New Moon in Sagittarius

When the archer must surrender their bow and arrow.

This New Moon in Sagittarius at 28° arrives as a paradox: an initiation through negation, an expansion that begins with restraint. Rather than amplifying Sagittarius’ usual fire - certainty, optimism, and forward momentum - this lunation presents itself as the antithesis of Sagittarius, and for very deliberate reasons.

Sagittarius is the sign of the voice of God that never says no, the archetype that refuses the idea that anything is impossible. Full of Jupiterian promise, when Sagittarius points his arrow, he never misses. Faith becomes propulsion. Meaning becomes momentum. The Universe responds.

But this lunation is not about handing Santa Claus a list of desires. It is not even about the promise that those desires will materialise any time soon.

The ruler of this New Moon is Jupiter, and Jupiter is retrograde at 22° Cancer. He has been in Cancer since June and will remain there until next June, before crossing into Leo, the sign of sovereignty, leadership, and visible authority. This is also the final New Moon of 2025 ruled by Jupiter, giving it the quality of a reckoning — a pause before belief moves into embodiment.

At 28°, the Sun and Moon square Neptune in Pisces, while Venus at 24° squares Saturn in Pisces as well. The Piscean field is heavily activated, not in its romantic register, but in its initiatory one. Saturn and Neptune together dissolve fantasy while demanding spiritual accountability. They strip belief of its decorative elements and ask whether what remains can actually hold you.

Sagittarius wants to leap. Pisces wants to dissolve. But Saturn in Pisces insists on form, devotion, and endurance. Neptune in Pisces erodes borrowed faith, spiritual bypassing, and untested ideals. Together they pose a sobering question to Sagittarius’ confidence: Is your faith real… or aspirational?

This lunation asks whether your roots are strong enough. Whether you are rooted deeply enough in your relationship to Spirit, meaning, or a higher intelligence to withstand uncertainty without collapsing into despair or denial.

Jupiter retrograde in Cancer redirects the entire conversation inward. Cancer is the sign of home but not merely the literal home of bloodlines, family systems, property, or emotional history. Jupiter here points toward a more ancient home: one stored in memory, ritual, emotional truth, and belonging. And yet this lunation goes further still.

Because the square to Saturn and Neptune in Pisces asks whether your idea of home is large enough.

If home is confined to Earthly structures - family, nation, biography, even personal history - it may not be strong enough to support what you are trying to grow next. Jupiter in Cancer here is not sentimental. He is cosmological. He asks whether home is a place, or an orientation. Whether belonging is something you inherit, or something you consciously enter into relationship with.

Perhaps your literal home life feels unstable right now. That would be unsurprising with Jupiter retrograde. But this lunation is not asking you to fix the house. It is asking whether you are inhabited.

Can you believe in a Cosmos that is home?

Not a Cosmos that rewards you, answers prayers on demand, or guarantees outcomes… but one that contains everything: what you understand and what you don’t, what you desire and what you must surrender. A Cosmos that does not revolve around you, yet does not exclude you either.

This is not about leaving Earth behind. It is about no longer mistaking Earth for the edge of belonging.

Faith cannot function without a home. If you do not know where you belong in the larger order of things, belief becomes anxious, transactional, or performative. But when the Cosmos becomes home, not as an idea, but as a lived relationship. uncertainty stops feeling like exile.

Sagittarius normally draws the bow and releases the arrow. But this lunation suggests something more radical: laying the weapon down entirely. Letting go of the need to aim, predict, or control the outcome. Trusting that what carries you next will take you further than your personal power ever could.

It is as if this New Moon carries the final note of Saturn and Neptune’s long passage through Pisces; a closing chord in the season of faith, in the sign of Spirit itself. As though, before the music fades, they want to leave us with one uncompromising truth.

For nearly three years, Saturn and Neptune have been dismantling false spirituality, eroding borrowed belief systems, and dissolving the illusion that meaning can be outsourced. They have exposed where faith was performative, where mysticism became escapism, where belief was used to avoid responsibility rather than deepen it. And the lesson threading through this entire period has been remarkably simple, and remarkably difficult: Come back to Spirit. Come back to Oneness.

Not as an idea or as a slogan but as a lived orientation.

Now, at the threshold of 2026, it feels as though Saturn and Neptune are delivering their final instruction before the chapter closes: faith is not something you hold about reality - it is the relationship through which reality is experienced. And any belief system that reinforces separation - from the body, from the Earth, from one another, or from the Cosmos itself - cannot carry us forward.

Jupiter delivers this message in the most Jupiterian way possible.

The final New Moon of 2025 ruled by Jupiter does not promise expansion through acquisition, achievement, or certainty. Instead, it offers a grand exit, not just from the year, but from the illusion that we were ever separate to begin with. Jupiter retrograde in Cancer returns us to the primordial memory of belonging, not as nostalgia, but as cosmology. Home is revealed not as a place we lost, but as a truth we forgot.

And so the grand finale of 2025 is not fireworks, triumph, or resolution. It is something quieter and far more radical: the release of separation as a worldview.

This New Moon does not deliver answers. It plants questions.

The answers will emerge slowly — in the seeds you plant this season, in how you nurture what feels uncertain, in how you tend your inner altar while the future refuses to reveal itself.

Because ultimately, this lunation reminds us: Your dreams are only as powerful as your faith.

And faith is not what you say you believe. It is what you can remain present with while you wait.

This New Moon does not ask you to know. It asks you to remain.

Moreover…

At Alchemy Queens Academy (whose members have more than doubled since our inception in April 2025), we are beginning Capricorn season with intention, power, and momentum.

Twelve Holy Months in Twelve Holy Nights is not a “normal” series of workshops. Our engagement with the Twelve Holy Nights this season is designed to ignite the hidden potential of 2026; a force most are not yet prepared to meet. The Alchemy Queens of the Academy, however, will be.

It is not too late to join us.

We begin our preparations on Monday, 22 December. And because one of the core tenets of AQA is attunement and alignment with All That Is - both cosmically and terrestrially - we know these twelve nights will be transformational before we even begin.

We invite you to lay down your bow and arrow. Step out of striving and join us!

And if you wish to honour this New Moon with true intention, we invite you to join our New Moon ceremony. Simply reply to this email to be included.

In love and service

Venus xo