Movement, Liberation: Saturn Stations Direct + Venus opposite Uranus

Venus is in the process of disappearing from the sky.

She just met up with Mercury and is trine Jupiter and Saturn stationing direct. Then will oppose Uranus and trine Neptune (at the final degree of the zodiac) before entering enthusiastic Sagittarius. All in the course of five days.

The week before the Gemini Full Moon marks a pivotal transition point that sets the wider stage for how 2026 will begin and open up into fire and air. It's December 4 at 13 Gemini—a very important degree, as we’ll see in a few minutes. Bear with me as I unravel some technical threads about this week, because it seems like it’s going to be a powerful and fateful week for many.

It all ties back to July.

Something that occurred around the Capricorn Full Moon July 10—shocking event, sudden revelation, or liberating new awareness—reaches culmination in some way around this time.

And, as Saturn stations direct on November 27, then Mercury on the 29th, and Venus opposes Uranus on the 30th, a weight could be lifted and freer movement more available.

Look back to the first half of July, specifically around July 12.

This is when Saturn stationed retrograde for the first time in Aries since 1997, at 1°56’ Aries.

Saturn was also host of the Capricorn Full Moon that occurred two days before Saturn’s station on July 10.

A few days earlier, on July 7, Uranus moved into Mercury-ruled Gemini for the first time in 83 years or more.

Just a few days prior to that, on July 4, Neptune, like Saturn, stationed retrograde for the first time in Aries, but at 2°10’, which hadn’t happened since 1873.

Venus also conjoined Uranus at 29 Taurus that day, renewing their yearly cycle before moving into Gemini.

Saturn conjunct Neptune, and both stationing retrograde at the “same” time was a very big deal.

(Side note: Saturn leaves this retrograde shadow March 3, 2026, on the Virgo Lunar Eclipse right as Jupiter is slowing to station direct at 15 Cancer. Neptune finally leaves its shadow on March 30—exactly one year after entering Aries.)

So enough going back. Let’s move forward.

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The week leading up to the Gemini Full Moon on December 4 2025 harkens back to the early/mid-July timeframe for a few important reasons.

First, Saturn is coming out of the retrograde it entered July 12 now, stationing November 27 at 25 Pisces, where it’s been sitting since late October and won’t move forward from until the end of December.

Second, Uranus has now retrograded back to 29 Taurus, where it renewed its cycle with Venus back on July 4, the same day Neptune stationed retrograde. After that Venus/Uranus conjunction, Venus moved into Mercury-ruled Gemini.

Venus will oppose Uranus at the same degree they conjoined from 29 Scorpio on November 30, the day after Mercury stations direct at 20 Scorpio; having just conjoined Venus at 22 Scorpio on November 24. In other words, this week is the culminating phase of the Venus/Uranus cycle that started on July 4. Both phases tinged with Mercury.

And finally. No, I guess not finally. . .

Another aspect of this that’s really interesting is that the full moon on July 10 was ruled by Saturn, and the Gemini Full Moon we’re approaching on December 4 is ruled by Mercury. Both planets are stationing direct this week, just two days apart.

However, things get even weirder when we take a look at Mars as well.

Mercury’s direct station on November 29 is in Mars-ruled Scorpio, also ruling Venus where she will oppose Uranus the following day.

At the July 10 full moon, Mars was in Mercury-ruled Virgo at 13°, revealing there’s a mutual reception across time between the two planets, with Mercury now in Mars-ruled Scorpio.

That past Mars in Virgo was host to Saturn (ruler of that full moon) in Aries as it was stationing retrograde; and now moving out of retrograde.

This week, on November 24, the same day as the Mercury retrograde/Venus conjunction, Mars, host of the conjunction, comes to the South Bending of the Lunar Nodes, squaring them from 13 Sagittarius.

At the time of the July 10 full moon, Mars was approaching its conjunction with the South Node in Virgo.

If you overlay the July 10 Capricorn Full Moon and the December 4 Gemini Full Moon charts, you’ll notice that Mars on July 10 is exactly conjunct where the South Node is on December 4, 13 Virgo. (This also happens to be the degree of the Virgo Lunar Eclipse March 3 and the day Saturn leaves retrograde shadow.)

But what’s most striking is the Gemini Full Moon on December 4 itself is square the nodes from 13 Gemini. The Sun in Sagittarius will be at the South Bending now, and the Moon at the North Bending, both square where Mars was July 10, forming a retroactive T-square of sorts.

Earlier, at the very top, I mentioned the importance of 13 Gemini. Now you can see it’s not just 13 Gemini, but 13 Mutable.

There’s a very fated quality to this time because of the recurrence of these degree within such close proximity to both Saturn stations, the Venus/Uranus cycle, Mercury and Mars’ involvement—directly and by rulership—and especially because of the degrees of the Lunar Nodes.

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All this to say, these two time periods—early/mid July and the end of November—are intricately and powerfully entangled for many people.

The first thing that comes to my mind is the central Texas mass-flooding and Camp Mystic tragedy that took place on July 4 (the day Neptune stationed retrograde and the Venus/Uranus conjunction) in Kerrville, Texas.

The coming back around, or culminating factor of this in my mind is the last week of November is Thanksgiving in the United States—the first family gathering with the girls absent. I wrote about that event here.

This could be an extremely powerful time for anyone who experienced life-changing events in July—especially if they were shocking, disruptive, eye-opening, liberating, or destructive in some way.

If there was, Saturn stationing retrograde at the same time might’ve brought with it a heavy, concentrated, or stark new reality.

So if life’s felt in a holding pattern of some kind since July, things should start to move forward now, and really start to accelerate after the Gemini Full Moon December 4.

Whatever was activated in July was liberating for some, yet massively devastating for others. We’ll likely see the culmination of those events and experiences this week; and due to there being so much water and movement through Scorpio, what erupts into awareness and causes some chaos this week has been brewing under the surface for quite awhile.

Venus activating the Grand Water Trine can hopefully help the emotional atmosphere of this time maintain grace, and seem somewhat steady, at least on the surface. Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter run much, much deeper.

As Saturn stations direct November 27, it’s signaling that whatever’s been in slow motion, a holding pattern, stuck, or quietly pressing down on us, will start to move, release, or lift now. Mercury direct on November 29 helps get the air moving again.

There’s a quiet sense of release as Venus trines Neptune at the last degree of the zodiac. Neptune, too, is extremely still in the sky and stations direct on December 10.

Venus is supported by Jupiter and steadied by Saturn as she moves away from her meet up with Mercury, but it might feel as if the bow is being pulled back tighter and tighter until she opposes Uranus on November 30.

When Venus moves into Sagittarius December 1, joining the Sun and Mars there, things should feel a little lighter, but with a deep  knowing there’s no turning back.