Gemini Star # 7
It is time in the cycle of evolution for Gemini to reclaim the inner mind. This inner mind is the observer, but not the observer that is constantly watching and judging our behavior according to the values of the world. It is the Observer that is in communion with our soul, grounded and centered in our own being.
I have been considering what has happened to Gemini in their relationship with today’s world. Humanity has become a dysfunctional species and Gemini has been wounded and traumatized by its experience in this world. Because of this, we have gone from being centered in our being, embodied and incarnated to fleeing ourselves and running into the world, looking outside for validation, looking outside for nourishment, looking back at ourselves from a distance. For way too long we have been manipulated by the outside world. We have tried to fit into our family, our culture, our religion. We have neglected the unique and beautiful one that we are and have become reflections of the outer world, twinning horizontally between the world and our self.
Perhaps it is time now to come back inside. We have been given an opportunity to stay inside our houses, away from the busyness of the world that has occupied all of us and especially Gemini for so long. In asking myself how to go about this, I remember my experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of years ago. For a few days I was in shock, of course. Then I began to see how many stories from the collective about this word, this disease I had heard and was still open to. I pulled my mind away from those old beliefs. Then I saw that I was also making up stories about the future – ‘what ifs’ that were causing fear and suffering and I pulled my mind back from those. When any of these stories arose, I unhooked and pulled my mind back to the present. Then I began to remember a poem from Rumi, a Sufi mystic poet from the 13th century. I will share it here.
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
And so throughout the treatment and healing of this guide that had been sent from beyond, this dis-ease, I used this poem to stay present to what was arising from within myself, being a good host for the time it had reservations. I did learn that when some guests arrived, I needed to put out a ‘no vacancy’ sign, as I had learned that they were abusive and not truly to be welcomed. So a new level of twin-ness arose, the twin-ness of my self and my Self, the inner one who knows and guides and always brings what is needed in each moment for our growth, for our learning, for our evolution. And the twin-ness became vertical, filled with gratitude and joy. And I was healed.
May this day be a blessing to you. May you move into your inner world and begin to welcome what arises with compassion and love.
