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Published on December 4th

🌬️ The Airy Magic of This Full Moon

The Full Moon in Gemini arrives with a breeze of clarity, curiosity, and inner conversation. Gemini — mutable air ruled by Mercury — shines a light on your truth, your voice, and your emotional patterns.

This moon falls on powerful dates for the collective — honoring the transition of Fred Hampton and celebrating the birthdays of cultural icons like Jay-Z. Some of us even share this date with our loved ones (my husband included), making this moon feel extra personal.

Gemini energy is always asking:
Are you thinking clearly? Are you speaking truthfully? Are you living authentically?

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🌗 Duality + Downloads: What This Moon Is Stirring

Mercury is direct right now, so communication, tech, memory, and movement are heightened. Expect emotional waves, sudden clarity, and a desire to update, purge, and realign.

This full moon may bring moments where you:

• Crave connection then crave solitude
• Feel drawn to home care, hair care, or reorganizing
• Need emotional privacy
• Feel guilt for not wanting to “people”
• Remember old memories (even from 20+ years ago)
• Sense emotional pressure to finish what you started

And just know — this is natural under Gemini’s dual expression.

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🔥 Soul Truth: It’s Okay to Need Space

For many of us, this season includes birthdays, family expectations, or holiday culture we may not align with.

Here’s the truth this moon whispers:

You can honor people without abandoning yourself.
You can love them and still stand on your boundaries.
You can participate without performing.

If you’re navigating nontraditional beliefs, a non-holiday lifestyle, spiritual independence, or a desire for peace — you’re not alone. Many of us are learning how to say: “Let me know what, when, and where — and I’ll show up in my truth.”

This moon asks you to release guilt and reclaim emotional freedom.

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🌿 Energetic Themes of This Full Moon

Oppositions (Sun, Mars, Venus)

You may feel pulled in multiple directions — wanting rest but also wanting results.
Avoid procrastination by doing one grounded thing at a time.

Squares to Neptune & Saturn in Pisces

You may feel torn between solitude and community.
Honor your boundaries, but don’t isolate from those who matter.

Emotional Highlights

• Heightened intuition
• Social energy mixed with internal clarity
• Increased empathy
• Desire for consistency in routines
• Rising truth around relationships
• Release from being controlled by others’ expectations

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💧 Inner Work First, Outer Beauty Second

Gemini moves quickly, but this moon wants you to move with intention.

Focus on your inner world first:

• Hydration
• Rest
• Herbs
• Dreams
• Emotional clarity

Then your outer world follows:

• Hair
• Home
• Routines
• Creative work
• Business updates

This order ensures you aren’t pouring from an emotional drought.

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✍🏽 Full Moon Journal Prompts

Perfect for personal reflection, ritual work, or your Dream Journal:

1. What have I been dedicated to over the last 12 months?

Did life lead me here, or did I choose this path?

2. What theme shaped my year?

What theme do I want to carry into the next 12 months?

3. What experiences stretched, challenged, or expanded me?

What emotions am I ready to release?

4. How have my relationships evolved?

Which relationships elevated me, drained me, or taught me something meaningful?

5. How has my spiritual identity expanded?

What practices, rituals, or beliefs supported this evolution?

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💎 Crystals for This Moon

• Green Aventurine – abundance + trauma healing
• Chrysocolla – calm + communication
• Howlite/Turquoise – emotional balance
• Smoky Quartz – protection + grounding
• Pearls – emotional maturity

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🌸 Herbs & Aromatics for Release Work

Use as tea, infusions, smudging, baths, or candle dressing:

• Sweetgrass – healing
• Yellow Dock Root – releasing emotional debris
• Lime + Leaf – clearing old cords
• Yarrow – intuitive clarity
• Sandalwood – grounding the mind

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🎁 A Tool for Your Moon Work

If you’re ready to deepen your reflection practice, this moon is a beautiful time to gift yourself or your favorite Sagittarius:

👉🏾 Third Eye Open The Dream Journal: A Soul-Centered Guide to Remembering & Reflecting Paperback

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1JV5295

Perfect for:

• Moon work
• Dream decoding
• Emotional release
• Spiritual growth
• Holiday-free gifting

If you loved this reflection and you’re ready to release with even more intention, I created a FREE Afro-Boho Full Moon Release Worksheet just for you.
She’s decked out in Ankara texture, earthy tones, and that soft sacred magic our community loves.

👉🏾 Download your worksheet here:
Full Moon Release Worksheet – Afro Boho Edition

Print it, add it to your planner, slide it into your moon binder, or keep it on your altar for your ritual tonight.
Let this be your moment to pause, breathe, and pour out what no longer serves you.

🖋️ Signed,

Reiki RaEss — your soft-spoken, fire-hearted homegirl guiding you through spirit, structure, and soul alignment.