this gemini season will change your life
gemini season: a mini essay + a very big announcement
welcome to gemini season everyone, in honor of my 24th birthday (june 4), all paid subscriptions will be half off until june 21 (you can use the button below)! if you’ve been considering upgrading your subscription, now’s the time. stick around to the end (or scroll to the bottom) for some VERY BIG NEWS!!!!!
I was born under a Gemini sun, always quick to approach each day with curiosity and eager to understand my place in the world. A sign of communicators and thinkers, it’s only natural that words bring me comfort. Astrologers, people on Twitter, and your ex-girlfriend are quick to talk about how moody and gossipy Geminis are. I do not beat those allegations, but I feel such a fierce love and protective instinct towards my sign; it’s a part of me I never want to be rid of.
Like clockwork, Gemini season comes around, and I find myself more relaxed. It’s the early summer air, the sunny afternoons with an iced matcha and a new book, coming home from work and making myself dinner. The stars are aligned in a way that feels magnetic, an almost tangible cosmic feeling that practically screams that life is operating as it’s meant to be. The universe gives and it takes, it’s bigger than me, and even though I don’t really believe in capital-G God, I believe in the universe, the cosmic particles that make up each of us. Maybe the sun and positioning of the moon at the moment you’re born mean nothing, but it provides an explanation, a comfort to fall back on when I desperately need to feel in tune with myself.
Twins, two sides of the same coin, double-edged sword, everything about this season is neatly in twos. We’re in a season of doubles, my good side and my bad side, constant indecision. Would now be the time to mention that my favorite number has always been two? There’s something so neat about it, the simplicity in a pair, a partner, a built-in best friend, a multifaceted sense of self.
Social situations have been a blessing and a curse. I say what I have to, instinctively feel how to fit in. I mould myself like a piece of clay, kneading it one way for one conversation and reshaping it completely for the next. Should it be this draining? How am I simultaneously giving everything while constantly feeling like I’m sharing nothing?
So often I find myself fitting the stereotype—moody, people pleasing to a fault, longing for gossip, a real pain to be around. A second me, I viewed it as a worse version that came out when I was stressed or uncomfortable, upset, and unsure how to take it out. My moods were quick to oscillate, my mother often said that living in a house with a teenage Gemini could feel nightmarish, and I’m sure she wasn’t wrong. I know it still happens, I feel a little bitchier, my eyes are quick to roll, and suddenly I’m being a Gemini. I want to be something else. I want to be seen as a Gemini through my intelligence, my eagerness to learn. I’m not crazy, I want to scream.
Two sides but still one person.
This season is everything to me I feel it so deeply in my bones. I embrace every part of my very being, the parts that don’t always feel perfect, the parts I love, and I breathe in the air. These next few weeks are my time.
very big news!!!!
i have something exciting to tell you…
On Sunday, June 15, I will be reading a never-before-shared essay alongside
, , , and at Tender Summer, a reading night at Night Club 101.This is for the yearners, it’s summer in the city, and we’re setting the mood. Unsent love letters, from-the-heart confessions, our hazy, summer memories, shared directly with you in an intimate night of reading.
Come alone, bring your friends, take a date, or your mom, this is a night to reach into the heart and soul of every self-proclaimed yearner. Everyone is welcome to share their stories—on and off the stage.
Summer is beautiful, it’s heart-wrenching and full of emotion, and on June 15th, let us be the vehicles that kickstart your summer. We are so excited to share our stories, we want you there, and eager to share yours.
As far as logistics go, join us June 15th at 6 PM at Night Club 101 in NYC. Tickets are limited in capacity and 21+, so make sure to grab yours ASAP!
We also want to note that for our paid subscribers on Substack, this will be a free event, so if you are one of my paid subscribers please DM me for access to a special promo code.
I’m so excited for this! It’s my first reading ever, and I can’t wait to do it alongside some of the writers I admire most and am lucky enough to call my friends. I hope to meet you there!
many exciting things coming your way! make sure you reserve your tickets for the Tender Summer reading!! as always, thank you for reading and supporting people’s princess. we’re coming up on 15k of you and that’s so special to me.
you can find me on instagram @sarahcucchiara and @peoples.princess
with love,
sarah ♊️🪻🍇
i knew u were one of us!!! happy early birthday
Happy early birthday!!! And eeekk! Cannot wait for Tender Summer! Seriously going to be the best way to kick off summer!