Beginnings & Bendings: Gemini Full Moon

Artemis and Eros by Pompeo Batoni

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The time around the Gemini Full Moon is an important turning point in many people’s lives depending on where Gemini falls in the chart, what houses the Lunar Nodes are moving through, and where the Water Signs fall.

The full moon takes place December 4, 2025 at 5:14 pm CST at 13° Gemini, hosted by Mercury in Scorpio and square the Lunar Nodes at 13° Pisces/Virgo.

Shortly after, the Moon opposes Mars in Sagittarius, squares Saturn and Neptune, then joins Jupiter in its watery home-sign Cancer for a few days to take all the swift mutable energy in and absorb what's been learned.

There’s a buzzing, social, talkative quality in early December. This is usually a very busy time of year anyway, but the air is crackling more than it has in a while. The emotional weight of the last few weeks is subsiding, but there might be a few things left we need to get off our chests.

Communication that’s been on hold or hidden could come to the surface or intensify into pointed, frustrated interactions, yet resolve just as quickly as they started—hopefully into mutual understanding rather than a separating of ways.

Underneath the surface, there’s a desire to move forward with a sense of freedom, purpose, and fun bubbling up, but the tension these conversations or verbal tiffs bring might be necessary before we can push into new territory.

MERCURY & VENUS

There’s a Venus/Mercury story still trying to unfold and reveal itself.

Only Mercury remains in Scorpio now, having recently turned direct on November 29 at 20° Scorpio, and it's just beginning to retrace its steps back to 6° Sagittarius, where it stationed retrograde November 9.

Mercury’s been very active in the shadows since that time. It's crossed paths with Mars, Uranus, the Scorpio New Moon, Venus, as well as activated the Grand Water Trine. And now, at the time of the full moon, Mercury is back where it conjoined Venus on November 24, 22° Scorpio.

Venus is at 5° Sagittarius and will pass over 6°, where Mercury stationed retrograde, just hours after the full moon. She’s still in very close contact with Mercury and its retrograde path: Mercury is at the degree of their conjunction, and Venus is where Mercury stationed. Even though this passes quickly, it's still embedded in the moment of the full moon and carries into time.

Venus' movement over this degree while Mercury is direct where they were conjunct, could coincide with the initiation of a conversation or discussion about a relationship—perhaps relating to freedom within it, or getting on the same page about expectations and the ethics or morals involved in the dynamic.

Any quick, heated, honest conversations taking place around this time likely have to do with close or romantic relationships and the Venus/Mercury story that’s been unfolding over October and November. Something might need to be said, possibly in regard to a change of thought or heart or a reversal of some kind.

At the very end of November, Venus opposed Uranus from the last degree of Scorpio, exactly 180° from where the two started their cycle at the conjunction on July 4. There's likely an echo of any Venusian disruptions or awakenings from that time now.

Then, the following day, December 1, Venus moves into Sagittarius, co-present with the Sun and Mars—finally free of the deep, obsessive, regenerative dark of Scorpio—under the care of Jupiter in Cancer as Sagittarius’ ruler.

Venus also forms a sextile with Pluto this day. Coming right out of Scorpio into this aspect deepens and eases, and in a way, "locks in" the transformation and healing the more Venusian parts of life underwent while in Scorpio, perhaps imbuing the experience of the last month or so with spiritual meaning or new understanding of how it fits into the overall arc of our personal growth.

Venus looks ready to move forward into the great wide open once she’s beyond Mercury’s retrograde shadow degree on December 5. This positive shift in dignity from Mars-ruled Scorpio to Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius lightens, loosens, and enlivens Venus.

However, Venus is under the beams of the Sun, starting to descend, and won't make any aspects until she squares the nodes at the South Bendings on December 10.

This means Venusian energy is weaker than usual, more internal, quieter. But, once square the nodes, there's a Venus story with a very fated feeling behind it coming to its conclusion. If there was something or someone leaving your life around July 21, and that developed further in early October somehow, closure of some kind is likely mid-December.

THE END OF THE GRAND WATER TRINE

Mercury is trine Jupiter and approaching a trine to Saturn for the third time since October 24/25, and then November 22. There could be a feeling of going back over, finalizing, or reaching a new understanding of an ongoing situation. This likely has something to do with contracts, agreements, or communication around emotional, familial, or any attachment with a deep, long history.

This also means Mercury is positioned, for the third and final time, to activate the two-month-long Grand Water Trine from the last degrees of Scorpio. Life will start to feel accelerated once Mercury enters Sagittarius on December 11.

Once the waters recede, new paths appear, but they may require releasing the watery past—a past that might feel like a distant dream in some ways by now—in order to follow them fully with a real sense of freedom and adventure in mind.

MUTABILITY & THE LUNAR NODES

There’s a sense that an important choice about the path forward—and what needs to be left behind in order to follow it—comes into sharp awareness in the first half of December.

The Mutable Signs are very dominant right now. Only Mercury, Chiron, Uranus, and Pluto are not in a mutable sign.

They become even more dominant after Mercury opposes Uranus in Taurus once more on December 10 and re-enters Sagittarius as Neptune is stationing direct. The future will come at us—or we’ll flow into the future—much faster at that time.

Mutable signs coincide with the months right before seasonal shifts—and we’re definitely in a mutable moment moving toward an unprecedented seasonal shift.

As mentioned earlier, the Sun and Moon are square the Lunar Nodes, creating a Grand Cross at 13° of the Mutable Signs. This is special and consequential. There’s an intuition that a corner’s being turned that’s impossible to ignore. A long, unfolding process could feel complete.

With the Sun and Moon at the so-called Bendings—the Moon at the North, the Sun at the South—we’ve reached the mid-point between the last two eclipses and the next two.

This means this full moon is not only a monthly culmination or renewed continuation of the last lunar cycle, but also carries a fated quality that’s related to a much larger cycle of change in our lives.

The time has come to truly move forward where life has become emotionally stagnant; to accept what’s washed away and is no longer in our lives; and prepare for the upcoming Saturn-ruled Capricorn stellium, and then Saturn’s re-entry into Aries in early 2026—when new life-structures will begin to emerge and the discipline needed to bring them to reality becomes much more clear.

JUPITER AVERSION

In addition to the Mutable Signs being dominant now, so is Jupiter—retrograde in Cancer and in a separating trine with Saturn. However, Jupiter in Cancer is in aversion to the stellium in Sagittarius and to the Moon in Gemini, which is ruled by Mercury in Scorpio, ruled by Mars in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter in aversion.

Typically, this would just restrict the Sun, Venus, and Mars’ full expression in Sagittarius somewhat; but with planets also in Jupiter-ruled Pisces, this alters the dynamic. Saturn and Neptune in Pisces are extremely still in the sky, therefore their significations are powerfully intensified. Saturn just turned direct, and Neptune will do the same December 10—both in Pisces, which from Cancer, Jupiter has direct and extremely supportive line of sight.

This means Saturn and Neptune receive much more support from Jupiter than the stellium in Sagittarius, increasing the power and focus of the two planets as they remain almost motionless above, about to push forward and complete the on-going work, as they move through the end of the zodiac, of washing away old structures, identities, and world-views from our lives.

MARS & SATURN

At the time of the full moon, Mars at 22° Sagittarius is beginning to square Saturn at 25° Pisces. This begins to build from the first days of December and brings Saturn even more into focus.

Mars square Saturn—exact on December 8—is a challenging aspect.

The drive to move forward, expand, and go beyond where we’ve been gets frustrated, slowed, or checked around this time. This could be internal, such as fear, sickness, or a general feeling of dis-ease. But it could be external as well, such as authorities, institutions, or an event that forces us to consider if how we are moving forward is realistic or tenable for the time being. We can expect this tension to build the first half of December, and then release once Mars enters its exaltation in Capricorn on December 15.

MERCURY & URANUS +  VENUS & THE NODES

Mercury is opposing Uranus from the final degrees of Scorpio at this time as well, for the third time—first on October 29, then again November 18, when retrograde, coinciding with the Scorpio New Moon. This will be exact December 10.

With Mars hosting Mercury in Scorpio in this context, the frustrations of the Mars/Saturn square could erupt into verbal expressions of anger if the Uranus opposition makes hidden knowledge or truth suddenly visible.

On the same day, Venus squares the nodes from the South Bending—the same degree the Sun did at the full moon: 13° Sagittarius.

In the context of the Mars/Saturn square and the Mercury/Uranus opposition, Venus crossing this point implies that any frustration, anger, harsh words, disappointment, or sudden realizations arising now is somehow tied to a need to let go or release something Venusian at the same time. This could be related to money, beauty, relationships, a creative project, or women in general. You probably already know what it is.

NEPTUNE DIRECT

However, also on December 10, in the background—extremely powerful and consequential—Neptune stations direct at 29° Pisces. We might feel as if a veil is lifted, clouds are clearing, or perhaps confused or disillusioned, realizing something we thought was one way is actually very different.

This station is the last time Neptune will do so in Pisces until next century and marks the beginning of the final movement of Neptune and Saturn re-entering Aries for years to come.

Mercury opposite Uranus; Venus square the Nodes; and Neptune stationing direct all occur on December 10. The next day, Mercury moves into Sagittarius.

As Mercury leaves Scorpio and becomes co-present with Mars, what Mercury’s been retracing—perhaps uncovering—gains more space to move and spread with the confidence of new understanding, leaving the minutia behind in favor of bigger ideas.

In the week leading up to the Sagittarius New Moon on December 19, Mars squares Neptune; the Sun squares Saturn; Mars enters Capricorn; and Venus squares Saturn as the Sun and Moon square Neptune.

It won’t be until December 31, 2025, when Mercury squares Neptune from 29° Sagittarius, that all the inner planets have finally completed these squares to Saturn and Neptune, suggesting 2026 begins a little like waking from a dream.

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