Innerstellar Monthly Currents Report: December 2025

Month at a Glance — December 2025

Theme: Arrow into Night, Child of Stone

December 2025 opens under a Gemini Super Full Moon and closes on the far side of the Nativity, with the Sun newly lodged in austere Capricorn. The month is a hinge between mutable Fire (Sagittarius) and cardinal Earth (Capricorn) — between the arrow and the mountain, the sermon and the stone, the promise and the incarnation.

From a Hermetic–Golden Dawn lens, most of the month is held in the sphere of Jupiter (Sagittarius), with a decisive hand-off to Saturn (Capricorn) at the solstitial gate on 21 December, when the Sun enters Capricorn at 0° and the Winter Solstice occurs simultaneously. Jupiter expands, narrates, prophesies; Saturn contracts, crystallizes, judges. Qabalistically, we move from the Path of Samekh (Sagittarius, the arrow of Art/Temperance linking Yesod to Tiphareth) into the Path of Ayin (Capricorn, the Devil’s crucible linking Tiphareth to Hod), where ideals meet structures and our bright visions are tested against gravity.

Christianly, this is the arc from Advent to Christmas: from “the time is near” to the Word made flesh. Advent is the season of Kairos — qualitative, opportune time, pregnant with significance — inside the relentless tick of Chronos, the calendar and clock. December is where those two temporal modes collide: the liturgical waiting, the commercial countdowns, the private sense that something wants to be born in you this year, even if you can’t yet name it.

On the subtle-body level, Northern Hemisphere December means:

• Decreasing photoperiod → increased melatonin, shifts in serotonin and dopamine → mood, sleep, and imagination tilt toward the nocturnal and introspective.
• Circadian rhythms stretch; we are biologically nudged toward dream, memory, and long-form story — very Sagittarius.
• The Solstice minimum of solar input acts like a yearly “reset” pulse in the body’s electromagnetic and hormonal field, a kind of planetary sahasrara activation for the nervous system: the least light at the crown, the greatest invitation to inner luminosity.

Layered atop this physiology:

• 4 December – Super Full Moon in Gemini (13°): a Mercurial flood of data, ideas, and words. The “Revealed Word mirrored in minds”: ideal for divination, scrying, and spellcraft that uses language and breath.
• 19 December – New Moon in Sagittarius (28°) near the Galactic Center: a concentrated seed of “vision and long aim,” expressly tied in the Calendar to “Advent expectancy, trust in promise,” and to vows and learning-works.
• 27 December – First Quarter in Aries (6°): a sharp martial ignition, squaring a Capricorn Sun. The field tilts toward action, friction, and the will to incarnate what you’ve only so far intuited.

Planetary shifts deepen the arc:

• Neptune stations direct at 29° Pisces on 10 December, “veils lift; clarified mystic vision.” Think: a foggy ocean finally revealing the coastline. Dreams may simplify; devotion loses glamour and gains depth. Neurologically, this can feel like moving from diffuse fantasy into a more coherent symbolic language — fewer scattered impressions, more archetypal anchors.
• Mercury re-enters Sagittarius on 11 December, bringing the mind out of retrograde loops into a “truth-seeking, big-picture mentality.” This is a good time to reframe narratives, not just fix logistics.
• Mars enters exalted Capricorn on 15 December, giving us “disciplined, exalted martial force” under Saturn’s sober gaze. Here, libido and drive want plans, deadlines, and stone.
• Sun into Capricorn at the Solstice on 21 December, right as the Winter Solstice / Yule and a Thelemic Solstice feast coincide at 0° Capricorn. The Solar Logos descends fully into Saturn’s sign: in Christian mystical terms, Christic light hidden in darkness, the Child of Light born in the cave of the world.

The Christian calendar braids through this with a striking precision:

• St Nicholas (6 Dec) – archetype of hidden generosity and protection.
• Immaculate Conception (8 Dec) – Mary as pure receptive vessel of grace, a human Malkuth fully open to Kether.
• Our Lady of Guadalupe (12 Dec) – Solar-Venusian Black Madonna, fiercely local and cosmic at once.
• St Lucy (13 Dec) – “light in darkness,” eyes and candles, precursor of the Solstice.
• St John of the Cross (14 Dec) – doctor of the dark night, integrating December’s Saturnine edge: the felt absence that precedes deeper union.

Then, at the heart:

• Christmas Eve & Christmas (24–25 Dec) – Nativity as theurgic event: the Solar Logos incarnates, the Tiphareth Sun descends all the way into Malkuth.
• St Stephen, St John the Evangelist, Holy Innocents, and the Holy Family (26–28 Dec) narrate martyrdom, mystical vision, collective trauma, and household sanctity as four distinct ways the Incarnation refracts through human life.

From a magical-systems perspective, December 2025 is:

• A Jupiter → Saturn handover month. Big dreams need bones.
• A Sagittarius → Capricorn pathworking: from arrow-flight to the slow climb.
• A Kairotic window within Chronos, where certain dates (Neptune direct, New Moon, Solstice, Nativity) behave like temporal “pressure nodes” in the fabric of experience.

Different lineages emphasize different nodes in the calendar: some occultists privilege the Solstice and Yule, some Christians the Nativity octave, and some magicians the lunar phases and planetary ingresses. What follows is a monthly reading of the currents from one situated perspective, offered to those who wish to collaborate consciously with this month’s unfolding.

Calendar of Powers for December

All times are given in Central Standard Time (CST), are approximate and subject to occasional error, and should be adjusted as needed to match your local time zone.

4 December – Full Moon in Gemini (13°, ~18:14)

• Hermetic tone: “Airy synthesis, Mercurial lunar insight.” The Moon reflects the Sun in Sagittarius across the mental axis; good for comparative study, cross-tradition synthesis, and divination through words — bibliomancy, oracular writing, trance-lectio.
• Christian resonance: “Revealed Word mirrored in minds.” Treat this as a Logos-on-the-airwaves moment; journaling Scripture or sacred text as if it were speaking now can be potent.
• Magical use: “Divination, scrying, verbal spellcraft.” Super Full Moon = heightened tides; keep workings focused and ethically bounded.

6 December – St Nicholas of Myra (Sagittarius 14°)

• Theme: “Jovial guardian, hidden generosity.” Nicholas is a Jupiterian bishop-figure: patron of children, sailors, and secret benefactors.
• Use: Prosperity and protection workings, especially for those traveling or in financial precarity.

8 December – Immaculate Conception of Mary (Sagittarius 16°)

• Theme: “Pure receptive vessel of grace… conceived without stain.”
• Hermetic read: Malkuth fully transparent to Kether; the perfected Nephesh.
• Use: Purification rites, tool consecrations, vows of service or artistry.

10 December – Neptune Direct in Pisces (29° ~07:23)

• Theme: “Veils lift; clarified mystic vision.”
• Christian mystical echo: “Contemplation purified of illusion.”
• Use: Dream-work resets, revising devotional or magical practices that relied on glamour; excellent for honest inventory of spiritual experiences.

11 December – Last Quarter Moon in Virgo (20°, ~15:51) & Mercury re-enters Sagittarius (0°)

• LQ Moon theme: “Purification and analytical release… examination of conscience.”
  • Waning Virgo invites confession, composting, and ritual tidying — on the altar and in the inbox.
• Mercury ingress theme: “Truth-seeking, big-picture mentality… prophetic proclamation.”
  • The mind lifts from details to doctrine.
• Use: Banishing and sorting; re-framing your story in light of the larger Work.

12 December – Our Lady of Guadalupe (Sagittarius 20°)

• Theme: “Solar-Venusian Black Madonna current… protection for migrants, land and people.”
• Use: Rites for border-crossers, indigenous justice, and land healing; strong visually symbolic current for artists.

13 December – St Lucy (Sagittarius 21°)

• Theme: “Light in darkness, inner sight.”
• Use: Candle rites, clairvoyance workings, eye-healing prayers; Scandinavian Lucia processions are living folk-magic of light bearers in the dark.

14 December – St John of the Cross (Sagittarius 22°)

• Theme: “Dark night, ascent of the soul… mystical union through purifying loss.”
• Use: Meditations on abandonment, apophatic prayer, shadow-integration as path to union.

15 December – Mars enters Capricorn (0°, ~02:34)

• Theme: “Disciplined, exalted martial force… holy discipline, redemptive struggle.”
• Use: Long-term strategies, especially around career, land, and structural change. Think: sigils with Gantt charts.

17 December – Saturnalia Begins (Sagittarius 25°)

• Theme: “Saturnian reversal, time out of joint… carnival magic, role inversion, misrule.”
• Use: Limited, intentional eros of hierarchy — safe role reversal, jesters’ rites, and ritualized misrule that ultimately reaffirms justice.

19 December – New Moon in Sagittarius (28°, ~20:43)

• Theme: “Seed of vision and long aim… Advent expectancy, trust in promise.”
• Other note: “Dark Moon near Galactic center current.”
• Use: Initiating quests, oaths, and learning-works. This is the primary point for vow-making and large-scale magical or artistic projects.

21 December – Sun enters Capricorn (0°, ~10:03), Winter Solstice / Yule, & Thelemic Solstice Feast

• Sun ingress theme: “Gate of the year under Saturn… Christic light hidden in darkness.”
• Solstice/Yule theme: “Sun reborn at lowest point… light from light in deepest night.”
• Thelemic note: “Crowned and Conquering Child current… feast for the times; solar ritual of Will.”
• Use: Yearly vows, solar rebirth rites, hearth and land blessings; cross-tradition opportunity to align personal Will with the reborn Sun/Logos.

24 December – Venus enters Capricorn (0°, ~11:24) & Christmas Eve Vigil (Capricorn 2°)

• Venus ingress theme: “Earthy Venus, love seeks structure… incarnate charity, covenant fidelity.”
• Christmas Eve theme: “Liminal threshold, holy expectancy… awaiting the Incarnation, watch-night.”
• Use: Binding love and resources to duty and craft; dream incubation and oracular sleep on the Vigil.

25 December – Nativity of the Lord (Capricorn 3°)

• Theme: “Solar Logos incarnate in matter… Birth of Christ; Word made flesh.”
• Use: High theurgic workings aligned with Christian mystery, home consecration, dedicating your workspace as Bethlehem-in-miniature.

26 December – St Stephen (Capricorn 4°)

• Theme: “First blood of the new covenant… witness empowered by Spirit unto death.”
• Use: Courage workings, forgiveness practices, psychic shielding rituals for activists and truth-tellers.

27 December – First Quarter Moon in Aries (6°, ~14:10) & St John the Evangelist (Capricorn 5°)

• Lunar theme: “Initiatory fire, will to act… launching operations, energizing sigils.”
• St John’s theme: “Eagle vision, mystical Logos.”
• Use: Powerful day for combining visionary theology or esoteric study with actual launch steps.

28 December – Holy Innocents & Holy Family (Capricorn 6°)

• Holy Innocents theme: “Shadow of empire, sacrificed seed… collective wounds.”
• Holy Family theme: “Sacred household as microcosm… Holy Family as archetype of home.”
• Use: Child protection rites, ancestral trauma healing, and blessing of domestic bonds.

Reading & Listening for December

Books & Texts

• Dion Fortune – The Mystical Qabalah Classic map of the Tree of Life; dense but rewarding. December is a superb time to re-walk the Sephiroth with a notebook, tying each sphere to what you lived in 2025.
• Israel Regardie – The Golden Dawn Not bedtime reading, but if you’re building or refining ritual structure for 2026, this is the canonical “source code” for much modern ceremonial magic.
• Anonymous – The Cloud of Unknowing Fourteenth-century English mystical text about loving God in darkness, beyond concepts — perfect Saturn-in-Pisces Advent reading.
• Meister Eckhart – Sermons (any good selection) Deep Christic non-duality: God as ground of the soul, birth of the Word in the soul “every moment.” Rich material for Incarnation meditations.
• Evelyn Underhill – Mysticism Historical overview of mystics & their stages; read selectively. December is good for the sections on “Dark Night” and “Divine Union.”
• Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation A modern contemplative voice wrestling with ego, vocation, and grace — very compatible with Saturnine examen work.
• Aleister Crowley – Liber XV: The Gnostic Mass If Thelemically inclined, studying this as a drama of incarnation and solar mystery can deepen solstice work (whether or not you celebrate it literally).

Music, Hymns, and Films

• Hymn: “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” Modal, haunting; use it as a chant or drone in ritual. Each verse is basically a sigil in words.
• Hymn: “In the Bleak Midwinter” (G. Holst setting) For meditations on poverty, incarnation, and offering “what I can” rather than grandiosity.
• Morten Lauridsen – O Magnum Mysterium Choral work that captures the astonishment of Incarnation. Excellent for Christmas Eve contemplative listening.
• Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel & Magnificat Sonic minimal icons; great companions for slow journaling, lectio divina, or Qabalistic meditation.
• Film: The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) Cosmic creation + small family drama interwoven — a cinematic version of Tiphareth holding Kether and Malkuth.
• Film: Solaris (Tarkovsky version) A meditation on memory, guilt, and a sentient ocean; appropriate for Saturn/Neptune era dream work.

Reflection & Benediction

December 2025 is a threshold month: the arrow of fire, the gate of stone, the birth of a child, the turn of the Sun. Under its sky, the Tree of Life feels less like a static diagram and more like a living elevator shaft: Samekh rising from Yesod’s dream to Tiphareth’s heart, Ayin descending into the circuitry of Hod and the practical world.

You are already inside this machinery.

On the level of chronobiology, your body is obeying the tilt of the Earth — melatonin swelling as days shorten; attention curling inward. On the level of myth, the Church waits in purple, the world shops under LEDs, the Sun drops lower on the horizon like a slow Blessing. On the level of magic, planetary tides flicker in and out: Jupiter promising, Saturn exacting, Neptune wiping condensation from the inner window.

No system, not even this lovingly tangled one, can fully capture the Mystery operating here. The Calendar of Powers is a map, not the territory; the Qabalistic correspondences are lenses, not the eye itself. The Christ-child will not fit inside a diagram; neither will your own soul’s becoming.

So the invitation this month is not to master the forces but to enter a more conscious collaboration with them:

• To let Jupiter’s wide vision and Saturn’s stone discipline negotiate in you, instead of canceling each other.
• To allow Christian feasts to function as Kairotic events, not just inherited dates — moments where the eternal story intersects your very specific circumstances.
• To feel your own body as Temple, Threshold, Spell, participating somatically in the Incarnation you contemplate.

A few questions to carry:

1. What vow, made in Sagittarius’ fire, deserves Capricorn’s slow, patient stone?
2. Where is the Holy Innocent in your life—the vulnerable seed—that needs active protection this month?
3. If one room in your home or psyche became Bethlehem in 2025, which would it be, and what would have to change to welcome the Child?

May your Full Moon thoughts be nimble and kind; may your New Moon vow be brave and realistic; may your Solstice vigil open a small, radiant crack in ordinary time.

And so, blessing:

May the Solar Logos find a cradle in your nervous system. May Jupiter widen your hope without scattering your focus. May Saturn give your love bones, not chains. May the Spirit-breath move through your lungs as prayer and through your days as quiet courage. Under the Supermoon’s silver, the Solstice’s black-blue, and Christmas’ gold-white, may you know yourself, in some small way, as both star and stable, arrow and mountain, creature and co-creator in the ever-unfolding Work.

In nomine Solis et Lunae,
per Verbum incarnatum,
sub signis Stellæ et Arboris—
go gently, and keep watch.