Early December's Celestial Combo: A Gemini Super Full Moon Followed by a Kite!
What the astrology of early December means for you, plus some news and quirky gift ideas
Thursday’s Gemini Full Moon is a supermoon, which means that the moon is much closer to Earth than usual, increasing its potency. Here’s hoping that the skies will be clear so that we can all enjoy a super big and bright illumination as Lady Moon lights up the night.
Full Moons illuminate or reveal - they are an accumulation point, the blooming of whatever was seeded at the last New Moon in the sign in which the Full Moon occurs. Our last Gemini New Moon was on 27th May, 2025. Check back on what was seeding for you at this time to understand what is coming to fruition - journal entries, messages and social media can help your recall.
If you have a copy of your birth chart, you will know which house Gemini occupies in your chart and therefore which subject areas this Full Moon will be highlighting (see diagram below). My video at the end of this piece explains how to get a free copy of your birth chart if you haven’t got a copy to hand. Having your birth chart allows you to really personalise my astrology updates through understanding the house and thereby subject areas that are being activated in your chart.
A Mercury-ruled Full Moon
This Full Moon is ruled by magical Mercury, the messenger, trickster and all-around mental magician of the airy masculine sign of Gemini, the Twins. We naturally think of Mercury as being about communication, and yet he is so much more than this. See my previous post linked below to learn more about this magical deity.
Gemini Full Moon Potential
Like all full moons, the Moon in Gemini (intelligence) opposes the Sun in fiery Sagittarius (wisdom). Oppositions bring push-me-pull-me energy, and with these two signs, there’s tension between different ways of knowing. The Sun and Moon also represent the challenge between ego and emotion, assertion and empathy—masculine and feminine, yin and yang. Thankfully, the masculine Sun carries Sagittarius’s wisdom while the feminine Moon holds Gemini’s intelligence, offering the possibility of balancing these polarities. There is a need though to be mindful of indecisiveness or paralysis that oppositions can bring—awareness helps you harness the available energy towards meaningful action.
What makes this full moon particularly significant is that both the Sun and Moon are squaring the Nodes (sensitive points) at 13° Pisces/Virgo, creating a Grand Cross—a complete cross pattern where two oppositions square each other. This is a powerful configuration, bringing tension from all four directions with no easy release point.
The mutable quality of this Grand Cross (formed across Gemini, Sagittarius, Pisces, and Virgo) offers some flexibility and adaptability, but it can also scatter our focus and create restlessness. Of all the Grand Cross configurations, those in mutable signs are the most fluid, allowing us to adjust and respond to changing circumstances. However, this same flexibility can make it challenging to maintain clarity and direction when pulled in multiple directions simultaneously. The involvement of the nodes, adds a karmic dimension, a sense of fate or destiny, to this lunation, marking it as a significant turning point rather than an ordinary full moon.
The Grand Cross demands we hold the complexity of multiple truths simultaneously: the nodal axis brings our collective karmic journey into sharp focus, with the Virgo-Pisces path of practical service meeting spiritual surrender, discernment meeting faith, while the Gemini-Sagittarius opposition wrestles with the tension between information and meaning, facts and belief.
In summary, we have:
The tension of the full moon opposition
The karmic/fated quality of nodal involvement
The mutable quality of adaptability but also scattered focus
The pressure from all four directions that Grand Crosses bring
This is a pivotal moment for emotional clarity and conscious choice. With the Grand Cross amplifying the full moon’s energy, this lunar phase asks us to use our emotional intelligence to make genuine shifts in our lives and in service to those around us. The mutable quality allows us to adapt and flow, but we must be conscious not to scatter ourselves across too many directions at once.
Mercury Triggers the Grand Water Trine
Following the full moon, between the 6th and 7th of December, Mercury in Scorpio activates for the final time the flowing energies of the grand water trine with Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces. This brings transformational ideas and penetrating insights into the storylines that have been developing around matters of security, nourishment, and emotional belonging (Jupiter in Cancer) and compassionate responsibility, spiritual maturity, and surrender (Saturn in Pisces).
Mercury in Scorpio digs deep, unearthing truths that have been hidden beneath the surface. As it completes this final conversation with Jupiter and Saturn in the grand water trine, there’s an opportunity for profound emotional and psychological integration. The trine aspect—120 degrees between planets—represents effortless flow and harmonious support, allowing these energies to work together naturally. In the water element, this flow moves through feeling, intuition, and soul-level knowing.
The Kite Configuration
With the Moon at 27° Cancer and Neptune at 29° Pisces, both forming sextiles to Uranus at 28° Taurus, we have a kite configuration built upon the grand water trine. The sextile—a 60-degree aspect—brings opportunity and ease, like an open door inviting productive collaboration between planetary energies. It’s gentler than a trine but requires some conscious participation to activate its potential.
In this kite, Uranus in Taurus serves as the focal point, receiving supportive sextiles from both the Moon and Neptune while opposing Mercury. This configuration channels the emotional and spiritual wisdom of the grand water trine into breakthrough moments around material security, embodied values, and radical shifts in how we resource ourselves. The Moon sextile Uranus opens us to intuitive flashes about our emotional needs, while Neptune sextile Uranus dissolves old structures that no longer serve our spiritual evolution.
The opposition between Mercury and Uranus creates dynamic tension—the push needed to move beyond comfortable waters into new territory. Mercury’s psychological depth in Scorpio challenges Uranus to revolutionise our relationship with stability from the inside out.
Important Update
The recent Mercury retrograde had me reviewing how I deliver value to you, dear reader, while managing my new responsibilities. For the last few months, I have been spending the majority of the week looking after my elderly mother, which includes a 300-mile round trip, necessitating staying over. While I don’t begrudge this new turn of events, it does mean I have far less time and energy for my own work in the world.
After much soul searching, I have decided to simplify and streamline my output by concentrating on my writing, astrology consultations and spiritual mentoring services, and removing the need to upkeep a flashy website and store.
I have transferred my products and services over to my Buy Me A Coffee site, where you will now find my shop as well as a donation page. You will also find a gallery page for my art, though the uploading remains a work in progress with a sales function yet to be included. Meanwhile, if you would like to purchase a print or original of my artwork, please DM me.
Due to my additional responsibilities, I have also cut back on my availability for consultations to two days per week - Sundays and Mondays. If these days are not suitable for you, please do get in touch, as I’m sure that we can schedule an alternative with enough notice.
With all these changes, I have aimed to ensure that I continue to deliver great content and service while also allowing me some much-needed downtime. How is your work-life balance?
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