Gemini Season blows into town, bringing it's lively energy into our lives as we emerge from Taurus season where we turned inward during Mercury Retrograde and focused on our inner sanctuaries. Gemini helps us step up and step out to reconnect with our social circles and the world around us.
Gemini Season 2023: May 21 - June 20
Symbol: The Twins
Planetary Ruler: Mercury
Element: Air
Gemstones for Gemini Season
Pearl
Pearls are not your typical "gemstone", but have been sought by civilizations for almost as long as humans have created art and jewelry, and are considered a "precious gemstone". When one looks at a Pearls appearance, you may be reminded of the cool waters of the ocean, powerful yet smooth and fluid. The sheen on the surface of the pearls speaks to the beauty and inherent power, drawing your focus in. These properties also mirror those born during this season and may help us harness or amplify when wearing them. Adorning Pearls will help Geminis and others to keep their cool or draw attention to oneself when needed.
Mercury governs both Gemini and Pearls which makes this a powerful gem for enhancing communication. If you are finding difficulty in communication during this season, perhaps consider wearing Pearl to help find or amplify your voice or message across. It is believed by some that Pearls repel negative energy, control blood pressure and even help with some mental health issues.
The birthstone for our June Gemini's, influencing the positive and negative sides of those born under the sign of Gemini, but Pearl can also have a soothing and stabilizing effect on anyone who wears it.
Blue Kyanite
Blue Kyanite is an excellent stone to use for balance and tranquility, bringing a calming affect on the wearer or beholder. Helping to release negative energies, Blue Kyanite helps to drive away feelings of anger, frustration, and stress. Cutting through our fears, it allows us to step into our best selves and helps boost our self expression.
Stimulating the throat chakra, Blue Kyanite encourages us to speak clearly and truthfully in our communications, especially helpful in arguments.
Those born under the sign of Gemini can be known to gossip or even bend the truth the little to suit them, it's just part of their dual and changeable nature. Lean on Blue Kyanite if you find yourself straying from the truth or getting invested into others drama.
Moonstone
Moonstone helps you connect with your emotions, providing calmness and stabilizes emotional turmoil. Helping you to sort through your feelings, Moonstone allows you to gain a higher perspective on your emotions to unlock any hidden meanings or triggers.
Releasing frustration, Moonstone encourages us to surrender to the natural cycles of life, enhance patience, and stay empathic to others. Moonstone helps you stay calm and not over react to situations outside of your control.
A secondary birthstone for those with their Sun sign in Gemini, Moonstone promotes abundance and good fortune in ones life and in business ventures. Nurturing and soothing, Moonstone is wonderful when striving for new beginnings and inner growth.
Moonstone is also known to support the feminine spirit, making it helpful for those that suffer from PMS. fertility issues and childbirth. Believed to aid in balancing hormones and male/female energies, Moonstone can help us all get in touch with our emotions.
Serpentine
Serpentine is known as another Manifestation stone - helping you bring your goals and ideas into reality. Being an air sign with a dual nature, Gemini's can be a little scattered sometimes with all this flight and broad creativity. Serpentine can help those born under Gemini and all of us going through the season with a focus and spark to manifest our desires.
This gemstone is also great for the Gemini season if you are having anxious or nervous tension. Being a stone centered on the heart chakra, it is believed that Serpentine will open your heart and sooth negative and nervous energies.
Serpentine is another "mind stone" that is strongly believed to aid in communication with others and ourselves. It will bring clarity to negative thoughts so that you can identify and replace them with more positive ones. Serpentine strongly addresses areas that need to be healed or replaced with something better serving you. If you find yourself down on others or yourself this season, use Serpentine to break through the negativity and welcome positive change.
Druzy Quartz
Druzy Quartz holds all of the properties and benefits of Quartz, but is notably beneficial for balancing and enhancing energies. It is a powerful stress reliever, encouraging healing on a physical, mental, and spiritual level. This also balances the emotional body, helping to relieve sadness, fear, stress, and depression.
Druzy can help with self-exploration, awakening feelings of self love and empowerment.
Enhancing patience, it can help with starting new projects. Wear Druzy Quartz as a pendant to ensure its calming and healing properties remain close to your body.
Apatite
Apatite is a Gemstone found throughout the world but most commonly found in Europe. It also appears in many color variations but most is commonly associated with the bright blue color. Its varying colors are a result of its mineral composition. Apatite is a combination of two and sometimes three different minerals, giving this gemstone a "dual personality" when it comes to its metaphysical properties.
Duality is one of the main traits of Geminis and thus wearing Apatite will help encourage a healthy balance between these sometimes opposing sides of one's self or a situation that anyone could find themselves in this season.
Apatite is thought to have many other positive attributes and properties it passes onto the wearer. Its ability to heal through balance and connection is said to help those with learning, love, concentration, peace and most effectively communication. Wearing Appetite will help clear negative thoughts about yourself and others, important for healthy communication with others.
One of the most notable aspects of Apatite is its ability to facilitate and manifest. If you find yourself, this Gemini season, in need of change, in the midst of a creative slump, or facing a challenge that needs clarification, consider wearing Apatite for a powerful boost of confidence in these areas.
Emerald
Emerald stimulates the heart chakra and has a healing effect on your emotions, as well as your physical heart. It ensures physical, mental, and emotional equilibrium, bringing harmony to all aspects of life. Emerald helps focus your actions, strengthening memory and increasing mental clarity.
Known as the stone for lasting love, Emerald boosts loyalty and domestic bliss. It enhances unconditional love and unity, promoting friendship and helping to keep relationships in balance.
The birthstone for our Geminis born in the month of May, Emerald can bring you limitless joy. A stone of harmony, love, compassion, renewal and recovery. Emerald is the perfect stone to brighten your energy in any occasion.
These are just a few gemstones that you can work with during Gemini season no matter what zodiac sign you are. Remember that there is no right or wrong way to do this, so don't get so caught up in the details you hesitate to move forward. Look for gemstones that resonate deeply with you and that your intentions are honorable when you set them. Lean into your intuition and explore your personal power and magick