Full Moon in Gemini
+ an invitation to a solstice retrospective
The Full Moon in Gemini is today (December 4) at 6:14 pm ET. It’s surreal to be writing to you in the final weeks of 2025. Venus retrograde in Pisces and Aries (March-April) feels like it was just yesterday. Yet, I also feel like a completely different person than who I was back then. I’m sure you do too. A lot was unraveled in 2025, and much of what fell apart isn’t coming back together, and mostly, I think that’s OK.
Before I get into some notes on the Full Moon in Gemini, I have an invitation for you:
If you’ve been around here for a long time, you might know that I love winter. Perhaps because my IC (lowest heaven, home point, place of private life) is in the early degrees of Capricorn, the days around the solstice always feel like home to me, no matter where I am or who I’m with. If you know I love winter, you also probably know that I’m an obsessive diarist who gets high off reflection. Though one of my biggest challenges (in life, therapy, etc.) is to live in the moment and be more intentionally present, I do think that keeping a log is a fine art. I think the solstice is the ideal time to dust off the log book and take some notes. Which is why I’m inviting you to:
SOLSTICE RETROSPECTIVE - a gathering to collect notes on 2025
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21
12 PM - 2 PM ET ONLINE
if you can’t attend live, there will be a recording
free for paid subscribers (code in email heading to claim your spot), or $20
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SOLSTICE RETROSPECTIVE will be like a horoscope in reverse. I will take you through the key astrology of each month of 2025, inviting you to reflect and take notes on how these cosmic patterns played out in your life. Journaling prompts obvi included. We will of course also talk about culture, geopolitics, and try to find something to laugh about in these wild times. It will be VERY FUN.
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OK back to today. The full moon in Gemini happens at 13º Gemini, in a part of the zodiac associated with Tarot’s 9 of Swords aka the card of molto anxiety. You know the one. A man sitting tortured and sleepless in his bed with nine swords hanging on his wall representing everything he has to worry about. This man is haunted by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, plus at least six more. What catches my eye though is the quilt. The checkered pattern depicts flowers and astrological symbols. It’s this part of the card that I think is the most Gemini: a busy mind in a field of roses. The person in this card is suffering. The Golden Dawn called it Cruelty. But there’s also a hint that if they were to take their head out of their hands and look up at those swords—maybe dust them or name them—it wouldn’t be so scary. Maybe he could fall back asleep.
This full moon meets us in a similarly overwhelmed place. The retrogrades of Mercury and Saturn are now complete. Slowly, we are getting back to the timeline that was abandoned in the summer. We’re at the halfway point between eclipses. Fate is loud, and both the past and future are swirling. But what about the present? What about looking at the swords and simply noticing them? What if this moment is about welcoming the anxiety, making friends with what’s swirling, rather than avoiding it? What if there was nothing to hide from?
What if we all felt this way?
As the full moon goes exact, Mars in Sagittarius is in a harsh square aspect with Saturn in Pisces. Frustrations and exhaustion are high. Neptune is stationing direct one final time in Pisces. The illusions of the last 14 years are potent, and they’re also fading. Mercury—the ruler of this full moon—is in the final degrees of Scorpio, treading over terrain last visited in late October. Mercury in Scorpio pierces with brevity. Something is loud and obvious, but we’re also not saying much. What’s cutting through the static and stopping the noise?
In 36 Faces, Austin Coppock describes Gemini II as, “This is a decan of art and war. The capacity to live amidst the constant pull and play of dualities is here, as is the capacity to acknowledge both happiness and sadness. A devil and an angel share one’s shoulders while blessings and banes fly from hands right and left.”In this way, the message of Gemini II is why not both? Why not everything? Those born during this part of Gemini season (in the first 10 days or so of June) live through a constant expression of this duality. The goal here is to dance with the in-between, not to find a niche.
This full moon falls on the nodal bendings, marking the halfway point between eclipses. This full moon links what was bursting at the seams and falling apart in September with what’s still to come in late February and early March of 2026.
This full moon is also part of a lunar phase family that continues the story of something that was birthed at the new moon in Gemini on June 5, 2024, and then changed directions at the first quarter moon in Gemini on March 5, 2025. Now the results of those efforts are coming to light. Perhaps you’re reaching a fork in the road. We live in a time of aggressive binaries, and messaging that tells us we have to choose one path or the other, but, really: why not both???
Happy full moon & more to come soon <3
Hope to see a bunch of you at the SOLSTICE RETROSPECTIVE.