Mercury-Sun Conjunction in Gemini
Songs to Sing You; Messages Sent Along a Golden Byway
Playing with the double-bodied Twins these past weeks may have felt a little extra with Hermes ruling from his own home. But guess what? Their fickle caduceus has one more zing in store… a cazimi! On June 14, 2024, the Sun God and the Winged Messenger will come together at 24˚ 06’ Gemini 9:41 am PT (your time).
A cazimi (conjunction between any planet and the Sun) is a special benediction bestowed upon that planet, supremely revitalizing it for a new synodic cycle. Perhaps Mercury, in the final degrees of Gemini, has a golden message to transmit from the heart of the Sun. Prick up your ears and ready your pens; the sky will soon give way to a very different pattern. – Liz
Mercury in Gemini brings his comings and goings to the lap of an almost solstice-peaked Sun like pure wicked oxygen into a palace of wind and flame. Why just set the house on fire when you could blow your entire hot air wad on the wide, wide world? A big reveal is reveling in the pearly streaks of your nervous system, a proclamation, a cazimi shazam is ready to present itself. With charisma glinting off your silver tongue, find your nearest open mic and drop some really dope rhymes about reason. Speak on behalf of the unheard, feel your full frontal mania with abandon, and please, please, please, don’t forget to press record.
Shucking, jiving, flipping coins, and flirting with the grocer in a grand simultaneity of writing new code for a chatbot are all still on offer, but for a limited time only. While it may seem as if the world is your mercurial oyster, the fanciful flight of the heretic Twins is about to hit the beach. Those charming yarns you’ve been expertly spinning are about to become sentimental and a little sodden.
Foretelling all at this cazimi moment is our Lady of Fortune in her feminine sign of Virgo (29˚). She is ruled by this Mercury upstart and feeling the edicts of her high-flying host, she reflects everything Hermes cannot not say. Grain maiden in her fateful lunar shape she sorts grist for the mill of fortune’s wheel, chucking her plucky practicalities straight into the maw of Neptune’s deep sea haze (29˚ Pisces).
No matter how well you change a tire it won’t save you from a Tsunami. Even so, the mighty burst from the seed of this first quarter Moon predicts our efforts for trying. There is genius we are bringing forth, but it may not be as light as air.
Emerging from his star-spangled throne, refreshed and a little high on himself, Hermes fascinates in chasing tail. Besting the last of his twin spirit charms, he pursues Venus playfully until they finally slake their need for union at an all-you-can-eat crab buffet. Three days after cazimi under a sullen fallen Moon in Scorpio, the lovers will succumb to undulating surrender in an octopus's garden at 0˚ Cancer. All this high-wire fun is about to be doused by deep feeling.
The tidal wave of emotional intelligence that will become Mercury’s new inheritance is postponed by a few heady days of flirtatious, befuddled interchanges. Trining the young lovers from the socially glossy and relational realm of Libra, Luna turns the air breezy with gusts of seductive conversation (Later on June 14th through the 16th). Averse from both malefic planets and Neptune, Luna gives us a fleeting but sweet comedown on soft, puffy clouds before we plunge headlong into the conjunto primavera of generative waters. Though these few days may seem without consequence, they are, in fact, a transition point. Thus begins a change in the astrological zeitgeist as we shift out of the single sign pile-ups that have so far characterized all of 2024.
Consider this:
Since the beginning of the year, we have been through a series of zodiacal inoculations. Beginning with Aquarius, we received intravenous drips in homeopathic concentration of 5 astrological signs, repeating only the element of air. After we move through this final Gemini push, the sky begins to diversify, and the quality of the year will intrinsically change. Gather the medicinal insights you’ve received. Look back over your notes, journal entries, and intentions since the year began. Reflect on the potency of each sign’s season and how your life was lit up by their respective infusions.
In honor of Mercury’s big moment, ask yourself: How do thoughts create my world? Where do reality and imagination blend? What is the common denominator in all my musings? Herein, you may discover a divine message of where to direct your focus for the rest of the year.
Liz Wickhart is an artist, writer, and somatic educator. Facilitating in a partnership style, she and her clients stalk the wilderness of body, mind, movement, and stars in order to discover new options for mobility, strength, aliveness, and meaning.
🗣️ GEMINI POWER of VOICE!
My double Gemini heart swoons with your affirmations:
"With charisma glinting off your silver tongue, find your nearest open mic and drop some really dope rhymes about reason. Speak on behalf of the unheard, feel your full frontal mania with abandon, and please, please, please, don’t forget to press record."
🙌🏽 Will do! (singing joy for this Earth on my Big 65 Birthday on Sunday)🎤
Stunning narrative and narration!! Much gratitude Liz for these delectable words!!
Cazimi blessings to the AO community!!