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The Moonfor Gemini · Health and Energy
"Not everything needs to make sense right now."
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A moon shines down on a dog and a wolf howling at the moon while a lobster comes out of the water to bask in its glow. The moon reveals what is hidden in the dark and asks us to be charged with our own magic. The moon is highly tied to your emotional brain and to water signs-- it asks you to pay attention to dreams (or nightmares) especially. Light and dark are at play with the Moon card (perhaps your shadow self needs to talk to you)
Something is coming up from deep within, a perhaps unpleasant truth that needs to be spoken (maybe a relationship isn't what you actually want, you are mad at your friend but didn't want to say, or an opportunity you thought you wanted just overwhelms you). True self love accepts the parts of us that aren't as fun and light. You must open yourself up to the parts of you that were hidden and hear what they are saying and show them love.
You are disconnected from your own emotions (perhaps avoiding a big or deep truth that might cause pain). Avoiding your feelings can backfire in unexpected ways so the work to unblock is important; but beware that unblocking yourself from deeply rooted emotions can be painful
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The Moon for Gemini in Health and Energy
The Communicator
Moon is a luminary and Gemini runs on Mercury, so this card lights something up rather than fixing it. It is asking to be seen before it is solved. Upright, this is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
When reading about health through a Gemini lens, the Moon card says that you feel like your body is a problem to research, something you understand in theory better than practice, and a thing you will address once you find the perfect plan (or once you finally stop waiting). This has either made you knowledgeable and eventually proactive or left you reading about the symptom for months instead of calling the doctor. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. 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 the body making the decision for you, or a genuine reset. Whatever form it takes, it is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
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