Planets in Profile: The Moon in Gemini

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Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Saturday, everybody. It's not often that we do episodes on Saturdays, but since we are in the home stretch of our Kickstarter campaign with just about 15 days left to go, we are going to be throwing in some extra episodes on the weekends to rally support for the Kickstarter and give you guys some bonus content as a thank you here at the end of the year.

Today, we're going to be looking at the meaning of the Moon in Gemini as a part of our Planets in Profiles series; you can check out some of the evergreen content that we have on this series, which is really great. So you go back, and you can see Mercury through the signs, Venus through the signs, Mars through the signs, and now the Moon through the signs.

So far, we've done Aries and Taurus, and now Gemini and Kaylee Haynes will also be with us today, doing Moon poetry at the end. So be sure to stick around and watch her spoken word poetry; it's like archetypal Moon poetry, and it's really beautiful. So, I hope you'll stick around and check that out.

So today, we're going to be looking at the Moon in Gemini and the archetypal meaning of that placement. If you have it in your natal chart or you know people with it, it'll certainly help you to take a look at this episode. Regardless of whether you're just a student of astrology, it's great to have a deeper, just a deeper take on each of the planets through all of the signs that are so beautiful and how they express themselves and each of the individual signs of the zodiac.

I've got my shirt on because today, the Vikings are playing on a Saturday, and it's rare that that happens. They're going to end up having sports games every day of the week. I swear to God, and I'm not sure I like that. But anyway, I digress. So that's our agenda for today. I hope you will enjoy the episode.

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Today, I got a really nice question from someone in one of the live streams that I didn't have a chance to answer, and I thought I would go back and answer it as a part of my little get-to-know-you series that I've been doing as a way of promoting the Kickstarter. So they asked me if I've been making content five days a week or more because way back in the day, I made it 300 plus days a year; now it's five days a week year-round, a little bit less than 300.

But they said, How do you stay consistent? Doing content that regularly for this many years? Like, are there any secrets? Or do you have any philosophy that you use to kind of keep you so consistent with creating something? And you know, on the on the on one level? It's kind of like, well, it's just like any other job. How does anyone go to work five days a week for ten years?

You know, I don't think it's that remarkable on one level because it's just a job like any other job. Creating content is something I have to show up for just as surely as all of you go to work every day, five days a week, you know. So, on that level, I don't think it's anything extraordinary. But making content and publishing it on time, having something new to say, having your heart in it, finding new ways of making content, building an audience, and all of that, and doing so consistently over a long period of time. I do have some philosophies that I deeply believe in, so I want to tell you about those today as a way of continuing to get to know me in the channel. So, the three philosophies that keep me consistent are really the reason why we've done ten annual Kickstarters at this point.

Number one on my list is that the body needs rhythm. I would say that I actually kind of sucked at this at the beginning, and I if I didn't have if I wouldn't have learned this, I'm not sure I would have lasted this long. But what I started recognizing is that, you know, sitting at a desk, researching, writing, recording the three to four-hour process that I have had for ten years, five days a week, that process?

Well, it's sort of like, I don't know, it's kind of like my own little ashram, in my office, you know, where I do all of this, and so there's something very spiritual and meditative about the process, but your body has to support all of that, and so the body needs rhythm. Like I really, I'm not like the world's specimen of health, right, like I do things that aren't so great for me. But in terms of sleep, generally speaking, I'm really good at getting enough sleep. Generally speaking, I'm very good at staying hydrated, and generally speaking, I have worked out five days a week for years now.
Working out five days a week has looked different, and I've had different goals, and it's changed, and also, like, just nutritionally speaking, I'm not again, like there are people far healthier than me. But generally speaking, I have, you know, like, I've, I've worked with a nutrition coach over the years, who's taught me better habits for taking care of my body and the kind of macro ratio that's good for my body type and stuff like that.

So, I'm not saying I don't want to be prescriptive about anything, and I certainly don't judge anyone for wherever they're at. But one of my secrets to staying consistent in content creation over the years is that I have to take care of my body. So as consistently as I am with the three to four hours a day of content creation, as consistently, as I'm doing that, really, I would say, and I don't even know if it's a secret to success, or it's just like a secret to sanity, really.

But for me, it's like there have to be some rhythms with my body, exercise, sleep, water, and reasonable nutrition. Like I'm not again, like, I'm not trying to say I'm the I'm like, you know, like the, I don't know, the avatar of health or anything. Okay, guys, but that's a big part of what I think enables me to do this is trying to stay in a rhythm with my bodily needs, and health.

Number two is that the heart needs food, and this might even be more important, I don't know. But the heart needing food means I got to spend time with my wife, I got to spend time with friends, I got to spend time, more and more recently, being creative, which is something I like. Content creation is super creative for me. But I'm talking about like playing my guitar, singing music with people, singing music with friends, playing music with friends, going out to concerts, going to see interesting movies, going to a museum, or going and doing fun things with the kids.

If I don't do things that make my heart feel good, I don't have content; I don't have anything to give to the content, and it's actually a kind of habit that I have to have for the content creation to work five days a week, ten years in a row. That's the truth. Like if I don't do things that are fun, that fill my heart with love and connection to other human beings and things that I love and creative activities that I love, the content suffers, and it's I start to drag. So one of my philosophies over the year that keeps me consistent is to make sure when I'm not doing this, I'm doing things that fill my heart cup up.

Number three is that my mind needs interesting ideas. Half of the content that I create comes from interesting things that I consume in reading, or, you know, watching an interesting movie or seeing an interesting documentary or talking to interesting people or going to an interesting talk or reading interesting spiritual texts. Having interesting conversations with my wife being in therapy, I have to stimulate my mind regularly. Learning is not about the accumulation of information for me. Learning for me is about it's kind of like if you are someone who likes to go to a thrift store and find treasures. Are you someone who likes to go to a used bookstore and wander around until you find something you love? That's me with ideas; I constantly go rummaging around places looking for interesting ideas, and then when I find them, I like to play with them and think about them. And I have fun with them, and they really get me going, and then that inspires the content.

So, my three philosophies are that my body needs care regularly, just as regularly as the content. My heart I don't have to be perfect, but I do have to care for it. My heart needs food regularly, or the content suffers, and my mind needs interesting ideas, or the content suffers.

So, anyway, those are some of my philosophies. It is a joy and a pleasure to make this content for you guys. I promise to keep getting better at it; I promise to keep these practices up so that you have a reliable place of spiritual astrological content to turn to for your daily life. In the meantime, if you value that and you don't mind pitching in to support the continuation of this work, we would really appreciate it. You can find the link pinned to the top of the comment section or in the description of this video to help us get to 1777 backers and enjoy today's Moon. Exploration of the Moon in Gemini.

All right, today we are taking a look again at the Moon in Gemini as a part of our Planets in Profile series. So far, we've taken a look at the Moon in Aries and Taurus. We're going in zodiacal order. Kaylee will be with us today to offer some amazing spoken word poetry and kind of add her artistic take on the Moon's flavor in Gemini.

We're so thankful that she's been a part of this series; it's been a really fun way to kind of illustrate and draw out the archetype in art. I hope you guys have been enjoying the series, so let's go ahead and get into it. I'm going to put my presentation up on the screen, talking about the Moon in Gemini, and we're going to follow some of the same setup that we had in the previous portions of this series. Remember that we start off with this idea that in order to understand any planet in any sign, we have to start by understanding the nature of the planet first. So, what is the Moon all about?

Well, the Moon's universal significations are always going to be those that represent the planet in the broadest philosophical sense or the underlying philosophical meaning of the planet, which then has a kind of archetypal tapestry of images associated with it and many topical significations that come out of the universal or that are reflective of the universal there are universals and particulars.

On the universal level, the Moon represents the realm of fortune, which is the daily flow of events and the constant changing of our environment, mood, mind, emotions, body, and the constant fluctuation of circumstances. This is why if you're an astrologer, one of the things you can do to learn astrology really quickly is to keep a moon journal, pay attention to the aspects the Moon is making day in and day out, and you will notice a correspondence between the archetypal themes that are rising up or showing themselves and that's the Moon.

Now, by contrast, the topical significations of any planet are going to be those that represent the most specific and concrete people, places, or things that are themselves reflections of the universal. So, on the topical level, the Moon represents the body because the world is an embodied place. The world is the dance and orchestration of the universal archetypes, and so the Moon represents the material world, including the body, and including the material world is personified in the role of the mother, which is an archetype, not a sex or gender, though obviously, it's connected with women to home and family, as well.

Because these are some of the basic defining features of life is that you know, we move in, in tribes, families, cultures, clans, villages, and groups, groups of people, including the population of voters in an election where the elected official might be the son, but the voters in the city, the people will be the Moon.

The Moon can also represent marriage, as the Moon reflects the light of the sun, and so there's a kind of implied dance between the sun and the Moon that the Moon itself brings through the reflective light that it carries, and on that level, the Moon is associated with the alchemical marriage between the Moon and the sun, and so it's also representative of, of marriage and, you know, union of lovers and things like that.

Pregnancy, of course, comes out of that as well, as does childbirth. But also anything that we nurture or devote ourselves to in relationships through time and with change implied those kinds of nurturing, relational, that sort of nurturing relational biomatrix that we find ourselves in and participating through is the Moon and things like food and cooking really specific individual things like the tides and water and certain animals were associated with the Moon traditionally.

Some of that is really about correspondences that are not just, you know, a part of some lists that have to do with our symbolic eye and being able to note things that are Moon-like. Significations of the Moon are then modified according to the sign that the Moon is traveling through at any given time or at the time of birth as the natal signature of your Moon sign. So, this is really the language of essential dignities. The meaning of a sign is going to be most primarily related to its host or hosts if it has both a domicile and exultation ruler, and then secondarily by the various qualities of the sign, for example, double-bodied, airy, masculine, summer, autumn, and so forth.

Its mode, its element, its gender, and also the time of year that it comes at are things that can have a role in characterizing the way that a planet in that sign will behave or express itself. The Moon in Gemini can thus be understood according to the following features.

So, Gemini is the masculine temple of Mercury. Mercury has two temples, one masculine and one feminine, the feminine being Virgo. It is a double-bodied yang air sign, which means that we have, you know, masculine, but you know, really, what we're talking about is metaphysical and not does not have to be linked in any literal sense to sex or gender categories, which, you know, for Gemini anywhere or Mercury, I should say, are quite fluid anyway.

Mercury is a planet that was considered like a neuter, or a planet that really wasn't identified with a sex or an energetic sex category, like Jung or yen, but could move fluidly between them and would often change from one to the other, depending on its relation with the sun Eveningstar Morningstar, it's placed in its synodic cycle with the sun and so forth.

This is a double-bodied sign, which means it's up two natures at the same time, the light rising and the light turning. If you look at the sun in the sky around the Gemini time of year in the northern hemisphere, for example, you'll see that there's a turn that's happening; it's hard to perceive unless you use an astronomy program because you're not sitting out there observing it every day. But use an astronomy program; it's like the sun is rising up, and then it starts turning to come back down by the end of Gemini.

So, this rising and turning to come back down was associated with the double-bodied nature of the sign. It is also yang, which means it is associated with that kind of centrifugal force energy moving outward, as opposed to a feminine quality, and Yin, which is more about drawing things inward. Both, of course, are also quite fluid for Mercury anyway.

It's funny because there it's sort of like saying you have a way in which this gender shape-shifting planet can act more masculine or more feminine, but even when it does, so it's still very shifty and movement-oriented between opposites of any kind. Anyway, it's the sign of the twins. So you think of that mythology of Castor and Pollux and many other twin myths all around the planet that could be applied to understand that the broader archetype and the third zodiacal sign of spring from the symbolic standpoint of the Northern Hemisphere, it doesn't have to be taken literally it's not a causal system. It's a hermetic system of correspondences, which means it's symbolic.

There's a logos to it, Astrolobia, which means the study or science or rationale of the stars, but the word Astro comes from Estera, which is the word for star. But then the the basic idea here is that it's a symbolic it's a symbolic language of correspondences, which no planet loves more than Mercury Hermes, who the science was said to be founded by in the first place.

So this kind of duality is a very, very magical part of the zodiac. The duality of Gemini is reflective of the dualities of Mercury, of course. So anyway, we get this part of the year when the light is dominant, reaching its climax and then turning backward toward darkness, and all of that happens through the sign of Gemini, which by the end commences the descent, but in the sky, again, you can see it starting to slow down and turn by the end like last 10 degrees of Gemini.

Alright, anyway, so let's move on. The Moon in Gemini can thus be understood as a mercurial, airy, double-bodied yang kind of Moon. Very interesting for the Moon, the Moon behaves a bit like Mercury, the masculine, airy Mercury. So you can see these Gemini Moon themes reflected in the following characters and themes.

One that is classic is that it's a youthful, childlike sign. It's curious, it's playful, and it's kind of youthful, it a little naive, but I'm clever and mischievous. So not like stupid, you know, but a little naive and a little naive in that, like a great image that comes to my mind is like Mickey Mouse in Fantasia in the Sorcerer's Apprentice, right? There's a little bit of, like, mischievous curiosity, and it's a sign of tremendous learning, but learning through play, learning through experimentation, learning through mischief, and learning through a kind of chaos magic.

People with moons in Gemini are those people whose words and speech are sensitive, thoughtful, compassionate, and carefully crafted. People whose bodies are fast, fluid, intelligent, and playful in their actions, you wouldn't believe how many really amazing athletes who are very mercurial and fluid have the Moon in Gemini or people who have incredibly thoughtful, fluid relationships with words, thoughts, and ideas.

Also, people who are naturally curious about the human mind and body, people who are poetic and imaginative but also mentally agile, and again, playful and curious, changeable, exploratory, interactive, and flexible. These are the characteristics of the mind, body, and sort of the environment that the native finds their life taking place in when the Moon is in Gemini.

You can see the Moon in Gemini reflected in the following characters and themes. The constant exploration of dualities and opposites, dealing with Shadow twins, internal or external, real or imagined, I think I'm one way, but I have to face my opposite either in myself or in other people that are a constant source of like mirroring in my life.

Constant exploring of dualities or opposites, fun, fluid, warm, witty, adaptable, communicative. These are the themes of Moon in Gemini. Fantastic, right when it comes to having fun with someone. Of course, one of the downsides is that it's so changeable for the Moon it can suggest a kind of mercurial nature that makes it hard to commit to things or makes it hard to stick with things, or makes it hard to not explore outside of the boundaries of commitments and disciplines and practices and things like that.

That's not to say that you can't have people who aren't tremendously talented because of hard work and discipline. But there's a playfulness and an exploratory, curious movement that can't be taken away, and sometimes that's frustrating for other people or even for the Gemini Moon themselves.

Intellectual, inventive, magical, that sometimes, like sometimes it's like tricky, a little deceptive, but also sometimes not with any like super ill intentions or anything. Though some more some than others, skeptical deconstructive analytical tends to be more of a questioner and a curious, playful interact or with ideas than like a committer to a faith or a doctrine. Mother's life environments or family settings that include chaos, changeability, intense dualities, exploration, and lots of change in the environment.

Now, here are some people who were born with the Moon in Gemini who are really good examples. Now, you don't have to like any of these people, right? The point is to celebrate the archetypal qualities present in these public figures that illustrate the archetype. So again, just because I pick people doesn't mean you have to have voted for Barack Obama or whatever, right?

So with Obama, one of the things that he was known for was being a particularly well-liked orator, and he had good taste and writers who wrote his speeches and so forth. So one of the things that he was pretty good at is speaking, and he was very mercurial and and articulate and sort of playful and funny. Of course, some of that's probably due to being a Leo, too, right? But, the Moon in the fifth house in his chart is very playful; he liked to play basketball, and so forth. He often appeared on ESPN, picking the tournament brackets and stuff.

So you have someone who had this kind of playful but also very mercurial sensitive way of making speeches, and if you liked him, if you are a person who liked him, and you don't have to be, but if you are, you probably liked him because you liked the kind of playful, witty, well-spoken this, which is one of many features that could describe the Moon in his chart, but that's a good example.

How about Jennifer Lawrence, one of the most mercurial Hermes-like actors that we have? She's so funny, she's so witty, she's so sarcastic. I recently saw a movie. Ashley and I watched a movie; I don't know, I can't remember what it was called. But she basically helps this kid who's kind of like a virgin and a little bit of a dork, and she sort of helps him grow up, but she helps herself grow up in the process and her wit and her humor, and I mean I'm thinking of so the Silver Linings Playbook and so many movies that she's been in were one of the features of her personality that's clearly coming through in the roles that she plays. Because it's been said outside of her work, she's actually an incredibly funny, witty person.

It's not just that she's playing characters like that; this resembles her character, and so that Gemini Moon is just on full display with the way she hurt her sense of humor and her wit and her banter and her kind of charming, witty sparkle in the eye quality that she has very Moon in Gemini.

Jim Carrey, same thing. Moon in Gemini, think about what a shapeshifter he is. I remember when I was a kid, there was a movie that came out, and maybe you guys have seen this, maybe you haven't. It's called The Mask, and if you're old enough, you probably remember this. But one of the things that they did was a sort of personified his weird, shape-shifting face and all of his facial expressions, and they sort of animated him going through contortions that are sort of like Jim Carrey's natural contortions, but like animated, it was such a it was such a clever movie at the time and, you know, I just remember he was Ace Ventura and everything was like exploding, and I think it was in the 90s.

So, Jim Carrey, though, and I want to say one of his icons was Jerry Lewis. Is that the comedian? I'm trying to remember the name, but very similar to him to where he had this kind of like, wasn't he the Nutty Professor? The original? Maybe, anyway? Jim Carrey, first of all, has a very philosophical, skeptical, analytical mind if you listen to him. Later in life, he's, you know, become something of a kind of poet-philosopher, you know, and he has a lot of very interesting, I think, kind of wise things to say. I mean, just in my opinion, who knows?

The other thing that's interesting is he played Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon and had this kind of profound shift as a result of playing a comedian who was just as mercurial as they come in Andy Kaufman, and that role was actually part of this slow progress of deconstructing his identity and looking at opposites and dualities within himself, which he's spoken about quite publicly and that was actually that movie was called Man on the Moon.

Lionel Messi, I think that's how you say his name. One of the most mercurial agile fluid, soccer players, football players, depending on where you're at in the world that we've ever seen. You know, he's got Moon and Venus together in Gemini, and you know, of course, he's got Jupiter in Aries and Mars square Jupiter and some other things that pop in his chart for an athlete.

But one of the things that is probably, I mean, look at his face, you can really feel it in his face, the playful, mercurial sort of childlike quality, and one of the most fluid players to ever play the game. I mean, just super mercurial on the field. So, this is a great example of a Moon in Gemini in the life of an athlete.

Sigmund Freud, Moon in Gemini co-present with Saturn. He was someone who was, like, one of our first hermetic magicians of psychology. There were many others, but he is on the Mount Rushmore of the depth, psychology, movement or tradition, his face is up there, you know, he was very curious, very, he had an inquisitive nature and he loved exploring the tensions of the opposites in the human psyche, which of course, Carl Jung picked up and really elaborated upon, and within that also included astrology, which Freud opened the door for by his exploration of the human psyche in relation to the gods.

But all of this is like a probing into the unconscious. Remember that Hermes is the God who can go into Hades and guide souls down in and comes back out, and you'll see that kind of quality of exploration that Hermes can somehow get away with exploring into darker regions because of this kind of playful, innocent, curious, adaptable, almost like an innocent quality but a sincere seeking or probing that Hermes is prone to do.

So Freud is a great example of someone with a Moon in Gemini who had this kind of probing hermetic magic quality in their work, even though you know you and I may have gathered more from what Carl Jung did, for example, with astrology and so forth in the modern psychological astrology than Freud, but still, they were part of the same tradition.

50 Cent switching gears a little bit. I don't know his birth time, but one of the things that I find really amazing is that, you know, he's Moon and Mercury, both in Gemini, he's got, you know, some planets in Cancer, too, that I think are interesting. Of course, there's like a Venus in Leo. But, you know, for someone who has this kind of very hermetic fluid shifting, presents as a rapper, and one of the things that's interesting about his work is it's not super fast, but it's very, very fluid. It's kind of a gentle, rhythmic, very, very fluid quality to his lyrics, and I think that's just fascinating given that the Moon is in Gemini; a sort of a gentle quality to it, I mean, gentle in the like tone or the cadence or the speed. So not necessarily the message, right? But the Cancerian qualities are interesting there, too, to comment on.

Joan Baez had the Moon in Gemini in the third house, which was also called the joy of the Moon. It was the ruler of the fourth house, and she was attributed with being a part of a major player in the roots revival in American folk music. Of course, for a person like that to have a Moon in Gemini in the third house makes total sense. She was on the road quite frequently as a sort of magical folk singer-songwriter, and, to me, the quality of her music, its cleverness, the time period in which she was in the usefulness of what she was a part of, in the especially in, like the 60s and the way that folk music would influence so many other rock bands, I think, for example, the Grateful Dead who had been into a lot lately. So this quality of singer-songwriter traveler, like a traveling bard, is kind of how I think of Joan Baez, a traveling storyteller, magic, musician, Moon, and Gemini in the third house.

How about Jackie Chan? Similarly, you have this incredible fluidity of movement as an athlete and practitioner of martial arts. So, of course, Mercury is itself in Pisces, which is superfluid. But the Moon in its squared, Jupiter in Gemini two, which adds a lot of pop to it. The Moon in Gemini, for one of the most fluid martial arts action movie stars of all time, makes a lot of sense. I'm just kind of giving you a feel for how that Moon can show up in people's lives.

Franz Kafka he has a huge stellium of planets in Gemini; he is one of the more interesting probing deconstruction, kind of; I don't know how I would qualify him. Let's see how Wikipedia qualifies him because I was just gonna say there's something about his work that, to me, I've read a number of his things, so he fuses elements of realism and fantasy, and he explores themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.

The term Kafka-esque has entered English to describe absurd situations. I've read The Trial and the Metamorphosis when I was in, like, grad school, but I just love that someone who explores absurdities, and interesting human dualities, and paradoxes and who has this kind of fantastic existential realism for, like, a fantasy and it's kind of like, existentialism meets like, like, magical realism. Very interesting. If you've ever read The Metamorphosis, I won't give it away, but it's really interesting. So the magical, the skeptical, the deconstructive, the absurd. You know, he does have Saturn and Pluto in Gemini, which probably gives it a little bit of a heavier quality the Moon in Gemini, but he's a great example of a writer with the Moon in Gemini.

How about Sia? So it's so funny. My daughter is like a big Sia fan. She just loves her music, but she also, like my daughter, is an Aquarius rising, and she loves that she hides her face and, you know, cuts her hair, really, so my daughter asked recently when we were going to get her haircut if she could get the see a haircut the same see haircut to see so she got her hair cut just like see she looks super cute.

Anyway, I think that's fascinating because See also explores light and dark; she has a motif running through a lot of her work, like her and a shadow twin, showing her face, not showing her face. Super super to me, Sia especially, being that she really plays with dualities in the artistic presentation of her music is it's a super Moon in Gemini kind of thing to do.

Rowan Atkinson I mean, Mr. Bean, come on, right? Um, it's like Jim Carrey. Again. It's like, he's so fluid, his facial expressions and kind of mercurial figures he embodies. He's like, you know, an embodiment of sort of like the fool, and the idiot, the village idiot, you know, that kind of literary motif. But he's so funny and so clever and so mischievous, and so knows what he's doing and then, like, doesn't know what he's doing. So, it's just one of the most playful embodiments of the Moon in Gemini you could ask for.

How about Stephen Colbert? Stephen Colbert, you'll see people in media who have very witty, fluid, changeable personalities and senses of humor. Again, I think Stephen Colbert is a journalist, which is also a very mercurial Gemini-like thing. He's a, you know, very kind of double-bodied, changeable, clever, funny, mischievous, but also has a youthful look on his face. It just kind of has this sort of youthful theme in it.

Ella Fitzgerald, similarly, you know, just a super, super fluid musician, and I wanted to read something about her that I found really interesting. So, let me just bring this up. Yeah, so she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and horn-like improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Does that not sound like the Moon in Gemini? Here's this woman who has all of these very beautiful lunar qualities. Look at her face; look at how sweet and young she looks, and that is kind of a theme that persists throughout her life; she just retains this kind of youthful, playful quality that was particularly notable in her voice and the way she sang, and her ability to improvise the kind of jazz singer. So fantastic example, again, of the Moon in Gemini.

How about George Carlin, a kind of existentialist comedian who loved exploring polarities and opposites and contradictions and was kind of a deconstructionist type of guy and had this sort of analytical, playful, mischievous chaos magic quality to the way in which he did comedy.

Pele, there we go. Once again, one of the most fluid mercurial soccer players of all time, just to make a comparison to him and Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi, I think that's how you say it. Alejandro Jodorowsky Now, we don't have his birth time. But isn't that amazing that he has the Moon and Mars in Gemini, which, if you remember, Sia did as well. There's something about Jodorowsky that I've really liked. If you don't know him, check out his work. He's done some really interesting things with chaos magic, and his chaos magic approach is really interesting.

I've heard it said that, like, you might go and see him, and he'll tell he'll give you like, a bizarre set of instructions, like, go get a Diet Coke, you know, empty it halfway drink the rest, find a cave, light a candle in the cave, you know, scattered jelly beans on the floor of the cave.

He has these very bizarre, magical prescriptions that he has given people over the years, sort of like downloads. He's also, you know, the guy who there's some if you ever want to read or see a movie that is like one of the most interesting bizarre stories I've ever heard. There is a documentary called Jodorowsky Dune, and it's actually about a movie that he wanted to do a production of Dune, but it just never got done. But because it never got done, a lot of other things did, and it's really really an interesting story, and you know, just another interesting figure.

I didn't know him, but he wrote for Reality Sandwich once or twice back when I was writing as one of the bloggers of Reality Sandwich. He wrote some pieces for us, and a lot of it had to do with this sort of chaos magic that he was he is interested in so a wonderful example the Moon in Gemini, just a kind of classic magician.

Roseanne Barr, there you go. Whether you like Roseanne or not you think about that just kind of slick mischievous humor. It's like grow up Roseanne, you know, it's like on her show is like who's the kid in the room? I'm teasing, of course, but like that, that is the mischievous witty funny, changeable crude, but somehow like, Oh, she thought she played a mom, you know, so famous show she was she was a mom. But she was kind of a sarcastic, bantering mother in that show. So it's a good moon in Gemini example, and then Jet Li is the same thing again, as Jackie Chan, Moon in Gemini, very, very fluid, martial arts practitioner and actor again.

Louis Pasteur. So here you have someone, and I thought this was interesting. Let me just read you something; he was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.

So he is known for being behind the, you know, like the discovery and working in and through like the realm of vaccines, which I know people have a lot of very different theories about, but he's also known as one of the fathers of germ theory of diseases, whether you believe in that or not, right? So again, don't want to polarize people into some kind of debate, but a very interesting figure and one of the things that you'll notice about Moon in Gemini folks is occasionally, the thing that really defines them is the research, the inquiry, the kind of rational inquiry into the material world.

Remember, the Moon is a signifier of the material world, and Hermes Mercury are often investigative. So you have Louis Pasteur, kind of a researcher into microbiology and sort of Earthly physical domain of health in the body and stuff like that. You don't have to like him.

Barbara Walters, the same thing is the investigative journalist though, and also a TV personality and a kind of host and commentator, and all those good things. But again, a very famous journalist, media personality commentator, analyzer, host, you know, talk sort of talk show host, reporter, all of those different hats she wore. It helps she has Mercury and Mars together, too. It's a very good quality in Libra for someone who needs to be analytical and sharp but gracious, diplomatic, and harmonizing in relationships with other people. The Moon is in Barbara Walters's chart is a good indicator again of a journalist.

Then there was Harry Houdini, one of the most famous magicians of all time, Moon in Gemini. So this, this double-bodied mercurial sign, is really quite magical and presents itself in so many ways. Of course, Houdini was a great escape artist, but also just one of the greatest magicians in, like, you know, modern history, so they are well known anyway. These examples all get at the heart of the Moon in Gemini, and I hope that more than anything, you have a feeling for it.

It's really important with Moon signs to develop a feeling for the archetype rather than some kind of purely analytical take on it, and that's why we also ask Kaylee to show up at the end and grace us with some of her poetry, getting into the heart of the goddess through the signs. So, without further ado, I will hand it over to her. Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you will enjoy what she has to add to the conversation today as well.