Your December 2025 horoscope has arrived! Now, a lot was rearranged under November’s skies, which was mostly owing to a chaotic Mercury Retrograde that asked us to dig deeper beneath the mess. As we emerge from this pocket of brief turmoil, there is probably more clarity now heading into December regarding the obstacles that still lay ahead, as well as real potential solutions we can try. However, the tension between hope and nihilism is real. A herd of planets in Sagittarius galloping into the first part of the month reflects our enthusiasm and desire to forge ahead, but they must all face off with Saturn and Neptune, which are both currently plucking the string of despair in the collective. In particular, Mars square Saturn on December 8 finds us running into obstacles we underestimated in our arrogance, as well as confronting a less tangible crisis of faith regarding whether the thing we’re trying to do is even possible. However, Mars enters Capricorn on December 15, and this will only deepen our resolve to persevere and refuse to be intimidated by the mountain we need to climb.
It may also feel as though we’re being presented with a choice this month: stay the same, or change forever? Some of us may literally be weighing two or more potential timelines, and the decisions we make in December will feel consequential enough to nudge our destiny in one direction or another. No pressure though. It’s just old stories collapsing and resolving as we stand on the threshold of a brand new world.
From a frequent flier’s window seat point of view, December’s skies are much more manageable than November’s. With Mercury now direct, we’re returning to “business as usual” when it comes to ease of movement, more or less (the space weather around December 8, 10, and 30 could present as frustrating for travelers, give or take a day or two). Rather than assume the stance of an agitated desk agent coping with your canceled reservations, ride into your next adventure like Indiana Jones, eager for the next challenge. Hell, go horseback riding. Does Indiana Jones avoid the mountain just because he’ll need to dodge some tumbling boulders along the way? No, and you, too, may feel more emboldened this month to go where a more timid version of you would not have gone before.
Astrologer’s note: Below we refer to your signs as “rising” signs, also known as your ascendant sign. Horoscopes are more accurate when read this way—using your birth time and location, you can quickly find your rising sign online (it takes less than 30 seconds).
Lin Chen
Aries Rising
So your original vision was compromised. Is that a reason to give up on the adventure altogether? Even if you messed up en route to your ecotourism stay, the town where the Uber left you instead has its own gifts to offer. Still, there’s that small matter of finding a new way to the next stop. As you begin to course-correct after the mess that Mercury Retrograde left last month, there is still the question of proceeding on your journey and dealing with the obstacle course you can’t sidestep. Whether you’re far from home and in a small bit of a pickle or you’re troubleshooting your way through the bureaucracy of academia, you can move into this month with the assurance that it’ll all get figured out eventually, but now is not the time to bypass the friction.
Said friction will probably peak in the first week of the month, in the days leading up to Mars forming a square with Saturn on December 8. There could be literal roadblocks preventing you from moving as freely as you’d like across national borders, as well as a certain kind of spiritual exhaustion that feels like teen angst on an existential level. And you’d probably love to be able to wave it off like that, but it’s actually pretty serious, even if you’re using humor to cope. The good news is that that dead weight in your spirit that’s been laying there like a soggy blanket is moving closer to resolution, and maybe this is just you hitting that critical point where you get tired enough of your own BS to move out of freeze mode and stop indulging the part of you that wants to hide and mope.
