Important Notes on Jupiter’s First Weeks in Gemini

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Monday, everybody. Today, I decided we're going to take some time to reflect on Jupiter's entrance into Gemini again, in light of the fact that we've now had going on a month of Jupiter's transit into the sign of Gemini. We've also had a large movement of planets through the sign of Gemini, including a new moon, the Venus cazimi, and Mercury cazimi. So, it's definitely been, there's been a lot of opportunity to reflect on a number of things on the planet Mercury on the double-bodied nature of the sign of Gemini or the quality of the element of air.

So, as I was thinking about what I wanted to do this week, especially since there aren't any, I mean, this is a quieter week compared to what we've had in a while. So I thought, well, you know, one thing that would be really nice to do would be to sit and reflect on some of the early notes I've taken on Jupiter's entrance into Gemini. So that's what we're going to do today.

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Let's take a look at Jupiter in Gemini. So here we are on Monday, June 17. Jupiter's about five degrees into Gemini now. And if we back this up, we'll see that Jupiter has been in the sign of Gemini since late May. And so we are coming in May 25, into the 26th.

So we're coming up on a whole month of Jupiter, the first month of Jupiter and Gemini. Now Jupiter spends about a whole year in the sign of Gemini. So, if we push this forward, we'll notice that by the middle of June next year, Jupiter is just entering the sign of Cancer, and we have a full year of Jupiter in Gemini. And I just thought, What have I seen so far from students? What I have seen so far from clients is people communicating about their experiences in the various social media forums that we curate, the YouTube comments, and stuff like that. What have I personally experienced or observed, because that's always a good place to go when you're an astrologer, is look at, you know, look at your clients, look at your students, look at the feedback you're getting, and then think about what you've been experiencing.

So, I have five Jupiter in Gemini observations. I would say that, remember, Jupiter and Mercury are both philosophers. They are both teachers, and they are both associated with education. And so there's so much learning that happens whenever Jupiter is going through a sign. It's really interesting when Jupiter is in Gemini, the sign of Mercury, the masculine sign of Mercury, because there's a specific kind of learning that's going on and an opportunity to reflect in a certain way. And, of course, these observations are not the truth, but they are part of the truth. And that kind of life is like a moving classroom, and every year, we get a new Jupiter classroom.

So Jupiter in Mercury's double body, you know, every sign of Gemini has some specific teachings. And these are the things I've been observing so far. You could add more to this list. And I think that you know, one of the most profound things about Jupiter in Gemini is how much the planet encourages us to be open-minded about truth itself and the experience of truth and that there is one of the greatest challenges that Jupiter in Gemini provides us with is the challenge to hold different truths at the same time. Different truths aren't always contradictory truths, right?

So anyway, these are five things I've observed. No particular order, number one. Ideas that we have about ourselves are not particularly strong foundations. What I mean by that is one of the things that I've been observing about Jupiter in Gemini is that it provides us with an opportunity to examine and maybe deconstruct various ideas that we have in general, but often ideas that we have about ourselves about who we are about what constitutes our authentic nature or something like that. And Jupiter in Gemini comes along and has this way of making us look at opposites.

So if we claim to be one particular way, or if we claim to be identified with one particular truth or care or concern or cause, whatever the case might be, Jupiter in Gemini will have a way of forcing us to consider the opposite or forcing us to become temporarily identified with an opposite truth about who we are about what matters or about what we care about will shift and we'll be forced to care about something that feels quite contrary to maybe what we've thought we cared about previously. And so, you know, some people might think, well, this is Jupiter and Gemini trying to get us to open our minds and take up the right perspective because we've had the wrong one. And I don't think so. Actually, I don't think that's quite what's happening. I think it's in a bigger, maybe more alchemical sense.

What happens is, when you're forced over and over, and I noticed this in my clients and myself, when we are forced over and over again to consider different ideas about who we are, over time, the tendency to try to establish our identity, and our some sense of stability, you know, some sense of personal coherence, that the attempt to do so, rooted in ideas, just it fails, it has to fail at some point, like, the more that we try to establish a core sense of identity, or self-worth, rooted in ideas about who we are, or this idea gives me strength, this idea gives me relevance, this opinion, or this take or this, you know, concern or cause, or whatever. And we see these things, they, you know, they temporarily give us a sense of identity, you know, and then they fall apart, and they fall apart because we consider new things or different things until we get to a point where all of a sudden we go well maybe I just shouldn't try to define or prop up, you know, prop my sense of self up based on ideas about who I am.

It's like Heraclitus said: The soul is explored forever to a depth beyond report. And at some point, I think we get to, we get exhausted by trying to legitimize our sense of who we are based on ideas about who we are. Ideas are like costumes, and we keep trying them on. And then, at some point, Jupiter in Gemini comes along, and Jupiter in Gemini season is great because not only can it change your idea about who you are, but maybe it is time for a makeover or, you know, wardrobe costume change.

But it can also just remind you that they are, in fact, costumes and that there is something fundamental about who you are that never needs a costume to be what it is or to be legitimate or valid. You don't need an idea about who you are to just be who you are. It's not that profound; I don't really think it's that profound of an idea. But it can be when we're so caught up in the mix of ideas that we think to grant us the importance, or legitimacy, or popularity or whatever, we find that there's this unconscious dogma that we sometimes have that's like, I am only as legitimate as the ideas I have about myself are interesting or compelling.

Like I'm only legitimate to the extent that the ideas that I am identified with are legitimate or interesting or provocative or smart or whatever. So maybe ideas about ourselves aren't strong foundations. Maybe that's the kind of freedom that Jupiter in Gemini is giving us, and I've noticed this in the early weeks of Jupiter in Gemini; I've noticed this within myself and other people just that little reminder.

Number two, the physical can steer the mental this is something that I'll just be honest. So Ashley and I went to Las Vegas for a long weekend to see The Dead & Co which is some of the remaining members of the Grateful Dead and and they were playing in this thing called The Sphere and it's this big huge dome that projects incredible visuals throughout this entire Sphere.

So you're immersed in the music of the Grateful Dead, but you've got this incredible, it's really hard to describe it's like being in a dome that's like completely 100% of a psychedelic otherworldly visual journey while also being there for this band that's playing and have other bands to the play Phish played. I think U2 has played, so anyway, we were there for a long weekend.

Anyway, one evening, I'm trying to navigate my way through a slightly altered state. All things in moderation. This is the Grateful Dead. So it's like I was reminded of something, and it was really, really cool because of the visuals on the Sphere, which was very overwhelming, and I was leaving my body. So this is where this comes from, sort of leaving my body because it's just so immersive. And as I was sort of leaving my body and the visuals, by the way, were all planetary, it was super cool. You know, and I'm very comfortable just flying around. But I realized I was like, I don't really know if I want to leave my body, right?

But then what I noticed is that I started trying to solve the problem of feeling dissociated, right? I'm starting to feel dissociated. And I don't really like how this is feeling if you guys have ever, you know, had a, I'm thinking I'm talking about a very mild psychedelic experience. I don't go all out anymore. But anyway, I was like, I don't really want to feel that out of my body right now. But this, this very immersive experience, makes it really difficult to do that; I couldn't even believe some of the people at these shows are clearly loaded, way beyond what I'm comfortable with. And I was watching some of them, and they were like, there were people that just passed out on the floor. So this thing was so immersive. Then, of course, the Grateful Dead People are all very caring. And I also thought it was really cool.

By the way, in the basement of the Sphere, there was a mental health room for people who were having difficult trips. I thought that was interesting. Anyway, I digress. And by the way, let me just tell you, I do not think that psychedelics are necessary for any kind of otherworldly mystical or spiritual experience. I'm not someone who tries to peddle them, like, oh, you ought to go do these kinds of things.

But anyway, let me get to my point because I'm being long-winded, and I apologize. So, anyway, I'm feeling like I'm dissociating, and I don't want to do this right now. But then I started trying to navigate and deal with the situation through ideas, not through thoughts, thoughts about the thoughts about the thoughts, and it's like, I'm trying to manage a now a, what has turned into a small committee of philosophers who have brilliant ideas about what's going on and how to address it, and if it's good or bad, or why it isn't. And all of a sudden, my long, extensive background in psychedelic work, mostly through ayahuasca, kicked in, and I just took a deep breath. Breathe, and I just gathered all the thoughts up with my breath, and then just went, just let them go. And this is the same kind of work that we do in any overwhelming situation through meditation or yoga.

It's not really that different, but it's what impressed me because after I made that shift, I was like, Ah, okay, there I am. Oh, yes, it's that simple. I can use my breath and my body; I can tap into my physical body and just draw myself in. And that is going to be more effective than trying to get myself into the kind of state of consciousness I want to be in through a long, large debate between tons of voices and ideas in my head.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-thought, mind, or intellect at all, but I was like, the right thing to do right now is not to try to navigate a situation through thoughts and ideas but through breath and body. One of the things that happens when Jupiter is in Gemini is that the volume gets turned up on thoughts and ideas, and we can feel like they are really important and that it's really important to sort them out and get to the bottom of them. And sometimes, that's exactly what we need to do; we need to have a kind of a breakdown or a dissection of ideas or deconstruction of beliefs or thoughts, structures or paradigms, and Jupiter in Gemini is actually very good at that.

But because Jupiter in Gemini can also amplify the mental airy quality so much, it can actually trigger that reminder that the mind is like a reflective dish that the body can actually steer you can actually steer the quality of what's reflected on the surface of the mind in terms of all of these thoughts and voices through your body through checking in with your body through doing grounding through stretching through breathing. And so if the thoughts are getting too much, if they're getting inflated, which is a very Jupiter in Gemini kind of thing, you can use your body and bring it back in. I just noticed this, and it's funny because I had this real, very simple realization, really well, slightly high. Incredible. I'm grateful for that experience; I was like, Okay, that was so simple. And I'm looking up at the planets, and I go, Oh, I'm so Jupiter in Gemini. And I was like, I gotta make a note of that and tell the story because people will probably think it's kind of funny.

So, if you find yourself flying out of your body, breathe, and use your body to bring the thoughts back in; if the thoughts are getting so much that you're getting over, whelmed by them, we don't owe anything to thoughts. It doesn't mean that thoughts are bad or negative and that the body is good. And you know, get rid of the mind; it's a distraction. Well, no, I mean, it just depends on the circumstance, right? But if it is getting distracting, if the mind is becoming overwhelming, the physical can actually help direct and quiet or even just turn the volume down a little bit. So, it's a good thing to remember while Jupiter is in Gemini.

Number three is the loudest, and most certain ideas will be returned to silence. Okay, so these are all like observations that came through a number of these anyway or observations that came through while at the Grateful Dead show. And so, so there's a set break, and then the guys come back, and they start playing again. And during the set break. There were some people near me who were having, you know, profound philosophical discussions, and there were many beautiful and sort of convicted and like, you know, like, there's any braided, like, psychedelically inspired thoughts that were being shared. And I found it really, really sweet, genuinely, and like these are people who are feeling artistically inspired. These are people who are feeling spiritually inspired by the music, but they're sharing their thoughts.

It's like, you know, the truth fountain is flowing, you know what I mean? And I found that this group with these very loud, convicted ideas, man, you know, just just like that, and don't get me wrong, like I could get on that train in two seconds. For now the energy captured me, I'm not above it. But the thing that I thought was so beautiful was when we got into a portion of the show is always dedicated.

If you guys know who Mickey Hart is. He's an incredible drummer. He's like a sort of visionary journey drummer. A portion of the show is called drums, followed by space. And it's this kind of exploratory part of the show that happens, usually after the set, break, and then anyway, so this group of people, when the drums came in, there was this like, little interlude, and they were all getting really amped up again, about their ideas. And then the drums came in. And it was just like watching a cup of water be poured out. And they just got totally silenced. And then it was funny, I found it really, really sweet and funny, that afterward, they were all just looking at each other, like, you know, like minds blown. And they had nothing left to say. And I didn't take that as like, oh, yeah, you guys should shut up. And just, you know, I wasn't in any kind of place of judgment about it. I was I was totally amused. And I kept thinking about Jupiter in Gemini. How what's so beautiful about Jupiter in Gemini is that it's so mercurial, and Mercury can switch back and forth between opposites.

Your cup is empty, your cup is full, your cup is empty, you know, back and forth, pour, pouring, filling it up and pouring it out. And that can happen with ideas and truths and things that we get really convicted about. And I noticed, like, I don't know if I had to put a decade on it, I guess I'd say my 20s, maybe my early 30s, there was a period of time where I feel like it was so there was so much more discovery within the realm of ideas. And as you age. It's kind of like, and I think this happens for most people, I don't know. But you're kind of like, well, I've heard I've, I've kind of heard it all.

Maybe it's like, Oh, I've never heard it in that way before. That's really interesting. But you get to get to a certain place where you've heard a lot of things before, and especially for me as an astrologer talking to 1000s and 1000s of people, I've heard so many stories, and it was an earlier stage in my life. And I don't I don't mean this to be condescending at all. It's just that there was a stage in my life where I would really ride the wave of excitement about certain ideas. But then, like, without fail, the enthusiasm behind the idea and the newness of the idea would wear off, and the cup would just get emptied. And then I'd be in a receptive position, and then a new idea would come, and, like, I think of that as one of the most thrilling parts of youth. It's kind of like going back to when I was a freshman in college, and I was a philosophy major.

Every idea that I heard in these Philosophy courses was brand new to me, and I couldn't have been more thrilled, you know. And then after a while, it's like, okay, I know that idea. I'm really used to that idea, and I've played around with it. So it's not as shiny and mind-blowing. And then another idea comes in, you know, and this is also what I love about Jupiter in Gemini, which is that we ride these waves of passionate conviction about various ideas, and then somehow something turns, and it just gets emptied. And I think it's; it's really important like Jupiter and Gemini from a large kind of process-oriented standpoint, it's just reminding us to be careful with self-righteousness, with the kind of certainty that is born of like, anger and oppression and violence mentally, because the most exciting ideas eventually, like a cup that's full will get emptied, that doesn't make them bad, it doesn't make them immature, it doesn't make them wrong, it doesn't mean your excitement isn't valid. But you got to hold that we all have to hold that bigger perspective. And I think as time goes on, there are certain periods in our life where we recognize, oh, I'm really enthusiastic about something. I'm going to let myself be enthusiastic, but this will wear off. And that's a mark of our maturity. I think philosophically, we allow ourselves to get passionate, but we don't get so lost. So certain, so self-righteous, that we, you know, our conviction becomes bitter and angry. Because then we haven't quite learned the lesson that, you know, something will silence us, something will humble us, something will empty us, and we'll be back in a position of awe and receptivity, you know, and then something new will come. That's fundamentally a beautiful part of life. Not it shouldn't be a maddening or frustrating part that ideas change that what's exciting changes. So, just a general reminder with Jupiter in Gemini that the loudest and most certain ideas will be returned to silence. And I think of my friends, the show, you know, who were just so passionately convicted about their thoughts and their feelings. And then the drums came in, and they were just just completely wiped out, you know. And then they were back in the state of receptivity and awe, not saying anything; they were just blown away and happy. And I feel like Jupiter in Gemini offers us that kind of reset. You know, what, actually, it's kind of heavy to try to hold the same ideas all the time. You know, it's not a stretch, not very thrilling if you only hold the same ideas all the time. Is there a law in the universe that says you can't change the ideas? Are you excited about it? Why? You know.

Number four, it's easy to judge people by making them into ideas. So I was listening to a girl. We were walking down the hallway toward the Sphere from the connected hotel. By the way, this is my first time in Vegas. And I will tell you, I'm not cut out for it. Like, I'm a lightweight; I do not party anymore. But I had a lot of fun. But it was also like this, this city is very overwhelming. This is like Disney World for kids who like to talk, and it was fun.

We were in the taxi, and this guy, so this is a city of donations. Thank you. Yeah, no doubt. You should have seen Ashley. She's a double Taurus. And I convinced her that we were going to take $100 to the slots, and that would be all we would spend. And win, lose, whatever. 100 And that's it. When we were like $40 into slots, and she watched it go up and down. Like, oh, you win five bucks. Oh, you just lost seven up. You won 17. Oh, you know, just like back and forth, I spent maybe an hour watching my double Taurus wife, who absolutely never gambled. She is very averse to like wasting money. Because I felt so bad for her, she was so traumatized. But she was like, I was like, okay, like, once the $100 was done. I was like, okay, like, that's, we're done? No, no, no worries. Anyway, I'm sorry. I'm going all over the place here.

But so anyway, we're walking from this hotel toward The Sphere. And we're just connected by this walkway. And there was this girl walking ahead of us. And she was all decked out in her hippie gear and everything. And she was talking to her friend. And she said, what I see here are not real deadheads but a bunch of conformist wannabes. Like, I was like, Yep, that's me. But that is definitely me. I wish I would have been into the Grateful Dead at an earlier point, and I could be as pure as you. I wish that whatever you're in touch with about the Grateful Dead. I was so pure that I could be in touch with that, too. Anyway, I was teasing, but I was listening to her go. It was, I mean, it was a diatribe for a while, and people around her could hear her, and I'm sure we're, you know, probably. It's not the greatest thing to listen to.

I just, you know, my wife, who's been. I actually traveled around the country in a van following the Grateful Dead. She's about as authentic as they come in terms of someone who has a real past with the band. She's been to, I don't know, probably 50-60 shows or, I mean, she's been to a lot, not compared to some people, but you know, anyway, so. So afterward, Ashley just said, you know, the thing is, that Jerry Garcia wouldn't have loved that attitude because he was someone who was very open, like, whatever, wherever you come from, at whatever level of engagement, you have come dance, have fun, enjoy the music. And this person was so strictly identified as being a deadhead.

And she was looking around at people and superficially, superficially, evaluating them based on things like what they're wearing, or whatever she was perceiving, and people, maybe some of which was true, you know, but either way, it is easy to judge people, by making them into ideas. And that was something that I watched. And then I just thought it was very interesting because one of the things that Jupiter can do is it can get kind of inflated and dogmatic. And then it can get dogmatic about things that are supposed to be very open-minded, like you're being a deadhead or something.

Anyway, the thought that I had was, you know, how you meet a person. You meet a person purposefully, deliberately, and repeatedly, freeing them from the ideas that start coming into your head about who they are. That's how you meet a person. If you want to meet a person, when you're getting to know them, and you start noticing ideas that start to try to enforce, that's who this person is. My idea tells me who they are. And you have to look at that idea and go. Thank you.

Your opinion is valued and under consideration; however, I'm going to keep an open mind. Slowly, what happens is you meet a soul; you meet a person. This is a Jupiter in Gemini truth, a teaching, and that's actually there. And it's there through the tendency that our mind has to judge things based on ideas that we have about them. Or the same thing that can happen with Jupiter in Gemini is that we constantly free ourselves from the grips of dogmatic ideas, especially the slippery ones that seem like they're representing things that are very virtuous or advanced or progressive.

Number five, mercurial wisdom, is yes and or no, but so that eternity cannot be forgotten. With Jupiter in Gemini, there's always a yes. Or there's always a no, but meaning that Gemini is a sign in general, as is Mercury, the planetary host that likes us to include things. It says, Yes, this thing, but in and also this thing. Or it says no. But there may be an exception. The reason that Mercury wants us to think this way is because Mercury is always trying to make us aware of the fact that there are in the scope of eternity. Anything that's possible is, in a sense, true. So I know that sounds so big and grandiose, but it's just a simple example of light and dark. Two things that are radically difficult to comprehend can be true at the exact same time, for example. There is, in one sense, and I think you guys will agree with this if this ends up being controversial, and oh, well, I'm just trying to come up with an example.

On the one hand, what we are doing to planet Earth, as a human species, is unnatural, damaging, and probably morally bad. On the other hand, I think both of these things can be true. And I think that the real challenge is how do you hold both of these things at the same time? How do they impact the way you live and act in a moral universe while also having this bigger perspective? The other truth is that nothing unnatural happens in the universe at any time. Right? This means that what we're doing is somehow an extension of what is natural. That's hard. I don't like that one myself. But I do believe that that is another truth. And that to me, that's a perspective that I will, I will say, quite honestly, is a perspective that I've had that kind of huge macro galactic. It's just like such a big truth. And it can easily if you cling to that truth only you can make you it can, you can end up bypassing your actual lived experience of planet Earth where your actual common sense says recycle, or it says, take care of the trees, you know. So you don't want to use that perspective to avoid or evade the gravity of the other truth, which is that what we're doing is unnatural, and we need to take care of the Earth. But most of my experiences have that huge perspective that it is also completely natural.

What's happening came through psychedelic experiences came through mind-expanding experiences, almost all of which I would describe as mercurial in the sense that they lit that the mind is liberated from the limitations of ideas themselves. Where any idea as soon as you try to take it literally and you get fixed in it, the psychedelic experience or even meditation or prayer or contemplation, those shifts in consciousness have a way of liberating the fixity of ideas by introducing opposite profound ideas or complimentary, but paradoxically, compatible ideas like this are unnatural, and this is natural.

Sorry, I know that's big stuff. And I don't think most of us can live in this huge, eternal perspective because we're earthly. We're in bodies, you know, we're in we're on the Earth. But it is important that we understand that Jupiter in Gemini is helping us develop a perspective that is always yes and no and that you can't forget the scope of eternity. Remember that Hermes, the original Greek name for what we now call Mercury, the Roman equivalent, was the founder of astrology, a science meant to help us see eternity in the midst of the fluctuating opposites here on Earth. So, and it will leave it there.

I hope that these nuggets of our little insights are interesting and useful. I had a great time in Vegas; my lips are totally chapped from the dryness. It was 112 degrees there; it was so hot on my last day. As we got on the airplane, I just put chapstick on over and over because my lips got all burnt up. But it was a great experience. And I think it's really good occasionally to step out of whatever the normal flow of your life is to step out of it and immerse yourself in art, you know, art, culture, a different place in the world, even if it's just for a couple of days.

So Ashley and I make it a point to do something like this, you know, once or twice a year, just try to take a couple of days and, and I honestly, I think I feel like that shift in perspective of going to different time and place just to kind of immersing yourself in music or art or culture or theater or whatever it is. It's very cathartic. So anyway, just as a side note, I highly recommend at any point if you guys get a chance to see a concert in the Sphere; what an immersive, beautiful experience it was. And you don't need to take anything, really. So anyway, that's it for today. I hope you guys had a good one and don't do drugs. Be safe. Bye.