When Pluto, the planet of change and transformation left your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery last month and finally returned to your career sector, where he will stay now until 2044, this cemented a major shift that began early last year. Since then, Pluto has retrograded backwards and forward between each multiple times, before finally deciding where to settle. However, after 16 years a sense of wanderlust, curiosity and adventure isn’t going to suddenly go off the boil, not with Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres here until 7th December. However, with a two week gap until the Sun returns on 21st December, this will be a taste of things to come. Until then, Venus and Ceres are giving you a chance to work on your bucket list as well as preparing for a New Moon that on New Year’s Eve will give you a chance to turn this into resolutions. In the meantime, this is giving Pluto a few more days to settle into his new 20 year visit to your career sector and the chance for now to focus on your long game. This will be Venus’ second visit this year but it is Ceres’ first deep dive into your professional needs and priorities in four years that will be a chance to use Pluto’s return as a fresh start. While Venus and Ceres are in your career sector for the rest of the year, the Sun’s return to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on 21st December will see the solar spotlight shift onto the adventurous side of life’s fence in time for the holiday period. Until then, as the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of December in your financial sector, the solar spotlight will be on your financial situation and money matters. In retrograde motion until 16th December, Mercury’s smart head for money will come with 20/20 hindsight while slowing him down enough to keep him here for the rest of the year. It is while Mercury is still in retrograde motion that Mars will turn retrograde in your home and family sector on 7th December, something that will shift the focus on things close to home to the past as well. With Mars working in harmony with the Sun and Mercury, this could include financial matters on the home front.
While there is no planetary activity in your romantic sector, as you would expect at this time of year, the Moon is timing its last visit for the year with perfection. With no planetary activity in your romantic sector until Mars returns in June 2025, it is the Moon’s monthly visits that are key to keeping the spirit of romance alive. When these romantically charged lunar vibes move through, they are going to make these the most romantically charged days of any month. What makes the timing significant is partly because moving through from 20th December to 23rd December the Moon will not only move through over the weekend but the weekend before Christmas, However, the Moon will also be here when the Sun returns to an adventurous part of your chart on 21st December, bringing the spirit of romance and adventure together. This is something that you will get a taste of earlier in the month when until leaving an adventurous part of your chart on 7th December Venus, the planet of love will be working to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together. Meanwhile, the Moon’s last visit to your relationship sector for the year will be even more significant, returning on Christmas Day and not leaving until 28th December. However, what makes the timing significant is not just that this will be a chance to become more emotionally engaged over the holiday period, but its proximity to the New Year. While this will be an ordinary monthly visit, the Moon will return to find that the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships is still here and will be until February. Whether single, in a relationship or between relationships, this will be a chance to set some relationship resolutions for the New Year. Another significant point in the month on the relationship front will be the Moon’s last visit to your communication sector for the year from 16th December to 18th December, something that will see it move into a friendly aspect to Juno in your relationship sector as it moves through.
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of December in your financial sector and will always leave on the December solstice, the solar spotlight is always on your financial situation and money matters at this time of year. However, for the first time in 12 years you have Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion in your income sector at the time and right in the middle of what he is working to make your biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade. While this is creating some competition and no planet has been able to move through your financial sector without clashing with Jupiter, any financial tension this might create will not only be brief but will quickly turn into motivation. The reality is that while they are sitting on opposite sides of the financial fence, their mandates are so different that there is no conflict and no reason why this can’t be a powerful month on both sides of the financial fence. The Sun and the planets in your financial sector are not only focused on what you do with and how you manage the money you have as opposed to Jupiter’s focus on money coming in, but in retrograde motion Jupiter is focused on the past and untapped income potential, while the Sun is looking to the future. Mercury will be in retrograde motion in your financial sector until 16th November, giving you access to both his smart head for money and hindsight. The real reason why any financial tension this might create can easily be turned into motivation is the support both sides have. With Pluto in his first full month back in your career sector and Venus, the planet of money returning there on 7th December, this is especially so on the income side of the financial fence. The other side is getting a boost from a New Moon on 1st December and not leaving until 3rd December, this will ensure your financial instincts are sharp from the start. The Moon will come full circle for its last visit to your financial sector for the year from 28th December to 30th December. The Moon will make its last visit to your income sector for the year from 14th December to 16th December, something that will bring the planets of money and luck together.