New Moon July 2025 Astrology

The new moon in July 2025 is opposite Pluto. So, the spiritual meaning of the new moon in July 2025 astrology is letting go of the need to be in control. To be willing to change and transform, evolving your soul to live a better life and experience greater satisfaction.

However, this harsh Pluto aspect can lead to internal or external battles, resulting in low self-esteem and a crisis of confidence. Thankfully, the July 2025 new moon in good aspect to the Saturn-Neptune conjunction enables you to solve problems and overcome hardship with endurance and determination.

New Moon July 2025 Astrology

The new moon on July 24, 2025, is at 02°08′ Leo. The most significant planetary influence comes from the opposition to Pluto. Next is a trine to Saturn-Neptune, then the sextile to Uranus. With so much going on, I will focus only on the tightest new moon aspects, specifically those to Saturn-Neptune and Pluto.

New Moon July 2025

New Moon July 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. The new moon is an excellent time for defining your priorities and setting ambitious goals.

Pluto Increasing in Power

The previous three new moons have aspected Pluto. The aspect orb is decreasing, culminating with the July 24 new moon opposite Pluto (0°27′). In the list below, I have listed just a few events from one current conflict zone.

April 27 New Moon square Pluto (3°58′) – Victimization.

April 27, at least 51 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 52,243 throughout the war. ^[1]
May 7, UN experts warn Israel’s actions may amount to “annihilation” of Gaza’s population. Israel launches broader Gaza offensive to seize land and relocate civilians. ^[2]

May 26 New Moon trine Pluto (2°23′) – Powerful Messages.

May 26, Israeli attacks kill at least 52 Palestinians in Gaza, including 36 in a school used as a shelter. ^[3]
June 10, the UN Security Council passes Resolution 2735: Demands ceasefire, hostage release, humanitarian access, and Israeli withdrawal. ^[2]

June 25 New Moon quincunx Pluto (0°52′) – Destruction or Evolution.

June 25, Israeli forces kill at least 78 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with at least 14 who were seeking humanitarian aid. ^[4]
July 9, Major Israeli raids in Tulkarm and Nur Shams displace 40,000 Palestinians. ^[2]

July 24 New Moon opposite Pluto (0°27′) – Ultimatums.

New Moon July 2025 Opposite Pluto

New Moon opposite Pluto gives a compulsive urge to assert your power and authority and take control of your life. However, contradictions and an inability to overcome weaknesses can lead to an internal battle with your dark side, resulting in low self-esteem and a crisis of confidence. This may involve obsessions, stubbornness, addiction, or crime.

Attempting to assert your will can lead to an external battle with ruthless competitors and adversaries. You may experience manipulation, ruthlessness, threats, intimidation, jealousy, spying, interference, domination, theft, or physical, psychological or sexual abuse.

Events that appear to be out of your control may force you to make a substantial change in your behavior or beliefs. If you do face hardship, blockage, crises or conflict, it is essential not to be overly assertive, egotistic, or resistant to change. Realize that you don’t need total control over others or your environment.

Examining your psychology, exposing deeply buried trauma, uncovering the truth, and being willing to change can lead to personal mastery. The aim is to transform for the better, evolving your soul to live a better life and experience greater satisfaction.

New Moon trine Saturn-Pluto

Sun trine Saturn and Neptune brings inner balance, confidence, and faith in yourself. It inspires ambition and determination to achieve your long-term goals. Professional advancement, material gain, stability and security are possible without sacrificing your moral and ethical values.

Relationships can improve through mutual respect and a deeper spiritual connection, and intimate relationships will become more tender and loving. Increased sensitivity and empathy can give a more profound understanding of your place in the world. You may realize that achieving your goals and dreams is essential before you can help others.

Spiritual guidance may come from elders, or you could offer sensitive support to a younger person. This is an excellent new moon to start a meditation routine or explore practical applications for your spiritual beliefs or philanthropy. Valuable knowledge may even come from your dreams. Enhanced imagination can lead to practical benefits.

Pluto sextile Saturn-Neptune

Pluto sextile Saturn and Neptune helps you overcome hardship with endurance and determination. You can harness all your inner power to succeed in the most challenging tasks. Achievement and success are possible through your ability to stay focused, driven and efficient. Your tremendous work ethic makes you highly productive, making professional recognition and advancement possible.

A pioneering spirit makes you unafraid to challenge the accepted way of thinking and doing things. Your higher thought processes strive for order in chaos and simplicity in complexity. You can envision a more humanitarian approach and a shared responsibility for the welfare of everyone and everything, a collective dream.

Saturn conjunct Neptune

Saturn conjunct Neptune is generally associated with insecurity, confusion, self-doubt, fear and guilt. However, these planets are trine the new moon and sextile Pluto, allowing Saturn to materialize the more spiritual and idealistic nature of Neptune. This means you can make your dreams come true with hard work and a sensible, realistic approach.

You will understand your limitations while remaining optimistic. Spiritual wisdom cultivates patience and self-discipline, enabling you to prioritize long-term success over short-term gratification. Self-reflection, dreams, and meditation can help you integrate your spiritual life into your everyday life.

However, Saturn and Neptune align with fixed star Deneb Kaitos at 02°56′ Aries. It causes self-destruction by brute force, sickness, disgrace, misfortune and compulsory change. ^[5] Deneb Kaitos imparts selfishness, self-centeredness, melancholy, poverty, impulsiveness, idleness, and a self-driven, harsh, cruel and vindictive nature. ^[6] It is associated with inhibitions and restraint in every way, psychologically and physically. ^[7]

Easy Opposition

Easy Opposition

An Easy Opposition, technically, a Single Ambivalence aspect pattern, creates an ambivalent attitude, a dualistic world outlook, and a tendency to think in black-and-white terms. A sometimes absolutist either/or attitude can lead to arguments. ^[8]

Ambivalence is expressed in the two colors. The new moon opposite Pluto is marked by tension, pressure, and conflict. Saturn conjunct Neptune forms a third pole to the opposition, indicating a kind of switch point in the correct management of the ambivalent energies. It suggests an ideal world, where you see only beauty and goodness, and tension is swiftly dispatched.

Living mostly with Saturn-Neptune allows you to enjoy life. It is relatively easy to diffuse the opposition tension along the blue aspects. Saturn-Neptune enables a freer view of things, thus making the opposition more bearable.

However, seeking comfort and pleasure by only expressing Saturn-Neptune makes you unable to deal with conflict. And reverting to Saturn-Neptune when tension occurs means you are running away from your problems. The new moon opposite Pluto will always catch up with you if you ignore it. The intense inner restlessness would suddenly take over and embroil you in problems again.

The key to enjoying life and also being successful is to proactively use Saturn-Neptune to solve problems as soon as they arise. This not only relieves tension but also gives a sense of balance and direction. The skills and determination provided by this aspect pattern can then lead to outstanding achievements.

New Moon July 2025 in The Crab

The July 2025 new moon is in the Sign of Leo. But because of the precession of the equinoxes, it is in the Constellation Cancer.

Well-aspected, a New Moon in the Constellation Cancer gives strong feelings, sensitivity, compassion, sympathy, idealism, self-reliance, industriousness, devotion to family and country, maternal instincts, and a desire for comfort, quiet and solitude.

Harshly aspected, a New Moon in the Constellation Cancer gives restlessness, over-sensitivity, moodiness, sulleness, eccentricity, impulsiveness, selfishness, a lack of enterprise and a tendency to drift along. It can make you directionless, timid, touchy, overly emotional, and clingy.

New Moon July 2025

The July 2025 New Moon is situated between two stars in the Constellation Cancer. Zeta Cancri is named Tegmine, a Latin word meaning “covering, or shell.”

The closer star, Lambda Cancri, is named Piautos, meaning “the Eye”, from a Coptic lunar asterism. Piautos has a B9 spectrum, indicating a Jupiter-Venus nature.

01♌41 – Zeta Cancri, Tegmine
02♌08 – New Moon July 2025
02♌10 – Lambda Cancri, Piautos.

Jupiter-Venus brings contentment, happiness, honor, a philosophical mind, legal or ecclesiastical preferment, and assistance through women. ^[5]

Spectral class B indicates a fondness for power, great authority, the ability to command, martial honors, kingly preferment, victory over enemies, liberality, and cosmopolitan views. High honors, wealth, and renown are possible. It also suggests a higher spiritual nature, but few can respond to it. ^[6]

New Moon July 2025 Spiritual Meaning

The July 2025 new moon astrology represents a culmination of three months of Plutonian New Moons. The July 24 New Moon opposite Pluto is the most intense, with the opposition being the strongest of the aspects, and the aspect orb being the tightest.

The Pluto opposition creates a compulsive urge to assert your power and authority and take control of your life. However, an internal or external battle can result in low self-esteem and a crisis of confidence.

Thankfully, harmonious aspects to Saturn conjunct Neptune enable you to solve problems as soon as they arise and overcome hardship with endurance and determination.

The battle between the New Moon and Pluto can be viewed in mundane astrology as a conflict between individuals and global powers. The Sun conjunct Moon is all the good, honest and caring in humanity. Pluto represents the plutocrats: oligarchies and their global corporations, world leaders, and ultimately, Donald Trump.

Pluto also rules the abuse of power, the arms industry, dictators, torture, rape, murder, racial superiority, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and world wars. In Constellation Cancer, this New Moon increases the risk of selfishness, impulsiveness, nationalism and racism.

Using the example of the war in Gaza, humanity’s (New Moon) dissolution and despair at the continuing slaughter of starving people lining up for food manifests through Satun conjunct Neptune. This, in turn, is influencing Donald Trump (Pluto). Perhaps he will present an ultimatum to Israel, threatening to stop funding the war if the killing continues.

Of even greater significance is the war in Ukraine. It is less likely that ultimatums will be effective with Vladimir Putin; I doubt they are meant to be.

Moon Phases

The influence of the July 24 new moon lasts four weeks up to the August 23 new moon. The best time for starting new projects is during the two-week waxing moon phase from July 24 to the August 9 Full Moon.

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