Libra Horoscope for December 2014

This is an amazing month for progress, Libra, on both personal and outer-world levels. Partners provide surprises and a useful shake-up that stirs you out of familiar habit patterns that have perhaps grown stale, supplying vision for what you truly need. You are recognizing that you live not by bread alone, and are more prepared than ever to make this ideal a concrete reality. Your family life is being transformed before your eyes and that, too, affects you deep down to the very core of your being. You are at an important crossroads and succeed when you have the courage to follow inner guidance. When you stay the course, utilizing the higher purpose that you bring to explore new concepts of achievement, you move forward, through the powerful ending of an intense year, into greater wholeness.

As the month begins, you are feeling a strong pull to your intuitional center, and also listening more carefully to others in your life; especially those who you feel might also serve as informational touchstones appropriate to your own process. Partners can provide startling information that leads you to unexpected enlightenment. All this is taking place in the context of the potent Sagittarius New Moon that took place ten days before the start of the current month in your communications sector, where you also learn and grow. Your conversation with others, and as well your writing, is vibrant and inspired these days, and leads you farther into the mystery that is the beating heart of your inner experience.

You also could be feeling less than fully at home in your day to-day existence right now, because your ruler Venus made a square to the numinous and otherworldly energy of Neptune at the timing of the New Moon, which set the tone for this entire lunar cycle. You could be seeking solace from the mundane, either by means of escapist fantasies — anything from watching more movies or reading to re-imagining your life in a way that is not altogether grounded in actual hard-and-fast reality. While you find some relief in reaching out for comfort or retreat you must also come to terms with the major changes that life is asking of you. Small doses of escapism may well be appropriate and healthy, although it helps to set intention for allowing your escapist fantasies to ebb and flow with goodly doses of dealing with as much as you can handle of the uncomfortable reality of your situation.

Something that may really be urging you onward now has to do with areas in your home space or family that aren't working for you, and this has been an area where changes have been underway for some time now. This is likely tied as well to the vision you hold for your relationships in general, and while there may still be tension arising in one form or another in these areas, you are also encountering surprise and delight at the way things unfold and are revealed in positive ways you never would have expected or imagined. When your relationships do not match up to your ideals, frustration mounts, as too does an honest willingness to be an active and effective agent for positive change and harmony. In the end it may be that, in part, your key relationships will save you.

It helps to know that you are amidst a process that will have far reaching and lasting effects in your life. Your progress might mean taking two steps forward and one step back. Honoring the steps that feel or appear to be backward is key in minimizing discontent in this process, and you may benefit from learning to sit with discomfort and discord as a valid and worthy part of your unfolding transformation. Indeed, your sensitivity to energy that is not harmonized is a tremendous gift, as it can flag the places in your own ego where some groundwork needs replacing, in order to be in more easeful connection with others, particularly your mate, or potential mates. You may benefit greatly when you are able to extricate old and outworn beliefs with care and gentleness, and replace them with new awareness and resource, building a more stable foundation for your transformational arc of development that continues.