NEW MOON FORECAST DECEMBER 30 to JANUARY 6 2025

Are we there yet?

2024 ends and then 2025 starts off this week with the second transit of MARS Rx opposite PLUTO. Not too auspicious, but there is a bright side to all transits. If we don’t include the usual asteroids and points that I like to take into account, there is only that and a few more or less transient aspects to dance with. The MOON of course sweeps through a number of conjunctions and other aspects that last less than a day. These can set the emotional tone for us all in general as each lunar aspect waxes and wanes, though there are much more personally relevant signals to be found by tracking the MOON through your individual chart. That is why I don’t generally enumerate the MOON’s aspects. That and the fact that it would make these forecasts even more complex and TL;dr. Anyone who wants can get a very affordable reading by just reaching out to me.

MERCURY starts out the week strongly trine to CHIRON which just turned direct at 19 degrees of Aries. This will facilitate healing talks, counseling, diplomacy and the like. JUNO brings to this a vibe of working on our love life, committed relationships and fidelity through a brief semisextile with MERCURY that hits on the NEW MOON Dec 30th. By the end of the week MERCURY is square to NEPTUNE while sextile to BLACK MOON LILITH encouraging or compelling us to take a pause in our headlong thinking and let the Mystery guide us for a couple of days. Could foment some not-well-thought-out unruliness or balkiness if we push at that time, but a moment to just float might be welcome after the flurry of the holidaze.

The SUN is conjunct the MOON on Monday afternoon PT. The NEW MOON in ambitious and determined Capricorn is marking the most inward time of the month. The SUN then moves on by January 2nd to a simultaneous square with LILITH and a quincunx with JUPITER Rx, just as MARS Rx backs into its opposition with PLUTO. More rebelliousness and bids for freedom but likely done in an awkward way. It’ll be easy to act too much, too soon at that time so check yourself before you wreck yourself. LILITH is also beneficially trine to JUPITER Rx at that time and that may help to slightly moderate any negative consequences.

MARS Rx in Leo opposite PLUTO in Aquarius licenses our unconscious desires, fears and needs to impulsively go into action. The archetype of war and assertiveness triggers the archetype of desire for power, control and domination doesn’t sound too good. What is revealed from out of the shadows can be a necessary relief of psychic tension, but like a geologic fault releasing the process can be violent and challenging. The more we have integrated our shadow side the less messy it will be. PLUTO augurs fundamental transformation as well as hidden power and that often means breaking things down before rebuilding in a new configuration. Since this is the second of three oppositions that started at the U.S. elections, we may already have a discernable theme of turbulence in entrenched empires and regimes leading to great changes in the way the world works. This second opposition has PLUTO and MARS in close synergy with the MOON’s NODE’s in a Mystic Rectangle directing the energy towards our long-term collective karma. The third and final MARS-PLUTO opposition happens in late April and will be nearly square the SUN in Taurus while SATURN is conjunct both VENUS and the SOUTH NODE of our past and opposite the NORTH NODE of our karmic fate at that time. We’ll eventually see in hindsight even more clearly what got started with this 3-part transit since PLUTO has about another 19 years in Aquarius.

The MOON ends the week square to the SUN and conjunct CHIRON on January 6th which may stir up some old wounds for, hopefully, clearing and healing. More on that next week.

Frankly, 2025 looks to be a significant turning point in the long process of our current evolution with several major planetary sign changes and powerful aspects moving things along this year. Its vital to keep in mind that if there are hard times arising they are mostly hard due to the human tendency towards obtuseness, hubris and greed. The obtuseness of dismissing the sacred and metaphysical. The hubris of leaders and followers believing we can escape from dissatisfaction or suffering through ever expanding external power and control. The greed of endless desires that lead to repeated cycles of rise and fall in a life or in a civilization. The universe is always trying to tough love us into collectively finding balance and wisdom. Sigh…

No kids, we’re not there yet…I wish this was all an easier epoch for us all. It’s an intense time to be in, for sure. Especially for the next 5 or 6 years. Having astrology as a tool has been vital in helping me see the big picture and what is generally coming down the pike for everyone alive, taking it less personally, be somewhat psychically prepared for it and doing my very small part to be leaning towards the best possible outcomes for us all. As Rick Levine always says: “Think cosmically and act locally”