angstoic.com Astrologer, Ang Stoic
On 1 December 2024, at 06:21 UTC, the Sagittarius New Moon forms at 9°33’; its galactic bowstring drawn taut, ready to emit a fiery promise of optimism and ambition. But promises mean nothing under skies like these. What should be a moment of boundless enthusiasm and grand vision is caught in a tangled web of planetary forces, each pulling at the fabric of this lunation, threatening to bring the Archer unstrung. Far from the usual, freedom-loving, idealistic lunation that Sagittarius delivers—this event finds us in a storm of contradictions, frustrations, and outright chaos. It becomes hard to focus on our lofty dreams when circumstances demand we focus on fundamental survival, forcing us to face the uncomfortable truths we’ve long avoided while grappling to find meaning in a world increasingly fractured and fraught with uncertainty.
Sagittarius: The Visionary Under Siege
Sagittarius is a sign of grand narratives and sweeping ideals. It’s where we lift our gaze from the immediate grind and aim for something bigger, something transcendent. It’s the preacher, the philosopher, the wanderer who longs to connect the dots of existence into a coherent story. The Sagittarius New Moon is supposed to be a moment of renewal for these aspirations, a time to set intentions that align with freedom, wisdom, and purpose. But under this lunation, those ideals feel like they’re choking on their own doublespeak and over-bloated hubris.
Why? Because this is Sagittarius under siege. Its ruling planet, Jupiter, is stuck retrograding in Gemini, the sign of its detriment. Gemini, the trickster, fragments what Sagittarius fights to unify. What should be a laser-sharp vision—a coherent message that rings true and inspires—dissolves into a kaleidoscope of disjointed ideas, shallow distractions, and an endless cacophony of trivia and noise. The opposition between the New Moon and Jupiter creates a punishing struggle between depth and superficiality, between the drive to find meaning and the temptation to drown in the deluge of digital detritus. Grand intentions devolve into half-baked schemes, while our mental focus fractures in a thousand directions. To complicate matters, Mercury, ruler of Gemini, is retrograde and directly opposing Jupiter. The quest to uncover the truth becomes almost blindsided as we cling to even the faintest shred of it in a world hell-bent on seducing us with its sophistries and clever distractions.
This tension is more than personal—it’s cultural, political, and existential. The mutability of the Sagittarius-Gemini axis highlights the chaos of competing narratives we live in today: the mindless natter we exchange, endless media cycles whose contradictory narratives indoctrinate us with polarising ideologies, and the relentless pressure to perform intellectual agility in a world that rewards exchanging soundbites over cultivating substance. This lunation forces us to ask: are we even capable of discerning the bigger picture anymore, or have we become too mentally fragmented to see beyond our immediate whims and fancies?
Saturn’s Iron Grip: Dreams Constrained by Reality
As if the Sagittarius-Jupiter opposition weren’t enough, Saturn in Pisces swoops in to fizzle out whatever optimism is left. Saturn squares both the New Moon and Jupiter, dragging lofty dreams into the swamp, demanding they face the ugly truth: there’s no escape from this quite depressing reality. Saturn doesn’t care about Sagittarius’ hifalutin hopes or Gemini’s clever distractions. It cares only about imposing limits, demanding accountability, and the hard, unglamorous business of making something, however abstract real (or bust).
Saturn in Pisces is an especially cruel overseer. Pisces dissolves, blurs, and romanticises, but Saturn thrives on structure and discipline. The result is a maddening paradox: the need to build something enduring out of whispy dreams that keep slipping through our fingers. As messy and retarding to growth as this gets, the square from Saturn is relentless, forcing us to confront where we’ve been lazy, deluded, or downright irresponsible in dealing with the pragmatic realities of life. For every bright idea Sagittarius conjures, Saturn demands to know: how are you going to make it work? And for every clever quip Jupiter in Gemini throws out, Saturn reminds us that all our witticisms don’t equal an ounce of wisdom.
So, this square isn’t just a minor buzzkill—it’s a full-scale dismantling of our pretensions and cognitive dissonances. It exposes exactly where our fantasies collapse under scrutiny, where our beliefs are riddled with contradictions and mocked by incoherence, and where the cold, unrelenting reality of limitations reduces our grand visions to mere illusions. On a collective scale, Saturn lays bare the hollow promises of institutions, shoddy ideologies, and grossly ineffectual systems that no longer hold weight. It’s a brutal, unflinching reality check, indifferent to whether it stings—a stark realism that mirrors the ironic tension of our time: the clash between revolutionary ideals and the gruelling, incremental labour of creating meaningful change.
Eris: The Outsider Strikes Back
Lurking in the darkest shadows of this lunation is Eris, the distant dwarf planet of discord, forming a precise sesquisquare to the Sagittarius New Moon. Eris doesn’t play nice—she’s the cosmic anarchist, the envy-ridden outsider who’s had enough of feeling ignored, excluded, and cast aside. Her influence in this lunation is like a transgenerational pressure cooker ready to explode. She’s not asking for attention; she downright demands it in the most unhinged way possible, and she’ll tear down whatever’s in her way to get it.
The tension is further radicalised by a semisextile from Uranus in Taurus, which injects Eris’ disgust with an obstinate streak of unpredictability and outright chaos. Together, they amplify the sense of disruption, the gnawing feeling that the cracks in the system are widening into gaping chasms, and the pissed-off minions are on the brink of doing the unspeakable. Eris reminds us of what happens when marginalised voices are ignored for too long—she disrupts, destabilises, and forces a confrontation of uncomfortable truths. Under this lunation, the energy is raw, scornful, and highly volatile. It demands that we face the parts of ourselves and our society we’ve tried to bury or deny, no matter how grotesque and abhorrent they may be.
Venus and Mars: Passion Meets Pragmatism
Meanwhile, Venus in Capricorn adds a sobering tone to the New Moon. Venus’ square to Eris and semi-square to the lunation itself turn the pursuit of affection, approval, and harmony into a hard-edged negotiation. Venus in Capricorn doesn’t play games—she solicits practical outcomes, undulating loyalty, and transactional results. This is a Venus who’s less interested in flowery assurances and lofty ideals and more about stepping up responsibly and showing up to meet one’s duties, even when the chips are down. For the Sagittarius New Moon, this influence adds weight, a reminder that intentions mean nothing without the grit to follow through.
Offsetting the weight is Mars in Leo, forming a nice Fire Trine to the New Moon and injecting the lunation with some degree of passion, vigour, and creative energy. Mars offers courage and a sense of determination, urging us to pursue our goals with confidence and a sense of pride and integrity. But there’s a catch—Mars is slowing down around 06°♌10′, preparing to station retrograde on 7 December. The fervent conviction Mars lends now could easily turn to frustration or doubt as its energy turns inward. Actions initiated under this lunation may face delays, reversals, or a need for serious reassessment due to minor insults that, in the most convoluted sense, turn into prideful indignations.
The Dark Heart of This Lunation
To be brutally honest, this Sagittarius New Moon fires towards truth less like a precise arrow and bludgeons at it, more like a blunt instrument. Amidst the convergence of clashing forces, competing narratives, and the stark realisation that ideals without grounding are merely unfounded delusions waiting to collapse under a confluence of cosmic debunkings, Sagittarius reminds us to always aim for the high moral ground. Yet, the weighty planetary discordance demands we look down at the ground we’re standing on—crumbling as it may be—and ask ourselves, “Can we even handle the truth?”
So this is not, by any ordinary means, a lunation for naïve optimism, wishful thinking or reckless leaps of faith. Coupled with the Full Moon that follows on December 15th, this ‘holiday season’ becomes a harrowingly brutal period to confront our deeply internalised disorientation, the limits of our delusory contracts, and the raw, unsettling truths we’d rather ignore and wish would just vanish. It commands us to wake up to reality, to integrate vision with clear-eyed pragmatism, ambition with discipline, and freedom with responsibility. It implores us to aim our arrows not at some unreachable star but at the one target that truly matters—whatever is real, present with us, whatever proves that it endures and we can carry forward when the storm inevitably arrives.
Because make no mistake, my friends: the storm is here. Whether we navigate it with courage or succumb to its chaotic design depends entirely on our willingness to face the darkness, to wrestle with our self-made contradictions, and to rebuild our world—not as we wish it to be, but as it is.
In a world fraught with contradictions, the Sagittarius New Moon invites us to embrace complexity—not as a barrier but as a gateway to a greater understanding of nature’s immutable laws. It is through navigating these tensions that we grow, not just as individuals but as a collective, striving toward a future that is as inspired as it is grounded. This fortnight’s horoscopes illuminate the potential conflicts we’re experiencing within ourselves and with the world around us as we struggle to make meaning. They offer guidance on how to harness the New Moon to set intentions that work with the hindrances and encumbrances, ensuring our path forward is both enlightening and empowering. I leave you with these insights and thank you graciously for your support xx.
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