Full Moon in Gemini and Mercury Station Direct
Daily Horoscope Check-in for December 15, 2024
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Good evening, friends!
Last night, I got to drive my van for the first time in weeks! My husband has been using it for work so I’ve been stuck at home with the kiddos, but last night, we dropped him off at the airport for a quick work trip that he has, and the girls and I went shopping at the fabric store (to get more yarn of course) and it felt wonderful to drive and go wherever I wanted! It felt like a full moon moment, especially an applying full moon that recently passed over Uranus (freedom) and Jupiter (travel). To be honest, I’m mostly a homebody, but I like to have the option to go anywhere on a whim and I don’t enjoy feeling restricted, and this month has a lot of restriction-type feelings to it, so it was noticeable how giddy I was to get out of the house and go shopping for yarn to make more presents!
My husband’s work-related trip is actually for his mother, and while he is fixing something for her, he will also be visiting family, so naturally, I sent him with gifts…and I realized they were all hand-made. The young girls and I painted cards, knitted and wove ornaments, and I knitted them all hats. I even sewed the gift bags. Oh, and we made homemade pine cone potpourri. I actually had to look up whether or not it was okay to carry on pinecones in ziplock bags on the airplane (yes, I sent my husband miles away with a dozen pinecones, LOL!) and it turns out the pine cones are fine, but not the baggies. No worries, because I had sewn gift bags for them anyway, so we just dumped the potpourri into those. His luggage now smells of cinnamon, clove, orange, pine, and star anise—yum!
I am totally filled with the make-it-yourself bug this season and I have boatloads of things to do for the next ten days! Thankfully, Mercury stations direct today, hallelujah! That will make things go a lot more smoothly, I hope!
Okay, let’s get into….the astrology
(all times are in Eastern time unless mentioned otherwise)
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Full Moon in Gemini
We end the weekend with a Full moon in Gemini at 23°52’ at 4:01 am ET. The Moon looked full last night and she will look full again tonight.
The Full Moon is a time when the intentions you set during the New Moon two weeks ago in Sagittarius have come to a peak point or a culmination. It can also signify endings, as often when something comes to its highest point of creation, the next part of the cycle is the deconstruction process. The Moon has reached her fullest potential and now she will begin to wane, losing light as she approaches the next New Moon in Capricorn in two weeks on December 30, 2024.
You can see in the chart above the opposition between the Sun and the Moon and both applying to square Neptune in Pisces, now direct. The Sun will perfect his square to Neptune on December 18, 2024, and the Moon perfected her square to Neptune at 9:31 am ET today, five hours after the exact full moon—whatever we are celebrating or ending will involve Neptune, so this means that we may experience hypersensitivities, weaknesses, even illness is possible as the Sun and Moon represent our vitality and our bodies, and Neptune diffuses those, dissolving them, like water dissolving salt crystals. And then there is always the possibility for misunderstandings, disillusionment, or deception, as Neptune represents fog, illusion, and a nebulousness. So, in terms of those possible manifestations, do what you can to stay healthy and watch your budget—with the Moon separating from Jupiter there could be a recent feeling of abundance and wealth, but the application to Neptune signifies that prosperity kind of washing away, so make sure you empty your pockets before doing your laundry and do your best to stay on top of your spending!
On a good note, if we are celebrating something coming to its peak, then the square to Neptune could mean that the experience has music, art, or theatre involved. Maybe you go to a play or a concert to celebrate, experiencing euphoria from the music or the drama. This could also be like a holiday party or something, but the square to Neptune cautions drinking too much, so be mindful and call an Uber if needed. With Mars still retrograde and Jupiter in Gemini retrograde applying to square Saturn in Pisces, this is not the time to drink and drive! No time is a time to drink and drive, but some people do nonetheless, and this is a terrible time! Just sayin’…
(When I was training to become an EMT right out of high school, I had to do some practical work in the local ER, and there was a fella who they brought in who was inebriated to a level I had never seen before. They had found him in the middle of an intersection passed out on the steering wheel of his car, horn blaring. If I remember correctly, they had to administer activated charcoal and a vitamin B bag to get him to come to, and begin to sober up. The weird thing was, he also had all of these weirdly shaped scars all over his body, almost like cigar burns. It was a memorable experience!)
Here are some questions to ponder during this Full Moon:
What are you celebrating today? What are you ending? What has reached its fullest potential? Which archetype fits your life right now?
Mini-Horoscopes
Briefly, below you will find the house that this Full Moon is occurring in according to your rising sign. Find your rising and read the house topics associated with this Full Moon. You may notice a celebration or an ending involving one or more of those topics.
Aries — third house of siblings, communication, and local travel.
Taurus — second house of money and possessions.
Gemini — first house of self, health, and character.
Cancer — twelfth house of blind spots, large animals, hidden enemies, and mental health.
Leo — eleventh house of friends, allies, groups, and wishes.
Virgo — tenth house of career, praxis, and the mother.
Libra — ninth house of foreign travel, higher education, and beliefs.
Scorpio — eighth house of shared resources, inheritance, debt, and death.
Sagittarius — seventh house of marriage, partnerships, and legal matters.
Capricorn — sixth house of stress, health issues, employees or co-workers, and pets.
Aquarius — fifth house of pregnancy, children, creativity, and recreational activities.
Pisces — fourth house of family, roots, and property.
I wish you all a Happy Full Moon!
The moon left chatty Gemini and entered nurturing Cancer at 2:21 pm. This is going to be great because I think the Cancer Moon will help us all get things done on our to-do lists. Whenever the Moon is in a cardinal sign, like Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, or Aries, I always feel like doing stuff and this is a nice energy to pair with Mercury stationing direct this afternoon! The Moon in Cancer will also square the Nodes tonight at 7:07 pm from the Northern bending which means there may be something that occurs in a public way that affects you.
Mercury Stations Direct
Mercury stations direct at 3:56 pm ET at 6°Sagittarius 23’. This is great because it has felt slow, clunky, and technically challenging, am I right? The most Mercury-retrogrady thing that happened to me the last three weeks was actually having to do with my husband using my car for his construction project and said project taking twice as long! This makes sense because Mercury’s retrograde was in my relationship house, so most of the glitches were actually his glitches, LOL, poor him! What about you? Any Mercury retrograde stories to share?
But, since Mercury has stationed direct today this means that we may feel more like communicating through speech, the written word, or even singing and it may feel really good, especially if we’ve been feeling off or uninspired as of late. Additionally, it may just feel easier to get around from place to place, like you’re just hitting all green lights—I mean last night, when we were driving around, I did hit all green lights and there were so many that I noticed it! I immediately thought, this is a symbol of Mercury’s direct motion tomorrow.
Well, duties of motherhood call, so I must put a pin in it and leave it here for tonight. I will be back soon because there are a lot more transits to write about!
I hope this was helpful.
Until tomorrow, or the next day, or at least the 18th when the Sun squares Neptune,
AstroMommy
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