Twin for the win.
The New Moon arrives at 11:02 p.m. EST on Monday, May 26th, 2025, at 6 degrees of Gemini.
This lunation comes on the heels of the sun moving into Gemini — the sign of forked tongues and shape-shifting — and on the scorched hooves of Saturn’s ingress into Aries.
As a symbol of duality, Gemini reminds us that the world is both a hellscape and a laugh riot — equal parts suffering and sublime.
Gemini is ruled by Mercury — the mischievous, quicksilver, coyote-hearted planet of cognition and expression, transaction and connection, trash talk and pure poetry.
With a wink, a lifted sail and a slip of the tongue — Gemini rules the realm of language and demonstrates that words are the scaffolding of worlds.
As acclaimed novelist and double Gemini (sun and moon), Michael Chabon writes, “Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world…was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat — was, literally, talked into life.”
As Gemini is the zodiac’s resident storyteller, yarn spinner, and soothsayer — this New Moon asks us to consider what we’re talking into life and if, perhaps, it’s time for a proverbial plot twist.
As per our New Moon guide — the New Moon begins a fresh, month-long lunar cycle.
Darkness cometh under New Moon and in kind, and without a light to shine, darkness expands the imagination and our concept of what is possible.
To that end, the New Moon is a celestial slate-cleaning, a summons to dream and an invitation to initiate.
As Magdalena AKA @mymetaphysicalmaven shared, this New Moon can facilitate the making of moves, but we can only get ahead if we are sure of the direction.
“This isn’t just about manifesting what you want; this is an actual timeline shift. There’s going to be some absolute delivery when it comes to getting exactly what you want.”
“However, you are going to need to do and continue to do some clearing first. I’m saying this because if you are holding on to still connections, half-hearted goals, or cluttered thinking, your signal is going to be jammed,” she advised.
Gemini lives in the world of multitudes and the orbit of simultaneous potential. This is the energy of an open mind and a fearless heart.
However, in the ether of endless possibilities — it can be challenging to find a focal point, or commit to a single desire or concrete intention. Yet Magdalena says this kind of rock steady specificity is precisely what’s called for during this lunation.
How to get unstuck? Magdalena recommends writing and setting fire to a list of all that needs to be cut loose, cleaning your physical space and earnestly reflecting on your connections to decide whether or not those tethers amount to a ladder or a noose.
Thoughts are seeds, and conversations are a conduit during this new moon, so pay particular attention to the quality of both.
This lunation will hit particularly hard for those with heavy placements in the mutable signs: Gemini, Virgo, and Pisces.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.