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Aim true and wish hard, my babies, the last new moon of the year is on the rise.
On December 19 at 8:43 p.m., the sun and moon will meet in the optimism is my religion, lemonade-out-of-lemons, highway-is-my-home sign of Sagittarius.
The mutable fire sign is associated with action and adaptability, moving through the world hungry for its marrow and open to its shifting sands and changing winds.
This is energy that encourages us not to sip timidly from the cup of life, but drink it wholly and heartily, let it roll down our chins, stain our bandanas, and always, always ask for more.
When the moon is new, the sky goes dark, giving us a canvas of pure potential and boundless imagining, especially under the influence of good-times-loving Sagittarius.
In astrology, the sun symbolizes the ego, the essential self, and our forward trajectory, while the moon represents our internal compass rose, primal nature, need for nourishment, and subconscious urges.
When these two bodies align in sign, it’s an opportunity to assess and progress, and under the buoying influence of the archer, we’re encouraged to get bold as love and high on hope as we bid farewell to 2025 and roll out the carpet for 2026.
While we’ll all be under the influence of this new moon, three signs in particular will be most affected.
Read for your sun, moon, and rising sign.
Ahoy, Gemini! This new moon hits your seventh house of trusted partnerships. The focus here is less on the effervescence of romance and more on the power dynamics at play after the glitter fades.
You have a tendency to match the energy of others rather than set the true tone for yourself. This new moon asks you to get to the root of what you want so you can navigate and negotiate from a place of deep understanding rather than a thin scattershot.
Avoidance is the easiest form of self-sabotage, baby, so get to know yourself so you can declare and defend without being swayed or sweeping anything under the proverbial carpet.
This new moon activates your fourth house of origins and home, lineage and ancestral umbrage, Virgo.
Have you outgrown the version of home you’ve been faithfully maintaining out of a sense of duty or a fear of change? Sagittarius energy gives nary a f–k about stability if the cost of that stability is inertia of the physical, emotional or spiritual variety.
Are you staying in a relationship or in a living situation because it feels right or because it feels like the path of least resistance?
Be brave enough to bring forth something better than you can imagine.
Ahoy, Sagittarius! Happy return of the sun and the moon to you.
This moon is akin to a hard reset for you before this year ends and a new one begins.
You always know what and who you want, Archer, however, you are guilty of wanting everything and everyone and drunk on this breadth of desire, you commit to nothing and set course for nowhere.
I will tell you a secret. There are no mistakes, only plot lines. Your directive is to quit spinning your wheels and start walking the path of true potential.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
