sagittarius new moon - recharge your inner fire and renew your faith in the future
Sunday, December 1, 2024, 1:21am EST
New Moon collage by Emily
The Sagittarius New Moon invites you to recharge your spiritual FIRE, to reconnect with your inner truth and guidance and restore your faith in a positive future. Expansive, adventurous Sagittarius is the sign of optimism and trust, reminding you of the bigger picture and higher vision, calling you beyond the daily details to see your life as a mythic journey.
The power of this New Moon is amplified by its precise conjunction with Antares – the red star at the heart of the Scorpion constellation, and one of the four “Royal Stars,” considered gateways to higher consciousness. The shadow potentials of Antares include recklessness, violence and destruction, while the higher expression is to connect more deeply to your passion, purpose and intuition.
Further fueling the fire, the New Moon forms a Grand Trine – harmony and flow – with Mars in Leo and the North Node in Aries. Fire is an element that typically indicates movement, momentum and risk-taking – an externalized, action-oriented expression. However! Everything in the chart of this New Moon recommends holding and containing the fire, letting it burn from within, as an agent of healing and purification.
Mars the action planet is stopped, about to turn retrograde on December 6th. Mercury and Jupiter are both retrograde, indicating that you don’t yet have all the information you need to move forward. And Neptune is also stationing (standing still), and will turn from retrograde to direct (forward) on December 7th, stirring up a cloud of confusion, illusion and unconscious energies.
Translation? This is a time for moving slowly, for asking questions and listening deeply rather than making assumptions or asserting what you think you know. Going for the quick fix or instant gratification, or trying to push your agenda on others, will not go well. Instead, pull your energy inward and lean into the bigger-picture and longer-term perspective of your older, wiser self. Patience, patience.
The higher potential of this New Moon is to harness the power of your creative imagination to dream up a more positive future, and to expand and strengthen the love and passion in your heart. There’s a lot shifting beneath the surface and behind the scenes, and more will be revealed at the Gemini Full Moon on December 15th.
For more insight into what this new moon means for YOU, find the house in your birth chart that contains 9° Sagittarius.
The areas of life signified by that house are where there’s powerful energy for a rebirth, and where you’re invited to:
renew your enthusiasm, faith and inspiration;
reconnect with your inner guidance and pay attention to subtle cues from your intuition;
lean into the bigger picture and higher vision of your older, wiser self;
and expand your imagination of what’s possible.
I go into all the Virgoan details about how to work with these kick-ass planetary energies in my 57-minute New Moon transmission, available to paid subscribers on Substack. You can gain immediate access to the recording, and all future New & Full Moon recordings, by becoming a paid subscriber ($16/month or $155/year). Founding subscribers ($185/year) can also join me for a quarterly livestream, and receive my Pluto in Aquarius webinar as a gift!