May 26, 2025 at 8:03pm PDT—The Sun lights up the mutable air sign of Gemini from May 20th to June 19th. With the Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter all in Gemini, the pace picks up. We’re feeling more social and eager to get out and about. Be open to change. New opportunities and fresh perspectives are on their way with tomorrow’s New Moon in Gemini.
Gemini’s Multifaceted Nature
Gemini, like Mercury himself, is a tricky sign to fully grasp. My favorite Gemini is my grandmother. She had many curious parts to her: trickster, herb encyclopedia, traveler, story teller. We would sleep outside when she visited. I would fall asleep as she created worlds from the places she had visited: Rome, Kenya, the Florida Coast. During the day, we would walk barefoot in the canyon where she would teach me all about the flowers and grasses, picking some to eat on our explorations. We were two peas in a pod with one Chiron Return between us. As I learned astrology, she became my archetype for one version of Gemini: free & inquisitive, like a playful wind that breezes between the nooks and crannies of every experience, tincturing just enough of it to carry its essence in a story file. Like Gemini, she was perennially young despite the tapestry of lines that formed around a forever smiling face and easy laugh.
Tomorrow’s New Moon in Gemini feels like a visit from my grandmother: nimble, fun, full of possibility, and attuned to magic. This is an Alice-in-Wonderland lunation, open to fantastical beginnings. It’s a mental reset that clears the static and jolts us into the present. Further, it’s unusually potent. Ideas born now aren’t just clever—they have legs. They have vision. They may even have staying power.
The Power of Planetary Support
Every new moon plants a seed, but what grows depends on the company it keeps. While new moons mark moments of initiation, their tone is shaped by the planetary aspects surrounding them and the condition of their ruler. In this case, the Gemini New Moon comes with an unusual chorus of planetary support in yang signs (Fire & Air)—and that makes it worth paying attention to.
First, the New Moon is in Gemini, a sign governed by Mercury. That alone sets the stage for a new cycle influenced by thought, language, learning, perception, and social exchange. But this Moon is also conjunct its capable ruler, Mercury in its own home, doubling down on Gemini themes: mental sharpness, communicative clarity, business acumen, and adaptability. It’s an ideal window for intuition to put disparate pieces together and pull a rabbit out of its own thinking cap.
Next, there’s a supportive sextile from Saturn, who ingressed into Aries just yesterday on the 24th. Saturn helps translate fleeting inspiration into grounded, long-term structures. Saturn offers endurance and solidity. In aspect to a Gemini Moon, it stabilizes what could otherwise be a flurry of passing thoughts. This alignment gives ideas just enough structure to start taking shape, turning a concept from daydream to blueprint.
Neptune—also in Aries and in a supportive sextile to the New Moon—offers heightened imagination, intuition, and spiritual insight. Neptune’s role here is subtler. It opens up the symbolic layer beneath the data stream, offering access to dreams, timelines, and ideals. It’s less about clarity and more about allowing space to incubate vision.
I’ve often found that Neptune offers the gift of surrender, letting something go so something more meaningful can emerge. Under Neptune’s influence, we don’t chisel a pathway out of stone, but instead, we hold space until the fog lifts, revealing a deeper truth. Letting go in this context means loosening our grip on rigid expectations so we can receive something more inspired, more intuitive, and perhaps even more aligned than what we originally envisioned.
Then there’s Pluto, forming a trine from Aquarius. This is where things get deeper. Pluto lends transformative potential—less about surface shifts and more about core-level recalibration. Whatever begins now may evolve into something with far greater impact than initially expected. This is the kind of New Moon that can seem light on the surface but carries hidden tectonic shifts below.
Finally, we can’t forget Jupiter’s co-presence in Gemini. The Greater Benefic’s proximity to this New Moon adds extra wattage to whatever’s getting seeded now. Jupiter encourages big ideas, bold curiosity, and a willingness to think beyond our usual mental frameworks. The ancients viewed Jupiter as the planet of divine blessing and wisdom—when he’s in the room, something meaningful is always trying to grow.
In Summary
Tomorrow’s New Moon in Gemini isn’t just another mental reset. It’s supported by a rare combination of active, outward-moving energies that make it a powerful time for initiating ideas with both structure and soul. There’s mental quickness (Gemini/Mercury), long-term traction (Saturn), imaginative lift (Neptune), transformative undercurrent (Pluto), and an added dose of luck and purpose thanks to Jupiter’s co-presence. That’s not just a new beginning—that’s a strategic turning point. And it’s about time… we could all use a resurrection like this!
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