Sagittarius Full Moon 2024: Guided by the Muses

The Moon, at about 3°Sagittarius, will reach its full phase with the Sun at about 3° Gemini, on May 23 at 6:53 a.m. on the west coast. At this May Full Moon, flowers are blooming and gardens are growing high. We’re in a seasonally transitional time, between Beltane and the June 20 Solstice, when the Sun will reach its highest point in the sky.

The Sun enters the mutable air sign of Gemini on May 20. On May 23, the Sagittarian Moon will face the Sun. Both Gemini and Sagittarius are knowledge-seeking signs, in different ways. Gemini is like a journalist, out to get the scoop, ready to package the details to spin a good tale. Sagittarius wants the overview, not just the facts, but Truth with a capital T. Like any pair of signs, they can’t do without each other. Gemini’s data and new ideas feed Sagittarius’ grand theories which, in turn, generate new quests for information. Gemini wants to learn and tell. Sagittarius wants to believe. Both want to share something: a joke, an odd contradiction, all the way to a philosophy or a religion.

At any Full Moon time, there’s tension between the Sun in one sign and the illuminated Moon in its opposite. The call is to find balance. With the Gemini/Sagittarius polarity, the challenge is to remain neither lost in the weeds, nor overly confident about what’s universally true. 

The May 23 lunation highlights some lovely, harmonious aspects. The Moon is trine (about 120 degrees) to Neptune and sextile (60 degrees) to Pluto, speaking to power and vision in Sagittarian realms of seeking wisdom. The Gemini Sun has formed a close, air element trine with Pluto in Aquarius: whatever you want to research and communicate right now is given a big boost. 

 Gemini and Sagittarius are both mutable/changeable signs that highlight learning, speech, wisdom and faith. Also prominent at this Full Moon, though, is the stellium of Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, and Uranus, all now in the fixed earth sign Taurus. This is a Full Moon graced by the groundedness of Taurus, which is guided by Venusian drives for aesthetic beauty and partnerships. 

The tightest aspect on May 23 is the nearly exact conjunction between Venus and Jupiter, known in ancient astrology as the two “benefic” planets. Bestowing love, abundance, and inspiration, Venus and Jupiter are now traveling together through the last few minutes of the last, 29th, degree of Taurus. 

Astrology is based largely on the metaphysics of a circle, with its 360 degrees. Twelve signs occupy 30 degrees each, beginning with the open-ended possibilities of the 0 degree, and ending with the 29th, called the anaretic degree. The last, anaretic, degree of any sign is considered a jumping off point, a last hurrah, before a planet moves to the part of the sky occupied by the next sign. 

Venus travels quickly, close to the Sun, changing signs often in a year. Jupiter is further out from the Sun, travels more slowly, and changes signs only about once a year. On May 25, in one of the major transits of 2024, Jupiter will shift from Taurus to Gemini. Where Jupiter travels for about a year at a time, there lie opportunities galore. 

This makes the May 23 Full Moon—just two days before Jupiter’s move into Gemini—an excellent time to conjure expansive, Geminian intentions for the coming year. What are you thinking about now that’s worth writing and talking about, and sharing in social realms in the coming year? What are you so enthusiastically curious about that you’re on the edge of your seat? Pursue it.

Blessings for the Sagittarius Full Moon, and with prayers for peace!

~ Sara

Sara Diamond

Sara R. Diamond, an astrologer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a life-long student and practitioner in several esoteric paths. Her style of astrology combines modern-psychological astrology with insights from traditional astrology. Sara is also an estate planning attorney. In addition, she has published four books on right-wing movements in the United States and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. You are invited to contact Sara via her website at www.SaraDiamondAstrology.com.