New Moon at 28° Sagittarius and Winter Solstice ; Divine Redirections
New Moon, December 20, 2025 at 02:43AM CET (Berlin)
Winter Solstice /Sun enters Capricor, December 21, 2025 at 16:03 CET (Berlin)
This New Moon in Sagittarius is not an isolated event. It belongs to a precise and rare sequence of six New Moons unfolding between autumn 2025 and spring 2026, all occurring at the 28th degrees of the zodiac signs — degrees of culmination, exhaustion, karmic completion, and closure. These are not degrees of fresh new glamorous beginnings, but of endings that have reached their natural limit. This sequence began with the Solar Eclipse on the South Node in Virgo at 29° on September 21, 2025. A Solar Eclipse on the South Node initiates a deep karmic cleansing process — a revisiting of the past, not to repair it, but to release it. Over these six months, each New Moon participates in the same movement: closing old chapters while quietly planting seeds that will not fully sprout until late February.
A New Moon always marks the beginning of a new developmental cycle, but the nature of that beginning depends on degree, rulership, and aspects. Here, the beginning comes through ending — not through forward momentum or fresh initiative. Sagittarius may seek meaning and optimism, but Saturn and Neptune are the dominant forces shaping these times, and both are now direct.
Neptune dissolves illusions; Saturn crystallizes what remains once illusion is gone. Together, they are preparing to leave Pisces, and activate the Aries Point one final time before entering Aries on January 26 and February 14.
This is not a glamorous reset. This is not a “great new chapter” yet. There is nothing to push through. There is no need to force momentum. Follow your own rhythm. Important internal and structural changes must occur before the genuine sense of renewal arrives with the new astrological year — when Saturn and Neptune are both in Aries. Only then will the energy truly shift.
Astrology follows natural cycles, not patriarchal, religious, or capitalistic timelines. (This is precisely why it has been suppressed and demonized for the last two thousand years.)
The New moon Conjunct Venus, Hekate and Juno
The New Moon at 28° Sagittarius is conjunct Venus, Juno, and the asteroid Hecate, and the entire configuration is squared by Neptune at the final degree of Pisces. All of this is ruled by Jupiter retrograde in Cancer. While the Sun, Moon, and Venus soon follow Mars into Capricorn — ruled by Saturn at the last degrees of Pisces — this colors the entire energetic tone of January.
Neptune is also the ruler of the North Node in Pisces. What is ending now is not only a fourteen-year cycle, but a much larger one spanning approximately 165 years.
The clearest indication that this lunation does not express typical Sagittarius enthusiasm is the ruler of the Moon itself: Jupiter retrograde in Cancer. Retrograde Jupiter does not expand outward — it asks us to redefine belief systems from the inside. Rather than absorbing external philosophies or consensus truths, we are invited to integrate Jupiterian wisdom through Cancerian intuition, emotional honesty, and inner guidance.
This is a redefinition of personal philosophy.
Sagittarius symbolizes meaning, truth, and the inner compass. At 28°, that compass begins to fail — not because it was wrong, but because it is based on meanings that no longer support soul growth. When Sagittarius is pressured by Neptune and Saturn, its shadow emerges.
This is not a crisis of belief systems on a mental level. It is a deeper question:
Do the meanings through which we live still nourish the Soul?
At this degree, evolution can no longer occur through the same explanations of life, the same narratives about destiny, love, identity, sacrifice, or purpose. Meaning itself must dissolve before something new can emerge. This dissolution is unfolding in waves — individually and collectively.
The ruler of the New Moon, Jupiter retrograde in Cancer, is trine Saturn and Neptune and square Chiron. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer and moves through emotional memory, not ideology. Here, truth is not discovered through achievement or being right, but through emotional honesty, belonging, intuition, and inner security. This is Great Mother wisdom — protective, inward, and deeply attuned.
The square to Chiron in Aries exposes wounds around identity, self-confidence, and the right to exist authentically. Growth now requires emotional courage. Pain becomes a source of wisdom. Inner security is built through empathy and trust in the heart rather than external validation.
We are asked to reflect honestly:
Which meanings did we remain loyal to out of emotional attachment rather than truth? Which philosophies once offered safety but ultimately exhausted us?
This New Moon completes emotional loyalty to outdated meanings. It represents a genuine redirection. We may realize that we no longer belong where we thought we did, or that the path we believed we wanted to expand into no longer resonates. Nothing unfolding now is accidental — it functions as a divine correction of direction.
Juno and Hecate
The Sun, Moon, Venus, Juno, and Hecate are all conjunct at 28° Sagittarius. Juno symbolizes karmic vows and soul contracts — not only in relationships, but in identities and roles defined through others. Conjunct Hecate, the archetype of crossroads and thresholds, relationships become sites of fate-altering decisions.
This configuration speaks of partnerships that activate questions of belief, meaning, and moral truth. Relationships now demand radical honesty. The square to Neptune in Pisces exposes idealization, projection, and self-sacrifice disguised as love. Faith must be distinguished from deception. True connection cannot be built through the loss of boundaries or personal truth.
With Venus present, the process unfolds through the heart — through values, self-worth, and emotional contracts. Relationships may end, but so do patterns of compromise, idealization, and giving based on obsolete meanings.
Hecate is clear: all old paths are exhausted. There is no better version of the old road. There is only the exit.
Separation is not punishment. It is liberation.
The tension of Squares
Mars is already in Capricorn, where it feels strong, because its itssign of exaltation, and he leads the planets away from the final degrees of Sagittarius. Though Mars squares Neptune in Pisces (separating), this tension exposes the gap between ambition and spiritual truth. It asks for power aligned with integrity — disciplined action born from clarity rather than illusion.
Mercury in Sagittarius square the Lunar Nodes
North Node in Pisces — South Node in Virgo
Mercury in Sagittarius square the lunar Nodes introduces a fundamental tension in the way meaning itself is constructed. This is not a crisis of information, but a crisis of interpretation. What is being challenged now is the mind’s habitual attempt to orient the Soul through explanation, coherence, and certainty.
The South Node in Virgo speaks of a long karmic history of mental vigilance. It seeks safety through understanding, through precision, through the ability to name, define, explain and correct. This is the consciousness that believes clarity is achieved by breaking life into manageable parts — by analyzing experience until it becomes useful, logical, and controlled. Over time, this orientation becomes exhausting. The mind is never finished. There is always another detail to refine, another conclusion to improve, another error to fix.
With Mercury forming a square to the Nodes, this Virgoan pattern is activated and destabilized. The need to explain intensifies precisely because it no longer works. Thoughts circle without resolution. Answers feel incomplete. Language fails to fully capture what is being lived. The old mental strategies for navigating uncertainty reach their limit.
Mercury in Sagittarius attempts to resolve this tension by reaching for meaning — for a story large enough to hold the experience. It wants a philosophy, a truth, a belief that restores orientation. Yet in the square to the Nodes, Sagittarius becomes rigid. Meaning turns into doctrine. The need to be right replaces the willingness to be honest. Explanation becomes a substitute for presence.
What is being exposed is the attachment to belief as identity. The mind clings to meaning because it provides stability. To question it feels like a loss of ground.
The evolutionary direction, however, points elsewhere. The North Node in Pisces does not resolve uncertainty through thought. It does not require coherence. Pisces understands that some truths cannot be articulated without distortion. Here, meaning is not constructed — it is received, and arises through surrender, through silence, through an intimacy with life that does not need to be named.
We have been asked to release a need to understand everything. This is not abandonment of intelligence, but an acknowledgment of its limits. The compulsion to explain, analyze, and justify is revealed as a form of defense — a way of keeping the unknown at a distance.
The mind is asked to loosen its grip, to allow contradiction, ambiguity, and unknowing. Not everything that is real can be made sense of. Not everything that matters can be proven or explained.
The deeper truth is not found in being right, but in remaining open. Not in defining meaning, but in allowing it to change.
This is the quiet recalibration of consciousness: a movement away from control through understanding, and toward trust in a wisdom that precedes thought.
On December 21, 2025, at 16:03 CET, the Sun enters Capricorn, marking the Winter Solstice. This is the longest night, the deepest darkness, and the turning point where light slowly begins to return. It is a moment of inward withdrawal, where new intentions gestate quietly beneath the surface.
For now, the only true intention is to allow changes — on all levels. At the same time, seeds of new truths have already been planted. When we are clear about what we no longer want or will tolerate, what we do want reveals itself naturally.
Turn toward what makes your soul dance.
Let it illuminate the path ahead.
Blessed be the silence of the Winter Solstice.
By Tea Franca