Plot Twist

Today, May 26, 2025, the Moon is positioned between the Sun and the Earth, showing us its dark side — a new moon in the sign of Gemini. But the news is far from bleak. Witty, charming Gemini is here to lighten the mood at this Earth party— if we're open to a little personal reinvention.

Two weeks ago, with the full moon in Scorpio, we were invited to examine our disempowering narratives. Gemini, the gifted conversationalist in all of us, invites us to get curious about what's coming up in our lives and, like an improv actor, respond to it with a possibility-creating "Yes, and..." — in contrast to the more familiar but inherently limiting "Yes, but..."

Along with the Sun and Moon, Jupiter and Mercury (Gemini's ruler) are also in Gemini, eager to pose the astro-cocktail party question: "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" Or perhaps even more importantly, "Who would you be if you didn't already know?" Your answer doesn't have to be what it was yesterday, last month, or last decade. Maybe it's enough to be open to the possibility of not knowing. Start with, "I wonder..."

The time is particularly ripe for personal reinvention, as Saturn—the planet of structure and form—moved into Aries on May 24, where it will remain until April 2028, with a brief period of reflection (in retrograde) between September 2025 and February 2026. (If you were born between April 7, 1996 and June 9, 1998, or October 25, 1998 and February 28, 1999, this is your first Saturn return—a particularly potent time for personal evolution.) Saturn moves into a new sign every few years, making the "return" to the placement you were born in roughly every 29 years. For all of us, Saturn in Aries reminds us that personal identity isn't fixed — it evolves as we do.

As American poet Walt Whitman (a Gemini, born May 31, 1819) writes in "Song of Myself":

The past and present wilt — I have fill’d them, emptied them.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

It’s your story. Throw in that plot twist.