When: 1st of December at 7:21pm (NZ), 5:21pm (Sydney), 4:51pm (Adelaide), 4:21pm (Brisbane), 3:51pm (Darwin), 2:21pm (Perth/Beijing), 11:21pm (India), 7:21am (Milan), 6:21am (London), 1:21am (NY) + 30th of November 11:21pm (Boulder) and 10:21pm (LA).

Themes: Obstacles as Blessings, Karmic Redirection + Seeing the Bigger Picture

NOT GETTING WHAT YOU WANT CAN BE EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED

This Sagittarius New Moon is really unusual. Normally when you think Sagittarius there's a focus on abundance, exploration, luck and curiosity. It's a sign that expands everything is touches. But this Moon is a little different, as it's not really interested in the ego's wants, it’s desire for freedom or to escape what is going on right in front of it.

As this Moon will be aligned with the Asteroid Ganesha (as well as in tension with Jupiter and Saturn) you're entering a cosmic cycle calling for obstacles to be faced, and for you to lean into this tension instead of running from it. The greater lesson of this Lunar Cycle is that sometimes not getting what you want, can be the greatest blessing. Even if you can't see if in the short-term. This is a time to remember that the universe isn't set up to satisfy the ego but to help you realise your divinity.

ASK FOR THE COURAGE + WISDOM TO FACE THE OBSTACLE

As this New Moon peaks you can find that you start to really see, feel and experience the ways in which you run, escape and try to distract yourself from the lesson you are here to learn in life. Where the ego believes that more money, food, sex, power or love from another would fix everything...none of these actually lead to realisation. In fact it's through not getting what you want, that you learn and awaken. So this is a New Moon not to ask for your karma to be removed, or things to be 'unblocked' but rather ask for the courage + wisdom to face what is front of you. As it is through facing your own obstacles (which are often the desires of the ego) you have the ability to step into greater understanding, compassion and soul evolution with this Moon.

THERE IS NO RUSH WITH THIS MOON

Although Sagittarius is normally very impulsive, this Moon, which is opposed it's ruler Jupiter and in challenge with Saturn (Lord of Karma), is calling for you to slow things all the way down. This is a Moon to lay your intentions and ask for help in facing what currently blocks you to your own liberation. Yes, the people, situations and experiences which have you feeling limited, claustrophobic, and just wanting to run. This is what you are ready to lean into and to learn from. This New Moon opens up an 18-month cycle of incredible spiritual understanding and existential questioning that will take you through to the Sagittarius Full Moon on the 31st of May, 2026 (which will be at 9'35 in harmony with Saturn). Suggesting that this is a lunar cycle where you are not just facing your karma but also being called to work deliberately and slowly through these blocks - which are there for your soul's evolution. Remember with this New Moon the obstacle is the way.

AWAKENING TO YOUR OWN LIMITATIONS

Sagittarius is an energy that trusts the world, that wants to see the bigger picture and has limitless faith. As this Moon finds itself opposite it's ruler, Jupiter in Gemini, it's time for this to be tested. This is a New Moon that wants you to awaken to your limitations, but in order to do that you need the right amount of pressure to see them. So be prepared that this Moon can bring you situations, people + experiences which show you the limits of your trust in the universe, the ways in which you actually find it hard to have faith...and the ways in which you are truely blinded to seeing the bigger picture (because of a focus of trying to control what is right in front of you). This is a Moon showing you what you haven't been able to see, but instead of resenting this or getting frustrated with it - see it as a blessing (if you can). Everything that is coming up with this Moon is there for you enlightenment, for your realisation for your growth!

THIS CAN BE A TIME FOR ENDINGS TOO

This New Moon will be aligned with the Royal Star, Anatares. This is Archangel Uriel's star and it holds the energy of life + death within it, as the ‘Watcher of the West’. It’s a portal which calls for you to zoom out across lifetimes, and start to understand how the block that this New Moon is bringing up are not new, and in fact they most definitely are something you have carried with you through lives. As this star, guards the 'Garden of Eden' (aka the Galactic Centre') it can really put you to test, and call for you to burn through what is false, those thoughts that keep you separate and thinking you a victim of the universe. This is a New Moon for deep spiritual realisation, existential understanding, and entertaining the bigger questions in life (without necessarily having to answer them). Added to that you can find that surrounding you is a lot of energy around ‘death’ and rebirth from the influence of this Star.

PS. If you're feeling this Antares energy, join me in a Group Healing Practice with the star this weekend. Details here.

NO MUD NO LOTUS

Finally this New Moon falls, in Vedic Astrology, in Anuradha Nakshatra. This is a mansion symbolised by the Lotus. This is a flower associated with enlightenment and wisdom, added to that it grows out of mud. As such, you can find that this New Moon is one to realise that the 'mud' in your life - which you might be trying to ignore or wash away - is actually what you need to grow. The ‘mud’ is a metaphor for the people and situation that are sticky, that trigger you and manifest in jealousy, anger, frustration etc. This is a New Moon acknowledge that you need these perceived 'blocks' to grow. You might not be in charge of the hand you've been dealt in this lifetime, but you are in control of how you choose to see it + use it. Just like the Lotus you can use it to bloom.

WORK WITH THE ENERGY OF THE SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON + MERCURY RX.

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