Welcome to December star seeds.
We are beneath the complete sails and buoyant affect of Sagittarius this month, with the solar, Mercury, Venus, and Mars all spending a part of December within the signal of taking pictures your shot and taking pictures off on the mouth.
While Mercury, that lewd minx, is stationed direct on November 29, we’re nonetheless beneath the shade of its shadow interval by December 16.
The month begins with a full moon in Gemini on December 4. This lunation is a lower to the short for readability and can do its work to leaf-blow a few of the bull–t accrued throughout this newest retrograde cycle.
If you’ve been avoiding a young or difficult dialog, that is the day to let the reality tumble off your tongue and the pitch of acceptance lick your ears.
The fog of discontent blessedly begins to carry on December tenth when Neptune, our planet of desires and potentialities, stations direct after a five-month retrograde.
Neptune retrograde is one thing of a harsh however crucial wakeup that smashes our rose coloured glasses into the unforgiving concrete in order that we’d see clearly, albeit painfully.
When Neptune goes direct, readability meets instinct, and our decision-making is bolstered by their braiding.
On December 15, warlord Mars marches into Capricorn, the signal of its exaltation. When the planet of motion strikes into the signal the place it’s best suited to precise itself, our ambitions are anointed and our get-up-and-go will get a cocaine kick begin.
Mars will stay in Capricorn by January 23, 2026.
On December 19, we welcome the new moon in Sagittarius, the final and most optimistic new moon of the yr. Now is an opportune hour to make a journey, literal, metaphorical, or chemical, and have an open, trustworthy dialogue with somebody with whom you often expertise discord. This new moon tells us that higher days aren’t solely doable however possible.
Sagittarius is the signal of abundance and journey, of hopeful motion and resilience as resistance, and this lunation asks us to take inventory of internal riches and set a daring course for the yr to come back.
The winter solstice and the longest night time of the yr arrive on December 21, and with it comes the decision to have fun what grows, glows, and slows in the dead of night as we start our march in direction of the burgeoning gentle of spring.
That identical day, the solar enters Capricorn. The transition from Sagittarius to Capricorn feels slightly just like the good, albeit burned-out, excessive on hope hippie passing the baton (or pipe) to the ability dealer.
In actuality, these two archetypes aren’t a lot separate entities however a continuation of the identical sage. Sag seeks and Capricorn stabilizes, integrating expertise and construction.
Here’s to a wind-down that feels straightforward and a brand new yr that’s higher than the place we’ve been. Onward, ever ahead.
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Ahoy, Aries!
The solar in Sagittarius lights the lamps in your ninth home of enlargement, training, spirituality and soujurns.
In her assortment “Ninety-Nine Stories of God,” Joy Williams writes of a girl on the lip of loss of life who sits up and clearly asks, “Where is the refuge for my bewildered coronary heart?”
Your homework for December is to ask your self that very same query, and to hunt the strangest shores and most curious firm for the reply.
Hello, Taurus!
The cluster of Sagittarius vitality this month places your eighth home of intercourse, loss of life and different folks’s sources into focus.
The eighth home is extra a stroll by the valley of the shadow of loss of life than a picnic within the park, however it’s no much less nourishing.
In a current class, teacher Karla Misjan shared the next little bit of powerful reality: “You could make your self depressing or you may make your self robust — the hassle is commonly the identical.”
No one understands ROI or the drive of creating greater than you, Taurus. Call it in and let it out.
In their guide “Undoing Gender,” Judith Butler writes,
“One doesn’t at all times keep intact. It could also be that one needs to…however it might even be that regardless of one’s greatest efforts, one is undone, within the face of the opposite, by the contact, by the scent, by the texture, by the prospect of the contact, by the reminiscence of the texture.”
As the solar in Sagittarius highlights your seventh home of trusted partnerships, Gemini, I implore you to simply accept the invitation to be undone by one other.
However you sew your self again collectively, you may be richer for having been ravaged.
Hello, Cancer!
The focus of Sagittarius vitality this month highlights your sixth home of the physique, rituals, habits, and every day life.
In a letter to Gertrude Tennant written 149 years in the past this month, Gustave Flaubert gave her his every day bread for residing and feeding a artistic life:
“Be common and orderly in your life, like a bourgeois, so that you could be be violent and unique in your work.”
I hope you’ll heed this knowledge and take nice and tedious care of your self so you might be totally ready to rage and riot in your chosen pursuit. Let fiber gas your fury and your flossed enamel whistle unfastened your unassailable truths.
Hello, Leo!
The solar in a fellow hearth signal lights a match in your fifth home of enjoyment, play, danger and romance.
A trainer and pricey pal of mine just lately despatched me an image of her holding what seemed to be a piece of concrete. She mentioned that at recess, a kindergartener offered it, telling her the present was “a bit of the moon.”
I supply this story to you within the hopes that you’ll each see the world and ship it to others with the identical wondrous slant.
Hello, Virgo!
The solar, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in Sagittarius this month pull on the tender apron strings of your fourth home of dwelling, ancestors, and origin tales.
I learn just lately that the recommendation we give is the sound of us speaking to our youthful selves.
I hope right here and now, within the final month of the yr, you crouch down low, and communicate comfortable and candy to who you had been. Give thanks for the straightforward, miraculous truth that you’ve survived your self and are alive to whisper this knowledge.
Hello, Libra! This month throws its weight behind your third home of communication, language, and alternate.
In the spirit of these topics, I wish to discuss to you concerning the etymology of the phrase “obedience.” Though its that means has been bastardized, obedience comes from the Latin phrase ‘oboedire,’ which suggests to hear, to listen to.”
I belief that this month and the vacation crush of familial confrontation will supply myriad alternatives for you to not undergo anybody however to obey the divine, human crucial to hear, to listen to, to witness.
Hello, Scorpio!
The solar in Sagittarius prompts your second home of wealth and price, worth and valuables.
As a set signal, you might be constructed to carry tight to no matter you imagine is or needs to be yours, but in fact, nothing and nobody belongs to anybody.
In his novel “Farewell Summer,” Ray Bradbury writes, “Learning to let go needs to be discovered earlier than studying to get. Life needs to be touched, not strangled.”
I hope this month sees you loosen your grip from impasse to feather gentle. Remember, Scorpio: a closed fist accepts nothing extra.
Happy return of the solar to you, Sagittarius!
As the solar, Mercury, and Venus all transfer by your signal this month, you might be filling out each inch of a brand new type with a brand new alphabet wherein to like your self.
As you stretch your power, I carry you the present of those phrases from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“The roses beneath my window make no reference to former roses or higher ones; they’re what they’re; they exist with God in the present day. There is not any time to them. There is solely the rose; it’s good in each second of its existence.”
So, too, the ultimate or comparability, are you.
Ahoy, Capricorn, the solar in Sagittarius throws a light-weight in your shadowy twelfth home of endings, enemies, and the unconscious thoughts.
I just lately learn a eulogy for the poet Andrea Gibson. In it, their spouse Megan Falley shared that, throughout their battle with ovarian most cancers, Andrea would say a Hawaiian prayer, repeating the strains “Thank you, I like you, I’m sorry, please forgive me” as an train in returning to the current second.
As you prepared your self for the rebirth of your photo voltaic return, I give you the prescription of that very prayer.
Say it out loud, say it to your self, say it till it seems like the one true factor.
In the dedication of her novel “Lush,” Rochelle Dowden-Lord provides thanks “to the individuals who love and forgive me.”
As Sagittarius season highlights your eleventh home of group and desires, Aquarius, I recommend you make a listing of everybody who has granted you these twin graces and thank them.
Thank them in thought, in phrase, or within the ahead, stunning momentum of forgiving another person.
Hello, Pisces!
The solar, Mercury, and Venus in Sagittarius throw open the doorways of your tenth home of legacy, soul calling, and elders.
I just lately learn an essay by the author Will Self that explores his relationship with fellow author J.G. Ballard. In it, Self writes of Ballard’s loss of life, his inheritance of his typewriter, and his concern that he would turn into so influenced by the phrases, sensibilities, and legacy of his lifeless pal that he would stop to be himself.
Eventually, he comes to understand that “Jim would have wished me to articulate my very own bizarre music, not play second fiddle to his.”
I hope this sentiment is solvent for you, Pisces, and you could love a track so effectively that you simply bend its sound to your self.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reviews on planetary configurations and their impact on every zodiac signal. Her horoscopes combine historical past, poetry, popular culture, and private expertise. To guide a studying, go to her web site.
