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Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

This is a landmark and also a deeply reflective time for you, Aries, as you enter into a new phase of your relationship with yourself. Tribe and family are given great importance in your life at this time, but taken from the increasingly powerful standpoint of your own inner perspective. It is amazing to discover how your connections with family and friends, and indeed with lovers of all varieties, comes directly to you from sacred spaces within. Toward month’s end you will see the consequences of this deep exploration in the way that you show up for your career and other outer world priorities.

As the month begins, you are digging down into your depths to see more clearly into important relationships in your life, and also in order to refine your mission statement, the unique purpose that you have set yourself to in this lifetime, which you are getting closer and closer to seeing as ultimately a spiritual one.

With the advent of the Sagittarius New Moon on Sunday, December 9th, and in the days following, you are coming into a new philosophy of life and living that takes the mystical side of yourself more fully into account as a preparation for activities of a broader scope and on a more public stage. You are reveling in your connectivity at this time; preparing the way for great deeds in your workplace and a better all around sense of integration as you perform them. Stepping out into your outer world activities with your entire heart and will behind your punch makes easier the swing of the bat, and allows your life in general to feel more enjoyable also.

By the time of the climactic Full Moon taking place on Sunday, December 23rd, you are more ready than ever before to connect with wholeness to others in your life through business and personal partnerships. This Full Moon in your home and family sector, indicates that you are seeking a better integration of public and private throughout this monthly period, and what is more, finding it.

The Last Quarter Moon coming at the very end of the month, on the 30th, might well represent a time of some tension in significant partnerships in your life, along with the increased awareness of your current arc of development, and also the realization that what matters most is what is going on inside you.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

Your famous self-reliance might be slipping just a bit this month, Taurus. You are finding out that you don’t go it alone, being very invested in intimate connection and in forging significant partnerships of all kinds with others right now. Most importantly, your focus on relationship at this time provides you with the starting point for your own transformation. New ways of seeing the world around you and your place within it lead you to rapidly changing life goals, so that by month’s end you’ll hardly recognize yourself. Only the path with heart can appeal to you now.

As the month begins, you are opening to greater relationship involvement in your life, taking partnership with others as a more serious endeavor and also as more fun. This is an important month for you, and relationships will come to the fore in different ways, perhaps most importantly in order that you come to a greater degree of integration within yourself.

With the New Moon of Sunday, December 9th, and in the days following, you are likely to find a moment of clarity in your process that you would do well to heed. This might be a good time for you to do some journaling, for example, or engage in self-reflective conversation with committed friends. You are riding on the coattails of the past, but looking to the future, with an eye toward needed changes in your way of life and in the belief systems that have gotten you this far.

The tug of war with your future self is particularly emphasized at the time of the First Quarter Moon a week later, on the 17th, when you will see what part of your vision is truly viable as the rubber meets the road with your intentions for yourself moving forward.

The Full Moon of Sunday, December 23rd, is also an interesting turning point, when you are compelled to the realization that you simply see the world differently than you have in the past, and when you have a great deal of energy to communicate this truth to everyone around you. There is some element of your life and your worldview that is in an important process of flux at this time; you are tempted to cling to your previous way of being, but that may be in some sense an illusion, since the old order is already nearly gone from the reality of your world and what remains is only ghost presence that prevents true seeing.

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

This is a big month for you relationship-wise Gemini. Especially after the 9th, significant partnerships of all kinds, both personal and professional, demand your attention. Also, you are all over the place both mentally and physically, so that there is some part of yourself that is not fully present right now for commitment to anyone but yourself. The rules you have for what you expect to get out of life are morphing and you can’t expect everyone to be on the same page. Change happens in the most profound way for you these days when you let go of others’ expectations; and perhaps even – dare you say it - of your own.

As the month begins, you are more fully aware than ever of the effects of partnership on your life, and also of the limitations that it may bring. Over the next week you are dealing with restrictions on your life in general, seeking the synthesis that allows you through.

The New Moon that comes along on Sunday of the following weekend, jump starts your thinking along the lines of workable solutions. This is a wild time for you, over the next few days. Your creativity is strong, and also your reliance on partnership with others to get you down the road of your choosing. You are in the midst of a big growth spurt, and it’s exciting so that you don’t really have time to be afraid. If your work environment is greatly changing, and suddenly, and with surprises, it is fuel for your greater understanding of your life path.

At the time of the First Quarter Moon a week later, on Monday, December 17th, some tension comes into the mix of the energies. Your partnering impulse may conflict in some way with what you are attempting to accomplish in the world, and again, it makes for an important time of figuring things out and getting clear on what really matters to you.

The Full Moon of Sunday the 23rd is climactic, and serves to emphasize once again the balance of agendas that is necessary in living with others. This is an essentially optimistic time for you, and a productive of new awareness, especially when you pay close attention to everything that happens right now. You are completing one important phase of your life plan, with more to come. The past is prologue.

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

This month, Cancer, you are revising and redefining your ideas of what it means to be in the service of public needs. It is more than likely that career refinements will follow as a result. After the Winter Solstice you may find yourself partnering up with others in a very different way, opening toward a surprising new vision of what you want and how to connect with others in order to co-create it. With any luck, you will begin seeing partnership goals from the standpoint of self- rather than other-definition, and coming to optimistic service ideals by way of an incidental blessing.

As the month begins, you are dwelling on the limitations of communication possibility with others around you. It may be that issues with siblings or peers will come up for you at this time. You are exploring, at depth, what it means to engage the world around you from the most profound part of yourself. There are important aspects of your connections with others that will be more fully explored as this monthly cycle unfolds.

The New Moon of Sunday, December 9th, kicks off some of these possibilities. You are coming to some strange and enlightening epiphanies at this time, especially regarding sharing with significant partners, and also for your own unique path forward. You are feeling a pull to service for the sake of service and being pleasing for the sake of being pleasing, that can be superficial, but which has a more profound basis in the concept of true service to others when you look at it from a more holistic standpoint. The trick is that the gift of yourself be freely given. If not, better not to make the gesture, which only leads in the end to resentment.

The Full Moon of Sunday, December 23rd, and immediately following the Winter Solstice, is accompanied by the entrance of the Moon into your sign, and so in one way represents a comfortable period of time for you. In another way, this is when you will come to some definite conclusions regarding the necessity and the ultimate effect on you of important partnerships in your life.

You are reinventing yourself during this entire period, redefining your outreach to others from the public stage of career and professional life, and transforming in the way you connect in terms of partnership. This is an entirely serious proposition for you, yet one to also take lightly, as a passing phase in the grader scheme of things, one bubble in the river of your life that is passing. Enjoy the moment.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

Mystical madness infuses your soul this month, Leo. You are transforming mightily in your self-expression, which reflects the largest and most hidden part of yourself out into the world around you. You are trying, throughout this period, to come to a new way of being in the world that incorporates a healthy dose of Spirit into the mix of energies that you project. This is easier said than done, but the late December timeframe provides some unexpected epiphanies to grease the skids of your slide into home plate.

As the month begins, you are getting serious regarding your finances and other forms of emotional security as a prelude to making some necessary changes in your way of being in the world. You are moving through an amazing amount of inner work throughout this monthly period, and coming into a new sense of self rather suddenly at times.

With the advent of the New Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, December 9th, you are more ready than ever to accept change in your life as a constant over this period, and to see yourself and your self-expression in new ways. This is an exciting time, when the doorway is revealed for wild explorations of other planes of existence, and when your own sense of freedom provides the key to unlock a wider experience of life and of relationship.

Massive transformation in your life is possible right now, and even necessary, as a snake sheds his skin, not because he wants to but because it just doesn’t fit his emerging sense of self any longer. You are coming into a new vision of service to the greater collective that surrounds you, one based on actual participation rather than reaction, and the gift of yourself freely given rather than coerced in any way.

You will explore further facets of this idea during the days following the New Moon, and leading up to the First Quarter Moon in your sector of personal transformation and intimate connection with others, on the 17th.

The Full Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, December 23rd, represents a time when you will gladly go fourth, and multiply your impact on the surrounding social matrix.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

Digging down into your core values is good for you right now, Virgo. You are exploring issues of home and family and your psychological roots as well. There is a powerful impulse toward transforming your understanding of who you are at deep levels, brought on as a culmination of many months of self-study and coming to a head in this end-of-year timeframe. Unexpected pressure for change comes from helpful partners especially during the week of December 9th. Your goals are consequently up for revision and review also. Confusion reigns over the next three months regarding the new direction that your life might take, but after February everything will become much more clear.

As the month begins, you are coming into self-awareness by dint of hard work. It’s been tough being you lately but the rewards are certainly there also. You are in a somewhat isolated period of time; a crucible of endurance that will rearrange your molecules put you over the top of your latest series of transformations. The kick-off to your next phase comes within this current monthly cycle.

The New Moon early on Sunday, December 9th, marks a time when you will come closer to tribe and family, and to a better understanding of your own psychological roots. You are in the presence of angel guides right now in the form of personal relationship partners and you do well to heed the information that you receive. This doesn’t mean caving in, but that you mine the situation for the true gold of inner knowledge.

The First Quarter Moon of the following weekend, taking place early on the 17th, represents another crossroads of the adventure. You will likely see issues in your everyday interactions with significant partners in your life at this time, or feel the pressure to conform yourself to circumstances in some way, but the only road through the horns of the dilemma is a synthesis of viewpoints that creates a third path where there was none before.

The question is how. You may find out by the time of the very powerful Full Moon in your sector of group orientation and societal connection. This takes place on Sunday, December 23rd, and aligns you with your creativity, representing both a celebration and an invitation to mystery.

By month’s end and almost New Year ’s Day, the Last Quarter Moon in your sector of values has you looking at your future in an entirely different way, with the dawning of a new form of understanding.


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

You are entering a time of interior body building, Libra. As you attempt to come to a better idea of your values at this time, communicating your innermost truth to others around you is vitally important, since such outreach is key to validating your own understanding. Partnership that takes place from this soul-level point of view unleashes your outer world performance in new ways, and also helps you to revise your ideas of what that performance might eventually consist of. Surprising and novel visions of where you are journeying to right now will come to you as long as you keep your head up and your eye firmly on the ultimate prize.

As the month begins, you are dwelling on the past with an eye to the future. Whatever you wish to take with you into your own personal new world order, you had better grab it fast. You are in the midst a mighty process of self-development that will complete in at least one phase by the time of the Winter Solstice.

With the advent of the New Moon in your communications sector taking place on Monday, December 9th, you are feeling your internal gears begin to take on a different and more expansive orientation. You are coming into a new style of interaction with the world around you based on compassionate outreach that speaks directly from your heart; and getting to a place of security based not so much on income as on outgo, the product of your deep mediation in the days leading up to this moment in time. You have been getting down to your inner core issues during this entire month.

The Full Moon that follows two weeks later, taking place on Sunday, December 23rd, represents another significant time of breakthrough, when you will be more ready to share the results of your inquiry with others. Family and tribal affiliations are more vital then is usually given credit for in our take-away culture, and you are exploring these important connections at this time.

You have also been looking more closely into your presence in the outer world of achievement over the last few weeks, and this Full Moon period represents a culmination of that effort. The results are far-reaching, as you connect to others in a more subdued way but with deeper intention.

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

You are expanding in your security orientation this month, Scorpio, making rather rapid progress at times. There is a change in the weather that is coming through to you, in which your sense of safety is based not so much on what you have or even who you know, but on how well you know yourself. You are looking more closely into the underpinnings of all your thoughts and belief-system values at this time. After the Winter Solstice, as you try these new ideas on for size, communicating these values to others around you becomes a sacred act, and your most important form of self-validation.

As the month begins, you are coming into a new way of looking at the world around you. You are questioning everything. Your sense of social responsibility is high right now, even to the point of obsession, and yet there is also a totally personal element to your activism since you are building for a future that makes sense to you and provides you with a real basis for ongoing security and deeper connection with your surrounding circle.

At the time of the New Moon, on the weekend of December 8th and 9th, you are taking yourself and also the important relationships in your life with a great deal of playful seriousness while getting clearer regarding your own priorities. You will find your ultimate reward, at least mentally, from digging down into your core issues at this time and attempting to discern your inner motives. The payoff in terms of healing old wounds of peer-to-peer interactions from childhood, and in terms of awareness, is huge for you right now. You are reaching for a better and more complete sense of yourself based not on who but what you know.

The First Quarter Moon of the following weekend, peaking on Sunday night or early on the morning of the 17th, poses some riddles which are really tests of your willingness to surrender yourself to the process of growth that you are engaged in right now.

Then the Full Moon of Sunday the 23rd in your higher mind sector brings new perspectives home to you, and opens possibilities for exciting shared interactions around these ideas. Your road is turning and you have to go with it but the good news is that you planned your itinerary quite carefully in a wholly other state of being somewhere long ago and far away.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

It’s rapid acceleration from here on out, Sagittarius. You have been pulling back your bowstring all this time, and now you are finally ready to let the arrow of your ambition fly. Powerful life changes in your ultimate best interest that have been waiting for months in the wings are finally ready to fully emerge this month to astound your gathered public. The funny thing is that you have known these home truths about yourself all along, and as difficult as they are to fully accept, by now they’re not even that strange or unusual. Like a skateboarder grabbing for glorious air, stability is not at all your watchword anymore.

As the month begins, you are feeling the pressure of success in terms of increased work responsibilities and greater accompanying self-searching. All this introspection is leading you to some very positive changes, if you have the follow-through to go along with it. Looking into the underlying motivations of your actions is of great benefit right now, when you take the time to tune into them, especially if you make a real attempt to be more aware of your patterns in the actual living moment.

The energy the New Moon in your sign can certainly be used to terrific advantage for you in this way. This New Moon takes place on Sunday, December 9th, and will bring surprising epiphany as well as a new burst of energy to your charismatic outer as well as your inner world presence. This is a subdued period of time in general, but this New Moon is beckoning you to celebrate the joy as well as the more somber overtones of living.

When your ruler Jupiter makes exact contact with Pluto on the next day, sparks may fly, although the momentum for this powerful confluence of energies has been building up for some time. This is definitely an active theme over your entire current monthly time span.

The First Quarter Moon of the 17th may rain on your parade, bringing the trials of life on planet earth more directly to your attention, particularly in regard to significant relationships in your life.

The Full Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, December 23rd, brings heart and mind together and emphasizes the power of personal transformation in your life. Whereas your connections with others for others’ sake is important, it is even more important to realize that all roads end in your own process of self-discovery, and that this factor illuminates your entire connection with the world at large, including your connections with significant partners in your life.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

You are fumbling toward ecstasy, Capricorn, weaving your way through to the bag of gold at rainbow’s end by means of an inner process that words cannot entirely describe. The first part of this month is an excellent time to tune into deeper realities that underlie your universe while you are gathering your forces for breakthrough. With the advent of the Winter Solstice, when the Sun and then Jupiter enter your sign, you are charmingly coerced into a new form of relationship with the world around you, one that fully depends on how much you have learned throughout the dream awareness of the preceding weeks.

As the month begins, you are in the midst of a wild ride that will ultimately take you further than you ever thought you would be able to go. Relationship in your life is a changing landscape at the moment, as you explore the deeper aspects of your connections with others. You are also somewhat quiet and reflective at this time, mulling over your possibilities and gathering your forces.

The New Moon of the second weekend of the month, taking place on Sunday, December 9th, serves as a springboard for you, but with your more internal viewpoint still very present. This connection to your inner world is very powerful for you right now, and will eventually lead you outward into the surrounding collective experience with a greater sense of integration of all your parts.

One way that you may have felt disconnected from life itself in recent months directly involves your sense of alienation from your own deep center, and the opening is there right now for you to reconnect in this regard. This is powerful, and an opportunity, and should be taken advantage of in the best way possible to you, perhaps through meditation or other forms of spiritual practice, or perhaps simply through the recognition of the vast interior dimension of life that underlies the more normal outer perspective. As the cycle of this month unfolds, you will come to a more complete understanding of where all this is leading.

The First Quarter Moon of the 17th takes you further into the contrast between interior realities and outer ones. Then the Winter Solstice hits on Friday, December 21st, when the Sun enters your sign, traditionally a very powerful time for you, and this year even more so. The sky is literally the limit for you right now.

The Full Moon in your opposite sign two days later, on Sunday, December 23rd, implies that you are primed to bring others more firmly into the picture along with you. It is amazing how much better close interaction with significant others in your life feels when you are more solidly in touch with yourself.

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

You are metaphorically putting your money where your mouth is these days, Aquarius, or is it the other way round? In any case, your focus this month is on your values and the financial and other resources that you Marshal in support of those values. It is also a terrific time to be planning your next phase. After the New Moon of the 9th, the planetary energies are in full support of your hopes and desires for a future that you can really live with. This is literally the best time of the year for you to make plans, so be sure to diagram carefully. Like a pro tennis stroke, the rest, as they say, is in the follow-through.

As the month begins, you are engaging with others in your life differently and with greater soul-connection, enjoying the loftier viewpoint from the mountain top where your vision has been taking you lately. The Last Quarter Moon of December 1st could also bring up issues of potential conflict. There may be dragons of old patterns to battle in the secret cave of your personal illusions over the course of this monthly cycle, and these may come up with renewed vigor during the testing times of trail and subsequent achievement.

As you complete the cycle from the previous month and come to the New Moon in your sector of societal connection taking place on Sunday, December 9th, you are coming into new plans for the next phase of your existence. These are based partly what you think your future should look like after the perspective shifts of the previous weeks and months, and partly also on a mystical reliance on cosmic forces to guide you.

Security in general and your finances in particular have become important for you and may distract your from other goals. You are perhaps also confused at this time by your focus on ordinary consensus values, that seem to accompany the mystical ones that are so very present for you at this time, but the mundane and the unseen world are but two sides of the same coin and one augments and reflects the other.

This is a powerful period of time for you, over the next two weeks, and the best chance that you will have all year to vision new possibilities for yourself. You may well find that the decisions that you reach in this timeframe will guide your steps for many months. You are also through a process of elimination honing in on your true path forward at this time, the mission that is uniquely yours in this lifetime to fulfill.

The Full Moon of Sunday, December 23rd, brings all these themes together in what hopefully represents a greater stage of integration within you between inner and outer concerns.

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

Deep and self-reflectively profound change happens, Pisces. There is a powerful and irrevocable renewal taking place for you this month, especially concerning the public statement that you make with your career and professional life. This takes a variety of forms, some of which are not very obvious for others to see, as you draw a considerable portion of your strength lately from within the close confines of your inner world. You are being urged at this time by a benevolent universe to let go of all your prior conceptions, and your work in the world will be vitally transformed when you do.

As the month begins you are coming to terms with the weighty issue of significant partnerships in your life and how they may limit you, as well as benefit you, in some ways. Wrestling with these issues has been an ongoing paradox lately, in the midst of your dreamy connection to your interior voices within you that guide you to Spirit.

You have been seeing yourself differently of late, shutting down somewhat your creative self-expression for the sake of interior depth exploration, a theme that will re-emerge again in a big way toward the end of January. This month, your struggle is around your presence in the working world and how to find the best route through to your more personal goals while still honoring the demands of the surrounding society.

The New Moon of Sunday, December 9th, encapsulates all these ideas and rolls them into a concentrate burst of energy pushing you forward, ready or not, into a new universe. Your soul progress this month represents the culmination of a building spiral you have been experiencing for this entire year that takes you through the timelessness of inner realms and on out to the surface glitter of present-tense realities, and then back again. Weaving these strands of thought into one tapestry of meaning is a challenge, but one that you seem to have signed up for.

The First Quarter Moon of the following week, taking place early on Monday, December 17th, is a time of trial and experiment when you will find yourself wondering whether anything that you have launched into the turbulent stream over the last two weeks will actually float.
When the dramatic December 23rd Full Moon comes along, you may find the answer, or at least the establishment of a more informed point of view that allows you to ask the right questions.

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Overview of the Planets this month:                                Top

The Astrology of December features Mars, newly retrograde, Uranus and Neptune, with the star attraction a forming Jupiter – Pluto conjunction in the last degrees of Sagittarius, signifying transformation of perspective on a massive scale, both individually and collectively. Mars has been backtracking through the sign of Cancer since mid-November, opposite to the Winter Solstice sign of Capricorn, where the Sun is currently heading. They will meet across the Zodiac in the very dynamic Full Moon configuration of December 23rd, aided and abetted by Jupiter in the first degrees of Capricorn, conjunct the Sun. The Jupiter – Pluto conjunction that perfects in mid-December also remains very active during this period.

Mars retrograde in Cancer implies that we will be looking under the covers of our familial and nurturing behavior over this entire end-of-year time that is replete with reunions. This retrograde period lasts until spring counting the retrograde shadow period, with his station to direct motion coming at the end of January. We are conjoined during this period to temper our outward urges with corresponding inward-turning self-analysis; it is better to reflect than to react. What we may find in so doing is that the root causes of our anger and other distressing emotions lies not so much in the present situation as with past conditioning. We benefit when we refrain from shooting the messenger.

In the mid-month period, the December 9th New Moon represents yet another chance for the powerful and transformational energies of the outer planets to interact with our personal lives. This New Moon in mid-Sagittarius squares Uranus, now in direct motion, and sextiles Neptune, while Jupiter and Pluto are coming quite close together in the heavens, only about half a degree apart. Relationship-oriented Venus also makes its ingress this month into Scorpio, Pluto’s sign. This is a time of sudden epiphany, and the awareness of the numinous and otherworldly side of the mundane world that opens us up to larger reality.

The Full Moon configuration of December 23rd, taking place two days after the Winter Solstice, brings these ideas together even more strongly, as the Full Moon unites Jupiter in early Capricorn with Mars, now in the very early degrees of Cancer and about to cross backwards into Gemini. The chart for New Year’s Day has these same factors still powerfully present, and in some ways more pronounced, as Mars swings into late Gemini to perfectly oppose Pluto. Mars opposite Pluto in the chart for the New Year presages that violence and the roots of violence will be on all our minds as we explore our lives, both individually and within the collective, in this extremely volatile year of 2008.

During this entire month we may well feel the evolutionary pressure mounting for massive change, as is indicated too by the current political and economic climate. In the larger picture of what we as a society have to deal with, things have been getting scary, and are likely to be getting scarier still in the years leading up to 2012. But it is an ill wind that blows no good, and what we as individuals must do is rise to the occasion. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” was never truer than it is today and will continue to be over the next few years of our remarkable collective transition.

Current Moon Configurations

December 1st Last Quarter Moon
This has a Moon-Saturn conjunction in early Virgo, so that the sense of limitation frequently imposed by Saturn will be emotionally very present for us at this time. This is magnified for those with the Sun or a natal planet located early in a Mutable sign. Mercury also moves into Sagittarius at this time, heightening the consciousness of our situation generally. Of course, as always with Saturn, if we have done our homework and been good boys and girls over the past seven years the effect of Saturn’s large hand clamping down upon us will be less noticeable. During this beginning December timeframe, Jupiter is drawing quite close to Pluto as well, so those with planets later in the Mutable signs will begin to experience, if they haven’t already, the dawning realization that something major in their lives is about to shift.

December 9th New Moon
This dynamic New Moon of course features the Jupiter – Pluto conjunction, which becomes exact the very next day. This New Moon also squares Uranus, which is just beginning to pick up speed in terms of forward motion, so that surprises may abound, especially for those Mutable signs (again). Anyone born with Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini or Virgo Sun signs will have plenty of soul-level activity to deal with this entire month, and very definitely during these first ten days. This New Moon also features a Sagittarius line-up, with Mercury about to conjunct the Sun and the Sun about to conjunct Pluto, a configuration that becomes tighter as the first week of the New Moon unfolds. Since this New Moon also sextiles Neptune, we will be more open than usual to the information from the other planes of existence that comes into our lives during this period.

December 17th First Quarter Moon
This First Quarter Moon, representing the testing time of trials, when the impulse generated at the time of the New Moon gets its sea legs so to speak, also features these same four Sagittarius planets in a row, with Mercury, Sun, Jupiter and Pluto drawing so close together in the heavens that little more than four degrees separates them. There is at this time a certain tension in the mix of energies, representing the necessary limits to what we can achieve. It may prove to be a very exciting time, especially as Venus in Scorpio trines Uranus and Mars approaches its opposition with Jupiter and Pluto, signifying that the relationships in our lives are up for examination and renewal.

December 21st Winter Solstice 12-21-2007
This is traditionally an important time, and can be used to signify the chart for the year ahead, much like the New Year’s Day chart. It is an especially good time for rituals for this reason, as we collectively center our thoughts for our personal year to come. This year, the Sun is accompanied by a very close conjunction with Jupiter, and Mercury, both newly entered into Capricorn, with Pluto also nearby in Sagittarius as well, so the indications are quite powerful. This is an excellent time to set intentions for the coming year.

December 23rd Full Moon
Closely following the Winter Solstice, this dynamic Capricorn – Cancer Full Moon lines up almost exactly with the opposition between Mars and Jupiter, just a degree away. There is loads of energy for moving forward, and also some reservations that we will experience at this time as to the ultimate direction of that forward movement, since Mars remains retrograde. Generally speaking we will be more ready to share our experience with others around us at this time. Venus also squares Neptune, so that there is a spiritualizing influence, and confusion as well, in regard to our relationship goals.

December 30th Last Quarter Moon
This configuration definitely reflects the possibility of greater consciousness, coming as it does on the heels of so much volatility during December. We are one day away from the New Year. This Quarter is traditionally a time to get our mental ducks in a row, absorbing the lessons of the past three weeks since the New Moon, and of what we can and cannot accomplish in this timeframe. We may be learning the lessons of relationship, or of social activism, or of humility at this time, depending on how we react to the present moment in our lives, and on our ability to accept massive change. With a prominent Jupiter in early Capricorn, and with Venus just entering Jupiter’s sign of Sagittarius, an increase in awareness is definitely up for all of us, to the extent that we can absorb it.

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