Writing Prompts for the New Moon in Gemini
Inspiring change & new beginnings
Monday, May 26th, is a New Moon in Gemini. New Moons are a time for reflection, but beyond that, they're a time for pausing, turning inward, for seeds, for intentions, and new beginnings.
This new moon is the start of a story.
Gemini, ruled by Mercury, is deeply connected to creativity, conversation, communication, and sharing ideas. Gemini reminds us of the sacredness of storytelling. Under this new moon, a Word Witch invitation: celebrate the holy power of myth-making and your inner wildness.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés writes, “I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
This new moon casts this spell for you, too.
Under this new moon, imagine yourself barefoot and wild, holding a metaphorical seed in your hands, running toward the garden. What story will you carry to the sacred soil to plant under the darkening sky, the moon unfurling in a new phase? Someday to burst into bloom?
Writing Prompts for the New Moon in Gemini
In this interview in Emergence Magazine, Martin Shaw writes, “My petition is that we accept the challenge of uncertainty. As a matter of personal style. It’s the right thing to do. It’s what the Anglo-Saxons called “living in the bone-house.” We get older, we find life is riven with weirdness. We should be weird too. To know, tell, and create stories is a wonderous skill that keeps faith with the traditional and beauteous techniques our ancestors used when faced with the sudden mists and tripwires of living.” Celebrate the weirdness of being alive in a piece of writing, know that your weirdness infuses your stories and writing with magic, and know that being a weirdo is a tenet of being a Word Witch.
Write a prayer or a blessing on this new moon phase. What is the water you wish to offer to the seed of the story that you’re planting this new moon? What celebration would you like to offer your inner, wild storyteller? Write a piece of writing that is full of kind words to your dreams.
Sylvia Plath wrote, “I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.” Begin a piece with this line: write an ode to the dark moon, the shadow of Gemini season, the other, the sacred part of ourselves.