Happy New Year and Happy Cancer Full Moon!

 

Full Moon – Cancer 

January 3, 2025

2:02am 

(13 Cancer 01) 

 

 The Full Moon in Cancer draws us into our emotional body.
But it also asks a question: What are our emotions telling us and what are our feelings telling us?

There’s a useful distinction here. As Center for Women explains, emotions are immediate, bodily responses—fear, relief, a rush of happiness. They move fast and travel through the nervous system. Feelings, on the other hand, are the meanings we assign to those sensations. They’re the quieter interpretations: I have a strange feeling about this, I feel I can trust her, something feels off about that story.

During a Cancer full moon, we are long on both. The volume is up.

This lunation is also a study in oppositions. The Moon in Cancer pulls us toward home, memory, privacy, and emotional safety.  We lean toward doing what our inner world is asking. Across the sky, the Sun in Capricorn reminds us of obligations, timelines, and responsibilities to the world beyond our front door. We may want to retreat, but we’re also being called to show up.  Oh, the rub! 

That tension intensifies with Venus and Mars in Capricorn opposing the Moon. Must everything require effort? Must every interaction be productive?  Must every interaction be so dang practical?  The answer seems to be yes.  But not before we have an inner life that can sustain it.   Aren’t you sick of performative acts?  

About twelve hours after the full moon, the Moon meets Jupiter in Cancer. This is an important shift. Jupiter wants growth, meaning, and expansion but in Cancer, staying home is going big.  Nourishment, safety, and emotional honesty become the source of confidence, not indulgence.

The message is clear: We do have to participate in the world in some way. But if we’re not connected to the cozy, protected place in our own heart, then what are all those interactions built on?  

Remember, this full moon is still part of the Sagittarius lunar cycle that began on December 17. We’re still clarifying our aims.  What we believe in, what we’re willing to stand for, and where we’re fighting the righteous fight that aligns with our principles ----this is THAT lunar month.  Under this Cancer full moon, the spotlight reminds us we must turn inward to self-worth.

If we’re claiming values or goals that don’t match our private reality, we risk hypocrisy, performing belief rather than living it.

So, on this first full moon of the year:
check in with your emotions,
listen carefully to your feelings,
get honest about what matters,
and then go slay some dragons.

You’ll recognize them.
They’re right there on your front porch.

December 23 - January 2 - End of The Year Astrology Landscape

 

December 23 – January 2 

 

The waxing moon continues with the Crescent phase landing on December 23.    Friendships and groups are highlighted as we ponder our visions and our future and consider ‘our peeps’.    We will be forgiven if we feel a little ‘off’ on the 23^rd with the Venus square Neptune.    Starting on the 24^th, Venus is all about the love of practicality.   Fluff begone.     The 29^th could be sharp conversations especially where dreams and visions collide with reality.  Or perceived reality.   In the meantime, our thoughts about being more independent are sound.  Actions that are inspired about humanity are elevated and given the green light. 

 

Late on Dec 31 and early on the Jan 1 our thoughts take a moment or two to get it together.  Same with our conversations and beware of people and their big yarns given Mercury square Neptune can be rife with exaggeration.    But by later in the day on the 1^st Mercury enters practical Capricorn where it will end the silly conversations and instead focus on responsibility and commitments.  

Also on Jan 1 Venus sextiles the North node and can help us  find inspiration with humanitarian causes and purposes and at the very least can remind us of the good in humans. 

 

Sending you many hugs as we wrap up 2025 and I will see you in 2026! 

 

 

 

Crescent Moon Phase

December 23, 2025

5:29 pm PST   

 

 

Focus on: What are we learning about friendships? What are you learning about people whom you share experiences and goals?  

 

Planetary notes: 

12/23: Venus square Neptune (29 PI) Love, money, and values feel unmoored. One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor — and today the floor feels cold. Dreams are tested. Again, sobriety > substances.

12/24: Venus enters Capricorn.  Values that are practical including love and money are showcased for the next month. 

 

First Quarter Moon 

December 27, 2025

11:09am PST 

 

 

 

Focus on:   What actions are you taking that are influenced by YOUR desire for more independence?  What actions are you taking that are pioneering?  What has got you on fire?   How does that fire and those actions speak to you broadening your world? 

 

Planetary Notes:

12/27: Mercury trine Chiron (22 AR).  Big ideas and thoughts that inspires independence and self-agency.  

12/29: Mars sextile N. Node (11 PI) – Actions that inspire our inner psychic and sage. We find humanity through the arts. 

12/29 : Mercury square Saturn (26 PI) Watch your words. A small sharp comment can cut like a blade. Lies and exaggerations hit a wall. Accountability surfaces.

 

 

 

 

Gibbous Moon

December 30, 2025

8:44pm PST 

 

 

Focus on:

How are you refining your money?  How are you refining your properties or stuff you own?  How does what you own line up with how you can broaden your world?   Do you own stuff or does stuff own you?  How can refine it all?  

 

Planetary Notes:  

 

1/1: Sun sextile N. Node (10 PI).  How can intuition and faith be applied to our life in a practical manner.  

1/1: Mercury square Neptune (29 PI) communication not honest.  Exaggeration adds to fog.  Psychic overload.  What opinions need to be released around stories we tell ourselves?  

1/1: Mercury enters Capricorn. Practical thoughts and conversations RULE for the next month.  

1/1: Venus sextile N. Node (10PI) Creativity that inspires and heals.  Finding our inner sage brings love and joy

December 21, 2025 Happy Solstice!

 

Image: Encyclopedia Brittanica

Dec 21, 2025

7:03 am PST 

The sun moves into Capricorn announcing the end of one season and the beginning of the next.  For those of us in northern hemisphere winter has arrived.   For our friends below the equator, they are welcoming summer.     

In the chart for the solstice which is landing a few days after the Sag new moon we continue to see the strong influence of Neptune and Saturn, reminding us that this is the three-month season of changes.  Both planets are transitioning from the final sign of the zodiac Pisces into the first sign Aries signaling a new era.    The next couple of months will be highlighted by many aspects of the outer and inner planets.   There will be a lot on our plates as we make transitions in our personal lives no doubt influenced by big changes in the greater world.  Lots to unpack.   In the north we will see our days grow longer bit by bit after today’s shortest day completes.   In the south, your long days of light energize you to find self and purpose and as they say, ‘make hay.’

In either hemisphere let’s find the light and or be the light.  Someone is probably counting on it.  

Sag New Moon: Dec 19, 5:43pm PST - The Era of Big Has Arrived

 

Dec 19, 2025

5:43pm (PST) 

28 Sag 24

 

In the middle of a hectic season, I managed to write up the Sagittarius New Moon. And honestly, this is an extraordinary moment for a Sagittarius New Moon to land. There’s big, and then there’s Sagittarius big, and then there’s Sagittarius-big in a Bigly Era.

Finding gravity in the middle of all this won’t be easy — but you can do it. Mostly because we don’t really have another choice. Find prayer. Find faith. Find knowledge. And, most of all, find a warm hearth.

Sagittarius will be there to help.

Go to THIS LINK for my full article. 

The Thing Going on Now

 

I had a friend text me today and ask about the astrology of late and what is going on.   I wrote to him the following:

We are in an extraordinary astrological landscape throughout December and January. Much of this intensity comes from Neptune and Saturn at the 29th degree of Pisces. The final degree of the final sign is always potent—there’s a sense of culmination, release, and reckoning built into it.

Over the past weeks, the inner planets moving through Sagittarius have been forming squares to Saturn and Neptune. Events like the Brown University shooting, the Bondi Beach massacre, and the Rob Reiner news, all occurring within a 36-hour window, coincided with Mars square Neptune exact on December 14, just as Neptune stationed direct. Neptune and Pisces rule chaos, confusion, and dissolution, and that energy unmistakably demanded our attention.

As we move through the rest of December, Venus and Mercury will also square Saturn and Neptune, which can add a heavy or sobering undertone to the holiday season. For many, this may feel melancholic, reflective, or emotionally draining.

So what to do?

Lean into the astrology. Understand that we are in a profound letting-go phase. Rest when you can. Escape into films and streaming worlds if that helps you decompress.  Go to a spa.  This is not a time to fake cheer, it’s a time to honor what’s ending.

Relief arrives between January 14–20, when the inner planets move into Capricorn and form a cascade of supportive sextiles to Saturn and Neptune. And then, on January 26, Neptune enters Aries, initiating an entirely new 160-year cycle…….This is a transition, not a collapse.
We’re moving through it…..We’ve got this.

 

My Birthday Fundraiser for Kitties in Los Angeles

 

Friends, 

I would be so grateful if you could contribute to my birthday fundraiser for Rory To The Rescue, a wonderful kitty rescue group here in Los Angeles. My family and I have fostered around 45 kittens over the years and have never “foster failed”… until Gracie.

She came to us as an underweight little sweetheart that Rory had rescued, and she needed a lot of extra TLC. She was supposed to go live with a friend, but when their cat became ill, Gracie stayed with us a little longer. And then, just before she was scheduled to go to one of Rory’s adoption fairs, we realized we couldn’t let her go.

So Gracie became part of our family.   Any donation (nothing too small) you can give to my fundraiser for Rory to The Rescue will be greatly appreciated. 

Purr.  

 

Dec 7 - Dec 16 - Waning Scorpio Lunar Month

 As I indicated in my last two posts, we have a lot going on in December & January.    The next new moon will be in the sign Sagittarius on December 19.    Between now and then we are in the final 10 days of the Scorpio lunar month which started mid-November that feels about three years ago.    The Mars square Saturn on Dec 8 is loaded for bear.    On Dec 10 Neptune stations direct and we are heading into its final anaretic days which will be potent.   Also on the 10^th is the final Mercury oppose Uranus which started Oct 29.  How has your thinking evolved since then?   On Dec 14, Mars tangles up with Neptune which suggests actions that are misguided or dissolve in front of us.    On Dec 16 is the final Sun square Saturn between Sag and Pisces, which could feel like a crisis of faith.  Or goals feel unattainable.    There are also pleasant notes like Mercury trine Neptune (12/11) Mercury sextile Pluto (12/13) and Venus trine Chiron on (12/18) which  will bring buoyance along the way and give us some lift.   

 

Here's the landscape for the waning moon.   

 

 

Disseminating

December 7, 2025

9:04pm 

      

Disseminating: Reflect on what has transpired this month and earlier.  What have you learned?   How can you share some of your knowledge?  What past experiences are you sharing?  Are you in the need to teach?  Or is it find a teacher?   Maybe we find a rabbi or a minister or therapist who gives us more insight.   

 

 

Focus on:   How are you sharing the importance of being bold?  How are you sharing the importance of flexing strength?  How are you sharing creativity?  How are you sharing the power generosity?   How are you sharing the power of being a hero? 

 

 

 

Planetary Notes:

 

12/7: Mercury trine Saturn (25 Pisces). Sharp thinking & communication that is based on responsibility will bring joy. 

 

12/8: Mars square Saturn (25 Pisces).  Mouthy ideas, over zealot opinions can inspire actions that lack sensibility.  Wet blankets are wet and cold.  Actions that are righteous but out of integrity will hit a wall. Reality checks, boundaries and consequences show up to unrealistic actions and foolhardy dreams.   This is the last square of the two-year cycle that began April of 2023 when they were conjunct in Pisces.  The next cycle begins April 19, 2026 in the sign Aries.  

 

12/10: Neptune station direct 29 Pisces 22) (See separate post)

12/10: Mercury oppose Uranus (28 Taurus) This is the third time this aspect is perfected.  #1 Oct 29, #2 Nov 19 and now today.  How has your thinking and communication shifted?  What have you released?  What new awareness empowers of your thinking?  

12/10: Venus square North Node (13 Pisces) Love & values that feel big and loud can miss the power of intuition, nuance and gentle.  

12/11: Mercury trine Neptune (29 Pisces).  There is a power that comes in being quiet, tapping the metaphysical, psyche and faith.  

 

 

 

Last Quarter Moon Phase

December 11, 2025

12:51pm PST   

   

 

Last Quarter moon:  Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living “The serenity prayer” 

 

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

 

Focus on:

What actions are you taking that rely on details?  What actions are you taking that need analytical and practical thinking?   What actions can you take that speak to problem solving?  What actions are you taking that seek order? 

 

 

Planetary Notes: 

12/11: Mercury enter Sagittarius.  Joy, fun, adventure, learning and exploring is highlighted for the next three weeks 

12/13: Mercury sextile Pluto (2 Aquarius 12).  Fresh new thoughts that may be inspired by groups of people or friends. 

12/14: Mars square Neptune (29 Pisces).    Zealotry that motivates actions can be problematic.  Big mouths meet Big Fantasy not good. 

12/14: Sun trine Chiron (22 Aries).  Finding independence and being authentic is inspiring and seeds new adventures.  

12/14: Mars enters Capricorn.  Practical, responsible, problem solving actions are highlighted for the next six weeks. 

 

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Balsamic Moon Phase

 

December 15, 2025 

2:29pm PST

 

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new.  

 

 

Focus on:  How are you releasing strong feelings?  How are you releasing passion?  How are you releasing the need to control?  How are you releasing intensity? 

 

 

Planetary Notes:

12/16: Mercury exits shadow 6:51 Sagittarius  

12/16: Sun square Saturn (25 Pisces).  The final square between Sag and Saturn in Pisces.  How can you find faith inspiring but not delusional?   A twice of year aspect.  Strident know-it-alls are doing what to humanity?   How does an atmosphere of chaos and confusion not serve bigger goals? Where are we being checked?  What are the consequences we are observing?    Learn what you can because it will be thirty years before we are here again. 

12/18: Venus trine Chiron (22 Aries) Love seeks and can find authenticity

 

 

Sagittarius New Moon Dec 19 (5:43pm PST) 28 Sag 24