New Moon December 2025 Astrology

The new moon in December 2025 makes challenging aspects to Uranus and Neptune. So, the spiritual meaning of the new moon December 2025 astrology is adapting to unexpected changes that cause confusion and test your faith.

The December 2025 new moon also brings the risk of deception, disappointment, uncertainty and accidental poisoning. However, it also offers solutions through compromise, creativity, innovation and adaptation.

The new moon on December 19, 2025, is at 28°24′ Sagittarius. It lies between Venus and Mars, but the most critical aspects are highlighted in the chart below. Both are challenging aspects: the red square to Neptune and the green quincunx to Uranus.

New Moon December 2025 Astrology

New Moon December 2025 Meaning

Sun conjunct Moon represents cyclic renewal as a new 28-day moon phase begins. You can draw a line under the past, turn over a new leaf, and start fresh. You can also question old habits, behaviors, and beliefs as you search for creative and inventive new ways to grow and prosper.

The monthly alignment of the Sun and Moon reconciles your conscious ego and subconscious feelings, providing balance, focus and perspective. It gives a rejuvenating burst of energy, initiative, and enthusiasm. So, the new moon December 2025 astrology is excellent for defining your priorities and setting ambitious goals.

A Problem

New Moon square Neptune (0°59′) creates a problem, tension, conflict or crisis due to confusion, deception, lies, secrets, over-idealization, delusion or over-sensitivity. You may experience disappointment, disillusionment, low self-esteem, guilt, insecurity, alienation, weakness and lack of motivation.

Other risks include slander, scandal, paranoia and victimization. There is also an increased susceptibility to fraud, conspiracy theories, illness, infection, hypochondria, misdiagnosis, poisoning, and overdose. Being honest and straightforward reduces the risk of complications. Religion or spirituality will help if you lose faith.

In the mundane world, events may involve the navy, oil, mobs, prisons, espionage, drugs, chemicals, gases, covert surveillance, and secret societies. There is danger of instability, scandal, subversion, plots, treason, escapes, disappearances, assassinations, poisoning, epidemics, drowning, suicide, and the exposing of secrets. There may be threats to democracy, human rights, privacy, free trade, socialist states, and left-wing ideals.

Change

New Moon quincunx Uranus (0°05′) represents striving for a solution, experimenting, discovering new information and learning. Yearning for something new and imagining a better future can bring excitement and freedom, but also unexpected events, sudden changes and disruption.

You may experience tension, anxiety, insecurity, uncertainty, instability and indecision. Erratic, eccentric, impulsive, and rebellious behavior brings the risk of sudden outbursts, rash actions, or accidents. However, flexibility and open-mindedness allow you to adapt to changing conditions. Solutions and opportunities can be found through imagination, creativity, originality, ingenuity, insight, and higher awareness.

Solutions

Uranus sextile Neptune (1°04′) provides solutions and restores harmony through compromise, creativity, innovation and adaptation. It brings generational speculation and excited optimism, while also promoting a spiritual awakening and religious reformation.

Answers philosophical questions about the future and humanity, and technological breakthroughs, such as artificial intelligence, may come through dreams, flashes of insight, and interaction with groups of like-minded people. Progressive changes lead to a greater sense of oneness with others and the universe.

New Moon in The Scorpion

The December 2025 new moon is at 28 degrees in the Sign of Sagittarius. But because of the precession of the equinoxes, it is in the Constellation of Scorpius. More specifically, it aligns with the Sting of the Scorpion and the Right Eye of the Dragon.

27♐12 – Sagittarius A*
28♐18 – γ Draconis, Etamin
28♐24 – New Moon December 2025
29♐04 – M7, Acumen

These late degrees of Sagitarius are arguably the most intense of the whole zodiac, with a very Plutonic feel to them. Both the Scorpion and Dragon are associated with poison, with the most poisonous parts being the Sting of the Scorpion and the Eyes of the Dragon. Reinforcing the intensity of these degrees is Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Center of our Galaxy.

New Moon December 2025

The Dragon

Constellation Draco the Dragon gives an artistic, emotional and somber nature, a penetrating and analytical mind, much travel, many friends, danger of robbery, accidental poisoning, river and air pollution, and is bad for mineral resources.

Fixed star Etamin gives a pioneering nature, keen mental ability, good concentration, honors, a rise followed by a fall, a preference for solitude, a morbid inclination, anxiety, violence, self-destruction, and loss of prestige.

With New Moon (0°06′): Dauntlessness, aggression, interest in unusual subjects and ideas, and success in writing, legal and public affairs.

The Scorpion

Constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion, brings willpower, boldness, astuteness, persistence, penetration, passion, magnetism, sexuality, analysis, refinement, and generosity. But harshly asepected, it is a source of darkness, war and discord, causing anxiety, restlessness, pessimism, melancholy, unreliability, forecfulness, anger, a short temper and sharp-tongue, jealousy, envy, secrets, lies, deceit, slander and destruction.

New Moon in the Scorpion

Fixed star Acumen gives leadership ability, a very sharp mind and above-average perception. Harsh aspects cause pessimism, a morbid outlook, extreme disfavor, illness, eyesight problems and blindness.

With New Moon (0°41′): Intense drive to get ahead and leave a mark, leadership ability, a love of home, family and country. Harsh aspects can cause illness and eye problems.

New Moon in the Scorpion

Mercury in the Scorpion

Fixed star Antares is associated with war, weaponry, and violence, portending success in the military, business, and politics. It gives the energy, toughness, courage, optimism, mental alertness and strategic ability of a daredevil to undertake the most adventurous, extreme and hazardous ventures that others could not attempt.

However, it also makes people belligerent, combative, rash, ravenous, headstrong, obstinate and self-destructive. Antares can bring sudden happenings, unforeseen events, accidents, violence, malice, destructiveness, evil presages, and danger from fire, weapons, or machinery, and of violent death, either in battle or by the process of law.

With Mercury (0°49′): Unpopularity, suspiscion, wrongful accusations, use of religious influence in business, money obtained slowly and with much difficulty, and danger of sickness.

Venus in the Scorpion

Fixed star Lesath brings inner drive, enterprise, sociability, a probing and sharp intellect, keen insight, incisive wit, good judgment, good fortune, marked achievements, unexpected gains, discoveries, and success in debating, business, sport, and high office.

However, the Saturn square can bring exaggeration, desperation, immorality, self-destruction, danger, malevolence, and a tendency to strike first and ask afterward, with an embarrassing loss of face.

With Venus (0°10′): Popularity, marked achievements, reliability and steadiness. But square Saturn, it can bring involvement in costly intrigues or matters requiring considerable tact.

New Moon December 2025 Spiritual Meaning

The December 2025 new moon astrology is challenging because of harsh aspects to Uranus and Neptune. It indicates problems and crises resulting from confusion, deception, instability and uncertainty. Unexpected or sudden changes may test your faith.

Despite the December 19 New Moon falling in the Sign of Sagittarius, it actually has a powerful Scorpio influence. The New Moon, Mercury and Venus align with intense fixed stars in the Constellation Scorpius. They amplify the deceptive and poisonous influence of the Neptune square.

Accidental poisoning is a particular danger with the combination of Uranus and Neptune, especially with the influence of the Scorpion’s Sting and the Poisonous Dragon. This could result from toxic pollution, chemical contamination, industrial accidents, weapons of war, venomous animals, overdosing or infection.

The New Moon December 2025 astrology also brings the risk of unforeseen crises resulting from deception, suspiscion, aggression and war.

Solution to these and other problems comes through open-mindedness, creativity, innovation, compromise, faith and generational optimism.

Moon Phases

The influence of the December 19 new moon lasts four weeks up to the January 18 new moon. The best time for starting new projects is during the two-week waxing moon phase from December 19 to the January 3 full moon.

If the New Moon December 2025 astrology directly impacts your horoscope, you can read about it in your December horoscope. For more details about how it affects your natal chart, see new moon transits.