Full Moon in Gemini 2016

The Tree of Choices - Full Moon in Gemini

The Gemini Full Moon in the second week of December 2016

is represented by a number of cards in the deck.

The most important card for this full moon is

The Tree of Choices (traditionally The Lovers card).

When you look at the image you see that there are three main elements present.

Mother Mary, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Black Madonna

or Mary Magdalene.  This card implies choices are to be made.

It evokes choices and discernment.

According to the Judaic stories of the Old Testament, there were two trees:

the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life.

And Adam and Eve had to make a choice whether to listen to the snake

or God.  But the story has many layers of meaning and implication.

The snake has become demonised, probably because of the importance

of the snake in the Goddess worshipping tribes which the Jewish

Kings eradicated.  The snake represents the energetic force of life,

the power of transformation, the power of shape shifting and

the energies of the kundalini, referred to as the Holy Spirit in esoteric

Christian teachings.  Here we also see the split between Mary, the virgin

mother and the Black Holy Woman.  

The ancient stories condition us into divisive beliefs and automatic choices.

It is vital that you make use of these current full moon energies to make

your own choices and to let go of those that are no longer true to your understanding

and the future which you would like to step into.  

You are being called upon to make a choice, to use your discernment

to see what it is that you want in your life, and to let go of that which you no longer

want or need or that which no longer serve you.

XIX The Holy Child - Mysteries of Mary Tarot Deck

Everything in our universe has a mirror image.

When you are confronted with a situation that you find challenging

or it is not what you desire, then find its mirror image and

coax that into your life.

The mirror image for the VI Tree of Choices is XIX The Holy Child.

Here we again have three elements, the boy child, the stag and the

girl child.

To balance the full moon energies of the Gemini moon, work with

the Holy Child.  This is traditionally The Sun card and represents

the highest representation of your ego or personality self.

Spend time focusing on that which you want to radiate into the world.

I Maria Prophitessa

In order to work with these energies, you need to invoke the properties

of Maria Prophitessa.  This is traditionally the Magician and the

energy of Mercury, the planet of communication and alchemy.

Here we have the Tree of Life bearing the twelve fruits as described

in Revelations 22:2  in the New Testament :

It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, 

bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. 

The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations.

Healing can be achieved in yourself and in your life, when you

step into acceptance and surrender.  The moment we accept a situation fully,

our resistance ceases and the tension can be released.  We often fear to surrender

as we then feel so helpless and vulnerable.  But how often are you really in control?

It is never in our own hands and acceptance and surrender opens the flood gates

of Grace into lives.  I interpret 'it flowed down the center of the main street'

as the holy kundalini flowing down the shushumna, the central column of the spine

and nervous system of the body.  This column joins the head to the heart and to the

entire nervous system and all organs and glands.  Enlightening insights and inspiration

flows from above the head, down the to rest of the body and being.

When the river flows down the main street of the body, you will harvest twelve crops

of fruit, similar to the image of the Holy Woman with the crown of twelve stars.

blessings

Hettienne