16/08/25

At 09:01 PT today, the Moon moves into Gemini, shifting our emotional landscape toward curiosity, connection, and communication. Gemini energy encourages exploration of ideas, sharing our thoughts, and seeing life through many perspectives. It’s a perfect moment to express gratitude out loud, to have those conversations that open hearts, and to connect the dots between experiences and the lessons they’ve given us.

With the Moon in Gemini encouraging dialogue and mutual understanding, this is the perfect time for a synastry chart. It can reveal how you and another person naturally communicate, where curiosity meets connection, and how shared gratitude can strengthen the bond. This transit supports open-hearted conversations that make relationships thrive.

When I became a mother, gratitude took on a completely new shape for me. It stopped being something I wrote down in a journal or whispered in prayer only when life felt “good.” It became woven into the messiness, the exhaustion, the chaos, the tiny hands pulling at me when I thought I had nothing left to give.

Before maternity, gratitude felt like a list. After maternity, gratitude became a living, breathing practice. I didn’t just note the big milestones, I learned to be thankful for the quiet five minutes with my coffee before little feet ran down the hall. For the way my child’s laughter made the room lighter, even when I was too tired to join in. For the strength I didn’t know I had until I needed it.

The Moon in Gemini is like that, It asks us to notice the variety, the many “flavors” of our days, and to see how gratitude can exist in all of them. It’s not about one perfect, shining moment; it’s about stringing together small pieces of appreciation that make the fabric of our lives warmer.

Motherhood taught me that gratitude isn’t always gentle. Sometimes it’s fierce, thankful that my body carried me through a sleepless night, thankful that my patience somehow held, thankful that even in my lowest moments, I showed up. This kind of gratitude doesn’t require life to be easy. It’s forged in the difficult, and it’s stronger for it.

I used to think gratitude meant being thankful after the storm had passed. Now, I see it as something I can hold onto inside the storm. Like an anchor in rough waters, it steadies me when everything else feels unpredictable. And there’s something very Gemini about that, finding stability not in stillness, but in embracing the movement.

Gemini reminds us that gratitude is also about communication, not just feeling it, but speaking it. Saying “thank you” to the people who help, the ones who inspire, the little souls who unknowingly change our perspective. And sometimes, saying “thank you” to ourselves for making it this far.

So today, I’m letting my gratitude be as varied as my moods, as loud as my love, and as constant as my role as a mother. And I’m letting Gemini’s air energy carry it far beyond me, so it might touch the people who need to hear it too.