Good afternoon, Starshine! The Earth says hello. ✨ Yesterda..

Good afternoon, Starshine! The Earth says hello. ✨ Yesterday was the first day of Gemini season. If you'd told me 2 years ago or even 12 months ago that that would one day mean something to me, I'd have laughed you out of the room. I've always insisted, through all of my phases of religion, spirituality, agnosticism, atheism, intellectualism, paganism, and whateverelseism, that astrology is a horribly reductivist waste of time. It would take ages for me to explain how and why that's changed, but here we are. We made it through Taurus/eclipse season, y'all. Fuckin' A. A huge solar storm with X-class flares as we moved from Aries (Rain's sign) to Taurus (mine) April 30->May 1 May 8- 3rd Mother's Day without my mom May 9- 33rd birthday (my least favorite day of the year) May 10- Mercury retrograde begins May 15/16- total lunar eclipse on the night of the Scorpio full moon, exactly 33 years and 7 days TO THE MINUTE from when I was born (12:12am ET). It's been one hell of a month for me, emotionally and psychologically and physically. I know a lot of others are feeling the same, like May dragged them through life by the hair. If that's you, fuck yeah, we made it! We didn't drown in the fires of tribulation, didn't spontaneously combust from the pressure! Go Team! Now we enter into the season of The Twins, the spirit of social interaction between the Self and the world outside the Self, a time deeply linked to the element of air- a fresh, blowing breeze come to breathe life into a sunny but stagnant earthy day. It's a time to be freely, to free ourselves from routines and shackles that we've been dying to shed. It's a time to communicate, to allow thoughts and feelings to come out as naturally as our own breath. Mindfulness is important in shaping *what* comes out, as it's easy for things that are not the True Self to get in the way and fuck up the translation. Stress, annoyance, fear, shame, all of these are the products of outside influence that take our best intentions and turn them into something else, into messages that beget more of those same feelings. With mindfulness and patience with ourselves and others, we can improve the integrity of our message and communicate what we really mean. We are *always* thinking out loud- most people just aren't listening for languages other than words. Your mood informs your magic, even the magic you don't realize you're doing. The meal you're making, the order you're filling, the chore you're doing, the favor you're giving- all of it is colored by your intentions, by what feelings you allow to inform the act. You may not think so, but people can taste the difference between a meal made in love and a meal made in begrudging martyrdom. I say so from experience, and Rain can confirm! I dunno about y'all, but I was GOING GOING GOING all through Taurus season, and going going going in the months before that. Yesterday my body was telling me to REST and I was STILL in energizer bunny mode, and I crashed hard because everything I did was infected with feelings of exhaustion, every new THING I tried became a mess, shaped by my exhaustion of spirit. Today, I am trying to listen to my body, to my best heart. I am actually resting, and letting my body tell me what that looks like. Right now, it's writing this post while listening to Rain make another banger. After this it will be watching a movie that makes me feel hope. May we all find ways of letting the summer breeze of Gemini carry our fear and shame away so that when we can inhale the winds of change, we exhale only love and light. Yep, I'm one of those Love and Light bitches now. :) How have you guys felt this past month? Have you been getting dragged by your hair, or have you been doing the dragging? What are you letting Gemini carry away? 🌙 Star