How I Started Floating
Finding my voice at the start of Gemini season
Along my journey, I have been picking up spiritual lingo like destiny, synchronicity, flow, signs, and alignment. These words (and there are many more) are said to be the language of the universe. Study them, understand them, and look for them around you - and you’ll be connected to something bigger than yourself. You’ll start to see the unseen.
Let’s explore the first: destiny.
What is destiny?
Where does it come from?
Does it remove our free will?
Maybe instead of trying to figure out destiny, we feel into it.
Merriam-Webster defines it as, “A predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency.”
I think of it as a guide. It gives you certain data points and clues to finding your purpose in life, your highest vibration, your reason for coming to earth.
The clues are there. They’re are all around us. But it’s up to us to find them, piece them together, and continue putting them together to get at that bigger idea of purpose.
Do we ever fully figure out our entire purpose—the treasure behind all of the clues?
Probably not fully. But it’s the journey, not the destination, right? There are so many things we’ll never know, like how we’ve impacted people with our actions, or the way we may have inspired a stranger just by being ourselves.
I’ve been thinking a lot about destiny and how my path has started to form over the last few years. I finally feel like I’m solving life’s riddle of finding purpose, and by looking deep inside, I’m re-shaping what’s outside.
And sometimes, the clues are obvious.
Like my return to writing. Precisely, THE DAY AND TIME I decided to return to writing.
From an astrological perspective, yesterday was May 20, 2025, and at 2:54pm (eastern time), the Sun moved into Gemini. Gemini season started. I hit “publish” on my first post around 3:00pm. And no, I didn’t plan this. I didn’t use astrology to choose the right time. I was just moved to write. Then and there. Right now. I listened.
Astrologically, my sun sign is Gemini. I’m so glad you asked what that means. According to Chani:
“Ruled by Mercury — the planet of communication and data processing — Gemini is endlessly inquisitive, comfortable with paradox, and distractible. If you have planets or angles in Gemini, you prefer the lands of “either/or” to total certainty.”
Geminis are also air signs:
“Air signs are intellectual, communicative, and relationship-oriented. Think of how speech travels by invisible soundwaves and pollen spreads by wind and airborne creatures. Of all the elements, air signs are the most interconnective, with a talent for building bridges.”
That Gemini season starts, and me, the prototypical Gemini and-now-coach, decides to start writing about societal, soul-level ideas? Not a mistake.
Destiny? Ok, now you’re starting to get it…
I believe that my path on this earth—what I’m good at, what comes naturally—is destined. I’ve always had a child-like wonder for adventure, ideas, and anything that would keep me in the sky, versus grounded on land.
As a Gemini, these are qualities I just have. I don’t have to try. I don’t have to develop them. They’re just me.
And look at my name: Gabriel. Angel Gabriel is literally the original, and most famous (?) communicator — ever? His job was to be God’s messenger. Pretty big stuff.
And now, me, focusing on getting my message out? Helping people by listening, and using my words and life experience to, in return, help them understand the bigger picture, meeting them at their level to clarify their own purpose? Not a coincidence.
I described my life goals to my therapist in our first meeting. I told her two things:
I wanted to float. As a depressed-something in my first session, I told her my end goal was just to be floating through life. I felt deep down that life didn’t have to feel hard—and at that time, everything felt hard. That trying so hard didn’t feel natural to me. I wanted to float, enjoy, and explore. I would do as much introspection as I had to, in order to find that floating feeling.
I described my “ideal life” as a large globe. It had lines and arrows connecting cities, countries, and cultures. Those lines represented me floating around to different places, connecting people, cultures, and ideas. In each place, I would meet someone to talk about deep ideas: soul-level discussions. I would then go to the next place and do it again. And on to the next. This was what I came here for.
This idea of floating has been a constant in my life. A litmus of what to follow. If it doesn’t feel like floating, I should follow the clues to what does. For too long, I didn’t let myself float. I was too busy trying to be in control.
So as I get back into writing, on the exact day and time that the Sun moves into Gemini, I feel like destiny is the only way to “understand” how all of this comes together. Right here, right now, in this way.
And because I’ve been open to understanding who I am deep down, and slowing down to see the clues and re-direct as I go, I’m heading in the direction of fulfilling my life’s purpose. As a gemini, as a communicator, as an explorer.
And writing about deep, life-meets-stars ideas?
Feels like floating.
💬 If this sparked something in you—don’t let it sit in your head.
Tell me what landed. Tell me what cracked open.
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