December begins with Jupiter retrograde in Cancer, Ketu in Leo, Mercury direct in Libra, Venus, Sun and Mars in Scorpio, Rahu in Aquarius, Saturn and Moon in Pisces.
December Transits:
Mercury direct in Libra on November 30th
Mercury in Scorpio on the 6th
Jupiter returns to Gemini on the 6th
Mars in Sagittarius on the 7th
Sun in Sagittarius on the 16th
Venus in Sagittarius on the 20th
Solstice on the 21st
Mercury in Sagittarius on the 28th
Full Moon in Taurus and Rohini Nakshatra on December 4th at 16:13 Mountain Time.
December brings subtle movement, change, and interesting planetary shifts. If you are a Scorpio or Sagittarius, these changes will impact you the most. The emphasis on Libra transforms into a need for depth, awakening, and release. Endings, loss and closure are happening.
Saturn is now direct forcing momentum with death and endings. Jupiter retrogrades back into Gemini asking you to retrace your year and draw new conclusions. As multiple planets change signs back to back, there are several sandhi planets which continue to impact your body and life. It is still important to slow down and make your body a priority. Carefully take action and move forward. The spirit realms are wide awake.
When Saturn moves, your body knows. Over the last five months, Saturn has been moving across the sign of Pisces, returning to his original starting point at 0 degrees. This has been a massive clean up cycle for your body and your ancestral body. Any planet at 0 degrees is considered sandhi, or in the gap between signs. This is considered the liminal, the spiritual realms, the in-between. Saturn won’t gain strength in degrees until the beginning of January, 2026.
Saturn and all things that Saturn represents, are currently “neither here nor there.” This experience impacts your body, bones, and feet specifically. He makes things last, he endures, and offers benefits that truly matter in life. But his rewards only come through your consistent effort, commitment, and they arrive when you are older and wiser. Saturn navigating water sign Pisces is bringing complacency and emotional avoidance to the surface. He doesn’t tolerate spiritual by-passing or Pollyanna behavior. The planet of labor and effort is requesting that you do the work, show up consistently for your physical body and your emotional body and go beyond the surface.
The past five months of retrograde Saturn asked you to go deeper, navigate your depths, and listen more for answers within your own body. What have you harvested? What did you learn? As Saturn moves direct in Pisces and continues through sandhi degrees through December, he’s asking you to slow down, integrate and digest. This opportunity won’t come again. You must complete this cycle, tend to endings and losses, and do your grief work.
Pisces directly connects you to the twelfth house- which enlivens your ancestral work, silence and spiritual work, dreams, sleep, and solace. Endings, losses, death, and closure come with the 12th house. Are you tending your losses and honoring your grief? When Saturn and his wisdom are not fully acknowledged, challenges increase and pain becomes intolerable. The best medicine for Saturn is prevention. Listen to his messages and respond before he destroys your life with disease, death, and misery.
There’s no need to fear Saturn if you are living in right relationship with him. He wants simplicity, grief work, labor, commitment, effort. He wants you to live with the cycles and rhythms of Nature. He wants your honesty and integrity. He demands you show up consistently for your body and make it your top priority.
December becomes a powerful time to listen to your body, its wisdom and messages. As Saturn (and Jupiter) continue to move through sandhi degrees, you will be able to hear the wisdom within more clearly. The subtle messages arriving will require pause, stillness, and presence. Do not succumb to the chaos of the season and fritter away your energy. Instead of holiday madness and disembodiment, choose your body and listen closely. The wisdom and messages possible at this time are sacred. Lean in and linger here.
Jupiter also hovers at 0 degrees the entire month of December. He won’t gain strength in degrees until January and won’t go direct in Gemini until March 2026. Your guru is asking you to retrace your steps and acknowledge the impact of 2025 on your body and life. As a major influence on your dharmic path, this is a significant rewind and digestion phase. It’s not often you get a chance to recycle your experiences and play them out completely differently. You have until June 2026 to clean up anything lingering around communication, self expression, creativity, hands, arms and shoulders. Be courageous this time and make some bold moves. If you have wanted to make changes, now is the time to take this seriously. There are those that talk about it, and there are those that actually make it happen. Decide who you are right now.
Saturn and Jupiter will both be sandhi for the month of December. This liminal reality is a time to dream bigger, make your desires known, and demand that your ancestors help you with your steps. Sandhi planets are lingering in the netherworlds, the transcendent, where all possibilities arrive. If you want to create something new, own it and allow it to materialize. You will need more than dreams and visions to actualize your desires. Seek clarity and answers right now so you can start taking action steps.
As the guru, Jupiter represents teachers of all sorts- including coaches, healers, guides, mentors, therapists, wisdom keepers and shaman. Receiving the blessings of Jupiter requires that you are receptive to the nourishment and wisdom he offers you. He has an important influence on your dharmic path and soul purpose. The transit of Jupiter in Gemini is requesting your courage and creative power. You will need to prioritize your dharmic gifts in the remaining six months of this transit if you really want to get results. Your creativity, artistry, skillfulness with hands, and courageously expressing yourself are maximized with Jupiter in Gemini. Do it now, or don’t do it at all.
If you need a reminder about how to maximize this Jupiter in Gemini transit, read it here.
Venus, Mars and Sun conjunct at the time of the full Moon. This is powerful transformational energy. Jupiter gives his expansive gaze. Sun and Mars dance closely together increasing heat, anger, frustration and inflammation. What needs to burn and alchemize once and for all? Relationships are particularly vulnerable with this combination. By proximity, watery Venus feels overwhelming heat and tension from these fire planets. Expect discomfort and irritation. There is something new trying to awaken in you, but it hasn’t arrived yet. What are you noticing needs to change so you can be free? What part of you is seeking liberation? This is a death process so allow it to transform you. Complete this phase of the journey so you can move forward freely.
Mars and Sun continue their close proximity until April, causing challenges with heat, anger, explosions, and increased inflammation in your body. This combustion is volatile and will dance through Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and finally into Pisces over the next four months. Be mindful of where these signs live in your Jyotish chart and your body. You can expect heat, pitta conditions, inflammation, and excess fire to increase in these areas of your body and life. This conjunction can also cause challenges with blood, muscle and bone marrow. Prevention is key for soothing the body as multiple planets will be involved in this combustion. Start now and bring soothing to the fire within.
Anger is a powerful emotion of alchemy, transformation and empowerment when used correctly. The coming months are a time of sacred rage. This anger needs to move so that you can walk forward lighter. Fire element is a vital part of healing and transformation when directed mindfully. Notice the anger emerging and where it lives in your body. What does it say? What does it need? This fire is helping you transform your grief so pay attention to the sadness that lives underneath the anger. Anger is also very motivational and activating. It can be used for positive life changes when used for dharmic purposes.
We will see the collective rage increase in the months ahead. What do you do with this sacred rage? How do you use it for positive change? What boundaries and clarity is this rage offering you. There will be powerful release and change taking place in the coming months for the entire planet. Stay alert and take action. Danger with fire, explosions, and aggressive people are a reality so take precautions. Expect war, violence, and masculine rage to intensify in the months ahead.
The December Full Moon arrives on the 4th at 16:13 Mountain Time while Moon is transiting her favorite sign of Taurus and the powerfully creative nakshatra Rohini.
Moon enlivens in this portion of the sky and is amplified by big lunar waves. Earthy Taurus likes the tangible, and helps the Moon feel grounded- which is why this is the Moon’s exaltation sign. Rohini nakshatra is ruled by the Moon and is lord Brahma’s domain. In the cycle to come, expect growth, expansion and immense creativity. How will you use and channel this creative life force energy?
Lord Brahma is the ruling deity of this notoriously creative constellation. Manifestation and the ability to bring ideas into form are strengthened and supported within this nakshatra. Brahma’s wife is goddess Saraswati. Her feminine life force power is rooted in art, music and wisdom- all resources for creating, manifesting and increasing growth. Both masculine and feminine energies are necessary for the creative process. Though it’s easy to get lost in the physical realms and what is tangible, it is also vital to resource from your depths, your creative intelligence. It is your inner wisdom that supports your creation process.
This waning cycle demands more self expression and sharing of your gifts, wisdom and creativity. There may be confusion and uncertainty about how to go about this, but take steps regardless. Relationships become both a resource for spiritual insights and sudden change and transformation. Stay rooted, grounded and stable. Use your voice for activation. Sensuality and sexuality can be a resource for increasing life force energy, Shakti. Use it intentionally to create, transform, heal and grow. Focus on nourishment, gains and how to increase abundance. Increase life force energy through self expression, sharing your gifts and speaking your truth. Nourishment comes when you align with your highest needs.
What is your heart’s longing, your biggest desire? Take powerful action steps in the coming cycle to birth your visions into form. Notice where you let confusion and uncertainty keep you stuck, overwhelmed and uncertain. Clean up and clear away people, situations and stagnant emotions that are robbing you of more space to create what you want and need. Clear away grief from the throat so that you can step into your power and purpose more fully!
New Moon in Sagittarius and Mula Nakshatra on December 19th at 18:44 Mountain Time.
As December wanes, Scorpio is no longer the center of attention. Mercury and Venus continue to navigate the depths of Scorpio, demanding transformation in relationships, life force, and communication. Sagittarius demands your focus now with the Sun and Mars combustion heating up with this new Moon. Retrograde Jupiter gives his direct gaze from Gemini which helps make meaning of your anger, and may even give it purpose. Will you activate your rage into dharma or will it consume you?
Mula nakshatra and dark goddess Nirrti are very activated with Sun, Moon and Mars all navigating this portion of the sky. It’s important to understand how Nirrti operates so you can be aware of her mischief, chaos and adharmic behavior. Will you get ensnared in her traps, or navigate her inevitable sabotage with skillfulness?
This is a cycle of powerful uprooting, release and transformation. Sun, Moon and Mars are navigating the cosmic knot, while Mercury and Venus will be next. Over the coming weeks and month, all bodies are impacted by this uprooting and change process- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. This process continues through late January. You may notice that big life changes are taking place. Inner and outer upheaval is likely. Attachments are releasing and new clarity is emerging. This is a very ungrounded time for the body and life. You may feel disoriented and disembodied. The medicine for the next two months is “back to body”. Stay close to your body and breath. Track sensation closely. Are you healing your trauma and disconnection, or increasing it? Sometimes intensification is necessary for new awareness to arrive. Notice what needs are surfacing. You are being asked to create something very new and different for your body and life. Make the necessary changes now. Notice where your self doubt sabotages your momentum.
Mula is notorious for causing adharma. It’s vital to consciously stay close to your dharmic path and purpose for December and January. Your inclination will be to check out, avoid, even numb. Chaos and calamity may keep you disconnected and stuck, fearful or filled with self doubt. Come back to body and dharma anyway. This is how Nirrti works. She brings misfortune as a distraction. Remind yourself again and again: Back to dharma! Back to body! Back to dharma! Back to body! Don’t lose the truth.
The new Moon arrives on December 19th at 18:44 Mountain Time while Moon is transiting Mula Nakshatra.
Sagittarius is a fire sign known for its spiritual inclinations. As the number nine, it naturally reflects the wisdom of the 9th house of dharma. Symbolized by an archer pulling his arrow back, this sign needs to remember to take action, not just prepare. There is a tendency for “over-preparation” with this sign, rather than taking focused, right-action. Notice where you are causing delays, creating obstructions, resisting forward momentum. The support will be here for you to move forward, but you must take the steps to make it happen. This sign wants fairness and justice, as well as truth. The shadow side to this sign is dogma, puritanical beliefs and ideals. Sagittarius is known for its self sabotage, doubting one’s gifts and feeling the need to over prepare. You will need to be vigilant with your dharmic path in the weeks ahead
The first constellation of Sagittarius is Mula, considered one of three gandantas in the zodiac- a gap between water and fire. Gandantas are notorious for uprooting the psycho-emotional body levels. This particular gandanta, or gap, is connected to the nakshatra, Mula. Ruled by the dark goddess, Nirrti, this constellation is often disruptive for the dharmic path. Nirrti in fact is married to adharma, that which goes against dharma, causing calamities, chaos and misfortune on the path that obstruct or delay dharma. Three planets transit Mula nakshatra at the time of the new Moon- Sun, Moon, and Mars. Expect your tap root to feel unstable at this time. A poignant uprooting is taking place physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Grounding and stability are vital. Stay close to your body.
Are you making choices that move you closer to dharma or further away from it? What are you releasing, removing or uprooting right now? What needs to be cleared and eliminated so that you can move forward in a different way? What needs are surfacing as you sift and sort through the rubble? What are you making space for and how do you want to move forward differently?
As the man-made Gregorian calendar comes to a close this month, it is a poignant time for reflection and digestion. Pause and acknowledge the past twelve months of growth and learning. What feels important as you move forward with your one, precious life?
Solstice arrives on December 21st which is the shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. Longest day of the year for the Southern Hemisphere. Considered a time when life seems to stop, or stand still, use this time for pause, meditation and silence.
“The term Solstice comes from the Latin word solstitium, meaning ‘the Sun stands still’. This is because on this day, the Sun reaches its southern-most position as seen from the Earth. The Sun seems to stand still at the Tropic of Capricorn and then reverses its direction. It’s also common to call it the day the Sun turns around.“ – Via Time and Date
As the still point arrives and the reversal of the light takes place, it is a powerful time for introspection and release. This is a time to attend to shadows, grief and undigested emotions. Clearing, purging and releasing lingering emotions from the past cycle will create space for the new, opening you to more life force in the months ahead.
What needs to be cleared and released? What is undigested from the previous year? What are you making space for in your life?
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