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This lunation chart was drawn up at the exact moment of the Sun / Moon conjunction on December 01, 2024, it gives the “general” astral trends for the coming month mainly based on the Aspects and Signs of the zodiac.
This study must be nuanced by bringing it closer to your birth chart, and to your Transits and Progressions for Forecasts.
Think, to help you, to read my interpretation article of the New moon and Full moon in houses.
Main signs impacted during the lunation:
1st decans of Fire and Fixed signs.
Risk of delays and setbacks
This new moon remains quite marked by retrograde forces, whether on the side of the Mercury transit which formed its retrograde motion at the end of the previous lunation, or on the side of the Mars transit which will pass retrograde at the beginning of December from the first decan of Leo (at the trine of this new moon).
These energies are rather introverted for the end of the year, and do not a priori facilitate externalization.
Delays and setbacks are more likely to occur, and you may find that something you thought you’d be able to sort out quickly and easily may turn out to be much more complicated and ramified, requiring several weeks or even months…
In the majority of cases, these are energies to be harnessed to form an analysis, a reflection, a balance sheet, to really take our time and not rush into action and impulsivity (in this sense at least, the period should be maximized).
As I’ve told you before in my other posts on lunations and the Martian retrograde motion, try to settle everything that requires the most active dynamics, or the signing of a contract, before the end of the year.
The insistence of this retrogrades motions is likely to produce a certain increase in questioning and doubts, and may put back some points that will have been initially raised since last November or even October.
In any case, make a careful analysis of what’s going on in your chart in the 1st decans of the Fire and Fixed signs, because whether it’s harmonic or dissonant could greatly condition the content of the period for you (either you’ll make it through, or the retrogrades motions will insist on sensitive points).
The first half of the lunation is likely to be rather “sticky” and frustrating, perhaps because you can’t express yourself or make yourself understood the way you want, with confusion or communication largely hindered (this may also simply form a need for solitude, for withdrawal).
Be careful in the second decade of December, as the Venus / Mars opposition takes hold, and may signal more strongly a relational and emotional conflict, a confrontation, and also being linked to needs for emancipation (or to fighting against certain possessiveness or jealousy).
The Full Moon on December 15, 2024 is on axis with Gemini and marks the resumption of direct motion of Mercury from the 1st decan of Sagittarius as well, in trine to Mars, which will always be good to take, it remains an interesting period to mark a better dynamic in connection with a communication, externalization, or conciliation.
The second half of the lunation is generally more harmonic and less tense, at least until Christmas, which leaves us around 10 interesting days to exploit and maximize in this sense.
By the end of the month, however, and into early 2025, we see Mars retrograde in frank opposition to Pluto’s transit, and there are also sensitive squares taking shape, such as Mercury with Saturn, or Venus with Uranus, which don’t exactly make for “quiet” energies.
It’s possible that the end-of-year festivities will be quite confrontational, and that we’ll have to face up to someone (even in the family circle), who will motivate our desire to be independent, to contradict, to rebel (even if this person has authority over us, they may be surprised by the response we give them).