On Wednesday, December 7th, 2022, at 11:08PM EST, the Gemini Moon opposes the Sagittarius Sun giving us this month's Full Moon, our annual Full Moon in Gemini.
The last Full Moon of the year!
Full Moons are times of heightened emotions. The sky is bright. We see what we are holding onto/where we are/what is reaching its peak/what is finishing up. Gemini is the sign of duality (and how, yes, two things can be true/right at the same time) - think of its symbol of 'the twins' - and we often find we have more than one situation peaking/finishing up at the time of a Gemini Full Moon.
Let's jump right in and unpack the chart!
The Moon, at 16 degrees Gemini, opposes the Sun at 16 degrees Sag. The Moon is EXACTLY conjunct Mars to the degree/minute - there is only a 5 second difference! So, the Moon opposes the Sun and only 5 seconds later meets Mars. Note Mars is retrograde and EXACTLY opposing the Sun. The Moon squares Neptune and trines Saturn (both applying), sextiles Chiron (separating) and squares Juno (separating). Mercury, ruler of Gemini, and so ruler of this lunation has just moved into Capricorn and is at 1 degree Cappy (note Mercury will go retrograde in Capricorn in just a few days, but won't be re-walking this degree). Mercury is conjunct Venus (out of sign) and Venus is conjunct the Galactic Center and has just risen as an evening star. Mercury squares Jupiter (again out of sign). Both Mercury's aspects are waning/separating. Pallas, retrograde, is EXACTLY conjunct Black Moon Lilith.
A spotlight is being thrown on a lot of information now. Almost too much
to process. Speak clearly now. Slow down. This is not a time for babble or childish gossip.
Let's not say one thing when we really mean something else - even habits
like saying "this isn't bad" when we mean something is 'good' dilute our
energy. Just say, "this is good!".
This Full Moon could bring us to a decision point with something we have
been thinking about for a while - a conversation or communication with
someone now could help us decide and even strengthen our resolve to take
action, although the action itself might happen after Mars goes direct closer to the end of the month. There can also be more than one way forward, because again, Gemini is our sign of duality and holds space for the crossroads. This Moon is about choices and endings.
The Moon is complicated, and everything is really overshadowed by that EXACT conjunction with that retrograde Mars. Mars is a TRIGGER and he is at an important part of his retrograde cycle - the part where he opposes the Sun, illuminating our Mars retrograde STORY. So, having Mars join the Moon and we could also say, having the Moon join Mars, at this important point in both their cycles/story-lines with the Sun MATTERS.
Important matters are closing out/reaching a peak/coming to light.
Mars here can make the Full Moon energy more impulsive, agitated, active, angry. I would expect to hear cutting sarcasm. It's NOT the time to be making demands, jumping into arguments, making important snap decisions. On the other hand, and this is why we have two, the words that need to COME OUT almost certainly will.
Mars in Gemini is very much 'trickster' energy, so we need to be smart. Drive safely. Back up your files. Measure your words. Manage your conversations. Avoid rushing.
This is the mid-point of the Mars retrograde cycle and we will have some clarity via information/situations about what we have had to review, re-vive, re-do, what was postponed or turned around or the results of what we have done while being so flipping unfocused and exhausted since, October 30th when Mars stationed retrograde. This can also be a SPOTLIGHT on what we've been refusing to act on or suppressing anger about.
If a fight has been brewing - BOOM here it is. If an action is needed that we have been avoiding, there might not be any avoiding it any longer. The Full Moon in Gemini is crossroads energy where decisions are MADE. Keep in mind every decision is really two decisions - 1. we decide and then 2. to keep from going crazy, we decide to not look back - in this case Mars is still going backward and Mercury is about to be, so, just to warn you, there will be LOOKING.
Both Mars and the Full Moon are answering to Mercury who has just moved into sober Capricorn, so we do have access to more rational energy. If a conversation needs to happen, we want to be drawing on the more conservative/mature Cappy energy as much as possible.
We might have to make a decision/choice about something that has been making us UNCOMFORTABLE for some time. With the Moon's best aspect that trine to sober Saturn - who is also the final dispositor of this whole thing - what is the best LONG TERM decision here? Just keep in mind Mars is still retrograde and Mercury is about to be, things are not set in stone.
The square to Juno speaks of partnership/contract tension and frustration. It might indicate the need to sacrifice for a partner. Of course a square to Juno on a Mars-y Full Moon could just as well speak of something akin to vengeance, especially if one party is feeling power-less (perfect astrology for a power grid attack - ack). If the decision/choice is relationship connected, the trine with Saturn looks to me like many couples will stick things out/commit/put in the effort to make it work. Obviously, this won't be true of everyone, Juno in Pisces can help troubled relationships heal or drift on out to sea. Either way, think LONG TERM.
The other separating aspect is a sextile to Chiron - healing through Gemini/Aries, keeping things light and local, adding humor, not making a mountain out of a molehill, starting fresh.
There is also an applying square to Neptune, and we have just been through a week of squares to Neptune from various planets, so, although we will likely be NOSTALGIC - and we always are at the end of the year as Cappy season approaches and plays out - we don't want to be pulling the past into the present and then fighting about it. Remember that Mars (God of war) will color EVERYTHING during the Full Moon cycle and Gemini is the sign of small things, so a tiny thing/small words can light a fire we may not want lit.
The square to Neptune speaks of releasing something that isn't real or something that is OVER. Yes, I know I said 'stick it out', but that isn't always possible or in our best interest. Hold on loosely, let go and let God. It's good energy to allow regrets to diminish. The cords/ties/knots to the old stuff that is quite literally holding us back/strangling us - is only kept alive through our attention.
Neptune has stationed direct just a few days before this Full Moon, so we are MOVING ON from the delusions, old dreams and disappointments.
The smooth trine to Saturn indicates our best bet is to be making choices/decisions/actions now that are designed for our LONG-TERM benefit.
The "long game" we talked about.
Saturn tells us we DON'T have to jump into anything, we can TAKE THE TIME TO DECIDE. We want to be picking our way carefully through all the possibilities, asking questions, discovering
what supports us, what strengthens and enriches us as we move toward the new year.
Mercury, ruler of this Moon, is making a tight, although out of sign, square to Jupiter in Pisces. Jupiter is walking these late Pisces degrees for the THIRD TIME. What energy do we still have tied up in holding onto the old dominant
Age of Pisces stories? Where are we trying to push our luck? Where might we be
still trying to take control, rather than ALLOWING life to increase our blessings (Jupiter in Pisces)? Jupiter is almost through with Pisces and won't be back here for 12 years, so what did we miss??
Once Jupiter gets into Aries, on December 20th, we will feel a push to go, go, go. Opportunities will be fast and furious and fleeting, especially once Mercury and Mars are direct in mid-January - and lots of things will look better than they are and how are we going to know the difference between an actual opportunity and a wild goose chase?
By using these days - the time before Jupiter gets into Aries, in the best ways possible.
Something to keep in mind - and this is why we are going to start looking long-term with the posts - we are simply one player within a spectrum of possibilities. We are all carefully created and choreographed to be here now. As we change/hold/shift/strengthen/DO OUR PART, we are changing the world that is being born. We are changing ourselves, our future, the lives of the people who will come after us. This Full Moon in Gemini conjunct Mars is about our personal revolution/evolution. Small changes produce big - square to Jupiter - and lasting - trine to Saturn - RESULTS.
The conclusions and releases happening now are even older stories - square to Neptune, sextile to Chiron - than we can KNOW in this 3D reality. Although we can intuit them if we are open enough and certainly we all know feel bigger things are happening than what looks like is happening.
December looks much easier after we get past this Moon, so just don't go nuts here. No sudden actions we could regret later. We don't need to rush into new enthusiasms right away. No dropping information BOMBS on other people. Keep a cool head. Watch your words. Know that suppressed anger will be coming up for many people and be smart about how you are dealing with it.
Once we get to the Cappy New Moon in a couple weeks we will begin the process of building new goals and dreams and businesses and stability/footings AND Mercury's retrograde in Cappy, will help us be sure to get it right. By about the third week of January 2023, ALL planets will be full steam ahead for many weeks and our hard work, patience, maturity and humility will start to pay off BIG TIME (think about the efforts we have made since last spring that haven't gone anywhere suddenly going somewhere - Mars direct, Mercury direct and Jupiter in Aries - and what that will mean!).
xo all
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