Horoscope Principles for the week of January 5, 2026

This week, we continue to be in the dark of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are entering a new year that has a number of astrological challenges. I say that not to be bleak but because the winter is a time of rest and renewal. It is a time to let your frozen ground lie dormant under leaves the trees released.

If you plan for challenges ahead, my hope is that you take more seriously the chances you have to rest now (assuming they present, and holding the awareness that for some people rest is a privilege). Now is the opportunity to release anything that drains your energy but does not replenish it.

(Photo by me in the Palm Springs leg of my Inanna Underworld journey.)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Jupiter continues in Cancer, and the Sun, Venus, and Mars all join each other this week in Capricorn, as they approach opposition to Jupiter. (Mercury is also in Capricorn and quickly approaching the same conjunctions/opposition.) The conjunctions start on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, and continue through the week. The first opposition becomes exact on Friday, January 9, 2026. This emphasizes the Cancer/Capricorn polarity in the sky. Both Cancer and Capricorn are feminine or yin signs, and both are cardinal signs. Cancer is a water sign and Capricorn is an earth sign. They have similar emphasis on safety and stability, and yet they are opposites in many ways. Cancer represents the hearth an home, or the nest. Capricorn represents the outer institutions. This polarity asks how our loyalties are in tension with our ambition. They ask how our local community is in tension with broader institutions.

• On Saturday, January 11, 2026, at 8:13am, Venus squares Chiron, and then the other planets in Capricorn approach that square as well, as we go into the next week. This puts the spaces where we are wounded on blast, though at this point Venus and Jupiter both square Chiron and offer some healing, despite the spotlight on pain.

• 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 January 5, 2026:

Aries Rising: When your roots are solid, the branches of the tree of your life can grow more expansively. This week, you continue to experience expansion in your home and inner world, while you have activity and focus on your public life or career. You may feel busy with ups and downs in your public life, but grounding into the nest of your home will stabilize the rest. If you have felt wounding around your identity and what it means to be you, these will experience some opportunity for healing, even if healing is painful.

Taurus Rising: Your inner child is the root of the tree of your ideals and higher beliefs. The more you expand your inner child’s presence and allow them to occupy space, the more the shifts you’re experiencing in your ideals will have room to become something tangible. You may be more comfortable with ideals that seem structured and logical, or ideals that support you in getting the results you want, but this week asks you to make room for the expansion of childlike ideals. What are your ideals around play? What are your ideals around imagination? What are your inner child’s dreams and visions of possibility? Sometimes the most practical ideals are the most innocent.

Gemini Rising: Other people’s projections about your version of abundance is just information for you to consider as you expand how you think of an abundant life. What you value and your version of abundance is expanding, and other people might have thoughts about that. If they approve, you might be inclined to be drawn toward their version of abundance. If they disapprove, you might want to rebel against them or shame yourself. What you see as abundance does not need to be the same as other people’s, and being different and uniquely you does not have to threaten your ambition. You have a structured understanding of what other people value (cookies=good, punches in the face=bad), but abundance is not that literal. Look inward to what you value and use other people’s projections about you as information, not as a rule you need to follow.

Cancer Rising: What feeds you feeds your partnerships as well. Because of activity happening with your closest accomplices, you may feel a push-pull between what you need in order to expand into who you are becoming and how you show up as a partner. Filling your cup allows your energy to overflow to your partnerships rather than getting into a tug of war. Relationships are not pie, and so expanding you expands others as well. If you feel wounded around your experience in your public or career life, taking time to deeply know yourself and who you are becoming, while you pay attention to the partners who support you will offer some healing. It doesn’t change the past, but it can help you grow into a new version of you.

Leo Rising: Healing your mind heals your body. This week is a good time to look at your daily routines and how they support your mental and physical health. You may have a history of setting rigid or ambitious schedules for yourself and trying to live up to idealized standards of mental or physical health. This type of ambitious schedule can be supportive or it can be punishing and destructive. The key is paying attention to the results you see. For example, Western culture (and many Eastern cultures for that matter) puts a lot of emphasis on skinniness as a symbol of health. But, the correlation between skinniness and health is tenuous. If you achieve skinniness, but develop a heart condition from the stress of your strategies, your routines do not serve you. As you expand your thinking around woundings you’ve experienced related to your ideals, you may receive important insights as to how to structure your routines in a supportive way.

Virgo Rising: Draw inspiration from your friend groups and social circles in order to focus on the creative projects you care about. The spotlight is on your babies right now, whether they are material, human, or otherwise. You may have somewhat rigid structures and set ambitions for how what you create looks to the world, and this week you may want to consider the more tender and loyal way you handle your friend groups. If you treat what you create with the kindness you would use toward a friend, you may experience the ups and downs of creation with more ease. Any wounding you’ve experienced related to other people’s judgments and values about your creativity may receive some healing towards the end of the week.

Libra Rising: Let your career nurture your home life and internal world. You have some ambition or maybe even external pressure to make your home and most personal spaces appear a certain way, and you may see your career spaces as places where you create nests and comfort. This week, the two are connected, and the expansion you’re having around your career may be able to offer some comfort to the chaos at home. The wounding you’ve experienced in partnerships should receive some healing, or at least some activation that invites a positive transformation, as you expand in your public life and manage the activity at home.

Scorpio Rising: Allowing your ideals to expand supports your local community. It is hard to let go of old ideals or belief systems, but allowing them to grow into something new does not necessarily mean rejecting the old. A lot of activity is happening in your local community, with your siblings, or related to your early childhood beliefs, and this activity is supported by the expansion you’re experiencing related to your ideals. In other words, it’s a good week to get out and protest. If you’re worried about your health related to protests, mask up. Reach out to organizers to ask about health-related accommodations. Stay safe, but now is a great time to support positive changes in your local community.

Sagittarius Rising: It is just as important to learn to receive as it is to give. Your finances, values, and concepts of abundance are experiencing major activity right now, both positive and negative. But, the abundance of people around you is undergoing major luck. If your partner got a big holiday bonus, let them support you in your abundance too. It is not either/or and abundance is not a competition. If you have been rigid or approval-seeking in how you see money or abundance, now is a time to question that. You don’t have to be the best to receive, you just have to be open to connection and support. If you have some wounding around children or creative projects, letting yourself receive may send some healing to that.

Capricorn Rising: Celebrate your partners and accomplices in their successes. It may seem like your ups and downs are creating chaos in your life, while things are smooth sailing for your closest partners, but what benefits one person benefits all. If you get into either/or thinking this week, you are the one who will lose. If you can celebrate your partners’ wins, their expansion will overflow to you. If you harbor wounds related to your home life, celebrating your partners and releasing some of the rigid ambition you hold for yourself could help ease some of this, even if it doesn’t erase the past.

Aquarius Rising: Healing the body heals the soul. We are spiritual beings in physical bodies, yes, but that does not diminish the impact our physical health and daily routines have on our mental health. If you are experiencing ups and downs, and even chaos, in your mental and internal life, take a walk, get outside. Do something that makes your body feel good. If that means eating ice cream, that’s okay, but consider expanding your daily routines and physical health practices to incorporate what makes you feel good long term, mentally and physically.

Pisces Rising: What you create is a gift to the people in your life. You are having a lot of activity in your friend and social groups this week, and if there’s a chance to show and tell your creative projects, take it. This is something that benefits you and your friends. It’s not selfish to offer other people what you’ve created or show off the baby pictures of your kids. People may love it one day or hate it the next, but that’s just the weather. The expansion you’re having around what you’ve created is the magic. If you have wounding around other people’s projections about your creations, remember that you’re allowed to listen to the support and throw out the rest.

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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.

(Photo by Mike Lewinski on Unsplash)

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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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.”

Photo by SIMON LEE on Unsplash of a broken statue mended with gold.

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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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.

(Photo credit Benjamin Voros.)

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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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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Horoscope Principles for the week of November 17, 2025

Here we are, back again for another round of principles based on your rising sign!

I have been driving across the United States and last week, when I would have normally written this, I was driving through Monument Valley.

Photo by me! Image showing monument valley.

I was struck by how little affinity I felt with the desert landscape in southern Utah and northern Arizona. I am a very Venusian person and have such strong affinity to rainforests. I admire the desert and it is alien to me.

The moon let me take a picture of her at Arches National Park, though, which got me a little excited.

Photo by me! Image of one of the monuments at Arches National Park.

Like we talked about before, The most unique qualities to you specifically, in terms of astrology, are found in your rising sign and aspects. This is why when you read a horoscope, it may be more accurate if you look at your rising sign, rather than your sun sign. Most astrologers tailor horoscopes to the rising, not sun, signs.

So, here I’m going to be upfront that I’m talking about your rising sign, although you may also want to look at your sun and moon. (If you need a copy of your chart, visit astro.com.)

These are the principles to consider for each rising sign in the week of November 17, 2025:

Aries Rising: Values are about what we value, not what we imagine being right or about conforming to dominant culture pressures. You are finalizing and revisiting what abundance and “value” means to you. For the final insights in this transit, look to people who support you and offer you resources. You may also find luck in your nesting and home spaces.

Taurus Rising: Partnership requires mutuality. Who you are with yourself, and who you are with your closest partnerships, has undergone a profound transformation over the past eight years, and that is coming to a close. This week, you’ll have the opportunity to rethink how you partner and the flow between meeting your own needs and those of your partners, under a boost from the universe. Old partnerships might come back into view, and it’s an opportunity to be realistic about whether they are supportive and mutual. You may lean on a boost from siblings, traveling in your local community, or small bits of easy learning.

Gemini Rising: Realizations that fail to metabolize into reality are lost. The hidden things that have come to light over the past eight years are on display this week, as that period of your life comes to a close. This week lets you rethink how you have metabolized those realizations into your daily life, how you handle your physical and mental health, and how you manage your habits. Take a boost from what you care about and what you value in order to put into place habits that honor your realizations.

Cancer Rising: More of you is more of what the world needs. If you’ve been experiencing instability in your communities over the past eight years, that period of time is coming to an end. Right now there is a relationship between being more of yourself and putting out into the world creative projects that the world needs. This could look like supporting your kids, specifically daughters, or even just rethinking and sending out a project. Inject yourself into the process, even if you would normally be hesitant to do that. Now’s the time!

Leo Rising: Home is where the renewal is this week. It’s where you can rethink and even beautify your lair, although I’m sure it’s already beautiful. If your career has gone through significant changes and upheaval over the past eight years, the next few months wrap that up. This week gives you insight into the relationship between your home and public facing life. Spirit and any work you’ve done this year on your unconscious thinking are a source of blessings in this process.

Virgo Rising: Community doesn’t have to be deep and profound to be a support. Sometimes it’s just a little thank-you note or funny meme. Pay attention to those this week. While your higher principles and ideals have been going through a life changing transit over the past eight years, right now is a time to remember the basics. Let your community be expansive and expand your philosophies to accommodate them.

Libra Rising: You’re not sure who you can rely on for support and resources, but you can rely on yourself. The shakeups you’ve experienced related to other people’s money and other people as support over the past eight years is coming to an end, but this week emphasizes the lessons you’ve learned and the return to yourself, what you value, and what abundance means to you. Your career and public life is a space of expansion for you right now.

Scorpio Rising: Look to yourself, your higher principles, and your inner knowing for stability. Your partnerships have been going through a time of change and instability since 2018, and this week emphasizes the final pass of that transit. This week asks you to look look inward for stability and lean on your higher learning and higher knowing for luck and answers. Look into yourself to see the universe.

Sagittarius Rising: You can be optimistic, hopeful, and grateful for the windfall you may have received this year from other people’s resources, and still take care of your mental and physical health. Right now is a time where you could feel psychologically well and healed, and still, keep your therapist. Take care of your body. You don’t have to do the same thing every day in order to maintain healthy habits in the midst of change.

Capricorn Rising: Being a “people person” may or may not be a way others have described you, but this is a good week to explore that concept. What are the groups that you belong in? What are the partnerships that nourish you? Those are the spaces that are experiencing freshness, renewal, and growth for you right now. Even if some parts of your life feel unstable, the depth you feel in those areas are where to focus.

Aquarius Rising: Choosing what feels right and stable to you is not always escapism. Staying at work to finish a project that feels good to you isn’t always overwork. Right now, your habits and daily experiences are a space of luck and your career is going through a renewal and rethinking. The transitions and instability that may have been going through your home life are just finishing up, and your career has the opportunity for a renewal right now.

Pisces Rising: Unlearning feels less secure than sticking to our childhood philosophies. But, if you test it out, you’ll find that the process of unlearning and interrogating your long-held beliefs uncovers what faith means to you. True security of belief exists in being willing to unbelieve. For wisdom in this process, look to children and the principle of beginner mind.

Thanks for reading and being the unique incarnation that you are!

Horoscope Principles for the week of October 27, 2025

This is the first in an experiment in writing weekly principles to consider for each rising sign.

Did you know that in the West, we all someone by their sun sign, but in other forms of astrology, that is not practiced? It is also a relatively new practice in the West. So, you may be considered “an Aries” because your sun is in Aries, but if your moon is in Taurus, in India you would be considered “a Taurus.”

The most unique qualities to you specifically, in terms of astrology, are found in your rising sign and aspects. This is why when you read a horoscope, it may be more accurate if you look at your rising sign, rather than your sun sign. Most astrologers tailor horoscopes to the rising, not sun, signs.

So, here I’m going to be upfront that I’m talking about your rising sign, although you may also want to look at your sun and moon. (If you need a copy of your chart, visit astro.com.)

To honor this week, I searched for images of “brain organizing chaos,” and here’s one I found that I think applies to this week:

Photo by Nathan Cima on Unsplash. Image showing tangled wires and cords.

These are the principles to consider for each sign in the week of October 27, 2025:

Aries Rising: There is room for looking at the forest and examining the trees. When you have major philosophical insights, but you spell words wrong in trying to convey them on social media, it could just be because you’re having fun. That’s allowed. The insights still matter, even if the words come too fast.

Taurus Rising: Resources matter to you, and that’s not shallow or wrong. The systems we work within are ideas, but the impacts they have are practical and real. Your resources may have been feeling more unstable than usual this year, and this week the principle to consider is actually a silly rhyme. When you find yourself in scare-city, move to curio-city instead. Even when it feels serious and dire, if you can add in a little bit of curiosity and gaming, that can create movement, insight, or surprising internal or external resources.

Gemini Rising: No person, experience, group, or belief system is a monolith. While you may have had a major identity shift or two already this year, and questioned who you are on a fundamental level, that adds to your nuanced experience of life. The principle of multiplicity says that no human is one unified being, but instead we are made up of parts. This week think about the difference between being curious about your parts, versus being curious about another person. Sometimes, the people closest to us have the most insightful curiosity that lead to the most impactful growth experiences in our lives.

Cancer Rising: Put your oxygen mask on first, before you try to help the people around you. This is an important safety rule for a reason and this week it is extra activated. The shifts you’ve been making in your unconscious thinking or mental health could either create a crisis or massive growth. How this plays out for you is determined by how much you pay attention to your daily habits and how they nurture you. If you are helping others from an empty cup, you are not actually helping.

Leo Rising: Failure is the path to success. In your areas of social groups and your creative endeavors, you might be experiencing significant changes. This week should bring insights and experiments. Love all of the creations you make and the changes in the social groups you rely on. Even if at first this feels like failure or not what you expected, getting results we didn’t plan for is part of the growth process. Experiment toward what you want. Love and release what you don’t.

Virgo Rising: Perfect is the enemy of good. Done is better than good. You are going through an intense process of change in your work life that started earlier this year, and this can be intensely triggering for someone who wants things done right. This week, you may have a lot of mental activity around what’s going on at home, by contrast, and even tension between the shakeups in career and public life versus how you show up at home. If you find yourself too committed to one answer being the right answer, take a break, move to a new space, and look at things from a different perspective. The short-term answer may not be the same as the long-term answer. The past may not look the same as the future. Both can be valid, even if they are different.

Libra Rising: Write it down. When the insights come this week, put them on paper or in a notes app. Your values, philosophies, rules, and personal policies are undergoing a major shift, which is triggered this week. You may experience insights from a sibling or close friend that change how you see things. This may be quick moving, so develop a practice of writing down the insights as they come so you can integrate them later.

Scorpio Rising: Having more than one answer creates more than one resource. How you rely on other people and how you grieve is changing this year, and this week activates those changes. It may feel like when you have more than one idea about how you provide for yourself or create abundance around you, it triggers instability in the ways other people support you or it even brings up grief about how you have been unsupported. Let the ideas come, and also remember you have plenty of experience dealing with grief and unreliable people. You know you can count on yourself, but that’s only a start.

Sagittarius Rising: Brilliance is a state of being, not doing. If your partnerships have changed this year, it may have impacted how you see yourself and how you rely on other people versus yourself. This week there is an emphasis on knowing yourself, understanding yourself, and reaching into the deep resource of the truths you know. When you share your wisdom with others, it is partly sharing yourself, even if others are not ready to hear it.

Capricorn Rising: Safety first! This applies to both your physical body and your mind. You may be inclined to push yourself and expect more from yourself than you expect from others, but this week asks you to look inward and think before you leap. The unconscious insights you are having now will help you along the way, even if you aren’t aware of them yet, but take it easy on your body. Acknowledge your truths, and also protect your physical incarnation.

Aquarius Rising: Ship it! The projects you’ve been creating—put them in front of human eyes! Even if people hate them, it will help you improve. But, this week you’ll have insight into what people want. This is a great week for you to get insight into how other people are receiving your creations. If you have children, and they make you a drawing, think of the funniest place you could hang it. You might have a tendency to over think how people are receiving what you bring to the world, but manifestation starts with an idea. Even if they seem weird or you’re not sure, test out your projects with groups you trust.

Pisces Rising: Sometimes you can’t think your way out of chaos, but other times you can. This is one of those weeks where the chaos and changes at home or in how you feel about your home may seem at odds with the insights you’re having at work. But, it’s possible that the chaos at home is just the changeup that your insights at work need. How can you look at your career and public life in a new way and release the single-mindedness that sometimes takes over there? How can changes at home facilitate a new public-facing you? If you release control over outcome, you will be better prepared to catch the wisdom when it comes.

Thanks for reading and being the unique incarnation that you are!