December 20-27, 2024

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston

Underlying Theme for All the Signs: Is it really so much that you prefer to keep your own company, or that you’ve built a barrier to keep you safe from outside harm? While disciplined self-reliance is key, if you keep protecting yourself from being hurt, you’ll stop the possibility of experiencing an intimate, life-enhancing, sacred relationship. Perhaps it’s your perseverance that has earned you the right to pursue your own pleasure or partake in the luxuries of life, but things alone can’t make up for the companionship that comes from a solitary existence. Is there someone you know who ticks the boxes of your ideal, yet you haven’t bothered to connect for fear of rejection? Is your checklist of personal requirements for partnership impossible to fulfill as a covert attempt to remain remote?

The protected heart that finally bursts open may do so with a flood of pain, sadness, fear, brokenness and other unprocessed emotions. However, on the other side of struggle and loss is the wisdom gained that fuels warmth, humility, compassion and selfless acts. The same effort you’ve applied to solidify the foundation of your material world is also required for emotional security. Your open heart is a true guide toward the greatest goodness you can give and receive. Listen and let this part of yourself guide you toward self knowledge and intimate knowledge of another you yearn for. Allow all that is love, in.

Be sure to look at your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs for an expanded perspective. You can click any card to enlarge the view.

Aries

• Changes in privacy (more/less)
• Dead quiet—closing the door to the outside world
• Facing truth—may be regarding matters going on behind the scenes
• An ending—closing the door on a situation (you/others)
• Waiting in vain—may link to individual who is difficult to know, very private or difficult to access
• Waiting for privacy—you and partner may need to spend some time alone together
• A need for discretion concerning matters that are private
• Transformation taking place behind closed doors or through back channels

Taurus

• Memories tied to family
• Past influences connected to creating family traditions
• Difficulty moving on may involve dealing with extended family
• Family celebration that may include reveling in the past
• Nostalgia that motivates the desire to start a family
• Shared family values are important to the relationship

Gemini

• Admired for decisions or decision making abilities (you/others)
• Failing to make a decision—you have a secret admirer who may be reluctant to come forward
• The need to make a decision—special someone who may be unaware that they hold th key to your heart; secret crush
• Decision in response to someone interested that you hadn’t considered
• Someone is watching you (may be related to the decisions you make)

Cancer

• Some truth is becoming glaringly obvious (may need a physical outlet—relaxation, movement, exercise)
• Perspective concerning possible travel or a celebration
• Taking a closer look at vehicles, coverage or protection (may be linked to insurance or travel)
• Open doors motivated by the preference for seeing only the more positive aspects of a person or situation
• Good news brings a need for change in perspective about relationship

Leo

• Self-nourishment—the secret to inner/outer healing
• Time out—healing and recovery in secret; a need for self love
• Inability to read emotions has influence over healing; element of relationship may be clandestine, secretive or hidden
• Healing a situation where someone is keeping secrets
• Being discreet is important due to circumstance—sharing secrets with a healer (spiritual, therapist, counselor, advisor, doctor, etc.)

Virgo

• Emotional wounding caused by not taking a closer look at matters (you/others)
• Something revealed causes or is related to grief—may be unhappiness because of a loss, disappointment or rejection
• Looking behind the curtain of grief—sadness due to betrayal, separation or death
• A need to notice the magic in every day to overcome grief

Libra

• Lost in a philosophy; cult spirituality
• Ghosting or ghosted—more focused on developing spiritual growth than being in relationship (you/others)
• Gathering knowledge related to spirituality, beliefs, philosophies
• A need to sort out fiction from reality concerning beliefs or whether core values align
• Dreams/visions—may be linked to psychic healer or spiritual experiences that impact faith; the spirit lives on
• Magical reality—faith or belief in role as co-creator; believing in your dreams
• Higher mind and link to others—you share deep spiritual connection; relationship serves to bring spiritual lessons
• Faith; answered prayers

Scorpio

• Outer/inner alignment to maintain balance and receive clarity
• Need for healthy balance—something about your interactions will bring important issues to light; gaining greater clarity or truth in this relationship
• Coming to a clear understanding in matters related to work/life harmony
• Maintaining equilibrium when the hidden is revealed
• Lightbulb moment about successful juggling

Sagittarius

• Clutching on to something or someone highly valued and not wanting to give it up
• Fawning—relationship is making one of you feel trapped and unable to progress (you/others); uncomfortable changes that cause you or partner to need greater freedom; looking for an escape route
• Private pleasures or gratification; contentment with keeping something to yourself or for yourself; not revealing how expensive something is
• Appreciation for someone being told to put a cork in it
• Keeping feelings bottled up inside—may be how much you appreciate someone; confining situation is hindering you from sharing, expressing or making the most of your best self
• Relationship never fully develops—may be with someone you find highly attractive or vice versa; trying to change partner into the ideal (you/other)
• Positive inner changes that bring greater enjoyment of life
• Beautiful changes inside and out (you/other)

Capricorn

• Emotional wounding caused by manipulation or shadow behavior (you/other); use of grief to manipulate others (you/other)
• Hidden aspects of self or a situation that may link to sadness due to betrayal, separation or death
• Dancing with the devil in matters related to unhappiness because of a loss, disappointment or rejection
• Source of grief may be the need to acknowledge fears
• PTSD—emotional distress caused by waiting for something dark to come out of the shadows; fears, illusions surrounding negative possibilities

Aquarius

• A need to open to new possibilities—surprise trip, honeymoon, or romantic getaway
• Surprise or shock at accommodations; hosting overnight guests
• A blast from the past may link to someone you are/were very close to
• Unexpected news in matters of intimacy; shocked by an indiscretion
• Unexpected encounter—relationship deepening in ways that may lead to greater physical and/or emotional intimacy

Pisces

• Masking emotions or keeping a straight face when you “open the door” to “opportunity”
• Need for healthy balance to manifest opportunity
• Outer/inner alignment sets the stage for opportunity
• Opportunity for work/life harmony—successful juggling between the two
• Successful juggling of opportunities; balance brings opportunity
• An opportunity will present that allows you to create beneficial change provided that you take the initiative

Decks: Romantic Love Oracle, Love is a Garden Affirmation Deck, A Word of Advice, The Alchemist Astrologer; The Good Tarot, Collette Baron-Reid; Mystical Healing, Inna Segal

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