![]() ![]() It embraces “both/and,” reveling and accepting the full spectrum of human experience. Represented by twins, Gemini (like Medusa) is also multi-headed. With Algol getting an auspicious, intimate audience with Mercury, this transit offers us the opportunity to use Gemini curiosity to listen to the survivors among us and in us. Thankfully, according to astrologer Shereen Campbell, Gemini is the zodiac’s most curious sign and the season is all about expressing yourself, learning and sharing information. ![]() “There’s this kind of feeling like ‘heads will roll,’” Nicholas says. “She is a symbolic testament to what happens when we are betrayed and violated on the deepest levels, and then blamed for that as well,” Nicholas said in the podcast version of her 2022 astrological forecast back in December, predicting a reckoning with misogyny, bodily autonomy and how society treats survivors.Īs Mercury backtracks through Taurus, moving ever closer to Medusa’s snaky head, the planet of communication will get close enough to hear her secrets - and righteous rage. Legend goes that Poseidon raped Medusa, and as punshment, Medusa - not Poseidon - is banished, turned into a demon to be forever feared.īut, Nicholas reminds us, Medusa is not really a demon. The name Algol comes from an Arabic word meaning the “demon’s head” and the maligned star represents the slain head of Medusa. “This is considered to be an incredibly challenging setup, one that points to the naming (Mercury) of suffering, betrayal and the horror of victim-blaming (Algol),” she writes. But Mercury, Gemini’s ruling planet, is gonna make us work for it first.Īstrologer Chani Nicholas says that one of the most notable things about this Mercury retrograde is that the planet is stationing direct near the fixed star, Algol. Summer fun is coming, and it might already be here. The general consensus among astrologers is that relatively chill astro weather is due after June 3rd when Mercury stations direct.
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