By Angel Lopez:
Gemini Season asks you to get even more curious with the life you’re living and to make decisions where you’ve been perhaps a little too eager to procrastinate or question. It’s easy to get lost in the back and forth of making choices, where you get easily pulled into an insecure sense of direction. No one wants to agree to something and then walk down the wrong road. But standing at the crossroads for the rest of your life will leave you wondering what could’ve been if you’d only taken one step. And the thing is, you have been taking some steps already. You’ve been working toward goals, or at least dreaming in ways that seemed foolish in the past. Maybe you’ve found yourself making personal breakthroughs or accepting inner truths that would make changing your reality less of a challenge and more of a possibility.
It’s very important right now that you believe your life to be a golden opportunity and not some scary battleground to survive.
That’s not always easy, given that the world can be a scary place. But if you can enable a greater level of self-confidence and point it in the direction of your goals and dreams, you’ll find that there’s magic in the form of new friends, inspired ideas, and perfect timing that can help you manifest some of that new reality you’ve been trying to find.
Read for your Sun sign but also check your Rising, if you know it.
ARIES
You’re being asked to really step out of the shadows and let yourself be seen, which allows for a great opportunity to showcase all of the personal growth you’ve been working toward. There’s a next-level sense of self-worth that’s pushing to emerge too, and it’s important that you begin to channel that into all of your words and communications. Give yourself permission to speak with more confidence. You can, at times, say things without thinking, but it’s time to say only what you believe. If you can’t stand behind your ideas and personal truths and also share them with embodied conviction, then you’re just giving off the perception of someone who isn’t connected to their truth. And you are! You just need to be brave enough to speak that truth.
TAURUS
Take the next few weeks to re-engage with your finances and make sure that everything you’re using your money for makes sense. What you spend on is a reflection of your personal values, so be sure that your money supports the directions of both your heart and your mind. You may find there are some imbalances going on, perhaps tied to an old version of you who made a decision that no longer aligns with who you are now. It may be as simple as finding an auto-pay that’s hitting every month for something you don’t even really use anymore. Make sure all of your spending is purposeful. Changes in this area will help you free up the resources that could be channeled toward new opportunities to fuel your current needs in a more fulfilling way.
GEMINI
It’s time to come home to yourself in a way you haven’t felt in a long time, or perhaps haven’t even felt ever before. In some ways, you’ve been navigating a “dark night of the soul” that has had you facing some of your craziest fears and longstanding demons. And you’ve had no choice but to face them, which has brought up some questions about your major life choices. Don’t shy away from this uncomfortable line of deep questioning; without it, the next chapter can’t begin. And you’re on the precipice of a major life shift that has some strong dreams-coming-true energy. If you can release the fears that have worn out their welcome, you’ll be able to embrace the optimism that wants to accompany the great changes that are heading your way.
CANCER
Lately, you may have felt like you’ve lost your focus or your clarity. You’ve maybe been stretched so thin that you haven’t had the space to truly feel into all the potential choices that have been showing up for you. There may have also been a lot of opinions and ideas coming at you from all directions that have potentially caused some confusion about what you actually believe or feel. Luckily, you’re entering a period where making decisions could feel easier to do. You just have to be careful that you’re not disorienting yourself by mixing up your intuition with desire. You don’t want to convince yourself that a thing is destined just because you’re eager to have anything that offers up an escape into some comfort and feel-good times. Make sure that it’s true.
LEO
You have a large community that you don’t always call on when you need them. If you’re in a spiritual rut, you have loved ones who can help you navigate any questions or curiosities you may have in that realm. Same goes for the mental, physical, or emotional. But you don’t always think to reach out and instead just commit to the same old road and people you’ve been swirled up into for the recent time being. The real tea is that you just rely a little too heavily on yourself to figure it all out. You care so much about showing up as a ball of light for others that it’s then hard to give them the darker or more confused sides of you. Remember that people want to help you, but you have to let them.
VIRGO
There’s been a lot of questioning about what matters to you and how those truths craft the personal philosophy you want governing your life and the choices you make. You’ve been learning a ton about how your beliefs co-create the reality you exist in, so you’ve probably had to face some needed adjustments to your mentality and the situations you’ve found yourself navigating. It’s now time to focus all of this newfound clarity toward your sense of purpose. How have your personal beliefs supported or kept you from pursuing a life that reflects the aspirations that sit in the depths of your spirit? And what changes can you make and embody that will help you live more closely in alignment with that greater sense of intention? A deeper belief in yourself is a good place to start.
LIBRA
What life questions lie deep down that you haven’t given yourself the space to fully explore? Have you ever wondered what life experience you’d call into existence if you had one giant wish to cash in with the universe? What about the subject you’d become a master of if you could take a pill that would allow you the time and mental capacity to sustain all the knowledge of it? If you could ignore all other life obligations and live anywhere in the world, where would that be? Now is the time to be interrogating yourself with deeper inquiries like these. Your life is actually creating space for you to live out one or more of the answers to questions like these, but you need to be considering the questions to recognize the opportunities when they reveal themselves.
SCORPIO
You’re in need of some exciting changes for your life, but you’re going to have to explore your relationship to the responsibilities you have now that no longer suit you. Do you have the courage to release them, or at least give them over to someone else? It may also benefit you to inquire within as to why you at times allow yourself to take on things you don’t actually want. You may find that you end up making choices more from a place of loyalty or fear that you’ll disappoint rather than a place of excitement or interest. What if you could just move forward with your own passion at the helm? Try existing in your current life from that perspective and rid yourself of at least one thing that doesn’t spark joy.
SAGITTARIUS
The people in your life hold the keys to your next level of abundance and growth, but you have to be willing to commit more time and energy to cultivating those relationships in more meaningful ways. Can you show up more vulnerably and show your loved ones what you need so that they can be more present for you? Your people want to show you love, but if you’re putting up a façade of “everything’s fine,” then they have no way of knowing that you’re in desperate need of a hug or word of encouragement. If you can challenge yourself to let people in more, you’ll find a much-needed sense of connection and perhaps even some answers to your most important life questions coming in from the people who know you best.
CAPRICORN
You’re moving into an era of greater power and authority when it comes to how you get to spend your days. You’re already one who likes to be in charge, so it’s challenging when you’re on someone else’s timeline or under another’s thumb. And you’ve probably felt a little stifled by needing to prioritize other’s needs before your own and not getting to fully call the shots. So how can you best prepare for a major life shift that will have you more in control and in need of some big decision-making? You can get clear on your own priorities. Consider what’s really needed to bring you joy on a daily basis. And make it important to channel new daily routines or habits into your life that will support those needs without worrying what other people think.
AQUARIUS
The goal right now is to put more time, energy, and focus into your creative output and flow. But that isn’t just in service to any artistic projects you may have at play, though those have the ability to grow and manifest in some very exciting ways in the next few months. This is really about having a more joyful approach to your life, to see each new day as a canvas waiting to be tackled and created from a place of playful curiosity and imaginative wonder. Try employing some colors from the crayon box of your life that you’ve never used before. Expand the belief you normally have in yourself and try not to allow that cynical side of you to come out. This isn’t the time to be practical; it’s time to be magical.
PISCES
You have a tendency to live mostly in the present, but you may find that right now you need to mine your past in order to get some insights about how to move more successfully into the future. Perhaps you have some decisions to make that mirror ones you had to make before. Think about what you’ve learned about yourself since then and how you can approach this current crossroads with more tact or confidence. Or maybe you’re about to repeat a scenario, just with different players. Could you be in a cycle that it’s time to break? Are you making similar choices out of ease or habit, rather than challenging yourself to do something different? If so, it may be a challenge you’re in need of in order to ascend to your next great level of personal growth.
Angel Lopez is a film producer, writer, astrologer, and co-host of the podcast THE SPIRITUAL GAYZ alongside his husband, our Spiritual Guru Brandon Alter. Angel has been studying and working with both tarot and astrology for twenty years. He hosted the astrology web-series ASTRO TALK WITH ANGEL and writes the blog ASTROLOGY REALNESS. He has also had pieces published on Upworthy.com and The Huffington Post.
On the film side, Angel produced the Sundance Film Festival award-winning film DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, as well as the features THE DINNER and STATE LIKE SLEEP. He also wrote and directed his own short film, I CAN’T WITH YOU, which had its premiere at the 2016 HollyShorts Film Festival, and he recently finished producing filmmaker Justin Simien’s second feature, BAD HAIR.