Dear Taurus, December is set to be a month of profound personal growth, deepened relationships, and exciting new opportunities. The stars align to bring a mix of introspection and outward exploration, making it a dynamic period for you. Passion, intimacy, partnership, learning, friendship, and adventure take center stage, offering you areas of increased focus and opportunity.
You can easily become absorbed in your private life this month, dear Taurus, and relationships smooth over and deepen. Research and strategy are also key themes this month.
Key Dates and Their Impact
Full Moon on the 4th
The Full Moon on the 4th brings your attention to a money matter or your resources. It’s a time for recognizing your needs, and with more clarity about your feelings, you’ll have a better idea of your next step. Opportunities to advance business and financial goals can arise now.
Neptune Direct on the 10th
Neptune turns direct on the 10th, and in the coming weeks, you’re building your faith in your friendships, goals, and alliances. Even so, you feel less as if you are in limbo and more confident about where to put your trust. You might hear from a friend after a long absence or pick up an old project and begin reworking it.
New Moon on the 19th
With the power of the New Moon on the 19th, you might make a lifestyle change or an otherwise empowering move.
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Mars, Sun, and Venus in Harmony
The landscape changes significantly as December progresses. Mars moves into harmony with your sign and into your spirit sector on the 15th, and the Sun and Venus follow suit on the 21st and 24th, respectively. Mercury will enter this area of your solar chart on January 1st. As such, your desire to make exciting connections increases, and your passion for a new idea, subject, course of study, or travel destination can come into the spotlight in the second half of the month. You’re ready to share your enthusiasm with others, and you’re more experimental, spontaneous, and adventurous than usual. You're likely to connect with the spirit and motivation to embark on interesting adventures.
Love and Relationships
Feelings are more intense than usual this month, but not uncomfortably so. In fact, you are more willing to explore your deeper emotions and desires. Love can be complicated and mysterious. By the last week of the month, your love life is more straightforward, and you express your feelings unreservedly.
Relationship dynamics and negotiations are likely to improve this month. You can resolve emotional predicaments, or, if not fix, find peace with your problems. You might decide to share a burden or secret with a trusted person or find some other form of satisfying release for issues that have been weighing you down.
Finances and Career
Nevertheless, there is much activity and concern in the areas of shared finances, emotional and financial support, and intimate matters, and complications can sometimes arise. Still, it's an excellent period for resolving to clear up debts and getting started on a new and improved financial plan. Opportunities to advance business and financial goals can arise now.
Personal Growth and Well-being
Travel, higher education, cultural events, and other experiences that broaden your horizons are in high focus from the middle of December onward. Until then, you’re more confident in your private feelings and needs, as well as in close relationships.
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Buried anger or resentment can sometimes emerge when least expected. You are more intense in your mood and disposition, and perhaps even secretive, at this time of year. You are more in touch with the deeper and even primal elements of your own personality, and more able to see these things in others. This can be a determined and personally powerful time of year if you apply the energy of this transit constructively.
Specific Time Frames
Until December 21st
The Sun continues to highlight your solar eighth house. Your attention turns inward, as well as to close personal relationships on a deeper level. Personal transformations, personal power, and intimate matters fulfill you most during this cycle. There may be a strong focus on other's money, such as the resources of a partner, inheritance, banking and loans, or taxes.
From December 21st Forward
This month, with the Sun spotlighting your solar ninth house, your focus turns outward, away from the more personal concerns that have occupied your thoughts in the last months. More than any other time during the year, you are feeling most adventurous and willing to take a leap of faith. This is a cycle in which you seek a higher meaning to your life, and/or seek out new experiences that take you beyond the here and now, and beyond the mundane details of day-to-day life. Anything that broadens your experiences attracts now. A lack of superficiality finds you straight to the point, interested in the truth of things. It would be wise for you to consider scheduling a vacation, adventure of sorts, or a course that expands your mind. These don't have to happen now, but taking the time to recognize your needs for escaping the daily grind, taking a few risks, and feeding your spirit for self-expression through some form of adventure or higher learning, will help you to feel good about yourself.
From the 1st to 24th
Venus continues to move through your solar eighth house during this period. You are attracted to the deeper elements of relationships and social interactions now, rather than what you meet on the surface. Mysteries fascinate you and you could be looking for others' motives for doing and saying what they do. It's a good time to feel supported by others, whether it's financially or emotionally.
From the 24th Forward
Venus graces your solar ninth house during this period. A taste for the exotic takes hold during this cycle. Routine affairs simply don't seem to satisfy. You receive pleasure from anything that expands your horizons, both physically and mentally. Foreign people and places may particularly appeal now. You tend to be expansive and generous when it comes to love. A love interest who attracts you during this cycle may be somebody who you previously wouldn't consider attractive, or someone whose cultural background is very different than yours. You have a taste for the exotic and the spirit to match. Public relations work, promotion, and other such endeavors are favored now. It is more about how you express yourself than the specifics of what you are saying that helps sway others to your position. There could be especial rapport with foreigners and with women if you are traveling during this period. You are all the more attractive and charming with this position, which increases your popularity. If a romance were to begin now, it is more likely to be with someone of a different background or educational level, or someone you meet through travel.
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Until the 11th
Mercury continues to transit your solar seventh house. You can be especially aware of your "audience" in your communications now, which tend to be diplomatic and respectful during this cycle. You may be encountering an especially chatty or communicative partner, or meeting youthful, talkative people. At this time, you love to hear others' opinions and perspectives, and it's an excellent time to do so. Others can spur on your own thinking and decision making processes now, simply by offering another perspective.
From the 11th Forward
Mercury transits your solar eighth house. You are more intuitive now than usual, picking up all of the hidden cues from people around you and reading between the lines. This is an excellent cycle in which to do some financial planning and strategizing. Research is also highly favored. It's easier for you to approach sensitive, intimate, and personal matters with rationality and logic.
Until the 15th
Mars continues to energize your solar eighth house. This is a less outwardly assertive or aggressive stage for you as you take the time to process recent events in your life and to develop strategies for going after what you want in the future. You are more observant than active during this cycle, and more strategic and deliberate when you do take action. There may be an increase in sexual appetite now. It's an excellent period for eliminating wasteful activities. Shared finances can come into focus, and you might feel an increased need to take charge of these matters.
From the 16th Onward
Mars animates and energizes your solar ninth house. During this period, you are especially enthusiastic and more bold than usual. Some restlessness and hunger for adventure is experienced now. Essentially, you are looking to expand your activities, and you may find that you have a lot of energy for higher studies, travel, or simply new subjects.
Monthly Overview
All month: The Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others' money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life. This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery. All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection. Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic "junk" or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life's secrets. This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year's events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents.
Venus Transit
- Until the 8th: Venus continues her trek through your partnership sector. Meaningful and harmonious relationships--both social and romantic--define you during this cycle, affecting your mind, body, and soul. Financial or social success may come to or through your marriage partner at this time. Special attention to and from a partner is in focus, and flattery works to your advantage! Give to a partner exactly what you would like to receive just now. It's not about you right now--it's about someone else close. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. You have a greater need than usual for contact and exchange with an intimate partner. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship.
- From December 8th onward: Venus graces your solar eighth house now. During this cycle, a financial boost is possible, or you may gain financially through your partner. A deep and intimate connection made now could be revitalizing and even healing. You are more inclined to want to smooth over differences in a partnership concerning the sharing of power, intimacy matters, finances, and other emotionally-charged topics. Intimate relationships are intensified now.
Mercury Transit
- Until the 19th: Mercury continues to transit your solar seventh house. You can be especially aware of your "audience" in your communications now, which tend to be diplomatic and respectful during this cycle. You may be encountering an especially chatty or communicative partner, or meeting youthful, talkative people. At this time, you love to hear others' opinions and perspectives, and it's an excellent time to do so. Others can spur on your own thinking and decision making processes now, simply by offering another perspective.
- From the 19th forward: Mercury transits your solar eighth house. You are more intuitive now than usual.
This December, Taurus, embrace the opportunities for growth, adventure, and deeper connections. Navigate the month with your inherent strength and an open heart.