Charles Burchfield “Orion in Winter”

It’s the last lunar lesson of the celestial school year, and, true to form, the Gemini Moon is a bright one. Pulled taut by the Sagittarius Sun, under dictation by Capricorn Mercury, and with Piscean Neptune in the periphery, this lunation becomes a child’s kaleidoscope. The life, the self, the soul, viewed between two reflectors, pixellates into a beautiful symmetry of rotating fractals, of ever-changing patterns of colors and shapes. We find ourselves caught between the logical and the illogical; between the purposeful, practical, and direct; and the mystical, strange, and nebulous. Boundaries morph, distractions and escapism test the mundane, but the potential to enlighten is still there in small but important ways. And the mutability of the moment might allow us to find a middle ground. After all, Full Moons are mini masterclasses in managing polarity.

This Full Moon is one of countless guiding lights that constellate the path of your dharma. Still, it is an opportunity to observe patterns, make meaning, and find order, in your particular cosmogram; to bring attention to your sacred contracts; to look around, and witness yourself through the ideas you gather and share, and through the minds with whom you share those ideas. The Moon in Gemini wants to know: what lights up your mind? And the Full Moon of this December, with its particular signatures, is a reminder that we each fulfill our roles here on earth with both small and large contributions; and that life demands both dreams and action, an open mind and objectivity, faith and skepticism, flow and fixity. And lastly, I offer, that we might find its most constructive message distilled in the words of Roman philosopher Seneca, written over 2000 years ago, and as valuable as ever today: “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”