Your Monthly Horoscope​
for December

Work and Health in December

How unusual are December’s work and health trends? Well, Ceres takes about 5 years to show up in this zone of your chart, ruled by Capricorn. The South Node takes 19 years. Jupiter takes 12 years. Saturn takes 29 years. Pluto takes 248 years. A Solar Eclipse isn’t exactly a regular event either.

Your daily workload revolves around your household tasks, from bedroom, to bathroom, to kitchen. It is about your paid work. Your unpaid work (gardening or volunteering your services for nothing). It is also about part-time jobs. Your workload may comprise study, full-time or temporary. The thing is – you need to be fit to do it all.

That is why the Sixth House of your chart, where we now find this historic pile-up in Capricorn, is about both the body and the task. If you are one of those Sun Leo people who also have factors in Virgo in your personal birth chart (you can check if you are a Premium Member) then December will be momentous. A lifestyle change. A workload change, too.

This is one of those cycles when you really have to work out, in order to work. No other way of putting it. And if there is something serious preventing you from working out (not necessarily at the gym – you can swim, dance, walk or run) then December will confront you with that.

Those of you who were in a career in 1989, 1990 will remember why it was a hard slog – how you exercised your way through it – or perhaps were forced to stop, pause and restart after health issues.

Well, you can double that message now. Treble it!

No matter what age you are, or how your life looked in 1989 or 1990 (I have some of my old Teen Vogue readers on here, I know), we are now into serious weather, for your job, your unpaid role, your student commitment – and your wellbeing.

This means mental health (anxiety, depression) as well as your physical condition. If there is a huge disconnect between your body and the rest of you at the moment, it is time to find out what the rest of you is honestly feeling and thinking (deep down) about the tasks, chores and duties of daily life.

It is remarkable how often the specific body part required for a job, is the one that fails to function properly, on a cycle like this. Singers have throat issues. Cooks develop foot problems, because they stand on their feet all day. If this is happening to you, Leo, there can be no more avoidance. It is time to look at the way you work, why you work, how you work – and the details of daily life.

This brings in your food, sleep, relaxation, exercise, prescribed drugs, illegal drugs and alcohol intake. It’s boring, I know, for Leo to have to look at any of these rather mundane and routine matters, but if you are hitting a mountain to climb this Christmas, the astrology would advise you to look at your work.

In astrology, there is no difference at all between your service to other people (or even the household cat or dog) and your service to yourself – your soul or spirit. If what you are required to do, every single day of the working week, does not serve your inner core or essence, then it is not unusual for the body to call a halt, or for common mental health issues to make going on…difficult.

The Bigger Picture – Corporate, Government, Business Trends

The bigger picture for your paid job(s) especially is – the whole planet. You don’t live in a vacuum and this historic sweep of not only Pluto, but also Saturn, Ceres, the South Node, Venus, Apollo, Jupiter and an Eclipse is really about global leadership. The system.

The astrologer Dennis Elwell wrote  The Cosmic Loom (Unwin Hyman, London 1987) when Neptune was in Capricorn. He was famous as both an author, writer and accurate forecaster. He wrote, back then – about the late 1980s – “The message of Neptune in this sign (Capricorn) to governments, administrations, and all large organisations, is: Aim for a higher level of responsibility and integrity, because if you don’t, there is no power on earth which will enable you to plug all the holes…”

This is a time of reckoning, as so many planets cross through Capricorn and trigger past karma. Leo, you are going to end the year, and begin 2020, with a whole host of resignations, sackings, retirements, promotions, new appointments, mergers and collapses affecting your world. Perhaps, your own office.

The real hope here is Jupiter. In fact, when your ruler the Sun forms a conjunction to Jupiter on 27th December, just after Boxing Day, you could hear about an award, acceptance into a course, promotion, amazing opportunity, prestigious work invitation or similar. Perhaps – a victory for you, as a reward for all the days you have spent slogging in 2019. This is your rather late Christmas present from Jupiter.

Congratulations on Surviving 2019

Congratulations on surviving 2019. Now comes the detox and the repair work. That will take you all of next year to complete. I have lost count of the awful stories shared with me, by Leo readers.

You have been dealing with the most unprofessional people in the world, it seems. Many of them were actually born with Neptune in Capricorn (in the 1990’s – so they are in their twenties now). They have already received their karma, or will do so, in 2020.

Why are so many Neptune in Capricorn people impossible for you to work with right now? They call them Millennials, but actually the truth is – they are Generation Capricorn.

Perhaps you are one yourself and have twenty something colleagues who you find very hard to take. Well, that’s no surprise. Neptune is about delusion, confusion and sometimes outright deception. In Capricorn (career, social climbing, success) you can end up with colleagues, clients or employers with serious reality problems, at work.

Barack Obama is a Leo like you. As I write this prediction for you in October, he has challenged ‘woke’ culture and also ‘cancel’ culture. He is talking about people in their twenties, here. He has a huge problem with the way Generation Capricorn goes about things, especially online. And it spills into work practise. The rules. The system. Service! Professionalism.

Perhaps you have been hired to work for/with these people and then seem them cancel. Or fail to pay. Or fail to show up. Or do their jobs properly. 2019 has really been that kind of year.

People in their twenties (Generation Capricorn) are cheap to pay. Expensive to educate and train. They are hired en masse because they make the wheels go round for less investment, but eventually we hit a cycle like the one you are experiencing now, and…

Leo and the Working World

A central question for you now, never mind the mess and muddle of Generation Capricorn within a corporation, or business, or government – is, how do you make your work, actually work for you? You have basically put your head down and charged, in 2019. You had to, because you were in one of the toughest cycles for your daily routine, lifestyle, job and particularly your health – in years. Depending on your personal chart it may even have brought you to your knees.

Now, no more excuses. You have some time off in December and January. (Or you should!) Use this period to look at your competitors. See where the marketplace is moving to. Look at the hours you spend every day, week, month – and how efficient you are. Are you getting bang for your buck with the effort you put in, or are you wasting your energy when you could be pouring it into a far more lucrative role?

This goes all the way to housework, cooking, cleaning and gardening. Specific dates to avoid here include the eclipse, as you won’t see what you need to see. You won’t have the information you require. Try to avoid dramatic decisions or big judgement calls, please, when your ruler the Sun is involved in this blackout. It takes place on December 26th, Boxing Day. This is also the time you will be aware that there is a lot of rumbling in the jungle, as the drums beat out the gossip about your employers, staff, colleagues, competitors or clients. Avoid the eclipse to assess!

Workaholism and Hypochondria

Sometimes we see a cycle like this, at the end of a hard year, and also find workaholism in the horoscope, or hypochondria. Have a look at how you handle the 9 to 5 (has it become bent out of shape?) but also your interest in your own symptoms, Leo. It’s not inevitable on a Sixth House transit like this, but it can show up.

Doing Your Duty – Being of Service

This is going to take a tremendous amount of effort, Leo, but shortly after the very first aspect Jupiter in Capricorn makes (Jupiter conjuncts Apollo on December 9th) you can do it. Finally, you will have support, backing and light at the end of the tunnel.

Jupiter tends to bring all the rubbish to the surface, so that a deep clean can begin, followed by new growth. This happens to you in connection with your workload and your body in January. The earliest glimpse is around December 9th.

Your central question should be about how you feel – about serving. You were not born to serve. You were born to lead. You have been jammed into a very tight, difficult cycle for well over a year now, where others call the shots and you are supposed to turn up with a napkin over your arm.

It is tremendously important that you respect, like and understand the person/people you serve. That you really mean it, for all the right reasons. That you also feel more than satisfied with the way you are served, in terms of time off, time out and the money. You need that to supply yourself with what your body needs, to run. With all that your mind needs, to stay calm.

This delicate, delicate balance is what December is here to address. If you have been looking the other way; too busy to even take stock; too tired to even do the research – you now have time.

Look, you’re going to see a change in the balance of power in your profession, field, business or industry within eight weeks. You need to be absolutely sure of what you want to do with your skills, qualifications and abilities in 2020 – and why – so you can jump straight into the vacant spaces left by others, for particular projects, roles or goals. Being match-fit is mandatory. January 1st, 2020 will be so much more than yet another New Year’s Resolution for you, because you have simply never had this kind of pile-up in your zone of mental health and physical fitness before.

If ever there was a time to look for alternatives and non-mainstream options for your body and mind, this is it. Once Jupiter changes signs as December begins, the horizons expand and 2020 offers so very much more than the last website you looked at, ever told you. First, though, look at why you serve!

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