The new moon in August 2025 comes under intense pressure from the four slowest-moving planets. So, the spiritual meaning of the new moon in August 2025 astrology is taking action in response to the stress and demands of continuing dramatic change.
The August 2025 new moon gives a sense of urgency that compels action, leaving you no time to prepare or think about the consequences. But it also provides alertness, motivation, persistence, courage, optimism and hope.
New Moon August 2025 Astrology
The new moon on August 23, 2025, is at 00°23′ Virgo. The chart below shows the New Moon making challenging red and green aspects to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The August 2025 New Moon turns the long-term Minor Grand Trine between the outer planets into a new configuration called a Model Aspect Pattern.
New Moon August 2025
New Moon August 2025 Meaning
Sun conjunct Moon represents cyclic renewal as a new 28-day moon phase begins. You can draw a line under the past, turn over a new leaf, and start fresh. You can also question old habits, behaviors, and beliefs as you search for creative and inventive new ways to grow and prosper.
The monthly alignment of the Sun and Moon reconciles your conscious ego and subconscious feelings to provide balance, focus and perspective. It gives a rejuvenating burst of energy, initiative, and enthusiasm. The new moon in August 2025 is an excellent time to define your priorities and set ambitious goals.
The Magic Triangle
The Minor Grand Trine between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto should make us more open-minded, progressive, and accepting of others, and bring about amazing discoveries, revelations, and breakthroughs. Spiritually ideal forms of social, cultural, economic, and political transformation are likely.
However, the retrograde Saturn-Neptune conjunction has turned optimism into pessimism, with a significant rise in fear, sacrifice, suffering and geopolitical tensions.
New Moon Aspects
Sun square Uranus indicates sudden changes, unexpected events, uncertainty and anxiety. A buildup of tension can result in unpredictable behavior, abruptness, rapid changes in direction, and even accidents.
A strong ego, need for freedom and desire to express yourself without restriction can lead to unexpected outbursts, impulsive actions, conflict and separations. Be careful about making significant changes. Open-mindedness, flexibility and adaptability will allow you to find exciting opportunities during rapidly changing conditions.
Sun quincunx Saturn creates an imbalance between what you want to do and what you must do. Previous mistakes or misdeeds may catch up with you and lead to sadness, loneliness, separation, guilt, worry, or fear. Restrictions and obligations may hamper your freedom or self-expression.
It is essential to be flexible, adaptable, and open-minded as you adjust to greater or fewer responsibilities or barriers to progress. Hard work, patience, self-restraint, and self-discipline are also needed.
Sun quincunx Neptune may cause sensitivity, confusion, deception, disillusionment, paranoia, over-idealization, and gullibility. A delicate balance between glamor and intrigue, savior and victim, or saint and sinner is possible.
There is an increased risk of propaganda, fraud, poisoning, infection, contagious diseases and epidemics. Confusion about your identity could lead to insecurity, anxiety, guilt and low self-esteem. Honesty and morality will reduce the risk of scandal, loss and disappointment.
Sun quincunx Pluto can feel like a mini-crisis or threat. An intense buildup of pressure can result in neurotic, obsessive, or destructive behavior. An event or person may trigger a tipping point by taking away your power.
Relationships may involve control, manipulation and intimidation. This is an evolutionary process with karmic causes and implications. Compromise is needed because there are no clear-cut answers, only gray areas. Sublimate your ego, let go, and trust in a higher power.
A Model New Moon
Model Aspect Pattern
The August 2024 New Moon turns the long-term Minor Grand Trine into a Model Aspect Pattern. [1] It gives sensitivity, alertness and adaptability but a tendency towards apathy and a lack of energy. It also gives a desire to construct, rebuild, remodel, and recycle. On one hand, it provides a greater context in which experiences can be perceived and generalized. On the other hand, it helps you conform to rules, agree with people or reintegrate into society.
The predominantly blue-green exterior of the Model configuration conveys harmony, adaptation and growth. However, the red-green corner comes under intense pressure because it receives three challenging aspects (or in this case, four). This corner becomes alert, nervous, stressful, demanding, brutal and uncompromising.
So this point, occupied by the August 2025 New Moon, becomes highly stimulated, continually wanting to jump headlong into action without time to fully prepare. But the single-minded Yod overlaying the Minor Grand Trine provides stable motivation, persistence, courage, optimism and hope.
New Moon in The Lion
The August 2025 new moon is in the Sign of Virgo. But because of the precession of the equinoxes, it is in the Constellation of Leo.
New Moon in the Leo Constellation gives courage, pride, generosity, honesty, ambition, determination, initiative, vitality, showmanship, independence, broadmindedness, the desire to command and rule, and the ability to organise, supervise, and direct.
Harsh aspects can lead to coveting power and authority, abuse of power and leadership, blatant displays of generosity, excessive likes and dislikes, seeking praise for the efforts of others, and a tendency to avoid duties and obligations. You may become arrogant, dogmatic, quick-tempered, patronizing, snobbish, pompous, self-centered, and a showoff. [2]
New Moon August 2025
Fixed star Regulus at 00♍10 is the symbol for glory, riches and the height of power. The Heart of the Lion gives royal properties, a noble mind, frankness, courage, success, high and lofty ideals, strength of spirit, violence, destructiveness, military honor of short duration, with ultimate failure, imprisonment, violent death, and makes its natives magnanimous, grandly liberal, generous, ambitious, fond of power, desirous of command, high-spirited and independent. They leave their mark on posterity.
With New Moon (0°10′): Power, authority, great influence over friends, honor and riches, but danger from enemies and false friends, violence, trouble and ultimate disgrace and ruin, sickness, fevers, benefits seldom last. [3]
New Moon August 2025 Spiritual Meaning
Although the longer-term Magic Triangle indicates harmony and growth, the August 23 New Moon receives only harsh aspects from Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. This makes the New Moon August 2025 astrology intense, stressful, demanding, brutal and uncompromising.
The New Moon comes under relentless pressure from Saturn and the outer planets. This gives a sense of urgency that compels action, leaving you no time to prepare or think about the consequences. This incitement to act is exacerbated by the New Moon conjunct fixed star Regulus, a Jupiter-Mars natured star associated with courage, independence, frankness, violence and war.
This August 2025 New Moon will put certain people under intense pressure to act, especially those with planets at zero degrees Virgo. Regulus will bring you undone if you act out of revenge. It could be self-destruction, mutiny, assassination, revolution or a Coup d’état.
Donald Trump will come under intense pressure to act because he has Mars and Ascendant conjunct Regulus. In turn, he will be expected to apply pressure to change on Benjamin Netanyahu because he is acting out of revenge, and he and the nation of Israel have Mars conjunct Regulus.
Moon Phases
This is the final new moon of the current eclipse phase, which ends with the September 7 Lunar Eclipse. This means issues that the previous eclipses brought up increasingly seek resolution as this eclipse phase nears its end. So, it is time to reflect on how those eclipses impacted you and complete any projects you started, allowing you to draw a line under them and be ready for the upcoming eclipses with a clean slate.
Lunar Eclipse March 14, 2025 at 23♍57 indicates restriction and delays, but positive changes that are significant, steady and structural. It provides intuition and flexibility to adapt to sudden changes and capitalize on unexpected opportunities.
Solar Eclipse March 29, 2025, at 09♈00 reaffirms the theme of positive change, but it also brings lies, deception, confusion, uncertainty, insecurity, worry, and fear about the future of dramatic change.
If the New Moon August 2025 astrology directly impacts your horoscope, you can read about it in your August horoscope. For more details about how it affects your natal chart, see new moon transits.
New Moon August 2025 Times and Dates
- Los Angeles – August 22, 11:06 pm
- New York – August 23, 2:06 am
- London – August 23, 7:06 am
- Delhi – August 23, 11:36 am
- Sydney – August 23, 4:06 pm
Reference
- Aspect Pattern Astrology, Bruno and Louise Huber, 2005, pp. 241-243.
- The Power of the Fixed Stars, Joseph E. Rigor, 1979, pp. 316-317.
- Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, pp. 194-196.
