Once a month, I join forces with my dear friend and astrologer extraordinaire, Heidi Rose Robbins to post an overview of what’s happening in the cosmos and how it might influence your career. It’s called Your Career Forecast.
Whether you’re job-hunting, running your own business, or wondering about the ideal time to ask for a raise or take a vacation, each Career Forecast reveals the important dates that you need to know about.
Let’s dive in!
OVERVIEW
What’s going on this month…
HEIDI: The Sun moves into Gemini today, May 21st at 12:59 am pacific time. Gemini is a masculine sign full of movement and intelligence. It is primarily a sign of relationship and goodwill. The drive is to connect and weave a tapestry of relationship which reveals the connection of everyone and everything.
Gemini rules how we think, write and speak. We offer our message to the world and look for response. We create conversation to broaden consciousness. We exchange ideas to build true wisdom in the field of Humanity.
The great opportunity in the sign of Gemini is to fuse duality, to use the energy of Venus (Gemini’s soul-centered ruler) to bring harmony and wisdom to the often-warring opposites. Venus holds the point of beauty and intelligence, inviting us to use a more soulful approach to conflict.
Perhaps the greatest opportunity of this month is to cultivate conversation with your soul. Have an ongoing conversation with the true YOU. Refuse to see superficially. Look deeper at every encounter, at every exchange. Refuse to polarize. You can stand in integrity and right action without polarizing. Can you feel this?
Our hearts can blaze with oneness, with non-duality, with striving. This month I myself want to work on the relationship with my own heart. I want to feel how it is connected to every heart in this Solar System. I want to feel its universality. I envision the heart as a lit torch which once lit wants to light any heart it meets. We can ignite a chain of fiery love. Relationships are kindled through the heart.
So, during this most auspicious month, here are a few dates to note:
May 21st: Mercury moves into Gemini on the same day that the Sun shifts into Gemini. We think quickly and our desire to communicate and connect grows stronger. This is a great time to “get the word out.”
June 3rd: New Moon of Gemini. We ask ourselves beautiful questions about what it is we are meant to say, to offer to write and then we plant the seeds to do just that. Listen in and then reach out.
June 4th: Mercury moves into Cancer. We turn inward, quiet down, feel outward and communicate with care. This shift tunes us into our feeling life. Conversation is more personal. Communication might be more about family matters and sensitive issues. It’s a deeply receptive time. Mercury in Cancer demands that we stop, breathe and feel.
June 8th: Venus moves into Gemini. This is eloquence. This is an opportunity to speak or write words that can heal. This offers a window of compassionate communication.
June 17th: Full Moon of Gemini. Though the Moon is in Sagittarius, we consider this the Full Moon of Gemini. The energies of Gemini reach our Earth with greatest ease during this time. Goodwill is the word of the day. Reach out in a spirit of Brotherhood and Sisterhood. Connect in the name of growth. Speak out to help build bridges. Look upon a world and choose to cultivate your spiritual family. And for those not yet ready to join you in a more soulful realm, bless them and let them be.
Overall, this is an amazing month to share our message and to connect with others in the spirit of building the new. We work to grow in consciousness and share more of what matters. We speak to make a difference.
What does all of this mean for your career? Let’s look closer…
JOB HUNTING?
Here’s what you need to know…
ELLEN: If you are looking for work, the New Moon of Gemini on June 3rd will be so helpful.
It is a great time to reach out. Write those emails. Meet people for coffee. Attend meet ups. Go to book signings. Think outside the box.This is the time to NETWORK AND CONNECT.
This is also a great time to go within before we reach out. As David Whyte has written:
“Being quiet amongst a frenetic life is the hardest thing we can do. All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone—and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment. Silence turns, in effect, into its opposite, so it becomes not only a place to be alone but also a place that’s an invitation to others to join you, to want to know who’s there, in the quiet.”
ALREADY HAVE A JOB?
Here’s what you need to know…
ELLEN: Mercury moves into Cancer on June 4th. This placement of Mercury can have a profound impact on your work life. As Heidi said, this shift tunes us into our feeling life. Conversation is more personal. It’s a deeply receptive time. Mercury in Cancer demands that we stop, breathe and feel.
Start each meeting with a personal check in. Take care to ask your co-workers how they feel and what is happening in their lives.
As Priya Parker says in her wonderful book The Art of Gathering: How We meet and Why it Matters:
“When we fall into a specific format where we know how to behave, we go on autopilot. If nothing else, create a gathering in some part of your work or life that is unexpected in some way because when people are invited into something that they don’t know exactly what’s going on, they don’t fall into roles or scripts.”
SELF-EMPLOYED OR RUNNING YOUR OWN BUSINESS?
Here’s what you need to know…
ELLEN: On May 21st: Mercury moves into Gemini on the same day that the Sun shifts into Gemini. This is a great time to “get the word out.”
Also, on June 8th: Venus moves into Gemini. This is eloquence. This is an opportunity to speak or write words that can heal. This offers a window of compassionate communication.
I love the website More Love Letters as a great example of compassionate communication. In this time of so much turmoil, it is so healing to reach out to others with messages of love.
What is most important is that whatever you do- you bring presence to your communication.
FOR EVERYONE On June 17th: Full Moon of Gemini. Goodwill is the word of the day. Reach out in a spirit of Brotherhood and Sisterhood. Connect in the name of growth. Speak out to help build bridges. Look upon a world and choose to cultivate your spiritual family. And for those not yet ready to join you in a more soulful realm, bless them and let them be.
With our abortion rights threatened, this is the time to donate or spread the word about organizations that will help with this fight.
Donate to the ACLU or the Yellowhammer Fund, a reproductive justice nonprofit in Alabama, or sending them a few items off of their Amazon wish list. You’ll notice it contains a lot of maternity and infant care items, because they truly support all choices a pregnant person might want to make.
Also, check out this state-by-state resource guide.
FAMOUS GEMINIS
Gemini is the third sign of the zodiac, and those born under this sign love to talk! It’s not just idle chatter with these folks, either. The driving force behind a Gemini zodiac sign’s conversation is their mind. Ruling the third house, the Gemini-born are intellectually inclined, forever probing people and places in search of information.
The more information a Gemini collects, the better. Sharing that information later on with those they love is also a lot of fun, for Geminis are supremely interested in developing their relationships. Geminis are bright, quick-witted and the proverbial life of the party. Even though their intellectual minds can rationalize forever and a day, Geminis also have a surplus of imagination waiting to be tapped. Never boring!
Many poets, musicians, writers, politicians, and actors are born under this sign including Walt Whitman, Ralph waldo Emerson, Alan Ginsburg, Che Guevara, Bob Hope, Alanis Morrissette, Bill Hader, Cole Porter, to name a few.
Here are a few stand outs:
Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977)
He is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. West is among the most critically acclaimed musicians of the 21st century and one of the best-selling music artists of all time with over 135 million records sold worldwide.” His musical career has been marked by dramatic changes in styles, incorporating an eclectic range of influences including soul, baroque pop, electro, indie rock, synth-pop, industrial, and gospel. Over the course of his career, West has been responsible for cultural movements and progressions within mainstream hip hop and popular music at large.
West’s outspoken views and life outside of music have received significant media attention. He has been a frequent source of controversy for his conduct at award shows, on social media, and in other public settings, as well as his comments on the music and fashion industries, U.S. politics, and race. His marriage to television personality Kim Kardashian has also been a source of substantial media attention.
Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981)
She is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series Last Comic Standing in 2007.
Since 2013, she has been the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, for which she received a Peabody Award and for which Schumer has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015. Very open and real about her life, she shared her recent pregnancy and birth of her son. Her podcast, 3 girls and one Keith is a Gemini party.
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973)
He is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, magician, and singer. He is known primarily for his comedy roles on television and his dramatic and musical stage roles.
Harris has hosted the Tony Awards in 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2013, for which he won four special class Emmy Awards.[2] He also hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2009 and 2013, and hosted the 87th Academy Awards in 2015, thus making him the first openly gay man to host the Academy Awards. Along with his talent, he is known for his kindness, generosity, and family values.
Peter Hayden Dinklage (born June 11, 1969)
He is an American actor and producer. Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, starring in a number of amateur stage productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995) and his breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003). He has since appeared in many films, including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), which earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award.
Dinklage received universal acclaim for portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones, for which he won three Primetime Emmys from seven nominations. He also received a Golden Globe for the role in 2011.
He was snapped from certain death during the series finale to be the Head of the King to the newly crowned Bran the Broken.
OVERALL, THIS IS A GREAT MONTH FOR…
• Connecting
• Sharing your message
• Writing
• Speaking authentically
YOUR CAREER POEM FOR THE MONTH
Where Many Rivers Meet
Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
Until now.
By David Whyte
Much love,
Ellen & Heidi