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The Foolfor Gemini · Self and Identity
"You already know the answer. You're just scared."
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A youth on the start of a journey stands precariously on a cliff, but remains free of anxieties. Holding a rose, a small pack, and guided by a dog. They are unperturbed (and perhaps excited) by the cliff they stand on or the trials they will soon face.
Look closer.
Take a leap of faith to start something new and exciting. The past guides us through our inner voice and tells us to find a balance between the known and unknown. Remember, anxiety and excitement can feel the same in the body. Remain open to new experiences and trust in your own wild heart
Something is blocking you from your new adventure: perhaps fear of the unknown, lack of trust in your own intuition, or a true sense of needing more information before moving forward.
The fool card in earlier version of the deck was called 'the jester', evoking the idea of a court jester who can speak truth to a powerful king or someone who follows their own path. From the card imagery we can see that this card also references the Greek trickster god Hermes (notice the gold boots, the wand and the running position).
Its place in the deck.
Where it shows up.
The Fool for Gemini in Self and Identity
The Communicator
Uranus works on a longer clock than Mercury-ruled Gemini is used to. Whatever this is, it will not resolve on Gemini's preferred timeline. Upright, nothing has started yet, and that is the actual content of the card rather than a delay in it.
When reading about yourself through a Gemini lens, the Fool card says that you feel like you are a collection of different selves depending on who is listening, something you can understand if you just find the right framework, and a project that requires constant revision (or finally some rest). This has either made you genuinely adaptable and impossible to pin down in good ways or left you fragmented, unsure which version is the real one. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Gemini blind spot in it is stillness, silence, the moment when talking stops and you have to feel what you actually feel, the weight of having chosen one thing and not the other.
In practice that can look like something you cannot un-see about yourself, or a season ending. Whatever form it takes, it has not started, which is the whole point of it.
Somewhere else?
Keep the thread
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