Tonight we reach the New Moon in Gemini. This is a crazy New Moon.
The soundtrack is electroswing, a jazzy, frenetic sound. Happy, but, you know, happy in the face of a darker reality. We’re partying like it’s 1923, the gin’s in the bathtub, and the cops could raid the joint any second.
The Sun and Moon are together at 06º Gemini, the twins of the chart, our lights for night and day.
There’s an extra, though: Mercury, who rules this sign and this decan, joins the Sun and Moon at 02º Gemini.
These three together are scintillating and generative, spinning out new ideas like there’s no tomorrow. Did I mention this Moon is out of bounds? It is, by a lot. All bets are off.
After the slow, steady reliability of Taurus, we enter Gemini ready for everything new. We’re curious about it all. Stuff keeps proliferating. Nothing stays singular. Possibilities are literally endless.
We have this idea that Taurus represents reality. It’s fixed Earth. What could be more stable, more solid, more real, that that?
The crazy thing is, Gemini, with its airy, insubstantial, constantly bifurcating vibe, maps our underlying reality a lot better than Taurus does. If Taurus is the heavy rock you pick up and hold in your hand, feeling its weight, Gemini is the underlying quantum reality that tells us the heavy rock is mostly empty space.
Have you heard about the Many Worlds Interpretation? This is a quantum model of the universe that says our reality, the world we live in, is constantly splitting into two of itself, and then those two split, and those, and those, and — this is reality.
Quantum ideas are fun to think about but make me a little crazy if I spend too much time with them. I don’t have any planets in Gemini, though, so maybe Gemini natives are more comfortable with all of this.
Sun–Moon–Mercury in Gemini trine Pluto, retrograde at 03º Aquarius, the the lord of the underworld in fixed Air. Here we add depth––psychological, emotional, historical, mythic. Still cerebral, though. These are all Air signs.
If we imagine a line connecting the Sun, Moon, and Mercury to Pluto, the Pluto side would be way down low and Sun-Moon-Mercury would be way up high. Think of Pluto holding firmly to the end of a kite string, standing on solid rock, while the Sun, Moon, and Mercury float around the sky, shifting with every current.
Now, all of these planets in Air sextile the Saturn–Neptune conjunction at the beginning of Aries. This is the fire that fuels the party.
Saturn has entered the building. While the first precisely exact conjunction is still months away, Saturn and Neptune definitely count as conjunct. In the New Moon chart, they’re a degree and a half apart. That’s really close.
So this New Moon with Mercury and Pluto opens the curtain on one of the big astrological shifts of 2025. Drum roll, please.
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A lot has been said and there’s more left to explore about Saturn and Neptune entering Aries at the same time. This is more than just a sign change. This is two outer planets completing a journey through the entire zodiac to make a fresh start.
The Aries point, 0º Aries, is a place of inception, birth, beginning. A doorway where something completely new walks in.
The difference for Neptune between Pisces and Aries is epic. Neptune is deeply at home in Pisces, a sign that enhances and embellishes Neptune’s mysticism, creativity, and loss of boundaries.
Breaching boundaries is essential to both mystical experience and creative flow. Yet losing our boundaries has personal risks. We become vulnerable. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, in the throes of spiritual awakening or creative inspiration, whether we’ve gone too far. We can lose ourselves.
In Aries, the point of reference shifts sharply to the self. My dreams, my drives, my goals, my sense of who I am. We want what we want and we go for it. This too has its blind sides and dangers, but can feel more solid than Pisces.
The point is not that Neptune in Pisces is good and Aries bad, or the reverse. The point is that the difference between the two is huge. We legitimately feel disoriented in the process.
Saturn’s shift is more complicated. Saturn in Pisces, bringing boundaries to the boundless, could hold us back or rescue us from dangerous currents. Saturn in Aries, asserting boundaries through personal will, can show up as a visionary leader or a charismatic renegade.
Again, Saturn in Pisces is very different from Saturn in Aries, but the way that difference shows up is complex. Sometimes we need a strong individual voice to chart a new course. Sometimes that strong voice leads us over a cliff.
The sextiles from Sun-Moon-Mercury in Gemini to Saturn and Neptune highlight the variability here. Variability offers creative potential. It also leads to incoherence. Sometimes, too much is just too much.
The sextile from Pluto emphasizes the weight of what I named earlier: The weight of myth, of history, of our own psychology. Pluto offers an essential container, a reminder of who we are in our potential and also in our mortality.
Pluto says, to each of us, you can do great things, meaningful things, important things, but they won’t be easy things. The cost may be high. You may not succeed, but success is not the most important goal. Transformation is.
So, if your idea of a Gemini New Moon is something light-hearted and distracting and fun, this is not that.
If your birth chart is aspected by any or all of this, you will feel it. You might feel you’re on the edge of something, and even possibly, like some force is nudging you over that edge.
You may feel your reality is splitting into multiple potentials. You might sense those potentials emerging just at the horizon.
Check Gemini in your birth chart. Where is it? In which house? How does Gemini interact with your planets and points?
If you have a lot of Gemini going on, I see two options. (Do you see what I did there?) The influx of a lot more Gemini could feel electrifying, and possibly too much. Or, Pluto’s trine could help you find a way to ground this new Gemini coming in, as well as what you already have.
If Pluto’s transit is more important in your birth chart, then you’ll want to consider the personal foundations Pluto is there to examine. The Gemini side, bright and curious, could feel distracting, but maybe in good ways. Nothing wrong with options. Sun–Moon–Mercury can generate lots of new ideas, even in the face of strong Plutonian currents.
Where is the Aries point in your birth chart? This is where new things come in. Which house is that for you? Do you have planets, asteroids, or points there?
When stuff in the sky transits through early Aries, does it aspect anything in your chart? Aries will oppose Libra, square Cancer and Capricorn, trine Leo and Sagittarius, and sextile Gemini and Aquarius.
The world, too, is entering into something new. It’s so new, we can’t predict what it will look like. The last time Saturn and Neptune met in Aries was in 1703. Things have changed a bit since then.
Venus at 20º Aries is moving away from her trine to Mars at 18º Leo. This trine is still strong enough to count, but is separating, getting weaker. Venus, our personal creative agency, is getting more independent.
In a few days, Venus will conjunct Chiron and Eris, both at 25º Aries. Mars rules all of Aries, from Leo currently, but the separating trine and Venus’ move toward Chiron and Eris, suggest her independence will offer personal healing (Chiron) and a deeper connection to the needs of the world (Eris).
Jupiter still holds to his square to the Nodes of the Moon. His presence points to the importance of fate, and also to the power of interpretation. How we understand and what we believe color not only our perception, but also our experience.
This New Moon portal pulls back the curtain on big changes currently underway. We’re invited into a creative, jazzy, dance with possibility, the power of interpretation, and the magic of multiple points of view.
The New Moon says, let’s dance with reality. Only by participating can we see, enhance, and change the patterns.
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