22/12/2025
New Moon in Sagittarius: the Last New Moon of 2025
On December 19, 2025, 8:43 PM EST, we experience the last New Moon of the calendar year, happening at 28º24’ of the sign of Sagittarius. This event is an invitation to renovate our commitment to living authentically and following our true path. As the final New Moon of 2025, it is a wonderful opportunity to set intentions for the year ahead and attune to the frequency we want to invite into our lives during 2026 and beyond.
The New Moon in Sagittarius is especially significant for people born with planets or angles in the late degrees of Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) as well as those born with personal placement in the early degrees of Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn). The individuals personally impacted by this New Moon are experiencing a significant new beginning in one or more areas of their lives: they are being asked to embrace change, explore new paths and possibilities, and take bold steps toward growth.
The Last New Moon of 2025: Setting Intentions for the Year Ahead
New Moons are always opportunities to start fresh, plant seeds, and set intentions for the future. At this time of the month, the Sun and the Moon meet on the same degree of the same Zodiac sign, forming what is technically known as a conjunction, a 0º angle from our perspective on Earth. The Moon is still invisible from our perspective. However, she will slowly become visible again in the upcoming days, glowing more and more throughout the next two weeks, until the Full Moon occurs.
After the New Moon, the momentum gradually rises. In the upcoming days, the invitation for us is to take spontaneous action on the intentions we set and make adjustments as we move forward.
As 2025 is coming to an end, this New Moon offers us a valuable opportunity to reflect on the energy we want to invite into our lives during the calendar year that is about to start. In Sagittarius, the New Moon emphasizes the importance of being authentic, honest, and sincere. This event invites us to reconnect with the parts of ourselves that long for expansion, growth, and new adventures. The New Moon in Sagittarius asks us to look beyond familiar horizons and pursue what feels meaningful rather than staying stuck in what feels comfortable.
New Moon in Sagittarius: Renovating our Beliefs About What’s Possible
Sagittarius energy is driven toward inner and outer expansion, motivated by a hunger for meaning and a desire to experience life in its fullest expression. Planets in this sign push us beyond the familiar, ask us to question the stories we tell ourselves, and inspire us to pursue the visions that light us up. Sagittarius encourages us to risk leaving behind what is secure in order to discover what is true.
The last New Moon of 2025 is an invitation to renovate our beliefs about what is possible for us. As the calendar year comes to a close, we are being asked to take risks on ourselves, speak our truth, and follow the direction that calls us, even if we are scared. The New Moon in the sign of the Centaur is an invitation to dream boldly and trust that the path will reveal itself after we have taken the first steps. This event highlights the importance of following our inner guidance and trusting the whispers of our intuition.
New Moon conjunct Venus and Mars
The Sun and the New Moon in Sagittarius are conjunct both Venus in Sagittarius and Mars in Capricorn, and they square Saturn and Neptune in Pisces. With both relationship planets conjunct the New Moon, relationship themes are likely to be an important area of focus in the upcoming weeks.
Venus’s conjunction to the Sun and the Moon supports our desire to strengthen our bonds with people we feel free to be ourselves with and cultivate genuine intimacy. This alignment encourages us to open our hearts wider and share who we are with honesty and generosity.
At the same time, Mars’ activation urges us to take action and pursue what we want rather than wait for circumstances to shift on their own. Mars is already in the early degrees of Capricorn: his proximity to the Sun and the Moon supports our efforts in accessing more courage, resilience, and determination.
New Moon square Saturn and Neptune
With the luminaries squaring both Saturn and Neptune in the late degrees of Pisces, we are likely to be particularly aware of the gap between our dreams and our current reality, as well as of the places where our vision becomes blurry as we attempt to take practical and consistent steps forward.
The square to Saturn and Neptune can exacerbate old insecurities as well as tendencies to doubt ourselves, repress our emotions, and ignore our needs. It can highlight boundary issues as well as challenges discerning between our own emotions and what we are picking up from the environment.
Saturn and Neptune have been conjunct in Pisces and Aries for most of the year, and they are still in the closing phase of their current cycle. This conjunction indicates that, collectively, we are in a phase of closure and completion: we need to let go of the old before we can transition into the new. Throughout the upcoming weeks, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction will continue to dissolve structures that no longer have purpose and reveal truths we have avoided confronting.
New Moon quincunx Uranus, Jupiter trine Saturn and Neptune, quincunx Venus
The Sun and the New Moon in Sagittarius are forming a quincunx or inconjunct aspect with Uranus in Ta**us. This alignment adds more unpredictability to the upcoming lunar month and could exacerbate chronic conflicts that tend to be in the background of our lives. Quincunxes are aspects of paradox and incompatibility between contrasting needs and desires: Uranus’s activation can challenge our sense of stability and security and encourage us to question our priorities. We are being asked to adjust and recalibrate our approach and find a way to honor both our desire for freedom and our need for grounding.
Meanwhile, Jupiter, the ruler of the New Moon, is in Cancer, forming a trine with Saturn and Neptune in Pisces and a quincunx with Venus in Sagittarius. The trine to Saturn and Neptune helps us integrate lessons from the past and navigate life with a good dose of both optimism and realism. The alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune in Water signs supports our capacity to relate with our emotions as teachers and access deep empathy and compassion for the people around us.
The Venus-Jupiter quincunx can bring our attention toward subtle tendencies to over give or overdo for others in a way that leaves us depleted or drained. This alignment asks for intentional adjustments in how we give and receive love and invites us to deepen our inquiry about what we truly value.
New Moon in Sagittarius 2025: Pursuing Inner Expansion
The last New Moon of 2025 encourages us to stop apologizing for who we are and what we want, and welcome this new chapter with open arms and an open heart. This is an invitation to strengthen our faith in the Universe and allow optimism to guide us into the new calendar year. As 2025 comes to a close, we have an opportunity to connect with the deeper meaning and purpose behind our choices and desires and open ourselves up to new possibilities.
This New Moon reminds us that true expansion begins within, through the inner shifts that allow us to see ourselves and the bigger picture of our lives from a new perspective. Inner expansion happens when we give ourselves permission to dream big, despite previous disappointing experiences, when we keep cultivating trust in life. This New Moon reminds us to have faith in the unfolding of our journey, even if we don’t yet clearly see where we are headed, and motivates us to pursue the kind of growth that transforms our lives from the inside out.
The portals of 2026 are opening, and the path ahead is glowing with new possibility. Step into the energies, lessons, and soul-aligned transformations this new year is preparing for you.
- Jodi Childs
