By the time the sun leaves Taurus, your steady routines can start to feel a little dull. Even if you appreciate the groundedness of the season, there comes a time when you’re ready to stretch your wings and try new things. Just in time, the sun enters Gemini, sign of curiosity, adaptability, and fun. If you’re in need of excitement, ready to make a change, or just desperate not to be so bored, then this is your moment.
Gemini is the first air sign of the zodiac year; like all the air signs, it’s quick-witted, sociable, and communicative. Geminis are able to converse with practically anyone about any subject and can hold a dozen contradictory ideas in their head at once. While the sun is in Gemini — from May 20 to June 20 this year — your own brainy side is likely to be activated, too. It’s a fun time to keep a journal or to send lots of voice notes to your friends. During this season, expect your mind to be buzzing with ideas, planning adventures, or untangling intellectual puzzles.
Because Gemini is ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication and connection, this air-sign energy can take on a chatty, highly verbal, extra-extroverted shine. Geminis are intellectually curious and broadly observant of the world and people in it, and are probably the least brooding of all the signs. Why endlessly stew when you could simply say what you’re thinking and talk it through with someone? Even if you’re typically private and introspective, Gemini season lends itself to discussion and collaboration. Forget about being a lone genius; right now, you’ll probably do your best work as part of a partnership or a team.
This is also an occasion for seeking out a variety of new experiences. While some signs find routines comforting, predictability quickly becomes mind-numbingly tedious for Gemini. So even if you’re usually a creature of habit, try switching things up this month. Take a different route to work, talk to strangers, or simply watch a movie that ordinarily might not interest you. This doesn’t mean that you need to push yourself far outside your comfort zone — the unexplored corners of your own neighborhood are likely to be just as good as faraway destinations. Gemini is a champion of finding the novel and exciting in our everyday lives.
The downside is that this can be a difficult time to attempt work that requires deep, sustained focus. Your attention will likely be more scattered than usual, and while you may find it easy (and thrilling!) to start a dozen projects or make plans for every night of the week, it might be harder to actually follow through. Be honest with yourself about your capacity right now, and avoid making big commitments you’re unlikely to be able to keep. Even if you don’t find that you’re more absent-minded than usual, those around you might be particularly distracted right now, so try to make allowances for them.
Accommodating others’ needs shouldn’t be a huge challenge this month, as Gemini is one of the most flexible signs in the zodiac. Whatever happens, Gemini can roll with it; surprises are more likely to feel exciting or intriguing than stressful. Gemini’s symbol, the twins, points to its essential adaptability. It’s so innate that Geminis can seem like two separate people — able to be just as happy in the club as in the library, as much at ease on a crowded bus as in business-class seats.
It’s this dazzling sociability, this ease in adapting to be comfortable anywhere, that can lead other people to imagine Gemini to be “two-faced” or duplicitous — as though in order to feel so at home in so many disparate contexts, some kind of fakery or inauthenticity must be involved. This can manifest in some weirdly strident anti-Gemini sentiment. Like every sign, Gemini has its shadow side, and all of its magnetic charm can easily be used to selfish, nefarious, or just chaotic ends. Still, there are so many reasons to love the sign. Gemini season has so much to offer!
In Gemini season, you can let go of the idea that you can only act one way, that you can only be one thing, that you have to choose between all the different sides of yourself. In Gemini season, you can recognize that every part of yourself is equally authentic, equally real. See Walt Whitman’s classic statement of Gemini intent: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” In Gemini season, you can follow your curiosity, and you don’t ever have to be bored.