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FULL MOON IN GEMINI - Beaver Moon

Northeastern Native Americans had names for the different Full Moons, as they often symbolized important events of Indian life. The recurrance of each named Full Moon, would help them to mark changes in the seasons each year.

So important were these events to the American Indians, that they would designate an entire month to each named Full Moon. In early American life, the Algonquin tribes followed by European settlers saw November as the time to set beaver traps before the winter frost, so that a supply of winter furs could be obtained.

The beavers themselves during this time would be making their own preparations for winter. As such, the November Full Moon (regardless of the sign it occurs in) has come to be known as the Beaver Moon.

Whether viewed from the point of view of the hunters or the hunted, this November Moon signifies activities to protect from the elements of winter,- the cold, the frost, the scarcity of food.

Since this Full Moon occurs in Gemini (opposite the Sun in Sagittarius), we have to consider the importance of the mutability of these two signs to understand the full meaning of this opposition. Mutability brings about change, which comes from the willingness to be open to learn new ideas. Gemini symbolizes communication, yet the very duality of the sign itself in opposition to the higher-minded philosophical outlook of Sagittarius, hints that conflict must be overcome before real change can take place.

Gemini is always a sign of conflict, but it is not the conflict of opposites that causes the difficulties. Rather, it is the different legendary levels of its symbolic twins, Castor and Pollux. With one twin mortal and the other immortal, the duality of Gemini comes from looking at matters from these two very different perspectives.

The mortal twin knowing that some day it will die, does not quite understand the immortal consequences of its actions and tends to constantly take a single-life limited point of view, while the immortal twin looks beyond the flippant whimsies of the moment and instead concerns itself with more soul-like and immortal consequences.

The immortal twin of Gemini understands the consequences of Karma and Reincarnation. The mortal twin does not. In a sense, the mortal twin holds back the progress of the immortal twin, by the mere fact that its outlook and decisions are based on surviving in the present life. Yet, without survival in the present life, the concerns of the immortal twin would be pointless.

Yet, the point of the mind is to think and without conflict there would be no thought. At this full Moon, the dualties of Gemini, with all of its abilities to emotionally analyze inconsistancies, opposing the higher minded outlook of Sagittarius, with all of its philosophical perspectives, bring to our attention the unresolved conflicts that exist in world communication.

With Gemini ruling the lower mind (every-day thoughts and ideas) and Sagittarius ruling the higher mind (beliefs, concepts, principles and truths), we get a chance to see our ideals and our shortcomings as human beings, always striving for a higher truth, yet realizing that we must not be too harsh with ourselves if we are not all there yet!

And, mostly, at this very important time, we must be tolerant of others, even if their language is different than our own, or their ways of thinking conflict us,- for they too have their ideals of perfection, yet, like us, are not quite one with all,- yet!

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