With the Sun always spending the first three weeks of December in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart before returning to your busy work sector just before Christmas, this is a month where a balance between work and play will always become a priority at some point. However, you won’t need to battle to quite the same degree as in previous years. While the Sun won’t leave and return to your busy work sector until 21st December, with Pluto there since 2008 things never went off the boil. Yet when the Sun returns it will be to find your work sector empty and for the first time since 2008 Pluto gone. Pluto left last month, but starting the month with Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres there means you will have your work hat on from the start. However, their focus is more on bringing your wants, needs and priorities on the job front or with whatever it is that keeps you busy and occupies your time into closer alignment. When they leave and join Pluto in the first full month of what will be a 20 year visit to your relationship sector, they will leave your work sector empty and it will stay that way for two weeks before he returns on 21st December. The Sun will take advantage of this, with his final two weeks in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart meeting no competition or pushback, something last experienced in 2007. There is more than enough momentum to keep work and job matters on track for the rest of the year but with a much better chance of finding the right balance between work and play. With Mercury in retrograde motion here until 16th December and both planets in an adventurous part of your chart in retrograde motion, on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence there will even be a chance to embrace the doors open to the past and second chances. Meanwhile, it is a retrograde turn on 7th December that will not only keep Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos in Leo for the rest of the year but will see him retrograde back out in the New Year, only to return in April for a do over.
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of December in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart at this time of year. Because Venus, the planet of love has already moved through and had already been and gone by the time the Sun even returned, she has already given your heart a voice and a sense of what you want from love that has been your starting point. It was while Venus was still here that Mercury returned early last month for what should have been a 14 to 15 day chance to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page. Instead, a retrograde turn will keep Mercury here for the rest of the year while until turning direct on 16th December, he will be holding the doors open to the past and second chances. This includes when the Moon not only moves through your romantic sector from 1st December to 3rd December but when a New Moon on 1st December starts the month off with a chance for new beginnings and to draw a new line in the sand. This won’t be the Moon’s last visit for the year, for its return from 28th December to 30th December will see these romantically charged lunar vibes spice up the holiday period. Meanwhile, while the Sun won’t return to your relationship sector until later next month Pluto, the planet of change and transformation is not only in his first full month back after retrograding out for 11 weeks but is here now until 2044. Returning within hours of each other Venus, the planet of love and the dwarf planet Ceres will be a package deal when they both return on 7th December, Venus to update what you want from your relationships and Ceres to begin her first deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities in four years. The Moon will move through from 5th December to 7th December, ensuring you are emotionally engaged and aware when Venus and Ceres return while this first visit since Pluto’s return will be a chance to get a feel for his influence.
While there is no planetary activity in your income sector and just the Moon’s last visit for the year, there is change in the air. However, for the rest of the month, the focus is on the other side of the financial fence, where the tide is in the process of turning and things are getting into position for a powerful start to your 2025 financial year. By the time you move into the new month, Saturn has been in direct motion in your financial sector for 15 days and the planet that is all about doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes is starting to move forward. At the same time, in his final days in retrograde motion here Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams is doing the opposite. Neptune will turn direct on 8th November, with a chance until then to revisit old financial dreams, knowing that while he has been here since 2012, once in direct motion he will begin preparing for his exit in March. This makes the timing of the Moon’s last visit to your financial sector for the year especially timely. The Moon will move through from 7th December to 9th December, ensuring your financial instincts are sharp and you are emotionally and intuitively engaged while Neptune is still in retrograde motion but also as he turns direct, making it clear that the tide is turning. Meanwhile, with no planetary in your income sector, the Moon’s last visit for the year was always going to be a valuable chance to check in, sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger. However, here again it is the timing that will make this significant. The Moon will move through from 20th December to 23rd December, so will be here when the Sun returns to your work sector on 21st December. As the Moon will also form a friendly aspect to Uranus in your career sector as it moves through, in the lead up to Christmas and in the final days of the working year, these will be a positive few days across the income, work and career fronts.