Sagittarius New Moon: December 12
Understanding the Larger World
Here are some insights about the opportunities and challenges that the Scorpio New Moon offers, which I hope helps you make the most of the moment. It includes an overview of this lunation and its unique features. The full article—available as a perk for paid subscribers—also includes calendar connections, stellar reflection journaling questions, self-care suggestions, and dates and inspirations for Moon Mapping this month.
New Moons are auspicious monthly celestial events that usher in fresh cycles of creation. When this lunation occurs in Sagittarius, we may find ourselves called to envision the preliminary shape of a new project that can help us forge a greater understanding of the world around us. Expanding our horizons to embrace a different philosophical perspective—even just trying it on for size temporarily—can be incredibly valuable and uplifting.
Around the Sagittarius New Moon we may find ourselves starting sentences with the word Why. These may be questions that help us garner understanding or declarative statements with which we share our perspective with others. Relatedly, it’s a good time to pay homage to those who have been our teachers or guides, who have lit the path for us so that we can travel it with more enlightenment. From this reflection, we may also gain unexpected insights into how we have served as preceptors for others.
Travel is oftentimes on our minds as we desire to expand our vantage point and have experiences that stretch the definition of who we are and what we understand. Even if actual travel itself is not possible, exploring other cultures through magazines, the Internet, a foreign film, or even enjoying an ethnic meal provides ways to spark new beginnings in our personal quest to understand what is possible in life.
Unique Features of this Sagittarius New Moon
This year’s Sagittarius New Moon makes a square to Neptune. This invites us to dream, and turn to our intuition and imagination. We may experience a sense of dissolve, whether a blurring of boundaries, a diffusion of energy, a temporary fading of thought, and/or a fusion with the poetic and divine.
Illusion, confusion and/or disillusionment may also have a theme; to help to stem the tides of feeling unmoored, connect to possibilities while also remembering likelihoods and realistic expectations. Be aware of the lens through which you are perceiving things and observe how it may be tinting that which you see. Also watch for a desire to escape, as well as the mechanism you use to do so; this lunation offers a powerful time for healing notably if we can see that our numbing strategies don’t really offer us a salve for our pain but rather add to it. (For more reflection on Neptune, see this week’s Stellar Insights.)
Additionally, this New Moon falls on the heels of Mercury shifting retrograde, which happens less than eight hours after this lunation. With Mercury stationing still for a while—both before and after it shifts retrograde—we may sense that we’re moving through a swirl of information, thoughts, and data streams. Go slow and titrate inputs and outputs so as to avoid the overwhelm that can lead to nervous system agitation.
