commoning
June 10th, 2021
What is made anew, what re-turns when the Moon spends that brief moment, under its own light, with the Gemini Sun? Where the Sun accentuates that mode of thinking that thrives in duality and separability, which cannot but presuppose and impose unity, the Dark Moon invites a meditation on thinking itself – but not on content (the what) of thinking but on the manner (the how) of thinking.
Thinking without duality, communicating and communing (commonning?) without the presumption of separation are gifts of this iteration of this most intimate moment in the Sun-Moon cosmic score. They are also precisely the kind of thing one may think is unwise to consider while in Mercury’s domain. New Moon in Gemini, in the COVID-19 era, invites a renewing of the intellectual basis for communication and cooperation, that is, it invites a thinking of and about existence that presumes material (not simply formal or relational) implication.
This conjunction of Moon, Sun, Mercury Retrograde occurring on the mutable Gemini 1st House contends with a demand for stability, for structuring, from Saturn beaming from its comfortable familiar spot (10th house). Thinking itself, that is, the stuff of the element Air, in full exposition (Sun and Ascendant with its ruler in dignity) is directly challenged twice from far away by the structuring force of Saturn and from its very core by the communing/commonning drive of the Moon.
The details about the shifting in thinking exposed by this constellation cannot be specified yet. For one thing, there is much that is yet to come to the fore -- as suggested by Mercury Retrograde making its way back to meet the Sun-Moon conjunction. To attach one specific direction to this re-orientation of thinking would be unwise precisely because this triad, Moon (Water), Sun (Fire), and Retrograde Mercury (Air) is spotted as such from here (Earth). It is, in fact, a quartet. As such, it is a cosmic presentation of complexity and implicancy, one which resonates thinking that is at once returned (Mercury Retrograde in Gemini) and anew (New Moon in Gemini) both on the First House, the one which is about how something appears, how something comes into spatiotemporal existence.
What does it all mean? Well, if it during this Mercury Retrograde it feels like your attention is caught by rethinking what is meant by relation, protection, and collaboration, well, trust it.