Full Cold Moon in Gemini: The Final Release
On the night of December 4, 2025, the moon will rise over the Pacific Northwest bigger, brighter, and higher than usual. Astronomers call this a Super Cold Moon in Gemini. It’s the third supermoon in a row, closing out the year, and it will climb to the highest point in our sky of any full moon until 2042. That means the moon will appear brighter, not harsh, but hard to ignore, as if the sky itself is asking us to really see where we are.
I notice that these kinds of threshold moons tend to land in the body before they land in the mind. Sleep gets a little stranger. Emotions come closer to the surface. The nervous system feels busy, as life slows down for the internal processes that come with winter. By the time we finally look up and notice the moon, our bodies have already been in energetic conversation with her for days.
This particular full moon sits in Gemini, a mutable air sign. Gemini energy is curious, restless, and fast-moving. It rules the lungs and the nervous system, as well as the shoulders, arms, hands, and speech. It rules the ways we reach for information, and the ways we send it back out. Under a Gemini full moon, the mind can become louder, as quiet truths emerge underneath our thoughts.
When a rare supermoon like this one amplifies Gemini energy, we can feel the volume turn up on questions we’ve been trying to live with:
How am I really talking to myself? What stories have I been repeating about who I am, what I deserve, and what is possible for me now? And just as important, what is my body saying back?
This moon doesn’t require you to have answers. It is more interested in your ability to hear the whispers of the subconscious realms.
The Mind, the Mouth, and the Nervous System
Gemini brings our attention to the places where thinking, speaking, and sensation meet.
We are just about complete with a season that invited review and reconsideration — a time when the past has been knocking on the door a bit more than usual. Now, as this full moon peaks, that review process is ripening into clarity. Many people feel this is a turning point in their internal narrative. Suddenly, a story you’ve carried for years about yourself or your life feels thin. You hear how unkind your inner voice has been. You realize you’ve been explaining yourself to people who don’t actually listen.
Gemini loves language, but this full moon is not just about what you say. It’s about what your words are doing to your body. Every time you tell yourself, “I’m too much,” “I’m too sensitive,” or “I should be over this by now,” your nervous system hears that as a cue. Likewise, when you speak to yourself with more tenderness, your body softens around that truth.
This is where sound, breath, and somatic work become such powerful allies. They give the body a way to participate in the conversation, instead of leaving all the work to the mind.
Heart Fire in the Sky
If you go outside on a clear night around this full moon and really let your eyes adjust, you may notice a bright, reddish star nearby. That star is called Antares. Many ancient sky-watchers knew it as the heart of Scorpio.
You don’t need to know any technical astrology to work with this. All you need to know is that this full moon is hanging out near a star that carries a lot of heart medicine. That medicine can look like an uncomfortable honesty about where you’re going through the motions. It can look like remembering a passion you set down years ago because life got too busy. Sometimes it seems like a need to forgive yourself for not being able to hold it all together. Now is the time to gently release anything that is clogging up your heartspace to make room for what truly belongs.
A Somatic Ritual for the Super Cold Moon
This ritual weaves breath, sound, gentle movement, and a little writing.
Give yourself 30–45 minutes if you can. If you only have fifteen, that’s okay too. Let it fit your life.
1. Make a soft little nest
Choose a time close to the full moon — the night of December 4, or within a day or two on either side. Set up a place where you can sit or lie down and feel supported. If you work with crystals, tarot cards, or sacred objects, you can invite a few into your space.
Take a moment to look toward where you know the moon is, even if she’s behind clouds. Quietly acknowledge her as Grandmother Moon — elder, witness, steady tide.
2. Let the body arrive first
Sit or lie in a way that lets your spine soften. Notice where you are in contact with the furniture or the floor. Feel the support of the earth beneath you. Let your shoulders drop a little.
Place one hand on your chest and one on your belly. Without counting or controlling, start to lengthen your exhale just a bit. Imagine that with each out-breath, you are letting go of a tiny bit of the day.
You might gently rock your body back and forth. This small, rhythmic movement can be incredibly soothing to the nervous system. Let your jaw relax. Let your eyes go soft.
Stay here for a few minutes, and see if any one word comes up to describe how you actually feel right now: “tired,” “wired,” “numb,” “tender,” “blank,” “curious.” Name it silently to yourself. That’s your starting point.
3. Bring in sound
Now, invite sound into the room.
If you have a crystal bowl, a metal bowl, a drum, or a rattle, you can begin to play slowly, letting each tone fully fade before the next one comes. Notice how the sound interacts with your chest, your sinuses, and your bones.
If you don’t have instruments, your voice is the instrument.
Close your lips and hum on your exhale. Make it simple. It doesn’t need to be musical. Feel where the vibration travels. Does it stay in your throat? Does it buzz in your cheekbones? Does it drop into your chest?
You can also open your mouth and let an “ahhhhh” or “ohhhh” drift out on the breath. Let the sound be warm and imperfect. If you feel shy, you can keep it barely audible. It’s not about the volume but the vibration and your experience with your sound.
As you create sound, imagine the parts of you that have been stuck in looping thoughts being gently invited back into the body. Let the sound be something your mind can rest against for a little while.
4. Let one story rise
When you feel even a little more settled, reach for your journal or a piece of paper.
See if there is one thing that is presenting strongly. Maybe it’s something like, “I always have to hold it together,” or “No one really understands me,” or “My sensitivity is a problem.”
Write it down in your own words. Don’t dress it up. Let it be as raw and simple as it is in your head.
Then pause. Put your hand back on your heart. Notice how your body responds to seeing that sentence on the page. There is no right way to feel. You might feel relief, or sadness, or nothing at all—just notice.
Now, on a second line, write a gentler, more current version of the truth, something your system might actually be willing to consider. It might be, “I’ve had to hold a lot, but I’m learning to let others help,” or “My sensitivity sometimes hurts, and it’s also part of my medicine,” or “I don’t feel understood everywhere, but there are a few places where I’m seen more clearly.”
Read both sentences out loud. Hear how they sound. Feel which one your body leans toward.
5. Moongaze
When you’re ready, return to your sound and, if you can, stand under the night sky or view it from a window.
Hold the paper with your old story in your hands. You might say quietly, “This has been true for a long time, and I honor that. I’m letting it loosen now.”
Then, if it’s safe and you feel called, you can burn the paper in a fireproof dish, or tear it up and later bury it or recycle it. The act itself is small. What matters is the shift inside you.
The new truth that you are growing into can be tucked into a journal, placed on a little altar, or slipped under your pillow. Let it soak in over time.
Finish with a few more hums or tones. Let the sound be a way of sealing the moment, like a sonic exhale.
Sound, Somatic Work, and Being Held Through Change
A ritual like this is one way to meet the Super Cold Moon in Gemini with intention. Another way is to put yourself in a space where you don’t have to hold it all together by yourself.
Here at GlassWing Medicine, I offer Full Moon Sound Baths in Onalaska, Washington, each month. We sit in ceremony and journey to the sounds of crystal singing bowls, gong, chimes, and ethereal voice to create an immersive field of sound designed to support your nervous system in unwinding and your whole being in gently releasing what’s ready to go.
If you feel drawn to be there, you can learn more and reserve your place here.
For deeper, more personal work around trauma, grief, life transitions, or psychedelic preparation and integration, I also offer one-to-one somatic and sound healing sessions, both in person in the Onalaska area and online. These sessions move at the pace and safety of your nervous system, your story, and your timing.
You can explore that work or schedule a session here.
A Blessing for Your Own Pace
As this rare Super Cold Moon in Gemini climbs to her highest place in the sky, may you feel even a small shift toward kindness with yourself.
May your thoughts grow a little softer at the edges.
May your body be invited back into the conversation.
May your voice begin to sound more like someone you trust.
May Grandmother Moon light the path for one story you’re ready to retire.
And may you remember that you are allowed to change slowly, honestly, and in your own time.
With warmth,
Angela
GlassWing Medicine
