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December 2016 Horoscope: Predictions for Leo
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Leos born August 13 to 22 |
Overview for this Month: Leo (All)
The first half of December is encouraging for creative communications projects, collaborations, and making exciting connections, dear Leo. Particularly on the 1st, 6th, and 9-11, you have planetary support for creative, romantic, and partnering efforts. You can get a whole lot done with a lover or partner now, and artistic projects get off the ground as well. Relationships are exciting and active - working with others is favored right now, but so is doing fun, invigorating, and educational things with a partner or close friend. This is an adventurous time, so take advantage. While the second half of December is likely to be considerably less bold, it remains spirited in a quieter way.
The Gemini Full Moon on the 13th pulls your attention to networking, group activities, and sharing. This lunation is particularly illuminating, as it connects with many other areas of your chart, revealing how important reaching out to others is to getting almost all of your projects off the ground.
Partnerships are of particular importance this month. You begin the month with an assertive, active approach to your one-on-one relationships, but by the 7th, you're in a more compromising and yielding position. While Venus and Mars don't officially meet in your partnership sector this month, they both spend time there, enlivening your relationships and one-to-one dealings in December.
Mars moves into your zone of transformation and intimacy on the 19th, and this can heat up close relationships. It can also inspire you to take action on securing financial support. With increasing emphasis on your work and health sector, this can also push you to make deep, lasting lifestyle changes, perhaps through quitting a bad habit. It's important to look to the past for answers, possibly reviving an old health program that worked for you in the past, but that you have since strayed from. This is because Mercury turns retrograde in your work and health sector, also on the 19th. This retrograde will continue until January 8th and is a good time to look back, edit, and revise. Entirely new programs may need to wait until January for a launch date, however.
There is a new influence introduced this month and sticks with you for most of the coming year. During this supportive trend, you'll be actively turning your ideas into concrete realities. You might uncover the right resources to build a business or project that you love. Teaching may be part of this, and a creative project or endeavor can thrive as you develop your craft or techniques. You can make recent wanderlust work for you, for example, by traveling for business. Increased self-discipline helps improve critical areas of your life. Teaching and publishing can be especially strong areas for expressing yourself now and in the coming year. To get the ball rolling, look for ways to change the way you balance dealing with your daily affairs and pursuing more adventurous activities. In the second half of the month, it becomes clear that you need to free yourself up by cutting out certain frivolous activities in order to concentrate on what truly excites, supports, and invigorates you.
The 26-29 is important for looking at a work or health matter in a new light. It’s better to think about what you can do to improve and tweak current projects and ideas than for starting all-new ones, but your thinking is sharp now. Set intentions at the New Moon on the 29th. The last few days of the month/year inspire your imagination, intuition, and dreams, setting the stage for brilliant visions of where you'd like to head in the New Year.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Leo (Born July 23 to August 2)
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December 2016 |
Overview.
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until December 21st:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fifth house. This is a time when pleasure-seeking and creative activities come into focus and grab much of your attention. You are particularly personally charming in a spontaneous, natural way during this solar cycle. This is the time of year when you are ready to perform and to express yourself creatively.
This is a very playful cycle, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. It's a good time for recreation, romance, connecting with children, and enjoying and performing the arts. Your ego is tied up in your children, romantic relationships, and creative output now, so that you can be especially proud of these people and things. You can also be over-sensitive about these matters if you feel you are not getting enough appreciation.
From December 21st forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar sixth house. During this cycle, you take more pride in the work you do and in your health routines than any other time of the year. You are sorting through the experiences of the last several months, separating the worthwhile from the worthless. This is a good time to build your skills, to get organized, and to attend to your health and wellbeing. It's a great time to make improvements to your regular routines. Your self-esteem and your ego are tied up in the work you do and in the services you give. Details are more important to you now.
It's time to bring order to your life by focusing on the little things that make up the whole. This cycle presents an opportunity to get rid of what doesn't work in your life, while also discovering what does. You could seek distinction and strive towards perfection in your work. Efficiency should be your goal now. Your physical health, as well as the relationship between your body and your mind, are in focus.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until December 7th:
Venus continues to move through your solar sixth house now. This is a time when beautifying and/or bringing harmony to your working environment is a priority to you. You might find more opportunities to socialize with co-workers, perhaps even meeting a new friend through your work or health routines. You are likely to bring more tact and diplomacy to your relations with the people you work with now. You may not be as productive as usual during this period, as the focus is more on social relationships and pleasure than on getting the job done. Improving health and vitality through pleasurable activities such as massage might be in focus now.
From December 7th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From December 2nd:
Mercury transits your solar sixth house. This is a good placement for Mercury, as it is the natural ruler of the sixth house. It's an excellent period for sorting out the details of your daily existence. You are inclined to make to-do lists, pay bills and sort out clutter, and to do detail work on the job. Health matters are most certainly on your brain as well, and you could be thinking of scheduling check-ups or busy researching ways to improve your health. You may also show a keener interest in improving your basic skills.
Your approach to work during this cycle is pleasant, happy, and logical for the most part, unless you allow worry or scattered energy to enter the picture. You are inclined to want to learn new work skills, or to improve your skills and output in terms of work. There is likely to be more activity, movement, contact, and communications with co-workers now.
You tend to take more interest in organizing your working environment--and this is an excellent time to do so, as you are especially objective and intelligent when it comes to getting a handle on your daily affairs and all of the "little things" that contribute to a feeling of efficiency and competency. Menial tasks become more prominent. Watch, however, for tension or idle chit-chat interfering with your work output during this cycle.
Mercury is retrograde from December 19th to January 8th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar sixth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to work, health matters, and daily routines. Be as non-judgmental as you can with co-workers and/or employees. Re-thinking the suitability of your job is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you, or you might need to redo work that you thought was complete. However, you might find that the refinements you make now will be very valuable later. Double- check your work before submitting it. It's a fine time for researching health and nutrition programs, as well as job skills and opportunities, but perhaps not the best time for beginning all-new programs. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers and health professionals; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until December 19th:
Mars continues to move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.
From December 19th forward:
Mars energizes your solar eighth house now. Sexuality and intimacy are stimulated under this transit. Negative expression of this energy is the tendency towards ego conflicts concerning jointly held property or money. Conflicts with partners over values or possessions are possible. Occasionally, this transit could bring a crisis or ending of some kind. Something you hear about now might disturb or touch you deeply. You are likely to be more strategic in your actions during this period, as you become aware of the subtleties of human interaction. This is a time when your best course of action is to recognize that you need, or rely on, others for support.
Overview Horoscope:
The first half of December is encouraging for creative communications projects, collaborations, and making exciting connections, dear Leo. Particularly on the 1st, 6th, and 9-11, you have planetary support for creative, romantic, and partnering efforts. You can get a whole lot done with a lover or partner now, and artistic projects get off the ground as well. Relationships are exciting and active - working with others is favored right now, but so is doing fun, invigorating, and educational things with a partner or close friend. This is an adventurous time, so take advantage. While the second half of December is likely to be considerably less bold, it remains spirited in a quieter way.
The Gemini Full Moon on the 13th pulls your attention to networking, group activities, and sharing. This lunation is particularly illuminating, as it connects with many other areas of your chart, revealing how important reaching out to others is to getting almost all of your projects off the ground.
Partnerships are of particular importance this month. You begin the month with an assertive, active approach to your one-on-one relationships, but by the 7th, you're in a more compromising and yielding position. While Venus and Mars don't officially meet in your partnership sector this month, they both spend time there, enlivening your relationships and one-to-one dealings in December.
Mars moves into your zone of transformation and intimacy on the 19th, and this can heat up close relationships. It can also inspire you to take action on securing financial support. With increasing emphasis on your work and health sector, this can also push you to make deep, lasting lifestyle changes, perhaps through quitting a bad habit. It's important to look to the past for answers, possibly reviving an old health program that worked for you in the past, but that you have since strayed from. This is because Mercury turns retrograde in your work and health sector, also on the 19th. This retrograde will continue until January 8th and is a good time to look back, edit, and revise. Entirely new programs may need to wait until January for a launch date, however.
There is a new influence introduced this month and sticks with you for most of the coming year. During this supportive trend, you'll be actively turning your ideas into concrete realities. You might uncover the right resources to build a business or project that you love. Teaching may be part of this, and a creative project or endeavor can thrive as you develop your craft or techniques. You can make recent wanderlust work for you, for example, by traveling for business. Increased self-discipline helps improve critical areas of your life. Teaching and publishing can be especially strong areas for expressing yourself now and in the coming year. To get the ball rolling, look for ways to change the way you balance dealing with your daily affairs and pursuing more adventurous activities. In the second half of the month, it becomes clear that you need to free yourself up by cutting out certain frivolous activities in order to concentrate on what truly excites, supports, and invigorates you.
The 26-29 is important for looking at a work or health matter in a new light. It’s better to think about what you can do to improve and tweak current projects and ideas than for starting all-new ones, but your thinking is sharp now. Set intentions at the New Moon on the 29th. The last few days of the month/year inspire your imagination, intuition, and dreams, setting the stage for brilliant visions of where you'd like to head in the New Year.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
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See also general trends for Leo in 2016.
Leo (Born August 3 to 12)
AND Leo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Leo:
December 2016 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
December 2016 |
Overview.
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun illuminates your solar fifth house now. After a period of "nesting", you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively. This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks. You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies. Pleasure and amusement play an important role in your search for freedom of self-expression now. Show off your best colors!
You want others to take notice, and you are more sensitive to whether people appreciate you. More than any time of the year, this is the cycle in which you focus on having fun, enjoying romance, and expressing yourself creatively. Your hobbies, leisure time, moments spent with children, gaming time, and so forth, all come into focus at this time of year.
This is a cycle in which you find joy in expressing who you are--when your "inner child" comes out to play. This is a time when you are more flirtatious than usual, and when you might take a few risks in life--not only gambling with games but with life itself. You might be a bit of a showman at this time. You are likely feeling good in general, and you tend to spread the joy.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until December 16th:
Venus continues to move through your solar sixth house now. This is a time when beautifying and/or bringing harmony to your working environment is a priority to you. You might find more opportunities to socialize with co-workers, perhaps even meeting a new friend through your work or health routines. You are likely to bring more tact and diplomacy to your relations with the people you work with now. You may not be as productive as usual during this period, as the focus is more on social relationships and pleasure than on getting the job done. Improving health and vitality through pleasurable activities such as massage might be in focus now.
From December 16th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until December 11th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar fifth house. Increased communication with children, romantic partners, and people who share the same hobbies as you can occur now. Certainly, you are thinking about these people and about love and romance, child rearing, and/or creative pursuits more than usual. Mental exercises and competitions can be particularly enjoyable now. You express yourself with warmth and creativity, and you have an appreciative "audience" for your ideas now.
From December 11th:
Mercury transits your solar sixth house. This is a good placement for Mercury, as it is the natural ruler of the sixth house. It's an excellent period for sorting out the details of your daily existence. You are inclined to make to-do lists, pay bills and sort out clutter, and to do detail work on the job. Health matters are most certainly on your brain as well, and you could be thinking of scheduling check-ups or busy researching ways to improve your health. You may also show a keener interest in improving your basic skills.
Your approach to work during this cycle is pleasant, happy, and logical for the most part, unless you allow worry or scattered energy to enter the picture. You are inclined to want to learn new work skills, or to improve your skills and output in terms of work. There is likely to be more activity, movement, contact, and communications with co-workers now.
You tend to take more interest in organizing your working environment--and this is an excellent time to do so, as you are especially objective and intelligent when it comes to getting a handle on your daily affairs and all of the "little things" that contribute to a feeling of efficiency and competency. Menial tasks become more prominent. Watch, however, for tension or idle chit-chat interfering with your work output during this cycle.
Mercury is retrograde from December 19th to January 8th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar fifth and sixth houses this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to romance, children, creativity, work, and daily routines. Be as non- judgmental as you can with co-workers, romantic partners, and your children. Re- thinking the suitability of your job and/or romantic relationships is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you. Double-check your work. There may be the need to revisit old issues with your children or lover, or there could be some communication problems with the same. Arguments with a lover may be blown out of proportion far too easily. Both you and your lover should avoid harping on the words used and try to get to the meaning behind the words instead. Or, a romance may not be moving forward in obvious ways. It might seem like stagnation, but it's actually a period of review and rest. Other possibilities include calls that are not returned, a lover is late for a date, or dates get cancelled. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now. Things will change once Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers, professors, lawyers, romantic partners, and children, or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.
Overview Horoscope:
The first half of December is encouraging for creative communications projects, collaborations, and making exciting connections, dear Leo. Particularly on the 1st, 6th, and 9-11, you have planetary support for creative, romantic, and partnering efforts. You can get a whole lot done with a lover or partner now, and artistic projects get off the ground as well. Relationships are exciting and active - working with others is favored right now, but so is doing fun, invigorating, and educational things with a partner or close friend. This is an adventurous time, so take advantage. While the second half of December is likely to be considerably less bold, it remains spirited in a quieter way.
The Gemini Full Moon on the 13th pulls your attention to networking, group activities, and sharing. This lunation is particularly illuminating, as it connects with many other areas of your chart, revealing how important reaching out to others is to getting almost all of your projects off the ground.
Partnerships are of particular importance this month. You begin the month with an assertive, active approach to your one-on-one relationships, but by the 7th, you're in a more compromising and yielding position. While Venus and Mars don't officially meet in your partnership sector this month, they both spend time there, enlivening your relationships and one-to-one dealings in December.
Mars moves into your zone of transformation and intimacy on the 19th, and this can heat up close relationships. It can also inspire you to take action on securing financial support. With increasing emphasis on your work and health sector, this can also push you to make deep, lasting lifestyle changes, perhaps through quitting a bad habit. It's important to look to the past for answers, possibly reviving an old health program that worked for you in the past, but that you have since strayed from. This is because Mercury turns retrograde in your work and health sector, also on the 19th. This retrograde will continue until January 8th and is a good time to look back, edit, and revise. Entirely new programs may need to wait until January for a launch date, however.
There is a new influence introduced this month and sticks with you for most of the coming year. During this supportive trend, you'll be actively turning your ideas into concrete realities. You might uncover the right resources to build a business or project that you love. Teaching may be part of this, and a creative project or endeavor can thrive as you develop your craft or techniques. You can make recent wanderlust work for you, for example, by traveling for business. Increased self-discipline helps improve critical areas of your life. Teaching and publishing can be especially strong areas for expressing yourself now and in the coming year. To get the ball rolling, look for ways to change the way you balance dealing with your daily affairs and pursuing more adventurous activities. In the second half of the month, it becomes clear that you need to free yourself up by cutting out certain frivolous activities in order to concentrate on what truly excites, supports, and invigorates you.
The 26-29 is important for looking at a work or health matter in a new light. It’s better to think about what you can do to improve and tweak current projects and ideas than for starting all-new ones, but your thinking is sharp now. Set intentions at the New Moon on the 29th. The last few days of the month/year inspire your imagination, intuition, and dreams, setting the stage for brilliant visions of where you'd like to head in the New Year.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Leo in 2016.
Leo (Born August 13 to 22)
AND Leo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Leo:
December 2016 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
December 2016 |
Overview.
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until December 11th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fourth house. This is a period of recharge, of getting in touch with your innermost feelings, of connecting with your roots, and of spending more time and energy on home and family. Home and family matters capture your attention and are a strong source of pride now. It's a time when worldly matters are not as important to you.
Use this energy to find ways to improve your family relations and your home environment. During this heart-warming cycle, you would do best to allow yourself to explore your inner needs so that you can nurture yourself and others in a healthy, growth-oriented manner, in preparation for more outgoing times to come.
From December 12th forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar fifth house now. After a period of "nesting", you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively. This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks. You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies. Pleasure and amusement play an important role in your search for freedom of self-expression now. Show off your best colors!
You want others to take notice, and you are more sensitive to whether people appreciate you. More than any time of the year, this is the cycle in which you focus on having fun, enjoying romance, and expressing yourself creatively. Your hobbies, leisure time, moments spent with children, gaming time, and so forth, all come into focus at this time of year.
This is a cycle in which you find joy in expressing who you are--when your "inner child" comes out to play. This is a time when you are more flirtatious than usual, and when you might take a few risks in life--not only gambling with games but with life itself. You might be a bit of a showman at this time. You are likely feeling good in general, and you tend to spread the joy.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until December 25th:
Venus continues to move through your solar sixth house now. This is a time when beautifying and/or bringing harmony to your working environment is a priority to you. You might find more opportunities to socialize with co-workers, perhaps even meeting a new friend through your work or health routines. You are likely to bring more tact and diplomacy to your relations with the people you work with now. You may not be as productive as usual during this period, as the focus is more on social relationships and pleasure than on getting the job done. Improving health and vitality through pleasurable activities such as massage might be in focus now.
From December 25th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
This month:
Mercury continues to transit your solar fifth house. Increased communication with children, romantic partners, and people who share the same hobbies as you can occur now. Certainly, you are thinking about these people and about love and romance, child rearing, and/or creative pursuits more than usual. Mental exercises and competitions can be particularly enjoyable now. You express yourself with warmth and creativity, and you have an appreciative "audience" for your ideas now.
Mercury is retrograde from December 19th to January 8th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar fifth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to matters surrounding romance, children, and creativity. Be as non-judgmental as you can with romantic partners and your children, if applicable. Re-thinking the suitability of your romantic relationships is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. There may be the need to revisit old issues with your children or lover, or there could be some communication problems with the same. Arguments with a lover may be blown out of proportion far too easily. Both you and your lover should avoid harping on the words used and try to get to the meaning behind the words instead. Or, a romance may not be moving forward in obvious ways. It might seem like stagnation, but it's actually a period of review and rest. Other possibilities include calls that are not returned, a lover is late for a date, or dates get cancelled. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now. It's probably not the best time to launch a new creative project, but it's a good time for reworking an existing one. Same goes for romance! Things will change after Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with romantic partners, and children; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until December 6th:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar sixth house. Energy and initiative for work, health, and other daily activities increase. You are self-motivated when it comes to these matters. If there are disagreements and disputes that erupt on the job now, they may be due to a feeling of stress or impatience, or they could come from your desire to get things done independently. It's best to apply energy productively to completing projects that are unfinished or even to get ahead of yourself. It's a strong period for feeling motivated for starting a new health or fitness routine.
From December 6th forward:
Mars energizes and animates your solar seventh house. Partnerships may suffer from ego conflicts, or opposition from others may be challenging. Use the extra energy that Mars brings to this sector of your chart to work cooperatively on relationship problems. You may even find that you seem to need someone's help in order to do what you want to do during this cycle. Relationships are vivacious and dynamic during this period. When a difference arises, you are quick to settle it, and have little patience for sweeping matters under the rug. Your close personal relationships are lively during this cycle--full of conflicts and resolutions or reconciliations.
Overview Horoscope:
The first half of December is encouraging for creative communications projects, collaborations, and making exciting connections, dear Leo. Particularly on the 1st, 6th, and 9-11, you have planetary support for creative, romantic, and partnering efforts. You can get a whole lot done with a lover or partner now, and artistic projects get off the ground as well. Relationships are exciting and active - working with others is favored right now, but so is doing fun, invigorating, and educational things with a partner or close friend. This is an adventurous time, so take advantage. While the second half of December is likely to be considerably less bold, it remains spirited in a quieter way.
The Gemini Full Moon on the 13th pulls your attention to networking, group activities, and sharing. This lunation is particularly illuminating, as it connects with many other areas of your chart, revealing how important reaching out to others is to getting almost all of your projects off the ground.
Partnerships are of particular importance this month. You begin the month with an assertive, active approach to your one-on-one relationships, but by the 7th, you're in a more compromising and yielding position. While Venus and Mars don't officially meet in your partnership sector this month, they both spend time there, enlivening your relationships and one-to-one dealings in December.
Mars moves into your zone of transformation and intimacy on the 19th, and this can heat up close relationships. It can also inspire you to take action on securing financial support. With increasing emphasis on your work and health sector, this can also push you to make deep, lasting lifestyle changes, perhaps through quitting a bad habit. It's important to look to the past for answers, possibly reviving an old health program that worked for you in the past, but that you have since strayed from. This is because Mercury turns retrograde in your work and health sector, also on the 19th. This retrograde will continue until January 8th and is a good time to look back, edit, and revise. Entirely new programs may need to wait until January for a launch date, however.
There is a new influence introduced this month and sticks with you for most of the coming year. During this supportive trend, you'll be actively turning your ideas into concrete realities. You might uncover the right resources to build a business or project that you love. Teaching may be part of this, and a creative project or endeavor can thrive as you develop your craft or techniques. You can make recent wanderlust work for you, for example, by traveling for business. Increased self-discipline helps improve critical areas of your life. Teaching and publishing can be especially strong areas for expressing yourself now and in the coming year. To get the ball rolling, look for ways to change the way you balance dealing with your daily affairs and pursuing more adventurous activities. In the second half of the month, it becomes clear that you need to free yourself up by cutting out certain frivolous activities in order to concentrate on what truly excites, supports, and invigorates you.
The 26-29 is important for looking at a work or health matter in a new light. It’s better to think about what you can do to improve and tweak current projects and ideas than for starting all-new ones, but your thinking is sharp now. Set intentions at the New Moon on the 29th. The last few days of the month/year inspire your imagination, intuition, and dreams, setting the stage for brilliant visions of where you'd like to head in the New Year.
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