Dec 19-21 2025 - Sagittarius New Moon & Winter Solstice Gateway
Dec 17, 2025
As we approach the final New Moon of the year, we enter a rare and powerful threshold. The Sagittarius New Moon arrives on December 19 (or early December 20, depending on your location), followed closely by the Winter Solstice on Sunday, December 21, 2025.
Rather than a single moment, this is a three-day initiation — an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and tend the inner flame.
🌑 Sagittarius New Moon
✨ December 19, 2025
(2:43 PM HT | 5:43 PM PT | 8:43 PM ET | 1:43 AM UK on Dec 20)
This New Moon unfolds at 28° Sagittarius, aligned with the Galactic Center, opening a powerful window for expanded awareness, intuitive insight, and soul-level recalibration.
You may feel more sensitive, spacious, emotional, tired, inspired — or simply aware that something is shifting beneath the surface. Nothing is wrong. Something old is gently dissolving so something truer can take root.
Sagittarius, the seeker and truth-bearer of the zodiac, invites us to lift our gaze toward the horizon. This is not about rushing forward, but about orienting toward a more honest path — one guided by wisdom, curiosity, and trust rather than certainty.
✨ This New Moon initiates the final shedding of the nine-year Wood Snake cycle — a slow, intentional release that continues into the weeks ahead.
At the same time, this lunation forms a dynamic tension with Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, inviting the release of outdated beliefs, identities, and expectations. You may notice:
- A desire to let go of old stories or roles
- A need for more rest, silence, or time in nature
- Heightened intuition, dreams, or emotional clearing
Rather than demanding clarity, this lunation asks for presence.
You are planting a seed now that will unfold over the coming months — especially as we move into 2026. Let your intention be simple, honest, and heart-led.
Ways to align with this New Moon:
- Reflect on what beliefs or patterns you are ready to release
- Journal or meditate with a question rather than an answer
- Spend time in candlelight or under the night sky
- Set one gentle intention for freedom, truth, or expansion
🌞 Winter Solstice — The Return of the Light
✨ Sunday, December 21, 2025
Solstice exact at
(5:03 AM HT | 7:03 AM PT | 10:03 AM ET | 3:03 PM UK)
The Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year and the quiet rebirth of the Sun. Even in the deepest darkness, the light has already begun to return.
This sacred turning point invites deep rest, reflection, and integration. What has been released can now compost into wisdom. What has been gestating can begin to take form — slowly, intentionally, and with care.
✨ For our friends in the Southern Hemisphere:
This moment marks your Summer Solstice — a celebration of fullness, vitality, and radiant life force. As we honor the return of the light in the North, we also honor the peak of light in the South, holding the balance of the Earth’s great breathing cycle together.
In this season:
- Calm becomes medicine
- Stillness becomes guidance
- Listening becomes leadership
🔥 Winter Solstice / Mother’s Night Ceremony
Saturday, December 20, 2025 | 6:00 PM HT
On Saturday evening, December 20, we gather in sacred community to honor Winter Solstice and Mother’s Night — the ancestral night that welcomes the return of the light and honors the Great Mother, the womb of creation, and the unseen realms.
✨ Winter Solstice & Mother’s Night Ceremony
📅 Saturday, December 20, 2025
⏰ 6:00 PM Hawaiʻi Time (HT)
📍 In person at the Temple of Peace, Maui
💻 Livestreamed via the Black Swan Temple Facebook page
This ceremony will weave sacred sound, prayer, and ritual to support reflection, release, and renewal as we cross this powerful threshold together.
🔗 Join the livestream via our Black Swan Temple Facebook Page:
All are welcome — near and far.
✨ Deepening Practices
✨ Deepening Practices for this Sagittarius New Moon, Mother’s Night, and Winter Solstice gateway are now posted inside the Community → Ritual Area. These offerings are designed to support release, rest, and integration across this three-day threshold. Enter as you feel called.
✨ Closing Benediction
May this threshold meet you gently.
May what is ready to fall away do so with grace.
May the wisdom gathered through this long cycle
be distilled into clarity, compassion, and courage.
As the Earth turns and the Sun is reborn,
may you remember your own inner light —
steady, luminous, and always returning.
