What new perspectives open up when we open our minds and follow our curiosity?
What new insights or clarity might we receive if we are willing to express our ideas through writing or speaking them — even if only to ourselves?
What new opportunities open up when we dare to share our most creative ideas publicly — even those that feel silly or delusional to us — and engage in conversation about them?
In a year in which everything is changing, a well-supported New Moon in Gemini helps us kick off the last week of May with a fresh start and some new perspectives — if we’re willing to be open-minded, curious, and engage in conversation about our ideas.
Gemini: Curiosity and Conversations
A New Moon occurs every month when the Sun and Moon meet up at the same degree of the zodiac. On May 26, 2025 they meet up early in the sign of Gemini (11:02 PM ET, 6º05’).
Gemini is the sign of writing, speaking, and conversation. It’s curious and extraverted, a buzz in conversations and connections. It arrives at the height of the spring social season, when benefits and gatherings are in full bloom, before everyone departs for summer vacation.
In Gemini our curiosity surges, as does our desire to talk about all the things.
The ruler of Gemini is Mercury, the planet of ideas and messages. Mercury is the Messenger, the Speaker, the Communicator. It’s the bee pollinating the flowers, the butterfly flapping its wings, the microphone helping us to be heard, the megaphone amplifying the message.
New Moon: New Relationships and Perspectives
Any new moon is a moment of renewal and refresh, a chance to hit re-start on projects, goals, and even the direction of your life. Yet this new moon is especially potent for that purpose.
Mercury just returned “home” to Gemini on Sunday, May 25, and is sitting close to the Sun and Moon as they come together. When Mercury is in Gemini, our curiosity and desire for conversation are amplified.
The Sun and Moon in Gemini are also positioned to other planets in new ways — perhaps a mirror of what is possible when we look at our life from a new perspective.
For the past few years, every new moon in Gemini was in an aspect of friction to Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, hampering our ability to engage in an uninhibited exchange of ideas.
This new moon is the first of many to come where all three of these outer planets — Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto — form supportive aspects to planets in Gemini.
Saturn has just moved into Aries, it’s new home for the next three years. Neptune is also newly in Aries, and Pluto is still pretty new in Aquarius.
In addition, Jupiter — the planet of abundance and excess — has been in Gemini for the past year, throwing our curiosity into overdrive and flooding us with ideas.
Too many ideas can be both overstimulating and paralyzing. To move forward, we must get clear on which ideas we want to pursue, which conversations will help us move forward, and which we want to commit to.
The triumvirate of Pluto, Neptune, and Saturn in harmonious aspects to the new moon and Mercury in Gemini supports us in digging deep into our motivations and desires, accessing our most creative ideas, and creating structure that will help us bring our ideas into form.
What Gives Ideas Value
The clarity we seek on a direction will come through a willingness to get curious about our interests, motivations, desires, and ideas, and to engage in conversation about them.
Of course this might trigger some deep fears — a theme represented by both Pluto and Saturn. By putting our ideas out in the world we open ourselves to be judged or ridiculed. We might fear that our ideas are too dreamy, delusional, or unrealistic to be taken seriously. Or, maybe we fear that if we share our ideas, someone else will take credit for them.
Here’s the thing to remember:
Ideas, in and of themselves, have no value.
The value of an idea lies in its implementation. Even the most creative and innovative ideas mean nothing without concrete form to them. In fact, when left unexpressed, our ideas occupy precious bandwidth, clogging our thoughts and dispersing our capacity for attention.
Ideas are a currency; their value lies in their public exchange.
Keeping your ideas to yourself is like keeping cash under your mattress — you can’t take it with you when you go.
If everyone hoarded ideas, there would be no exchange and no progress.
Ideas only take on value when we share them publicly.
Through conversations the spark of an idea gets shaped into something that can be manifest and implemented. Through connection, we can find support for bringing those ides into the world.
New Moon in Gemini: Give Voice to Your Ideas
The right conversation at the right time can be a catalyst for a new idea, a new direction, a new partnership, or a new opportunity.
The New Moon in Gemini asks us to sort through our avalanche of ideas, have conversations about them, and commit to sharing them with the world.
Like the bee pollinating the flowers, good ideas are meant to be disseminated widely.
Write down your ideas. Share them in an email, blog, or video. Put posters up around your neighborhood. Stand on a soap box on the street.
Give your ideas the expression they deserve.
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