What You Should Release During This Week’s Full Moon (12/15), Based On Your Zodiac + Tarot
ARIES
Your Card: Death
Despite its negative connotations, this is one of the most powerful cards one can draw in a reading. Death represents change, transformation, renewal, rebirth, and growth. It signals a time to begin again. A new year and a new chapter await you. What are the goals that you want to accomplish in 2025? Reflect on the shifts you need to make in order to manifest those intentions. Write out everything that currently prevents you from achieving those dreams and desires—every self-limiting belief, each self-sabotaging pattern, all your obstacles. Then, burn that piece of paper and release those things under this Full Moon.
TAURUS
Your Card: King of Wands
The Full Moon in Gemini lights up your Second House of income, prosperity, and values. Meanwhile, the King of Wands is a confident leader who pursues his ambitions and desires. He trusts in himself and his abilities. His appearance signals that you need to use this Full Moon to take control of your financial life and to gain a stronger sense of self-worth. You need to release everything that stands in your way of that. Leave behind your bad spending, saving, and budgeting habits. Release every belief, dynamic, relationship, and situation that keeps you from realizing your inner power.
GEMINI
Your Card: Five of Cups, reversed
The Five of Cups in reverse urges you to release past disappointments, just as the Full Moon activates your First House of self, identity, goals, impressions, and new beginnings. Whatever acceptance or closure you have yet to reach, you must do so under this lunation. Holding on to the “what could have been” is preventing you from moving forward. This loss or grief prevents you from even seeing all the wonderful possibilities. You can’t step into the person you’re meant to become or manifest your dream reality until you let go. Start thinking about what could be. Make it happen.
CANCER
Your Card: The Tower
Let go of your resistance to change, Cancer. In order to build anew, sometimes we must first be willing to burn it all down. There are certain shifts that might feel terrifying, and even destructive, but you can’t keep trying to force what has run its course. If it isn’t working, if it confines you, or if you find yourself just going through the motions, release it. This includes relationships, habits, thought patterns, goals, and any situation that doesn’t fulfill you. It’s never too late to change course, to change your dreams, to change your viewpoint, to change your mind about anything or anyone.
LEO
Your Card: Four of Swords
The Four of Swords calls on you to let go of constant productivity and endless action under this lunation. This card shows up when you need to invite more stillness and calmness into your life. It urges you to prioritize rest, reflection, rejuvenation, and relaxation. When was the last time you took a break? When was the last time you had any peace and quiet? When did you last nurture yourself and your spirit? Spend some time being introspective about your wants and needs. Reflect on how you can show up as your best self next year. Think about the changes you want to make. Gain clarity wherever you need to gain clarity.
VIRGO
Your Card: Three of Swords
The Three of Swords indicates a wounded heart. So, what’s hurting yours, Virgo? This card encourages you to start letting go of that sorrow, rejection, anguish, and heartbreak under this Full Moon in Gemini. You need to take the steps required to heal. Grieve and process the loss. Find acceptance. Give yourself the closure that may not come from anywhere or anyone else. Enter the new year without carrying around that heaviness. You need to make room in your life for new experiences, opportunities, and connections. Transform your pain into openness, inspiration, hope, and inner strength. Let it lead you to a wonderful place full of possibilities.
LIBRA
Your Card: Justice
You need to practice radical self-honesty under this lunation. Examine the relationships, situations, and dynamics in your life that cause you to compromise your values and authenticity. Where and with whom do you feel like you need to suppress your truth? What spaces force you to act out of alignment with your personal moral code? How have you been failing to do what’s right? How do you or others around you lack compassion and fairness? Release anything and anyone that causes you to act without integrity, or who lacks it themselves. Let go of what can potentially invite bad karma into your life.
SCORPIO
Your Card: Ace of Wands
Let go of fear and thinking, and start doing, Scorpio. The Ace of Wands invites you to take a leap of faith and make some bold moves. Leave behind your doubt and pursue those big dreams of yours. It’s time to spring into action the ideas you’ve left on the back burner. Work towards whatever passion project, new venture, creative pursuit, or opportunity you can’t get out of your head. Release your hesitation and every excuse. There’s no better time than right before the new year to begin taking the steps necessary to turn your vision into something tangible. Inspiration has been calling. Don’t wait any longer.
SAGITTARIUS
Your Card: Page of Pentacles
This Full Moon in Gemini puts the focus on your one-on-one relationships, partnerships, and collaborations. It’s time to decide whether you’re all in or all out. You either need to release your lack of commitment, or completely let go and move on. The Page of Pentacles offers you a new beginning and an opportunity for growth. It calls on you to invest time and energy into both love and business. Right now, you need to start thinking long-term and focus on building strong foundations. Whether that means nurturing and growing what you currently possess or seeking out new horizons is up to you.
CAPRICORN
Your Card: Eight of Wands, reversed
The Eight of Wands indicates there’s a confusion, frustration, or hesitation you need to release. This card signals a time for pausing and practicing introspection. With the Full Moon activating your Sixth House of wellness and routine, there’s no time like the present to slow down and reassess your plan. If it feels like you’re not making your desired progress, stop trying to rush or force things. You need a change of plan, or perhaps you don’t even have one set in place. Go back to the drawing board, Capricorn. Instead of sticking with your tried-and-true methods, you should try a completely new approach. It’s not your usual style, but maybe it’s time for something new.
AQUARIUS
Your Card: Seven of Pentacles
The Seven of Pentacles shows up to remind you of the importance of letting go of your fear of failure. Although it may not feel like it at the moment, the mistakes you make and obstacles you face are your most invaluable lessons. They expose the shifts and adjustments you need to make. They teach you where and how to better invest in your time. They make you better equipped to achieve your goals. Don’t let fear stop you from creating something meaningful. Get organized. Reassess your current approach. Devise a new plan. Check in with your efforts and adjust accordingly. Just put in the effort.
PISCES
Your Card: Nine of Wands
The Nine of Wands shows that you currently possess a lack of courage that prevents you from standing up for yourself the way you should. This is what you need to examine and release under the Full Moon in Gemini. Your Fourth House is activated under this lunation. This is the sector of your chart that rules over your home, emotional foundations, and how you find comfort and security in those who surround you. Right now, you need to be setting boundaries with your nearest and dearest. Remain strong in your convictions, even as others try to sway you. If doing what’s best for your emotional well-being causes you to lose relationships along the way, then those people weren’t meant to be in your life, anyway.