Astro Iris At 03:43 on December 20, 2025, in Sagittarius ♐️, exactly at 28°24’. This brings the final New Moon 🌑 of 2025, setting the stage for a fresh cycle in 2026.
The highlights of this event revolve around expansion, optimism, adventure, and the pursuit of truth—along with exploration, philosophy, education, and travel. The late degree (28°) adds a necessary layer of maturity and realism, plus a deeper connection to the universal source (the Sagittarius New Moon is close to the Galactic Center).
The Sabian Symbol for this degree is: “A fat boy mowing the lawn of his house on an elegant suburban street.”
This image points to innocence and simplicity represented by the boy, while mowing the grass symbolizes tending and refining one’s personal inner space—the kind of maintenance that’s our own responsibility. It can also highlight the need to balance societal expectations (the fancy neighborhood and suburban conformity) with personal needs (the individual effort toward beauty and order). Indirectly, it suggests that real growth comes from community or group actions—perhaps voluntary ones—rather than just grand dreams or solo achievements. In essence, it’s about balancing excess with personal responsibility and discipline, actively engaging in your own life (even the seemingly mundane tasks), which leads to self-refinement and social harmony.
The transits and aspects active in the sky at the moment of the New Moon act like a traffic light stuck a bit on red, particularly involving houses 2 (Sagittarius ♐️) and 5 (Pisces ♓️). Plus, importantly, the Ascendant in Scorpio ♏️. Themes of values, finances, material possessions, property, pleasures, luxury, attachments, food, entertainment, romance, creativity, children, speculation, and everything related to these areas are spotlighted now. It’s good to have and enjoy them, but always in balance, without overindulgence (think of that chubby boy still taking care of his own space), from a place of appreciation and gratitude. These blessings come when we learn balance and how to use them wisely—tending to them authentically and valuing them properly.
From here, if challenges arise that test our faith through confusion or sudden changes, they signal doubts about our own life’s worth, or stubbornness in seeing value only in what we own.
That confusion and change can turn into growth opportunities through adaptation, optimism, faith, and knowledge. Illusions fade away, replaced by practical actions with real potential to manifest and benefit us.
The individual impact is stronger for those with planets in the late degrees of the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces). With the chart’s Scorpio Ascendant and New Moon in the second house, here’s how it highlights each sign:
• Aries: Focus on daily work, health, career, and ambitions; stay flexible with changes.
• Taurus: Official relationships, partnerships, and finances might feel shrouded in illusions or laziness. Break out of old patterns and accept what can’t be changed on your terms.
• Gemini: Personal transformation emphasizes attitudes toward personal and shared possessions, plus hidden truths coming to closure. Try prayer or journaling.
• Cancer: Jupiter retrograde (ruler of Sagittarius) amplifies emotions. Protect your boundaries and personal space, connect with other cultures or spiritual practices. You might embark on an initiatory journey without even realizing it until afterward.
• Leo: Emphasis builds in career and public status. Go for authentic expression—avoid showy antics just to get noticed.
• Virgo: Confront illusions around friends, social circles, or groups. You’ll create a more intimate, less perfectionist space in your circles and adopt a more empathetic attitude.
• Libra: Any tendencies toward excess or over-tolerance will shift through boosted confidence and faith. You’ll need balance in everything and find the resources to achieve it—through trust and faith alone.
• Scorpio (with the Ascendant): A path opens for significant personal growth, creative career ambitions offering gains for you, loved ones, and family. Avoid your typical manipulative style.
• Sagittarius (hosting the New Moon): Huge potential for a personal restart—in your sense of self and how you relate to material values. Explore new philosophies, travel (even mentally), set intentions for spiritual expansion, and refine your beliefs.
• Capricorn: Expand knowledge in familiar areas—like upgrading to the next level in your plans. Put thoughts into action, give form and value to your ideas and communication.
• Aquarius: Attention shifts to social innovations, expanding belonging in family or roots. Watch your vision—let it manifest powerfully but responsibly.
• Pisces: Creativity surges, expanding into big dreams that need grounding in reality. Tap into emotions and intuition, then show up in fun, energizing places that fuel manifestation.
We can set intentions now, as only the truly authentic ones will manifest, and we can flex our creativity for fresh solutions and ideas.
The influence can last up to 6 months (until the Full Moon in Sagittarius in June 2026), shaping long-term growth themes—especially if it activates natal points.
The ruler Jupiter, in Cancer (since June 2025, retrograde at this event), amplifies emotional, family, and intuitive expansion—a contrast to Sagittarius fire, bringing sensitivity, protection needs, stability, boundaries, and roots. This New Moon heightens emotional sensitivity, possibly leading to emotional excesses (like dependencies).
At year’s end, let’s use this moment to expand spiritual knowledge, invest in emotional security, and balance Sagittarius-style extreme freedom with deeper, stable roots. May each of our intentions be rooted in truth.
