12/20/2025
"In the Northern Hemisphere, December tends to be one of the coldest months of the year. For most of us, its weather is better suited for bundling up in front of the fire with cocoa, safe and warm, than for taking off into the unknown. Even our winter holidays shine with a slightly desperate brightness, their songs and parties a kind of spiritual CPR meant to coax us into staying alive through the long, cold season.
Perhaps it's the faint karmic memory of some recent Scorpio lifetime, but Sagittarius is better equipped than most to handle Decemberâs cold, dark solitude. He doesnât scare easily. He is exhilarated and dizzied by the long, dark nights; their stars are proxies for the faraway lands he may never see, silent and twinkling assurances that no matter how much of the world he explores, there will always be new lands waiting to be discovered.
At the Winter Solstice, the Sun enters Capricorn and its lowest point in the midday sky. The calendar year is almost finished, and we begin to plot our resolutions for the new one that lies ahead. But at the Sagittarius New Moon (Dec. 19, 2025, 5:43 pm PST, 28Âș24â Sagittarius), weâre not yet ready for resolutions; weâre still exploring possibilities. We stand beside a frozen lake in the flat, white winter light, wearing a scarf knitted for us by some tender, Cancerian sort of person, pondering questions big and small.
What happens after we die? What happens if we forget to live? Overhead, a few straggling winter birds fly in formation; we wonder where theyâll end up, and whether it might be worth following them on their journey.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, December tends to be one of the coldest months of the year. For most of us, its weather is better suited for bundling up in front of the fire with cocoa, safe and warm, than for taking off into the unknown. Even our winter holidays shine with a slightly desperate brightness, their songs and parties a kind of spiritual CPR meant to coax us into staying alive through the long, cold season.
Perhaps it's the faint karmic memory of some recent Scorpio lifetime, but Sagittarius is better equipped than most to handle Decemberâs cold, dark solitude. He doesnât scare easily. He is exhilarated and dizzied by the long, dark nights; their stars are proxies for the faraway lands he may never see, silent and twinkling assurances that no matter how much of the world he explores, there will always be new lands waiting to be discovered.
At the Winter Solstice, the Sun enters Capricorn and its lowest point in the midday sky. The calendar year is almost finished, and we begin to plot our resolutions for the new one that lies ahead. But at the Sagittarius New Moon (Dec. 19, 2025, 5:43 pm PST, 28Âș24â Sagittarius), weâre not yet ready for resolutions; weâre still exploring possibilities. We stand beside a frozen lake in the flat, white winter light, wearing a scarf knitted for us by some tender, Cancerian sort of person, pondering questions big and small. What happens after we die? What happens if we forget to live? Overhead, a few straggling winter birds fly in formation; we wonder where theyâll end up, and whether it might be worth following them on their journey.
Read more: https://buff.ly/m6Bb0Bm
