Aries Horoscope for December 2013

Although you are making terrific headway, your massive transformation is not anywhere near complete, Aries. This month you are shifting, along with the cosmic tide, into higher gear. Important partners provide new twists, and become an increasingly vital priority for you as the month unfolds. You are coming into a greater understanding of what you are really up to, at soul-level, both in terms of outer performance and interior realignment. Having just gone through a cycle of inner renewal and reexamination, you are more than ready to move ahead, spurred also by the changing of the year, and the perspectives of helpful partners. Your higher mind vision of where you could be with your life is profound, and speaks to you of unknown vistas that lie ahead, yet to be explored.

As an overview for the entire month, it is important to note that trickster Uranus is standing nearly still in the sky, and located in your identity sector. This means that through many turns and twists in the road, you coming to a form of enlightenment. As singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan put it once, you are "fumbling toward ecstasy." When you come to your triumph it might not appear to be the way you once expected it to be, but it will serve. Over these last few years the unexpected has become your everyday, and you are suddenly seeing through what once held for you only acceptance. The Grateful Dead lines from the revolutionary sixties might currently apply to you; that "once in a while you can get shown the light / In the strangest of places if you look at it right."

As mentioned many times in these pages, Uranus has been these past few years in collusion with Pluto as well, producing for the population as a whole, and for you in particular, a push toward meaningful revolutionary change. Your very way of being in the world is in major flux, as you forge ahead with producing and furthering both career and other forms of showing up for others around you. Out with the old and in with the new is a terrific idea – and the devil is obviously in the details. A major paradox is that you must simultaneously accept the potential in your life for radical change while going ahead with what you must as you continue to take care of business. As you do, you are coming closer to what you were meant to be doing all along.

Another major theme for you this month is revealed in the Sagittarius New Moon, taking place on December 2nd in your higher mind sector. This stimulates the evolution of existing perspectives on beliefs and values, and new ways of seeing the world around you. In keeping with the thrust of this New Moon, learning and growth are therefore your most important products. This month could see a plethora of possibilities unfolding for furthering your unofficial education, such as travel opportunities that unexpectedly arise, or perhaps you have arrangements in place to matriculate officially. The various potentials from alternative education and Internet research and presence form another possible example.

The expansive archetypal presence of Jupiter in your home and family sector reveals that a focus there is spiritually relevant for you now, in obvious keeping with the holiday season. You are invited to more deeply explore the hidden places within you in the context of familial and tribal relationships that you cherish, all the while attempting to remain as aware as you can of your own contribution to whatever reactivity arises. Your ruler Mars enters your relationship sector early in the month as well, so that the potential is high for the influence on these matters from the standpoint of partnership connection.

The last third of December, following the Winter Solstice on the 21st, is always a powerful time for you, and is especially so this time around. With Venus turning retrograde starting this same day in your career sector, businesses themes involving partnership issues could well come up, and it is also possible that matters of relationship will be emphasized and possibly reexamined. You are also getting closer and closer to the finale of the year of 2013 and the entrance of the baby of the next, which from all indications will grow to be as intense as his older sibling. This is more than a little daunting, but also exciting, seeing as how your changes are far from over, and are vitally important to your future happiness.