Note: I’m posting this a few of days after the fact. Have been battling a bad cold plus it’s been a major holiday in the US, but wanted to have it as a means of record.
Happy Gemini Full Moon! This is the time of the year when the spotlight is on ideas, information, learning, travel, and communication. Gemini is the sign of choice and, as full moons put things into the light of awareness, we may have a choice to make. The full moon is exact on November 22, 2018 at 12:39 am EST, 0 degrees Gemini/Sagittarius. That’s 9:39 pm Los Angeles on November 21, 5:39 am London on November 22, and 4:39 pm in Sydney.
Full moons are decision points. They can provoke, challenge, and spur us to react. And this full moon comes as the climax to the Scorpio New Moon just two weeks before, on November 7. On paper, Scorpio and Gemini don’t seem as though they have much in common, Scorpio’s emotional depth seemingly at odds with Gemini’s breezy approach to life. But it’s important to remember that Gemini is Scorpio’s eighth sign. While this is an technical point, it’s one where we can see how choice and duality are very much at the core of Scorpio’s psyche.
Even though we’re in Sagittarius Season now — barely — we’re still working through a Scorpio lunar month. And it’s safe to say that we went through a lot of emotional ups and downs in November. We’ve been through the darkness of Scorpio and now we’ve reached the light of Sagittarius. Where do we go from here? What do we still believe in? What is our truth?
On the surface, this full moon is about communication. Anything from listening to the words we use to be heard and understood. It’s also about curiosity as Gemini inspires us to look beyond ourselves and to question, search, and explore for information and new ideas. But whats the deeper side to this full moon?
It falls at the very beginning of Gemini, so we’re at the start of a story. Yet Mercury, the ruling planet of the full moon, is retrograde and retrogrades are all about the past. Despite this contradiction, we’re on the cusp of stepping into something new, making new decisions for ourselves, but decisions that are rooted in reviewing something from the past. Mercury is in Sagittarius, so it’s important that we’re making sure we’re making decision based on the right information, that we’re examining any unconscious biases, or limiting beliefs.
When we look at the chart of the full moon, it has a bit of a punch to it. Square Mars and Neptune, opposing Jupiter and Mercury, questions of faith and surrender drive this full moon. Mars and Neptune in Pisces means it’s not about what we want. We have to consider something higher than ourselves. Fate? Karma? Destiny? The Universe? Cosmic timing? So, how do we choose when it feels like we have no choice? We can choose to fight and believe we know what’s right,
The full moon also falls just a few days before Neptune stations direct in Pisces. Everything is saturated with Neptune right now. We’re feeling sensitive, tired, overly empathic. Neptune blurs the boundaries between this world and the next, so make sure you’re using this energy to meditate and dream instead of getting lost in the various ways Neptune can seduce us into getting lost. There’s also a sense that what we think is real is not real, which is one of the ways that Neptune can play with our perception.
On the whole, we’ve got some decisions to make with this full moon. Is it a left or a right? Up or down? How much are we going to get out of our way? And it’s possible that we don’t have all the information yet, maddeningly so. The full moon is putting things into light, but Neptune may be obscuring what we’re seeing. Wait till after Mercury turns direct on December 6.
Read More:
Chart of the Gemini Full Moon
Mars in Pisces: Sign by Sign
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