Image: Gemini - From and old postcard found in an antique store years ago
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw
Jupiter’s entry into mutable air-sign Gemini is the end and beginning of a 12 yr. cycle of understanding the ideas we live by and the ideas that matter, personally and collectively. In your own life think back to 6/17, 2012 the last time Jupiter entered Gemini and its stay until 6/27/13.
If you have planets or points in Gemini in your chart, they were and will be most activated by expanding or magnifying fresh ideas and opportunities. The other mutable signs Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces will also feel this transit strongly.
Jupiter stays in each sign for a year; therefore, it repeats every 12 years. There are no signs or transits that always produce positive or negative results. Usually, certainly in society and culture, we see a mixture. Individuals have far greater choice as to how to use this transit or how to respond to what this transit brings into your life.
Arenas activated during Jupiter in Gemini:
1. Communication: Ideas/Concepts, Learning. Reasoning. Contrasting. Sharing/Exchanging Language, Advertising/Promotion, Writing/Reading.
Communication systems/Computers/Networks
2. Education: Schools/Universities - Institutes of Learning
3. Travel/Movement/Curiosity/Networking/Connecting
4. Youth, Children, Students, Siblings
5. Legalities – Court Cases, Supreme Court
Jupiter in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, expands and proliferates Mercury’s essential function which is the focus on language, communication, ideas, logic and reasoning. Mutable signs like Gemini have greater flexibility to change their minds, ideas, and situations. They get bored easily and thrive on social mingling, gathering, and exchanging information and experiences. There remain young through their ongoing curiosity about life and people.
“Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.” – Charlie Kaufman
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Watch your language, what are you saying and what do you mean? Jupiter expands stream of consciousness tendency in Gemini. The impulse to express every idea or notion verbally. Sharing everything rolling around in your head can be exhausting, inundating listeners with words, words, and more words. You can guess what’s likely to happen, right? Lots of speaking without thinking or lack of accurate information. Propaganda comes to mind! Discrimination and clarity become extremely important. Consider the source - always! Best uses for Jupiter/Gemini: Openness and flexibility toward fresh ideas combined with critical thinking. Consider Nuance and Complexity, and what’s beneath the words. Use humor to make your point more palatable.
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” – Robert Frost
Other associations for Jupiter/Gemini: Hot air. Wind. Weather. Chatter. Gossip. Attention span. Risking to Speak the Truth. Verbal consequences. Stream of consciousness. Multitasking. Contrast. Boredom. Frivolity, Lightness, Mischievousness. Mimicking. Duality. Duplicity. Multiple key issues.
Antidote: Saturn (contraction) is the natural opposite of Jupiter (expansion). Saturn is currently in Pisces and will square off with Jupiter twice. The point being to curb the excesses of Jupiter and to help Jupiter refine and master its message. We’re likely to see this writ large in the news around these dates.
#1. Jupiter square Saturn Rx – 8/19/24 @ 17deg. – Events that happen at the first square are sure to be revisited/repeated/resolved in some way at the second square in December.
#2. JupiterRx square Saturn – 12/24/24 @ 14deg.
Because Jupiter in Gemini is ruled by Mercury, Mercury Retrograde cycles will be important times that highlight the various issues that we’re dealing with in society and culture.
SR = Stationary Retrograde. SD = Stationary Direct in motion again.
Mercury SR 8/5/24 @ 4 Virgo - SD 8/28/24 @ 21 Leo
Mercury SR 11/25/24 @ 22 Sadge - SD 12/15/24 @ 6 Sadge
Mercury SR 3/15/25 @ 9 Aries - SD 4/7/25 @ 26 Pisces
Jupiter makes two Stations or stopping points during its 1yr. tenure in Gemini. These are notable moments in the planet’s cycle. Station points emphasize issues that the planet has been promoting or expressing. These times are typically accompanied by an important news event that express the elements of the Jupiter in Gemini.
Jupiter Stationary Retrograde – 10/9/24@ 21 deg.
Jupiter Stationary Direct – 2/5/25 @ 11deg.
Another key planetary transit to watch is when Mars enters Gemini, staying for six weeks: 7/20 – 9/4/24. Mars will actively stir and stimulate the ideas that Jupiter/Gemini has promoted, advertised or embellished and seek to direct or redirect them to gain an advantage and take the lead. Strong opposing voices and opinions will be even louder during this cycle.
“The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we listen for what’s behind the words.” – Roy T. Bennett
“How well we communicate is not determined by how well we say things but how well we are understood.” – Andrew Grove
What are the ideas that are prevalent and promoted in culture and society today? Do you agree with them and are they helpful/useful for your personal or our collective evolution?
** A timely song, Words for Jupiter in Gemini by Missing Persons
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