Blue Moon May 31




For a Full Moon at 9° Sagittarius during Gemini season, the theme is often releasing beliefs, stories, and identities that have become too small—or too rigid—for your growth.

This Full Moon sits in the Gemini–Sagittarius axis:

  • Gemini asks: What information is true?

  • Sagittarius asks: What meaning do I make of it?

When Sagittarius is illuminated, we are invited to examine the larger narratives guiding our lives.

Themes to Release

1. Outdated Beliefs

Questions to consider:

  • What belief about myself no longer fits?

  • What assumptions am I carrying that were inherited from family, culture, religion, or past trauma?

  • Where am I mistaking certainty for wisdom?

Release:

  • "I know exactly how this story ends."

  • "People never change."

  • "I am too old to start over."

  • "This is just who I am."


2. The Need to Be Right

Sagittarius can become attached to being the teacher, expert, or truth-teller.

Release:

  • Arguing to win.

  • Needing others to agree with you.

  • Feeling responsible for convincing everyone of your perspective.

Instead:

  • Curiosity.

  • Multiple truths.

  • Learning.


3. Cynicism and Disillusionment

Antares, one of the four Royal Stars, often brings themes of confronting shadow, power, intensity, and what is no longer aligned.

Release:

  • Bitterness.

  • Resentment.

  • The feeling that life should have unfolded differently.

Particularly for those moving through grief, aging, or career transition, this can be:

Releasing the life you thought you would have so you can discover the life that is actually emerging.


4. Overfunctioning as a Source of Identity

Release:

  • Being the one who always carries the emotional load.

  • Feeling responsible for fixing everyone.

  • Working harder than the people you're helping.

A Sagittarian question:

"What adventure becomes possible if I stop carrying what isn't mine?"


5. Scarcity Around Future Possibilities

Sagittarius rules horizons and possibilities.

Release:

  • "It's too late."

  • "I've missed my chance."

  • "I have to stay where I am."

This Full Moon can support opening to:

  • New career paths.

  • Teaching.

  • Writing.

  • Travel.

  • Spiritual exploration.

  • Retirement planning that feels expansive rather than restrictive.


Archangel Uriel

Uriel is traditionally associated with:

  • Wisdom

  • Illumination

  • Insight

  • Divine truth

  • The transforming fire of awareness

Uriel often doesn't whisper comfort so much as:

"See clearly."

His gift is helping us recognize what is true, even when it challenges our preferred narrative.

A simple Uriel prayer:

"Help me release beliefs that keep me small.
Illuminate what is true.
Let wisdom replace certainty.
Let possibility replace fear.
Show me the next right step."


A Release Ritual

Write down:

I release...

  • One belief.

  • One fear.

  • One role.

  • One expectation.

Then add:

I am willing to discover...

  • A new truth.

  • A new possibility.

  • A larger version of myself.

Burn, tear, or bury the paper.


  • Full Moon: Moon at 9° Sagittarius opposite Sun at 9° Gemini

  • Uranus: about 2° Gemini

  • Mercury: about 28° Gemini

  • Venus: about 14° Cancer

  • Jupiter: about 23° Cancer

  • Mars: about 9° Taurus

  • Saturn: about 12° Aries

  • Neptune: about 4° Aries

  • Pluto: about 5° Aquarius

  • North Node: about 3° Pisces

Uranus conjunct the Sun

One of the biggest stories here is Uranus newly in Gemini conjunct the Sun.

While not an exact conjunction (about 7° apart), Uranus is still very much in the Sun's field.

This gives the Full Moon a strong flavor of:

  • awakening

  • liberation

  • surprise revelations

  • sudden insights

  • breaking out of stale identities

  • changing your mind

Normally a Sagittarius Full Moon asks:

"What do I believe?"

With Uranus in Gemini, the question becomes:

"What if the story I've been telling myself isn't the only story?"

That feels especially relevant to:

  • career reinvention

  • retirement planning

  • therapist identity

  • assumptions about aging

  • assumptions about what is still possible

Antares + Uranus

Antares is associated with courage, intensity, and facing uncomfortable truths.

Together:

Antares says:

Face the truth.

Uranus says:

The truth may not be what you expected.

This isn't a "stay the course" Full Moon.

It's more:

Release certainty.

Release fixed conclusions.

Release identities that were useful but are becoming restrictive.

Saturn-Neptune in Aries

Another major background theme.

Saturn (reality) and Neptune (dreams) are both newly in Aries.

Many people are asking:

What dream is actually worth building now?

or

What fantasy needs to be released so a real future can emerge?

For you, this could easily connect with:

  • private practice vs agency work

  • ADHD coaching

  • Etsy/passive income

  • what the next decade looks like

  • how much energy you want to keep giving to difficult clients

Pluto in Aquarius trine Uranus

This is a wider generational aspect, but it's important.

Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini are both air signs.

This suggests:

  • intellectual revolution

  • new communities

  • technology

  • teaching

  • writing

  • sharing knowledge in new ways

It's one of the reasons I wouldn't be surprised if the next few years involve more:

  • courses

  • handouts

  • groups

  • coaching

  • blogging

  • educational content

and less traditional one-to-one therapy.

What I Might Release Under This Full Moon

Looking at this chart as a whole, I'd consider releasing:

  • The belief that you must carry clients farther than they are willing to go.

  • The belief that your current role is your final role.

  • The need to know exactly what the next chapter looks like before beginning it.

  • Old stories about being "stuck."

  • Over-identification with being the helper, teacher, or fixer.

The image that comes to mind is a Sagittarian archer standing at the edge of a cliff, looking toward a horizon they can't fully see yet.

The Full Moon isn't saying:

"Here's the answer."

It's saying:

"You've outgrown the question you've been asking."

And with Uranus newly entering Gemini, that may be the most important release of all.





Jane Rekas, Master's in Social Work 1992, Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 1997.

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