Gemini Full Moon

Gemini Full Moon on Dec 7, 2022 at 9:08pm MST, with energies perfecting at 16 degrees Gemini.

Moon dancing with Mars. Calgary Alberta.
Photo: Stephany Steele

This is a very curious Moon phase on this go around. The inner personal planets are out of bounds. Moon and Mars are out of bounds to the North of the ecliptic and Venus and Mercury are out of bounds to the South of the ecliptic. The ecliptic is the Sun’s path around the earth. From our perspective that is like walking on the grass on either side of the sidewalk. It is also curious to me that the Moon and Venus are out of bounds by exact degrees in opposing directions.

Also this is in a trine to Saturn, giving some Saturn ease- or exposing patterns and pathways that are entrenched that you need to get out of. This is where I feel that Jupiter square Venus and Mercury comes in, giving some much needed tension that helps us get out of those patterns we may find ourselves rut in.

Grandmother Moon, please share with me an aspect of my relationship within my soul that needs to become more aware during Full Moon in Gemini and the Sun In Sagittarius?

What happens when our curiosities take us to places unknown. So far out of reach from everything we’ve known or lived, yet filled with purpose , love and meaning?

The reality is that for many of us, I also dare say all of of us are after the truth, some call it the one truth. I call it my search for God’s love and truth. In that there is the paradox of so many curiosities we have, each taking us to our extremes in life following many pathways and options. Having many pathways to get to one thing seems to be the same side of one thing.

Some of these extremes are mental, some physical and emotional. We are coming close to the solstice, our proverbial and literal turning point on our journey, the sun has reached its south most bound at the Tropic of Capricorn, I wonder if there’s a little jealousy in that as the Moon and Mars have surpassed the both Tropic of Cancer into their out of bound state, and Venus and Mercury are also beyond the bounds of the south Tropic of Cancer. Yet the sun is bound to these limits- this is our perspective, from our point of view the Sun is bound to those lines. But does that make it true of the Sun’s experience, the one who lights our galaxy? Honestly I don’t know.

On this full moon, I am filled with paradox.

How does one hold so many truths about the one truth of the universe at the same time?

My interpretation of the glyph for Sagittarius is an arrow rising up over earths horizon, pointing to the true north of our souls path, along the spine of Gaia, her axis of North and South, with the cross of the horizon balancing us on our upward journey. The paradox for me in this Full Moon is that the Gemini in me also has many questions and curiosities I would like to explore along the way on this upward path.

It’s like the paradox of Mars and Venus, holding both masculine and feminine energies together at the same time, the yin yang effect of each side has a little of the other within it.

It’s the paradox of learning how to hold the parts of you that are in great sadness and the parts that are healed and filled in love.

It seems that part of the expression of this paradoxical axis is listening. When learning we listen. When teaching we listen. There was much gained in this most recent procession of the Lunar Nodes we experienced last year with Sagittarius and Gemini. Much of it was centred on listening (this also includes reading and all the channels we have available to take in communication). And how active listening is. How challenging it is to hold in our minds, hearts and souls that there is many ways to express truth, love and experience life in the dynamic ways available to us.

For me this boils down to how my early life showed me that listening wasn’t important, or maybe less important than imparting that “knowing better” because older and wiser ideology we mistake as a right of passage for spending more time on earth than same one who was just born. It also seems that there is this “I don’t care” aspect that gets rolled into not listening. Emotional Survival maybe? For me survival of the emotional variety was definitely the case. Being taught not to care went against every fibre and cell of my soul, it helped me then not incur more pain from the environment I faced. It allowed me to not listen when my body was hurting and the ripple effect that I don’t have to listen when you’re hurting, or the planet or the universe. I was able to avoid how helpless I feel, because I couldn’t or maybe wasn’t allowed to resolve how I was hurting. That was then. And this is now.

That is may favourite teaching of this full moon. I’m watching and listening my own language shift. Switching out buts, howevers- you know the words that indicate paradox or oppositions, with the word AND. It’s this and that. It’s here and there. It’s then and now. It’s my sadness and my love.

Proportion is a huge part of this. Like the whole love and hate opposition. The more you hate the less you love the same thing. Conversely the more you love the less you hate.

I never used to feel about how my language  had much to do with my emotions and feelings. Though the more I listen to myself and others the more I realize the paradox- it’s all emotions. Listening to another or yourself is firstly about listening to emotions. It’s: this is what happened and this is how I feel and these are the solutions, what do you think?

In my opinion, we gotta do the healing work to listen and lean into the paradox of life. Being made to feel not important and like others don’t care is a lot of pain to carry around in your soul, I’m realizing this from my experience. I’m not saying those experiences are not true in your life, we must also acknowledge that yes they did in fact happen, that that was the reality of your life then. I’m also saying there’s other beliefs that are available to us once we release the past and those old out dated false beliefs we once needed for survival.

We are important and I do care. It seems to help me prioritize my time and resources I have to look to what I value and dream of. And yours may look different from mine, and that is beautiful. That paradox of life creates variety and allows for unique expression. And I’m so excited to give myself space to take it all in with you.

Warm Hugs,

Stephany