Horoscope Principles for the week of December 22, 2025
This is the week after solstice, and we have started the days of Yule. This means the light is returning and the world is still in slumber.
This is time to check in on our neighbors, on our loved ones, and most importantly on ourselves. Where do you need rest? Where have you kept resources you don’t love that you are ready to release to people, animals, or nature that would love them?
All feelings are valid, but the thoughts that create them are often lies. This week, try out the mantras “All feelings pass if I allow them to be present in my body without resistance” and “Moral judgments create trauma, and I release them; boundaries create protection, and I enforce them.”
For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:
The Sun ingressed into Capricorn on December 21, 2025, and Venus is ingressing into Capricorn on December 24, 2025. This means that the Sun, Venus, and Mars are joining each other in Capricorn this week. When that happens, Venus and Mars disappear in the physical sky, and the Sun is the star of the show. Capricorn energy is the energy of institutions, ambition, responsibility, seriousness, and pessimism. Capricorn can have dominant culture energy and expectation that things be done as they’ve been done in the past. The symbol of Capricorn is the seagoat, an ephemeral creature with the ambitions of a mountain climber and the changeability of a fish. In Capricorn season, we revisit the traditions we follow, sometimes realizing they are fishy.
Venus in Sagittarius squares Neptune in Pisces on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at 9:30pm Pacific. This can be a moment of tension between our ideals about how we want our loved ones to show up for us, or the beauty we want to represent, and the reality of our lived experience or our self-judgment.
Jupiter in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries on Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 2:07am, and Mercury in Sagittarius trines Chiron in Aries on Saturday, December 27, 2025, at 4:14pm. The square asks us to look at spaces where our growth may have outpaced our actual healing and processing. The trine allows us to give voice to spaces where our wounds are still present and allow us to offer healing for others.
These are the principles to consider for each rising sign (visit astro.com to find your rising sign) in the week of December 22, 2025:
Aries Rising: You can either win the battles or the war this week, but not both. If you spend your energy trying to prove you’re right to the people around you, your prize will be sitting in a room alone, while they party without you. Diplomacy is not weakness, it is being strategic about a long game. If you turn inward, instead of fighting every outward battle, you’ll be better able to say what you really want to say by the end of the week. Disappointment around what you unconsciously thought the rules of life were could unsettle you or make you self-conscious this week, and those feelings may help you in your mission statement. Spiritual bypass will do you a disservice.
Taurus Rising: Let being you be simple. You are a multi-faceted snowflake, of course, but who you truly are does not need to be complicated or confusing. If other people misunderstand your ideals, that is their confusion, not yours. Create (or revisit) your mission statement for life. Write it in 3-5 sentences, no more. Even if who you are has changed dramatically since 2018/2019, you are still you, and saying who you truly are is becoming simple, even if it’s not easy. If you feel self-consciousness or let down about other people’s values or your idealism of your friend group, those feelings will pass.
Gemini Rising: If your values and the wounds you’ve experienced through social groups are in tension, talk to your most trusted accomplices about it. You don’t have to maintain social groups that are at odds with your values, but you also don’t have to let go of groups when you aren’t ready. You hold your personal values dear and they are intimate to you. There is nothing wrong with that. Also, your trusted partners may have values you can adopt and nurture this week that may speak to unconscious changes you’ve experienced since 2018/2019. At the end of the week, your partners may have supportive words about the wounds you’ve had in your social groups. Wounds don’t have to heal fully in order for you to move forward.
Cancer Rising: Hiding who you are does not heal the wounds you’ve experienced in your career or public facing life, and that’s not really an option right now anyway. Who you are has gotten bigger, and now is not the right time to decide whether that conforms with your ideals or not. Your duties to your partners and accomplices may feel in tension with the personal growth you’ve experienced, but integrating that tension may be part of your ongoing growth. The mundane supports insights into your wounding and your growth. If you are self-conscious or disappointed about your health or daily routine, those feelings will pass.
Leo Rising: There is a saying, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well,” and while that saying normally sounds to me like judgment and pressure, there’s some love and sparkle in that saying for you this week. There’s a spotlight on your daily routine, everyday structures, and mundane support systems right now. If you’re tired, sleep. If you’re sick, eat some soup and give your body what it needs. Play with your pets and attend to your everyday needs. If your ideals have been crushed by (gesturing widely), focus on one thing you can do in your daily life to be healthy. At the end of the week, take some inspiration from children or your inner child about how your ideals might be able to move forward, without hiding the wounds they’ve received. If you feel some self-consciousness about your creative problems or children, those feelings will pass. Hold your creations to a compassionate, not idealistic, standard.
Virgo Rising: In the entrepreneurial world, the phrase “ship it,” has been advice to startups that means, basically “Perfect is the enemy of good.” Sometimes you have to test a product to know if it’s worth investing in before you perfect it. The kids these days say “ship it” to mean they support your romantic relationship. This phrase works for you this week when it comes to your creative projects, but not your romantic relationships. Create what you want to create this week, and see what your friends and social groups think. Wounding around your partners’ or accomplices’ values are on blast, and the end of the week will bring insights into how you can move forward around that, even if you are not fully healed. If this makes you self-conscious about your home life, those feelings will pass.
Libra Rising: Sometimes you just need to go home, lock the door, and sort your spices, color code your clothes, or alphabetize your books and records. If your expansion in your work and public life feel at odds with what you “need” to do at home, it’s okay to push pause and focus on home. Your luck won’t pass you by. The lessons you’ve learned about overextending or over-promising in your daily life might make you self conscious around your siblings or local community, but those are feelings that will pass. Your career expansions are also bringing up your woundings around partnership early in the week. Later in the week, insights from your siblings, local community, or early education will help express that wound so that you can move forward, even if you are not totally healed.
Scorpio Rising: If your babies (creative, human, animal, or otherwise) are not living up to your ideals, and this makes you question your values and investments, feel those feelings, but don’t act out of them. Make sure your values are informing your health, even if your ideals are in tension with your health right now. Values are different than ideals in the same way that having a dollar bill in your hand is different than a speculative investment opportunity. For example, if you have a vision of what your body should be, that might be in tension with chronic health issues or even the reality of aging. But, values such as truth, freedom, and travel can offer support. You are human and have a human body. Your childhood lessons may also be in tension with the ideals you have around your health this week, and sitting with this tension does not need to limit you if you can allow your ideals to serve you instead of you serving them.
Sagittarius Rising: Compare=despair this week. Idealism around keeping up appearances may sneak up on you, and it is not your friend. If you feel self conscious about how you look or the chaos in your house, it is just a feeling. If your partners and accomplices seem luckier than you for no good reason, remember that their luck and expansion contributes to your growth. It does not need to be a power struggle or an either/or. If you have wounding around what you create (material, fur, or human babies), and the tension between creation and money, the next month will help you define what you truly value and how expressing who you truly are can help you move forward in what you create.
Capricorn Rising: Being feminine includes having boundaries. Boundaries can be resilient, flexible, and adapt to your real life, and they can still be feminine. Whatever gender you are, you include femininity because you are human. The feminine principle in astrology refers to receiving, allowing, and generating through welcoming. You may have absorbed narratives, as we all did, as a child or feel judgment through your local community about what it means to be a perfect woman. These feel terrible, but that is just a feeling. You don’t have to prove these wrong in order to notice they exist and release them. Your partners and accomplices may trigger your wounding related to home, but if you do some automatic writing or free writing later in the week, you may notice that you had insights and compassion for that wounding all along. You are the right person to heal you.
Aquarius Rising: Get some rest! You’ve been leading the charge with your friends and social groups, and now it’s time to focus inward. You can’t pour from an empty cup. This year, you entered into a profound portal of transformation, and for the next month, process the lessons you’ve learned about your mental health since 2008. Your values may give you some self-consciousness around your relationships in your friend groups (you may even regret having leant your friends some money), but these are feelings that will pass. If you need a final push to integrate the lessons you’ve been learning around boundaries around what you value and your money, sometimes those lessons are expensive. Sit with those feelings and validate them, without punishing yourself (if possible!). Punishment increases the behavior we don’t want. Compassion allows the behavior to change.
Pisces Rising: If you expect too much from yourself, you will be disappointed not by your actions, but by the idealism you use to oppress yourself. In your work life, you may be quickly able to see the truth and lead the charge, but that doesn’t mean you have to tailor who you are to work expectations (even if they’re fun) or dissolve into what you perceive to be expectations from your public-facing life. Translation: If you’re showing up late, you may need to just take a day off. If you plan to go to the friend party rather than work event, it’s kinder to tell people, rather than expecting yourself to do both. If your money has taken a hit, or you have wounds around taking risks with money, you may get good advice from people at work, and that doesn’t mean you are a disappointment. It’s vulnerable to get advice, and it helps move our creative growth forward.
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