I am ready to smash my face into the cake of a good friend and lodge myself between two perilously dirty strangers. This desire to be close, seen and adored courses through me like a city water supply laced with love potion.
Yet, as the reservoir swells, the planet who bides over love - Venus, is retrograde and dissolving in a thick cloud of fog machine smoke ~ the planet of fantasy, Neptune, supplying visual effects.
Thus, as the ravenously verbal Gemini season begins, so does the movie of our soul-wish to be together again...to be famous, to wear perfumed leather and rampage the town with an incestuous circle of friends. But, what seems a penchant for being seized by the glamour of social life and capitalism may actually be an opportunity to inch closer to ourselves. Venus retrograde seeks a reassessment of our values - what's beautiful and worth loving. This retro-fairy dust glimmers a hint of events in 8 year cycles. Think: what were you doing May/June of 2012? In what ways were you learning lessons about love and self-worth ? What are you decidedly ready to do different this time ?
“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes” - Mark Twain
With Neptune's glossy, lustrous surface - we will be tempted to turn this rhyming into unrestrained poetry...over-exaggerating both the pleasure and pain of our intimate connections. But what may seem like a desire for the taste of another, is actually a hunger for ourselves ~ From May 12-June 25th, we have an opportunity to heal the Gemini split within - to depend less on outside conditions to fill where our consciousness is not yet whole. Only when we are complete within ourselves, can we feed cake to others in equally satisfying servings. Indeed, an exciting potential is possible - to re-set our heart, recommit to beauty and wake up to the riches of actual love & humanity.