Gemini Horoscope for August 2013

Your personal times are certainly still changing, Gemini. This is a month of reorientation for you, following the month-long retrograde of your ruler, Mercury, through your sector of resources and values. You are seeking to relate to others around you in a new way, and perhaps to neglected parts of yourself also. You have been taken rather far toward the inside, and are now seeking to integrate the information that you have gained over this sojourn, like a deep-sea diver coming up with treasure. This month is an excellent opportunity to journal or put your thoughts down in written or even spoken form. In this you are aided by the recognition of the paths of others, in some ways different but in other ways similar to your own.

As the month begins, you are getting into your feelings from some new and different angles. With your ruler, Mercury, just finished retrograding through Cancer, and with an emphasis on the Water houses of your solar chart, and with momentarily the Moon in your own sign, this is a softer moment than you might be entirely comfortable with, depending on how true to type you are as thinker and mental enthusiast. Certainly as a Gemini you do not necessarily fit the classic type, but taking that abstraction literally, your dominant conscious function from birth might be considered to be thought over feelings. If so, then this summer has been an exploration of the other side of the equation, your deeper feelings that go beyond words. This can be an extremely valuable exercise for you since thinking and feeling eventually balance out, as noted early in the last century by seminal psychologist C. G. Jung.

The most significant factor in the current month's astrology regarding the so-called Water houses, corresponding to the realm of feelings, might be Pluto, currently located in your sector of intimacy and personal transformation. Pluto is triggered in the month's early going, by its opposition to Jupiter in Cancer including the New Moon time of August 6th, and then again in mid-month, when also Mercury's aspects to trickster Uranus and to Chiron, the Wounded Healer, come into effect. With Pluto so activated, you have therefore been involved for many months now in a deeper exploration of the feeling realms, resulting in a greater degree of intimacy with others, and also within yourself. This is a potentially scary journey of discovery that pays off with patience and with the application of continuing and uncertain effort over time.

As well as the Water houses, the Water signs are also invoked in this summer's configurations, with Neptune in Pisces and Saturn in Scorpio continuing in their trine formation. Although no longer so directly triggered as they were last month, these two planets in combination reflect on the struggle to make more concrete the interior world of unconscious places that we find within. Since Neptune remains at the very top of your solar chart, while Saturn occupies your sixth sector of day-to-day experiences and sense of mission, you have a goal of getting more familiar with whatever you can unearth of your unconscious process.

Chiron, the Wounded Healer, which, along with Neptune, resides in your prominent tenth sector, is also activated this month, upsetting the apple cart of entirely smooth sailing; in bringing up old wounding this has as well the entirely beneficial effect of allowing you greater access to those trauma-based parts of yourself that have perhaps been hidden away from your conscious awareness for many years. The initial difficulty lies in acceptance of yourself in these dark and strangely lonely and cut-off places. Not that the rest is easy but like the journey of one thousand miles, that first step is the most important.

Gemini Horoscope for August 2013

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