Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of December in your work sector, the solar spotlight is always on your work situation, job matters and options at this time of year. Always leaving just before Christmas, this can add to what is already a busy time of year, whether at work or with whatever it is that keeps you busy and occupies your time. However, this year there are some mixed conditions that are not only making this a powerful month across the income, work and career fronts but with the influence felt across the past, present and future. It was late last month that the Sun spent his first week in your work sector at a friendly aspect to the North Node in your career sector and Mars in your income sector. While both planets in your career sector are still in retrograde motion, the North Node’s focus is always on the future, as was Mars’ as well. As you move into the new month there is a chance to look to the future with confidence across the income, work and career fronts from the start. However, since then Mercury has turned retrograde in your work sector and by the time Mars turns retrograde in your income sector on 7th December, the doors will also be open to the past, second chances and untapped potential across all three fronts. This will keep Mercury in your work sector and Mars in your income sector for the rest of the year, keeping the focus going even after the Sun leaves and returns to your relationship sector on 21st December. This is the date of the December solstice, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships, except for the first time since 2008 to find it empty and Pluto gone. It was two weeks earlier that Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres will have left on 7th December, but not before staying on after Pluto left last month to bring your relationship wants, needs and priorities into closer alignment. It is then that they will join Pluto, just as the planet of change, transformation and revolution is settling into what will be a 20 year visit to your financial sector. This will create some competition for Mars in your income sector, which is something the warrior planet of the cosmos thrives on.
A gap between Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres’ departure from your relationship sector on 7th September and the Sun’s return two weeks later on 21st December will be the first time since early 2023 when this will be no planetary activity on the relationship front. This is also a taste of things to come, for while your relationship sector was temporarily empty in early 2023, it was only after Pluto had been here since 2008 and he was back less than three months later. After 16 years this saw the planet of change and transformation finally leave your relationship sector, not to return again in our lifetime, with the early days of the month a chance to regroup. Venus, planet of love only returned last month but in time to catch Pluto’s final days and use this to update what you want from your relationships moving forward. Ceres on the other hand has been on a deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities since February. Venus and Ceres will leave within hours of each other on 7th December and they will be aligned by the time they leave, with the days leading up to this a chance for your relationship wants, needs and priorities to come into tighter alignment. It is during this time that the Moon will move through from 3rd December to 5th December, with a chance to ensure you are emotionally engaged and aware during Venus and Ceres’ final days. By the time the Sun returns on 21st December, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships, Venus and Ceres will have been gone for two weeks and Pluto for a month, making this a chance for a fresh start. It is right at the end of the month that the Moon will not only return to your relationship sector from 30th December to 31st January but as a New Moon. Meanwhile, while the Moon will end 2024 and begin 2025 in your relationship sector, its return to your romantic sector from 25th December to 28th December promises a romantically charged Christmas.
When Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos returned to your income sector in early November it was to begin his war against glass ceilings, roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined as he urges you to fight for what you deserve. By then things were already starting to move on the job front while a New Moon in your work sector on 1st December is going to get the month off to an empowered start across the income, work and career fronts. Mars should be getting ready to leave but instead, a retrograde turn on 7th December will keep the warrior planet of the cosmos here for the rest of the year. In retrograde motion, Mars will turn his focus onto the past, second chances and untapped income potential at a time when there will be planets in your work and career sectors doing the same. By the time the Moon makes its last visit to your income sector for the year from 18th December to 20th December Mars will be in retrograde motion, but this will also sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger at a time when things will be ripe with potential across the income, work and career fronts. It is also on 7th December, the day that Mars turns retrograde in your income sector that Venus, the planet of money and the dwarf planet Ceres will join Pluto, now in his first full month back in your financial sector. Pluto is here now until 2044 and as you move into the new month, he is playing a long game and is not posing too much competition for Mars and his focus on the income side of the financial fence. That will change when Venus returns, for she will be working to capitalise on any breakthroughs possible on the financial front. Meanwhile, the Moon will make its last visit to your financial sector for the year from 5th December to 7th December, ensuring your financial instincts are sharp and you are emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware when Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres return to update your financial wants, needs and priorities.