Gemini

Sabrina’s horoscope: A Mercury retrograde in your house of fantasy and dreams is a perfect time for creative pursuits and spiritual development like dreamwork, lucid dreaming, dream journalling—that kind of thing. Surround yourself with people and media that expand your sense of optimism and possibility. The pre-solar return (aka birthday) time evokes the desire to review life: Where are you in life and what will you do next? Depending on your thought patterns (your well-paved neural networks), the unknown can be super exciting or incredibly daunting. If it’s the latter, resist the urge to stay in the dreariness. The more you can play and be open to the gifts of this time in your life, the more insight you’ll gain. Renewal is at hand or already beginning; you need only engage a positive practice, and surrender those things that no longer serve your dreams, like self-defeating thoughts. Growth from within will help you outgrow limiting external structures. If you’re waiting on something else, consider how events will turn out if you make the first move. You are courting your dreams, your destiny, and your creative actualization, so act accordingly, and see how the universe fluffs its feathers back at you.

Dylan’s advice: As your birthday season—and summer break!—saunters in your direction, get out into the sunshine for an outing that actively gives you some space to reflect while still getting to stretch your legs. This is a good metaphor for entering a new year, too—gazing back while moving forward is a lovely way to think about looking ahead at what you want your next year of life to look like, in loose terms. Get in touch with your birthday season by initiating yourself into it. This month, if you end up getting to go on a lake vacation, a day hike, or if it’s just sunny where you live and you get to spend a nice day outside, carve out a little alone time to look back on your year, and what you want to take with you. Combine that outdoorsy, first-day-of-summer vibe with a birthday ritual and watch the sun come up on your year ahead.