiter in Gemini is great for saying, "Here's a problem, here's a subject, here's something I know nothing about. I really want to know more, and now I have to seek out someone or something that can make coherent something that's been rather mysterious or confounding to me."

I find, for example, that Jupiter in Gemini—like Uranus upcoming in Gemini, by the way—is fantastic for seeking out people and places that can make sense out of something.

For me, while Jupiter was in Gemini, I found a great music teacher for guitar lessons. I noticed that a lot of people—Jupiter in Gemini—came into Nightlight programs saying, "I'm looking for something that can help me make sense out of all the information that's out there about astrology and good astrology programs."

I consider our program to be good, but good programs in general have a way of helping people piece things together that on their own might feel kind of chaotic and disorganized.

"How do I put this all together?" Maybe it's a language teacher. Maybe it's someone who teaches a skill that for you has been hard to develop on your own.

So think about those kinds of things.

Number four: What skills, abilities, and understanding have we cultivated through learning? Jupiter in Gemini is really great for having you add to or continue developing and giving some kind of momentum behind something that you already know but needed to take further.

Jupiter in Gemini is like the moment where you've reached a plateau in your skill. Maybe you're a cook, or maybe you're a teacher, or maybe even parenting—and you feel like, "I've plateaued in my understanding, or I've plateaued in my knowledge or skill with something."

Jupiter in Gemini comes along, and it opens up multiple different streams of information, multiple different pathways by means of which you can continue to advance where maybe you were plateauing or getting stuck.

The benefit or blessing of Jupiter in Gemini is that learning, skill development, and understanding of something that you already know or like can open up even further.

So I wanted to add that because—I mean, think: What have you gotten a lot better at in the past year?

You know, I think, for example, of myself in terms of what I have learned about—Jupiter's been co-present with Mars. I have Mars in Gemini, so Jupiter in the same sign as Mars, for me, over the past year, has been crucial in terms of learning how to be more present and focused.

And how to really activate individual muscles within my training program. The bodybuilding coach I've worked with—in terms of the lessons I've learned around nutrition, lifestyle—really went to another level in the past year.

And it wasn't that I plateaued as in I'd reached some great peak, but I had gone about as far as I could with the teacher I had previously, and so I found a new coach and just kind of continued the journey.

That's Jupiter co-present in the sign of Mars in my chart. There were lots of other things too, but I thought that was really fascinating.

I also started getting some advice from some coaches in terms of how to work with and develop certain aspects of Nightlight as a business. Jupiter is in my second house, and for most of my career, it's just been me and my wife.

Then, as the school has grown in the past five or six years, especially gradually, there's been more staff coming on. And then there's been the learning curve when it comes to running a business with lots of staff.

It's like, you know, new stuff that was a part of—so I learned a lot about just the day-to-day business management in the past year, and having more staff come on and stuff like that.

Those were skills that I felt like I had reached my limit with. Like, "This is about as much as I know. It's just been me—I'm not a business person, I'm just an astrologer, and I'm just kind of winging it."

And then, you know, things grow, and you have to learn more about how to run a business. So that's been a really cool thing that I feel like Jupiter in Gemini has brought—both of those, ones with Mars, ones in my second.

So there's different layers of the learning, right? But apply that to the whole sign house of Jupiter or Gemini in your birth chart, and just see: Where have I had to expand and learn more?

And where did the limits of my understanding exist in some subject area, and where did I see it grow and expand again? Fantastic. Just—what a blessing for Gemini to just keep our minds open and our hearts open to learning new things.

And to—I don't like to say "getting better at"—okay, the goal of life is to get better. Sometimes, I think we just need to be more accepting of who we are and where we are.

There's another dimension to life, though, where it's exciting to get better at things—whether becoming a better person, a better parent, better at the skills that you have, better at taking care of yourself, whatever it is.

Jupiter is, I think, always has our back if we're open to learning.

Anyway, what exploration of opposites have we done? One of the things I love about Jupiter in Gemini is the play of light and dark.

What have you been confronted with something that maybe you vehemently opposed that—wow—you just had to open your mind to? Or you had assumptions about, and now you think or see it differently?

Jupiter in Gemini is great for having us flip something on its head, or turn something in the opposite direction, or look at the play of shadow and light in an area of our lives.

Jupiter in Gemini opens and facilitates learning by getting us to, at least temporarily, really deeply consider the wisdom of an opposite that we have not looked at or that we've underestimated.

And so I think about that, you know? I think about that in my own life, too.

I think Jupiter is a process-oriented planet. This is what I'll close with. And so if you want to get the most out of understanding a Jupiter transit—as much as I love talking about, "Oh my god, Mars is opposed Jupiter today," or whatever transit is happening, which are always important—

I think we miss out on a lot of the deeper learning process that the astrology reflects by not taking the time to look at the arc of a transit that took a full year.

So if you go back to last May and reflect on any of these questions—or maybe there's others that you could come up with, because you know something about Jupiter in Gemini too—you know, what have you learned? Where has the growth been?

Tomorrow, we're going to do some horoscopes to remind you of the whole sign house that Jupiter is now culminating in. So that'll give you a little bit more guidance.

But use these today alongside with horoscopes tomorrow, and you should have something that can give you a really deep level of respect and appreciation for this great teacher in the sky that's been guiding us all along in the sign of the twins.

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