July 24 New Moon Alchemy: Your Emotional Reset Guide
- Pamela McDonough
- Jul 23
- 10 min read
Updated: Jul 26
In this edition: New Moon Insights & Rising Sign Guide
🔮 New Moon Insights:
On July 24, 2025, the New Moon in Pushya Nakshatra calls us inward to establish deeper spiritual roots and emotional resilience. This New Moon offers a deeply karmic threshold for new beginnings.
🌟 Rising Sign Guide:
Discover how this New Moon may bring emotional clarity, spiritual grounding, and karmic release—based on your sidereal rising sign.
A message from Pamela:
This New Moon in Pushya nakshatra offers the rare chance to ground spiritual ideals and new beginnings into tangible reality. Pushya is among the most sacred of nakshatras, presided over by Brihaspati (Jupiter as divine teacher). The synergy of this star and the new phase, plus the other planetary influences suggests something like a time of sacred reckoning—a karmic threshold between what what must be surrendered and what nourishes our soul.
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Lunar Lowdown: Pushya’s New Moon Challenge
New Moon Snapshot: Your Lunar Coordinates
New Moon in Pushya Nakshatra
Date & Time: July 24, 2025 – 12:11 PM Pacific Time
Sign & Degree: 7°55′ Sidereal Cancer
Nakshatra: Pushya – “The Nourisher”
Deity: Brihaspati – the divine guru and priest of the gods
Ruling Planet: Saturn
Aspects: Trine Saturn and Neptune (in Pisces) and opposite Pluto (8°23′ Capricorn)
A Sacred Threshold: Pushya’s Promise
Occurring at 7°55′ Cancer, the New Moon drops into the the heart of Pushya nakshatra as it shifts from its darkest phase to waxing. Pushya is considered one of the most auspicious stars for new beginnings. Known as “The Nourisher,” Pushya is presided over by the deity Brihaspati, the divine teacher.
Unlike the stormy power of Ardra or the fierce destructive force of Mula nakshatra, Pushya fosters gentle strength through nourishing, uplifting energies rooted in discipline and devotion.
Other Planetary Influences to the New Moon:
Trines from Saturn and Neptune in Pisces: helping us bring discipline and vision into form.
Opposes Pluto in Capricorn: confronting us with deeply buried truths, ancestral patterns, and power dynamics ready to be alchemized. Nourishment may come with a cost. Whatever structures no longer support your growth—especially those linked to family, safety, or emotional patterns—are up for release.
This New Moon is a rare combination of devotion and depth, and the invitation is to build your emotional and spiritual foundation, brick by sacred brick. This New Moon energy is not particularly loud or radical, and asks for your presence, maturity, and quiet courage.
Reflection Prompt: What daily practice, boundary, or commitment is your soul asking you to establish? What would change if you approached this New Moon cycle as sacred work rather than another goal to achieve?
Understanding Pushya Nakshatra: The Root of Nourishment
Pushya's power lies in its steady, nourishing energy and sattva. It is associated with:
Spiritual practice and self-discipline
Emotional maturity and caregiving
Sacred commitments and divine timing
While Pushya nakshatra supports almost all new beginnings, it is traditionally considered inauspicious for marriage because of its intrinsic spiritual nature. Ruled by the deity Brihaspati, Pushya embodies spiritual wisdom, ethical guidance, and purity. These qualities support devotion and duty, but not emotional intimacy or sensual union, which aligns more with Purva Phalguni. Its shakti, brahmavarchava, is the power to nourish and harness creative spiritual energy, not to merge or bond romantically.
This is a quietly powerful lunation. Don't be fooled by its gentle nature—Pushya moves with purposeful grace. It offers sacred structure, emotional wisdom, and the strength to release what no longer serves. Allow it to nourish you.
Mars Breaks Out of the Kala Sarpa Yoga: From Pleasure to Purpose
Eight of the nine traditionally used planets (Sun through Saturn) in Jyotish remain bound between the lunar nodes at the time of the New Moon. Mars finally broke free from the Kala Sarpa yoga effect on July 21—and sits barely a degree past Ketu during the New Moon.
Mars also crossed from Purva Phalguni into Uttara Phalguni within hours of passing over Ketu. This nakshatra shift marks a transition from indulgence to dharma, from enjoyment to responsibility. Mars, the fiery planet of courage and action, is blazing a trail out of karmic containment—and inviting us to follow. Uttara Phalguni is a star of vows and dharmic contracts, and Mars is our guide on the path forward: choosing sacred responsibility over impulse, showing us how to move from pleasure-seeking to purposeful service.
New Moon in Pushya: Your Rising Sign Guide
To experience the most accurate insights, use your Vedic rising sign rather than your Sun sign.
Haven't discovered your Vedic rising sign yet? Calculate your free Vedic Birth Chart to unlock these powerful New and Full Moon guides.
If you are in the planetary period (Vimshottari Dasha) or sub-periods of Moon, or Saturn, this Full Moon will hold even greater significance for you!
♈️ Aries Rising – 4th House New Moon · The Strength of Stillness
Something in you wants to take a break—not like your usual go-go-go self. This New Moon invites a deep emotional reset, reconnecting you to your inner stability and sense of belonging. There's tension between the image you maintain publicly and what you actually need privately. The pressure to perform or maintain outer roles may feel strong, but the real power now lies in slowing down and building something sacred within your personal space. Let stillness restore you while you quietly restructure what home really means.
♉️ Taurus Rising – 3rd House New Moon · The Courage to Speak Softly
You're finding a new tone that may be less guarded, more authentic. This New Moon asks you to approach communication not just with clarity, but with care. Your beliefs are shifting, creating friction with how you've always expressed yourself. Old ways of asserting yourself may feel brittle under this evolutionary pressure. Whether it's with siblings, your closest friends, or your own inner voice, what matters now is speaking with emotional honesty about what you're learning to release, even when your truth challenges what others expect to hear.
♊️ Gemini Rising – 2nd House New Moon · What You Keep, What You Release
Your personal and financial values are evolving, and intimate relationships are forcing the issue. This lunation invites you to question what you're truly invested in—whether emotional, financial, or spiritual. There's practical wisdom available for steady growth around savings and self-worth, but also intense pressure from shared resources and power dynamics. Whether in personal relationships or business partnerships, you're discovering what happens when your values clash with others' control. Trust that releasing what no longer serves will create space for values aligned with your deepest truth.
♋️ Cancer Rising – 1st House New Moon · The Weightless Self
This New Moon focuses on reconnecting with your inner self as relationships reflect the areas where you can grow. It's not about reinvention, but remembering who you are when you stop performing for others' comfort. You're learning to build compassionate boundaries—being sensitive without being available for everyone's projections. Release the need to explain or fix others' reactions to your authenticity. What arises from your inner stillness will be more truthful than anything you could construct to keep the peace.
♌️ Leo Rising – 12th House New Moon · The Freedom in Surrender
You're being called to release what you cannot control, and to let go of what was never yours to carry. This New Moon offers a soft but firm invitation to surrender subconscious patterns that have been draining your energy, whether through hidden expenses, spiritual debts, or unconscious giving. There's a door to liberation open at this time for stepping back from the stage of public performance and moving into the realm of private spiritual practice. If you've been losing sleep, peace of mind, or resources, you may actually be clearing space for deeper connection to the divine. Let go and trust the process of dissolution.
♍️ Virgo Rising – 11th House New Moon · Redrawing the Circle
If the future you've imagined no longer fits the shape of your spirit, this New Moon will highlight the difference between what feels like true belonging vs. simply being included. Professional power dynamics have been unconsciously influencing your friendships, and it's time to untangle that web. Who are you aligning with out of habit versus genuine resonance? Let go of outdated goals and casual social connections that require you to minimize your personal depth. Make space for relationships built on both practical wisdom and spiritual connection.
♎️ Libra Rising – 10th House New Moon · The Quiet Rebuild
This is a subtle shift for your public path, but one that requires facing potentially uncomfortable truths about success goals and authority. The world may be asking more of you, but this New Moon portal is inviting you to ask: at what cost to your integrity? Hidden power struggles in your most intimate relationships may have been affecting your professional confidence. Step back to refine your intentions. Success built on avoiding your deepest truths will collapse. What you're crafting now needs both purpose and heart along with ambition infused with genuine compassion. And with patience, since Saturn is lending an underlying supportive influence to your career zone through early 2028.
♏️ Scorpio Rising – 9th House New Moon · A Truth You Can Live With
The answers you're seeking aren't found in philosophy or debate but within your lived experience, and in the rituals and practices you return to when everything else falls away. Your beliefs are being tested by how well they serve your daily life, your body, your actual well-being. There's wisdom available in making your spiritual insights practical and teachable, but first they need to pass the test of embodied truth. Let this Moon guide you back to what feels spiritually resonant and genuinely sustainable.
♐️ Sagittarius Rising – 8th House New Moon · Grace in the Unraveling
You're peeling back a layer of your personality that wasn't meant to stick around forever. The process can be both liberating and terrifying. As this New Moon begins to wax, it lights up one of the most tangled parts of the birth chart—where grief lives, where fear hides, where power gets misused, while your personal and joint financial commitments undergoes profound pressure to transform. You're learning to adjust your values to come from authenticity rather than ego, even when others can't handle your depth. Beneath all the unraveling is a new strength that only comes from choosing empathy over control, and truth over popularity.
♑️ Capricorn Rising – 7th House New Moon · The Mirror Doesn't Lie
Relationships are revealing important issues now that are not always easy, but absolutely necessary. This New Moon reflects back what's working but also what's quietly eroding your personal energy, while your home and family dynamics shift in fundamental ways. It is time to approach romantic and business partnerships with both practical wisdom and spiritual openness. Old childhood patterns continue to surface so that they can be healed. You don't need to force closure or rush connection. Let truth clarify what belongs in your foundation and what needs to be composted for new growth.
♒️ Aquarius Rising – 6th House New Moon · Sacred Maintenance
You're being asked to tend to the details of everyday life from a place that honors your health and well being. This isn't totally about control or disciplined actions and habit, it's also about restoring alignment between what you do daily and what you value spiritually. Your work habits have been unconsciously shaped by others' expectations rather than your own creative truth, and this is the month to change that. Choose simplicity. Clear space. Make the mundane sacred again, but do it in a way that honors who you're becoming.
♓️ Pisces Rising – 5th House New Moon · A Quiet Spark
Joy and the creative spark doesn't necessarily have to show up with a loud bang to be life-changing, but it does need to be real. This New Moon wants to reconnect you with your inner flame that fuels the creative current. The one that flows when you're not performing for anyone else and while your relationship to money and social networks transforms completely. There's a gift here of accessing valuable intuition, but financial fears may keep trying to limit your creative self-expression. Let tenderness lead, but don't let it become an excuse for undervaluing yourself. What begins in quiet self-expression may become the most honest and worthwhile thing you've shared in a long time.
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