The Gemini New Moon in aspect: Saturn, Neptune & Pluto

This is a general forecast. In order to know how this lunation affects you personally, you'll need to know where Gemini is located in your birth chart. To learn more, please consider booking a reading.

Gemini New Moon chart

The New Moon on May 26, 2025 at 10:02 p.m. CST takes place at 6 degrees of Gemini conjunct Mercury, and is co-present with Jupiter in the late degrees of Gemini. It’s sextile Saturn, who just entered Aries on May 24, and Neptune in Aries for the first time since 1875 as of March 30. It’s also trine Pluto in Aquarius, not at this point in the sky since 1780. New ground is breaking, and with this communicative new moon we could see a glimpse of what Saturn in Aries and this new era of fire and air will be about.

Mercury — messenger, cross-pollinator of thoughts and ideas, and ruler of this lunation — is extremely comfortable and effective in its airy springtime home and this will intensify (in a good way) the mercurial nature of this new moon while it's host.

The pace of life will feel like it’s speeding up considerably, more than it's already felt so far this year and the easy, rapid flow of information along with it. This is a very social time. Things could seem louder in the way a room becomes louder when full of many people talking at once. There will be a lot to say now and new things to be learned.

I think the widest net to cast about this new moon is that a newfound clarity could arrive about a situation that’s been going on behind closed doors. The truth could finally come out causing a resolution of the issue for now. This truth might be difficult, but at least it will be the truth.

Words could fly around issues of education, books, transportation, commerce and trade, information technology, data exchange, shipping, or any combination of these. I expect these topics to be highlighted in the news with very vocal reactions from multiple communities.  This could also have something to do with trade negotiations or the economy in general. Powerful transactions are being made on the global stage, whether with words or money.

Jupiter is also in Gemini, adding an exuberant, inflationary influence. Whatever announcement is made at this time, it will be big. However, Jupiter is in the sign opposite its home in Sagittarius and isn’t as robust or effective as usual. This could over-exaggerate the hyper-active quality of this time, but because these early degrees of Gemini are in flowing aspects to Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, focus and staying power are easily available if we're able to slow down fast enough, concentrate and not get sidetracked by the blooming volume of distractions buzzing all around.

Ideas and the rapid communication of ideas, thoughts and emotions, especially those related to your immediate surroundings or neighborhood could seem more prevalent than usual. Neighborhood coffeeshops, markets, city halls and local meeting centers could feel alive with more traffic and new faces. If you’ve been learning a new subject, it could become more energized and start to click now, and you'll probably feel the urge to enthusiastically share your understanding with others. If you’ve been thinking about studying something new, this is a good time to start. Contact with siblings or extended family could increase or be rekindled.

Something to keep in mind is that over the course of the week leading up to this new moon, Uranus in Taurus was involved in multiple conjunctions. The Sun conjoined Uranus on May18th; Mercury conjoined it on May 24; the Moon on May 25. Then, just a few days after this lunation, Mercury meets up with the Sun in it’s own sign, infusing the Sun with all it's learned from this quick journey.

This sequence of encounters is important because Uranus in Taurus energy was picked up by the Sun, Mercury and Moon as each moved over Uranus. The Moon and Mercury carry the essence of that encounter into the heart of the Sun, one by one, planting a little Uranian seed into these new cycles.

The disruptive, innovative and sometimes rebellious energy Mercury and the Moon absorbed from Uranus in Taurus will be communicated energetically, socially, and perhaps suddenly around the new moon, and has probably already been felt over the last week or so. This reinforces the possibility of unexpected news or rhetoric about the economy coming to the public’s attention, and this could dominate the news cycle more than usual. Local protests could erupt in response to economic deception, recent shocks to the economy or a myriad of Mercury-related themes. For example, I learned today that in a rural county just a few miles from where I live, there is a proposal to build a very large AI data center complex. Many locals are furious and contesting the proposal in person to the local appraisal board.

Mercury also crossed over the Scorpio full moon’s (May 12) opposition degree, when the Sun was at 22 Taurus, on May 22. This was when that full moon and this new moon’s influences were in a kind of cross-over stage. I think there’s still energetic residue from the Scorpio full moon two weeks ago that Mercury picked up from that opposition degree before moving over Uranus and smuggling it into Gemini.

On a personal level, this could mean an honest communication might finally happen regarding shifts in personal values. This talk might change the dynamic of a relationship, or two. A sexual or financial secret could be spoken out loud now. The question “at what cost?” could be an undercurrent. This could take place in a busy local bar, in a car or train, or on a distracting restaurant patio, making the actual gravity of the moment seem lighter than it really is; but once in the privacy of your own thoughts, everything will be crystal clear. Venus in Aries is doing some Mars work now, perhaps cutting through the proverbial bullshit; but with Mercury in Gemini sextile Saturn and Neptune, hopefully in a peaceful, tactful way. Direct, empathetic, verbal engagement will help this energy move on and through. Look back to mid-December 2024 - a story could be changing plot or ending.

We also have to keep in mind that this new moon, like Mercury, is sextile Saturn and Neptune in Aries, and trine Pluto in Aquarius, forming a “minor grand trine” configuration where one point is sextile two other points, and those two points are trine each other. This creates an easy, flowing energy between the planetary archetypes involved. Usually this is a positive aspect. However, fire burns easily with wind at its back.

The Gemini new moon is the first lunation since Saturn entered Aries on May 24, where it hasn’t been since the late 90s. Saturn is now only 1.5 degrees from its conjunction with Neptune. In my view, the conjunction is already conjunct, though won’t be exact until February 2026.

Something feels very new now, as if a threshold has been crossed and life-focus shifted in a new direction. We’ve felt this transition coming for a while, but now it feels concrete and real, as if a mist has burned away. There is no turning back.

Twin moons

Gemini is starting the real conversation about what Saturn and Neptune in Aries will be about. This new moon is announcing Saturn’s arrival in Aries in a way, as well as opening the path and setting the stage for Uranus to enter Gemini in July of this year, where it hasn’t been since 1942. Fire and Air start a more dynamic collaboration now that will only increase over the coming years. This is one of the launching points of the new era we’re entering.

Saturn and Neptune in Aries give this time a glamorized, pioneering, go-it-alone character that the Gemini new moon will make known in some way and begin to disseminate. Hardship, head-down attitudes, and the isolation and commitment that often accompanies individual spiritual development could start to be held up on high and seem to infiltrate most aspects of life, especially in social media and publishing.

A “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality could resurface in a very public way. These ideas are likely to start having more “airtime” moving forward and slowly become much more popular than in recent times. This will especially be obvious in commerce-oriented communication spheres, such as the media, advertising, marketing and branding, public relations and political messaging. Expect these sentiments to start trending in media launches of all kinds overtime.

Something interesting to consider is that on Sept. 5, 1988, the advertising campaign centered on the slogan “Just Do It”, was launched by sneaker company Nike (goddess of Victory) and started Nike’s rise to the top of that industry. At this time, a lot of similar signatures were around as this Gemini new moon. Jupiter was in Gemini trine Mercury, the Sun was in Mercury’s sign of Virgo. Mars was in Aries square Neptune in Saturn’s sign of Capricorn and opposite Mercury. The Moon trined Pluto that day and Saturn was approaching its conjunctions with Uranus and Neptune.

Though this time was laden with hard aspects compared to late May 2025, the same archetypal players are in conversation. But instead of  “Just Do It”, perhaps we could start to see a resurgence of cliches like “no pain, no gain”.

With Pluto in Aquarius, social and humanitarian concerns and hope for a better future (but who’s better future?) underly much of what is being seeded now deeply in Gemini’s domain. On a global scale, we could see peace talks resume and cease fires begin, or the on-going world trade conflicts reach new levels of negotiation.

It’s possible that behind-the-scenes conversations between influential tech or communication groups are initiated now that will transform society in powerful ways in the areas of currency, travel, transportation, shipping, media, e-commerce, information exchange or AI.

It’s a mentally stimulating, inventive, beehive-ish energy. The Moon and Mercury’s sextile to Saturn and Neptune in Aries provides an opportunity to gently stabilize the hyper-mercuriality of this time.

Words, while to-the-point and idealistic, and delusional at times, need not be combative. If handled positively, this time can be tempered by serious, compassionate communication that serves to reconcile and mediate inflamed relations that’ve been flooded with confusion and uncertainty over the last few months.

There’s a choice here to become either inflamed by entrenched, ideological thinking and lash out about perceived failings of society or people close to you; or, find a philosophical, spiritual and emotional equilibrium within ourselves that allows for steady, compassionate, communicative action toward peace, especially in those environments that feel dangerous or overwhelming.

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Just for fun, below are a few imaginal scenarios/metaphors that in one way or another symbolize how this constellation of energy I've been describing could show up:

• A new bookstore is opening in your neighborhood and is getting a lot of coverage in the local news because it’s hosting a book-signing by an author who writes about the business side of being a writer.

  
  

• There’s an announcement that a local library will be shut down so a new shopping center can be built in its place. Peaceful protests breakout by local education leaders and other city employees.

  
  

• A stern, combative op-ed piece written by a religious conservative just out of college inspires book burnings in front of bookstores, libraries and churches.

  
  

• Publications advocating self transcendence that is only achieved by aggressive isolation and rejection of the material world abound. Ironically, the authors go on morning talk shows to promote themselves.

  
  

• A monk sets their body on fire and walks into the ocean, but the fire does not go out. Hundreds of on-lookers record the event on their phones and post it everywhere. It gains so much attention, Authorities restrict media platforms and the use of cameras on phones so not to spread more discent.

  
  

• A fiery, subversive, spiritualized manifesto about cinema and film-making is penned. Fragments of it start to show up spliced into the trailers and commercials shown at mainstream theaters and cause an outrage in the suburbs.

If you’d like know how the Gemini New Moon affects your birth chart according to your rising sign, please consider booking a reading and we can dive into it.