A Gemini Full Moon of Curiosity and Paradox
Posted on December 4, 2025 in Configurations
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By Leslie Benson for ASTROGRAPH Horoscopes
The Full Moon of December 4th arrives at 3:14 PM Pacific Time, in mid-Gemini, and, as it hits, informs our lives with a bright, curious, and wildly multidimensional atmosphere. The Moon at 13 Gemini stands opposite the Sun at 13 Sagittarius, illuminating the astrological axis of thought and meaning. This lunation is uniquely potent, because the lunar nodes are also at exactly 13 degrees of their respective signs of Virgo and Pisces, thus in square. What sets this moment apart is that this partile or same-degree square with the lunar nodes forms a grand cross across all four mutable signs, highlighting a moment that can feel like a karmic crossroads in the collective atmosphere and for our personal lives as well.
That the Moon’s nodes are currently in Virgo and Pisces describe one overarching learning curve of the year. Virgo’s gifts include refinement, discernment, and a studied, ongoing improvement of our processes and habits as we grow in understanding. The Pisces sign brings compassion, surrender, and a permeating magic that reminds us of the interconnectedness of all things. With the nodes here, the collective is navigating the tension of learning to release our grasp on imagined certainty or perfectionism, allowing life to remain mysterious, fluid, and ever-unfolding. These themes meet the Gemini Moon’s instinct toward multiplicity and the Sagittarius Sun’s desire for expansion and meaning. This grand cross brings these four cross-currents together, potentially creating a significant turning point. This moment could be all about questions on how – as we move through the rapidly changing terrain of late 2025 and into 2026 – we stay flexible and adaptable while still holding a strong sense of intention for ourselves, our community, and our world.
Gemini invites us to lean into curiosity rather than certainty, to turn ideas over from many angles, and to acknowledge that the truth rarely lives in only one place. With the lunar nodes also woven into this configuration, it becomes a deeper teaching around paradox itself. Many things can be true all at once, and part of our current cultural evolution may very well involve accepting the layered nature of reality rather than our unfortunate tendency of reducing it to any one simple answer. With this Full Moon, we may more clearly recognize how our perspective shapes our experience of reality and how we can, by utilizing our agency and mental acuity, constructively engage complexity in a way that strengthens our sense of inner wholeness and authentic expression.
Another beautiful dimension of this lunation is the close Water grand trine flowing between Saturn in Pisces, Jupiter exalted in Cancer, at 25° and 24° of their respective signs, while Mercury, still recovering from its retrograde, lies at 22° of Scorpio. Jupiter and Saturn in this combination are creating a steady influence that helps us reach toward what genuinely nourishes us while rooting into the spiritual practices and guiding principles that support our growth.
With Mercury completing this grand trine, the moment invites a thoughtful evaluation of how these currents are moving within our inner landscape. Because the Full Moon is in Gemini, Mercury rules the lunation, and its placement in Scorpio leans toward an investigative and deeply perceptive approach. Mercury is also involved in a subtle but meaningful configuration with Mars, Chiron, and Eris. Mars forms a partile semi-sextile to Mercury, and both planets closely engage Chiron at 22 Aries and Eris at 24 Aries, while Jupiter at 24 Cancer forms an exact square to that Aries cluster. This pattern highlights themes of inner wounding and the places where old hurts may still influence our responses, inviting a clearer recognition of what needs care, understanding, and integration.
This is a time to turn over proverbial stones, explore emotional layers, and acknowledge the shadow material that shapes both our thoughts and our emotional rhythms. Engaging these deeper dimensions with honesty and compassion can support a more empowered internal stance as the year draws to a close and we move toward the new one.
The longer arc of the current outer planet astrology is important to consider in this Full Moon configuration as well. Uranus still closely sextiles Neptune, now in the last degree of Pisces and also Pluto at the beginning of Aquarius, continuing this flowing connection between all three outer planets. Uranus highlights themes and unexpected revelations around embodiment, self-worth, and material stability; Neptune speaks to transcendence, spirituality, and dissolution; Pluto in the earliest degrees of Aquarius brings in ideas of technological shifts, collective reorientation, and the changes unfolding within global and humanitarian spheres. These planets are shaping the broader atmosphere of this epoch, and their cooperation in this current lunation chart underscores that we are living through a profoundly pivotal transition between eras.
Within this context, the Full Moon invites reflection on the choices that feel most significant in our lives. It is worthwhile to consider, while the world changes at a rapid pace, how we relate to uncertainty, how we navigate decisions, and how we cultivate resilience. In a landscape marked by global difficulty and far-reaching transformation, there is tremendous value in tending our own small drop in the ocean with integrity and clarity, trusting that our individual truth ripples out and weaves the fabric of the greater whole.
This final Full Moon of the year carries a strong sense of potency and transition. It closes a period marked by significant astrological shifts and opens the doorway to the way that these continue to unfold in 2026. May you be able to soak up what is most nourishing for you and release what is no longer yours to carry. May you uncover the meanings and perspectives that enliven your path and affirm the truth of who you are becoming. May this Full Moon illuminate the way ahead with insight, resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose as we each do what we can to co-create a world of good.
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