2025 Full Strawberry Moon in Sagittarius: A low-hanging moon and some hard-hitting truths

Arrows up, tops off, folks, the full Strawberry Moon will rise and shine on Wednesday, June 11 at 3:44 A.M EST, peaking at 20 degrees of Sagittarius.

When is the Full Moon in June 2025

Peak lunar peeping will be moonrise on Tuesday evening, around 8:30 PM for New Yorkers.

On account of this year’s Major Lunar Standstill and our proximity to the summer solstice, the Strawberry Moon will be the lowest-riding moon we’ve seen in decades.

Full moons are always synonymous with release and of things, both literal and figurative, being brought to light. But, in the truth venerating sign of Sagittarius, this baring and bringing is amplified, so brace yourself for the shocking and the shattering, my dudes.

Full Moon June 2025 zodiac

Also, upon the altar of honesty, the Sag moon asks us to uphold the slow knowing of wisdom over unverified, albeit dopamine-massaging, hogwash.

Where will the flaming arrows of righteousness strike you? Look to the house in your birth chart ruled by Sagittarius.

Remember, folks, Sag is ruled by luck-doling, world-expanding, pocket-lining, optimism as opium Jupiter, meaning if you are open to receiving truth, no matter how rocking, it will ultimately aid and abet a necessary perspective shift or path switch.

Further, when the full moon comes around this week, Jupiter will have just set up shop in Cancer, the sign of its exaltation, and a sign ruled by the moon. Meaning? This moon legitimately rules over itself and in that sacred sovereignty illuminates that we too are best suited to express and receive when we stay true, live free, and stand apart with curious compassion instead of furious judgment.

Full Strawberry Moon 2025

Symbolized by the centaur, Sagittarius represents the push and pull between animal need and divine aspiration. As the embodiment of ‘shoot your shot’ ethos, the Sag moon asks us why we doubt our capacity to have everything we want, and quite frankly, what the hell we’re afraid of/waiting for.

Sag is also the bugle call of the wild, pushing us to run barefoot through the forest — that low, irrefutable octave evoking our lustful and free-wheeling nature, begging us to let the good times roll.

During the full moon, we’ll still be in the waning throes of Venus square Pluto, where issues of self-worth and possessiveness, obsession and undermining, coercion and manipulation are being unearthed. What about yourself, do you still struggle to love, what are you excluding that’s asking to be integrated? Where are you holding on for dear life, and how is that death grip draining you of your life force?

Pluto is no picnic, yet the energy here is lost for the goal of greater growth. He taketh away so he can giveth back anew, and any relationships that are undone during this lunation were ultimately binding us to a past we have outgrown and a love we have outrun.

We’re definitely poised to hear some thunder roll and some truth spoken, but trust that whatever is spilled will, like blood, s–t, and ashes to soil, feed our personal growth and the transformational cycle of others.

Keep your wits about you, my babies, and while you’re shooting your shot, try not to shoot off at the mouth as warlord Mars in Leo squaring off against wild-out Uranus in Taurus, a rebellious aspect that engenders disruption, outbursts, and dramatic upheaval.

Full Moon June 2025

Further, this Full Moon plays host to a grand trine of fire (band name) as the Moon in Sagittarius will trine Mars in Leo and Chiron in Aries.

Grand trines create synergy between planetary energies, and in fire signs, this synergy supports willpower and actionable vision.

Mars says fear nothing, the Sag moon says all things are possible, and Chiron says your pain is your power source. In turn, this moon asks us to speak true, walk tall and cross the threshold from victim to wisened, rewilded survivor.

June’s Full Moon

The full moon occurs when the moon is directly opposite the sun in its orbit around Earth, highlighting a zodiac polarity.

This go-round, we have the sun in ‘chaos as cardio, conversation as sacrament’ Gemini opposing the moon in the ‘may the road go on forever and the party never end’ sign of Sagittarius.

What unites these signs more than a love of nitrous balloons, s–t talking, and mischief is an allegiance to wonder/wander.

Marine biologist, writer, and conservationist Rachel Carson, herself a Gemini sun and Sagittarius moon, embodies the open, outspoken nature of this axis.

In her seminal book “Silent Spring,” she writes, “One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?”

In honor of seeking and seeing, I hope you’ll adopt a similar attitude of fleeting, feral rapture.

Strawberry Moon Meaning

In a shocking affront to whimsy, the Strawberry Moon is not named for the moon’s color but for the season of fruition to which it lends its light.

According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the full moon in June was known by the Algonquin, Ojibwe, Dakota, Lakota, Chippewa, Oneida, and Sioux tribes as the Strawberry Moon, as the first flush of summer coincides with the wild and widespread ripening of the fruit.

Apropos of Gemini and Sagittarius being the zodiac’s most shameless flirts, the Arapaho of the Great Plains call this moon the ‘Moon When the Buffalo Bellows’, a reference to the mating calls of those mythic creatures. 

Similarly, the Inupiat and Tlingit peoples of Alaska call June’s moon the Moon of Birthing, as many a mammal coughs out their offspring this time of year to give their young a fighting chance at survival before the onset of winter.

Full Strawberry Moon 2025

Neo-pagan religions call June’s full moon the Planting Moon, and in Europe, it’s known as the Rose Moon, as it’s the time of year when the favored flower of poets and guilty parties blooms best.

In many places and many tongues, this moon is a symbol of fruition and vitality, hope and abandon/abundance.

Because this full moon is taking place in a mutable sign, those with personal placements in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces will feel its effects most acutely.

When is the next Full Moon?

The next Full Moon is the Full Buck Moon in Capricorn rising on Thursday, July 10 at 4:37 PM.

Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.