duality

We are the creators of our own destiny, that’s true. And our destiny is already written in the stars, that’s also true. Both statements separately are half truths, which is just that – half truth, not The truth. Together they are the truth. Some have experienced their story as a creation of their own efforts. Some have experienced a story handed to them. Certainly, most of us will stand by one or the other statement. The human condition, makes everything a debate or a choice based on our own experiences. It is only a reflection of the duality of existence manifesting through our dualistic perspective of life.
Our ‘actions’ create our destiny but the circumstances for our actions must also be created. That is what existence, universe, call it whatever, does for us. Destiny, is a co-creative journey, before, during & after each incarnation. Existence is the director, we are the actors, but we are both writing the script together as we go.

A co-creative process, involves two, my being and the universe. Let’s call it the sky for this post. Everything that happens in our skies, cosmos created (or man-made), has an impact on our planet. When the moon rises, the tides of the ocean also rise. We ourselves are 70% water. If we work on our connection to the sky, attempt to understand it; obviously our ‘working’ relationship with it, will be better. In turn, the sky will understand us too. After all, we are partners in crime 😁

The sky is contradiction

I channel this post as a reflection on the current Gemini New moon. The Moon of the twins. The moon of duality. The moon of the Yin & Yang. Essentially, the shadow & the light. Of the contradictions. A new moon is of the darkness in any case. It isn’t a time to look outward because the outside is dark, no sun, no moon either. We can see nothing but the sky can still see us. On a New moon, the sky is intently watching us, at what’s inside us. In many ways, it is a moment in time for prayer. For gratitude. 

The moon itself is of the dark. When the sun is shining it’s light elsewhere, the moon reflects the light of the sun to illuminate the darkness. The sun & the moon are having the same effect on the planet, on us. They are both illuminating. The sun is shining on the outside in the light of day, the moon is illuminating in the darkness of the night. The sun brings it out in the open, the moon knows but keeps it hidden. The moon reflects the suns light to illuminate. The moon itself, ‘She’ is just existing. She can’t ‘do’.
This in itself is the complete story of yin & yang. The shadow & the light. All other planets that affect our being on planet earth, are also of the shadow or the light & further have their own shadows & light to work with. Both are a reality. There is no choice here. Truth is in the contradiction of the sky.

What does the Gemini New Moon sky say? 

I was inspired to channel this post all the way through, by including a breakdown of a Tarot reading with each section. Tarot essentially is a tool to support the intuition of a mystic in reading individual or collective energy. The energy which existence, the sky creates. The circumstance for our actions, our ‘acting’ essentially. As by rule, I must add a disclaimer, this part may or may not resonate with you as it reads for many. Take what does & leave the rest.

The energy showing up for this Gemini new moon is speaking to the Masculine. Regardless of our gender, the face we carry in the world. The part of us that shows up in the world. You can call him the doer, I’m beginning to see him as more and more of a ‘non-doer’. The way we show up in the world depends on our actions; acting as I’m calling it these days. This ‘acting’ depends on how we perceive ourselves, our character. Character is consistent but truth is contradictory. So character ain’t authenticity. We can only act truest to Our authenticity in that moment. 

This new moon of duality speaks to that actor in us. It encourages us to show up in our authenticity by embracing both the faces of duality within us in that moment, with no expectation or promise of a future. How we act in this moment is already aligned with a future we are to experience, yet reaching that by transcending the duality, will obviously present us with something that’s not exactly as we had expected or promised. There are so many possibilities. Our truth in that moment will differ. The transcendence of the duality will be neither this nor that and both. A third kind, co-created with the sky. This is ultimately moving our journey fast forward with intensity and passion. 

Card explanations 

The two faces of the situation are in the cards above. These could be two brothers, friends, partners, competitors or just two different faces of our own selves in the situation. Represented as kings, there is maturity with which we can look at a situation right now. Both faces are mature. One is of the sky & one is of the earth. One is of the mind & the other is of the home. And home is where the heart is. 

The king of Air (swords) on the left of the picture above, is crystal clear, honest, fair, just and truthful to the self. He knows his true face but still wears a thin mask to hide a part of him. An important part of him, his eyes. He is wise, intelligent and can be calculative. He is impeccable with his word and serious even in Love. You can’t debate with this man. The blue in the card talks about communication and coldness. A-lot of the times, he speaks only to restore fairness & justice, or to share wisdom. If he works through the shadow, he can be manipulative and hurtful. He can be closed due to hard experiences of his past. 

The king of Earth (pentacles) in the centre of the picture, is in contrast, grounded, hard working and humble. He maybe a businessman or not, but he is certainly self made. He has worked hard. No one leaves his home hungry. He is abundant and grateful for all he has. With what he has, he creates opportunities of abundance for others. Abundance for him is where he can provide a sense of belonging. Where he feels a sense of belonging. What he can call home, to provide, protect and to belong. What he can commit to. If he works through his shadow, he can be materialistic and arrogant. He is always open, either as a giver or as a show off. 

This new moon in Gemini is asking of the acceptance of both these faces, whether it’s within ourselves or in a connection we share with another. Once we accept the half truth presented by both, we can transcend to a choice less place that includes both and is neither. The third kind. That then pushes our journey forward with intensity and passion towards the future we can’t know but can experience in co-creation with the sky. They seem to be enjoying the journey amidst the fire balls in the card on the right of the picture. 

Truth is Freedom 

Truth, as I mentioned above, is subjective because it is only half truth when operating in the conflict of dualities. Both together make up the full truth. So in transcending duality we find the truth, which is both and neither. For example, the institution of Marriage. Personally, I’m all for Love & celebrating it in Union but I’m not for Marriage. That doesn’t mean I’m against it. I just don’t see marriage as synonymous with union or love. One can be in love and union without being married. Yet it is how it is and is followed unquestioned. So if we want companionship, we automatically think marriage. And if we don’t want marriage, we automatically are opposed to the idea of love or union. We unconsciously push love away both ways. In marriage we slowly kill it. The most crucial energy for evolution is Love. Both ways we are blocking evolution. Love/union and marriage; They are actually not connected. 

Attachment and aversion are two sides of the same coin of duality. In non-attachment to marriage (or anything else), we need not be averted to it. So we need not choose this or that. Freewill gives us a choice. But choice is not freedom. Accepting both and transcending both aspects of dualities, gives us freedom from needing to choose. Freedom is in being choice-less. So non-attachment & non-aversion is the path to truth. In truth is freedom. Freedom from ourselves and our blockages co-created with the sky. 

They say that a ‘sadhak’, a meditator is un-affected by the skies. Actually that is not entirely true. A meditator, is still affected by the skies but is slowly transcending the dualities presented by the skies. A meditator, learns to work with the energies that the skies present and also has a higher perspective on life. He just sees presented circumstances with higher emotional, mental and spiritual intellect. He just keeps experiencing freedom by transcending conflict – inner & outer. The conflicts created by duality. He finds truth in the freedom essentially. Freedom from the conflict created by the split of duality. 

What is the truth of the Gemini New Moon sky? 

The cards show me that, the Gemini New Moon is showing us how far we’ve come, even though we feel stuck. We’ve felt stuck in situations that are out of our control. It’s almost like the universe has hung us upside down. But for good reason. Wherever we’ve felt stuck, we’ve also found illumination and a new perspective. Something which we were looking at upside down, now seems to make sense. We’ve been under the energies of a retrograde Mercury for the last month or so. Mercury rules the sign of Gemini and is the planet of communication. Much of our interpretation of information or communication over the last month, is likely going through a shift now. We are seeing things very differently now as Mercury stations direct 3 days after the New moon. Mercury is most potent in its energy during its stations retrograde or direct, within 3 days on either side. 

With this new found perspective, we can see how to break out of a stuck situation, circumstance or relationship. The cards show a recognition and victory by way of our own efforts. It’s also about the future we see and want to experience. We want to recognize someone who has certainly helped us on this victory. I also see that this celebration of the journey of victory with the other, may need to happen away from the crowd, the people or the public. Most literally, these cards talk about action after a stagnant period. It can be in any area of life but certainly something (a creative project/partnership) or someone (friend/companion/lover/beloved/guru) we are passionate about. 

Consistency is conformity 

Certainly in a 9-5 job that we don’t enjoy, we are conforming to society, most literally. Conforming to a herd. We conform in other ways and areas of our lives too. To ideas, ideologies, individual experiences, social structures, family conditioning etc. In our relationships, or anywhere in life for that matter, we are conditioned to what ‘it’ must look like or feel like. So we are conforming to an idea, one created by our past experiences or one we’ve picked up from the world outside. Conforming makes me reliable & predictable.
For example, I’m known to have literally run away from most stressful situations in my life. This was before my spiritual journey began in 2016. Bags packed and off to the other side of the globe. I’ve lived out of fancy suitcases since 2012 😊. It’s fun & it’s not. The duality. I may not be reliable to others, I’m still predictable. They know how to deal with me, encourage me or manipulate me. When I’m predictable, I can be controlled. They know I’ll just run. Now I don’t run, I travel. It’s a bit more unpredictable. Now I have nothing to run from and nothing to run to. So I travel. 😊

Character is consistent but we’ve already established that the truth is in contradiction. Anything repeated to us multiple times is essentially hypnosis. That’s what marketing works on, advertising, sales, essentially the whole world. Mass hypnosis. What we are consistently told about ourself, builds our character through hypnosis. The character is consistent in conforming to its character. And the character is predictable. This New Moon gives us the opportunity for freedom from consistent conformity or consistent non-conformity. An opportunity to break out of the limitations of our own character, in many ways. 

Where does the Gemini New Moon present an opportunity to break out of the mould? 

Most literally in our most intimate & important connections, relationships or partnerships. The lovers card in the picture above is the card of Gemini, the twins in Tarot. The two of water (cups) is a connection of equals based in love. For me as a reader, it is the card of twin flames & spiritual partnerships. It can most literally be talking to Divine counterparts. Regardless of the type of connection, it is based in love, plutonic or romantic. With the sun card, there’s complete conscious illumination at this new moon of what makes us joyful in our connections and what doesn’t. Where there’s light and where there’s the darkness. With the lovers, there’s a choice to choose Love or not. But as I say, the sky doesn’t present us with a choice. Whatever the connection or relationship clarity we have found, is either reaching a breakthrough or a breakdown moment, depending on how we show up. We can see that with the clarifying card at the bottom. I do see a fear of breakdown that may keep us in an old way of acting (showing up). Essentially, keep us in the mould. This new moon energy presents us with an opportunity to be ‘acting’ (showing up) differently for a breakthrough despite the fear of breakdown. 

What I’m seeing here is the affects of a Saturn stationing retrograde about 5 days after this new moon. Saturn is the teacher of the shadows. Naturally to teach you, he will take you into the shadows. He teaches a lesson for 2 and a half years and depending on your relationship to Saturn, how you worked with him & how you did on your tests; he leaves you a gift as a reward. When Saturn moves backward (retrograde) it takes us back over the lessons, to test us on what we’ve learnt. Saturn in many ways is the conformist because he is consistent. He is about the discipline but he is also the giver of karma, which doesn’t conform to any laws of the world. Saturn conforms to the ‘laws of the universe’, the sky.  He rewards consistency of the individual only to the self.   

Consistency is also rewarded in the ‘laws of the universe’ 

The sky rewards consistency by simplifying & beautifying the journey. The consistency to be aligned at all times with our own truth, even if it’s contradictory to our own outer character, past, narrative, ego or whatever else. That is how we transform our outer reality by transforming the inner reality. The Individual being the new face of society gives you the freedom to be authentic and well … you. It is a privilege that some will never know. Yet it can be isolating. The more authentic we are, the more isolated we will be. The duality, the contradiction is the truth, and will always be there in everything. That imperfection is the perfection of existence. Perfection is not the way of the sky. Regardless of the changeable and so perceived ‘non-changeable’ circumstances of our incarnation.
We can change our experience of every aspect of life by being consistent to ourself by transcending the contradictions of duality. We can achieve that by being consistent in our practice, no matter the chaos. Whatever the practice may be. The sky only asks for it to be co-creative. 

Where is the Gemini New Moon asking for consistency?

This New Moon is in some wonderful alignment with Pluto, the planet of transformation & the ruler of the underworld. Pluto is an outer planet that Vedic astrologers don’t consider in a birth chart, as Vedic astrology is focused on the individual. Western astrology, which comes about post the establishment of society, also considers Pluto as a means to read the collective energy. Vedic astrology works on the principal that the individual is the society and western astrology, rightfully also says that the society impacts the individual. Both together are correct and again are a reflection of duality manifested in differences. 

Our truth is subjective until we transcend it to be both and neither. A third kind. For example the collective self expression with the rising collective consciousness of mankind, is more diverse than ever because of the individual wanting to express his own authenticity. It is a movement in it self. An attempt to express authenticity through creativity. We can either evolve to be truthfully consistent with our own creative expression. Or consume the expression of others to form an idea. Creativity is an expression of the sky. The sky has manifested through creativity, in all of us too. It breathes in all of us. As an individual creative expression. Of course creativity is an individual expression and May or may not add to a collective voice. But it is consistent to the evolved self, even if it is contradictory to the self of the past. 

In short, being inspired by the creative expression of another is to be able to see the ocean from a distance, which is not an experience. It is consumption of creativity. To taste the ocean, to really be the ocean, to be creative; is to create your own, to approach the ocean and take a dip. Whatever that may be. For me I’ve found some in words and some in dance.  As Bhagwan says, it is only in dance that the dancer and the dance are one and the same. I don’t care to be good or even to be seen or heard, I care only to express. 

With social media and digital platforms, I find the same analogy. Everything reflects duality. You build a relationship to it based on where you are on the transcendence of the duality that rules it. The digital medium is a great medium for creative self expression, and it is also a platform that has been built to expand on the Human condition – the need to be needed, loved, heard. Where I come from in my truth in that moment; my expression/sharing or the Human condition, is really my only problem. The rest is outside of me, that the sky takes care of. I can’t be concerned with how it is perceived. At least I shouldn’t. 

Card explanations 

The cards show that it is not quite time to charge ahead. The chariot card in all honesty came out reversed but I don’t read these cards reversed. It tells me that, With the new found clarity on what celebration means to us, we will be moving forward when the duality in the situation has balanced out. Both together can then pull the chariot ahead. It needs both its horses, the yin & the yang. The shadow and the light. Right now, at least until mercury is out of shadow, around mid month, it’s time for rest, rejuvenation and reflection to integrate the lessons and blessings of the eclipse season that went by just before this new moon. 

The clarifiers below, show me, Whatever this is, once it moves forward, requires truthful and honest conversations that set everyone free. It seems to be the last resort to forward a dream that we are passionate about. The larger lessons of transformation that Pluto has shown us through the collective, has an opportunity to be integrated through this rest period, into our journeys ahead. 

We all live under the same sky 

The sky is the same for all of us. The same sun, the same moon, the same planets and the same alignments. Yes they will affect different areas of our individual life based on where the planets sit in our birth charts. But the sky is the same for all of us. Pluto rules the underworld, that’s oil & wars. It is there as a reality mankind lives through at the collective level and with its impact on the individual. 

But at the same time, we have a Saturn always teaching us strategy. Rightful ‘action’ for rightful karma, in the face of conflict. We also have a mercury, to teach us that the interpretations of our words and actions only depend on the receiver, not us. The sun to bring it out, the moon to illuminate. The sky is full of the shadow and the light and it’s contradictions. The sky itself is holding all its elements, it is unconditionally loving to exist through us, despite our conflicts. It loves the whole, the war and the peace. It is above the conflict of duality. We are existence manifested and have the potential to be above the conflict of duality. We just need a relationship with our partner – The Sky. 

The challenge presented by the Gemini New Moon 

The Gemini New moon is breakthrough or breakdown moment, as we saw above. The fear of the breakdown, is the challenge to the breakthrough essentially. The fear is based on only one face of duality. The one we’ve experienced. Fear blocks us from experiencing the other, so we can’t transcend the duality and experience freedom. There are two fives in the tarot cards above. That’s change. One that we have no control over. Our partner, the sky creates the tower, a breakthrough or breakdown moment. Our action, inaction or non action, moves the story of our destiny. 

In this moment of change, we have help in one (left) card that we see. And in the other (right) card we have a blockage. A fear, of another drowning, or of our character on letting someone drown, or our past. We are already moving our attention in both cards towards where there’s the light, the hope, but the blockage gets louder in the moments of breakthrough. In the face of this challenge, here’s an opportunity to accept that the blockage is there and let it be. At the same time to be consistent with our truth and accept the light, hope, the help too. It maybe contradictory to our past to not save someone from drowning but it’s also consistent to our own truth. In the cards, we’re coming out of a tough place ourselves. 

The opportunity presented by the Gemini New Moon 

Most literally a gift from the sky. From our partner in crime. An opportunity to create a destiny of abundance as we see it or wish for it. Either we’ve come into our own creative freedom of expression, through the expression of our own inner feminine; or a free spirited feminine energy in our lives has catalyzed a major transformation that cannot be stopped. It is essentially an opportunity to allow transformation to ground into physical reality, a new seed straight from the skies. This seed however comes with a guarantee of complete physical abundance, whatever that literally means to you. 

With the clarifier below, the sky is creating an opportunity here, the stage for our acting, to escape challenges, with another and move our journey forward, with intensity and passion. 

Chaotic Discipline 

So that means we can change our world completely by transcending the contradictions & being consistent to our own truth. Essentially by rising up to the sky and befriending it. We have that power. That’s a superpower. God like power. But it ain’t easy to get to. It’s hard work, can be challenging and can get very monotonous, especially the consistency part. I started to find that ‘work’ is easier and fun in ‘chaotic Discipline’. Bhagwan used that word and I instantly identified with it. 

A lot of people in my life have called me ‘procrastinator’, but it’s only chaotic discipline. For instance, I live out of three countries technically at the moment. Each of the countries has a space that I call home. Well Nepal literally does, and Goa soon to be. And Canada is home most literally. Because I feel a sense of belonging in all of these places. In my truth they all align with different layers of my being. 

At the commune in Nepal, the environment presented by the sky, asks for devoted discipline. I meditate and study over 8 hours a day there. In Goa, I enjoy my aloneness. the sky presents an environment which asks for dedicated discipline and reflection. I meditate and study for about 5 hours a day. In canada, I’m lazy, yet there’s so much to do. So I meditate only 2 hours a day and spend the rest of my time experiencing the outer world of family, friends, the luxuries of the outside world and a lot of nature. 

My own truth is both inward and outward, both yin and Yang. I accept fully the chaos, it creates in my journey. Travelling all the time. Never getting too comfortable in one spot. The circumstances presented by the sky dictate the consistency of my meditative practice. But my practice itself is not consistent as you can see. It is mouldable with the changing circumstance. I’ll get the work done, I may do a little at a time, I may do it after I experience the sunset, which I’ll miss if I do it now. But it’ll get it done. 

Being able to be fully present to where I’m being called by the director in the moment, is the actor’s job. That is how the Job will get done. That is not procrastination, it is Chaotic Discipline. 

My understanding of Krishna Consciousness. Krishna’s attempt with the Gita was to help mankind keep their energy centre at the heart before it rises to the mind. Krishna is all heart. But we are mostly mind. Living from the heart is what more & more of us must do. Those who can of course. So many can only live to survive. But the ones who can raise the collective vibration of our planet, should do it individually. If I’m consistently contradictory too, I’m essentially consistent. In truth, I’m sometimes consistent and sometimes contradictory. And that is contradictory itself. The contradiction of the heart is closer to truth than the consistency of the mind    

In the chaos of duality, where should our focus be at this Gemini New Moon? 

Our focus should be on where our intensity and passion is driving us. Letting the past be in the past, not crying over spilt milk, and charging forward with intensity and passion, AND the wisdom of the sphinx we now have, in the bottom right card in the picture above. This is where a new cycle, a new journey has already begun. 

The past as we saw in the cards above, always plays on our doubts and fears to keep us blocked. To transcend the duality in this situation we must focus on the new, not the better. 

Final words from the sky 

‘You have healed and your wishes will come true, through the inspired action you take but it will need moving forward from what holds you back, even if it’s with a heavy heart’ 

– The sky through the cards above

Advise From the Sky 

Please read the cards in the picture above. 
Thank You 🙏🏻

From The Sky & Me 😊