{"id":165332,"date":"2024-12-01T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/?p=165332"},"modified":"2024-12-01T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:14:04","slug":"december-2024-horoscopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/december-2024-horoscopes\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2024 Horoscopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Russian folklore, the heroine Vasilisa the Wise (or, the Beautiful, in some tellings) is sent to gather fire from the ancient and fearsome forest witch Baba Yaga, who invites the young Vasilisa into her famously chicken-legged home to gift the inexperienced maiden a flaming skull of wisdom. After many bizarre and tumultuous trials, that is. Looking at <strong>December&#8217;s astrology<\/strong> is like assessing Vasilisa\u2019s fairytale tribulations, full of the delicacies of <strong>managing fire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Truth-seeking<\/strong> is the foundation of the month\u2019s unfolding, established by a <strong>Sagittarius New Moon<\/strong> on <strong>December 1st<\/strong>. Whether warmed by the glow of truth or burnt by its ruthlessness, the images and illusions revealed carry long shadows. Our internal fire becomes unpredictable when <strong>Mars turns retrograde<\/strong> on <strong>December 6th<\/strong>, ushering a period of strange focus and exhaustion lasting through February 2025. You may feel totally extinguished in one area of life as a savage and destructive burn consumes you in another. The only reasonable response is <strong>surrendering to the flames<\/strong> as the forest to a wildfire. Sitting it out in physical solitude and brisk workouts can be reasonable responses to a Martian temper tantrum, which almost always carries a somatic weight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mercury stations direct<\/strong> on <strong>December 15th<\/strong>, working out a knot in the month\u2019s strained muscular system. A <strong>Gemini Full Moon<\/strong> occurs on the same day, lending dynamism to thought essential for problem-solving and logical empathy. A second New Moon in the month\u2014commonly called a \u201c<strong>black moon<\/strong>\u201d\u2014winds down the year on <strong>December 30th<\/strong> in the sign of Capricorn. This is a surprisingly forgiving lunation honoring careful planning and rootedness as the keys to sure-footed success.<\/p>\n<h4>December Legend:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>December 1:<\/strong> New Moon in Sagittarius<br \/>\n<strong>December 6:<\/strong> Mars turns retrograde in Leo<br \/>\n<strong>December 7:<\/strong> Venus enters Aquarius, Neptune turns direct in Pisces<br \/>\n<strong>December 15:<\/strong> Full Moon in Gemini, Mercury turns direct in Sagittarius<br \/>\n<strong>December 21:<\/strong> the Sun enters Capricorn<br \/>\n<strong>December 29:<\/strong> Chiron turns direct in Aries<br \/>\n<strong>December 30:<\/strong> New Moon in Capricorn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Russian folklore, the heroine Vasilisa the Wise (or, the Beautiful, in some tellings) is sent to gather fire from the ancient and fearsome forest witch Baba Yaga, who invites the young Vasilisa into her famously chicken-legged home to gift the inexperienced maiden a flaming skull of wisdom. After many bizarre and tumultuous trials, that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165337,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165332\/revisions\/165337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}