Wednesday Vibes: Channel Your Inner Gemini with Mercury’s Curiosity & Intelligence

Written by Jamie Epstein

It’s Wednesday, August 28, & Moon is in Gemini, in the starsapace or Nakshatra called Ardra. Gemini is the third sign of the natural zodiac & thus equates to the third house, which is different for each of us depending on rising sign. If you’re a Virgo, for example, your third house is Scorpio. Anyhoo, the point is that the third house is all about ego, about how we define ourselves, build our character. As kids we do this by fighting or competing with siblings & friends. We do this through sports, academic interests, creative pursuits. we do this by being curious, by trial & error: tennis? Yeah, no. ayurveda? yes, please! we are an ongoing project, ever refining & redefining who we are. The key is to keep it going, to stay curious, b/c ego’s agenda is self-preservation, which can keep us in a perpetual cycle of rinsing & repeating. Gemini invites us to keep it fresh, to keep inquiring,  b/c inquiry keeps our brain lit up & thinking is Gemini’s best sport.

Ardra keeps it fresh just as rain keeps the earth fresh by washing away impurities. Doesn’t everything look bright ‘n’ shiny after a rainstorm? Aren’t the colors more vivid? The stormy, transformational energy of Ardra may not (!) feel pleasant in the moment, & we may want to cry & scream (into a pillow, under a bridge), which is ok-fine, even perfect, b/c the presiding deity is Rudra, aka “the howler.” So go ahead & cry if you want to—it’s your party, but not a pity party.

It’s the tenth lunar day (tithi), the tenth phase of the waning Moon, until early afternoon, then the eleventh. The tenth tithi is associated with Dharma, fulfilling our destiny, the eleventh with spiritual practices like meditation. To paraphrase Gandhi: our beliefs become our thoughts, which become words, which become actions, which become habits, which become values, which become our destiny. How’s that going? Need to meditate on that?

Wednesday, like Gemini, is ruled by Mercury, who makes us curious, gives us discriminating intelligence, wants us to use our mind. Which, while he’s been retrograde for the past few weeks we’ve been doing to rethink & revise, plan what & how we want to redo. Well, Merc is now moving forward, so it’s time for us to move forward, to turn thoughts into actions—to remedy what needs remedying, to reorganize, redo.

And that’s your daily bliss! Which is a sort of lunar weather report. May it allow you to align with the day’s cosmic energy so you can find & create a little more bliss.