Horoscope Principles for the week of December 8, 2025

We’re in the winter season, when the body leans toward hibernation and rest. I’ve been making cozy decorations, drinking a lot of tea, holding astrology consultations, and becoming a second degree Cabot Kent Witch. Yay!

Happy winter!

Photo by me! Image showing pomanders and Lindsey Lohan in Falling for Christmas.

These are the principles to consider for each rising sign (visit astro.com to find your rising sign) in the week of December 8, 2025:

Aries Rising: Knowing what you believe is only the first step toward living it. This week, there is a tension between your higher learning and philosophy of life versus your unconscious patterns and ideals. You may want to live up to your ideals, but you have to get your unconscious and your body on board first, and they need more time. Slow down or keep struggling.

Taurus Rising: You don’t have to adopt other people’s values (or convince them to adopt yours) in order to belong. You have momentum around other people’s values right now, and this is in tension with the boundaries you have in your friend and social groups. You don’t have to fight with other people about their values or adopt them in order to be safe in community. But, you do have to test out what boundaries mean to you. If you have stops and starts, that is part of the process.

Gemini Rising: You can’t rush love, especially if you struggle with boundaries around work. This week, there is tension between the forward momentum of your partnerships and the lessons you’ve been learning around boundaries in your career, work, or public-facing life. If boundaries at work feel nebulous, just pause and come back to what you value most. Boundaries don’t have to be extreme, but they do have to be yours.

Cancer Rising: Perfect is the enemy of good. If you feel delays this week in the massive action you’ve been taking in your daily life, they’re not permanent. But, idealizing what is possible about what you do every day (or indulging in moral judgment) can create unnecessary delays. If the difference between your ideals and your actions feels confusing, pause, put your hands in ice, touch grass, remember that ideals should serve you and reality is the relevant experience right now. It’s annoying when reality slows down, but that’s part of being human.

Leo Rising: Haters gonna hate. Recently, you’ve had a lot of activity in your fifth house of creative projects and children, and other people might not get it or they might be too rigid to accept what you’ve created. That is just information, and it does not mean that there’s anything wrong with what you’ve created. The haters are confused, but you can take their feedback and consider whether it improves your projects.

Virgo Rising: Making the changes you want in your own home means having boundaries with those closest to you. This sucks. Your boundaries with your partners might feel nebulous and confusing one day and then very rigid the next. This is teaching you to learn what allows you to be free while still connected. It’s an awkward process, so take it slow, even when you don’t want to slow down. Fighting and struggle takes just as long as waiting for the right time. If honest conversation doesn’t work, regroup and figure out what is essential.

Libra Rising: If you fight the limits of time and space, you lose. You may have been running around, trying to do everything, especially related to schools or siblings/soul-siblings. The confines of time and space that you live in every day may feel nebulous, but if you work on your boundaries ahead of time, they’ll start to feel more clear. Plan to say “no” to everything unless it is a wild and passionate “yes,” and pretty soon you’ll get more clear on how many hours you have during a day.

Scorpio Rising: Scarcity is never generative. If you’ve been feeling urgency around money or resources, it won’t inspire you to be more creative or get your projects done. But, the tension between what you value and what you create is strong this week. If you’ve been feeling low energy or confused around your creative projects, that is coming to a peak this week. Take a break when you get confused and follow the processes and structure you’ve already built.

Sagittarius Rising: You can’t be in two places at once unless you learn astral projection. In that case, go for it. You’ve had energy around expressing yourself and what it means to be you recently, and that may mean you’re agreeing to go to all the holiday parties. If your house gets messy right now, it’s okay to hire a cleaner. Better yet, ask someone else to hire a cleaner for you, and they just might say yes. If expressing yourself and being fully who you are causes fights at home, take a pause, get outside, and regroup. Creating safety for yourself works better than trying to force someone else to comply with what you want.

Capricorn Rising: Put your thoughts on paper, without judging them. If you feel haunted by over-thinking and not sure where to go next, write it down. If you hate writing, record yourself saying your thoughts out loud and listen back. It’s not cringe. Pimple popping takes some puss, even when the pimple is your thinking patterns. You might feel the urge to chat or even cause drama in your friend groups (what? you? never.), but now is a great time to visit with your inner child instead of struggling with where to go and who to see.

Aquarius Rising: You are actually a unique snowflake, and in some ways this is bad news. If everything is flowing with your friend groups, how do you know what you value versus what you idealize? What happens when your friends hate something you value? The answer is having boundaries around what is private to you and what you share with your friends. You’re allowed to go to your D&D group and also win at basketball. What you value does not have to be everyone’s business. If it causes conflict this week, revisit your personal privacy and boundaries.

Pisces Rising: You are a full, complete human, and you deserve personal boundaries, even if work doesn’t like it. You’ve had a lot of action in your career lately, and that may be in conflict what what you need and even your own identity. Boundaries are not all-or-nothing. They are a process of defining who you are, and how you stay safe, even when other people are mad or you are mad at other people. If there is a control dynamic involved, push pause and separate yourself. Come back to the conversation when you can be fully yourself and allow the other person to be fully themself.

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