www.psychicwalter.com      Horoscope - December 2011    by Henry Seltzer You'll get a more accurate horoscope if you read your Rising sign, and your Moon sign, as well as your Sun sign. Here's how: Your Sun sign represents your Self, your way of being in the world. It can represent both the ego (mental) self and the higher Self (soul purpose). It symbolizes your will and sense of vitality. Your Sun sign horoscope will tell you what these areas of your self will encounter this month. Your Rising sign represents your outer mask, the self you show to others. It symbolizes how you appear to others, how others perceive you, in your true interaction with the world. Your Rising sign horoscope will tell you what to expect in these areas of your self this month. 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). The Moon also indicates the type of partner you will attract, since it represents your emotional self. Your Moon sign horoscope will show you what these areas of your self will encounter this month. What are your Signs? Comparison Interpretation of You and your Lover

     Aires   Taurus   Gemini   Cancer   Leo   Virgo   Libra   Scorpio   Sagitt   Capric   Aquar   Pisces   Overview

This is a thoughtful month for you, Aries, a time of increasing awareness, and you do well to acknowledge it. There is a time for everything, and right now, during the retrograde of Mercury in your sector of higher mind, your focus is on furthering your understanding of the events of your life rather than the events themselves. Powerful mental and psychic tools are available for this task; your intuition is strong right now, perhaps even stronger than you know, and so also is the subtle awareness of both your strengths and your potential shortcomings. “Don’t push the river” is the standard advice for this period of time, rather let the river push itself. And, we would add, do your best to attempt to see the broader outline of its movement.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the New Moon eclipse plus Mercury retrograde in your house of higher mind. This adds up to a meditative and reflective period when you will be mulling over the events of your life and seeking to discover the deeper meaning. All this is conditioned too by the opposition of your ruler Mars to Neptune and Chiron on the cusp of your sector of inner work and dream imagination, a transitional position that stems from about the middle of last month and takes you toward the inside as you try figuring things out. It is sometimes stated that human consciousness is like unto the iceberg, with nine tenths below the surface and seldom seen, and you have lately been participating in this unseen and largely unknown part of your existence with greater energy than you apply to the more superficial portions of your psyche.

The First Quarter Moon comes along late on Thursday the 1st and early on Friday the 2nd of December, and there is a juncture here of increased tension, which can be creative tension. These ideas are lurking somewhere in your mind, perhaps percolating below the surface. You are subject at this time to the notion that you can do more to become aware of your depths; undercurrents of emotion that can rule your life and your relationships from below, as it were. You desire to get a better handle on these subtle emotional signals that yet profoundly influence you.

With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Saturday, December 10th, you are still slowed down, enmired to an unusual degree in contemplation rather than in action. It has become increasingly important to align your head and your heart in pursuing a complex set of goals as you attempt to understand where exactly you are heading. Your communication reflects this slow and deliberate approach that you are currently cultivating, and yet is more important than ever. Sharing points of view with others around you is one key to working yourself through this period of time. You are struggling to redefine what it is you do in a big picture sense and how directly this work aligns with your sense of higher purpose and for a larger vision of where your life is currently leading you.

The Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, December 17th, heralds a time of reassessment and further contemplation. Mercury is direct now but still wobbly while regaining its lost zodiacal longitude, and so contributes as well to a more introspective stance. The end result of all this evaluation might in fact be important progress in how you see yourself and your part in the evolution of the world around you.

The powerful Christmas Eve New Moon, taking place on Saturday, December 24th, is a time of profound change and great insight for you, and the leaping-off point for further shifts in awareness that translate directly into activity over the turning of the year.


Taurus   (April 20 - May 20)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

Welcome to your internal depths, Taurus. This is not at all related to the pleasures of the physical world that you normally negotiate with such ease, and also might come unexpectedly, perhaps almost totally out of the blue, but you are entering into a deeply meditative period of time. The New Moon eclipse from last month packs a soft punch and motivates you into greater connection with others, while the Wounded Healer, Chiron, is also strongly activated as visionary ideals continue to call. This takes you to important realizations that are difficult but ultimately rewarding. Your possibilities now involve inner work fully as much as outer. You are beginning to recognize that for you right now “the path with heart,” as Castaneda puts it, is the only path that is truly worth following.

As the month begins you are feeling your way forward, intent somehow on getting to the place you need to go even though there is no clear answer to where exactly that might turn out to be. The New Moon eclipse from the last week of the previous month took place in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution and you are experimenting with both these areas of activity. The one is a complex and shifting avenue of connection with others around you and the other turns out to be a mode leading to greater connection with yourself. You are putting ideas together differently now than you have in the past, partly with the help you get by incorporating the perspective of others.

You are paying greater attention lately to little-understood mandates from your inner world, and can see that you need to move ahead with these even though the end result is only dimly perceived. There is achievement implicit in these stirrings even though it is not really achievement in the sense that that world normally acknowledges. Understanding your own internal mechanisms could mean becoming familiar with your suffering at some level and that is of course a scary proposition, and yet in some sense that understanding is essential for you right now in order to get to what needs to be accomplished.

The somewhat stressful First Quarter Moon that comes along late on Thursday December 1st, and early Friday, serves to highlight these themes. Interpersonal conflicts could arise at this time, and in the weekend that follows. This is when you might begin to see the drawbacks as well as the positive sides of what you are trying to make happen within the confines of your own mind and heart. On the other hand you may also – as a consequence of pushing up against another viewpoint – be forced to strengthen your convictions regarding your position.

With the Full Moon of Saturday, December 10th, a Lunar Eclipse, you are in a more balanced posture both with others and with the idea of more enthusiastically accepting your own process. This is a powerful juncture for you, a time when you are perhaps ready to more fully acknowledge your shifting worldview and to forge your own sense of security, independent of the ideas of others. As Mercury stations over the following week, you will perhaps be able to acknowledge old patterns of behavior that are also now shifting. You might recognize that these have been based on a false concept of what you needed at an earlier stage of your personal evolution, and be ready to move beyond them.

The Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, December 17th, is traditionally a time of reassessment and reevaluation, and with Mercury still working its way back to the zodiacal degree where it stationed last month, this is true even more so for you right now. You are engaged in summing up the experiences and your reactions to these experiences, and making more sense of them than heretofore. Your creativity is unleashed by loosening some of these stuck places within you, and in the last week of the month you can really start to feel it.

With the Christmas Eve New Moon of Saturday, December 24th, you are entering into what is essentially a new world for you, just in time for the advent of what will be for you especially an extremely powerful year of 2012.


Gemini   (May 21 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

This is a time of meditation for you, Gemini, more than one of direct action. This is a huge factor for you to recognize because you are also able to detect the operation of powerful energies that could be interpreted as an impetus for action. You are reviewing the impact of partnership in your life, including business partnerships, and your action orientation might feel as though it has a strong interior and essentially domestic component. The strongest activity will be on the inside, and visionary in its nature. You are exploring new territory within the vast and yeasty inner reaches of your private heart space, and this is a very important endeavor –one that takes all you’ve got – even as you forge new ground as well with significant relationships.

As the month begins, you are reveling in relationship or at the very least relationship potential, and also paradoxically engaging in a somewhat internal perspective on this area of activity and its import for you, attempting to redefine this area of your life. Increasingly as the month wears on you may therefore feel that in many ways it is a whole new ball game for you. You are in an essentially meditative mode with the advent of the Mercury retrograde period of time, which takes place entirely within your partnership sector. These effects are heightened because after all Mercury is your ruler; you tend to approach matters with the power of thought as at least one major component. Your inner world is also strongly constellated right now, and the lack of logical solutions thereby implied is antithetical to your natural mode of operations. There could be an inherent fuzziness now to all your endeavors and particularly to affairs of the heart.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday night, December 1st and early Friday morning, brings some tension into the mix of energies that swirl around you now. You seem to know where you might be headed but are really not all that sure. Significant partners in your life could provide a sharply contrasting or even critical point of view as you try your best to sort things out for yourself. You might feel distracted by the recognition of your own issues that need to be addressed in order for relationship to manifest in your life in the most truly authentic way possible, and also feel the intensity of your will to change these factors and many others for yourself going forward.

With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse in your sign, relationship with significant others in your life comes even more into the picture. You are also more directly accessing the secret confines of your inner world, which makes for an interesting mix of energies and one that is appropriate for getting a better handle on the true meaning of relationship for you. You might take this opportunity to become more available to yourself at all levels of your being, including the places where you feel ashamed or otherwise undervalued. These complexes, for want of a better word, can become walled-off from your conscious acting self and store themselves up as pockets of pain and dissatisfaction. There is an opening now to better accept yourself in these areas, forgiving yourself for what you have in the past unconsciously refused to forgive, and acknowledging the pain of ancient trauma that has perhaps prevented you from integrating these hidden parts of your psyche up to now. If so you make great strides toward a happier and more peaceful existence.

The Last Quarter Moon of the following week takes place on Saturday, December 17th, after the station of your ruler Mercury to direct motion on the 13th, and there is a subtle shift to the energy that you have for self-reflection. You are still in an introspective mode at this time, both due to the phase of the lunar cycle that is ending now, and because Mercury is still regaining lost ground. You are summing up what has occurred, and attempting to understand these events in the light of recent epiphanies.

The New Moon of Saturday, December 24th, Christmas Eve, is especially powerful for you, and will likely shock you into yet another new level of understanding that takes your inner world even more solidly into account.


Cancer   (June 21 - July 22)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

This is an interesting end-of-year period for you, Cancer. You continue to encounter a rather dizzying array of options opening up for you, so that you are tempted to entirely abandon previous foundations, but then again, not. Something in you also holds steady. Your motto right now is service, both to others and to the demands of your own inner journey that is definitely leading you somewhere important, if you could only begin to guess where that truly is. There are secrets to be discovered as you progress along the path that the cosmos is showing you the way toward, and although almost pre-ordained there is adventure in the journeying. You will not get there with your mind alone however; you win when you equally follow the dictates of your heart.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of energy from the recent Solar Eclipse in your service sector, which noted astrologer Dane Rudhyar also termed “the discipleship to your Higher Self.” Since additionally, Mercury is also retrograde there right now, you are likely to be thinking over and then re-thinking your position in this regard. True service comes from working your own agenda, out of love, and not by yielding to the demands of others. The Sixth House of the chart is also referred to as the house of everyday life and daily work activities, as well as sickness and health, but it all boils down to finding a spiritual quality in the ordinary activity of your everyday world, whereby that experience is transformed. In your current situation that transformation seems to have much to do with the activity of important partners in your life as well as your own.

The First Quarter Moon, taking place late on Thursday night, December 1st, and early Friday morning, represents a good opportunity for further considering where you are headed within your process. There could be obstacles that are thrown up against you at this time, and in the weekend following, that attempt to throw you off course but instead could have the result of causing you to commit even more deeply to your mission. There is a magic that is moving through you in these powerful days that leads you onward to where you ultimately need to go. Partnership in your life is a powerful factor now that can be of help, as long as you can amicably sort out where their perception of events ends and yours begins.

The Full Moon of Saturday, December 10th, is a Lunar Eclipse and represents in some ways a culmination of everything that has gone before in the present cycle. Your thoughts are coming from such a deep place within you that they could feel alien at times, and yet are redolent of important truth for you to gather in. A crisis of belief is possible unless you can stay as open as possible to the information flooding your awareness from these mystical sources. There is a way that you can transcend every obstacle, even the corrosive attacks of self-doubt since in the final analysis these are shown to be imaginary and of no practical advantage.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, December 17th, you are still busy reflecting on where you are going with your life right now, and why. Your imagination is still running on full-steam and can have either a positive or a negative flavor to it as you either idealize or else doubt your own sagacity and ability to find your own way forward. It helps to remember that triumph and adversity are equally false allies and to seek the bedrock of your inner guidance that will never fail you.

With the advent of the Winter Solstice on the 21st, and later of the important New Moon of Saturday the 24th, which is Christmas Eve, partnership in your life takes on added significance as an adjunct to your own perspective. There are dangers as well as gains implicit in opening up to another, and yet you cannot refuse what life offers you. Both sides of this conundrum will undoubtedly continue to be factors in your ongoing exploration of your path to wholeness.


Leo   (July 23 - August 22)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

This is a time of great insight and change, Leo, even as you revel in the here and now. You are a little full of yourself, but in a good way. This end-of-year period is a spiritual as well as a material season for you, one in which your fundamental understanding is sure to take unexpected leaps. You are coming into who you really are, getting to know yourself in some ways for the very first time, at least in terms of your present level of personal evolution. While feeling the great good fortune of how you are currently situated regarding career, which will only improve in 2012, you are still far from satisfied. You are instead using that realization as a springboard for further growth and development where it really counts.

As the month begins, you are feeling the shifting tides of your rapidly evolving worldview and your quest for more intimate connection with yourself as well as others. Through all of it, luck is running your way even when it doesn’t seem like it. You are riding a wave of energy for self-development and self-definition that has you moving ahead with your life even as you look more deeply behind the scenes of this same forward motion. It’s a mystical contract between you and the universe: the universe moves you forward and you in turn promise to pay attention as it does so.

With the First Quarter Moon of late Thursday night, December 1st, and early Friday morning, you could discover some of these issues coming to a head. This is a time of relative tension in your process, when the rubber meets the road in terms of facing up to inherent limitations in your plans. You are finding traction although it does not come entirely easily, and see the plusses more than the minus side of what you are about, which definitely helps. As you look more deeply into what is going on for you right now, you inevitably will see the consequences of your conditioning and even of early inner wounding as factors which inhibit your free-flowing ability to deeply connect with others. Although you are tempted to avoid these realizations you do much better not to close your eyes to them, but rather to accept these flaws within your psyche, so that you might be able to move past them. It’s not after all like you were the only one to ever suffer from these types of issues, although at times it might feel this way.

The Full Moon taking place on a week later, on Saturday, December 10th, is also a Lunar Eclipse and therefore more powerful. You are guided at this time in a direction opposed to the dictates of consensus thinking, toward what your soul might truly want to see manifesting in your life. The paradox of this situation is that you know full well what that is, from the inside, even though you seem to behave and evaluate differently from the perspective of strictly the surface part of your mind.

The Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, December 17th, brings you to an even more thoughtful space than the preceding three weeks of this cycle. Mercury is now direct, although just barely, and still regaining its lost Zodiacal ground. You are still therefore in a meditative mode, also enhanced by this late phase of the lunation, when your natural tendency is to evaluate and reflect on what has come before. This is a mystical and mysterious and very sacred time as you deal with inherent limitations as gracefully as possible, and as both the Winter Solstice and the major Western holiday time fast approaches.

The New Moon of Saturday, December 24th, Christmas Eve, provides you with new energy for the transformational cycle that you find yourself in, along with a fresh impetus for finding your own road forward in a way that is consistent with what Spirit is truly asking of you.


Virgo   (August 23 - September 22)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

This is a powerful and profound month for you Virgo. It’s a very different kind of end-of-year season with your ruler Mercury retrograde in your sector of home and family. You might find yourself reviewing and re-visioning your bonds with important others in your life, especially within familial units and with tribe. You are striving to find the heart of these connections. Understanding unexpectantly dawns when you can hold yourself open to receive it. You are also engaged right now in sussing out the inner meaning of dysfunctional issues of relationship that have perhaps tripped you up in the past. Instant epiphany appears throughout the month regarding these patterns, so that it pays to be ready for that moment when it arrives, or at least as ready as you can be.

As the month begins, you are re-organizing your concepts of family and resultant feelings of internal security in light of new inferences and revised belief systems that spring from a deeply intuitive place inside you. This could be an opportunity for you now to recognize that in terms of knowledge, all that glitters is not gold when it is the superficial shine of consensus thinking and corporate-sponsored conditioning that is at issue. If you can trust in the information you receive from your inner depths you are far ahead of the game. There are consequences as well for the actions that you now contemplate since at each and every moment there are choices which will either allow you to drift away from your principles or instead to render yourself more consistent with what you believe in your heart of hearts.

With the First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening, December 1st, and early Friday morning, you might well find that issues of family and of tribe, or of your own sense of psychological security, could be seen as coming to a head; some form of minor crisis in activity. Contentious behavior on the part of significant others in your life could be a factor, as could yours as well, and these might either serve to distract you from your purpose or else to bring your fundamental intention into sharper relief. Regarding what you stand for, you might want to ask yourself what exactly are the factors in your life that allow you to make progress. Things may become clearer as you look more deeply into what is going on in your world throughout the course of this month. Old patterns of behavior – that are perhaps disrupting your way to being more of what you truly want to be – could also be up for review and potentially for greater acceptance and eventual modification.

The Full Moon of Saturday, December 10th, represents a new a plateau of understanding, a time when all these factors present themselves more starkly. You are seeking a more profound integration within yourself, top to bottom. Over the next week, your ruler Mercury changes to direct motion and a shift in the atmosphere could be palpable. You benefit by taking the opportunity to better accept ancient wounds that have settled into your system as walled-off portions of your psyche and admit them to the daylight of your more conscious understanding.

The Last Quarter Moon in your sign takes place in the following weekend, on Saturday, December 17th, and is accompanied by a new level of reflective introspection on your part as you integrate the information gained over the past few weeks, attempting to sort out the wheat from the chaff. There is idealization and potential confusion inherent in your approach to relationship at this time, so that a careful reassessment has its merits and is in any case what is up for you as this powerful lunation cycle comes to its close.

With the New Moon of the following weekend, Saturday, December 24th, which is also Christmas Eve, a spiritual point of view becomes increasingly manifest, and exigent. You might reach the next ridge in your psychological explorations, only to find new and even loftier heights appear. But still it is comforting to realize that there is no going back on recent realizations. You cannot put the cork back in this particular bottle.

Libra   (September 23 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

This is once again a powerful month for you, Libra. You are wrestling with issues that are difficult to pin down and define, but which definitely have to do with forging new ground with important partners. You are intent on finding a basis for security that, while it enables you to merge with others and allow for their point of view, is not dependent on that. Communication is key, both in getting yourself across to others and in taking in their information, which ultimately serves to enhance your own process of awareness and growth. You are seeking innovative ways to combine your various possibilities and even finding them. Home life and concepts of intimacy are transformed along the way especially when you can free yourself from any sense of expectation regarding outcome.

As the month begins, you are sorting through what might seem to be almost too much information regarding future direction. Many concepts present themselves to you now, some coming in the form of ideas from helpful partners that you are challenged to integrate with your own. There is a bit of confusion as well as the determination to reformulate your most basic principles along the lines that your heart feels comfortable with and truly good about. Mercury is also retrograde at this time in your communications sector, where also the recent New Moon and eclipse gave you extra potency. You are spending loads of time thinking and re-thinking these issues, and perhaps coming to a new determination of where your most important priorities lie.

With the First Quarter Moon of late Thursday night, December 1st, and early Friday morning, you arrive at the crux of some internal conflict regarding values and how and even where you consider your home base to reside and which star you figuratively steer by. This tug-of-war going on inside your head and heart is largely internal, so that little of what you are going through emerges toward others unless you project it outward. If you do it might be well to stop and reflect on what internal conflict might be at the root cause. Since Mercury is the god of communication and writing it is also an excellent time to journal about what is actually on your mind. Old patterns might be arising now to attempt to trip you up, as they perhaps have many times in the past, and if they do they might instead provide a good opportunity to look more closely into these and what ancient issues they might in fact represent, allowing you to accept yourself in these dark places so that you are enabled to move beyond them.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Saturday, December 10th, represents an opportunity for greater clarity on some of these issues. This is a powerful time to set intention, since the Sun aligns with the Moon’s North Node and since your ruler, Venus, is activated in your home and family sector. It is an excellent time to work on familial harmony or tribal alliances and as well to validate yourself at the very roots of your being. You might find that upon reflection you are most comfortable when in alignment with core values that you are just beginning to consciously acknowledge.

When the Last Quarter Moon arrives on Saturday, December 17th, it brings along with it the concept of organizing your thoughts and reactions to the three weeks of this potent lunation cycle that have gone before it.

You have the chance now to get your thoughts straight to enable you to go forward calmly and perhaps more confidently into your next cycle, beginning with another strong New Moon on Thursday, November 24th. This is Christmas Eve in the West, and a spiritually important moment for you as well. Jupiter stations to direct motion, beginning the next day, Christmas, in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution. You are making some powerful moves over the end-of-year period so that the year that is dawning is likely to be qualitatively different than all the previous ones.


Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

This is a time of great ferment in your life, Scorpio, and yet a moment of calm can also prevail. Your future is still coming at you like an express train and the ultimate form remains unknown, but through it all you are continuing to pave the road toward your eventual realignment. This is definitely a time of consolidation of previous gains, as epiphanies abound regarding finding your true calling in this world. Relationship is one key to this time period and the resources at your disposal are another, and you are getting clear that it is vital to bridge the gap between them. You have been to the mountain and now are bent on incorporating the lessons learned into a more graceful and conscious act of sharing yourself with others.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way forward into a future that you can really live with. There is a certain degree of planning involved but much of this effort is seat-of-the-pants intuitional steering, so you might need to be prepared to let go of logic in favor of gut reactions. Even though it runs against the grain of consensus thinking, you may well find that you can trust your inner guidance to pull you through. With Mercury retrograde in your sector of values and resources it is also a reflective time. It is not a good time to take direct action, or to move ahead with a brand-new idea. Instead it is useful to be gathering yourself and your information preparing for more aggressive action after the beginning of the year. You are also likely to be dealing with financial issues now, perhaps involving significant partners or family members, or perhaps a business partner. The deeper meaning of finances and of your values generally could be the more important thing to think about as you mull over the events of your life.

With the advent of the First Quarter Moon of late Thursday night, December 1st, and early Friday morning, you are at some kind of crossroads. There is tension in your process now, and also energy for pushing forward with at least the analysis of what you are attempting. squares abound; and you can perhaps see more clearly the obstacles than the advantages, although both sides are present at this juncture in your sky picture.

The Full Moon takes place a week later, on Saturday, December 10th, and it is also a Lunar Eclipse and therefore more powerful. The message of this phase – representing one culmination period of the current lunation cycle – is to avoid judgment and to try to take a positive position for the most part, without worrying too much about consequences, in spite of tendencies that you might have to take the opposing side of the equation. You could also find that for best results you need to include the viewpoint of others in your ultimate determination.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, December 17th, you are in a mode of review and reflection according to the phase, and enhanced by the slowness of Mercury as it regains its lost Zodiacal longitude, gradually getting back on track at month’s and year’s end.

There is also a remarkably indeterminate nature to the proceedings right now, that will improve somewhat with the advent of the subsequent Winter Solstice and December 24th New Moon. You might just have to learn to live with the paradoxical nature of these times. It is equally true for instance that everything is lost and also its opposite: that we as a culture are on the road to recovery. Both viewpoints have merit. You win when you can let logic go and accept it that there is more to the events of your life than meets the eye. When the New Moon does finally dawn on Christmas Eve it provides fresh energy for your process. This is a time of bringing the help of important others to your own deeply felt intuitive self-council for an enhanced total picture.


Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

It is a relatively quiet and reflective period that you are in now, Sagittarius, as you continue to examine your life. This is the calm after the storm or preceding its next stage. You are feeling comfortable in your skin right now but very aware also of changes that you still need to make. Your identity crisis is looming but so are creative solutions that remove you from that bind. Partnership remains important and becomes even more so as the month wears on. You are forging new territory both with your own self-definition and regarding issues of personal security that you are perhaps wishing would simply go away. Something is however calling you to face these issues and to possess the faith in yourself to regard this task as, rather than a drawback, an opportunity.

As the month begins, you are reflecting on all aspects of your life and its potential challenges as well as your situation in general. Mercury is retrograde in your sign until the 13th when it returns to direct motion, but it does not regain its lost Zodiacal longitude, escaping what is termed its “retrograde shadow,” until the very end of the year. Therefore you are considering all forms of your identity and your earthly existence and even how these might relate to spiritual matters beyond the purely physical plane. It really comes to the same thing since these are in fact all connected, although this simple truth can be difficult to recognize in the heat of the moment amidst the flurry and the distractions of the paper chase. With your forward motion revved up now – having just experienced a Solar Eclipse last month in your sign – but also distinctly on “pause” for this special December cycle, you have a terrific great opportunity now to relax somewhat and to mull over your productions and your potentials.

The First Quarter Moon of late night Thursday, December 1st, and early Friday morning, brings some tension to bear, perhaps in the form of conflict regarding accomplishment versus introspection. There could be forces urging you to deliver the goods, in keeping with the cultural predilection for doing over simply being, and these might take the form of external voices, or other conflicts could arise. In the happiest way of looking at things these critical voices might only confirm you in the direction you were already heading; or else some compromise might need to be reached that is more inclusive of all views. Given the applicable planet patterns, your process will of necessity have some complexities and round-about ways of circling the runway before landing. There is also a good birthing process going on in your life right now. It is a time for brilliant ideas to sprout, with only the drawback of sorting through so many for the best and the most truly viable.

The Full Moon of Saturday, December 10th, brings a flowering of these and a feeling of accomplishment along with the recognition of how helpful significant others in your life might be to the success of your overall project, which is nothing less than a re-working of life direction and future goals as possessing greater consistency with your own higher purpose. You will get a boost on this before the end of the year.

The Last Quarter Moon, of Saturday, December 17th, is an occasion for further contemplation, as you attempt to discern the real truth of your situation and distill that understanding into a seed of wisdom to carry forward into the coming year.

With the powerful Christmas Eve New Moon of Saturday, November 24th, you are finding new energy for your process of reflection and for making changes to your current life path.


Capricorn   (Dec 22 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

This is an important month for you, Capricorn, in the midst of an important year. You are approaching critical mass for changes and developments that you have envisioned for yourself – and for the world around you as you consider your place within it – that you have not quite been able to put across although getting increasingly close. You may be less than fully satisfied with your progress, and so might profit from this month of deliberation. This a time of research, with Mercury retrograde in your sector of dream imagination and unconscious material. As you continue to take in what is going on both within you and outside of yourself you are storing up the information to eventually use as a springboard for further and more massive change after the end of the year.

As the month begins, you are considering ways and means, and tuning more fully into your own depths. This lunar cycle is about allowing yourself to examine the feelings within you responsible for finding a better way to navigate your life so as to correspond to your own inner vision. There are stirrings deep inside you that are more than a little scary because potentially destabilizing, but which you can no longer ignore. You are perhaps beginning to acknowledge that life itself implies change and therefore must be accompanied by some degree of risk. As the cycle unfolds over the course of particularly the first three weeks of the current month, leading to your birthday time of the year, you may be able to imagine the log jam lessening and the way becoming clear for more deliberate and concentrated action.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday night, December 1st, and early Friday morning, makes for a potentially contentious time when you will see the obstacles to your process of eventual transformation more clearly than the proposed benefit. This is a natural development with any major innovative venture, since not everything that imagine at this time can be truly viable. It takes the courage of your convictions to move forward and it also takes a sense of practicality to see where it makes sense to push, and you have both of these factors going for you now, as you blaze new trails in both internal information and expanded worldview.

By the time of the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Saturday, December 10th, you might be able to find if not the answers you seek, at least a better set of questions. Your work in the world continues to absorb your thought process at this time, and can increasingly be seen as part of a bigger process of understanding that is taking place within you and slowly percolating through your awareness.

By the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, December 17th, you are taking a fresh look at everything that has gone before. You are ready to put your shoulder to the plow and yet you are still holding back from more complete involvement, perhaps because still gathering the necessary information. This phase of the lunation cycle is designed for this sort of holding back and mulling over what has gone before, as you make the attempt to link everything up.

Then the New Moon in your sign of Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24th, is a potent one, when further enlightenment could suddenly dawn like the proverbial light bulb turning on. You are ready at this time for a new beginning. Your charge forward only gets stronger after the beginning of the year.


Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

This is an exciting month for visioning your possibilities, Aquarius, although not necessarily for acting on that vision. Mercury is retrograde in your sector of future plans, making this a better time for research than for activity – except for furthering what has already been previously conceived. With Neptune activated in your sign as well, your basic attitude is more than just a bit nebulous and you might very well be confused. Still this moment of enhanced vision steers you toward your ultimate destination; you only have to let go of expectations. You are finding your way to a new world that is opening up before you perhaps as soon as next year, and it is likely to be so new and so different that you will hardly recognize yourself.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way forward into what seems like an essentially new world, or at least a world that is very different from the place you knew as recently as six months ago. So much has happened over the course of this year that you find yourself in a different state of knowledge than earlier, both professionally and personally. The recent New Moon eclipse from the end of last month took place in your sector of wishes and plans for the future, as well as of the group associations that you cherish that in actual fact enable you to get there, and it has you dreaming about your possibilities.

This current vision is important, but since Mercury is also retrograde, it is not a good time to push the river; instead it is better to wait a bit for the dust to settle before moving on anything that is a brand-new concept. It is difficult to hold yourself back but it might be important to store your energy up for a more emphatic push after the beginning of the year. Impetuousness is great but caution also has its advantages, and so too does erring on the conservative rather than the impulsive side.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday night, December 1st, and early Friday morning, brings a certain degree of tension into your process. Interpersonal connections become important although there could be some sharp exchanges too, especially when security issues are involved. If you do get triggered it helps to remember that it’s always a good idea to count to ten before making any particular statement. This configuration is dynamic and also spurs you to activity of one kind or another. It might feel like you have to do something, go somewhere or if you don’t you’ll feel extremely restless. It is important that you follow your instincts and allow your body to have its say, but it might be better not to commit to a new plan of action until after the retrograde has passed, or ideally not until after the end of the year.

With the Full Moon of Saturday, December 10th, which is a more powerful moment for you by virtue of being another eclipse, you reach a plateau of energy that might allow your emotions to settle and your creativity to kick in. This can be a time of great ideas, and for finding a conduit to inner wisdom.

The Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, December 17th, brings you to a time of summing up what has gone before. It is well to check in with yourself at this time, as you might have a different take on things now that your ruler Mercury has returned to direct motion. You are engaged in storing up the accumulated wisdom of this period and eventually using it as a springboard for future plans.

The extremely powerful New Moon of Saturday, December 24th, which is also Christmas Eve, again takes you to regard inner rather than outer solutions as the best medicine. As you strive for better thoughts and ideas regarding your situation you come as well to better communication of their essence to others around you.


Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 20)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

You are learning to live with paradox this month, Pisces. There’s a conundrum here to explore; you currently find yourself out in the world full-force, yet you are somehow not satisfied with purely worldly rewards and accolades. As your values fluctuate along with your finances you are seeking something more. You are in some ways quite inner now, exploring the underside of all your motivation, the secret doorway in the floor of your mind that leads to the mystery at the heart of everything. It is no surprise that this secret place within you holds greater fascination than what is laughingly called the “real” world. The only question is why the material rater than the mystical holds so much sway in the eyes of the world at large.

As the month begins, you inhabit both a world of doing and your own private world of just being. Busy with outer events, in another part of your psyche, running along beside the public role in equal measure, you occupy inner space; and your focus there is of mystical contemplation. You are making an important transition this month that involves the way that you show up in the outer world, and your corresponding personal evolution. This is a powerful time for understanding yourself and for tapping into your intuitive grasp of things to really dig down into core issues. While Mercury is retrograde in your sector of career and professional life, your ruler Neptune is hovering on the brink of your identity sector, which it briefly occupied last spring.

Neptune returns to Pisces in February, making 2012 – which is a big year for everyone on the planet - an even more important year for you fishes. Mars in your relationship sector is also emphasized at this time, so that active partners could be important factors for you, and as the month unfolds, matters of interpersonal connection could come to light.

With the First Quarter Moon of late Thursday night, December 1st, and early Friday morning, these issues become more starkly illuminated. The tension of your process increases substantially over these few days and you are also likely to run into interpersonal conflicts. Of course the best is when you can take in the fact that you are triggered without going outside yourself to announce it. You might instead be able to take some time away in order to work on your own issues, returning when you are ready to admit that part of your anger might be stemming from nowhere but your own inner wounding. The early childhood trauma that is often responsible for knee-jerk reaction and other less than functional behavior is almost certain to be a powerful factor for you throughout this end-of-year period, and if and when these do arise they give you the opportunity to address them with greater acceptance and understanding than you have mustered in prior experiences with them.

These issues could resurface in a mutated form by the time of the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse taking place on Saturday, December 10th, in your sector of home and family. This is another powerful juncture, but one that is less likely to be immediately traumatic and might in fact become the occasion for healing.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, December 17th, you are still engaged in mulling over the events that have transpired thus far in the cycle, and the conclusions to be drawn from them. You are reviewing and revising your estimations right up to the end of this month and year, with these final weeks as one key part of that journey of introspection.

The Winter Solstice of December 21st and another strong New Moon taking place on Saturday, November 24th, Christmas Eve, bring fresh energy for the transformation that you are involved with so passionately over these winter months, and also for finding a new set of goals to shoot for. Things are lining up for you both professionally and personally in a way that feels better at soul level; you are identifying more closely with where you feel in your heart you should be heading,