You Don't Need Permission For Anything Else, So Why Do You Need It For This?
The astrological intersection of truth, performance, and the myth of being nice.
This week, Mercury returns to its own sign, entering Gemini not quietly or cautiously, but with the force of a courtroom bombshell. Gemini, not known for its subtlety or diminutive nature, wants attention through announcements and will find a platform big enough to host everything it has to broadcast. Words from early February become important again and will be spoken so that they cannot be unheard. Plots will twist and truths will emerge that have long begged for daylight. The New Moon soon follows, not as a gentle reset, but as a collision of identity, ideology, and emotional honesty. Then, as Mercury reaches cazimi, the lines between what is said and what is meant stretch to their breaking point.
We are entering a chapter where politeness becomes a liability. Being "nice"—that reflex to smooth edges, to stay silent in the face of harm, to prioritize comfort over clarity—is losing its charm. This is a moment of precision, not performance. We are forced to confront kindness for what it truly is--as an active form of self-respect.
To be kind is to tell the truth, even when it shatters illusion or hurts someone's feelings. To be kind is to make space for yourself, even when that space costs you approval.
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What You Need to Know Before the Volume Rises
When Mercury enters Gemini on May 25, we are not simply observing a shift in communication—we are stepping into an atmosphere charged with consequence. Words will carry weight. Language, long restrained or filtered, is suddenly freed. But freedom does not always bring clarity. This moment in time holds the potential for major revelations: breaking news, public disclosures, private admissions. The rhythm of the week moves quickly, and it is easy to get swept up in the pace of it all. Yet beneath the speed lies something slower, older, and harder to name—a quiet pressure to speak what has been avoided.
Gemini is not inherently stable. It moves quickly, sometimes too quickly to pause for clarity. Mercury, now ruling from its own sign, intensifies this pace. It amplifies the volume of our thoughts, our interactions, and our opinions. We find ourselves talking more, reading more, reacting more—but are we actually understanding each other? Are we listening? This flood of activity is not confined to media or politics—it is present in our private conversations, our text messages, the way we speak to our partners, our colleagues, and even ourselves. In an age defined by constant information, Gemini energy can be both illuminating and disorienting.
This week, the duality of Gemini challenges us to notice when we are using language to connect—and when we are using it to avoid. Are we filling space to delay silence? Are we crafting messages to appease rather than to express something real? The question is not whether we are talking—it is whether we are willing to say something that is both useful and true. The question is not whether we are talking—it is whether we are being honest.
This is where the difference between being “nice” and being “kind” takes root. Nice remains quiet so no one feels uncomfortable. Nice avoids conflict even when something harmful is happening. Nice asks you to swallow your truth for the sake of appearances.
Kindness is different.
Kindness is intervention. Kindness is the willingness to say what must be said when harm is occurring—especially when that harm is happening to you. If something in your life, your work, your body, or your relationships is causing pain, kindness does not advise endurance. It demands recognition. It demands that you make noise, even if that noise disrupts the comfort of others.
Being kind means being willing to disappoint people who benefit from your silence. It is not cruelty. It is clarity. And that willingness is tested this week, especially with the arrival of the Gemini New Moon on May 26.
In mundane terms, this lunation raises questions around communications and conversations health, labor, and service. In personal terms, it asks what we have tolerated in order to maintain routine. What we have accepted in silence for the sake of stability. This is a moon that exposes the mental patterns and emotional contracts that we’ve signed without realizing what they cost. Something may break, but it will be something already cracked. What shatters now does so to release a genie in the bottle that's been trapped for far too long.
Mercury cazimi on May 30 serves as the week’s emotional climax. What has been hidden and avoided becomes undeniable. What was once kept private is either released or can no longer be managed. In the world around us, this may look like a leaked document, a public resignation, conversations around mental health, or a shift in policy that exposes deeper tensions. In our individual lives, it could manifest as a moment of clear recognition—the end of pretending, the end of saying yes out of obligation or expectation when what we mean is no.
Kindness, in this light, is not soft. It is fierce. It is the boundary you draw to protect your integrity. It is the space you make for yourself when you realize no one else will. This week, the universe does not demand that we get louder. It asks that we get more truthful. And in that truth, we may find a version of kindness that does not require our silence to exist.
We are drawn to find ourselves so we can root into our authenticity.
From here, we move into a study of the astrology and it's implications on our lives and in the headlines. We lean into the pulse of the week—the stories unfolding in public while examining the ones we're quietly carrying inside our hearts. The signs might be subtle, they could even be out of our field of vision, but they’re pointing somewhere you can no longer avoid.
If you’re ready to trace those threads through your own life, lets get into it.
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