The July 2025 New Moon at 3 Leo Pt. 1 - What’s Happening in July-August 2025

by Robert Wilkinson

The New Moon in July is happening soon! After the “karmic adjustments” of the past month, we’re now able to experience a new freedom. This will be a stabilizing month, even if what’s surfacing requires elimination or a form of purification.

This Lunation introduces a new focus wherever we have 3 Leo, a degree of “human independence” and a “desire for a greater participation” in society. This New Moon is the third in the Saturn in Aries era, with aspects which show a stabilizing and harmonizing of the early degrees of the Fire and Air elements in our charts. We are now experiencing the future-in-the-making as this Lunation engages the harmonious “three note chord” of Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune and Saturn in Aries, and Uranus in Gemini.

While the double sextile and trine between Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto will continue in September and most of October, we’ll then return to one last look at Saturn and Neptune in Pisces and Uranus in Taurus through the Autumn and into the Winter, with the Fire/Air configuration coming back in early 2026.

Due to where the inner planets are now, the focus of activity these next 4 weeks is spread out in a 51+ degree span which begins with Venus at 23 Gemini and ends with Mercury RX at 14 Leo. This septile shows this is another “fork in the road of destiny” Lunation, where our integrated personality must “let the Soul speak!”

The span begins with Venus at 23 Gemini, followed by Jupiter at 11 Cancer, the Lunation at 3 Leo, and Mercury at 14 Leo, putting 5 planets in that 51+ degree span. You can see it’s a very crowded situation wherever we have late Gemini to mid-Leo in our chart.

An Overview of the New Moon

Today we’ll do an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In part 2 we’ll cover Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

This liberating, stabilizing, creative and expressive New Moon at 3 Leo occurs at 12:11 pm PDT on July 24. This expands on the themes of the Summer Solstice, stabilizing the challenging squares of that Solstice through the sextiles and trines between the Lunation and the outer spiritual planets between Saturn and Pluto.

After the past 4 weeks of “karmic adjustments,” we now are free to express what we want, embrace what we want, and admire our “mature experience” as leading us to this freedom. And with Mars at 22 Virgo quintile Jupiter at 11 Cancer, expect unique gifts and opportunities associated with seeing the humor or irony in situations.

We are now in a season of approaching non-Lunar oppositions by the inner planets and Mars. This Lunation opposes Pluto, and Mars is almost in orb to its opposition to Pluto which happens in early August with Mars at 2 Libra opposing Saturn and Neptune at 1 Aries.

At this time of year the Sun shines a light on all of us in our Leo sector, allowing us to new forms of expressing the larger Aquarian emergent energy. This New Moon will jumpstart Leo energy wherever it falls in our chart, whether through something erupting spontaneously or creatively, or heartfelt expressions of radiant inspiration. This is a time to express our hearts, and take a new look at how we’re expressing the core of our heart’s understanding.

So What Rules the Lunation?

This New Moon in Leo has the Sun in its home sign of Leo as its ruler, making it exceptionally powerful as it rules the stage! This is a time to be creative, expressive, and playful seeing we’re free to express ourselves confident in our experience.

As Leo is in the axis of the Archetype of the King/Queen/Noble, we can see the greatest good for our “realm” and bring forms of “divine law” into our lives. This allows us to see clearly how to take command of Leo energies in our charts to express its strength, commitment, and “conduction,” both artistically and electrically. As this archetype is also “the Orphan,” or “Law Giver,” remember that you are the ruler of your realm, and if you want it to prosper, you have to heal your wounds which prevent your realm from becoming fruitful.

So the Sun rules the Moon and Mercury in Leo. Venus in Gemini is ruled by Mercury. Mars in Virgo is ruled by Mercury in Leo. Jupiter in Cancer is ruled by the Moon, Saturn in Aries is ruled by Mars, Uranus in Gemini is ruled by Mercury, Neptune in Aries is ruled by Mars, and Pluto in Aquarius is ruled by Saturn.

So this month all the planets are ruled by the Sun, which is the “final dispositor” of all the other planets. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.

Who Leads the Light?

At this time, the “gateway to the light” is Jupiter at 11 Cancer. This indicates the “entry to illumination” involves opening to new opportunities, either to care for or protect, nurture or be nurtured, related to techniques which helps us move out of old ways into the future. Of course, Jupiter's expansive nature is made more cautious in Cancer, but it’s also the sign of its exaltation, or grounds of greatest growth. Expand your caring and ability to nurture and be nurtured while Jupiter is in Cancer.

Jupiter will continue to be the gateway to the Light until the Inferior conjunction of Mercury with on July 31, after which Mercury will be the gateway to the Light until its Superior conjunction with the Sun in mid-September, after which Venus will be the gateway to the Light. The study of which planet leads the Sun is a crucial but often overlooked part of understanding how the planets work in sequence.

The Sun/Moon Sequence and Its Shifts

There are two patterns: one with the Sun in the same sign as the Sun in the following Full Moon (New Moon between 1-15 degrees of a sign), and one with the Sun in a different sign than it’s in at the following Full Moon (New Moon between 16-30 degrees of a sign). I term these the “Natural” pattern and the “Alternate” pattern, since the Natural pattern shows a continuity of the Light, whereas the Alternate pattern bridges the Light across two signs. Each pattern has its importance in the Soli-Lunar sequence, and at the end of each period of the Natural pattern we shift into a pattern which “bridges the Light” across two different Light signs in the Lunation cycle.

We are now at the fourteenth New Moon in many months where the Sun sign of the New Moon is also the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. A while back we finished an era when the New Moon Sun sign was different than the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. This month’s New Moon Sun is at 3 Leo, and the coming Full Moon Sun is at 17 Leo. This indicates that we’re in a time when the illuminated seed forms of the New Moon are the same energies which will find fulfillment at the Full Moon.

The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced and made pleasing in Libra, purified and focused in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.

Eclipses Effects in Play

The 2023 and 2024 Solar eclipses have been removing parts of our lives where we have 10, 20 and 30 Aries, and 11 and 22 Libra. We now care about other things, have a new focus, and can join with others for mutual strengthening. We continue to eliminate old ways of self-expression and equivocating in relationships, and now have eliminated old associations to create space to join with others to overcome “seasonal impotency.” We are now freed of many old ideals and areas we used to work within. All of these eclipses ask us “What is the purpose to what you leave behind and what you’re moving into?”

The recent powerful Total Lunar eclipse at 24 Virgo/Pisces has been removing many things from that sector over the past few months. The Lunar and Solar eclipses in March 2025 were the last with Neptune in Pisces, as Neptune will be in Aries for all future eclipses.

Jupiter and Saturn

A new era began at the 22 Taurus Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in April 2024, launching a new 13 year adventure into new lives. That conjunction theme is about us seeing “the white dove flying over troubled waters” which promises that our ordeal is completed and we are or will see a sign from Spirit announcing a new day, a new land, and a new life wherever we have 22 Taurus.

Jupiter is now separating from its recent squares to Saturn and Neptune in Aries, and approaching the “fated” biseptiles to those planets over the next couple of weeks, accenting this as a major “fork in the road of destiny” month to come. In this chart Jupiter teaches us to see the humor or irony in things, and if appropriate, “puncture ego pomposities.” It should help us not to take some things so seriously while giving us glimpses of our quintessential values based in what we hold as venerable. We’re still in a purification process which won’t be completed until January 2026.

Saturn is extraordinarily important in this New Moon because it is retrograde on its 2 Aries stationary point, a degree of finding objectivity through humor, or at least experiencing “the joy of new discoveries.” We are at the threshold of an entirely new era from the last one, with one last look back this Autumn as Saturn finishes “structuring” what Neptune brought in Pisces.

So Saturn has now joined the anticipatory “chord” created by Neptune and Pluto in new signs with Uranus joining to make it a “three note chord” in July and August. This will be a productive Summer, though when Saturn retrogrades back into Pisces it will make another septile to Pluto. The first was in May, showing the larger Aquarius era has hit a major “fork in the road” with hard edged, non-rational events in play. The final turning of the wheel will be in December.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn now begins to exert its understanding and authority in Aries, the realm of direct self-initiated action, it is showing us the way forward. And because it’s ruled by Mars in Virgo instead of Jupiter in Gemini, expect Saturn to be more precise and practical from now through the end of August. We now begin a powerful restructuring of spiritual force wherever we have the first 3 degrees of Aries in our chart. Saturn has taught us a Master Class in compassion and forgiveness practices and now it’s time to take the initiative in some way to begin the structure of our future.

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A Look Back - The Great Compression of 2020 in Capricorn Still Affects Us

We’re now in our sixth year of a long term focus wherever we have late Capricorn and early Aquarius in our charts. In the first 90 days of 2020, we had a “Great Compression” of planets involving Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all making conjunctions in the last decan of Capricorn, setting off a number of Saturn cycles, one of which will last 33 years! We then began an accelerated phase of our collective spiritual evolution which will take us from the threshold of the Age of Aquarius into the Age itself.

You can find out more about the very powerful Sun, Mercury, and Saturn's conjunctions with Pluto by revisiting The Great Compression of January 2020 – Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Pluto all Conjunct in Capricorn. That lays out the long wave patterns set into motion then.

Because of the Capricorn conjunctions set in motion in 2020, we reorganized our lives wherever we have late Capricorn in our charts. These cycles will impact all of us for some time to come. Especially with three Jupiter conjunctions with Pluto that year, it’s easy to see that for better or worse things were “expansively purified.”

When Mars conjuncted Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, it set a cycle into motion which began to expand into a global system at the December 2020 Grand Mutation on the same degree. That Jupiter/Saturn conjunction launched both a new 20 year Aquarian cycle AND a new 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs. That means less materialism than the past 200 years, with more focus on our commonality and ability to share ideas over the next 200.

Saturn in Aquarius led us to understand a more timeless role to play to help create a better world. Since then we have deepened with Saturn in Pisces. Now we’re seeing the future before one last look back in the Autumn and early Winter. That’s when we’ll finish our quest of asking “What is our purpose? What do I need to do to fulfill the ideal of that purpose?”

Chiron in Aries

Chiron involves mentoring or being mentored, assisting or being assisted. In this chart, Chiron is stationary retrograde at 28 Aries, a degree of needing to face facts and consequences, seeing what we or another may have “overpromised” or the limits around the “reclaiming of an opportunity thought lost” at 27 Aries.

Chiron is said to help us “heal into our Higher Self” and the themes of 28 Aries promise a retrograde review of all the new developments based in our new “mental maturity and slow growth of the creative faculty” which has helped us “revise our attitudes” through “mental house cleaning.”

This continues our adventure related to Chiron’s healing and mentoring energies in the last half of Aries. We now have two major Chironic themes in play: one was set into motion when Mars conjuncted Chiron in Aries in 2024, which I explained in Mars Conjunct Chiron at 23 Aries. The other major Chironic cycle was set into motion when Chiron went stationary direct in late December, which I wrote about in Astrology Healing Cycles in 2025 - Chiron Stationary Direct at 19 Aries.

So Aries continues to dominate the Mars/Chiron cycle, with a new long wave Chironic pulse added at the Jupiter/Chiron cycle which began at 15 Aries in March 2023. This began a new cycle of “the expansive healer,” “opportunities to mentor and be mentored,” and "healing and teaching through humor." The last Jupiter/Chiron conjunction happened in late Aquarius in 2009, and this one lasts through 2036 when they meet again at 17 Gemini. This is an important cycle which will help us “heal into our Higher Self” at crucial points over the next 13 years.

Summing Up - The Big Picture

The Capricorn conjunctions of early 2020 continue to condition the long wave cycles unfolding since then even as we simultaneously build a new Aquarian social-spiritual ideal. We’re now at a stage where we can claim a new part to play in the bigger picture of our spiritual journey. We are in the dawning of the Pluto in Aquarius era, with new work to be done, and on a new adventure. Enjoy the clarity of Uranus trine Pluto happening now through November. We are learning how to stabilize and express the dawning Plutonic seeds of the emerging Aquarian era, so things will be very “transitional” from now through early 2026.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

We are now at the creative-expressive phase at the beginning of a new era! Feel your independence and ability to express yourself authentically over the next few weeks, a new view of the creative process to take shape. Take a new look at how you wish to express your Soul, and follow through based in the excellence of the standards you venerate.

See the new era dawning these next 5 weeks, with an eye to Saturn retrograding back into Pisces in September. Autumn will be a time to revisit “the end of the end” in a transition zone between an old way and a new life, finishing up old duties and responsibilities while preparing to embrace the new world of experience coming this Summer.

Final Thoughts

In 2020-2022, Capricorn helped us to find new forms of social power, while Aquarius took it into a much vaster context of a greater good. As you journey into the “new lands” promised by the April Jupiter conjunction with Uranus, remember enlightenment is a verb, not a noun, and our connection with the World Soul allows us to act in harmony with “All That Is.”

Due to our total immersion in Aquarian energy in 2021-2022, we’ve received innovative ideas and know who our spiritual allies are. In the past 4 years we’ve broken away, broken free, and broken through whatever used to block our flow. We approach a new cooperative era, and we’re in a time of new initiatives!

We’re still becoming more conscious of our interrelatedness within the spiritual field and moving through an immersion in a new sensitivity to the generic human condition. The new era dawning will show us that we are in fact individual sparks of Light within an infinite ocean of Light. We are not separate from any other thing, since all things are Light and therefore we are one with All.

This is the beginning of the beginning of a new 200 year era. The powerful forces being released at times may be chaotic, violent, intractable, and irrational, but there is power in our unified vision of a better future. Stay clear about what your vision is, and let go of all which prevents you from flying free with your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters into a better future. Keep the course steady despite the compressed tensions of this time, and know we’re on our way into the future together!

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See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!

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