The Archetypal Meaning of Jupiter in Gemini

Hey, everyone; this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we're going to take a look at Jupiter's upcoming entrance into the sign of Gemini from the archetypal perspective. So we're going to start turning that archetypal jewel. And we're going to start looking at things like Jupiter in mercury sign and what that means; we're going to start looking at the seasonal symbolism of Gemini from the standpoint of the solar year and what the sign of Gemini means archetype. We were trying to put it all together and give you some things to watch for over the course of the entire next year that Jupiter spends its time in Gemini. 

 

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All right on that note, let us turn our attention now to Jupiter's entrance into the sign of Gemini. Here, you can see that we're moving closer to Jupiter's entrance into Gemini. The Sun will cross Jupiter, and Jupiter will be reborn and start rising as the morning star, culminating in Taurus. It's an interesting consideration. We'll be looking at that more. 

 

So here we go through this magical time, which is May 25, May 25. In the evening, Jupiter will transition into Gemini; now, what I want to show you is if we leap forward an entire year to May 25, 2025. You'll see that Jupiter will then be culminating at the final degree of Gemini, so by June 8 into the ninth, we're going to take this forward just a little bit here. Yeah, technically, it's on June 9, and then Jupiter will enter Cancer. 

 

So it's about a year that Jupiter spends per sign, and it takes roughly 12 years to go through the entire Zodiac. That means from late May until this year, 2024, until early June of 2025, Jupiter will be in the sign of Gemini. Now, we looked at the horoscopes for May in terms of Jupiter's entrance into Gemini. So you could go back to those if you want some reminders of what topics might be active in your specific birth chart. The whole sign house version of your birth chart, of course, is found by listening to your rising sign. 

 

So, I really recommend doing that because that will give you a sense of what topical areas of life Jupiter's entrance into Gemini is likely to activate. And especially when it first enters, when a planet first enters the sign moves into a new house, it will often sort of, you'll notice it, the lights will start flashing because Jupiter is a weighty planet and it brings a lot of energy into the new house and hence the new topics. So you will often notice that in late May or early June, you're really going to feel the rush of Jupiter moving into Gemini in a new house in your chart. 

 

So what I want to do today, though, is I really want to we're going to we're not going to talk so much about horoscopes, and I will probably do a second round of horoscopes before Jupiter enters Gemini. Certainly, in June, we will have a new Moon in Gemini and Jupiter in Gemini training Pluto and Aquarius; those are big transits. 

 

So there's going to be a lot of future horoscopic takes on Jupiter into Gemini that we'll have for you. But today, what we want to do is start considering the archetypal meaning of Jupiter in Gemini, and we have to do that in a couple of different ways. So, five things to watch for, and I'm just breaking this down into sort of five different talking points. 

 

The number one most important thing that we can do to help ourselves understand Jupiter's meaning in the sign of Gemini is to first start with the way in which ancient astrologers tended to explain the meaning of one planet in another planet's temple. So Jupiter is not at home in Gemini; it's at home in Sagittarius and Pisces, which was traditionally its masculine Sagittarius domicile and Pisces its feminine domicile. So those places are the ones in which Jupiter is like at home in his own temple. Zeus originally right. 

 

So, when you take Jupiter, place it into the opposite sign, which will always be a Mercury-ruled sign. If you take Jupiter from its home sign of Sagittarius, place it opposite the sign of Gemini. It's in a Mercury-ruled sign. If you take Jupiter in Pisces and place it into the opposite sign of Virgo, it is in a Mercury-ruled sign. Mercury's masculine and feminine domiciles are Gemini and Virgo. So we take Jupiter, and we place it into a Mercury-ruled sign. We also get an amplification of a very basic archetypal tension between two planets that was inherent in the language of ancient astrology. All archetypes in ancient astrology exist in a kind of community. And the archetypes are. 

 

The archetypes are always in conversation with one another and have ways of harmonizing and also of existing in polarizations or dualities and conflicts that can arise between them. It's really important to understand the basic meaning of any archetypal combination and then try to think about how that might play out in different situations. So to break it down to its most basic level, Jupiter in Gemini will be understood only insofar as any of us have taken the time to think about Jupiter and Mercury and the tension inherent between the two planets. So let's talk about basically Jupiter, broadly speaking, or Zeus, and remember, Mercury was Hermes, and this is in the ancient Greek Hellenistic astrological language before they came to receive the Roman names.

 

Jupiter's Zeus broadly represented everything that grants coherence either to human life or to the cosmos itself. Zeus says the ruler of the gods on Olympus, you know this, this sense of cosmic order. And in the human world, our institutions are supposed to be ideally a reflection of the cosmic order of Zeus. So schools, the justice system, education, religion, all of these kinds of systems are ideally meant to create order, harmony, balance, and cohesion in human life. 

 

Ideally, because we live in a world that's not ideal, right? But ideally, they are reflections of the greater cosmic order, which is musical. It's inherently sensible and beautiful, so sensible, meaning that there's something like the intelligence of a musical scale going on all around us. But it's beautiful in so far as the notes on the musical scale represent something whole and complete. And when the musical scale is playing itself out. 

 

There's beauty inherent in it, so there's the cosmos from Zeus, and his perspective is both beautiful and coherent. Think, for example, of the fact that Jupiter in Pisces happens to also be the exultation of Venus, so that time you have the ancient world, you had the sense of Harmonia, this greater sense of cosmic coherence, it was considered to be not only, like rational, and ordered in some kind of like logical sense, like a musical scale has like a kind of science behind it. But it's also beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. And ideally, human beings are wise sages. 

 

I mean, remember for Plato, its philosopher kings, and in India, the early place of astrology, you also have the idea that the wisest should be the most sort of spiritually advanced, the people leading the civilization in ancient India, not again, this is ideally not literally, ideally should be sort of like brahminical, there should be a sense in which you're a wise person. And all of the ways in which the ancient world does or does not live up to any of this is not really the point of what I'm talking about because we could definitely go down that path right. But what we are saying is that on an archetypal level, on a symbolic level, the idea is that the society that we live in a society that it should ideally reflect this higher sense of beauty and truth and orderliness. Okay, so that's like Zeus. 

 

Hermes is very different. Okay, so if you think about Hermes, Hermes is someone who is constantly spending time in the Sunni suburbs of the cosmos, Zeus's realm. But then Hermes disappears and dives down into the realm of Hades, who is Zeus, his brother and counterpart. He goes into that dark realm, which is really a realm of chaos and destruction, and then comes back out. So one of the most maddening things for Zeus and for any of us who like order and balance and beauty and sensibility and you know, like we, we believe that the universe is sort of a beautiful, whole and sacred place, right, is like, well, there's nothing more disturbing than like school shootings in the news. Do you know what I mean? 

 

There's nothing more disturbing than chaos and evil, or, like, just like darkness. And we don't know; we don't know what to do with the fact that despite the ideal, there's, you know, this world sort of can't perfectly replicate that sort of Platonic sense of perfect beauty and order that just can't, there's chaos. And there's been all sorts of ways philosophically and theologically of reckoning with or sort of trying to reconcile ourselves to the sort of bloody and chaotic mess of life. 

 

But that's Hermes' domain, in a sense, not that Hermes is evil or dark or chaotic, purely speaking. But only Hermes represents the understanding that the two sides, the Yin and the yang, the dark and the light, the upper world and Hades, the underworld, the sense of order and the inevitable reality of impermanence and chaos, are two sides of the same coin. 

 

Hermes, in this sense, was properly called the progenitor of astrology itself. Because astrology, after all, is a huge kind of archetypal science, symbolic science is all about understanding opposites and understanding that they are always co-present. So when you have mercury Retrogrades, for example, what do they tend to do? They introduce chaos. They invite chaos. I don't mean anything malicious, though; sometimes we experience it that way, but they just bring in the mercury Retrogrades, three times a year, bring in the natural breakdown of structures mentally or physically or, you know, in our work or our relationships. 

 

They go from something having been built up and formed and whole and coherent to something being called into question to something being turned around to momentum being stalled or delayed or setback to reversals of circumstance or fortune. And if we're stuck in the realm of, you know, the suburbs of Jupiter, if we're stuck there, we will only ever see those reversals, setbacks, that kind of chaos magic of Hermes and Mercury will only ever see it as something thwarting our will, or some kind of fly in the ointment. You know, some kind of it's like a, there's a sense that, you know, what, how do we talk about Mercury, Mercury retrograde is messing with it with me, it's messing things up, you know, or we rail I mean, people for 1000s of years have railed against the, you know, it's like you human beings, you guys just can't get it right. I'm so frustrated because humans can't pull it together. You know, but it's like, no, of course, of course, we can't because we're subject to the realm of Hermes as much as we are the realm of Zeus. And there is a very magical way in which chaos and destruction are part of life. Right? 

 

In ancient India, you've got the three gods of creation, of maintenance, and of destruction. And they are like a tripartite God that they function as a whole. And so it's really easy for us in the West to think, I mean, we are captive to Zeus in our minds, even though most people like it's so funny how most people will be like, Zeus, you know, he's, you know, like, I think most people would consider themselves not someone who primarily is like grabbed by Zeus, they'd be like, No, I like the magic of life. You know, I'm, I'm open to spontaneity and like, yeah, you know, if the spontaneity is fun, you know, but, and in like, interesting, but as soon as chaos is introduced for creative purposes, that we do not understand that we cannot see. And we feel a lack of control. 

 

We feel deep, disturbing levels of doubt in ourselves in our life path. When we feel humbled, and some degree of our power has been taken away or stripped from us, Zeus doesn't like those things being taken away. And it's insofar as we are, you know, held captive by the belief that life should only ever be perfectly coherent, rational and ordered, and beautiful and sensible. And it all makes sense to me. And the reason this thing is happening is that I can accept it as long as I understand it, right? 

 

Well, that's us captive, you know, in our psyches to Zeus, we're not half as open to Mercury as I think most of us would like to think. In other words, it's really important to remember that this tension between Jupiter and Hermes is always there. And it's always asking us to consider that coherence includes chaos. And that chaos includes coherence, that there is a kind of rhyme or reason to the way that things come unglued, that they come unhinged, that we lose the plot, that the script is flipped, you know, that, that, that these things happen, for reasons that we cannot understand at the moment and therefore, something like sacred doubt and faith are simultaneously required of us in almost all stages of life. It is so much better, you know, in, you know, true like Mercury's Zeus kind of way, or Hermes Zeus kind of way. 

 

It's so much better to pray the prayer. This is what I'm hoping for. This is what I intend or desire, and yet I have no clue to what end these things would bring me, and yet I have no clue if any of these things are actually in my best interest. And yet, I have no clue if any of these things are actually what will bring me happiness or help me to become a wiser soul or whatever. 

 

That's the Zeus-Hermes dichotomy. It's like, we try to order our lives in a way that, you know, we sort of premeditated, we get an idea of what the beautiful, coherent set of life circumstances would be. And then, you know, we try to create that, and the universe seems to honor it, you know, it's like, yes, you can build things here. But don't be surprised as you go, if there are lessons to be learned, and they come in through chaos, they come in through the unpredictable, the erratic, the change, the reversal, the flip of circumstance. And also through real loss through through darkness, through doubt, through misery, through suffering. That's the entrance into the realm of Hades. We can't see when we're in there, you know, you can't. It's dark and gaseous in that underworld space. 

 

Or you can also equate that with the unconscious. So this tension between Jupiter and Hermes is fundamental; it is always a part of life. And honestly, most of us who probably think we're, you know, like, I will say it for myself: I feel much more comfortable with Zeus than Hermes. And I think anyone, for the most part, anyone who says otherwise is probably lying to themselves because Hermes is much more challenging for us. 

 

I mean, sometimes, you know, like, you will see people who have strong Mercurys in their charts or mercurial dispositions, maybe a little bit they have a little easier time sort of closing their eyes and, you know, putting the visor down like Luke Skywalker in, Star Wars, you know, like, I'll just trust in the force. And I do think that's what most of us are learning when it comes to this archetypal dichotomy. 

 

So now, the other thing that's really important about the Jupiter-Mercury dichotomy is to understand that ancient astrologers said that when Jupiter was in one of Mercury's signs, or Mercury and one of Jupiter's signs, the planet was said to be in its exile. Now, in my opinion, this is not a way of saying, Oh, the planet is jacked up; oh, it's a bad planet. It's not like that. It's, it's telling you that this kind of language is telling us as astrologers that the tension, the archetypal tension between those two planets, which we've just described, is going to be heightened when you place one of the planets into the opposite sign. 

 

So when Hermes is in Zeus signs, or Zeus is in Hermes signs, you get the amplification of this archetypal dynamic, for example. It can be really hard for Jupiter to feel like things are coherent and building toward greater order and sensibility and that you're building in the direction of your desires and seeing it grow all Jupiterian things. When Jupiter's in a sign that tends to be more deconstructive, like Gemini, we'll talk more about that in a minute. 

 

So starting off, if you want to start thinking about Jupiter for the next year, in the sign of Gemini, you have to start thinking about the tension between order and chaos or coherence and incoherence or even faith and doubt or faith and questioning or a sense of orderliness versus a sense of destabilization and chaos, you start working the tension of Mercury, and Jupiter in your mind, and then you're going to be ready for not only the tensions but also the interesting forms of synthesis. And we're going to visit those in just a minute. I just wanted to start here. 

 

Number two is that we need to understand the sign of Gemini; every sign is basically understood by understanding something about the planet that abides by that sign. So, in this case, it is Hermes, but we also have to ask the question, How did Hermes come to be assigned to this portion of the Zodiac? In other words, why place Hermes or Mercury as the ruler or host of the Temple of Gemini in the first place? 

 

This has to do with the primary means by which the story of the Zodiac and the organization of the Zodiac was arranged in ancient astrology by virtue of the Sun's annual journey. So, the most basic feature of the Zodiacal organization is what the Sun is doing. Now, this is all symbolic. It's not literal. So what the Sun is doing on a symbolic level, from the standpoint of its journey through the Zodiac, Aries through Pisces in the Zodiacal year, and the story is one of surprise, surprise the alternation between light and dark opposites. 

 

We have Aries through Virgo in the light half of the year, where there's more light in the 24-hour period than there is darkness, and from Libra all the way through Pisces, we have the dark half of the year, where there is more darkness than light in the 24 hour period. Again, this is northern hemisphere-centric, but the story here is symbolic, again, not literal because we're not dealing with a causal system. We're dealing with a divinatory system. 

 

So once we understand that then we can start asking the question, What unique stage does Gemini represent in this Hans annual journey? And to explain this, I'm going to use a software program that I have the if I can that, uh, Okay, hold on, I gotta make sure that I've got it. And we're going to put this up over here. Sorry, I have an astronomy program I'm going to share with you guys, but I need to make sure that I get it up on the screen correctly. Here we go. All right. So this is a program that I like to use; it is called Starry Night Pro, in case you are interested in picking it up. It's a nice astronomy program that, you know, is just for basic hobby purposes, and I use it to demonstrate things in my classes. 

 

So here we are; this is the beginning of the Gemini season that you're seeing on the screen right now. And that is primarily defined, you could say, by virtue of the fact that the Sun is in the last 30 days of its ascent toward the pole star or toward the summer solstice, which will be when the screen arc the ecliptic of the Sun reaches its highest point. From that point forward, the arc of the Sun will start to descend. 

 

So this is the Sun at high noon on about May 22, the start of Gemini season. And we're going to move this forward just one day at a time. But what I want you to notice is that at high noon, every day, the Sun is going up higher. What I also want you to notice is the turn that the Sun is starting to make with the green line as it reaches up toward the apex. So you see how the green line is starting to sort of swivel. And we're going to get all the way up to the Pole Star. 

 

The pole star by the way, we don't get up to it, but we start reaching for the Pole Star all the way back there; you can kind of see the North Celestial Pole way up here. So the Sun gets closest to the pole star that it will get. And that was thought of the Sun as that was thought of symbolically as the Sun reaching up toward the Platonic realm of the ideals because the Pole Star was fixed and unmoving. And so for the ancient astrologers, or whatever it is, and so relatively speaking, and so that means that it represented something like the realm of the day, the archive, the gods, the forms, this higher divine mind was signified really by anything that was relatively constant and stable as opposed to constantly fluctuating. 

 

So anyhow, the Sun reaches this point around the summer solstice, and it reaches this highest kind of ideal moment, but the whole time that it's moving up there, you can see that it's also starting to turn. So I'm going backward now to say, let's watch this again. Watch as it goes up and how it's starting to turn down. And this is why it's so important, because as soon as it gets up, it's already creating the momentum, you can see that it's turning to come down. This is Gemini; this is the meaning of Gemini from that moment forward in Cancer. 

 

Now, it starts to literally descend, right? This is Leo; now it's coming down further. And the light half of the year is going to take place all the way until the fall equinox, where it crosses the celestial equator here. And it does so around September 20 21st; see how it's crossing. Now, the rest of the year from here, this is Libra all the way through Pisces. It will be below the celestial equator, which will give us more darkness in the 24-hour period than light. So we are in Gemini. If we run back again, we are above the celestial equator, which means we're on the light half of the year from again, symbolically speaking, from the northern hemisphere. 

 

What's really important for understanding the seasonal moment of Gemini on an archetypal level is that the apex of the light is occurring. So in the light half of the year, starting with Aries, light is dominant, and light is rising. So we're on the light for half of the year, but the light is also increasing. So it's like the young of the young time of year. When it gets to Gemini, what's happening is you're reaching the apex, but this turn is also starting to occur. 

 

This is why Gemini is among all of the signs because this happens with all of the signs around the double-bodied signs. When a transition from one part of the solar year to another occurs, it happens in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Those double-bodied signs were called Double body because they're of two natures at the same time. What are those two natures? Well, from the standpoint of Gemini, starting around late May, the first nature is the rising of the light. The second nature is the turning into the decline of the light two natures simultaneously, and you can see it in the sky swiveling. 

 

Now, technically, the actual descent downward doesn't happen until zero Cancer, but it doesn't matter because for ancient astrologers, what they're looking at is Gemini as the moving toward the apex and the very visible turn of the light back down. So even though the turn doesn't start until zero Cancer, it's like the car coming around a racetrack bending around the curve. And that's what's happening in Gemini. This is where we get some of the most important significations. 

 

Okay, so we said we have to understand Gemini to really move forward with their understanding of Jupiter in Gemini. So what does this mean, symbolically speaking, that in? Why do we place Hermes here? We place Hermes here, and we also place Hermes in Virgo, where the other turn from light to dark happens instead; in Virgo, we're actually handing over to the dark half of the year. Now we're handing over to the dark to the waning of the light within the laning, the waning of the light within the light half of the year. 

 

Either way, Gemini and Virgo hand over to darkness. What does darkness represent? It's Yin, just broadly speaking, it's Yin; what is Yin? Yin is movement and change, distribution, and diversity. Yin is also impermanence, breakdown, and chaos. But it is also the distribution and relating of things relating to opposites mingling of things. It's not one it's many. 

 

So whenever you see the light rising to its peak and then turning, that's Hermes. That's what Hermes does. Hermes in as the evening star rises to its peak, stations, Retrogrades, and turns, and disappears. And in the morning, stars rise, stations and retrogrades disappear. So Hermes, nature as an astronomical symbol, mirrors what's happening in the Sun's journey. During this time of year, the Sun is rising, and then it's going to turn back to darkness. 

 

So Hermes is associated with that turn. But broadly speaking, that turn metaphysically represents the natural rhythm of the universe that moves from order to break down, that moves from stability to instability, that moves from creation and maintenance to destruction and chaos, and then rebirth over and over again. Gemini is a sign given to Mercury because there is a parallel between the alternation of light and dark. And the typical alternation of light and dark that Hermes is always doing. This is why Mercury comes in again as the ruler of the sign of Virgo when we hand it over to the dark half of the year. The main thing is to understand that Hermes, unlike Zeus, like Zeus is like the legal system. 

 

You know, Zeus is like the doctrines or dogmas of the church, which are clear. You know, they ring out like a bell, you know, or the traffic laws or something like that. It's very Zeus. But when you think about Hermes, what you're thinking about is that hidden wisdom that understands that the greater coherence is made through the tension of opposites, which is why Hermes is the ancient teacher of astrology itself, which is why Hermes, as a philosopher is constantly in hermeticism, like mirroring things that Taoist say, Alright, so, Hermes is like Zeus insofar as Hermes also likes coherence. However, Hermes is much more the Trickster because Hermes realizes that coherence is paired with chaos and that faith is paired with doubt. That order is paired with destruction. Hermes knows that very well. 

 

So when we placed Jupiter into Gemini, we're placing Jupiter, the grantor of that great sense of coherence, into a sign that is a lot more comfortable, generally speaking, with the marriage of opposites and their fluidity than Jupiter is, right like Hermes is much more comfortable with that dichotomy and the fluidity between things, then Jupiter is sometimes it can go in the opposite direction where Jupiter might be a little bit better at holding together with commitments, and Hermes can use the existence of opposites and spectrums and fluidity to evade or escape responsibility which is why Hermes is also associated with thieves and liars and people who deceive tricksters, and so it's an interesting place for Jupiter to inhabit for the next year. 

 

So, I want to move from this kind of understanding of the Jupiter-Mercury dichotomy and understanding Gemini as a sign from the standpoint of the solar story of the year. Three things, three themes emerge from these tensions and from these symbols; number three is sacred doubt and questioning. 

 

Anytime that Jupiter enters a Mercury-ruled sign, particularly an Air sign of masculine Air sign, we're going to potentially go through a period of time where the most important thing that we can do for the sake of greater coherence, clarity, order, understanding, and so forth. Wisdom is to allow ourselves to question things, to allow our minds to introduce chaos or doubt, and to hold space for them as sacred and not apart from or opposed to the greater process of developing understanding in our lives. 

 

For, we have to make room for questioning doubt, skepticism, and anxiety, which cause existential doubts and worries. The deconstruction of our faith is the exact sign for most of us that it's growing. When we start to call things into question that we've held dear at first, it can feel destabilizing, but if we allow space for Sacred doubt and questioning to take place, we often find ourselves the benefactors of Jupiter or Jupiter Aryan word of greater understanding. Because we've allowed, we created room or made space for more than we thought was possible. Or we have introduced that radical idea that several things, several powerful truths, can coexist. 

 

So, sacred doubt and questioning are part and parcel of the process of building wisdom and understanding. Hermes in zoos are always actually working together on the level of developing our wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, whether we're learning a craft or a skill or whether we're just progressing in some spiritual understanding. 

 

Number four is learning as deconstruction and reconstruction. It is not uncommon when Jupiter goes through a Mercury-ruled sign to feel like something that you thought you knew a skill and ability, an organizational philosophy that you've had, or a system that you've been using technologically or in the workplace, or have a way of doing things as a parent or a way of organizing and granting coherence in your relationship, just wherever Jupiter has created some sense of this is the way we do it, that there is going to be a process of learning new things, or deconstructing things in order to reconstruct them. 

 

So deconstruction and reconstruction are a process over the next year in any area of life where you feel like there's been an established way of doing something, but now there's going to be a different way of doing something. And again, just like sacred doubt and questioning, we have to be comfortable with the fact that we might be in a process that is a little chaotic for a while, but it does not run; it is not necessarily just contrary to or opposed to or an enemy of some greater sense of order that will come eventually. We have to be open next year. 

 

In other words, we deconstruct things, learn new things, and then reorganize things because lots of new ideas, information, thoughts, perceptions, and people and connections are likely to come into our lives. And when they do so, they will throw; it's just like throwing things up in the air. And being like, you know, it's like I can't juggle all of them, I can't catch all of them, and some of them are going to fall on the ground. And then we're going to pick everything up. And when we lay down all of the fragments on the table, we may find that they resemble or reflect an entirely new order.

 

That process we have to ironically, we have to place our trust in it, or at the very least, we have to be comfortable being like, I don't know where this is heading. And I'm not going to try to control everything too much. Another thing that can happen is that we can lose commitment in chaos. For example, classic example, Jupiter enters Gemini in the seventh house, and someone starts dating a million people, you know, they're just like, I'm just going to throw my hat in the ring, and I'm going to date like finally start dating all these different people, some people that works, they're going to start dating all these different people. 

 

And they are going to that person is going to start having some kind of philosophical crisis in their head about whether they should just remain open to having fun, or if they should just close, you know, close things down with three or four of these people and start seeing only one or two of them, whatever. The point is that there is going to be a tension between allowing for enjoying and sort of welcoming the creativity and the chaos of Jupiter in Gemini. It's like a beehive, you know? 

 

And, there will be a temptation in that chaos to say, Screw it, I don't have any commitments commitment, you know, Jupiter in Gemini, in other words, can become like, ironically dogmatic about remaining open-minded. I'm going to remain open-minded at all costs and not commit to anything that, you know, I'm just, I'm open to possibilities people say, you know, and that's fine. But you may find over the course of the next year that there is a tension between possibilities and openness and the need for decisiveness, decision-making commitment, and a sort of stick to activeness. And you want to hold the tension of the opposites rather than collapsing into an extreme. Oh, look at all this chaos; I'll just get really rigid, structured, and dogmatic about my way. 

 

Or, you know, I need to open myself up with no commitments whatsoever. These extremes, in other words, watch for them. Be careful of the extremes that come with wild, unbridled possibilities. It's there; Jupiter in Gemini almost always brings the need for exploration and experimentation in the magic, the chaos, and magic of Mercury as the teacher for the year, you know, that's, that's our guru, right? But we do have to be careful because the one thing that can happen with anything mercurial, especially in Gemini, an Air sign, is that we can use that flexibility and that open-mindedness for selfish reasons or to avoid or escape different kinds of moral or spiritual accountability or, like commitments. 

 

So, kind of keep that in mind. But don't take it so seriously that you don't open yourself up. So again, it's that tension of the opposites that we have to hold. And isn't that what this is all about? I mean, the teaching of Hermes at the end of the day, the progenitor and like wizard of astrology itself, Hermes, what is Hermes? Huh? What is Hermes' lesson overall? It is that we don't understand anything unless we understand opposites. 

 

Ancient astrologers were, on so many levels, aware of the existence of opposites; some rise in fortune or fate, some fall, some who are great lose everything, some who have nothing gain everything; this world is a constant turning, burning, churning of opposites. And rather than do away with them, through some kind of, you know, fascist doctrine of oneness, you know, which tips into the favor of Zeus by the way, we have to be able to see the oneness, the togetherness, the unity in and through the fluctuation and tension of opposites themselves, we have to be able to hold space for difference and unity at the exact same time. 

 

That is the alchemy of life. And so this is a great chance for us to be reminded that when things get flipped on their head, order, disorder, chaos, and coherence are in this kind of playful, magical wrestling match for the next year. So anyway, that's what I've got for today. I hope that this was a useful meditation on Jupiter's entrance into Gemini, at the very least, that it starts the internal process of preparing ourselves for Jupiter's movement at the end of this month. 

 

After signing off, you'll find a video where I talk about the upcoming class Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic if you like this; by the way, this is the kind of thing we do in our program; we talk at length about every single planet in relation to all the other planets where the dignities cat categories come from, where the solar journey of the Sun moves, how it moves and how it defines the Zodiac. How ruler ships were first assigned the difference between houses and signs, which most people have no idea about. 

 

So many things that can deepen your astrology practice, and really change your life. So if this kind of stuff feeds you, when you hear it, you would really like this program. So check it out, and yeah, sign off, you'll get to hear more about it. Alright, hope you guys have a great day. Take it easy bye