December 4, 2025 3:14pm PST : Gemini Full Moon

 

Gemini Full Moon

December 4, 2025, 3:14pm PST 

13 Gemini 03 

Once a month the Moon enters Gemini, and for those two and a half days we stay busy. We want to circulate like a bee buzzing from flower to flower, pollinating ourselves and everyone around us. We crave conversation, seek new information, and follow our curiosity. We go long on fresh topics, ideas, approaches and data. Fresh is the keyword. A Gemini Moon is allergic to stale.

Once a year, we get a Gemini Full Moon, when the Moon opposes the Sun in Sagittarius. By all measures, this is usually our most mind-bending full moon of the year, the one where our big ideas and opinions collide with reality on the ground and any hypocrisy is seen by all.   

In Sagittarius, the Sun is teaching, exploring, adventuring, philosophizing, opinion-making and, yes, occasionally know-it-all-ing. Gemini, meanwhile, is the student in the back of the room whispering with friends, poking fun, and when called upon, answering with a smart quip, usually with a juicy data point that sends the teacher sputtering, “But, but, but…” Whether that data is airtight  accurate isn’t really the point; Gemini is testing the pontification to see if it can hold up to fresh scrutiny.

This full moon’s chart is potent because it sits inside the mutable nodal eclipse cycle. For a reminder: the mutable signs: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces all engage the mind. We entered this two year eclipse Pisces/Virgo axis on September 17, 2024, and this Full Moon lands in a tough spot, exactly square to the nodes.  The Sun, Moon, and nodes sit at the13 degree of all four mutable signs.  This full moon is full-on mental.

Each mutable sign filters the mind differently: Gemini is intellectual, Virgo is rational, Sagittarius is conceptual, and Pisces is psychological. The world benefits from mutable energy.  They are stimulating, inspiring, humanitarian and functional. But when mutables are wound too tight, they’re the first to be labeled “effin’ crazy.” (For the record: cardinals get labeled “effin’ aggressive,” and fixed signs are “stubborn as eff.” No sign gets a free pass when they are wound tight). 

The mutable tension in this full moon can express itself from Gemini’s urge to gather data and talk it through (maybe some gossip or two). Sagittarius may respond by either synthesizing the information into something brilliant (nice) or unleashing a strident, self-righteous rant no one asked for (not nice).  Meanwhile, those of us trying to tap Virgo just to get through a simple to-do list may find ourselves hijacked by monkey mind before checking off a single item. And Pisces could wobble into a spiritual collapse or existential crisis where once again, whatever we believed in fails to meet our expectations. Wah-wah.  

Yes, the full moon pressure is thick. But there is a bright spot because all is not lost. Mercury who is ruler of both Gemini and Virgo is harmonizing with Jupiter and Saturn. No matter how complex the conversations, how jolting the fresh news (personal or global), how tough it is to manage daily tasks, how loud our inner judge gets, or how hard it is to find spirit in a dark moment; we will be able to pivot and keep moving. Because Jupiter spots the good and Saturn builds something out of it.

These three days will be packed: busy, buzzing, sorting fact from fiction, reality from illusion, rhetoric from the straightforward. But all of it will inform us and refresh us.   

Stale be gone.