Your luck is about to change as Jupiter escapes retrograde

Let’s get lucky — and let’s get to listening.At long last, Jupiter — our gas-giant planet of good fortune, abundance, games of chance and inclinations of excess — is going direct in Gemini.After a four-month retrograde, he’s striking up the roulette wheel, and we should begin to feel more engaged in and enlivened by communications of all kinds and hopefully be able to more clearly recognize and respond to mechanisms of malicious misinformation.Jupiter is considered an outer planet, meaning its effect on day-to-day life is less intensely felt than inner planets like Venus and Mercury.Jupiter’s pull is more closely related to broad life themes and assessment of how, where and why we invest our energies.In Gemini, that energy is concentrated on themes of exchange, information, beliefs and extreme ideology.Jupiter has been retrograde in the sign of the twins since October.

Retrogrades turn our energy inward, while a planet’s direct motion inspires external expression, particularly in the loquacious climes of Gemini.While Jupiter’s retrograde may have made us second-guess our instincts and intellect, the planet’s direct motion encourages us to thoughtfully question the world at large and the way language is wielded as a weapon.Jupiter is within its detriment in Gemini, meaning the planet’s power is compromised.Jupiter is about doing, sometimes to a reckless YOLO, “burn the boats” extreme, while Gemini is about thinking and speaking to an exhausting degree, more talking than walking, feeling or wholly believing.Gemini rules the third house of communications and short distances, meaning this transit will most impact our exchanges with those in our inner circles and immediate communities.

Still, these interactions serve as a microcosm for collective discourse.During this transit, we can all take note of Gemini’s independent and curious nature and apply it to our relationships and the reception of information.Under these skies, we are encouraged...