Key themes: Play, pleasure, romance, deep conversations, softening the heart, home and family, roots and ancestry, community
Dear Virgo,
The month of December begins with Mercury moving into Capricorn on the 1st, offering you the focus needed to keep furthering your creative projects. Bring more structure to your leisure time. Think about how you can include play and relaxation into your schedule. This will have you feeling in control of your day-to-day in a more creative way.
Venus, the Planet of Love and Beauty, will enter the depths of Scorpio on the 4th, where it will be until the 29th. This happens in your area of communication and daily activities, inviting you to get deep. There will be no room for superficial connections. Go ahead and have the difficult and emotionally charged conversations. Remember that love and that respecting boundaries requires honesty. Even when things are hard to say, trust that you have the emotional strength to sustain and navigate the feelings that arise.
Neptune will go direct on the 6th in Pisces, where it has been dissolving your boundaries and enabling spiritual awakening through intimate connections. This journey has been opening your heart in ways that you couldn’t imagine were possible. Check in to see where you are at now, as you still have a couple more years of this left to go. How are you owning up to the new softer (but not delible) boundaries that you have been forging within your intimate spaces?
We have the New Moon in Sag on the 12th, at 6:32 pm EST, happening in your area of home and ancestry. This is an invitation to pause and to look within. How often are you focused on others? How often does your approval come from the outside much more than it does from within? Work on breathing deep and feeling the validity of your inner world, and its capacity to sustain you. You are already perfect, Virgo.
On the 13th, Mercury goes retrograde until January 1st, giving the end of 2023 a reflective mood. Check in on your creative expressions and your ability to let loose and to flow. You have such a strong structure and this actually makes you a master at letting go, but you’re also a master at sabotaging yourself into believing you can control the flow of life, and this is where things get complicated. The first 10 days of this transit will be a time to witness what keeps you from giving into and flowing with your creative muses.
We welcome Capricorn season on the 21st, shining a light on the reflective journey that Mercury retrograde is taking you through. For you the end of the year always represents an invitation to embrace more joy, pleasure and romance in your life.
Then on the 23rd Mercury moves back into Sag, connecting you with the things that were going on within your home and family around the last week of November, offering a deeper perspective.
On the 26th, we have the Full Moon in Cancer, becoming exact at 7:33 pm EST, shining a light on friendship and community. Check in, ask yourself if you’re hanging with the kind of people that allow you to grow professionally, emotionally, and spiritually. Important conversations may come up within your groups. Don’t try to escape, no matter how uncomfortable things may get, make space for what needs to be explored and transformed.
Also on the 26th, Chiron goes direct in Aries in your area of intimacy and joint ventures. Check in to see how you wish to keep healing your boundaries and the ways in which you decide to share and explore yourself with others.
On the 29th, Venus will enter Sag, inviting you to take a journey through your ancestral lineage for the next 26 days. Things will get sweeter at home, and you may crave more time to cozy up with your family, your furry friends, or a glass of wine and a book. Invite your chosen family over for reading circles, or to explore each other’s natal charts, or to just talk about life. Make more space to be around the ones that accept you as you are, this is no time to minimize who you are and what you have to give in order to be embraced.
Jupiter will go direct in Taurus on the 30th, reminding you that this is the time to be dreaming boldly, abundantly, and expansively! This is a great energy to close the year and to think about your New Year’s Resolutions.
2023 hasn’t been easy, personally or collectively, and 2024 will be a year of big shifts and revelations with Pluto moving into Aquarius. We are moving towards the world we want to see come true, and even if at times we may feel close to losing hope, we’ll all be creating the kinds of connections and communities where we feel more supported within our personal and collective dreams. Connection is what will create the possibilities that will overshadow any feelings of hopelessness.
As Mercury goes direct in Sag on the first day of 2024, start the year with this mantra “I know what I need to keep doing, feeling and being in order for my foundations to expand, in order to ground deeper into my sense of abundance. I allow myself to explore, I allow my mind to roam free”.
