The putrid and slimy green colors indicate the stagnant nature of the energy. It must continue to move. The energy vibration now drops lower to the Green/Yellow.

Potassium Chloride is necessary to weave our flesh into our character lines
and create the chrysalis for our personality and ego.

These are the colors of the early year and new life. Green is a stable color, wealthy and beautiful. All energy that is necessary for creation is available. Now that the energy has a way of moving through the nervous system, curiosity takes over. Curiosity is green/yellow and it has a nervous, interested and youthful state. In the murkier tones it represents suspicion, betrayal and lying. The nervous system must continue to grow a network and split for evolution and the gaining of knowledge (light.)

Yellow in Hebrew is yarek which means to split!

It is now that the ego is a competitor to God if decisions are not made carefully!
Geminis can be nervous, inconsistent, flighty, unreliable and changeable. This can be too much nitrogen. Spirit is feeling irritated at it’s rigid manifestation. Now Light (Lucifer) in the turban with the green stone that fell to earth, sets himself up as an equal or challenger to the All That Is.

May/June represents a time where energy is polarized. Gemini’s symbol is the two poles, hence we get polarity. The budding has taken place and a separation, branching, splitting and doubling happens. Life develops the faculty of reacting. Here we make a comparison of opposites. We have two lungs - inspire and expire for the intake of spirit, two arms, legs, hands and anything that is doubled. On another level, we have shape and shade, matter and antimatter, self and a secret mirror image (twin.) Gemini is a dualistic sign, a split personality, interior and exterior, mortal and immortal.
Mercury or Thoth, Gemini’s ruler was the God who transported souls from heaven and hell.

June, Gemini’s month, in Latin is from the verb jungo and means joining or joint. Juno was sister of Jupiter and Jupiter resides in the kingdom of Sagittarius in December - Gemini’s opposite sign. June was Juno’s month. The word Juno, meaning genius, was dropped from our language however juno is the female equivalent of genius. Just as Psyche is the female Eros.

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The Reprise!
(I feel a little Shakespearean here! Like Bottom in Mid-summer’s Nights Dream.)

I want you to remember the thread of the story from the past chapters archived. From the neutral, All That Is, the creative esse is impregnated by fire. It manifests in the human body as a generation of electrical energy (Aries /male). Then by the addition of receptive brain substance the physical body forms (female) and a budding takes place. Now in Gemini the spinning and branching starts. The plants reach out their limbs and branches. We grow arms, lungs and fingers. The two nervous systems now constitute the living tree. These are threads, fibers and filaments - our offshoots! Gemini is known as a neutral, neuter sign.

In Arabian astrology the twins were known as Al Tau’aman. Al or El is God; Tau, meaning cross; and Amen or Aman signifying hidden. The nervous system is now our hidden cross and every thought, feeling action is registered through it. Does this mean we think we are Godlike?

Gemini is the Lovers card in the Tarot. It represents conscious and subconscious thought. It must be childlike in purity and must ignore the arguments of reason and sense - its magic is silence! Hermes magic was of the god within. His internal love affair with his feminine side and self-contemplation, gave us the term herm-et (hermit.) Of course I know this seems an impossible task, but remember in the Aries posting, that it is important to be -

of one mind.

Without the mental balance we become too erotic or too psychotic. (Eros and Psyche, both poles)

What is a stone that is not a stone and water which is not water?

The Alchemists say it is mercury or quicksilver. I promised you magic and Gemini is the master of tricks. For instance mercury is extraordinary as it transforms from a metal (mineral) a fluid (water) and a vapor (gas). These are aspects of functions in the body. Mercury the God, Gemini’s ruler, was also guardian of travelers and in ancient days a traveler or merchant would place a (s)tone at a crossroads. (Think of nerve synapses.) In fact these stones were often shaped like phalluses as earth and sky met. Some stone piles were called herms after Hermes. The twins were also symbolized as two balls with a phallus between. (The Green Robin Hood?) Refer back to the last chapter and the testicles. Stones were lucky for Jupiter (Jove - Love) Is this why we give a diamond (stone) when engaged, two hearts becoming one?

Mercury had a favorite domestic animal - the cock! Now you must be saying......... huh? Remember in the last posting of Taurus, the cock was related to the penis and pineal gland! The golden cock sat on the top of the tree of life, the wings shown on Mercury’s hat. The cock announced the dawn through the throat sound discovered in the Taurus chapter. The cock represents evolving humanity and you will see him in all his glory in Scorpio as the Phoenix! Mercury carried a caduceus (Dionysus’ thrysus) twined with two snakes, vine or ivy leaves (the spine with the two nervous systems.) On the top was a pine cone (pineal) representing the magic center in the Arcade of the head. The secret Arcana in Arcadia!. It was written that the caduceus was able to charm men’s eyes to sleep and you will remember from the Taurus posting about the pineal governing sleep.

Caduceus comes from the Latin cadus meaning vessel or jar and the verb cado means to fall. We also get the word cadaver. The body is a vessel (torso) containing life, but when it is lifeless it is a cadaver. The caduceus symbol is still the magic sign of the medical profession. Either twin or dual aspects of our selves must be in perfect balance as messages are carried from above to below. Seen and unseen.

Hermes was also responsible for the division of days - the calendar. Hermes is said to have authored 36,525 books on the Hermetic arts, though no volumes have been found. A modern day Hermes would be Francis Bacon who is said to have introduced over 5,000 new English words. It was his desire that all magic could be understood in English. As mercury is used in gauges, we can now understand the measurement of temperature, volume, gases etc. Mercury gauged the wind of Jupiter, his father and the weather as Maia his Mother, goddess of clouds. He is also ruler of hurricanes, tornados and gales. Mercury controls our physical temperature, the blood pressure the gases and the communication between all these things.

The geometry of growth is a form of propulsion and sets up interference patterns that please or repulse. It gave us math as the basis of music (Taurus) which is the freest expression of Spirit, unencumbered by materiality. Architecture is called frozen music because of its mathematical basis. The golden number is all important and is known as the Golden Proportion and Fibonacci scale. Remember Io in Taurus? She was the daughter of the King of Argos, Inachus, and she is linked to the 10 inch foot. Inarchus is inch and inch gave birth to foot! This was the metric system of old.