Mercury entered Gemini yesterday at 1:41p PDT. Mercury represents our ideas, thoughts, and words – how we think and communicate with others. In Gemini, Mercury is especially active as it is the planet that rules the sign.
There will be quite a bit of communication over the next couple of weeks, and it’s likely to flow freely. With so much information coming in and so many ideas and words being exchanged, it may be a challenge to keep up with it all. you may find that you need to take a quick moment to assess if what you’re getting is actually fact or fiction.
However, talking with others may be as detrimental as it is helpful this time around through Mercury in Gemini. Mercury in Gemini tends to bring a big wave of speculation, hearsay, and gossip along with it. It seems everyone’s got ideas about what is happening right now, everyone is talking about those ideas, and not all of those ideas are based in factual truth.
The good news is that in the midst of so much information swirling about, Mercury in Gemini is a great opportunity for you to sort through it all and choose what your truth is.
There are four steps to this filtering process.
- First, with such a excess of communication occurring around you, are you going to the sources or the subjects of the matters you are hearing about? If so, have you heard both sides of the story or done any research to better discern the truth for yourself, or (be honest – this may not be an easy question to admit to) are you simply aligning with the side that you believe serves your best interests?
- Next, what actually rings true to you in all that you are hearing? Do the explanations, justifications, or excuses others give you for their behavior ring true, or do they seem duplicitous/two-faced?
- With the Sun still in Taurus for another 5 days, the truths you choose early on in this Mercury in Gemini cycle help re-enforce the foundation you’ve been building for your lives (or areas of your lives) these last few weeks. Which “truths” are you choosing to build your foundation upon? Do you believe that the foundation of truth you choose to build upon is solid?
- Finally, how are you sharing your chosen truths and/or ideas with others? Do you really believe what you are saying when you say it? What explanations, justifications, or excuses are you using to back up your own actions? And most important, do you understand what you are setting in motion with your thoughts and words?
Your answers to any or all of these questions through this process can give you valuable insights into yourself. Yes, you.
Often, we believe that information that comes to us (especially hearsay or gossip) is about other people. But once we share it or perpetuate it ourselves, it becomes about us. More important, it becomes about who we are becoming as we absorb all of this information and choose what we do or don’t believe.
So, who are you becoming as you absorb all of this information and choose what you believe or not? Who do you reveal yourself to be as you build your foundation of truth upon the information you gather during this 2013 Mercury in Gemini phase? Is your personal truth based on fact or fiction?
Mercury is in Gemini until May 31st, conjuncting with Jupiter in the sign of Gemini on May 27th (which could prove to be a very big communication day). Use your thoughts, words, and ideas to see yourself clearly through and after these next two weeks of Mercury in Gemini.
Thank you for reading and sharing! Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
