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Horoscopes for 12-16-2025
Horoscopes for 12-16-2025

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
King in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (III.iii.97-8)
Horoscopes for 12-16-2025
Sun into Cap. 12/21 9:04 AM Moon conjunct Pluto 12/22 at 2:38 PM
Sagittarius
If you can think it, you can be it? Thoughts are as powerful as deeds themselves? Or, in the case of King Hamlet, above in the quotes? He’s stuck in place, kind of a living hell, as he offed his brother, married his sister-in-law, and took over as king. All while leaving a small trail of dead bodies, and that’s only going to get worse before the end of the play. One way to see it? It’s a revenge play. In the middle of a cold winter, why would our good Sagittarius selves be thinking, contemplating, revenge? Mars moves on, and eventually, we have the winter solstice, wherein life begins anew, after that. It’s the lead-up to that, and then times that go before, the stress of the holiday season, family, friends, and current events? Maybe, it’s okay, in a dark moment, to contemplate this.
Capricorn
“Now with dual-action!” I don’t recall, maybe it was detergent or soap. Something like that. The ad’s tagline read, “Now with dual-action!” As if that was some kind of special selling point, the much heralded and vaunted, “dual action.” Why do we want “dual-action” for Capricorn? The notion of purported “duel-action” is what helps power capricious Capricorn through the holiday. Personally, I think the notion of the tagline of “duel-action” was nothing more than a marketing maven’s idea of something that would help sell crap. But whatever works? Works. Besides, we all need to double-down on our efforts, and nothing works better than the “duel action” promised. Good luck. Happy start to a new season for you.¹
Aquarius
Just look at it sideways. Rather simplified way to see the week, weeks ahead, but just look at it sideways, tilt your head to right or the left, whatever feels right at the moment, or perhaps both ways, just to see what fits with my idea. It’s matter of using a different perspective to see this holiday. In the northern hemisphere, this marks the shortest day of the year. Mars, Mercury, Venus are all at points that lend strength to change for Aquarius, and I like to make this change of your own initiation. Start it yourself. The first step in making that change? It’s how you see this new set of issues, the holiday challenges, and how you choose to perceive the points ahead. Problems? Possible problems? Possible solution to those problems? Maybe not a problem after all? Sort of depends on how you look at these issues, and the way to see them differently? Look at it sideways, see if that helps.
Pisces
There’s the easy way and there’s the hard way. Or, more in tune with Pisces, there’s an easier route to take, and there’s a more arduous way. Of the two, when faced with similar decisions, in the next few days? The most correct route is not always the easiest. What’s best for nominally gentle Pisces is the most correct way, taking the steps in order, following all of the instructions, not shirking on any duties or side bits that look like they would be easier to avoid. I got it: bywords for this week in Pisces? Avoid avoidance.
Aries
“The truth shall set you free,” that’s how the first part of the quote goes, “but first it will piss you off.” That’s the addendum, the subordinate clause, the kicker to some. “The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off.” I’ve got a source for that version, someplace, and with the wild and wooly web? I’m sure there’s another way to find it. I don’t care, it’s not the location that matters, it’s the sentiment. The idea. Mars moving around is sure to initiate some Aries ire. Like I suggested, piss you off. Hollidays, holiday stress, the fate of the world, any of that, or other sources, as I tend to look heavenward to see what the cause is. Mars. Understanding that it is but a fleeting impact? Knowing that helps keep you a little more cool in the face of what’s ahead. “The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
Taurus
One of the points of intersection, where two, very divergent, lines meet? Either metaphorically, or in my example, quite literally, what I look for? I want to find popular fiction, something typically available as a mass market edition, garish, lurid cover art, that is also well-received in high-brow, academic circles. Hard to find. Not impossible, but I tend to shy way from best-seller lists, and I favor weird, highly rarified circles that cater to my own, offbeat tastes. As a good Taurus, what we’re looking for is that intersection, that point where best-seller status, lurid covers, garish colors, maybe embossed print, where that meets academically sound, well-reasoned, prose that reads like prosody. A ripping good yarn, that also has some depth? Think that’s it. Popular fiction and literary adventure meet in one place. Looking for that kind of an intersection for Taurus.
Gemini
I adore my Gemini friends, but stop telling me what to do. There are two choices, Sign of the Twins, two choices. You can tell me to do it, and I won’t, or you can do it yourself. How badly do you want this done? Fair question. I’ve heard all the excuses, and as a Gemini, your excuses are far more entertaining. But we’ve all heard them before, and we’re tired. Two choices face Gemini, at the start of the week, then as the Sun bumps into a Capricorn heralding the start of the new year, two choices. You can ask me — anyone — to do it. Or? You can do it yourself. Which gets the task finished quicker?
Cancer
The transit of Mars, last week, served as a harbinger of sorts, of what is to come. It’s about a recitation of the sign of the crab, the Cancer energies. Looking for a shift, either subtle change, or, if you ignore the minutiae, there’s a terrible pull, a kind of vacuum that wants to draw you into a rat’s nest of tunnels, blinds, alleyways, and untrodden paths that all lead, well, not nowhere, but not anywhere useful. It’s interesting, I tend to call this “research,” when, in fact, it’s just noodling curiosity, and somewhat perverse at that. At one time, dig through my archives, I used this to help foment linkage that I found interesting. Seemingly random pointers to bizarre places on the web. I’ve gradual curtailed such, because, like I’m suggesting for this week’s Moon Children? Such interests leads to pointless, maybe entertaining, but rather “un-useful” points of data.
The Leo
There was a time when the Dallas Cowboys were a super team, often referred to as “America’s Team.” Bit of hyperbole if you ask me, and no one did. Growing up in the shadow of the team and its history, I heard the term “Hail Mary” as in a Hail Mary pass, and for those formative years, in my upbringing, I thought the “Hail Mary” was a football long-shot. I didn’t think it was even linked to religion, other than football. There was a certain player famous for his Hail Mary, and that’s how I arrived at that erroneous conclusion. In our adult years, I’ve heard my sister use the term slightly differently, “Hail May full of grace, thank you for the parking space.” Then? Boom, a spot to park in her crowded city, she whips right in. In both examples, it’s a long-shot, odds against us, kind of situation, and in the prayer represents an appeal for some divine intervention. When that prayer seems to be answered? That my dear Leo friend, that’s the question, what happens when that prayer is answered and there is the intercession, divinely inspired, that helps?
Virgo
I got a degree in “English.” I spent a few semesters trying to figure out what the deeper significance was to a particular passage or book, or even just lines poetry. Does it mean this, or could it mean that? Valid questions. Hyperbole, it is the holidays, as well as analogies, various memes, and, of course, tropes all play into this week’s Virgo mess. No, you’re not the mess, but trying to figure out what the meaning of a particular image, passage, commentary, or other? Trying to figure out what the symbolic meaning is? Sometimes? Attributed to Sigmund Freud, “Sometimes a cigar is a just a smoke.” Sometimes there’s no hidden meaning to some of this. “I wonder what he means by that?”
Libra
Used this before, and I can’t locate the referent, but I know I used one like this. Almost every home accident occurs at home. I was thinking more along the lines of a simple kitchen chore, chopping, sifting, baking, frying, something easy, and then? nearly 100% of home accidents occurs at home. There’s a point where the process, the job, the task, there’s a hurried nature about what’s happening, and the innate Libra desire to get this done in a quick-like fashion. Get it done quickly. Moving too quickly, though, causes a problem, and that’s when the accidents occur. Slow down, take a beat, or just simply pause. Mars makes this a hurried kind of a deal, and the fastest way to get it done? Slow down to do it. “You’re not making any sense, now hand me that knife.” Still, I stand by my commentary, the quickest way to get this done? Slow down. Don’t hand the Scorpio a knife.
Scorpio
The wrath of a Scorpio is a well-documented emotional outburst. It is long-term, enduring, and usually quite painful. The problem being, the pain inflicted also hurts the person inflicting the pain, or the perceived punishment. The old adage, “This is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you,” sort of applies, but the difficulty lies in the idea that the pain is more equally distributed. One of the Scorpio friends, one of us turns around, and there’s a series of concentric circles painted on our backs, and being a good Scorpio, you look down and there’s a large Bowie Knife in your hand. You mutter something like, “You really shouldn’t give me such an inviting target.” Up to you what to do, but I suggest resisting temptation. But that’s just my suggestion. You do what you have to do, Scorpio.
“You do you.”
Nota Bene: Please don’t remind me about the parable of the Scorpion and the Frog.
1. “Don’t you mean ‘dual action’?” No, I like my version better, “duel action.” ↩