Astro-Query: Mixed Up Gemini
Hi Mystic
Your wonderful advice is really helping me to navigate through the crazy times we are in!
I’m a Gemini, Pisces rising, very much feeling the career evolution and now-ness that have begun in the last few months. In that line, I have recently received an offer of an internship with the organization of my dreams in New York. But, right on cue with the Full Moon Finance Fuqery, I found out yesterday I will need to pay a substantial sum of money for the visa in order to work for free (you had it pretty accurately when you said unfair demands on your $$ which give rise to all manner of emotions)
The Law of Awesome side of me says, this is the time to make your career, don’t let money stop you. All the advice you keep giving to Pisces about not making big financial blow outs would indicate I should tread very carefully with this.
Any thoughts?
Mixed-Up Gemini
Hi Mixed Up Gemini!
Thank you – hey i think you totes GO FOR THIS. The $$$ advice for Pisces/Pisces Rising was very much for this month only – Feral Full Moon crap – but honey you have Jupiter in Gemini til mid-2013! When Jupiter is in your sign you Grow To Be Great! You invest in yourself. You back your own genius. Travel-Education-Internship is all completely, madly Jupiter.
Also, the most successful, self-made people i know DO splurge on health and education. They pay for good advice and growth – they’re not investing in things so much as they are knowledge and wellbeing. I mean look at what you are saying here: organization of your dreams in new York. How hot is that? I day, make it happen and bring it ON.
But what does everyone else think?
Image: Greg Kadel – Vogue Japan
Dear Mixed-up Gemini: Think of it this way: whatever the $$ are now you have to pay out (and also, I might add, to sustain you while you work and live in NYC), you successfully completing the internship will open up further opportunities in an area you love.
Not doing it? No problem – but in time you’ll probably kick yourself, given how trivial the $$ amount will seem.
You’re a fellow Gemini: you can find those $$.
Follow your bliss and best wishes
Of course do it! I bet you probably have someone willing to sponsor / lend you the money if you don’t have it right away. Go on! Make that move.
As a Gemini who has similarly invested crap loads of time and money into big dreams I also would advise go for it. It is only money after all.
At the same time, don’t delude yourself that it won’t be hard, and/or may not play out all sunshine and roses. That is, you may be called to throw much more at it than you can ever have possibly imagined.
Sounds about right! My Gem Rising loves learning – this sounds like a growth situation I’d follow up on anyway.
Money is a resource, same as the food in your fridge. If you don’t put it to good use it rots in the crisper. You don’t fill your car with fuel to sit parked in the garage. It’s not antique furniture you need to lovingly polish and maintain, especially not if you’re young enough to be an intern.
I don’t know why money is so wrapped to our sense of fear but check out Money Mojo. I got it here ages ago and on Kim Falconer’s site. Money is real but we attach a lot of personal energy to it. Free up that energy! There’s a lot to be afraid of: who cares!
Go for gold.
well said
Quite separately, I so love that image above, I would totally do that colour blue dress, that hair and all that chunky gold – if not the idiotic shoes.
Funnily enough, I can’t stop laughing at that photo!
Oooh… look at me… I’m all model-y and ponderous and shit as I strike my contrived pose sitting on this damp rock dressed in high fashion couture gear worth more than most peoples houses…
I am channelling haute -Miley Cyrus fashion-wise atm? As the unhappy hipster says: “Pensive glances. Effortless ennui. It all takes practice”.
LOL! – That was my favourite U.H. quote!
As a middle age Gem, Pisces-rising: I say go for it. My Cap moon tells you -go with your eyes open. It is not that internship will not give you experience – it will. It may not be the one you once thought you would get,but it will be worth nonetheless. As an intern, seek the training that will spring you up to some place better.
Sorry if my advice seems a bit dark. In my experience, “dream work places” often turn to be somewhat disappointing. I needed to tell a piece of caution to a young Gem-Pisces rising solar sister.
lets actually review this doll. one. you have internship at ‘place of your dreams’. I know that these things, if you are fishing high enough up at, do not really open doors to people and it it’s the right place it can lead to some very good work. I know the visa dollars sting and internships might be expensive but this is an investment into your career and place of your dreams things are a bit once in a lifetime yes? New York is good to do anyway. Think about it like this, would you be happy to work a bit paying it off later? I just sounds like an investment to me and the kind that is worth a little cc debt for. This is the kind of thing to use it for, not crap. Real stuff, If you honestly want it that badly, do it. Loan it and go. You only live once
As a gemini with pisces rising I feel qualified to say I understand your quandry.
And considering this means you have SAGG midheaven, I say this trip is exactly your bowling alley right this minute. You have Jupiter near your sun, everyone is rocking out to Neptunian vibes right now which makes your rising your asset ( for a change!! lol…I too have been a psychic dustbin)
I dunno where your pluto is but I say, like a swan diver, INHALE DEEP, open up and jump for it…
Refresh yourself in new waters and,
like Mystic reminds us that Ushers says ” Evolve or evaporate”!!!
Mixed-Up Gemmi, on a practical note, check the visa conditions attached to this internship; are you only allowed to work for this organisation, can you change jobs/interships or work a second job, are you limited to the amount of hours, can you accept a fulltime job if they offer one? If you take the risk, it may as well be a calculated one (ie; know how to save your own arse).
That said, it’s just money but no one can buy experience and no one can take it away from you once you have. Jump in kid!
I say a big fat “YES”.. do it. This is an opportunity that your heart is saying “GO” but you have some bumps in the road. You will think of way to get there or resources will show up to get you there. Trust me. I went through a major life change that I felt I had to do (God and the Universe) and I did it. It was the best thing I could have done. I am struggling a litlte bit righ now financially but the experience and knowledge I have gained is overwhelming and will bring me to a new phase.
Congratulations, Good Luck and Best Wishes… xo!!
Hi Gem
the question i use to make such decisions is – if I fast forward in my minx to being ninety something and reflecting on my life, will it matter whether I went to NY in 2012? how do I want to look back on my life?
Whether of not the internship turns out as you hoped, whether or not you get the connections that you wish for, will it matter that you gave it a burl?
Or would you be just as happy to look aback and think . naw, it was too much of a financial risk?
And you are the only one who can answer this. Everyone here is saying – GO – but you can ignore us. You are the one who lives with the consequences, so please, feel supported but not pushed by everyone here.
mind not minx
Completely agree with you! Best investment one can make is in oneself and with education. Be it schooling or internship like this.
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Hey Mixed-Up!
Fear and even virtual poverty can make long-term, unpaid investments seem like airy-Gem luxuries with litle ROI, but I agree with everyone, the enlightenment of the mind-body-soul is a most worthy endeavor.
As a Gem/Moon/10th opp. Saggo/Nep/3rd AND a MBA applicant AND a NYC resident (Lol!) I can’t help but suggest you bask like a komodo in this cuddly Jupiter transit and run to your dream, feed that ravenous appetite for more! If yours is as plucky and resourceful as every other strong Gem chart, I’ve no doubt you’ll fund this journey and make peace with your fears.
P.S. closing time at the organic, open-tent Union Square Farmer’s Market is when they’re practically giving away food, Nolita and SoHo have the best/cheapest restos, hipsterville-Williamsburg has the best/cheapest clubs (*right now of course*) and the parks and piers offer free everything from yoga and fencing to juggling, tango and kayaking. You may, unless subsidized or with roommates, live in a closet or shithole but you’ll still have your dream internship and an endless amount of affordable ways to survive and have fun. Good luck!
Meant *Gem/Moon/9th*
Same here!
Gemini w/ Pisces Rising,
and I’ve just gone back to school for graphic design – totally opposite of previous education.
GO FOR THIS and dont look back.
Its a big, scary thing going back into debt and changing your path but this is totally relevant to current times.
Go for it Babe !
You don’t want to miss things later on in life, that you will look back and regret not doing..or wonder what life would have been like if you had taken the plunge – Fortune favours the Brave !!
Best of luck beautiful, and please revisit and share your amaze-balls stories ! xxx
GO!
Gemini Sun, Moon, Venus and Pisces rising
Only you can know how much you want the internship and whether the investment is worth it.
As someone who has worked a lot in the NGO and international sector, I also advise going in with an observing mind. it would be interesting to reflect as you are going through whether this is indeed your dream organisation. I also recommend that you be clear about why you are doing this. Is it just for the experience and you don’t care where it leads to or you want it to lead to somewhere professionally. You can be thinking now about the next move, without binding yourself to an outcome.
I also suggest long term thinking, because while there are times where working in certain fields is so rewarding it doesn’t matter about the money, that’s not been my entire experience and I left the UK after many years having had to spend some of my capital in Australia just to be able to live there comfortably and no superannuation. I got a shock when I worked out that in my late 30s had I simply stayed on the same path in Australia, I could have retired! And actually, I wouldn’t mind being in that position now and if I never went o/s, yeah well, I would have missed out on that but gained in other ways. Every time we choose to take one path, we are choosing not to take others.
I wouldn’t be so concerned about paying for the visa; the bigger problem is not being paid to do work (if I have understood you correctly, it’s an unpaid internship?). I am opposed to unpaid work, so if they are not paying you they need to reward you in some other way.
If it’s a paid internship and you can afford to live in NY on your salary and you are only concerned that you have to pay for the visa, that’s not too much to worry about. The issue is whether you want that profession and that lifestyle, and if you do, then as other people have said the visa is simply a cost you have to pay to open those doors. You are a business and you need to fork out money to make it.
Hi everyone
I’m the Mixed-Up (well not so mixed-up anymore after this amazing full moon) Gemini.
Thank you all for your insights, encouragement, and support on this. I’ve had a lot of insights into this situation over the weekend, and have realised that this opportunity isn’t the ‘dream’ one I had built it up to be, but has been an important vessel for a number of important realisations.
While I’ve decided this particular opportunity isn’t the right one for me to invest in, I am now ready and willing to invest in the one I’m sure is coming up and is right for me. It’s been good to shift the thinking about $ as energy – investing in yourself is certainly different than splurging on stuff. And hey, I’ve got Jupiter in Gemini until 2013 – I’m confident that right opportunity is not far away and when it comes, it will be amazing!
Blessings to all and hope you’ve found your peace in this crazy weekend xx
I spent a lot of money on my education and also therapy and functional body altering (orthodontics for severely crooked teeth and learning new ways to tame frizzy, uncontrollable hair)… I’m almost 40 and I look 10 years younger, and it seems able to weather little storms better than a lot of my peers my own age because of these INVESTMENTS (don’t mean to yell, just to add emphasis). They definitely opened more doors to me than where previously opened. As long as it’s not a HUGE amount of money, something that absolutely cannot be replaced no matter what… It’s one of those times of risk/opportunity!! All the best <3