Horoscope Principles for the week of December 29, 2025
This week is the new year in the Gregorian calendar. Happy newness as we transition toward lighter and brighter days (literally if not politically).
This week the tension between institutions and the ways we nurture our communities is highlighted.
How do you show patriotism? Patriotism has never meant blindly following corrupt leadership, but it also does not necessarily mean throwing ourselves or those we love into harms’ way with the hope others care.
This week consider that it may be a deception to completely embrace the nobility of suffering or completely condemn the baseness of comfort. Sometimes, fear is a signal that we’ve been conditioned to limit ourselves, and other times fear is a signal that we’re in danger. Life is a spectrum, and the polarities of either/or are only two points within or around that spectrum.
Consider whether your body is having a different reaction to your circumstances than your mind is and which one (body or mind) is typically more reliable in your experience.
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For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:
Mercury in Sagittarius is the star of the show this week, squaring Saturn in Pisces on December 29, 2025, at 11:15pm Pacific, and then squaring Neptune in Pisces on January 1, 2026, at 5:33 am Pacific. Mercury square Saturn leads to interpreting communications more harshly than they are intended and could also bring doom-thinking. Mercury square Neptune, on the other hand, leads to people interpreting communications as they wished they were, not as they actually are. If you have important communications this week, write them down and be as literal as possible in order to avoid overly negative or overly positive interpretation.
The full moon in Cancer happens on January 3, 2026, at 2:02am Pacific. This means the Sun will be in Capricorn and the Moon will be in opposite it in Cancer. Capricorn is the energy of institutions and systems, and Cancer is the energy of community and nesting. This full moon invites us to feel into places where we have sacrificed our community’s safety for the sake of institutions.
Jupiter continues in Cancer, Uranus continues in Taurus, and Pluto continues in Aquarius, as long-term themes.
These are the principles to consider for each rising sign (visit astro.com to find your rising sign) in the week of December 29, 2025:
Aries Rising: Remember the work women contribute in your home life that allows you to have center stage in your public life. This week you are inclined to interpret what other people say as completely terrible or completely wonderful. The reality is somewhere outside of those polar opposites. Sometimes people are just saying words. Don’t let your wounded ego give you an excuse to diminish the support other people give you, especially the women around you.
Taurus Rising: Write down what you heard other people say before you get too certain about their intentions. You have been going through a process over the month of December of establishing new boundaries around how other people’s values impact the friends and groups you join. Your certainty over your own beliefs might feel rock solid right now, and still, there’s room to honor your childhood lessons. If the expectations, lessons, and values other people have imposed on you, now and as a child, feel wrong, choose compassion for yourself rather than self-righteousness against others. Focusing on them misses your relationship with yourself.
Gemini Rising: Take a pause before you hit reply. This week, you go back and forth between believing the worst about communications from your closest accomplices and partners and overly idealizing what they’re saying. Reality lives in a different apartment building, which, admittedly might be more boring than the extremes filtering your perceptions this week. You are focused on other people’s values and priorities this week, but the full moon is there to remind you at the end of the week that your values are what bring you the best outcome. Consider whether other people’s values support and compliment yours, be realistic about this, and gravitate toward people whose values do.
Cancer Rising: The most flexible structures are the most earthquake proof and therefore the strongest. Your attempts in your daily life to find the “right” belief system, philosophical solution, or path to spiritual enlightenment, may wobble between existential crisis and eureka this week, but the middle path is the one to trust. Similarly, if your focus is too much on your accomplices and partners, you may become too self-sacrificing—preventing people from partnering with you at all. Daily reality anchors us in our search for enlightenment like our partnerships with ourselves anchor us in our partnerships with others.
Leo Rising: What we create externally is only an outward expression of our inner life if we are authentically ourselves. If we are worried about conforming to other people’s expectations, rather than enforcing our boundaries around outside judgment, our creativity can stifle. Your relationship with your outer expression of your inner vision is going through a transition. The structures you follow in your routines are meant to support you, but if they stifle you, you may go into depression or self-doubt. Sometimes, you can’t please other people or prove to them that you’re good enough and care for yourself at the same time. Live up to your own standards, not the extremes other people project onto you.
Virgo Rising: Partnership is one experience of life, and it does not ruin our lives or solve our problems. You may be experiencing extreme thinking about your home and partnerships this week, and reality is more boring than doom or stardust. If you are suffering from extreme thinking, check in with your social groups for a reset. Now is a great time to focus on fun projects and the social groups you do them with, and both will likely help you step out of extreme thinking.
Libra Rising: Set and enforce your boundaries about how and where you spend your time every day based on your adult self’s care for your child self, not your inner child’s fears. The boundaries you practice now, even while they are confusing, will have long term impacts on how you handle your partnerships ongoing. Great boundaries are flexible and create safe partnerships; they are not prison walls that hold you in or vacuums that suck you dry. If it feels like home life and work life are in tension, release judgment and strictness, and allow your home structure to shine light on the brilliance of how you show up in your public life and career. That light from your home to your career is meant to be a spotlight you can shine in, not an interrogation lamp.
Scorpio Rising: Your personal value is not determined by what you create in the world. What we create is a reflection of what we value, but it is often a dim reflection. Your creations are not terrible or perfect, they simply are. Your judgments about them may be extreme this week, but this will pass, and in passing it may give you insights into what you truly value. Your local community and childhood conditioning are spotlighting. your larger belief systems this week, and this new moon gives you the opportunity to sit with your ideals and how they inform your values. Ideals live in the ether, and values live on earth. Together, they can help us understand how to align and be more effective in what we create in the world.
Sagittarius Rising: Who cares what other people think of you? Well, maybe you care is the answer, and that’s okay. This week you may be getting extreme messages at home or from your parents that swing between disappointment and praise. This is only information. Other people’s values may be different than yours, and you can take what is helpful and leave the rest. Don’t use this as an excuse to judge or condemn the values of the people around you, though. If you are able to use your clarity around what you value to support them, the returns to you will be impressive.
Capricorn Rising: Behind every successful person is a lot of emotional and physical labor of women. Honor that labor this week (including if it was yours!). If you’ve been learning about your boundaries related to siblings or local community recently, now is a great time to look at any unconscious extremes you fall back on. Do you over give or use rigid boundaries and rules to protect yourself from over giving? Look at your childhood conditioning around what it means to be independent or dependent. This week allows some tenderness related to partnerships and some opportunity to spotlight and support your partner or women around you. This might give you some clues around what it means to be truly yourself, and a supportive member of community, without falling back on rigidity or over giving.
Aquarius Rising: It is one thing to know change is good or “rejection is protection,” but it is a completely different thing to manage change and loss in a human body. Your mental and physical health are on spotlight this week, and if you have any unconscious self-doubt or self-abusive thinking, take that seriously and get support. Listen to doctors about your body and mental-health professionals about your brain. Your personal values and your identity are under major reconstruction right now, and there is no time like the present to get support. If you have personal judgments about what it means to engage in mental health support, that kind of rigidity will not serve you going forward. Bend and allow change because it is happening even if it breaks you.
Pisces Rising: What is cringe one day is trending the next. Don’t look to what people say about you to understand how you want to manage your personal boundaries and your expectations of yourself. Sometimes, it’s worth following through with a commitment, even if nobody knows about it. Other times, it’s worth disappointing people, even if it creates loss. Look to social groups that support and spotlight what you are creating to help you understand how you want to handle your personal boundaries and expectations. Your creative projects are getting a boost right now, so if you experience some haters, you can take their feedback as support for your next project or leave it if it’s not helpful. Focus on the people who spotlight you no matter what. They are the ones who will help you tune into who you want to become.
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