Return to your primal nature🍃
Today, December 15th, 2024, at 3:01 a.m. CST, there is a Full Moon in Gemini.
The Moon’s Degree Symbol:
“A nude man with a tail.”
This degree demonstrates hidden abilities we all have, and reveals that we have a freedom that can never be denied. It reveals to us what we can all do through our infinite connection to Source that we all have and insists that the impossible is possible and freedom and happiness are simple because they are in our primal nature.
As this degree would suggest, there’s nothing to it!
The greatest gifts to manifest are freely given; no strings attached.
The feather on the tail connects to the Gemini principle of flight and freedom. Air elements have connections to sky spirits and winged ones.
A free spirit trusts the wind. His bare skin senses the slightest temperature changes and can tell the wind’s direction by feeling the breeze blow across his naked flesh. He holds a feather at the end of his tail and positions it to feel the slightest shift in a wind current.
This symbol communicates directly with the wind spirits who bring wonderful uplifting news. Positive thoughts allow us to transcend our limits.
The tail symbolizes this direct connection to Source, our primal natural self.
We are still in our original and pristine condition. This connection cannot be broken. We have a direct link to our ancestors, and we can communicate with them. They have the answers to our deepest questions about ourselves regarding our limits.
We are the Source, the center point from which everything emanates.
Since we are the Source and have a direct connection to ourselves at all times, when we ask, we shall receive.
We are granted instantaneous relief and satisfaction in having our questions satisfactorily answered. We are inherently free from limits, at least as far as we can tell. Happiness is simple. As simple as waiting naked and feeling the breeze on your body. Knowing yourself to be the wind, the sensation, the skin, the source. All in one.
This direct sensing and knowing yourself as the source of the all is so simple. You are already doing it without knowing it.
We cannot fail at being this. Nothing can stop you from knowing yourself.
The nudity symbolizes protection. This degree gives us an unbreakable trust and a faith that everything is already taken care of. We are both naked and sensitive and fully protected from harm.
The man’s nakedness represents our recognition of our Primal nature.
When we are free from the grasp of a certain belief or presumption about ourselves or our limits, we are safe from harm. Nothing is stopping you from having what you lack. Whether it's answers, security, protection, miracles, luck, harmony, love, etc.
When you know yourself to be the source from which all things emanate, we see that we are already that which we are seeking. And so we no longer have to seek. We are already protected. Our questions have already been answered.
Anything is possible when we do not impose our assumptions of limits onto everything we see and know.
Please take a moment and listen to the audio meditation track for Gemini 23°.
OPPOSITION:
SAGITTARIUS - GEMINI
A dream-catching web forms a protective screen upon the mask of the fencer.
Reflecting the Ojibwe Legend
A grandmother watched patiently each day as a spider spun his web above her sleeping place until one day her grandson noticed the spider and tried to kill it.
“Don’t hurt him,” she told the boy in a soft tone, surprising him.
“But grandmother, you should not protect this spider.”
When the grandson left, the spider thanked the woman for her protection and offered her a gift. “I will spin you a web that hangs between you and the moon so that when you dream, it will snare the bad thoughts and keep them from you.”
At this, grandmother smiled and continued to watch the spider spin his web.
The Ojibwe people, often referred to by their anglicized name, "Chippewa", so insightfully understood the importance of dreams, especially in children, that they attempted to assist a child’s ability to receive good dreams and filter out dark or negative dreams with the use of a dream catcher.
Infants were given protective charms in the shape of “spiderwebs” that were hung on the hoop of a cradleboard. Traditionally, two spider webs were hung on the hoop, and it was said that they protected the child from harmful dreams and other influences in the environment.
The dream catcher is a simple and reliable tool for keeping nightmares from reoccurring by eliminating the fear and resistance that is the perpetual force at work.
The feathers on the dream catcher are there to preserve innocence, protecting children from beliefs about death and limits so that they can play and be free and limitless in their dreams and waking experiences.
We can become so influenced by a thought that we become powerless slaves to our beliefs and lose ourselves in the content of these nightmares.
The symbols in the dream catcher can be used to heal our perspectives by helping us rid ourselves of beliefs that keep us in a perpetual nightmare.
Dream catchers have been used to receive prophecies about the future, the name of an unborn baby, answers to prayers, spiritual guidance during difficult times, and a sign of what happens in the afterlife.
Those who worked with dream catchers sought to interpret the symbols that appeared to them. Each symbol is an invitation to a deeper connection between them and their maker.
Making significant breakthroughs in regards to the meaning or significance of these symbols leads us to want to honor them. After all, they lead us back to the Source and the truth. In this way, all dreams are gifts or invitations to come back to our truth and original condition.
How uncanny these symbols resemble and express our most private yet impersonal absolute truth. We meet ourselves through these visions that God/the creator gives to us freely with no strings attached.
Dreamers create charms and images to symbolize these profound glimpses and gifts. Interpreting symbols lubricates the process between waking experiences and dream experiences so that we are more lucid. Symbols of significance give us a memento for our glimpse of the truth so that, each time we see it, we are in self-remembrance and praise for Source.
The Sun's Degree Symbol:
"A statue of Isis covered by a transparent veil. "
This degree in its highest octave is about unveiling, revelation, and remembrance of ourselves.
These themes would have never come into our midst during this time if we were not under the influence of this degree’s lowest octave. For there to be a need to reveal or remember ourselves, we would first have had to veil, conceal, overlook, or forget ourselves in the past.
This degree is revealing to us how easy it is to lose ourselves in our beliefs and how they veil the reality we live in, keeping us seeking for something which has no end.
Sagittarius strives to unveil truths by trying to understand things conceptually, that is, with the mind. The mind of a Sagittarius is always trying to stretch to its utmost capacity to grasp the infinite truths. Still, the greatest lesson that the centaur can learn is that the truth can’t be approached through the agency of the knowledge-seeking mind. So the deepest truth for Sagittarius is the understanding that what it is searching for is not out of reach, somewhere at the end of a life long teaching. Sagittarius's belief that wisdom comes from any teacher or teaching will always take them further away from the truth they seek.
The Sagittarius always has their bow drawn. The mind is always aiming for a higher truth to be realized. The truth it seeks is often a distant target for which can only be reached by going out as far as it can. When they don’t have their bows dawn they feel an aimlessness and fear that they will never reach some higher knowledge. All that Sagittarius has ever needed to do is recognize its own essential nature and access the source of inherent knowledge.
To do this, it must see itself clearly, and to see itself clearly, it must ‘look at’ itself. However, just as the beam of light from a flashlight can be directed towards an object but cannot be directed towards the bulb from which it shines, so awareness, in the form of attention or mind, can direct the light of its knowing towards objective experience but cannot direct itself towards itself.
We cannot direct our mind towards the experience of being aware; we can only direct our mind away from it. Therefore, it would be more accurate to say that awareness must relax the focus of its attention, or disentangling ourselves from the drama of experience, thereby allowing our attention to return to or come to rest in ourselves.
Thus, the Highest Octave of Sagittarius releases their bows, relaxes, falls back, or sinks the mind into its source or essence of pure awareness, from which it has risen.
“This returning of awareness to itself, its remembrance of itself — being aware of being aware — is the essence of meditation and prayer, and the direct path to lasting wisdom, peace, and happiness.” — Rupert Spira.
Isis symbolizes Source.
Originally, a symbol of wisdom, initiation, and the Mysteries, it has successively become an image of protection, of the secrets of nature, of hidden history and truths to be revealed. In each historical context the Veil is an invitation to delve further into the truths which have been hidden in plain sight from the eyes of those who will not see.
This ties together the universality of the divinity of Isis—consonant with her identity with Neith, the Primordial Source of all that is, with the evocative symbol of the Veil of Isis, concealing unglimpsed mysteries. It is that symbol, the Veil covering the Source of All from our gaze, that has inspired philosophers, mystics, and artists for two millennia.
Her veil communicates that you can’t know yourself unveiled through theoretical knowledge, reason, or conjecture, nor with the senses, the external eye, or interior sight or perception. No one sees behind the veil but the real “I”. If our focus is exclusively engaged with the drama of experience, we seem not to notice our awareness. Awareness seems to be forgotten, hidden, or veiled by experience.
It is impossible to meet Isis or perceive her as an object or image.
“When you try to look for her, you are not going to see her. We are looking in the wrong direction so don’t look. Don’t try to perceive her.” —Francis Lucille
It is so very tempting to try to imagine her. When we go looking in our imagination for her we will not find her. Life empties out of meaning and value and becomes false and repulsive.
“In our self-remembering, our own essential irreducible essence stands revealed. The word ‘revelation’ comes from the Latin revelare, from re-, meaning ‘back to the original’, ‘again’, or ‘anew’, and velare, meaning ‘to cover or veil’. Thus, a revelation in not a new experience but rather the laying bare or uncovering of an essential truth that was previously obscured or distorted. As such, meditation or prayer is the unveiling of the mind and the subsequent exposure of its essential, irreducible essence.“ — Rupert Spira
Nature gives all with generosity and benevolence.
She has no pit
Or shell
She is all at once
If you succeed in making your intuition
First penetrate within,
Then return toward the outside,
Then you will be instructed in the best way.
O mountain of unexplored bosom,
Mysterious in broad daylight,
Above the astonished world.
Nothing is within,
Nothing is without,
What is inside is also outside.
Seize, then, with no delay,
The sacred mystery in broad
daylight.
— Goethe, Genius Unveiling a Bust of Nature.
The unveiling of Isis is a revelation of the real “I”, the point from which everything emanates. This revelation leads to contentment because the mystery has been solved. All our questions have been satisfactorily answered. Therefore, we have no more questions and we can sit in silent presence and be content.
Uranus’s Degree Symbol:
Taurus 24° – “Bees returning to their hive.”
This degree symbolizes the sacred return—the culmination of inward discovery manifesting outward as pure service. “Bees returning to their hive” evokes the image of Buddha returning to the marketplace, but this return is not about selling enlightenment or seeking recognition. Enlightenment cannot be commodified; it is not for people to claim or possess. Instead, this degree speaks to the selfless sharing of one’s essence, the infinite source of happiness and peace discovered within, radiating outward as effortless devotion.
The hive represents the collective, the shared space of human existence, where all energies converge. But before the bee returns, it must journey outward, searching and discovering the wellspring of abundance within. This inward path is essential—it is where the veils of vices and temporary attachments fall away, revealing the eternal source of clarity, love, and creativity. Once this connection to the divine is found, the return to the hive becomes an offering, not of ego, but of the boundless joy and inspiration that comes from alignment with the infinite.
This degree asks us to confront our modern experience, where addiction to sensationalism and external validation has dulled our ability to experience life as the masterpiece it is. We often lose ourselves in striving for attention, identity, and acclaim, mistaking these fleeting pursuits for purpose. Yet true purpose is found in stripping away these goals, resting in the simplicity of being, and surrounding ourselves with the beauty of life as it is.
When we realize that art, creativity, and even life itself are not about others—not about gaining credit or validation—the truth becomes clear. True art, like true existence, is a dialogue between you and the divine. It is not for consumption but for celebration, an act of praise for existence itself. As Francis Lucille reminds us, the divine shines through us in all we create. None of it is ours to claim; it is a reflection of something greater.
To align with this truth requires rebellion—a quiet but profound refusal to participate in the social economies of striving and approval. True freedom comes not from seeking but from releasing, from stepping back and simply being. This rebellion is deeply Uranian, rejecting the commodification of self and the false promises of cultural success. Instead, it invites us to live in praise of the divine, to let go of ego, and to create as a natural outflow of alignment with our infinite source.
This degree symbol is a call to embrace the balance between the inward and outward paths. The inward path leads to the discovery of peace and love within, while the outward path is a return to the world, where we offer that love and wisdom in service. Yet this offering is not for validation or acclaim—it is a celebration of divine connection, a reflection of the boundless creativity and joy that flows through us when we are aligned with the infinite.
Ultimately, this degree asks: Have you found the abundance within yourself? It reminds us that acclaim, validation, and striving pale in comparison to the infinite presence already available within. To return to the hive is not to take but to give; it is not to seek but to share. This is the truest freedom—to rest in the simplicity of being and to let the divine move through you, creating not for others but as an expression of love for all that is.
True life, like true art, is selfless and free—a joyous reflection of the infinite.
