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Horoscopes for 12-23-2025
Horoscopes for 12-23-2025

“With him; I will keep still with my philosopher.”
Lear in Shakespeare’s King Lear III.iv.106-7
Horoscopes for 12-23-2025
Venus into Cap. 12/24 10:26 AM
Capricorn
How much do you participate and how much do you just sit back and observe? Looking at Mars, Venus, the rapid onset of Mercury still lagging behind in Sagittarius, there’s a suggestion, birthdays and all? Holiday season? The question is about participation versus observation. As the rest of the crap unfurls and the unfolds, and finally, becomes a kind of lunacy? How much do you want to participate, and how much better is it if you just sit, off to one side, and observe? Hint: with a phone out, you can say you’re about to take some pictures when you’re actually doomscrolling news feeds. No one has to know, and that answers the question, how much do you participate and how much do you observe?
Aquarius
It was some years ago, I saw one version of King Lear that really moved me. The kid, and I use that term pejoratively, playing Lear was amazing, and I doubt he was old enough to drink. Young student, but the role was so well-wrought, I was there. I was with the actor as he descended into madness, as wandered the blasted heath in the thunderstorm. At the end? It is titled The Tragedy of King Lear, so in that final act, when it doesn’t end well? I was tearful, maybe even cried, surprised at the outcome. The play is over 400 years old, can’t say I didn’t know how it was going to end. But the performance was what made it for me, the skill, heart, soul of a single actor. Some days, we need the catharsis of tragedy to see the hope for our future. Through the sadness, effectively performed on stage, we can live out the pain and find hope. That’s what this message is about. Sorry for the little tangent, Aquarius, but that happens when I’m looking for a quote to catch this week’s energies.
Pisces
Raised by nominal anglophiles, ‘Boxing Day’ wasn’t really a family tradition, but one I was raised with a notation, every year, the day after Xmas. Likewise, for this week, for Pisces, the day after Xmas is when it gets all better. There’s a subtle strength, a simple move, just another kind of relief that gets spelled out, and that doesn’t happen until ‘Boxing Day,’ the day after Xmas proper. I even went so far a to make sure I used the Commonwealth’s punctuation for ‘Boxing Day,’ rather than the universal American symbols. Call it what you want, the day after Xmas, suddenly, the perfect Pisces pathway becomes clear, clean and uncluttered. Fewer problems if you just wait until then.
Aries
Used it before, and I’ll use it again, as I’ve been through exactly what you’re going through. There is a fine line between “bat-crap crazy” and “super-nova brilliance.” I tend to dance across that line, fall into the pit of being too smart, then, with an offhand comment, get dumped back into the category of “nuts.” Which, to be fair, might really fit. I know this. I admit it. Brilliance and crazy burn brightly, right next to each other. Sometimes, the differences between the two is indistinguishable. Sometimes, they look exactly alike. Sometimes, though, this comes across as just plain crazy. I’ll wear it. Worked for me. Here’s how to work this, Aries dear, here’s what to do: shrug. it’s the holidays. The madness might not be noticed. It’s the holidays and you might just be a little crazy from “stuff that is going on,” and as such? The “crazy” is explained away. Besides, there is always that thin line between crazy and brilliant, and might as well dance along the edge.
Taurus
“Weird flex, but okay.” Individually, I don’t know what that will be. Individually, I don’t know exactly how this shows up. Collectively? “Weird flex, but okay.” That’s the term. That’s the sentiment. That’s the feeling. It’s not the usual route you would take. It’s not the normal way to show your quiet, Taurus strength. It’s not the way I would do this. Well, maybe I would, but I doubt it. However, when it’s over, and we’re fully into Capricorn season, what you’ll hear? “Weird flex, but okay.” I know this one: it’s quite all right to be known as a little weird.
Gemini
There was a kind of pizza I was raised on, a kind that I recall from early childhood as being the best. It was the only, and I got lucky because it was rather good. It was thin crust, some Italian name here, with a rich sauce and then long, little anchovies. It was the anchovies that made it. I like anchovies. I like them in part, because of the pizza, but over the years, and much to the chagrin of pizza drivers, family, lovers, and friends, I still adore that on pizza. I refined my tastes a little, and I added jalapeños to that favorite pizza, and then, no one wants to sit next to me. But this isn’t about my journey with pizza, it’s about yours. Favorite, earliest, best-to-date? What is it for Gemini?
Cancer
“Where did I leave that?” The image that comes to mind is an animatronic squirrel, in a hollow tree, with the inside of that tree covered with post-it notes, detailing to location of every buried nut. The inside shot of the tree? The entire interior is covered with those post-it notes. While I doubt that there’s a forgetful nature to the gentle Moon Children, the sign of the crab, Cancer, there’s always the planetary crush of the season, and that causes momentary lapses in memory. Not to worry about it, not if you put a post-it on the wall, just to remind you. Or whatever memory trick you use. I tend to favor old envelopes and notebooks, but I’m not a squirrel nor a Cancer.
The Leo
I have a couple of Xmas shirts. Handy to pull out and wear for this season. Nothing extravagant, well, there is one that is a priceless Santa-bowling grinch-type shirt, with an implied message about naughty girls being desirable, but I try to steer clear of the implications or possible lack of taste. Besides, with that one shirt, my hair covers much of imagery on the back, so it’s not very visible. Other than that one shirt, though, the rest are the usual, Santa and sleigh bells, and similar images. It’s broad, generic imagery and it fits with my personal style as much as I have any kind of a personal style. It works. Any good Leo has a much more refined sense of style, but there’s an homage to the unrequited love of the tasteless that helps with this holiday merriment. I know, for the Leo? How about an Xmas shirt with T-Rex wearing a Santa hat?
Virgo
It was shading and pencil-like cross-hatch pattern. Simple coloring done with a graphite-based instrument. Again, the grey suggested to my untutored eye, a pencil. Simple enough. But the shading, the delicate cross hatch, all the lines going one way were just a touch thicker, seemed heavier, than the lines going at an acute angle, and it seemed like the lines going to the other way were lighter. This added a more nuanced effect to the image. It wasn’t even the focal point, more like background. But the background is important, and what’s in the Virgo background is important, and can be, should be, nuanced, carefully crafted, and sort of linear. It’s the “sort of linear” line that I wanted to make sure you got. That implies it goes in a straight line from here, or wherever you start, to wherever it is you’re going, that very Virgo destination. Think linear, then look back realize I was also describing a grey-scale, shading, crosshatch type of image as well. Still linear in my non–Virgo mind.
Libra
That’s what it said on the website: that might not reflect reality. Of course, I have my own versions of similar terms of service, the fineprint, and the disclaimers. Two pieces, actually, two planets, well, one is a planet and one is a star, but the two astrological elements that play into Libra holiday, Mars and the Sun, both in Capricorn? Those two bring to mind the notion that one should’ve read all the fine print, all the terms, and understand the instructions before attempting to assemble the project. Before undertaking the task at hand for Libra, read all the instructions, read all the fine print, and make sure we all understand what’s about to happen. What could go wrong? My favorite is, “Skip this step, and it falls apart.” Mars — and the Sun — hasten matters along. Creates a false urgency that might, or might not, really be there. Getting too hurried results in more errors, or skipping a crucial step. Remember what it said on the website: that might not reflect reality.
Scorpio
I got a buddy, about as long lasting of friend as there’s ever been, and he — and his wife — they like wine. Connoisseurs, knows the difference between the various estates and flavors, enjoys the good stuff, looking for the inexpensive yet delicious bottles. Knows his way around a good cellar. Not being much of a drinking man these days, I don’t do the wine thing, but I was looking for a common ground with my buddy. I found it in coffee. In the same way he approaches the various vintages of wine, especially the French wine — he did a tour of duty in France — I can answer some of the questions about coffee beans, recognizing the flavors, locations, altitude, and soil patterns. It’s very similar, and this is where we find common ground. As the holiday unfolds, the beginning of Capricorn, Xmas, and all of that noise? Find those common grounds.
Sagittarius
What is it with writers and guitars? Me? Not an issue. I don’t have a guitar, although, years distant, I had a guitar case, but that was a visual allusion to certain cult film. Not many people got the joke. What I noticed from various feeds, a number of writers would have guitars in the background, an office affectation, a source of solace, a diversion. I’m not sure. One editor I worked with used drumsticks, and tapped away on the desktop when brainstorming, and therein, tenuous that it might be, was the connection to writers and guitars. I think. I might have this wrong. I’m not a frustrated musician, I know what I can and can’t do, and one of the pieces missing from much of the horoscopic outlook? Sagittarius is best served by embracing our limitations. I mean, I could get a guitar, but I’m not sure I would even know how to hold it.