by Agni Jnana Yannanda, The One Who Speaks With The Stars
Featured art AstroCreatrix The Lunastice Portal
June 11th, 2025, 3:42 AM EST
Tropical: Moon at 20° Sagittarius 38’, Sun at 20° Gemini 38’
Sidereal: Moon at 26° Scorpio 26’ Jyestha Nakshatra, Sun at 26° Taurus 26’ Mrigashira Nakshatra
Star: SABIK, Constellation of Ophiuchus
Tropical: 18° Sagittarius / Sidereal: 24° Scorpio
The June 11 Full Moon is preceded by a lunar event: on the evening of June 10, the Lunistice Moonrise marks the moment when the Moon ascends just prior to reaching exact fullness. In many traditional cultures, the night before the astronomical full moon is when ceremonial observances begin, as the full moon is already visible in all her glory.
Astronomically, the Full Moon will culminate on June 11, 2025, at 3:42 AM EST, at 20° Sagittarius Tropical and 26° Scorpio Sidereal, with the Moon aligned with the star Sabik in the constellation Ophiuchus.
The Sun at 20° Gemini (26° Taurus Sidereal in Mrigashira Nakshatra) stands across from her, in wide conjunction with Jupiter, the planet of vision, growth, and expansive consciousness. This alignment amplifies the lunistice’s message: we are standing at a threshold where language becomes prophecy, and belief becomes embodied. The Sagittarian Moon invites us to climb the ridge of myth and look beyond—while the Gemini Sun-Jupiter duo urges us to speak what we see into the web of reality. It is a Full Moon of revelation through articulation, of finding the right words for ancestral memory.
The Alchemical Serpent Stands Still
This is no ordinary Full Moon.
While its brilliance may illuminate the skies, the energies it reveals are anything but straightforward. On June 11th, we arrive at a karmic crossroads, as the Full Moon forms a charged Grand Cross in mutable signs. The Moon in Sagittarius opposes the Sun in Gemini, while the Lunar Nodes stretch across Virgo and Pisces—with the North Node widely conjunct Saturn and Neptune, amplifying long-term soul agendas, spiritual ideals, and the invisible architecture of belief.
This mutable cross churns the elemental forces of thought, belief, sacrifice, and service. The Sagittarius Moon burns with a desire for truth, vision, and cosmic coherence; while the Gemini Sun scatters light across questions, perspectives, and paradoxes. Meanwhile, the South Node in Virgo clings to systems of control and hyper-rationality, as the North Node in Pisces whispers surrender, intuition, and soul guidance. Saturn and Neptune’s wide alignment with the North Node asks us to give form to the formless and to build something real from the mystical, and to align dreams with discipline.
This lunation marks a turning point for those with planets or angles in the third decan of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces. For them—and for the collective—this Full Moon is more than illumination; it is an evolutionary pulse. A mirror held to the soul’s next choice:
Are we adapting out of fear or evolving toward purpose?
Sabik: The Alchemical Seer
The Moon is not alone in its message. It is tightly aligned with Sabik (η Ophiuchi), a binary star system in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer. Though not part of the zodiac proper, Ophiuchus rises between Scorpio and Sagittarius, and its presence during this lunation is profoundly symbolic. Sabik is not a comforting star, it is one of shadow, secrecy, and serpentine transmutation. It brings with it the frequencies of ancient priesthoods, tantric knowledge, sacred medicine, and the psychic weight of unprocessed truth.
Sabik’s light is laced with paradox: it both conceals and reveals. Associated with alchemical healing, psychic detox, and the awakening of Kundalini energy, Sabik challenges us to enter the shadow not to conquer it, but to integrate its wisdom. This Full Moon is a psychic gate, and Sabik its guardian. What lies dormant within you: unspoken, repressed, or avoided – may rise. But this is not a crisis. It is an initiation.
The Moon Stands Still: Lunistice 2025
Adding another layer of power, this lunation is also a Lunistice – a Major Lunar Standstill that occurs only once every 18.6 years.
At this rare point in the Moon’s cycle, she reaches her maximum northern rise on the horizon, appearing to hover, suspended between worlds. Just as the Sun reaches its peak height at the solstice, so now does the Moon. She lingers longer in the sky, increasing her gravitational and energetic pull, especially over emotional, psychic, and dream realms.
The Lunistice amplifies lunar magic deepening the sensitivity of the body, the clarity of divination, and the power of ceremonial timing. Rituals performed under this Full Moon echo across timelines. The Moon’s stillness invites reflection, reorientation, and renewal. When the Moon stands still, we are asked to move inward. To pause. To feel. To listen to the serpentine wisdom coiled within.
It’s as though the Moon opens a temporal portal, inviting us to step into deeper alignment with nature’s rhythm and our soul’s unfolding. Under this standstill, the ancestral currents rise, guiding us not by logic, but by knowing. The dream realm may speak loudly. The body may hum with memory. Something ancient stirs.
Vedic Insight: Jyestha Nakshatra
From the Vedic perspective, this Full Moon resides in Jyestha Nakshatra, the Star of the Eldest Sister. Ruled by Indra, king of the gods, and presided over by a fierce guardian of esoteric knowledge, Jyestha is a lunar mansion of psychic sovereignty, protection, and occult initiation. Its power is not loud or showy, it is earned. Like Sabik, Jyestha carries a serpent code: it teaches that true power comes from what has been survived, endured, and transmuted.
To honor this moment in ritual, anoint the serpent within. Offer water, song, or incense to the Moon. Sit with your shadow and ask it what it’s trying to protect. Let your altar reflect not only light, but depth. This is a moon of tests and transmissions, and what you receive will be equal to what you dare to see.
Ritual Suggestions for the Lunistice Full Moon
- Divination: Cast lots, pull cards, or scry under moonlight. Ask: What am I being initiated into? What truth am I avoiding?
- Embodiment: Dance the serpent. Breathe into your spine. Activate your inner coil.
- Water Ritual: Moonbathe or take a sacred bath. Let water receive and transmute what you are ready to release.
- Offerings to the Ancestors: This moon hums with ancestral memory. Light a candle. Speak their names. Ask for guidance.
- Serpent Invocation:
I walk the coiled path of the seer.
Through shadow, I awaken.
Through stillness, I rise.
Ophiuchus Constellation
To learn more about the constellation Ophiuchus, the enigmatic 13th sign and its mythic, esoteric meaning, listen to this audio transmission:
13th Sign: Astro-Gnosis of the Eclipses – Ophiuchus on SoundCloud by ASTRALOOP. This episode, Agni Jnana explores Ophiuchus as a cosmic disruptor that reweaves the zodiacal order. It dives into myth, medicine, and metaphysical insight – perfect for those called to the alchemical path of shadow and transformation.
Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, is the thirteenth constellation crossing the ecliptic, yet absent from the traditional zodiac. He stands behind the Scorpion’s head, his legs spanning 19 degrees of sidereal Scorpio, embodying both intensity and transcendence.
In the mythic sky, the Virgin gives birth toward the Scorpion’s claws, symbolizing the soul’s descent into the cycle of death and rebirth. Those claws, once part of Scorpio, were later transformed into Libra’s scales as signs of karmic reckoning.
Towering above, Ophiuchus holds the Serpent, reaching toward the Northern Crown (Corona Borealis), a symbol of spiritual liberation. He is a liminal figure, bridging life and death, form and formlessness.
In star-based astrology, Ophiuchus reveals what the twelve signs conceal: the serpent wisdom, the path of soul mastery, and the hidden geometry of transformation encoded in the stars.
Final Thought:
This is a moon for the healers and the visionaries who carry codes too wild for doctrine. When the serpent rises and the Moon stands still, it is not to freeze us in place but to offer one crystalline moment of clarity, so that we may step forward not with fear, but with full-spectrum knowing.
Wishing you a peaceful Full Moon,
Agni Jnana Yannanda
The One Who Speaks With The Stars
Agni Jnana is an astrologer and interdisciplinary artist originally from the Masurian Lake District of Poland. Rooted now in the Shawangunk Mountains, her work weaves star wisdom, ritual, and poetic embodiment into cosmic cartographies of art and spirit. Born with Mars conjunct Aldebaran within one degree, she carries the flame guided by celestial pulse of the Eastern Gate.
