New Moon in Gemini | May 22, 2020 - casting a new spell, telling a different story, activating a karmic situation around love or money, being wise and practical with your resources and your heart, delusion and bullsh*t detector on please

On Friday, May 22, 2020 at 1:38PM EDT the Gemini Moon meets the Gemini Sun at 2 degrees giving us this month's New Moon; our annual New Moon in Gemini.

The Moon and Sun are together at the same degree. The skies are dark. Then as time moves on, the Moon becomes visible, a little more visible everyday.  

This is called waxing and this is the two weeks of the month when things are naturally growing.

The Gemini New Moon is ruled by the planet Mercury and collectively rules our 3rd house. Gemini reigns over - the flow of information, technology, communication, our mental processes, words, language, ideas, learning, teaching, writing, commerce, our local community, our neighbors, our siblings, our transportation.

This Moon is remarkably similar to our New Moon eight years ago - the Solar Eclipse of May 20, 2012 - an event so powerful it was pointed out by the ancient Mayans as the rare date the Earth, Sun, Moon and the Pleiades would align to create a portal for incredible TRANSFORMATION.

This was the beginning of the Mayan timetable that culminated with the "time runs out" ending of their calendar - December 21, 2012.

(interestingly it is this year's December 21st when Saturn meets Jupiter at 0 degrees Aquarius that restarts the world)

We talked about Venus retrograde's eight year cycle HERE.

Eight years ago we had the Moon/Sun at 0 degrees Gemini squaring Neptune (and asteroid Hygiea), Mercury conjunct Jupiter (ruler of the North Node) and Venus, retrograde at 23 degrees was trining Saturn. The North Node was in Sagittarius, the South Node was in Gemini.  

Today we have the Moon/Sun at 2 degrees Gemini trining Saturn, Mercury (ruler of the North Node) is conjunct Venus (and asteroid Hygiea) and Venus, retrograde at 20 degrees is squaring Neptune. The North Node is in Gemini. The South Node is in Sagittarius. The same players talking to each other from different places. Amazing, right?!

(an interesting, or maybe not, tidbit that I happen to know about singer Adele, random I know, from doing Adele's chart back in the day, no, not for Adele :) is that she has her Mercury (news, information) conjunct this New Moon and her Venus (beauty, self-esteem, love) conjunct this Venus, so now, and also, eight years ago she had this same alignment, except the nodes of fate were reversed back then - on this date eight years ago she was in the news for winning a bunch of Billboard Music Awards and now she is back in the news for losing a bunch of pounds - interesting, right? And BTW Adele was born with her Venus exactly conjunct Chiron - the wounded healer ... so likely she attracts experiences to heal wounds around valuing herself, her creative contribution and even her appearance in big, splashy public ways during these times.)

So, what does all this mean? For the rest of us, and, not just Adele?

Well, let's unpack the chart!

The Sun/Moon are trining Saturn and Pallas - both retrograde in Aquarius. Mercury, ruler of Gemini and so ruler of this lunation is in Gemini, too, exactly conjunct Venus and exactly squaring Neptune.

The trine to Saturn creates stability/practical and workable limits and speaks of the longevity, and responsibility encoded in what is started now. Maturity. Patience. The trine to Pallas speaks of a clear, detached focus. Pallas connects the dots and can see what is working and what isn't. Both Saturn and Pallas are retrograde. Neither got very far into Aquarius when they needed to back up. Something needs to be re-vised/re-viewed. Both these trines are waning, so this in our rear-view mirror. We have had to adjust to (Saturn) a change of boundaries/rules, a loss of structure and (Pallas) to a need to revise our strategy/our plans, our way forward.

The Sun and Moon are applying to a square to Mars - the Moon will get there today, the Sun not until June 6th. The Sun and Mars started a new cycle back on September 2, 2019, so this is their waxing square as that story plays out. This started in Virgo, and yes, September feels like a lifetime ago, but was really only a few months. Back then there was a need to do things right. To be careful and practical. To take care of our health and our work. Also to stay flexible because Virgo is a mutable sign.

Now, during this New Moon (and over the next two weeks) we meet an obstacle to whatever work was seeded back then. The Sun will be in Gemini and Mars in Pisces this time. This is tension/frustration that will require expression through action, but with Mars in drifting Pisces, direct action is unpredictable. So, again, we will need to stay flexible and make incremental adjustments as we go.

Squares with Pisces energies (the final sign) sometimes bring endings. Often the kind of endings where things just kind of drift away. Choices/decisions at the time of this square with Mars, could be driven by impatience. We can't do this, but we can do that, so let's do that even if it makes no sense/cents. At the New Moon, right now, we get the emotional impact of the Moon squaring Mars. Running in water/talking underwater. Buyer's regret. Passive-aggressive nonsense. Torn between what is practical and what we want .. but do we really want it. 

Asteroid Hygeia is still conjunct Vesta - this speaks of our continued need for safe/hygienic practices to guard what we value most. So we will continue to wash our hands (Gemini rules our hands). Also, we will want to think about - what we are thinking about/putting into our brain or saying to ourselves and other people. We can't feed ourselves a steady diet of bad news and expect to be healthy.

Mercury, ruler of this lunation and also in Gemini - where he/she is strong and at home is cuddled up to Venus (retrograde) and both are squaring Neptune.

Mercury is flying through Gemini and Venus is backing up here, taking her sweet time. Mercury meets up with her, brings her some news. Our thoughts can return to past relationships. The things we used to love. Communications from ex's - even people/unbalanced situations from past lives. Unfinished business via our relationships, resources, money, women, our Gemini natal house theme.

Mercury and Venus are exactly squaring Neptune.

Here's the pitfall.

With Neptune it will be hard to know what is real. Confusion. Rose-colored glasses. Things can be disappointing/not as they appear. People can over-promise and under-deliver. Anything that looks to good to be true, is too good to be true. There is something here we don't want to look at too closely and it is exactly the thing that will sabotage us/trip us up. We could overpay. Agree to something we later regret because things don't turn out the way we are expecting.

So, our New Moon start and this Venus/Gemini wanting will be challenged by illusions (something looking better than it actually is), lies, unrealistic ideals/dreams. The truth is hard to know because with Neptune something is always hidden. We aren't seeing/hearing the whole story right now!

Neptune also represents the virus - so we have this New Moon wanting this fresh start and there is this little fellow named corona getting in our way. We haven't risen from our sweaty deathbed sheets just yet.

Gemini is the sign of the twins/choices/decisions. So, there could also be two different relationships/two creative projects/two financial purchases/two deals that must be decided between and with the Sun and Moon squaring Neptune and trining Saturn -

we will want to CHOOSE THE MOST PRACTICAL, SOLID PATH. Well, maybe we won't want to. But the one that makes the most sense/cents will be the better choice - follow those trines to Saturn and Pallas. Keep in mind they are both retrograde in Aquarius, so are pointing toward us re-working something that is future-focused.

On the other hand and there are always two hands in Gemini - squares to Neptune may bring illusion and confusion, but they can also bring us intense creativity, compassion and intuition.

They can be a pathway to activation of past-life trigger points (what did we come here for/what did we promise to do?). Squares to Neptune are wake-up calls coaxing us to restructure our reality toward a higher purpose. Pray. Meditate. Ask your ancestors/your angels/your muses for their guidance through this.

Coming as part of a powerful New Moon this Neptunian contact is particularly important now. And keep in mind our connection to 2012.

What were you doing/thinking/believing around May-June 2012? Here is where our 2012 ascension energy really starts to connect to 2020.

And keep in mind the North Node is in Gemini, too, making this New Moon even more powerful and important! Set those intentions!

The next three Moons are eclipses, so for the next two weeks we will have more power in our own hands, to drive this train, than we are going to see for awhile - so where are we taking this thing? Somewhere warm and sunny? Who's with me? It's a brand new world baby even if we are still stuck in the house!

GEMINI NEW MOON AFFIRMATIONS

This is a great time for affirmations for Gemini themes - movement, flexibility, wit, communication, logic, social graces and ease, siblings, local issues, teaching/learning, mental anxiety, areas of life where you are seeing double or doing two things at once, our nervous system, hands, wrists, arms, shoulders and our lungs.

AFFIRMATION TIPS: get into a good frame of mind - always make affirmations from a  positive place (meaning both happy and certain) - write your affirmations down by hand in script, speak them out loud - then release your attention from them knowing that your intention is known.  

Know what you seek is seeking you (Rumi). Know these things are already yours.


xo all

Keep in mind with this powerful Mercury we are literally breathing life into our reality through our words now. Choose carefully. Pretend there is a reporter following you around recording everything you say. No babbling. No gossip. No verbal nonsense. Use serious language and note I don't mean harsh language. Critical words can push things teetering on the ledge right over the edge here. Splat.

Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday, May 21, 2020 - the dark of the Moon, sliding back into our groove, new ideas/information. revising our plans, looking again with fresher/younger eyes

 
The Moon, exalted in Taurus, but also dark - reflecting a minimal of the Sun's light (good for flying under the radar, but not so good for making a big splash - keep this in mind now) - will sextile Neptune at 3:18PM EDT bringing us back into the flow/groove with our art, music, imagination, spirituality, especially as this stuff connects to our resources, self-esteem, income or values.

She will trine a retrograde Pluto late tonight (EDT) and then go void at 4:01AM EDT off a trine to Jupiter (also retrograde). Maybe something powerful cooking with our goals/authority figures/financial/intimacy/third party situations.

After a five hour void tomorrow morning she will move into Gemini, preparing for tomorrow's big New Moon that pulls us back to the Solar Eclipse of May 20, 2012.

We'll talk about that in a post later today.

We also have the Sun trining a retrograde Pallas (in Aquarius). Good for a light/maybe via new information or a conversation or idea to be shined on the plans/strategies we are re-working. Pallas connects the dots/sees what needs to be done and in detached Aquarius can get at it.

She is at the space Jupiter and Saturn will meet in December kicking off a new 20 year cycle, so Pallas - our wise warrior woman - starting a new cycle with the Sun here first matters. She is creating a trigger point. Something about now will connect us to then. Trines are smooth energy - we won't have to push/stress.

The Sun is in dualistic Gemini. There may be another way we hadn't thought of before or an idea/solution that pops into our head. We have to stay flexible.

Aquarius is fixed air, so Pallas (as us) has maybe been too sure of herself here. She (we) gets this breath of fresh/changeable air now at just the time she has turned around to re-think, re-vise, re-view something. Pallas, our strategic/warrior energy is ENERGIZED.

New facts/ideas can come to light. Maybe not through intimacy/or mind numbing research, but maybe even through the words of a child. Light conversations. Humor. New patterns. Communications can be illuminating, so reach out. Talk. Listen. Read. Write.

Again, as always for the next 18 months, the need to bring EVERYONE, AND EVERY PART OF OURSELVES, TO THE TABLE!


Back with that New Moon post.

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - frustration, fighting about old stuff, tested by our ability to go with the flow, it is what it is

Today looks kind of testy. The Moon in Aries (as us) wants what it wants. And she wants it NOW.

She sextiles Venus (retrograde in Gemini) at 4:16AM EDT, so the early morning can be flavored with that. Good vibes. It's chatty/flirty. Nice energy for light/humorous communications and social interactions.

Then as the morning continues the situation grows more intense/serious.

She moves into a square with a retrograde Pluto at 11:50AM EDT and then goes void at 4:33PM EDT off a square to a retrograde Jupiter (both in sober Capricorn and answering to a retrograde Saturn).

So, our emotions today are colored/influenced by these challenging squares. 

This is tension/frustration via our goals, authority figures, control, financial situations, third party situations, intimacy - that lunar square to Pluto can bring a feeling of life and death to whatever we have going on. We want what we want. We want to control. We want to win. And so does everyone else.

Keep in mind lunar aspects are fleeting. The situation may continue, but the intense feelings won't.

Then our Aries Moon squares Jupiter (retrograde) - we want to move forward, maybe we want to be independent, do what we need/want to do, but that open door/path forward is hard to find! Challenges with our beliefs, education, travel, the media, politics, religion can be pulled into the mix.

This is all kind of feisty/argumentative energy. Keep in mind Mars (and the Aries Moon is answering to him!) is in Pisces now - we are either GOING WITH THE FLOW or we are paddling against the tide.

Either way - things are going to go the way they go.

Also, keep in mind all the Moon's interactions today (Venus, Pluto, Jupiter) involve retrograde planets. So these tension/challenges are about some old situation(s) that becomes hot and relevant.

The Moon is void from 4:33PM EDT until 10:10PM EDT when she moves into Taurus - where she is exalted. She will have one final square to Saturn (1:57AM EDT) that might pull the challenges into tomorrow morning for some people, but from Taurus she will make nice will Mars and Neptune, both in dissolving Pisces. And the Sun moves into the lighter energy of Gemini tomorrow, too.

These problems (more exactly our intense feelings about them) can blow/drift away as fast as they showed up!

So, take it easy on yourself (and others) today. Use the intense emotions that come up to show you what really matters rather than making impulsive/destructive moves - although, yes, sometimes impulsive/destructive moves are needed.

The Aries Moon - especially when challenged - brings out the angry, young man in all of us. Our temper will be short - as will everyone else's because this is collective energy. Keep this in mind.

Going with the flow doesn't mean stuffing our emotions. Just know the blocks are there for a reason. People keep asking me when this "will be over" and I want to say, "this was over in January".

We are building a  new world and this is the re-do part where we are deciding what goes and what stays - what stuff from the past is going to stay in our life and what has a deadly expiration date and we are holding onto it anyway, even as it eats us alive. The eclipses - three of them (!) - starting in just two weeks and happening two weeks apart, will sort the part out that is outside our control.

For now, don't be an asshole. Take care when driving. Holes punched in walls will just have to be mended later.

Get some exercise. Dance it out. Chop some wood. Mars needs to move. Use him or he'll use you!


xo all

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Weekly Astrology Forecast for Creatives | May 17th - May 23, 2020 - things get busier but lighten up, careful with big decisions or risky purchases, new moon offers fresh ideas and perspectives plus re-connecting and re-building opportunities

SUNDAY - Sun trines Jupiter
WEDNESDAY - Venus squares Neptune
THURSDAY - Sun into Gemini
FRIDAY - New Moon in Gemini, Sun trines Saturn, Mercury conjuncts Venus and squares Neptune

The Sun moves into Gemini and life get busier. It should feel less heavy and lighter though as we get into more and more air and less and less earth. There are multiple Neptunian contacts this week - so expect facts to become even more slippery (excellent for inspiration, imagination, healing and connecting with the past).

This would NOT be the best week to make a big decision, but there are opportunities through small and flexible steps, maybe one step forward and two back, to start something that lasts!

SUNDAY - we talked about the Sun's (Taurus) trine to Jupiter (retrograde in Cappy at 27 degrees) on the Sunday daily and last week's weekly.

Here is a light shined on expansion/growth. With Jupiter retrograde maybe rewards for past work or opportunities from the past that come back around.

This continues a chapter the Sun/Jupiter started back on December 27, 2019 when they last met - we were in-between Eclipses then - and this story concludes on January 28, 2021 when they meet again and start a new chapter. No Jupiter/Sun meetings (conjunctions) at all in 2020 and that is very rare and tells us alot about this year!

So, the story they started at the end of last year, moves forward now. Trines remove the brakes/obstacles and this trine is with our Taurus house. So what house does Capricorn rule in your natal chart? What house does Taurus rules? What are the themes of these houses? These houses are always working together, but now they have some real power behind them and are super-charged!

Here's MONDAY since I probably won't pop in with the dailies until Tuesday -  the Moon's only aspect  on Monday (in Aries - so nurtured through independent or physical action, initiative, passion, men) is an opportunistic sextile to Mercury - home in Gemini now - at 1:14PM EST. This is great energy for fresh communications/conversations/sales/meetings/commerce. Good for sibling, local community and transportation situations. Good for mental activities. Independent work.

Tomorrow there is likely to be added pressure/tension, so make the most of this day. We'll talk about Tuesday in the lunar dailies.

WEDNESDAY - here is where a retrograde Venus makes her second square to illusive Neptune.

Be careful now. Things are not quite what they appear to be. This is NOT the time to make any big decisions/to be deciding between two things or making an important financial decision/spending a large sum of money. Sort through the facts. Think things through. It won't be easy to do this with foggy Neptune in the mix, but something almost surely looks better than it actually is or has something that is hidden and less appealing that we can't see right now. 

We had this aspect back on May 3rd, so we could be re-vising, re-viewing something from that time period. It will be too easy to ignore the facts and undermine ourselves with this energy, so slow down. Take care to not just be saying what people want to hear or hearing what we want them to be saying. Read between the lines. This aspect is in play all month, but very strong today.

THURSDAY - the Sun moves from earthy and stable Taurus into airy and fluid Gemini.

Gemini energy talks. It listens. It questions. It perceives what isn't said at all. In short, it doesn't miss a trick. With so much to see and so much to do and so much to communicate - there is not a moment to waste on any of those roses we were smelling last month/week/yesterday. Things will not be quite so black and white as they were in Taurus. It's a time to be curious. Ask questions. Change our mind. Try different things. We've been going deep and now we want to go wide. 

Since Gemini rules information we will have alot coming at us over the next few weeks. Not all of it will be true. Gemini (the twins) is the sign of duality - of black and white, of feminine and masculine, of truth and lies. Nothing will be totally one way or the other or quite what is seems now. We will be faced with dilemmas and changing viewpoints.

In the end contradictory thoughts and things can come together with this energy, but it takes work, an open mind and the ability to stay flexible.

We all have ideas about how things are supposed to look and work that we've carried since childhood (and from our ancestors/past lives). We have these beliefs and then we, subconsciously, look around for the things that support these beliefs and that's what we notice. Then our beliefs gets reconfirmed and strengthened. Even though these beliefs are no truer than someone else's beliefs that reflect the very opposite thing!

(this would be a good time to post on Facebook what we are doing and not what we are believing - let's give everyone a break and declare a moratorium on passive-aggressive and "know-it-all" memes and post about our lives again)

With the Sun in Gemini and all of us burning Gemini fuel - we can give ourselves permission to embrace a more wide open receptive state. We can move against the beliefs we've been strengthening since childhood if they no longer suit us.  

See what house holds Gemini in your natal chart - this space is communicating with you now. During Gemini season we will be busy. Starts and endings will be fast and furious, but lasting .... that's very questionable.

FRIDAY - this is the big day and we will unpack this further in the New Moon post.

We have the Moon meeting the Sun at 2 degrees Gemini ushering in a new lunar month. The New Moon/Sun will trine Saturn making whatever is started now - extra sticky! New information, communications, ideas come in. Mercury (ruler of Gemini, and so ruler of this lunation) will be conjunct Venus -  so we could get some good news! - although there is a big BUT here - sorry! - his square to illusive Neptune could indicate hidden information or things seeming better than they actually are. Any Neptunian contact makes things cloudy, so watch for miss-information, any escape/addiction/self-sabotaging tendencies. Again this is a communicative New Moon and this is a good time to reach out to others.

We'll talk about the New Moon in detail in its own post!


xo all


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Today's Astrology Forecast | Sunday, may 17, 2020 - an old opportunity comes back around, a lucky break, erasing some of those dots we've been connecting, two sides to everything now

When we wake EDT, the Moon has completed her journey through Pisces - a space she loves. She has sextiled the Sun at 3:14AM EDT and gone void off a sextile to a retrograde Jupiter at 3:59A EDT. At 9:36AM EDT she moves into fiery Aries and will sextile a retrograde Saturn at 1:29PM EDT. Lots of lunar sextiles. Lots of opportunities to feel good. 

The sextile to the Taurus Sun is this month's Waning Sextile - this is more dreams being made real energy. The unbounded, imaginative and compassionate Pisces Moon making nice with that stable, lasting and practical Taurus earth.

This is also the day the Sun trines a retrograde Jupiter. And, yes, this is within the same day the Moon sextiles Jupiter. Rewards for past work. Lucky breaks. What we have (that Taurus!)/what we value EXPANDS. Remember Jupiter is retrograde so going deep instead of wide right now and moving backward, so maybe the Sun shines a light now on something we had previously missed/discarded. Is there something more here? We don't have all the doors available we had last year, but there is a door and the Sun will find it!

The Sun will trine a retrograde Saturn this week, too - maybe an opportunity comes back around. Look for it. Make the call. Send the email. Make yourself visible. 

Sometimes when we think we are waiting for something to happen, life has already tossed us the ball. We have to make a move with it and set a response into motion. We think we are waiting on something else when that something else is actually waiting on us! Keep in mind that North Node in Gemini for the next 18 months - there is no one great move/answer that will make everything better, instead there are a gazillion options and moves. Let's not be so afraid of making a mistake. Just start small and be flexible enough to pivot as needed and we can't lose!

This is also the day Pallas stations retrograde at 0 degrees Aquarius. So, she (as us) got all the way to innovative/future-focused Aquarius and now almost immediately has to turn around/go back over something. Pallas is our wise warrior woman who, unlike Mars who will just sock someone in the nose, thinks and plans and strategizes. Like Saturn before her, she doesn't get very far into Aquarius when she is held up. She moved outside the box and now is headed back into the box!  

Something about our thinking/planning, the way we are connecting the dots - needs to be re-vised/re-viewed. 

Keep in mind our North Node in Gemini's dual nature. Everyone gets a seat at the table. Our closed minds will be the death of us/set us on the path for a very restrictive future.

Think outside the box AND inside the box.

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Saturday, May 16, 2020 - relationship tension, wanting something from the past, smothering, mothering, bending over backward to keep the peace, rocks and hard places, decisions, going with the flow

The Moon, nurtured by "going with the flow" in imaginative Pisces meets Neptune at 2:34PM EDT, squares Venus (retrograde) at 4:35PM EDT and sextiles Pluto (retrograde) at 11:14PM EDT.

The Pisces Moon meeting ruler Neptune in his home sign is UBER Neptune. Boundaries dissolve. This could be inspiration/compassion/delusion. We are feeling very comfortable with sensitivity, maybe with delusion, maybe with escape. It's Saturday .. I think ... so that feels about right. We will be very psychic.

Just take care with any over-the-top illusional hunches that push us into something that has no grounding in reality. Great for art, music, healing, charity work, spirituality.

By mid-afternoon we are approaching that square to Venus (who wants us to have a little bit of everything and especially anything we have had or have wanted before) - this is tension/a challenge maybe through a conversation/decision involving relationships or money or our resources/beauty/self-esteem. This could also be a kind of final straw, followed by a "drift apart" conclusion. Mercury is a bit stressed out with Pluto at the moment, making us more prone to black and white/doomsday, suspicious thinking or using some kind of 'deadly' language. Ouch.

From Pisces point of view, Gemini's need to go this way and that way tends to complicate things. Keep this in mind.

By the time the Moon meets Pluto we will know just what cards we are holding - having been to hell and back/death and rebirth with this subject - or maybe this is what we are dreaming about. I am fairly certain I will be sleeping. Either way there is opportunity here between our Pisces and Capricorn houses. This could be more making the dream real stuff - always good to find those times during the month and put them to good use!

Another thing we have exact today is Juno (our marriage archetype retrograde in partnership/balance focused Libra) inconjunct Ceres (in Pisces) at 6 degrees and since we just talked about that retrograde Venus squaring the Moon (in Pisces) this might amplify and color that tension.

So, maybe one partner wants to keep things on an even keel/wants to keep things light, and this can be a romantic relationship, but can really be anyone we have a contract/agreement with (it doesn't have to be a written contact, but there is usually some kind of societal expectations here) - while the other person is doing some kind of sacrificial/martyr thing or some kind of extreme lack of boundaries or idealization or smother mothering. This can also be about situations where it feels like one partner holds all the cards and the other feels very out of control.

This is an inconjunct, so a rock and a hard place.

We don't want to lose ourselves/over nurture/try to control someone AND we don't want to gloss over problems and pretend they don't exist.

The Moon in Pisces can be self-sacrificing and also self-sabotaging. Does the person we are 'helping' actually need our help?

And, on the other hand, if we are smiling through the 'helping' that has gotten on our last nerve (doing that bending over backward thing to keep the peace), maybe it's time to talk this thing out.

Don't expect all the wrinkles to be ironed out - we will be back here in mid-July with Ceres retrograde and Juno direct - BUT with Juno answering to Venus in dualistic Gemini - there will be more than one way through these kinds of relationship challenges.

Stay flexible. Compromise. Know that people and situations from our pasts/what we once loved can come back around if we still have strings attached to them.

We can use the Moon in Pisces to feel what the other person is feeling/to go with the flow.


xo all

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