Initiations
A weekly podcast that keeps you up to date on the astrological forces at play. Each week we are diving into the mythology, archetypes and initiations present in astrology with your host, astrologer Jules Ferrari.
Initiations
FULL MOON IN GEMINI: FREE YOUR MIND
On Friday we have a Full Moon in Gemini and some fab astrology at play. This episode explores the nuances of this full Moon and offers some ways to utilise the experience.
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Hi, how are you? I just had to run into my studio to get the mic,'cause I was just driving and then thinking about the full moon on Friday, which I'm gonna talk to you about. And then I looked up the chart and then it was like, boom, boom. Like, you gotta say this and this and this, and this. Here I am. I have a lot to say to you. It's funny because this is a cla cognizant moon. The moon will be in Gemini for the full moon on Friday. It's an air sign. It's mutable. It's highly adaptable energy when, for any of you who have your moon in an air sign. This is what I would refer to as being a clear cognizant moon, meaning that your intuition, a part of your intuition. It's very, very specific to your entire chart or to key markers within your with, with your chart. But, uh. Your moon self, your lunar self, the intuitive aspect of you, the inner world aspect of you is very, very clear, cognizant, which is kind of the process that I weirdly just described, which is all the information just sort of rushes in or it's like, oh, I have, I'm called to say this thing. a key example that I often use with clients is, let's say they're doing multiple choice, quiz general knowledge. A clear cognizant person, their eyes will often just go to what the answer is and they'll know like an instinct activated through their eyes. It's this without having studied that specific thing. That's clear cognizance. Otherwise it's been referred to as the downloads, the, you know, I mean, all these things are simpl simplifications, aren't they? So on Friday we have this fantastic full moon in Gemini. The sun will be at 13 degrees of Sagittarius and the moon will be at 13 degrees of gem. So first I should start by getting into. S is experiential. S is the ruler of the ninth house. It's ruled by Jupiter, and it's a territory that is seeking to understand through lived experience. It's like a realm of. Experiential wisdom. People who have a strong ninth house or S Energy have often accrued regardless of their age, a lot of life, they've been out in the fields of life engaging deeply with it, eating from the buffet, of life. The less conscious expression of this is. A dogmatic energy that still places a middleman in between you and the juice of the intel. It's where there's still somebody who's interpreting life a system of life. Faith meaning to you. The advanced version of this archetype. Is one who's gone. Scratch that. I'm gonna go out there and trial this myself. I want to make sense of life myself. What is meaningful to me? Let's go try it out. It's a, it's an archetype, which can be incredibly self-righteous. It can be what's often referred to as one eyed. You know, it's my way or it's the highway. This is one expression of SAR energy, which is funny. I mean, it makes sense. It's the, the pendulum, right? That's one end of it. The other, aspect of this, the other end of the pendulum is somebody who is so genuinely non-judgmental because they have walked through life really, I mean had like an example I'll use from my own life, is there's been a range of things which I have deeply believed in and then gone, whoa, I found the golden ticket. This is it. I must now tell everyone I know. Hey guys. Here's the golden ticket. This is the best way to think about X, Y, Z, or, you know, whatever it is. I'm sure. I mean, we all have Sagittarius. We all have the ninth house. We all have Jupiter embedded within our psyche. It, it's a, it's a template that lives there, within all of us. So I'm sure we all have some experience in this realm. I have a lot embarrassingly, um, I'm actually, I'm not embarrassed about it at the time. Hell, yeah. Like I've reflected on a lot of this stuff and it's like, whoa, dude, you, you really thought you knew the truth with a capital T there. So for me, it's like getting into this reality channel is the way I like to think of it. And then I'm absorbing myself in this reality channel or a bubble, right? And we're all prone to the bubbles now. We're all very, very prone and engineered towards bias confirmation now. There's incredible technology that is able to. Look at your facial expressions. Note how long you're observing an image, and then bring you more of that. There's many examples of this in terms of like the tech and the social media. We know this, right? We know this. Anyway, I've been in these bubbles before and I'm like, this is it. Like I found it. It's all I can see. I'm in the bubble. So deep. As a very experiential person. And then at some point, naturally my Gemini son kicks in and is like, yo, dude, but what about this? Or, why don't we try this? Or Have you seen it from this perspective? And then I pop out of that reality bubble and it's like, I've just climbed to the top of the tree and I'm able to look around and I'm like, whoa, I thought this tree was. Life capital LIFE. I thought this was the truth of existence. It's one tree in an endless goddamn forest. It's precisely why I having studied astrology and then going into a religious period. Left the religious, the preaching thing, it was a preachy thing. And even though I've just explained to you that I've been preachy as hell before, I really didn't like the idea that my job was to impart to people these specific words of God in order to. Save them. I was like, no, that does not sit with my values. What does sit with my values is reengaging with my astrology studies and practices and being able to hold space and speak into the multitudes of who a person is, not what, ancient doctrines. Say is the formula of leaving the karmic cycle of life and death, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sorry, I'm literally, it's like I've just, I am sniffing at the fumes of this full moon and, my brain is high in. Chitchat. This is why I can't do these things really outside of the week of the experience because this is where I write from and create from. It's like I need to be in the experience of it to speak to it. Okay, let's regain. One's thoughts. I'm still here. So the high expression of this is non-judgmental because it's been judgy and it's had that experience that I just told you about, which I've had many times before when I was a vegetarian. and the high expression is nonjudgmental because it's walked through the initiation of being judgy. Recognizing how limiting that perspective or belief or structure of. Reality is, and then bursting through it and really reaping the benefits of that experience, which to my way of thinking is being like, wow, okay, we're all on our own path and good, we are meant to be. There's not a one size fits all formula. Sagittarius, the ninth house, Jupiter. It's related to meaning. Remember, Jupiter is in cancer until July next year. So we're, we're not even at the halfway mark with this transit. What is meaningful is felt now more strongly than it has been in a long time. It's harder to ignore the feelings. Of what is meaningful to us and what is not. What is not is going to feel more draining, more discordant, what is meaningful, and then doing more of what is meaningful. In this Cancerian realm is going to feel deeply nourishing. So while we're in SGI season, like I said at the top of the episode last week, we're standing on top of a mountain and we have a 360 degree view of our life of being a human, of living on this beautiful planet. Of being a symbiotic part of this planet, of being an extension, an active, moving, conscious extension of this planet, and we're able to cast out a very wide view in sad season. Part of the magic of this territory is we feel. And we're attuned more to the possibility of things here. The cup is half full and it's beautiful. Uh, there's optimism now with the moon being exact on Friday morning, I think it's 10:14 AM. S Australian Eastern Daylight savings time. So that will be European Thursday night. That will be, oh, is that right? Yeah. And th that will be Thursday Arvo, America's time-ish. the moon. Being full, we have the conscious spotlight. This experiential wisdom lived experience spotlight is casting its gaze, its awareness onto the unconscious expressions of Gemini. And this is incredibly important to me, and this is why I'm like. So revved up and excited to talk about it because it deeply links into a very, very big theme of next year and, and the years to come, which is when Uranus, reenters, Gemini, which will happen in April. I'll be talking a lot about this on Saturday's workshop on the astrology of 2026. Do grab a ticket, come along to it. I'm so excited. About telling you more about it. Um, we tasted this for a few months of this year. I think just off the top of my head, I think it was July until the first week of November, Uranus moving into Gemini that it's information bombardment. To a whole other level. It's many other things. Many very, very positive things, and I'm gonna speak about that on Saturday. But here I'm talking about the unconscious expressions of this moon. And so I'm gonna bring in the less mature expressions of what this transit could be. Gemini is mutable, so is Sagittarius. It's wide open. It's curious. It's very, very high in openness, which is they, they're, they're great things. It's also boundaryless in the sense that we are in a time of information overload, and we are the neophytes in this experience. Right. We're, we're finding our footing here and we're humans. A lot of how we, we are experiential by nature. A lot of how we find our edges is by bungee jumping over them. What is deeply important is the boundary, the intentionality, the awareness around what is the information that I'm taking in. How long am I spending on my device? How long am I spending on Instagram or whatever the other ones are like, for those of you who are who, scroll TikTok. I don't know how you do that. I'm, I'm worried for you guys. Like, to me the, the, the pace of Instagram is, is already too fast, but to be scrolling through. Moving images, one after the other, after the other, which is my sense of what TikTok is. Having looked at it once, I don't know how you're doing that. What on earth is that doing to your brain? Because I know what, I know what being on Instagram and Pinterest is doing to my brain and it's, it's not cool. And I've had to bring in. So many more boundaries, and, and discipline with myself for that. I use Opal I, which I really recommend that helped me so much. I think I just paid for the year. I have blocks between nine to five, Monday to Friday, I can't access my apps. I can still go through it and get access, but I have to take a deep breath. I have to go through this process so I can catch myself being so unconscious in picking up the thing, looking for the dopamine here, looking to dissociate. Gemini can be. A parrot, it can be information for the sake of information, and that's something that we've all been inundated with. We've all imbibed information for the sake of it. It's very, very different from intentionally choosing a book to, or a record. To go and listen to or to sit and read in your hands, to be inundated with a whole range of things that you have no idea what they're going to be, is a completely different experience. So, sorry, I talk about this all the time, but it's just, I'm probably gonna for a while. Um, so what, what I'm very excited about here and I will. I've just jotted down my, opening thoughts of what my post will be about this on Instagram, which is where I, where people find my business. So yes, I understand how wacky it is that I'm like, whoa, this stuff's bad guys. But also like, read my post on Wednesday, you know, space junk. I've said this several times and I'll continue to, one way to think about this, especially with an Air Moon. One that's mutable and open and, boundaryless, like Gemini is to visualize your energetic field. Filled with the millions of things. Photos, quotes, memes, jackets, hotties, whatever, people falling over, whatever stuff that you watch. There's millions of those things just floating around. In your energetic field, like space junk, and one thing that we get to experience on this full moon or contemplate, and then really get into next year is how do you as an individual with your own individual makeup, how do you process. How do you process all of the information that you take in every day? What do you have in place to process this stuff? Because it lives there unless it is processed and your intel, your subtle. High level natural magic, natural intelligence. Okay. Your intuition has to like flip between all these bits of space junk to, to get into your orbit. That's one way of thinking about it. I mean, I think intuition comes from the inside, but the space junks inside, you know. Um, but let's just keep it as this visual, like it's, it's outside, it's in your energetic field, which is an extension of yourself. So what I'd love for you to contemplate, especially when we get towards this like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then we'll be in the full moon for three and a half days, the full moon phase. What do you, how do you process. This is a Gemini moon. This is one that wants to talk it out. As I've said here before, I verbally process all the time out loud. I was very enraged yesterday for great reasons, and I realized I couldn't let that stay in my body. So I screamed into a pillow, had a great big cry, even punched some stuff. But I felt so good because I processed the emotions. And I felt them, and I got them out of my body. But here, it wants to be talked out, it wants to be written out, it wants to be sung out. It wants to be communicated, through you what needs to be said. Your emotions, your intuitive self has things to say to you. Now one of the interesting parts here is I'm recording this on Saturday the 29th of November, and I think that it's today. That is the last day of the Mercury retrograde. So I love that. Right? This is a Gemini full moon. Of course. We want to see what mercury's up to the ruler of this space, and it will have just been in its first four-ish days of stopping. Its retrograde. So the motion is changing. There's momentum Again, the energy is shifting here. It's going from less internal and it, and it's, it's beginning to move forward again very slowly at first. The other interesting marker here is that on Friday we will be having what's called a grand cross. So the sun and the moon will be opposite. And the nodes, they're always opposite each other, but they'll be making a perfect square to the full moon, the sun moon. They'll also be at 13 degrees of Virgo South node, 13 degrees of Pisces North node. This is called a Grand Cross. This is amazing, and my sense with this. Is the unconscious aspects. Here are the south node in the moon, both ruled by Gemini, Virgo, and yeah, Virgo and Gemini, both ruled by Mercury. Sorry. So on one hand that South node in Virgo has been releasing our. The ways that we do things that are deeply ineffective, but more so it's been making us conscious of our expectations of ourselves. Are they inherited? Are they societal, are they even in line with us? We are making a lot of space this year as we've been speaking about all year, and the other area is. Where am I just taking unconsciously in so much information about things that is deeply effing meaningless to me, the meaning aspect is s and that's where the consciousness is here in this imprint. What's meaningful, what am I engaging with? And then with the north node there in Pisces, what that's bringing to the table is leaning in to the whispers of you, the whispers of your soul. The whispers of your intuition and then taking the action and doing the things that are meaningful to you, which is the sag. What we're releasing is this is what I should do. This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm expected to do. This is the way that I'm expected to do this, meaning I'm absorbing. All of these thoughts, all of these beliefs, and I need to sift through this and get intentional as hell around the why. Okay. I think that's all I have to say. So we don't wanna be mimics, and again, join me on Saturday because so much of what we're getting to and moving towards is more of ourselves and less. Of these external, layers that just operate like space junk, they throw off the compass and you know, we find ourselves, I don't know what's a mundane example. Suddenly we're wearing an outfit that, was informed into our subconscious repeatedly when we were dissociated. On Pinterest and Instagram, and we were, communicated to that this is the echelon of style right now. And suddenly you find yourself in the mirror wearing the outfit and you feel completely disconnected from yourself. You know, that's a very mundane way of saying this. People go years and years walking a life that is not theirs. And sometimes it's in incre. I I am, I'm very experiential. So I think it's incredibly important to have those experiences we need, like we are our own teachers. Yeah, I'll leave it there. Do join me on Saturday. Um, when you listen to this, I'll be on a tropical island. Um. I'm flying out on Monday and coming back on Friday, and very excited for some downtime. Um, and also just the space to, well, I'll be, I'll be parenting, but finding these pockets of just percolating on what it is that I want to say to you on Saturday. There's so much to say and, you know, it's always important to, offer things that are also digestible and practical. It's going to be a very interesting year. I'm into it. We're still in the snake until the middle of February, right. So. Whatever you feel is like that you've outgrown, really sit with that and remove it. That would be the fast track, thing that I'd love to say to you. Just remove it. But sometimes when we're shedding a skin. We need to move between the new and the old of many, many times before we become so distasteful of the old. And it gen genuinely feels so unnatural that we're finally able to release it. So do it in your own time, but really be aware of it. And as we lead up to this full moon. You know, be aware of an uptake in that, that feeling of anxiety or being fried, wired, you know, the burning eyes like I'm taking, how much, how often am I picking up things? How often am I trying to distract myself? How unconscious am I being and what I'm taking into my life? And there's no shade here. We're all in this experience at varying levels of the experience, right? we wanna have free minds. That's what I'll leave you with. We wanna have free minds. It's a big theme of next year. So again, Saturday, Saturday the 6th of December at 9:00 AM. Sydney time. However, whoever signs up, you will receive the replay straight afterwards or within that day. So do come along. I'll make it as practical and digestible and hopefully somewhat enjoyable for you. Hope you all have a really great week.