The Threshold of Expansion: New Moon in Sagittarius 2025

Tracie Ann
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The last New Moon of the year is days away, landing 28º in Sagittarius on December 19, 2025, and it’s here to strip you down to your core beliefs, not what you’ve been telling yourself to survive.

This isn’t a soft reset.

This isn’t a “set intentions and sip tea” New Moon.

Sagittarius doesn’t whisper.

Sagittarius demands truth, and it will burn down every lie you’ve been using as a shelter.

And this lunation asks one serious question:

What the f**k are you living for?

Not what looks good.

Not what keeps you comfortable.

Not what keeps you accepted.

What gives your life meaning when everything else is gone?

Sagittarius is the sign of the seeker, the pilgrim, the philosopher, the outlaw preacher. It rules the long road, the big questions, and faith that keeps you going when there’s no proof yet.

It governs belief systems, meaning, truth, and the internal compass that tells you why you get up in the morning.

And when the year ends under this energy, it’s not asking what you accomplished; it’s asking what you learned.

Moon in Sagittarius: Emotional Survival Through Vision

People misunderstand Moon in Sagittarius.

They think it’s about positivity or detachment.

It’s not.

This Moon survives by believing life has a direction.

Without meaning, Sagittarius Moon collapses into restlessness, avoidance, excess, or spiritual bypassing. With meaning, it becomes unbreakable.

Under this New Moon:

Emotions demand expansion
Feelings refuse to stay small or contained

You may feel:

Claustrophobic in routines
Allergic to shallow conversations
Intolerant of dishonesty, even polite dishonesty

This Moon will not allow you to stay emotionally loyal to a life that contradicts your truth. If you feel unsettled, it’s because your soul wants altitude.

Aspects to The New Moon

Conjunct Venus (Separating): A Chapter in Values Is Closing

Venus represents:

Love and relationships
Self-worth
Money and resources
What you’re drawn to and why

Because Venus is separating, this influence describes something that has already been playing out over the past weeks or months and is now reaching completion.

This aspect says: You’ve learned what something costs you emotionally.

At the end of the year, this can look like:

A relationship no longer holding the same appeal
A desire losing its emotional charge
A financial pattern revealing its long-term impact

You're no longer confused about what aligns with your values and what doesn’t.

Do not drag expired desires into the new year out of nostalgia.

Conjunct Mars (Applying): Action Is No Longer Optional

Mars is drive, movement, anger, courage, and initiation.

Because Mars is applying, its influence is building. This means the energy of this New Moon doesn’t stay internal, it demands action in the weeks ahead.

This aspect creates:

A sense of urgency
Emotional reactions that push you to act
Situations where passivity creates consequences

At year’s end, this is significant. You’re not being asked to think about change, you’re being pushed to move.

This can show up as:

Finally making a decision you’ve delayed
Speaking a truth you’ve swallowed
Ending something that’s been dragging on

Square Saturn (Separating): You Are Released from an Old Responsibility

Saturn represents:

Obligation
Authority
Structure
Karma and long-term commitments

A separating square means tension that has already peaked. The pressure is easing, but the lesson is clear.

You’ve been carrying something heavier than your soul was meant to hold.

At the end of the year, this often shows up as:

Burnout
Disillusionment with authority or systems
Realizing you’ve been loyal to something out of fear, not truth

Square Neptune (Applying): Illusions Are Actively Dissolving

Neptune rules:

Fantasy
Escapism
Spiritual ideals
Denial and confusion

Because this square is applying, the fog is thickening—but only so it can clear.

This aspect is uncomfortable because it removes the anesthetic.

Under this influence:

Avoidance stops working
Wishful thinking collapses
You can no longer lie to yourself without feeling it in your body

At year’s end, this is critical. Neptune asks: Are you ending the year in truth, or in fantasy?

You cannot step into a new year carrying illusions and expect clarity.

Sextile Part of Fortune (Applying): Alignment Creates Momentum

The Part of Fortune shows where ease, flow, and opportunity arise when you’re aligned.

A sextile is supportive, but it requires participation.

This aspect says: When you choose truth over comfort, doors open.

This can show up subtly:

The right conversation
A timely opportunity
A sense of inner “yes” that restores confidence

The more honest you are during this New Moon, the smoother the transition into the next year becomes.

Square Vertex (Separating): A Fated Turning Point Has Been Triggered

The Vertex is linked to fate, karmic meetings, and turning points beyond conscious control.

A separating square indicates: Something already happened, or is happening now, that altered your path.

This can look like:

A conversation you can’t forget
A sudden realization
An encounter that shifted your trajectory

You are not where you were at the beginning of this cycle, and you can’t go back.

The choice now is how consciously you move forward.

How These Aspects Work Together at Year’s End

Taken as a whole, this New Moon says:

Venus shows you what you’ve outgrown
Mars forces movement
Saturn releases outdated responsibility
Neptune dissolves illusion
Fortune rewards alignment
Vertex confirms fate is already in motion

Health & the Body

Sagittarius rules the lower body and forward motion. It governs how you walk through the world, how you thrust toward the future, and how honestly energy circulates through you. When this energy is blocked, the body speaks fast.

The Liver: Where Truth Is Stored

The liver is the great processor, of toxins, hormones, and suppressed emotion. In Chinese medicine, it governs the smooth flow of Qi and vision.

When the liver is overloaded:

Anger becomes irritability
Hope turns into restlessness
Stagnation shows up as hip and lower back pain

This New Moon exposes where you’ve swallowed frustration instead of expressing truth. What didn’t get said this year gets stored here.

Support the liver now:

Warm foods, hydration, bitter greens
Less alcohol, less sugar, less numbing
More movement, especially walking and hip-opening

Hips, Thighs & Lower Back: Where You’re Stuck vs. Where You’re Going

Sagittarius governs the hips and thighs because they move you forward.

Tightness here asks a direct question: What direction have you been resisting?

At the end of the year, pain in these areas often reflects:

Fear of change
Staying somewhere out of obligation
Carrying emotional weight that isn’t yours anymore

Stretch. Move. Breathe into these places. Let the body finish what the mind avoided.

Global Exposure, Escalation, and the Cost of Denial

As the year closes, the United States is moving through a period where buried tensions are no longer contained. Conflicts rooted in belief, identity, and ideology are surfacing in visible, sometimes explosive ways. Emotions are running hotter, reactions are faster, and the collective nervous system is strained. In this kind of climate, violence doesn’t emerge out of nowhere, it breaks through existing cracks. Shootings, acts of terror, and sudden public tragedies become more likely not because people are “worse,” but because pressure, fear, and unresolved anger are colliding without adequate regulation or trust in systems meant to protect.

Key themes defining this moment:

Increased volatility and impulsive reactions
Heightened fear and misinformation following traumatic events
Strained institutions and delayed or contested responses
Ideological polarization overriding nuance and empathy

At the same time, this exposure is not only destructive, it is revealing. What has been ignored, denied, or normalized becomes impossible to look away from. Public grief turns into outrage, and outrage into demands for truth and accountability. The gap between national ideals and lived reality is no longer abstract; it’s being felt in real time. This is not a gentle ending to the year. It’s a clarifying one. The country enters the next chapter with its contradictions in plain view, faced with a choice: continue cycling through denial and reaction, or confront what is broken with honesty and responsibility.

Closing

The last New Moon of 2025 is a moment to stop second-guessing yourself.

It’s about being honest about who you are, what you want, and what you’re no longer willing to compromise on as the year ends. Instead of apologizing for your direction or minimizing your goals, this is a time to acknowledge them clearly and take them seriously.

As the year comes to a close, there’s value in looking at your choices and asking why they mattered to you in the first place. What were you aiming for? What were you hoping would change?

This New Moon offers a chance to reconnect with that sense of purpose and consider new options without forcing immediate answers.

Progress now doesn’t require having everything figured out. It requires being open to change, willing to think bigger than past disappointments, and ready to move forward even if the next steps aren’t fully defined yet.

The focus is simple: adjust your mindset, stay open to possibility, and let your actions in the coming months reflect what you’ve learned this year.