A Week of Vulnerability in our connective threads
December 1 - 7, 2025
Lunar-Solar Atmosphere | Nourishing the web of our life
Up until the Gemini Full Moon on Thursday (December 4th at 4:13 pm MT), we are in a social moment of the season with the Moon in waxing gibbous. Connect, communicate, inform yourself, and socialize. There is extra buzz humming in the air and a motor connected to our nervous systems. As the full moon arrives in Gemini, we start to turn inward to communicate with ourselves. What connection and community do we need in order to feel grounded and secure? Let your inner self answer and direct you toward what depth of connectivity supports your particular wiring.
The Gemini Full Moon in Sagittarius Season (highlighting that the Earth is in Gemini) holds a lot of vulnerability around questions of connection and isolation. It's a time of year when we acutely feel where our threads of community plug us into life or leave us feeling a bit abandoned and alone. This, to me, is what the holiday blues stem from. Not the Sun in Sagittarius, where we aim and reach toward belief and perspective, but from the Earth's want for grounding, and in Gemini, grounding comes from connection. If we don't feel grounded in community and belonging, we can feel untethered from the web of life. This week is going to bring up insecurities around this.
Listen to that inner self. What does it need to feel grounded in the threads and connections of life? Some of us are introverts and want fewer threads but stronger ones, while others, more extroverted, may want lots of threads—some strong and lots light and breezy. What qualities of connections would make you feel more secure? Do you long for more general community (a sense of being plugged into your neighborhood or local commerce)? Do you crave deeper connections filled with nurturance and care—family-like? Do you crave more of a social life that's light and busy, more flirtatious opportunities, more learning and class settings where ideas are challenged and exchanged, a book group, or maybe just more books and better sources of news/information? Are you sick of social media or feeling left out because you don't engage with it? It's different for all of us, what makes us feel secure in how we are plugged into life, and it changes a little every year as well.
Mercury is Direct, but in post-shadow Retrograde
We have just seeded a new Mercury/Trickster’s Journey in the sign of Scorpio. This busy planet has moved out of its most pressured, compact time, during retrograde, into some spaciousness, starting to move forward over the degrees it has reversed through. While forward movement is gaining its feet, Mercury is a little drunk in its post-shadow phase. There are ideas that spark and fizzle, impulses that excite and then dissipate. Not to worry, this energy is related to new pathways starting to poke at future potential. It’s experimental energy in our brains. Don’t expect all of the connections being made to pan out, but know that they are helping to plug your brain into new horizons and altered futures.
With Scorpio ruling the theme of the current Mercury cycle, merging forces around ideas, commerce, and plugging life in, in more interesting ways, is what’s in the undercurrent. Stay open-minded and light about breakthroughs for now. Play with things, but don’t commit just yet. Mysteries and rabbit holes may excite our minds as well during this cycle, so follow those threads of allure into the underworld of power and shared resources. Become a detective and uproot some rot.
Follow the Scorpio Trickster’s cycle more closely here: Mercury Journey
Journey With the Moon | Remember Who You Are
While moon phases help us tap into the ebb and flow of the solar season, the Moon—outside its ties to the Sun—has its own reflective cycle about recognition. To tap more deeply into memory, feeling, and intuition—how we anchor an embodied knowing of the zodiac into us—head over to the current Lunar Journey (The Memoirist’s Journey):
Headline Transits
Venus sextile Pluto, December 2nd (2:06 am MT)
This is an opportunity to recognize where we project our own inner demons onto others, and to heal with the psychological work we should be doing within ourselves.
Mercury trine Jupiter Rx, December 6th (6:05 am MT)
This is a beautiful moment in the week with the planetary ruler of the season, Jupiter, receiving support from our minds and communities. The information and ideas we need to support our beliefs and big visions can be found if we look for them.
Mercury trine Saturn, December 7th (9:57 am MT)
Our minds could feel focused yet expanded with this transit. Be open to time bending, mind restructuring, and information that opens new ways of planning our long-term goals.
Jupiter Rx (season’s ruler)in Cancer trine Saturn in Pisces (generally all week)
Deep philosophies of connective care meet the CEO of focused shadow work. It's a surprisingly emotional link between two not-so-emotional archetypes. It feels like the elder saying, "Good job" to the explorer. The Architect says, "The shadow structure I'm working on could offer focused healing so you can integrate into life with more grace and openness."