December, The Lantern at the Turning of the Year: A Month of Thresholds, Clearings, and Quiet Renewals.

Today we step into December, a month that asks for presence more than speed to close 2025.

A time when endings and beginnings speak to one another across the shortening days. The sky threads a slow narrative this month, a weave of illumination, realignment, and preparation. Each date that arrives offers a small doorway, an invitation to notice what settles, what softens, and what gathers itself to move into form.

December 4th brings the Full Moon in Gemini, a lunation that lights conversation, perspective,

the small truths that shift when we listen. This Moon highlights the way we tell our stories, and invites tenderness around how we choose to speak and to hear.

Across the fields of heat and frost, they reach for one another with a devotion that bends the seasons. Even far apart, Summer and Winter remember the path that unites them. December is a quiet thread that helps them becoming one again.

On December 6th and 7th, the Great Water Trine rises for the final time, opening through Mercury direct in Scorpio as he lifts the first thread of clarity from the deep. This last weaving of Mercury, Jupiter retrograde in Cancer, and Saturn in Pisces, becomes a soft culmination, a moment where insight meets emotion and the year’s inner tides reveal what they have been shaping all along.

On December 8th Mars in Sagittarius squares Saturn in Pisces, a moment where action meets limitation and clarity grows from pause. This square can feel like a re evaluation of how we spend our energy, a gentle reminder that direction becomes more meaningful when it is aligned with what truly matters.

December 10th offers a deepening as Neptune stations direct in Pisces, the veils thinning slowly

so intuition and imagination can move more freely. When Neptune shifts forward, inner knowing feels easier to trust, though always with the softness and subtlety that Pisces carries.

On the same day, December 10th, Mercury in Scorpio faces Uranus retrograde in Taurus,

the mind meets its own awakening, a truth rising with the force of something that cannot

remain hidden. This opposition stirs the ground beneath certainty, inviting a shift that feels sudden yet quietly aligned with who you are becoming.

The sky turns a corner on December 11th when Mercury enters Sagittarius, shifting thought toward broader horizons and warmer curiosity. Conversation may become more exploratory now, more open, more willing to follow meaning beyond the familiar edges.

As Mercury steps into Sagittarius on December 11th, that same day He reaches instantly

toward Neptune’s newly direct waters in Pisces, creating a trine that softens the mind into vision. Thought stretches toward the mystical here, warmed by meaning and guided by intuition, as if understanding itself becomes more fluid and more forgiving.

On December 12th, the 1212 Energetic Portal opens, weaving the harmony of the number 6

with the mastery of number 33, inviting insight, alignment, and a profound return to inner truth.

Then on December 14th Mars squares Neptune in Pisces, an aspect that calls for a balance between drive and ideal. Motivation may blur and inspiration may feel vast, so the invitation

is to move gently, to act only when the inner compass feels steady.

On December 15th Mars moves into Capricorn, grounding action with discipline. Where Sagittarius inspires movement through instinct, Capricorn teaches how to move through commitment, how to place each step with intention rather than haste.

On December 16th 2025, The Sun in Sagittarius has a face off to Saturn in Pisces in a powerful square, asking vision to mature through patience and discipline. This is a moment where faith is tested, not to diminish it, but to anchor it in responsibility and inner authority.

On December 18th and 19th open a Jupiterian dialogue. Mercury in Sagittarius and Venus in Sagittarius both turn toward in an opposition with Jupiter retrograde in Cancer, inviting thought and desire to listen to emotional truth.

That same day, December 19th opens a New Moon in Sagittarius, a beginning shaped by hope, truth, and the willingness to stretch beyond the known. This lunation invites intentions that come not from urgency, but from curiosity and inner alignment.

On December 20st, the Sun in Sagittarius forms a square to Neptune in Pisces, softening certainty and dissolving clear edges. Vision may feel inspired yet elusive, inviting faith without guarantees and asking the heart to guide where logic cannot fully see.

As the solstice light begins to settle on December 20st, Venus in Sagittarius also forms a square to Saturn in Pisces, inviting a tender pause around desire, honesty, and the ways we reach toward one another. This meeting asks for sincerity beneath the spark, a quiet remembering that joy deepens when it is carried with care.

On December 21st, as the Solstice turns the light and marks a sacred threshold, Mercury meets the Sun in Sagittarius in a moment of Cazimi, right before the ingress of the Sun into Capricorn. Thought and purpose fuse into clarity here, offering a brief window where insight feels aligned with truth,

The Winter-Summer Solstice arrives as the Sun enters Capricorn on December 21st, a sacred moment of turning and renewal. This entrance into Capricorn season brings structure, devotion, and a clearer sense of what you are ready to build.

On December 24th Venus enters Capricorn, shifting the tone of connection toward steadiness

and intention. The Night of Christmas Eve, Love becomes quieter, more grounded, more willing

to honor what can actually be held with care. That same day Venus squares Neptune in Pisces,

a moment that invites discernment between romantic vision and reality, not to diminish wonder, but to protect what is true.

As the month folds toward its close, Mercury in Capricorn squares Saturn in Pisces on December 30th, encouraging disciplined thinking, clearer language, and the honest shaping of ideas. This aspect can help untangle what has felt uncertain, making space for clarity as the year prepares

to end.

Throughout December these movements create a field that is both imaginative and grounding, dreamy and exacting. There are moments of dissolving and moments of building, moments of widening and moments of returning inward. Each movement teaches a different way of listening.

December carries the glow of a lantern in the dark, a reminder that clarity does not always arrive as brightness, sometimes it comes as a quiet warmth that grows slowly from within. This month

is a threshold, a place where reflection becomes preparation and where the next beginning waits with patience.

May this month guide you with gentleness, and may each turning of the sky remind you that you are allowed to move at the pace of your own becoming. Enter the new year with a quiet trust in the path that is forming beneath your feet.

Much love to all, Valentina.