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Today’s Sagittarius Full Moon is the second Full Moon in May—and it seals off the preceding five months, creating a dividing line in the year.
June is a hinge month. Past this point, there are several new planetary cycles that amplify what has already changed in 2026.
In the first half of the year, we glimpsed the contours of a brave new world. In the second half, we will see this altered reality begin to dance, tremble and shake.
To prepare us, the Sagittarius Full Moon gives us a hint of what’s to come.
Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, who is always the far-seer and the optimist. But he is also the teacher who sends you on a journey. One of the things he’s teaching us is that conviction is the spice of life.
Without faith, life becomes boring…more calculated.
This Full Moon teaches us that culture has gone too far in the direction of calculation—where sameness and repetition rule the day.
Under this tyranny of optimization, there’s a gradual depletion of willpower. Life becomes just another day at the grind, as we replace conviction with the lukewarm skepticism of needing things to be “proved.”
One simply doesn’t go to sleep, drink coffee, have sex, work or make things. Instead, these are infinitely scrutinized—as if we’re looking for some proof that we performed our basic human duty correctly.
It’s certainly an interesting message, after we received so much beauty at the May 16 Taurus New Moon. It’s like we’re at risk of tearing the petals from the rose, because we want to study and quantify its beauty rather than experience it.
With this in mind, let’s dive in and explore this Full Moon more deeply. Certainly we can find some Sagittarius wisdom that will take us into summer feeling inspired rather than behind on our goals.
Adventure Of A Lifetime
What I love about this Full Moon: it’s in a harmonious trine to Saturn (the planet of the grind) who’s in the sign of Aries.
Aries is individualistic, and this aspect carries the sense that each of us is challenged to define our own aesthetic and personal style.
Fire energy helps to stave off the tsunami of boredom, ennui and despondency that will be a big theme in the back half of 2026.
Another key feature of this Full Moon is its proximity to Lilith—bringing a sense of the forbidden. You can read my thread on Lilith here, if you’re curious about this feral individualistic energy.
There is forbidden wisdom available to us now: it’s the realization that WE are the model.
There is no external model left which we can look upon for a guaranteed replication of happiness or success. One-size-fits-all culture is gone.
This is also shown in the harmonious sextile from the Full Moon to retrograde Pluto.
As I’ve discussed in previous newsletters, retrograde Pluto has been doing serious dirty work—hollowing out our expectations of where culture is going and revealing the sameness and “Kardashian-ification” happening everywhere.
Places and people are homogenizing into what I call the Glasslands: a space of infinite jest, where you can slip on smooth highways of glass, algorithmically stimulated but never fully individuating.
Like a pretend Hero’s Journey.
Pluto is ruled by Uranus, who is a major player right now. Uranus is close enough to the Sun to still be opposing this Full Moon, making the energy extremely volatile and unstable.
Uranus is the rebellious future-looking planet that has dominion over Aquarius, so Pluto is somewhat doing his bidding, let’s say.
Gemini represents the present moment and the facts, so Uranus in Gemini is presenting new facts that can help us get over a repetitive culture.
As he gathers these, he shoots them up to the Full Moon in Sagittarius—and those facts register in our consciousness as forbidden wisdom.
The Sun is nearby, co-hosting this revolution and telling us it’s time to jazz up our perceptions.
What exactly are these new data points?
Let’s find out.
Absolute Presence
It’s true there can be a dangerous side to Uranus in Gemini.
It can lead to overstimulation, so that the present is constantly rewritten and no sense of direction or future ever arrives.
The day Uranus went into Gemini, someone tried to ambush Trump at a press dinner, leading to a flurry of conspiracy theories.
But the bright side of Uranus in Gemini is that we are becoming new historians of the present. It’s highly catalytic, delivering sudden insights that resist the stasis of old models.
Whether you agree or disagree with him, this is the philosophy behind Spencer Pratt’s campaign for mayor of Los Angeles.
We can take facts with an outsider’s perspective and document the pulse of the present in a jazzy new way. Armed with fresh perceptions, we can rocket towards a pioneering future—a place infused with our conviction, aesthetics, personal essence, expression and style.
All while avoiding the deadening sense of sameness.
There’s another twist occurring at this Full Moon. It involves Uranus squaring the nodes.
This is a documented phenomenon called “at the bendings.” Whenever a planet squares the nodes (which govern karmic events), it feels like reality starts to “bend” in fateful ways.
You suddenly meet or lose a romantic partner, you take a spontaneous trip, there’s a shake up at work, etc. It often feels like you’re at a crossroads between two choices or two versions of yourself.
And because Uranus is such a slow moving planet, this effect will be present the whole month of June.
Uranus brings sudden facts and realizations that drop into our awareness, allowing us to weave them into greater wisdom. Suddenly, you’re working with more resources than you thought.
We may resist at first because this knowledge feels forbidden—we’re so used to needing an external model, like a vending machine that dispenses success and happiness.
You may feel like you’re not allowed to think in these ways because it’s not a model yet. You’re tempted to invest your time, energy and attention into something that’s going to spit out a calculated outcome.
That’s why so many are lured into the Glasslands, where everyday reality is passive and algorithmically determined to the final inch.
Since this is key to understanding our current progress, let’s dig deeper.
How Far You’ve Come
Uranus is squaring the South Node in Virgo, which carries an obsessive, perfectionistic energy—the temptation to squeeze ourselves back into old boxes that kill our individuality.
The shadow of Virgo is obsessing over “the right way to do things”—one, two, three and A, B, C.
Boredom for the price of certainty.
But these lifestyles don’t exist anymore, because the institutions that backed and guaranteed them are dead.
The only guaranteed lifestyles now are within Glasslands, which is essentially a simulated environment.
Truly, the Glasslands is a simulacra of the old monoculture: a slippery, dopamine-fueled highway of sequels, remakes, AI slop, low effort memes, fast fashion and frictionless online experiences that sacrifice beauty at the altar of convenience.
It’s a sense of infinite jest, of infinite delusion—that you’re getting something out of this, that progress and culture is taking place.
But you’re really just chasing a figure eight. Nothing is actually happening.
Uranus is also squaring the North Node in Pisces, which is a spiritual mandate to flow with events that inspire you, despite not knowing where they’ll take you. It deeply prioritizes the value of mystery.
Pisces is ruled by both Neptune and Jupiter. Neptune is in Aries with Saturn, supporting Saturn’s message: it’s really up to each of us individually to take a hammer to the old wall of sameness and restore mystery to the world.
Earlier this year, I mentioned that the last time Saturn and Neptune shared a sign, we saw the Cold War end and a new world order begin. We’re having our own Berlin Wall moment now.
The ancient ruler of Pisces is Jupiter. And we were going to get to him anyway, because he is the ruler of this Sagittarius Full Moon. So let’s move to that.
We find Jupiter with Venus in Cancer, which overall is a rather harmonious event.
But they are also opposing the degrees that Pluto and Saturn occupied in 2020 in late Capricorn—the time when we were still bargaining with the old order, believing that it might remain even as it was crumbling around us.
It’s like you’re standing with Jupiter and Venus on a cliff, overlooking the ruins of the old civilization—and you’re saying, “Okay, that cannot be returned to.”
The only thing that we can return to now is forbidden wisdom—the sense that it’s up to us, if we want to restore truth and beauty in the world.
There’s a sense of finality at this Full Moon. We are transitioning into a deeper pocket of 2026. It’s very exciting, because it indicates there’s going to be a lot of adventure ahead.
There are going to be a lot of sudden Uranian bolts that really shake us up in June. We can’t plan this out too far. We’ll have to dance with it spontaneously.
But we can act constructively because we possess forbidden wisdom: believing in your vision of the future, not an institution’s vision.
Take care until next time. If you want more on this, my YouTube video should be out later today. And of course, you can work with me 1-on-1 to find solutions for your particular situation.
I’ll see you again at the Gemini New Moon.