Jupiter in Gemini from the Soul’s Perspective

Hey, everyone; this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we are going to continue our exploration of Jupiter's upcoming entrance into Gemini. And we are going to look at it today from the standpoint of the soul. If you believe, as ancient astrologers did, that the soul is moving from lifetime to lifetime, learning, growing, and evolving as it journeys from one incarnation to the next. This was a prevalent belief among the ancient mystics who practiced astrology, and it stands to reason that the planets moving through the signs may all act as teachers for the evolving soul. In which case, we might ask the question, what are the kinds of spiritual lessons that we may learn as Jupiter is in Gemini or as Pluto is in Aquarius, or anything like that? And you know that this is if you watch my channel regularly, this is something we like to do from time to time; we look at the archetypal nature of the planet, just what kinds of themes are going to be present, but then also, you know, what are the underlying lessons that we might be learning from any given placement because there's always a lot. So, anyhow, that's what we'll do today.

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Now, let's move on to our content for the day. Let's look at Jupiter's entrance into Gemini on the Real Time Clock once more. You will see what we have here as I'm recording this. We're coming up at the entrance, and you'll see that Jupiter enters Gemini right around May 25. So let's move this forward two days. There you go. Jupiter's entrance into Gemini.

We have visited several episodes this week, looking at them from the archetypal perspective and from the historical perspective of previous periods and tracking them in your life. This is a fantastic placement for Jupiter because it brings up this very interesting archetypal tension between Mercury and Zeus or Hermes and Zeus, Jupiter, Mercury, and the Roman in the Roman Pantheon. So, we talked about that at length this week.

What I want to do today is talk about five things that Jupiter in Gemini will teach us as evolving spiritual beings. Now, can I guarantee that you will learn any of these things? No. But these are the things that I most likely came up with. As someone who has worked with so many people over the years and seen this placement so many times.

These are the five things that I believe Jupiter in Gemini offers us as evolving souls who are learning and relearning the same lessons that all of us are. And so this is something that it doesn't really matter where it lands in your birth chart. It doesn't matter what house it's in. It doesn't matter where your natal Jupiter is. These are things that I believe any of us may stand to learn in the next year of Jupiter's transit through Gemini.

Number one. And first of all, you have to remember that Hermes, the ruler of Gemini, is a trickster. And so the way in which Jupiter, who was called guru in Indian astrology, will provide us with wisdom and other Jupiterian signification will be through the double-bodied sort of quicksilver mercurial nature of Gemini, which means that the things that I'm listing here are not necessarily lessons that apply to every phase of life and every person in every situation. They are specific Jupiter in Gemini lessons. So keep that in mind.

Every planet in every place has so many different, different valuable insights to offer us, and we don't need to; they don't need to be in competition with one another, which is more true. The different truths are appropriate for different stages of our evolution and development. And we're entering a Jupiter in Gemini season, and there's other planets and other signs too. So, just keep that in mind.

Number one is discernment, not morality. Mercury, as the ruler of this double-bodied heir sign, is familiar with both the underworld realm of Hades and the upper world Sunni realm of Zeus; Hades and Zeus were brothers, and Hermes can travel fluidly between these two realms. The overworld is what I've called the cosmic suburbs. And the underworld, which is more like the reality of life in the city. You know, it's a complicated place.

There's so much more diversity and chaos and a kind of intermingling of treacherous opposites. You know, in the underworld. Zeus likes things nicely arranged, orderly, pristine, and beautiful, as intelligible as the musical scale. And it's not; it's more like Tim Burton in the underworld, you know, so I say all of this because we're trying to make sense of this first idea, which is about discernment, not Morality with Jupiter in Gemini. What that means is that Jupiter in Gemini will have us learn that valuable lesson: every situation requires discernment.

Now, let's look at the etymological roots of the word discernment. So here we go. Here we go. Okay, we're gonna go to the word discern, perceive, or recognize the difference or distinction between two or more things. So discern has a connection with the word distinguish, with the eyes distinctly seeing to behold, perceive, understand, distinguish, and separate by sifting to set apart and distribute. And also, do you have an idea of where it is? To separate things into different piles? Isn't that an interesting image? It seems perfect to me for Jupiter in Gemini.

Now, discernment has this idea of being able to carefully distinguish, and I would even use the word judge, though not unlike some high executive, just like judging carefully and describing and distinguishing between things. Now, when we think of the word morality, let's talk about this for a second. Polling this one up.

All right, here we go. When we think of the word morality, we think of moral instruction or the point of a story, right like the moral of a story and from Latin, which means the manner or character of something and the sense of there being a good or a bad, a good or bad. Also, you could associated with or characterized by the right behavior. So, when you think about morality, you're categorizing things according to being virtuous, lacking virtue, being good, or being bad. And it exists in a sort of pre-agreed upon well-known, well-recognized code.

So, and I'm not; I don't want to quibble; I mean, you could define morality differently. I think that there are probably more intuitive ways of defining morality. But the point is this: if you just go along with the kind of basic distinction between these two words, to discern means to look at things carefully and separate things. And whereas morality is about a little bit more has that feeling of categorizing things, according to a pre-agreed upon a set of virtues or values that, you know, like think when I think of the ten commandments, you know, it's an example of a like a code of morality or something like that. And most of them are pretty good, right?

So. But the point of Jupiter in Gemini will be that every situation requires that we do not just judge it superficially, based upon a preconceived notion of good and bad, but that we look carefully at the details and do some careful discerning that requires a kind of flexibility of mind. It also requires flexibility in how we perceive and think about things. Now, of course, Jupiter in Gemini, like any Gemini placement, could take the idea and use it for the sake of bending the rules or, you know, escaping or evading responsibility through a kind of clever maneuvering or massaging of moral codes or standards, right.

So you can see easily how this, like, people would say, oh, let's just, let's just stay away from that, you know, let's just stay away from any of the potential moral ambiguities that could come up around something like this.

So, but it's just easier to stay away from something like that, right? Like, why not just have a clear and easy way of judging things? Moral immoral, good or bad. And the point of Jupiter in Gemini will be to say that life is hardly ever so clear.

Now, that's a Jupiter in Gemini teaching; it doesn't mean that life isn't that there's never; there's never just a clear and easy use of moral principles or a clear and easy way in which things are good or bad or darker light and then moral sense. There is there, you know, and we see many examples of that's evil, you know, at least in an everyday sense, like, that's dark. That's some dark shit, you know. But in the human mess of life. Mercury is always asking us to consider the wisdom of places that are more ambiguous or places that require us to look very carefully at the blending of opposites. There's a little good in this situation; there's a little bad; why does the bad exist? What's the context in which it exists that shifts and helps us to not judge things in such black or white in such black or white ways?

So the idea is that Jupiter in the Gemini period can help us to become more discerning people and less sort of reactive, puritanical, and sort of morally self-righteous. See that an underlying truth of Jupiter in Gemini is that we're all hypocrites. We're all hypocrites. Because most of the time, we will find that in really important situations in our lives, there's a lot of moral ambiguity. It doesn't mean that, you know, moral ambiguity doesn't mean that we tolerate or allow for, you know, egregious acts of harm or evil or you know what I mean, but it's just like Jupiter in Gemini, like, you have to make room for the fact that life is full of gray. And if you don't learn how to flow and make careful, discerning evaluations of every unique situation, if you only live by very superficial criteria, you're not that smart, and B, you're probably a hypocrite and, and see, you know, you're going to find that there are going to be situations in which you make a lot of wrong choices. And you're going to learn from those wrong choices because you were too simple in your thinking. You weren't nuanced enough.

So anyway, this first lesson that we might be Learning gradually, maybe in some big events or maybe in just like small accumulating ways over the next year, is that we need discernment, not just black-and-white ways of judging things when it comes to, you know, ethical or moral, just like situations or situations that require some ethical considerations or examination of our values and how we're making choices, stuff like that.

All right, number two is curiosity, not knowing. So what I mean here is the same exact thing. We're just now applying it to the principle of, you could say, epistemology: how do we know something? Well, Jupiter in Gemini is like Socrates, right? The great gadfly walked around Athens asking all of the know-it-alls no questions until it was revealed that they actually didn't know anything. And then people kind of started calling him Why is this the Vol, although he sort of rejects that title wisely. This is Jupiter and Gemini; in a sense, there's a value in not being certain of things. There's a value in not knowing what's right in every situation.

See, one of the things that agitate me about you guys is that I don't really talk about politics or current events much on my channel. And that's a personal choice that obviously reflects something about me, but also something about just to kind of, I'm more interested in talking about the personal level of the symbols and how they're applying to our lives, in psychological and spiritual ways. And so I don't really go into the current events for that reason.

But I will tell you, in all honesty, one of the things that drive me nuts about the public civic discourse of current events, not just politics, but anything is that I don't see people who are very curious, who are interested, and who hold a position of not knowing what I see. And what frustrates me, or what I just get overwhelmed by, is the immediate sort of knee-jerk reaction to judge an act as though we know why things happen. We know what's best. We know what's right, we know what's wrong. I mean, I'm not saying there aren't situations that are pretty again. Obviously, that's wrong, or that's bad, or whatever. But the level of self-righteousness and knee-jerk certainty, and I know, I know what's right, or I know what's wrong, or I know who you should be, or I know why you didn't do that, or just the hubris intellectually. And also, I will tell you not that I'm above it because I find that as soon as I start engaging with it, all of a sudden, it comes out in me. These idiots.

I'm sure you're like, I don't know if you're like me, but it triggers me, and then all of a sudden, I'm like, I'm part of it. And so I'm very careful; I guard my serenity. Anyhow, and some of you are much better. I mean, some of you are called to be in these spheres working, serving. Some people can handle that and stay open and curious. But the lesson of Jupiter in Gemini is so much about staying curious, not being the knower, not being the person who understands and has all of the answers. But being someone who is a learner, I'm curious. There are phases in life where the soul cannot grow through any other means but then to drop its certainty, to let go of its position of knowing, which is often nothing more than an attempt to bolster, you know, our ego and our sense of power or our sense of security, or stake in a situation.

So, Jupiter in Gemini really rewards us. There are so many blessings and benefits that come while Jupiter is in Gemini, from just being curious, being a learner, being a listener, being discerning, not moralizing, thinking carefully about the presence of opposites, and appreciating the irony that opposites frequently create, and the nuances and comedy really that opposites frequently create curiosity not knowing.

Let's not be knowers; let's not be no at all. Let's not be self-righteous. Let's be curious. Let's be learners. Now, that does not mean that there isn't a Jupiter in the Sagittarius phase in life where we need to be convicted. We need to be there. There are different archetypes, right?

Number three. Open-mindedness isn't a dogma. This is really kind of a subtle one, but you will find I find that when Jupiter is in Gemini, being open-minded can be we're just talking about being open-minded being curious. But there's also this. I remember this very well when I was in school and different phases and so forth, especially in school in the '90s.

Where, you know, this is like alternative rock thing was going on and, and I remember there being a lot of emphasis on like being open, I'm openly minded, which means I stand for this, this this this this this is so open-minded is like the baseline. It's the condition that allows me to be super strict, fanatical, and fundamentalist about all of these different things because I'm open-minded, right? So we have to be careful because Jupiter in Gemini will push us sometimes into a space that's really difficult. It's a space that asks us to be open-minded about things that we fundamentally believe should not be included in the space of open-mindedness. That's what can be; I think that's what is most radical and difficult about Jupiter in Gemini.

Let's just say, for example, that I'm making this up, right? This is not coming from any experience that I've had. But let's just say that you are, I don't know, you go out to dinner with some people, and you are present at the table with someone who you believe is not open-minded. Right? And so, do you know what I'm talking about? You've probably had this happen before; I can't say that I'm thinking of anything in particular right now, you know, but you're at the dinner table with someone who's not open-minded.

The temptation is to think, Well, me and my ideas are the open-minded ones. That person, in their ideas, is the closed-minded one. However, being open-minded can actually push us in the direction of not judging the situation along those lines. You just remain open-minded; you just say interesting. I don't have to I don't have to condone or believe the same things this other person believes, but I also don't have to judge them or put them into a bin of, you know, some kind of category or label. Here's what I have found in my life. Being around so many different people in so many different religious and spiritual traditions, especially, means remaining appreciative and open-minded.

I mean, I've been around some people who have had, I've had some very different religious and spiritual views that, like when I was in the yoga community, the bhakti yoga world, there were people who were all gradations of strict or whatever.

And one of the things that work for me, and I'm a Mars in Gemini, so maybe this is a little bit of my own Gemini energy speaking, is that I've been like, Yeah, like that, when I hear that, like, ooh, that's too strict, that's closed-minded, that's fundamentalist or, you know, that's that those categories like leap into my mind as a way of labeling someone, you know, or something that's just very different from, you know, myself is that if I can help it, I'll just stay curious and open-minded. Hmm, that's interesting.

Frequently, what I've experienced in my life, when I do that, rather than judging the person, is that that relationship remains open. And then some magic can actually occur within that relationship, I don't have to be best friends with that person. And if you've aligned my values with them or condoned things that I don't like about what they do or think or, but I can just remain, if I remain open-minded, then it is as though there are like little mercurial highways and neural networks and connections that are open, that are that continue to open. And in that way, you know, things can grow, things can change, things can shift, things can and things frequently will end up surprising me. I'll be surprised by how that relationship will change over time if we're not best friends.

So, open-mindedness if you are with people who are closed-minded in some way, but you remain open-minded about them again, that doesn't mean you have to condone or go along with things that are really extreme or whatever. But if you can, just remain open-minded. It's amazing how that open-mindedness will grow. It can actually spread if it needs to, if there's a possibility or a karmic inroad for open-mindedness to spread. It usually happens because you've remained open-minded and not labeled someone else as closed-minded. And this is what I mean when I say that Jupiter in Gemini will teach us to really be open-minded and to not turn open-mindedness into a weapon or a position or a dogma.

Number four, opposites, means everything is included. Broadly speaking, the message of Hermes, which is the underlying message of the entire system of ancient astrology, by the way, which is hermetic in nature, is that everything in reality is comprised of opposites.

And that means absolutely everything that we that is real that is experienced is part of it as part of the whole. Have you ever really sat with that? You know, every time that I've ever had the occasion to really be with that, you know, it's not like every day it happens. But, of course, over many years with meditation, prayer, psychedelic spiritual experiences, etc.

Sometimes it really hits you; you go, yeah, the darkness is a part of everything. The light and the dark aren't enemies. They're cooperative, creative principles. And the dark is mysterious by nature; you can't see, you know, you don't know, you can't understand. Hermes goes into the invisible darkness of the underworld and comes out again all the time.

And so there's this profound opportunity for us to appreciate the existence of opposites, which is how, if we do, that how and why you want to remain open-minded, curious, discerning, not moralizing. You know, you want to have your positions but hold them without self-righteousness.

If you once understood that the opposites are co-creative principles of God, so to speak, or divinity itself, you're a part of it too. And your own opposition's within yourself psychically. Emotionally, your own at times, double standards or your own ambiguities or your own.

Your own paradoxes, you know, that they're all a part of what makes you and that the same kinds of dualities and opposites are present and making everything exactly what it is that when we really have moments of realizing that it's very disarming, intellectually, that it takes us from a place of again, knowing to unknowing, from a kind of foe, open-minded, dogmatic perspective to truly being openly minded, or from knowing to curiosity and so forth, the opposites mean that everything is included. That doesn't mean you have to understand it; it doesn't mean that you can't still be a morally sensitive citizen with a mission to uphold the good. It just means that everything is included.

Number five, more than one thing can be true simultaneously. Jupiter in Gemini also asked us to consider this mind-blowing idea that, as we said, to open this, there are different archetypes with different lessons and different truths. In the tapestry of reality, you know, if you want to think about reality, like a gigantic tapestry that's built on all of these beautiful patterns, patterns that the ancients thought of as existing in the mind of God, or the universe, and the patterns themselves were the gods plural, so that the one becomes many so that the manifest reality that we are a part of, is coming in and through these diverse shapes, and forms that are all part of this gigantic tapestry.

Every different shape is a different kind of truth. There's the truth of the triangle and the truth of the square. There's the truth of the diameter or opposition. And there's the truth of the sextile. Right. And there's the truth of fire and the truth of water, the truth of the feminine and the truth of the masculine, the dark and the light. And these, the more that you understand any one truth and then simultaneously find it in relation, living relationships to other kinds of archetypal truths, the more that you can start to appreciate the entirety of the tapestry, the more that you can start to appreciate that there are different truths that exist at the same time.

And that, in a sense, just like the Taoist said, the work of each individual is to be attuned to which truth is present now, and now and now like that, and to see the shape of every situation and to listen for if there's a moral imperative, that it is as natural like Immanuel Kant said the two things that fill me with our the starry skies above and the moral law within that the moral imperative has to do with understanding the unique shape of the moment and that is a Jupiter in Gemini kind of teaching more than one thing can be true simultaneously. And to open our minds means to be true, like, truly blown away by truth regularly.

As soon as we come into possession of truth, we start to lose the capacity for Wonder. And we start to lose the capacity to learn new things. And by possession, I mean the gripping and grasping. There's also a way in which we can hold truths while remaining open, how does that happen? How does that move in the sole way that we can start to hold a truth but not so tightly that we become unaware of or unavailable to other kinds of truths?

So very interesting and not easy. Like, I know that on the surface, all of us listen to this, and you're probably going like, yeah, that's me. I'm, I want to be open-minded and curious, you know, wait until it pushes us, you know, wait until it pushes us into a situation where we really don't want to be open to someone or something or an idea. That's when I think it gets really tricky, or we don't think that we can hold a truth while remaining open or flexible. Or graceful, or allowing or tolerant.

Okay, well, that's it for today. I hope this was useful for you. If you stick around after I sign off, you'll hear me talk about the upcoming program, ancient astrology, for the modern mystic look, if you like this kind of stuff.

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We have a really good transit, Jupiter in Gemini training Pluto and Aquarius, as we start the program in June. It is a very good auspicious transit by which to begin a deeper journey with astrology. So check it out. And that is it for today. We'll see you guys again tomorrow. Bye, everyone.