Front and center among November’s myriad transits was a shifting Grand Water Trine that is again activated by tonight’s Full Supermoon in Gemini, whose ruler Mercury in Scorpio is now direct and applying to form this trigonal aspect to Jupiter in Cancer, as well as Saturn and Neptune in Pisces after the lunation peaks.

One difference is that Mercury, who kept varying company until Venus’ ingress into Sagittarius on the 30th, is now moving alone across the last decan of the Scorpion’s penetrating and transformative temple.

This Full Supermoon in Gemini arrives as a ‘multiple choice’ counterpoint to the singular energy Sagittarius season often brings, a fork in the great road still slightly obscured by fogs of unknowing.  Especially with Mercury’s rule from the fixed water sign, which bears also the ‘Phoenix’ archetype, it is like a shedding of skin we know is taking place, with our next form yet to be unveiled and our direction at a crossroad of faith and contemplative doubt.

Jupiter’s rulership of Sagittarius brings the cohesion of ‘one’ leap, the moment we are compelled toward and leaning into, and Mercury’s rulership of Gemini poses the puzzle of multiplicity, of many paths back to the garden.

The Sagittarius parts of us are not necessarily ‘unto one’ in the ravenously devotional sense that Scorpio preceding might be… more like ‘on one’ in devotion to the quest — and the quest will take us many places.  It’s a matter of allowing ourselves to be fully there for each arc of it.

With all the mutability of late and the temperamental nature of a Sagittarius stellium overhead, it’s possible that even in trusting the gut, knee-jerk reactions have been an enemy for us and the need to balance deep wells of emotion with a healthily detached perspective is more relevant than usual.

It’s important to remember that the zodiacal namesakes of the Twins and the Archer, Gemini and Sagittarius, are both double-bodied signs.  While the archetypal bouquet of every sign energy implies its ‘opposite’ across the wheel, the mutable signs carry with them a particular dynamic wherein two opposing energetic complexes are brought together in one entity.

While Gemini and Sagittarius can share complementary mixes of sociability, sportiness and ‘ideas as action’ in their merriment on the polarity playground, Sagittarius is more prone to inflammatory impulses, high-handed moralism and manic crash-outs when external events compromise its singular inner vision… when the arrow misses its target, one might feel.

The Gemini parts of us, essentially the ‘Divine Heckler’ archetype embodied, view these contradictions of ‘will and way’ as inherent, and in their poking and prodding Gemini might be seen as corruptible, or at least less serious for ‘welcoming the breakdown’… but perhaps their airy perspective helps safeguard them from (as much) spiritual crisis when paths diverge from that grandiose design.  Such is the difference between Jupiter’s ~11.8 year orbit with a year in each sign, and Mercury’s 88-day flitting about between Sun and Venus, messages sent to Earth in rapidly re-contextualizing fashion.

Just as Jupiter’s temple of Sagittarius and Mercury’s of Gemini evoke the one and the many, the arrow of inner vision and the multiplicity of avenues it might take… these living gods ride a seesaw of doubt and faith.  I’ve seen a number of different jovian pulpits in this life, and one thing that I’ve heard even biblical literalists get right is that very dynamic — faith is not had in spite of doubt, but rather cannot exist or be reached towards without the blade of mind sent to question and clarify the object of its aspirations.

Swim well stargazers,

—A.B.