New Moon @ 2 degrees Leo 08'

July 24, 2025

3:11 PM EDT

12:11 PM PDT

July's New Moon falls in tropical Leo, striking a dynamic opposition to Pluto in Aquarius and a square to Chiron in Aries. Alongside Mercury's retrograde cycle, this lunation is a time for more careful planning and consideration, particuarly when implementing big moves or new endeavors. In this dark of the Moon, it's wise to practice more consolidation, contemplation, and reflection.

Pluto's opposition reveals a destructive rather than constructive dynamic, as does Mercury's retrogradation, a time for making revisions, adjustments, and space for reconstruction. This clashes with the creative and playful nature of Leo, and we can feel that tension in many ways, as a desire to keep things light or positive amid heavier or daunting truths or realities.

The nature of Pluto, especially in oppositional tension, is to bring to the light of consciousness a more shadowy underbelly to the world around us. From a Jungian perspective, this equally reflects our shadow--our own denied, repressed, and rejected nature, which resonates heavily with the Plutonian archetype.

However, there is greater power and freedom in facing this dimension of ourselves and the world. In doing so, we lessen the more destructive and harmful expression of it, either through greater awareness that helps mitigate its impact or by transmuting its energy toward more constructive purposes.

Here we find the true creative power of this New Moon, in looking into the more neglected aspect of something to bring forth vital sources of energy and power. To make use of what might otherwise be ignored or denied, and to surrender to the wisdom of the unconscious more than emphasize the rational and heroic dimension of ourselves and external world.