This pre-festive season New Moon is a powerful ending & beginning point. Emerging at 28 Sagittarius at 01.43GMT on 20th December, it sits conjunct the Galactic Centre, Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy – birthplace of stars.
The Galactic Centre is the powerhouse of the universal system; its gravitational pull acting as an anchor for stars, planets, and gases. The GC doesn’t actively ‘do’ anything; yet its high-energy radiation and magnetic fields is the centre of the centre of the centre i.e., its immense mass & energy output create a dynamic environment that influences the entire galaxy. Simply in its presence (because it exists) galactic creation happens.
It could be said that it’s analogous to your whole heart-mind system that keeps you alive; that allows consciousness to flow through you into the creation of your individual life. Simply, because you’re here in a body, creation happens through you & in your life.
Astrologically, the GC is a point that facilitates connection to higher consciousness, cosmic wisdom, the soul’s purpose. It is a doorway for intergalactic energy & spiritual insight way beyond the mundanity of human life. As this New Moon (Sun representing pure essence of individuality & Moon the daily ebb & flow of life/feelings) aligns with the GC, it deepens themes of spiritual awakening and profound shifts in perspective. It’s both personal and galactic.
Key themes:
– Tuning in to a broader understanding of who you truly are & what you are here for.
– Reflecting on: Who would I be if everything in my life fell away?
– Inquiring: What can I truly rely on in myself?
– Taking responsibility for your own happiness.
– Bringing relationships to a higher finer frequency of connectivity
– Acknowledging & living from your centre of presence
This New Moon introduces the themes of a rare alignment of Venus, Mars, and the Sun between 6-9th January in Capricorn, exact 8th January, which remains active until late March. Venus/Mars/Sun is a thirty-two year cycle, delivering re-evaluation of what is truly important to your wellbeing, life creativity & enjoyment and how you act on it.
As Capricorn is the final Earth sign, a deeply shamanic energy, this also calls forth the contribution of personal wellbeing & enjoyment into the wider community. This will be the closest Venus–Mars conjunction with the Sun since August 1987. The alignment does not happen again as exactly until after 2100.
Along with other potent astrological signatures, this end-of-year period supports an upgrade of life experience, learning, purpose & contribution. It’s a personal integration point that has a broader impact. We are called to stay within the presence of our Being whilst the dregs of our human misalignments are transmuted. In this, you are asked to trust like never before & let go of needing certainty about what is coming. The feeling is, the knowing is, something new is coming in. The challenge is to let go of trying to see it, or make it happen but simply to allow the process of gestation & divine timing to ground in you.
Point of reflection where relevant: what was happening in your life thirty-two years ago, even in 1987? Did you or your life change radically at that point? What type of uplift happened then & in which aspect of your life? Both time periods were profoundly life-changing for me.
As Capricorn also represents corporations, governments, plutocrats & the crumbling power structures of the collective, we may see a profound reshuffling & rebalancing of alliances & power bases. Personally, this reflects a need to reassess our own power bases. The calling to take fuller response-ability for the impact of our personal lives on the collective, to assume the role of global citizen. This suggests activism and action for global & environmental wellbeing is certainly needed, yet it more aptly relates to the consciousness you’re living with and expressing. A step up in the practical living of integrated presence, high frequency consciousness, is called for. This step-up creates a sustainable foundation for 2026’s incoming frequencies from Spring onwards, when the fast, free & light energies of fire & air elements will begin to predominate.
The period of shedding & deconstruction we have been in since 2020 will begin to bear fruit as new inspiration & initiative in 2026. We are at a crossroads between now & Spring 2026.
With Hekate, Crone/Wise Woman Asteroid, conjunct this New Moon & the GC, we are at the crux point. The light of Hekate’s torch, the instinctual wisdom of her animal companions, the sharpness of her dagger that cuts away untruth, & her keys to new life, are our tools. Hekate is the guardian of liminal space – the waiting without waiting for gestation to move towards birth. Trust in the process is a key component of her wisdom. Trust that you are a vital & valuable aspect of this transformational process. Remember this always! Discover the profound presence of your deeper centre. It can be trusted.
The Astrology
New Moon 28 Sagittarius 01.43GMT 20th December conjunct the Galactic Centre
Also conjunct Venus at 24 Sagittarius, Juno at 26 Sagittarius, Hekate at 27 Sagittarius & Mars at 3 Capricorn
square Saturn & Neptune at 25/29 Pisces, & Ceres at 4 Aries
trine Chiron & Eris at 22.24 Aries
quincunx Uranus at 28 Taurus
New Moon ruled by Jupiter at 24 Cancer
