Every couple of months the Geminis paper over the windows of their brick and mortar shop in Grass Valley, California and close for 48 hours. In that time they dismantle their current window displays and install new ones based on a new theme. These themes are actually ritual magick that they have either knowingly or unknowingly called in. They feel the effects as the theme gets closer and throughout the months that it's active.

This podcast episode is recorded 8 hours before one of these transformations takes place. The theme is changing from Siren's Call to Emerging, and the Gems are realizing that Emerging isn't always a beautiful, comfortable experience. They discuss the awareness that everything is rising up from the dark to the light of day, not just flowers but also weeds like feelings of inadequacy, jealousy and judgement.

Kat shares a lot about her discomfort with the shift from "making things" (such as jewelry) to residing more with ephemeral creation like exploring dance, performance and environment building. This is challenging her ingrained notions of creativity and how living a creative life looks and feels.

Ginger shares her concerns around diverging paths and the tension that rises within when she doesn't know how those paths will work together. This mirrors the general unease the Gems are holding about the windows and store transformation because several artists are contributing, and they won't know how it all comes together or works until somewhere in the midst of the 48-hour transformation.

Kat and Ginger peel back their own stories about how light emerging should be and how this theme will be an easy one. It's all about stepping into the unknown. The Emerging theme and window installation is active in the store through May 13, 2017.

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

TwinStar Podcast Episode 029: Angela + Cacao

Cult of Gemini newsletter about the discomfort of emerging

The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

TwinStar Podcast Episode 025: Choices + Triggers touches on gaslighting