SagittariusThe phase of the Moon on November 20, 2025 was a New Moon.
The New Moon opens a new lunar cycle. The sky is dark and the pull is inward. Decide what you actually want next instead of reacting to what's already in motion, and set the intention quietly. The follow-through comes later.
A New Moon in Sagittarius stretches the horizon. This sign wants more room to travel or think, so it's a good time to commit to something that expands your world rather than shrinks it. Aim past what feels comfortable.
Today’s recommendations for haircuts, gardening, and surgery are on the Moon Phase Today page.
Growth sits at its lowest point of the cycle, so today is for housekeeping. Trim split ends or tidy the outline of a style you already like. What you don't want is a big restructure booked for today, because the shape you leave the chair with is roughly the shape you'll live with for the next couple of weeks. Anyone who shaves or waxes and wants the regrowth to stay away longer picks these days for the same reason.
Sagittarius grows hair back fast. Lunar calendars suggest it when you want length quickly and don't mind the shape softening while it happens, which rules out a fringe or anything else that depends on a sharp line.
Haircut Moon Calendar
Root crops go in now: carrots, beets, anything you are growing below the soil line. The reasoning in lunar calendars is that with the light at its lowest the plant spends what it has below the surface. It's also the point in the month worth spending on the soil itself, opening new beds and working compost in before anything is sown. If you prune today, expect the plant to answer below ground instead of pushing new shoots, which is what you want from a fruit tree you're trying to keep in bounds.
The third fruit day belongs to Sagittarius, and it's the one usually given to the fruit trees rather than the vegetable beds. Prune and pick now. Seed sown here is said to run tall, which suits beans on a frame and works against anything you want compact.
Gardening Moon Calendar
The quiet end of the cycle, and the almanacs treat it accordingly: a slot for routine work and not for anything demanding. The reasoning they offer is that recovery here is slow and gradual, so minor and elective procedures get placed in this window while the heavier ones wait for a waxing phase. Worth saying plainly that this is folk timing and nothing more. If a date has already been offered to you, your surgeon's reasoning about your case outranks the moon's position every time.
Hips and thighs fall to Sagittarius, with the liver usually counted in. Hip replacement is the obvious modern case, and also a good illustration of the rule's limits, since that operation gets scheduled months ahead by a hospital rather than by a calendar.
* Lunar timing is folk tradition, not medical advice. No research supports scheduling surgery by moon phase. Always follow your surgeon's recommendation on when to operate.
Surgery Moon Calendar
