With the Sun always returning to Capricorn on the December solstice to begin your birthday month and new solar year but always starting the month in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, for you, this is a month when at some point the lines between the past, present and future are going to become blurred. Depending on where we are in a four year leap cycle, the Sun will return to Capricorn within less than an 18 hour margin each year and something that you can literally set your calendar into. As far as the Sun is concerned, there is a specific moment in time when the month long wind down of your old solar year and its focus on the past ends and your birthday month and new solar year and its focus on the future begins. However, Venus and Mercury, who travel with the Sun aren’t as predictable and they can return or leave weeks before or after, making this nothing that is rarely clear cut. What makes the lines even more blurred this month is having Mars and the asteroid Juno in the picture and Venus and Mercury arriving late due to retrograde phases. The date when the lines start to become blurred is 15th December, when with seven days of your old solar year still to go, Mars returns to Capricorn for the first time since 2023 to begin a new two year Mars cycle. This is when new doors start to open, with Mars firing up your passions, drive, warrior and competitive spirit while opening new doors. At the same time, even when a week later the Sun returns to begin your birthday month and new solar year on 22nd December, with Venus staying on in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart until Christmas Day and Mercury for the rest of the year, they will be reluctant to close old doors just yet. This might see the lines between the past, present and future become blurred, but with a chance to start opening and exploring new doors without having to first close old doors. However, where old doors will remain open is on the relationship front, with Jupiter’s first full month in retrograde motion in your relationship sector coming with the full support of the planets in your communication sector.
On both the romantic and relationship fronts, the year is ending with a lot of focus on the past, while as the faster planets start returning to Capricorn, this will have a different impact on each. While ending the year with Uranus not only in your romantic sector but in retrograde motion has been the norm and your reality every year since 2019, this nearly wasn’t the case. It was in July that Uranus left, leaving your romantic sector empty for the first time in six years, with just the Moon’s monthly visits to keep the spirit of romance alive until he returned last month. The Moon’s return to your romantic sector from 2nd December to 4th December is the first since Uranus returned and while he began the year here and has been here every December since 2019, he has only just returned. Uranus will spend the rest of the year in retrograde motion, before a direct turn next month will see him turnaround and head back out again, leaving in April and then not returning again for another eight decades. Meanwhile, helping to capture the doors this has opened to the past now is Venus, who will return to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart on 1st December to take your heart on a nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane that will end with her return to Capricorn on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Jupiter, who returned to your relationship sector in June to begin your biggest year for relationship growth in over a decade, turned retrograde last month. With Jupiter not turning direct until March, while Uranus is spending the whole of December in retrograde motion in your romantic sector, he is spending the whole of December in retrograde motion in your relationship sector. Until returning to Capricorn on Christmas Day, in her nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane Venus will make it easier to embrace the doors open to the past and second chances on both fronts. Meanwhile, the Moon will make its last visit to your relationship sector for the year from 6th December to 8th December, before returning to end the year in your romantic sector on 30th December.
While there won’t be a lot of fanfare leading into the final weeks of 2025, with the money gods saving that for next month, there is likely to be a quiet sense of confidence that has been slowly building ever since Pluto turned direct in your income sector in October. This was right in the middle of some of the most active weeks of the year on the career front and during not only Uranus’ last full month in your work sector, but with 18 months of near continuous planetary activity on the job front just running its course. As one by one the planets returned to your work and career sectors over the course of the year, they all spent time at a friendly aspect to Pluto, who is in the first full year of a 20 year transit through your income sector. The last planets left your two professional houses last month and since then Pluto, who had to come to a standstill in order to turn direct, has been slowly picking up speed while getting an additional dose of support from the Moon’s monthly visits to your income, work and career sectors. That will be the case when the Moon not only moves through your work sector from 4th December to 6th December, but as a Full Moon. Meanwhile, knowing that the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Venus will all be returning to your income sector in January, Pluto is happy to bide his time, quietly helping you get your ducks in a row ahead of what will be a lucrative start to 2026. Helping with that will be the Moon’s last visit to your income sector for the year from 23rd December to 25th December, something that could mean a Christmas bonus for some or just a lucrative few days in the lead up to Christmas. This will also be the Moon’s last visit before in January, Venus, the planet of money will return to get the year off to a lucrative start. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity in your financial sector, the side of the financial fence where it is more about what you do with and how you manage the money you have, the Moon’s last visit for the year will bring a chance to check in when it moves through from 8th December to 10th December.