Full Moon in Gemini
This morning (11/27/23) at 1:27am pst, the Moon was full in the mercurial sign of Gemini, and the Sun and Mars together in Sagittarius was/is in a difficult relationship to the adult of the solar system, Saturn. While this may seem like a scary alignment of planets, it is actually affording us the opportunity to perfect our communication.
When looking at the Astrology of this Full Moon, and through my meditation on this topic, it is clear to me that a theme for today and the couple days on either side of it is patience.
When Geminis want to do basically anything, they want to do it now. There’s a sense that if stalled, the magic of the moment will disappear never to be seen again. Gemini is not known to be a patient sign. In fact, its ruling planet, Mercury, was named after the Roman messenger god who was the swiftest of all the gods, and Gemini carries much of this energy. Gemini is often likened to the movement of a butterfly — it never stays one place very long, but instead quickly moves from new thing to new thing.
While this adds to the excitement of Gemini, it also creates the environment in which many things seem to have many loose ends and feel incomplete. When the nature of a sign (Gemini) is primarily to speak things into existence, leaving things undone is not a good thing! That is why task-master Saturn is a gift for this Full Moon. It demands that we slow down long enough to really figure out what exactly we want to say, and the most perfect way to say it.
This is especially true because with the Sun in Sagittarius, truth is the thing that is longing to be spoken, and none of us want to run into the very Sag problem of feeling like we have put our foot in our mouth. When we communicate from the place of “it has to be now regardless of the consequences,” the real message is very often lost in the hurry to get it done. Sagittarius is known to be straightforward and to hold nothing back. If this truthfulness can be married to Gemini’s way with words, and if we can slow down enough to make sure we are perfect in our speech, the outcome is more likely to be what we intend rather than being a wind-storm of words.
Tap into Saturn, tap into patience, and you will find you have a silver tongue.
