Horoscope Principles for the week of December 15, 2025
This week ushers in the winter solstice! Solstice is the time of the longest night of the year, and this year’s solstice happens at 7:03am Pacific on Sunday, December 21, 2025. It is a time of rest, recovery, and security.
In the lead up to this winter solstice, I am thinking a lot about the word “no.” The word “no” carries significant magic. Every time we say “yes,” we are saying “no” to many other things. Solstice asks us to be intentional with saying “yes” to our bodies and their need for rest and recovery. This requires strong and intentional “nos” to things, activities, and people who that not consistent with rest and recovery for our bodies.
For all signs, a magical solstice ritual right now is saying “no” to at least one thing, event, or person offering energy that is inconsistent with your body feel nourished and supported.
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For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:
The sun in Sagittarius squares Saturn in Pisces on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 8:33pm Pacific. This asks you to take accountability for your actions and inactions, regardless of what your intent was. It also asks you to release accountability for other people’s actions. When we take accountability with integrity, we can be realistic about how to change our behavior to build the lives we want.
The new moon in Sagittarius happens on Friday, December 19, 2025, at 5:43pm Pacific. The moon squares Saturn and Neptune in Pisces on either side of this new moon. New moons are a time when the sun and the moon are in the same space in the sky, representing unified energy of the Sun and Moon. Sun is often associated with the ego, and the Moon with the emotions. New moons are a great time to set intention and start new projects. This new moon is activated by spaces where we may be taking responsibility for other people’s karma or where the systems and boundaries we relied on before seem confusing and no longer reliable.
The sun in Sagittarius squares Neptune in Pisces on December 20, 2025, at 5:01pm Pacific. This transit asks you to take a nap! Seriously, don’t push through. Fall asleep during meditation. If you remember your dreams, tell them to a trusted friend. If you’re too sleepy to write them down, don’t let your idealism punish your body. Confusion is likely a sign you need to rest.
Venus in Sagittarius squares Saturn in Pisces on December 20, 2025, at 9:08pm Pacific. Remember that nap you were going to take? Maybe extend it to a self-focus time. Other people are likely to frustrate you right now, and it’s okay to just separate yourself and set aside time to be alone. They’re going to notice your frustration if you don’t take the alone time you need.
These are the principles to consider for each rising sign (visit astro.com to find your rising sign) in the week of December 15, 2025:
Aries Rising: You are never wrong if, when you hear an idea that is better than yours, you are willing to change your mind and adopt that new idea. Byron Katie says that our beliefs are the thoughts we think all the time. This week, treat each roadblock as though it is an invitation to write a new religion, in which you are sovereign and the beliefs support your highest thriving.
Taurus Rising: If there is still part of you that thinks that when your friends jump off a bridge, you probably should have jumped first, now is the time to neutralize that pattern. When a friend, partner, or family member says something you find offensive, imagine the words in the air and painting a white X over them, neutralizing them. Just because you love someone does not mean you are responsible for their risky decisions or oppressive beliefs about you or anyone else. Try something new, like honoring your own values, and receiving only what is healthy and right for you from other peoples’ values. If this is confusing right now, study the relationship between actions and inactions and their natural consequences. Beliefs and values are the starting point for that.
Gemini Rising: An ally tentatively supports you from the sidelines, but an accomplice drives the getaway car when being who you truly are is at odds with oppressive, dominant culture. What it means to be an accomplice and to have accomplices has changed for you, and now is a good time to honor that change. Write three expectations you have of your accomplices and of yourself as an accomplice. Hold a funeral for the allies who have fallen away from your life and a welcoming ceremony for the new accomplices you are welcoming in. If you feel pressure to state your rules publicly, but confusion about how to do so, that just means that now isn’t the right time to go public. It’s okay to simmer with inner knowing and keep that private. You’ll know when it’s the right time to make an announcement to your TikTok following (hint: it’s when it feels great, not when it feels like an obligation).
Cancer Rising: Back away from the tinsel slowly. That’s right. Easy now. Put down the holiday expectations and burdens. Sit down and drink some cocoa. Watch that cheesy holiday movie. Look in the mirror and tell yourself, “You know what, self? You are right!” about nothing in particular. Don’t let the pressure to be a good parent, friend, sister, or community member become a way to oppress you. Your schedule is yours. Say “no” where you’re most scared to do it as a ritual to honor your sacred incarnation in this body. Things don’t have to become unworkable before you say a ceremonial “no.” Being who you truly are is not an ideal. It is an organic interaction between your spirit and your body.
Leo Rising: Before you judge your creative projects and babies (material, conceptual, fur, human, or otherwise) or defend them against outside criticism, consider what you’re defending them against. Is it possible you’re seeking approval from people who have disappointed you? Right now, other people may be projecting their own self-judgment, nonsense ideals, or rigid compliance with dominant culture onto you. Fighting with them and seeking approval from them are two sides of the same coin. Instead of focusing on them, renew your focus on your expression of creativity. Outside perspective is information about someone else, and only if you trust and admire someone related to the topic is it good information about what you create. Hold a new moon ceremony to honor your generative process.
Virgo Rising: In traditional Celtic handfasting ceremonies, you pledged your commitment to a romantic partner for a year and a day. Then, at the end of the year and a day, you reevaluated the partnership and whether it was healthiest to renew the vow or to make some kind of change. This week, consider making a handfasting vow to yourself. That may sound cheesy, but making a short-term commitment to focusing on your inner world and home life may ease some of the outside judgments and projections you’re feeling from your closest partners and allies. Are they projecting onto you or are your judgments about yourself filtering what they say? In the end it doesn’t matter because if you treat yourself with loyalty, your relationship with yourself can withstand projections even from those closest to you.
Libra Rising: The phrase, “Out of the mouths of babes,” apparently comes from a Biblical principle that basically says that Spirit reveals to children what education cannot teach. While this concept can be perverted to undermine the value of education, there is no denying that sometimes kids are uncanny. This week consider looking back on what you knew intuitively or learned naturally as a child (up to and around the age of 7) that has served you. You may have been facing obstacles, judgment, or confusion in your daily life that makes you question your early lessons and foundational relationships with siblings and local community. But, your inner child is still a little genius. This new moon is a good time to do a ritual honoring your inner child’s wisdom and the healthy lessons you learned in early life. Also, renew your commitment to reparenting your inner child where early lessons failed or caused harm.
Scorpio Rising: Money is energy all around us, and it is rude to reject it. Even if what you value in life is not money, the same principle applies. The obstacles and confusion you’ve experienced around creative projects and babies (material, conceptual, fur, human, or otherwise) may have made you question your values and abundance recently, but now is a great time to do an abundance ceremony. Remember that only capitalism says you have to produce and create to receive abundance. Your ability to receive what you value does not need to be tied to your labor or what you create. This week, write (or rewrite) your top 3-5 values, receive what the universe offers, and honor your natural abundance.
Sagittarius Rising: Be selfish. It’s not selfish to fill your cup or put on your oxygen mask first, but even if it is, be selfish. The demands of your home or most private spaces may feel punishing or confusing right now, but if you meet your own needs and commit to honoring yourself and your incarnation in this human body, you’ll be better able to navigate your home and private spaces. You don’t need to leave town to do this, and meeting your own needs shouldn’t feel exhausting, but if you want to treat yourself to an adventure or a date, now is a great time to do that.
Capricorn Rising: We all have inner critics, and all of our inner critics believe they are protecting us by being assholes. Your inner critic may be very active lately, and it’s likely that this protective part of you is pretty black and white. It may say something like, “There are truths and lies, and you can’t trust a liar.” The holiday season may bring up childhood lessons, challenges, and boundary issues that trigger your inner idealist (and not necessarily in an easy way). If this happens, the answer is not to receive or send out judgment and blame related to your childhood experiences, even if that is justified. The better path is to renew your relationship with reprogramming what you learned about boundaries at a young age so that your boundaries serve you now. If you don’t already have a structure for reprogramming your unconscious thinking, seek one out this week.
Aquarius Rising: Take charge of the holiday celebrations this week. You may naturally be a leader in your social groups, and this week is a great time to renew your license to party. The Beastie Boys would be so proud (single tear)! The only thing is that if you’re funding the party, check your bank balance first. If you’re fudging the numbers on the loans you’re giving to people (or taking from people), you’re going to find out pretty quickly. Just because you’re the party planner, doesn’t mean you get to be passive aggressive about people not paying you back or the work you put in that nobody asked for. Have people pay you upfront. Healthy boundaries around your finances may feel like a party killer, but it’s not. Good boundaries make safe parties, and safe is cool. DARE to say no to confusion around money while you say yes to your crew. I’m sorry this is a 90s after school special, but it’s in the stars.
Pisces Rising: Be the star of your own show. Your ability to take action and shine brightly in your career and public life is charged up right now. This is a good week to set clear intentions about how you want to show up and be seen in your public-facing world. You are ending a period of facing challenges around what it means to be who you are. Where does your flexibility end? How can too much stretching of the infinite capacity of what it means to be you result in carpal tunnel of the soul? The consequences you’ve faced for being overly accommodating may seem like they create challenges for fully showing up in public, but if you learn these lessons, it is possible for them to enhance the renewal of how you show up in pubic life.
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