But as the planet of communication slips back into Taurus you’ll need to trust your intuition more than your eyes and news feeds to get through the tense moment. Mercury retrograding through Gemini asks you to double and triple check that all the info and acronyms on your event fliers are correct. With the sun in your sign, nothing can rain on your metaphorical parade, even as your ruling planet makes troubling astrological weather. That’s just the sort of dynamic Gemini energy we need in our lives right now. As always, this season reminds us that pride is a riot - even, and maybe especially, when it looks and feels like a party. Read on for what the signs can expect in Gemini season 2022, along with some of the city’s best ways to celebrate, support and bear witness to the survivors in our community. That voraciousness for diversity coincides with SF’s return of its legendary Pride parade and the first annual Juneteenth Festival hosted by the San Francisco Citywide Black student union, along with countless other events that capture the area, and its inhabitants, at their resilient, multifaceted best.
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It embraces “both/and,” reveling and accepting the full spectrum of human experience. Represented by twins, Gemini (like Medusa) is also multi-headed.
With Algol getting an auspicious, intimate audience with Mercury, this transit offers us the opportunity to use Gemini curiosity to listen to the survivors among us and in us. Thankfully, according to astrologer Shereen Campbell, Gemini is the zodiac’s most curious sign and the season is all about expressing yourself, learning and sharing information. “There’s this kind of feeling like ‘heads will roll,’” Nicholas says. “She is a symbolic testament to what happens when we are betrayed and violated on the deepest levels, and then blamed for that as well,” Nicholas said in the podcast version of her 2022 astrological forecast back in December, predicting a reckoning with misogyny, bodily autonomy and how society treats survivors.Īs Mercury backtracks through Taurus, moving ever closer to Medusa’s snaky head, the planet of communication will get close enough to hear her secrets - and righteous rage. Legend goes that Poseidon raped Medusa, and as punshment, Medusa - not Poseidon - is banished, turned into a demon to be forever feared.īut, Nicholas reminds us, Medusa is not really a demon. The name Algol comes from an Arabic word meaning the “demon’s head” and the maligned star represents the slain head of Medusa. “This is considered to be an incredibly challenging setup, one that points to the naming (Mercury) of suffering, betrayal and the horror of victim-blaming (Algol),” she writes. Astrologer Chani Nicholas says that one of the most notable things about this Mercury retrograde is that the planet is stationing direct near the fixed star, Algol.