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Your Moon
sign symbolizes your personal self, your feelings, your subconscious.
It represents how you relate to others, how you have nurturing relationships
with others, your intuition, your spiritual self, your sense of security,
and your habits. The Moon symbolizes your feminine, nurturing side (we
all have one).
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Aires Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitt Capric Aquar Pisces Overview
Aires 
(March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling planet
Mars. Top
This
is an amazing month for insight, Aries. You
are putting it all together in new ways right
now, finding the simple path to the complex
mental solution, and coming on strong with
your dreams for a better world. The only fly
in the ointment is having to see your high
ideals blended with a dose of hard-headed reality,
since every part of your situation must stand
up and be counted. You can alternatively sink
into the despair of reality never quite measuring
up, or choose to work even harder to manifest
your most cherished idealized possibility.
This is the difficulty of this climactic period
of time, and the bruised beauty of it as well.
As the month begins, you are feeling your way into a new and more expansive
future. You are leaving the past behind but retaining also some element of
it as the memory of past successes and failures that colors your current approach,
and in the sense of practical purpose that you bring to your process in the
midst of everyday activity. As you revamp your philosophy of life and living
in order to accommodate a more expansive viewpoint, surprising enlightenment
comes to you from the most unlikely places.
With the First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, you are feeling the zest
of taste for new adventure and novel ideas, uniting inner and outer exploration.
This weekend and the week that follows constitute a period of time to be more
careful than usual, because of rampant enthusiasm that can lead to sudden discontinuities
or accidents. You may need to think twice before you leap right now.
The Full Moon of the following Friday, taking place on December 12th, represents
an extremely powerful configuration that has the potential to bring plenty
of surprises. You are pulled in at least two directions at once, one more free-form
and another more practical, and again may need to be very careful about making
sudden moves. Any internal conflict that you feel at this time could become
magnified.
This is also an extraordinarily creative time for the artist in you. You are
able to see more deeply into the inner workings of your own mind and of your
motivations, and so this is also an excellent time for journaling about where
your life is leading you these days, or for ritual that sets intention for
getting there in good form.
The Last Quarter Moon taking place on Friday of the following weekend, and
the Winter Solstice that follows on Sunday, December 21st, bring in a powerful
energy for actualizing yourself in the world of public achievement and for
simply dealing with what is realistically possible. You will take some important
realizations home with you from this month's outing.
Taurus 
(April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. Top
It's a wild and crazy and yet quite necessary road that you are on these days,
Taurus. A transformational month of December begins with your spiritual values
and ends with your participation in the outer world of events and achievement.
You have wandered far off course lately, exploring different methods of societal
alignment and of arriving at the ultimate truth of the matter, but you are
also passionate and patient about finding the way home. Through it all, you
are learning to tumble gracefully into deeper meaning for your life and your
beliefs, falling or perhaps gliding, into the perfect spot where all along
you have needed to land.
The month begins for you with a powerful concept of expansion. You are feeling
like you could accomplish anything and the stars are fully aligned for you
for travel or educational opportunities. One way or another, your horizons
are opening up to new vistas, and a new level of intimacy with others in your
life as well.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, provides a moment of tension
in the process of transmutation of energy that you are currently engaged in,
but is on the whole a very positive time. You are likely to be more excited
by the prospect of new adventure than held back by the ghosts of the past,
although both are factors.
With the Full Moon of the following weekend, taking place on December 12th,
comes the biggest potential conflict yet between self and other, and between
holding on and letting go. You are taking a wild swing at your future right
now and hoping to hit it out of the park while at the very same time you are
attempting to define yourself in more concrete terms and struggling with responsible
modes of self-expression. Allowing yourself the broadest possible latitude
pays big dividends later on, although of course you don't want to leave behind
everything that you have been and done. Balance is required.
You enter a new phase with the Winter Solstice of Sunday, December 21st. Then
you will find yourself stretching even further with worldview adjustments that
are an important part of your life journey these days. Over the next week you
are opening to greater compassionate involvement with the world around you.
Everything changes yet everything stays just the same, as you spiral around
the mountain of your destiny one more time.
Gemini 
(May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
Two heads are definitely better than one for you right now, Gemini. Partnership
with significant others in your life is your mantra for this entire month,
in a business sense as well as in terms of a more personal connection. You
just can't see going it alone these days. Partnership is powerful for you and
takes you where you need to go, which is nothing less than the metamorphosis
of your relationships with others into a more conscious and concerned act of
sharing. By mid-month the transformation of your partnering dynamic leads you
into some very deep and unexpectedly rewarding waters as your own inner world
becomes the subject matter and the ultimate object of your journey.
As the month begins, you are feeling the joy as well as the responsibility
of close connection with others. If you are in a committed relationship, it
is likely that this month will bring important changes there, perhaps along
the lines of greater intimacy. If not, you might meet someone new or come to
a different attitude regarding the input of partnerships in your life. This
fresh flow of new energy for relating could apply to business partnerships
or friendships as well; anyone that you conspire with to create connection.
With the advent of the First Quarter Moon taking place on Friday, December
5th, you will hit a few bumps on your road to enlightenment and may have to
field a few curve balls as well, mostly related to career and outer world presence.
It's nothing that you can't handle.
The Full Moon that comes along a week later, taking place on Friday, December
12th, signals a period of time that is also quite dicey. This is a time when
you might feel conflicted between personal and business agendas, and on a fast
track for transformational changes that have been brewing within you for some
weeks. You will definitely go over the waterfall of massive change, either
now or later.
Conservative at the core of your being, you are nevertheless out there in a
large way at this time, and attempting as best you can to integrate personal
concerns with partnership goals and come to the peace of your own inner world
amidst a whirlwind of new information and impetus for moving forward with future-oriented
agendas. Leaving the past behind is exciting and more than a little scary,
but exhilarating as well.
The Winter Solstice weekend of the 19th – 21st kicks off an exciting
last ten days of the month that solidifies a cycle of change that was already
put in place with a more conscious understanding of what you are up to during
this climactic period.
Cancer 
(June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. Top
You are seriously considering your future path right now from the standpoint
of service, Cancer. You are asking not what the universe can do for you but
what you can do for the universe. Over the course of this month's journey you
can see the light in the strangest of places if you keep your eyes peeled for
it. The ascent is difficult and the road full of unexpected boulders, but the
final destination is rewarding, a blend of hard work and spiritual fulfillment
that leads you to enlightenment along the way. There's no telling what the
outcome might eventually prove to be, but it will involve Spirit and surprising
transformation, and as well some form of sacrifice.
As the month begins, you are feeling energized in a partnership direction.
This may involve an intimate relationship, close friends, or even business
partnerships. Whatever form this energy takes, it helps you to expand your
image of the universe. You are daring to dream right now, and dreaming to dare
of a different way of seeing your world that could come about in an instant
and totally change your future and your role within it. This is a time period
when you are discovering more of your true path forward in this life, and it
is possible that the agency of others will be instrumental in refining your
vision.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, coincides with a period of
minor tension. You are being forced to examine a few kinks within the lines
that you are almost unconsciously developing yourself along. You will find
also a surprising degree of spontaneity in your life at this juncture that
could help you to open more fully to the magical possibilities that are available
to you these days.
The Full Moon of the following weekend, coming on Friday, December 12th, represents
another crux of your on-going transformation. This is a time of tension that
serves to pull you further into yourself, like a turtle sensing danger, but
also paradoxically puts you in closer touch with others around you. You are
coming at communication from a deeper place. As you close in on your destiny
and begin to get a better idea of where all this is heading, you naturally
feel the joy as well as the loss associated with moving on with your life.
The Winter Solstice taking place on Sunday, December 21st, marks another extremely
powerful period of time. The great thing is to honor the complexity and inclusiveness
of everything that you are about these days, and to recognize that it is not
a case of either-or but of yes-and.
The end of the month comes with a New Moon on the 27th that will bring glorious
confusion into the mix and a touch of grace as well, as you feel yourself supported
by the arms of Spirit in all that you truly align yourself with at the deepest
possible level.
Leo 
(July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. Top
You are riding the waves of change in your life right now, Leo, redefining
yourself in the light of challenging times. You are strong on service these
days and responding to the call for an idealized vision that comes in and alters
everything, perhaps with the catalyst of significant others in your life to
spur you on. It's an energetic action surge all the way through, especially
in the ten days after the mid-month Full Moon and leading up to an amazing
Winter Solstice. Then you will be tested mightily and also rewarded for having
the faith to stand tall in the face of dire and revolutionary and ultimately
beneficial transformation.
As the month begins you are reinventing yourself yet again, in a joyous manner,
in the wake of the New Moon from the end of last month in your sector of creative
self-expression. Everything is coming up roses right now for your beingness
in the world as well as for your doing, although there is a push-pull of circumstances
that you are also dealing with, and that will test you mightily within this
monthly cycle, pitting your individual will against the urge to merge deeply
with others.
You are also at this time settling old scores within yourself regarding the
nature and the influence of authority in your life, coming to an important
concept of your own authority that can freely exist without the overriding
influence of consensus thinking or knee-jerk reactions to parental and other
external control exerted upon you in childhood. The trauma residue from early-life
experience can become a wound that festers or else a treasure store of memories
that inform but no longer sting, and the choice is really up to you. Some important
progress could be made in the fires of this particular phase of your journey.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, takes you to a place of feeling
freedom from consequences and also potentially carelessness. You might need
to allow for extra caution at this time, although caution also comes naturally
to you at this juncture.
With the Full Moon that takes place a week later, on Friday, December 12th,
you might perhaps feel the full extent of the paradoxes surrounding your life
right now, of whether to run free on bind yourself to social or partnership
constraints, or of whether to stay or leave particular situations. The truth,
as always, may lie somewhere in between.
With the last ten days of the month, especially the Winter Solstice of Sunday,
December 21st, you are settling into a new way of being in the world, one that
takes more fully into account compassionate partnership as an addition to individualized
selfhood and, as well, a deep sense of soul purpose.
Virgo 
(August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
This is a two-month period of looking more deeply behind the scenes of all
that you say and do. You are delving into home and family as a basis for change,
seeking an idealized solution for future activity, and yet fully aware of the
obstacles inherent in attempting to achieve the essence of your dreams. In
a way the very setbacks that you encounter serve to define yourself a little
better and help you to make necessary distinctions. You are caught between
the natural holding back of a careful person and the urge for going forward
in spite of everything. When the going gets tough you just get going harder
like the little energizer bunny that you are at the core.
The beginning of the month finds you peaceful and expansive. You are digging
down into the gold of family connection and the hidden places beneath the surface
of your psyche and you might be amazed by what you come up with. You have loads
of energy for delving into the archeological layers of childhood wounding and
perhaps for moving past some of these prior traumas that have influenced your
life in perhaps negative ways, and from a not fully conscious standpoint.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, brings up both the energy for
diving down and the impulse to move on with your life. There may be surprising
information from significant partners in your life that will snap you out of
an established rut or two. At the same time, with Saturn sitting in your identity
sector, you are unlikely to fly too far off the handle. You are taking the
same careful and responsible attitude to everything around you that you have
all year.
With the Full Moon a week later, coming on Friday, December 12th, you are even
more fully in the crucible of potential conflict. All your questions could
come up, such as whether to go or to stay, or how much credence to put into
partnership versus a sense of your own form of support from yourself, and yourself
alone, independent of anyone else's input. The resolution is not obvious and
may not even exist, but if you sit with your issues for a while and simply
witness your process, an answer may appear where you were sure that there could
be none.
The weekend of the 19th to the 21st may bring a few rays of light. At least
there will be a greater consciousness of everything that is involved for you
right now, including a healthy dose of Spirit which it never pays to entirely
leave out of the equation. There is a shading of conflicting agendas but there
is also an optimistic attitude that helps you to rise above them.
The New Moon toward the end of the month, taking place on Saturday, December
27th, is the focal point of an end-of-month period of rebirthing yourself into
an entirely responsible sense of wholeness and integration.
Libra 
(September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. Top
You are reaching out to others around you right now, Libra, as a way of reaching
yourself. Communication is the name of your game this month all right, but
the real question is whether what you have to say comes directly from your
heart. Slowing down and turning to the inside seems to come quite naturally
to you at the moment, and you win when you make the best of it and seek the
guidance that is available for you in your interior spaces. This brings you
closer to family and tribe and most importantly to your own inner wisdom, waiting
for you to tap into it, all along.
As the month begins, you are reaching out to others around you in attempt to
discover who you are at the core, and in order to more accurately define what
you are up to with respect to your life purpose, this time around. You are
feeling a sense of great expansiveness in getting in touch with your immediate
family or your tribe of friends, and in simultaneously delving into the underlying
levels of your psyche. You are in the process of sifting through the archaeological
layers of your past, and come to terms with it, in order that you might better
understand the present moment. Your life is at a crossroads right now, where
you will come to see your way more clearly to the places that you need to go
in order to spiritually evolve.
At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, you are reaching
a minor crisis of decision. You are tempted at this time to move energetically
forward, but also constrained by circumstances to hold on. A surprising piece
of news could tip the balance.
At the Full Moon a week later, taking place on Friday, December 12th, you are
stretched still further to explore new dimensions of your life experience.
Getting clear on where you are going might involve getting clearer on where
you have been. You are digging down to find yourself and, perhaps paradoxically,
to find your deepest connection with others in the process.
With the Last Quarter Moon of the following week, followed by the Winter Solstice
on Sunday the 21st, you are fully engaged in your inner world, and ready to
come to terms with the residue of old trauma that you find there.
The New Moon at nearly the end of the month, on Saturday, December 27th, brings
you to a compassionate place of understanding, and more importantly acceptance,
for everything that has gone before.
Scorpio 
(October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. Top
You are frivolously engaged in some rather serious business all this month,
Scorpio, combining a serious approach with a series of wild departures from
the norm. It all may seem more than a little odd if you try to pin down what
is happening with mere logic. Finances are an important focus right now, not
so much because of their intrinsic value but for what they have to say to you
about where you are transforming. You are in the process of re-cataloging your
storehouse of resources and values and there could be money coming your way,
or perhaps its lack forcing you to acknowledge different roads than the ones
you've been strolling down.
As the month begins, you are making a fresh start on getting your resources
in order, including your financial ones. Finances are fortunate for you right
now, and relationship also, ideally as a means to finding yourself amidst the
tumult of modern life. You are making a stand for yourself, and for a future
that you can really live with, a serious commitment. Although it might be difficult
to find, there is a path for you right now combining responsible goals for
social involvement along with vibrantly creative self-expression. In one way,
everything depends on Spirit and your connection to it, the source of all inner
as well as outer wisdom.
The First Quarter Moon that comes along on Friday, December 5th, stresses you
out somewhat, giving you perhaps too many choices and representing an intensity
of disconnection from run-of-the-mill existence, which is obviously a good
thing in moderation.
A week later, the Full Moon of December 12th presents you with more of the
same, and a dynamic tension is created between individual interests and social
involvement with the world at large. You find yourself seeking the discontinuity
as a route to freedom, and yet some part of you longs for connection.
You are also particularly sensitive to the realms of your inner world right
now, and attempting to solve a basic set of riddles at the heart of your experience,
taking a spiritual truth that you find there as a fundamental starting point.
There is no simple answer, but it may help to simply dwell in the paradox without
trying to resolve anything. The ways of the universe are not as obvious as
what can be discerned with the mind's eye only. A resolution of a kind might
come to you, if you peacefully allow for it.
The last ten days of the month, kicked off by the Winter Solstice of Sunday,
December 21st, and highlighted by the New Moon of the 27th, opens you up in
new ways to the information of others around you, which may enable you to sort
things out into a more integrated and longer-lasting whole.
Sagittarius 
(Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. Top
It's a wild world you are birthing yourself into these days, Sagittarius, as
you reinvent every aspect of the way that you interact with significant others
in your life as well as with the surrounding cosmos. This is an important month
for you; be careful what you wish for because it is very likely to come through
for you. This is a little scary but also quite exhilarating when you get the
hang of it and refrain from looking down. The lights are all green for go as
long as you treat the gods with respect, so step up to the plate and swing
away. Although the energy is there for knocking it out of the park you will
automatically take careful aim right now, blending caution with your starry-eyed
idealism.
You begin the month with enormous energy for social involvement as you ride
the wave from the end of last month of the dynamic New Moon in your sign. Your
action orientation could get you into trouble at this time, if you do not make
it a habit to look before you leap, but the sobering presence of a powerfully
placed Saturn in your career sector is a huge stabilizing influence. This is
your season to shine, and you might as well enjoy it to the last drop.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, is also an important time,
when you might be feeling more impulsive than ever, and when the energy is
there both for destabilizing your home environment by taking off on some mad
adventure and also for sensibly holding back. You win when you can find the
happy medium although at this time that might be easier said than done.
The Full Moon of the following weekend, coming along on Friday, December 12th,
is powerful as well in this regard. You might be even more tempted to fly off
the handle and even more constrained by necessity to hold on. The potential
for accidents or unintended consequences is quite high. It will be good to
avoid doing anything too rash at this time, or if you do decide to jump the
tracks to do so very carefully.
The last ten days of the month, from the time of the Winter Solstice onwards,
are a time of pulling yourself together and making great strides forward with
the picture of your financial and other resources.
With the New Moon of December 27th you are off and running, in the next layer
of your current set of changes. You are more closely connected at this time
with Spirit, functioning as your ultimate guidepost. This new phase will be
more practically aligned with your future destiny as a result of the insights
gained over this December time frame.
Capricorn 
(Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. Top
This is a lucky year for you, Capricorn, whether you know it or not, and your
horizon just became a bit brighter. There are some stuck places within you
that are yielding right now, and the change has been a long time coming. Granted,
it is more than a little scary to let go of ingrained habits. You win right
now as long as you take Spirit firmly into account with your deliberations.
A tremendous breakthrough at the time of the Winter Solstice and on into the
New Year will seal the deal. Once you get with the program there is more of
an occasion for rejoicing than for mourning the disappearance of a past that
wasn't really working for you any more.
As the month begins, it finds you in an expansive and productive mood. A great
deal of joy accompanies you on your journey. There is a way that you are just
like that figure in the medieval drawing, peering under the edge of the curtain
to see the gears and whirling wheels of the universe that spin away in extra-dimensional
inner space, invisible to normal gaze. A feeling of connection to Spirit is
a useful asset at this juncture and luckily you have it.
Delving down into the inner working of your soul might make for a somewhat
isolated and self-reflective period of time, but paradoxically you are out
there with friends and family commenting on everything that you see and feel
within, although your sharing is inclined to be of a depth that passes well
beyond the surface layers of more conventional interaction.
With the First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, comes creative tension
that brings surprising revelation. Interaction within the circle of your peers
will give you unexpected answers to questions that were not even fully formed,
at least as regards your conscious mind.
The Full Moon a week later, on Friday, December 12th, is in some ways even
more revelatory, and carries with it a dynamic grasp on the whole of creation
as one big morality play, with you in the center. You are pulled this way and
that by the circumstances you find yourself in, and by the information that
you receive, but still, there you are, no matter which way you turn.
With the Winter Solstice of the following weekend, climaxing on Sunday the
21st, and the corresponding entrance of the Sun into your sign, you are more
than ready to move forward in novel ways and on new bright shining wings that
come out of your recent investigations. The only thing you have to remember
is to let go of the past with alacrity and never, never to look down.
Aquarius 
(Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
This is a terrific month for progress, Aquarius, especially when you align
yourself with what Spirit has in store for you. You are faced with simultaneous
challenge and opportunity. The doors of the future are swinging wide open for
you right now, but in one particular way, as you are caught up in a web of
confusion that yields only when you find the right key. This is about self-determination
on the one hand, and on the other the firm conviction that you can't really
go it entirely alone. As you seek the proper blend between self and other it
is good to know that the universe is on your side, and pulling hard for you
to come through as gracefully as possible.
As the month begins, with one part of your being you are heading out toward
the great unknown, with bells on, while with another you are in-dwelling in
the silent spaces between your thoughts, living out of a world of dream fantasy,
almost, that takes you into the hidden spaces behind and beyond your conscious
mind. With your yearning for transformation and self-transcendence comes a
feeling of caution as well, of not wanting to depart from the well-worn channels
of everyday thought and activity. But then again there is that vital urge that
leads you on, that irrevocably flings your body over the waterfall of your
new existence.
At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, you will feel
more directly the conflicts inherent in your position. This is traditionally
a time of asking whether the impulse that stems from the New Moon time, just
before the end of November, has the legs to travel any further, and you might
find yourself both questioning your fundamental premise and also itching for
the new agenda to begin. You may feel any combination of push and pull at this
time, and it is also wise to keep in touch with your inner process, which could
be moving ahead more slowly.
The Full Moon a week later, taking place on the 12th, presents the basic conflicting
urges even more poignantly to your confused and amazed awareness. You could
become so overcome by your feeling nature at this time that a chance for rational
thought is lost in the shuffle. Although this is not a mode that you are normally
comfortable with, you might need to learn to adjust. There is still room for
brain-power in the equation of your planning but it is beneficial for you to
remember to allow Spirit to have its say at the conference table.
The last ten days of the month, beginning with the Winter Solstice of Sunday,
December 21st, represent a time of hibernation for you that lasts well into
the New Year. You'll emerge from your cave toward the end of January once more
ready to tackle the world, and flying as your banner a better and more integrated
sense of yourself.
Pisces 
(Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. Top
You are in the midst of an exciting and potentially life affirming monthly
cycle, Pisces. Opportunity knocks as it never has before. Your future is literally
molding itself into new shapes right before your eyes. This is a powerful period
of great tests and trials as well as great rewards, both physically and mentally,
with surprising enlightenment and a strong spiritual message becoming quite
the ordinary part of your daily routine. Making hay while the Sun shines on
your endeavors is definitely recommended, even though you might find some unexpected
consequences that come your way while doing so. At least it won't be boring!
As the month begins, the urge for powerful transformation in your life is getting
stronger. You have been aware of new layers of your personality stirring into
life all year, in a peripheral fashion at least. Now the call is immanent.
The mentorship of stable partners might give rise to a different perspective
which could be very helpful. New ideas and career initiatives are in the offing
as you work your future through the hole in your garden wall and pull yourself
through.
At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Friday, December 5th, there is some
degree of tension in the machinery of social interaction but on the whole you
are feeling comfortable and free. This is a time to treasure, when you are
making your break for a new horizon, at times slow and graceful, and at times
moving with a sudden impulse.
The Full Moon a week later on, taking place on the following Friday, December
12th, creates a feeling of completion and provides a springboard for further
and more dramatic change. Deep inner work that has been building up conspires
with important partners in your life to birth a new way of societal connection
for a better integration of all your parts. You might feel conflicted in the
process of the birthing. You are tempted to cling to some portion of your past
that is really ready to drop away, could you simply but let it. You are essentially
moving ahead and moving quickly, in spite of everything, and you do better
to recognize this simple and in the end utterly indisputable fact.
The New Moon on the last weekend of the month, after the Christmas holiday,
on the 27th, leads you forward into your new life in a profound way and ushers
in a period of time running through the beginning of the New Year when everything
in your life will magically alter.
Aires Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitt Capric Aquar Pisces Overview Top
Overview of the
Planets this month: Top
The
Astrology of December is dynamic, and features
Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. From the time
of the New Moon at the end of November, a
Sagittarius line-up of Sun, Moon, Mercury
and Mars sets the stage, favoring Jupiter,
Sag's ruler, prominent in these winter skies
and closely aspected by the New Moon. Venus
makes a conjunction with Jupiter just as
December begins in a beautiful display in
early evening skies that lasts for only a
few days, since Venus moves so quickly. In
this first week of the month there will therefore
be an optimistic air to the proceedings generally
and especially for all forms of relationship.
Saturn is finishing up the first pass of five in its oppositional aspect with
Uranus, an archetypal combination that remains active throughout this two-month
period. Saturn also begins in December to make a quincunx aspect with numinous
Neptune. These two aspects are with us for at least the next eighteen months,
when they are very close to exact, and on through the summer of 2011. Neptune
and Saturn represent antithetical archetypes, just as much as Saturn and Uranus
do.
Neptune with Saturn can either represent the disappointment of the ideal never
quite measuring up to the real, with all the cynical and despairing possibilities
of that sense of defeat, or else the grounding of our dreams into concrete
manifestation. A powerful example of this latter outcome would be Martin Luther
King Jr.'s famous "I have a dream" speech, that has resonated down
through the corridors of time, and that was made in the summer of 1963. On
that day, Neptune was widely square Saturn and also was transiting in close
trine to U.S. Sun, just as the transiting Sun that day aspected U.S. Moon,
representing the public.
The First Quarter Moon of December 5th is quite a powerful configuration, with
the Moon conjunct Uranus while the Sun closely conjuncts Mars, bringing unexpected
events very much into the picture. This might be a good time to be careful
of accidents or unexpected consequences, a time to remember to "look before
you leap." Then, the Full Moon of Friday the 12th forms a Grand Cross
in Mutable signs with Uranus and Saturn. Saturn is also exactly inconjunct
Neptune at this time, and stands alone, apart from the other planets, and therefore
emphasized. Responsible attitudes prevail.
The new planet Eris, representing a powerful and at times militant ability
to stand up for oneself in the face of challenges, also comes into the picture
in trine with the Sun and inconjunct Saturn, so that a Yod configuration is
formed with Neptune. This brings up even more strongly the potential for despair
mentioned above, and also the determination in spite of anything to make a
stand for what we truly believe is possible. By enlisting right action in the
face of contraction and nay-saying we include an all-important reliance on
Spirit as our guide-post.
With Saturn opposed to Uranus and triggered by this Full Moon configuration,
revolutionary change is definitely in the air together with challenge to established
authority, and accompanied by the resistance to the new impulse that is a natural
and perhaps unconscious backlash. We will know what it is that we want to accomplish,
and there may be a violent rending of the social matrix, or of the normal fabric
of our lives, in order to achieve it. We may well feel the tug of war between
that strong impulse and in resistance to it, the established powers that be.
Coming in the middle of the holiday season, there could also be difficult economic
implications for the country as a whole. Since Mercury also exactly conjuncts
Pluto at this Full Moon time, we will be actively seeking to know the underlying
causes of all these potential events, and of our own actions as well.
The Winter Solstice this year is preceded by the Last Quarter Moon on Friday
of the same weekend, bringing a new form of consciousness into play. Taking
place on Sunday, December 21st, as the Sun enters the mountain goat sign, this
time of the shortest day of the year is always powerfully significant, but
this year even more so with Pluto occupying that same first degree of Capricorn.
It's a powerful end-of-the-month time with also an important New Moon two days
after Christmas on the 27th. This New Moon heralds a Capricorn line-up of six
planets – Sun, Moon, Mercury and Jupiter, with Mars and Pluto conjunct
in the first degrees.
Venus is also exactly conjunct Neptune, to the minute, so that the peaceful
energy of compassionate relationship and a spiritual sense of oneness also
colors this time period, when the year is changing over to 2009. The chart
for midnight December 31st again features Saturn apart from and roughly opposed
to all the other planets, bringing up once more this accompanying sense of
limitation and responsibility, although a Pisces Moon sextile to Mars and Pluto
sweetens the mix of energy for the New Year.
Current Moon Configurations
November 27th New Moon
This Sagittarius New Moon indicates a brave new beginning represented by a
Sagittarius line-up of Sun, Moon, Mercury and Mars, all within a few degrees
of each other, and activates Jupiter by semi-square aspect. Venus moves into
close aspect with Jupiter at this time also, and Pluto in Capricorn indicates
that the structure of things will be shifting as well. Jupiter still trines
Saturn, implying a relatively peaceful time, and triggers a close Saturn – Neptune
inconjunct that was described in the section on the Full Moon, so that these
details apply even more strongly as we head into the next cycle. The energy
of disappointment that could be symbolized by Saturn – Neptune is however
definitely ameliorated by the sense of optimism and expansion that the Jupiter
archetype symbolizes.
December 5th First Quarter Moon
This dynamic Quarter Moon configuration has the Sun exactly conjuncting Mars
while the Moon conjuncts Uranus. The potential for accidents is high. This
is also a time when we se our way clearly to break from established structures
of every kind, and when there will be a degree of tension in our process as
we do so.
December 12th Full Moon
This extraordinarily powerful Full Moon configuration forms a Grand Cross with
Saturn and Uranus, emphasizing their opposition. Saturn holds back while Uranus
wants to expand beyond existing limitations and represents "freedom from
the known." In addition, Saturn exactly aspects Neptune in an inconjunct,
or quincunx, aspect that has the keyword: adjustment. Will our ideals for a
better world find a concrete grounding point or will our dreams be forced to
yield? Mars in conjunction with the Sun squares Uranus exactly, and aspects
the Chiron/Neptune midpoint, while Mercury conjuncts Pluto in the first degree
of Capricorn. This is quite a recipe for dramatic change becoming the order
of the day, with sudden action and deep understanding of past woundings an
important part of the story.
December 19th Last Quarter Moon
This Last Quarter has the Sun nearing its rendezvous with dramatic and transformative
Pluto, newly entered into Capricorn, and presages the Winter Solstice a few
days later.
December 21st Winter Solstice
This is normally an important and highly symbolic time, when the Sun reaches
one of the four main Cardinal points of the Zodiac. This time is even more
intense with Pluto right there. We will be reminded of where the structure
of our lives needs to be supported, and where it needs to break down.
December 27th New Moon
This New Moon is dynamic as well, since there is a Capricorn line-up and Mars
and Pluto are conjunct. Mars, Pluto, Sun, Moon, Mercury and Saturn are all
in Capricorn, while Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, is opposite Uranus in Pisces
and all the rest of the planets occupying the two signs just preceding. Jupiter
is also aspected by the Sun and Moon. More adventures await us in the New Year
on getting a fresh grounding and expanding on our limits in a responsible fashion.
New Year's 2009
This chart features Saturn, nearly rising, alone and roughly opposing all the
other planets. We are entering into a Saturnine year with limitation providing
important lessons, as Pluto also helps by symbolizing the transmutation of
existing social structures. We are entering the cocoon of massive transformational
change. What will be born when the silk unfolds?
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