Unsteady Rhythms

I imagine that as Mercury’s retrograde has edged closer and closer, you’ve felt trade winds at your back like a sail unravelled. The steady metronome of quick wit and cunning guile that guides you so gracefully through life’s ups and downs has been shaken. Don’t fret; you’ve forgotten the chaos of last year, the year before and the year before. “April is the cruellest month,” but May has the most uncertainty; it’s full of nasty surprises if you’re not conscious of the winds changing.

Gemini season is the time for movement, for melodies, for the steady rhythms of Taurus to be shaken into a wild sprint. That’s not to say it’ll be easy, especially considering that Jupiter, Mercury and Venus are entering mutable signs this month. Relationships that felt so certain the night before will be weakened, inflexible and even dull. But amor fati, love fate.

Romance may well be wild, untethered to the ground, floating — new flames from old embers drifting through the air. Be sure to play with fire, but do so deftly. Leos and Saggitarius are of the same heart as you, full of colour and personality, but may quickly engulf you if you aren’t wary. An eclipse on the 26th of May in Sagittarius is likely to agitate adventures to new restaurants and bedrooms. Communication will obviously be complex, layered, paradoxical and coy. Both you and your others may flee each other before hurtling back together. It’s up to you to unravel the knots, to be intuitive, not impulsive. Your intelligence as a Gemini demands it.

Whilst spring has sprung in the romantic department, be sure you don’t crash into financial cliff faces. This retrograde season is like any other, and no matter what good fortune Jupiter is trying to provide you, this will inevitably be the season of missing emails, lost receipts and scandalous gossip. Communication on haywire, hon, it’s time to fly-by-wire. What others mistake for flightiness you know is essential self-care, following your compass. You will not be one to waste a catalyst, a new opportunity or a way to change your thinking for the wiser. No matter what others feel, you know more than anyone how vast your horizons are. Be like the wind; navigate wisely.

Tornadoes appear outside the office or zoom call too, be wary of friends caught up in the orbits of yesteryear. Be empathetic to their struggles and desire to return to an old normal, especially after the year we’ve all had. But some tender advice from an adaptable and curious air sign like you may be precisely the push they need to find a new, healthier normal for themselves.

Understandably, Gemini season hardly seems like a relaxing Bahamian beach. Frankly, these next few weeks will feel like you’re storm chasing through Tornado Alley. Your relationships will be firestorms, friendships flighty and your work opportunities left to Jupiter and fate. But recall the months before, the zoom calls in which nobody had anything new to say, rewatching Girls with your partner for the infinite time, seeing your coworkers dress down from blazers to shirts to hoodies. 2020 was a year without Geminis, without dynamism, inquisitiveness distorted into fear as you doom scrolled your phone for rising cases and decreased flights. After a year without curiosity, without variety, without new, embrace the raw, imperfect, upturned world; it’s the one made for Geminis to thrive in. Embrace the whole so recently returned to you, the world of late-night sushi and drunken confessions, overlapping deadlines and too much wine.

Remember, you are a Gemini. These are the months you’re made for.