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Full Moon Reflections:
The Funnel
by April Elliott Kent
Lately, I’m at a loss for words.
I’ve been a writer ever since I can remember. I was born with the Moon in Gemini: words are my birthright. Whenever I needed to relax, to reconnect with myself, I’d write something. Usually it wasn’t anything profound. Often, it was as simple as composing lists of things I wanted to do and be in life. But there was always something about the sheer act of writing that I found satisfying… the pen on the paper, the ink stains on my fingers.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been writing more than ever. It’s my job now, and I write all day, nearly every day. The peculiar thing is that unlike other tasks that become easier with repetition, the more I write the more difficult writing becomes. It’s as though I had been born with a fixed allotment of words, and I’m in danger of using them up.
The irony is that now, I have more to say than ever before. Transiting Jupiter recently moved in Sagittarius, the sign of big ideas, for a one-year stay. It’s crossing over my natal Ascendant as I write this, and I can feel something big stirring in my consciousness, something that craves expression. But the wild, instinctual, Sagittarian side of my nature is, for the moment at least, winning out over the verbally facile Gemini Moon side. In fact, I’ve always found Sagittarius a much easier sign to experience than to describe. I sense Sagittarius when I look up at a cloud-filled sky, or across a limitless horizon, or into the wild ocean on a stormy day. I sense Sagittarius in the mammoth, silent elephants at my local zoo. And what I sense resists words, because it’s enormous. It contains the sky, and the horizon, and the depths of the ocean and the elephant’s timeless gaze, and all that I know of God. It’s like ten pounds of flour dumped into the wide end of a funnel… and it is much too great a presence in my heart, these days, to be expressed on the other end through the tiny aperture of language.
So at this Full Moon in Gemini, I’m grappling with this problem of communicating concepts that are – for me, at least - beyond words. With Jupiter moving into Sagittarius – the sign it rules – for the first time in twelve years, aren’t we all full of saved-up mythic stories and images, profound inspiration, cloud-filled skies and turbulent winds, racing horses and wild rapeseed fields? We are filled up with the enormity of life, and the huge scale of its challenges, its tragedies, and its joys – so much so that a veritable traffic-jam of ideas is jamming up the narrow end of the conversational funnel. This isn’t just a problem for writers, either; it’s a problem for anyone who has big dreams and visions that potentially benefit mankind, if only they can be set forth in some form that is easily understood.
I count on the powerful reflections of Full Moon time to illuminate solutions to knotty problems – and I suppose the solution here is to remember that Gemini is a symbol not just of conversation but of communication, the exchange of concepts and ideas. When your Sagittarius dreams and ideals are just too big to fit into language, resourceful Gemini looks beyond words for alternative ways to communicate – through art, music, even touch.
All too often when meditating on Gemini, we forget that communication requires both a sender and a receiver. Some of the best listeners I know are Gemini folk, because they’re curious, and they honestly want to hear your story. Your words fuel their imaginations and help them understand the world. With this in mind, I realize that a large part of my current problems with language probably stem from the fact that I’ve been "talking" – or writing – too much compared to how much I’m listening and taking in. So the next time you’re struggling to make yourself understood, maybe it’s time to stop and take a stab at understanding someone else for awhile.
And celebrate the nonverbal forms of communication. A few days ago, a blogger friend introduced me to the idea of "soul collages," collections of images that tell a story about who you are. I cracked open Photoshop and created my first digital soul collage that same day, and now I’m addicted. Expressing concepts visually has excited my creativity and given me a new way of communicating when words alone are inadequate for the task. If words fail you during this Full Moon in Gemini season, maybe it’s time to switch to another medium for telling your story. Design your own holiday greeting cards. Play music. Paint a mural. The only rule is that you must share your creation with someone else; otherwise, you may be creating, but you’re not really communicating.
The story of mankind is a sprawling, Jupiter-sized saga with a staggering cast of characters acting out a range of enormous concepts – life, death, ecstasy, meaning. It’s a story so large that it must be broken up, mini-series style, and told in bite-sized chunks. Your personal stories, reflecting your Sagittarian understanding of the world, are a vital installment in the story of mankind. We’re all participating in one huge, collaborative narrative – but each of us carries a different piece of the story. It’s important to document your portion of our common history. So during this Full Moon in Gemini, tell your part of the story in your own way – in words, pictures, and anything else you can find to widen the narrow end of the funnel.
© 2006 April Elliott Kent
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Dana Gerhardt
A popular columnist with The Mountain Astrologer since 1991, Dana Gerhardt is an internationally respected astrologer.
She has lectured extensively and written for astrology publications on several continents. Her ongoing passions are the moon and living the intuitive life.
Dana worked for many years in the corporate sector, where she observed the undeniable influence of natural cycles. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles and did graduate work in literature at Columbia University and CSULA.
She is joined on her Mooncircles website by a community of accomplished astrologers.
Jean Hinson Lall
Jean Hinson Lall is a professional astrologer and psychotherapist who has been in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland since 1975.
A former Peace Corps staff member and Fulbright scholar in India, she holds an M.A. degree in archetypal studies.
Her writings have appeared in Spring, Common Boundary, and The Astrotherapy Newsletter. She has lectured widely on astrology, myth and archetypal psychology and is Director of the Institute for the Study of Imagination.
Julia Bondi
Julia has been a busy counseling astrologer, intuitive, teacher and writer for more than 30 years.
With degrees in clinical psychology and esoteric philosophy, Julia draws her wisdom and dedication to spirituality from her moon rising on her ascendant, her 12th house stellium in Gemini and her Pisces midheaven.
Pythia Peay
Pythia Peay is an astrologer and inspirational journalist whose articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including "George" magazine," Common Boundary," and "The Utne Reader."
She studied and taught meditation with the Sufi teacher, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and is the editor of his book, Awakening: A Sufi Experience. She has also written Soul Sisters: A Sacred Way for all Women and Mercury Retrograde.
April Elliott Kent
April Elliott Kent is a practicing astrologer, writer, and web designer. Her writing has been featured in The Mountain Astrologer and Wholistic Astrologer magazines, and in Llewellyn's 2005 Moon Sign Book. Her specialty is wedding electionals. She recently graduated from the California State University at San Diego with a degree in communications.
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