“], “filter”: { “nextExceptions”: “img, blockquote, div”, “nextContainsExceptions”: “img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button”} }”>
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!
>”,”name”:”in-content-cta”,”type”:”link”}}”>Download the app.
As we welcome December, we bring healing to our relationship with trust, timing, and a belief that beautiful things can happen for us. In the week ahead, the Moon begins once again, Mars initiates its retrograde, Neptune returns to forward movement, and Venus enters Aquarius. Through offering ourselves presence, honesty, and the safety to feel throughout these transits, we will be bestowed with the capacity to share our love. Your weekly horoscope for December 1-7, 2024, explores how you can be present for yourself and others—perhaps more than ever before.
Weekly Horoscope Preview for December 1-7, 2024
December 1 | New Moon in Sagittarius
December 2 | Moon Enters Capricorn
December 5 | Mercury Cazimi + Moon Enters Aquarius
December 6 | Mars Retrograde
December 7 | Moon Enters Pisces
New Moon in Sagittarius
Depending on where you find yourself in the world, the new Moon in Sagittarius takes place on November 30, 2024, or December 1, 2024.
Sagittarius is a zodiac sign that inspires hope. It invites us to tune into the ever-present wisdom and support of life. It expands our minds and reminds us of the truth that exists within our intuition, bodies, and knowing. And it invites us to trust in life, in goodness, and in things unfolding.
A new Moon in this adventurous sign is a reminder that there is so much more available to us—possibilities, creations, and experiences—than we can perceive from our current vantage. Under this new moon cycle, ask yourself whether your beliefs and state of mind allow sufficient space for possibility. What’s calling your name?
Mars Retrograde
This week brings our final retrograde of the year, beginning December 6, 2024, and lasting through February 23, 2025.
The planet Mars is known to be a spark for motivation, passion, and energy. It impels us to move, create, and take action toward those things that ignite us with life and purpose. Mars retrograde takes place in the fiery sign of Leo and brings out our creativity, selfhood, expression, and happiness. It is a sign that reminds us of our uniqueness and our assignment of being who we are in all of our brilliance, layers, and complexities.
Together, these two archetypes invite us to review our ambitions and motivations, express our creativity, and channel our life force. During the time the planet is in retrograde, we bring this energy within rather than expend it into the world. With less focus on doing and acting, we tune inward and observe how we use these resources. We reconnect with our passions and cultivate a more authentic relationship with our true ambitions and desires.
Taking us through the threshold of this year and into the next, this retrograde invites us to breathe out, look within, and observe how we can move through the world with more intention and purpose. We are taking time and creating space to think before we act. All with the understanding that any actions we take engage with the very creation of our lives.
Neptune Retrograde Ends
After five months of spinning backward in our cosmos, Neptune comes to the end of its retrograde this week on December 7, 2024, while in the mystical water sign of Pisces.
Neptune is our planet of imagination and dreaming. It explores the realm of life where everything seems to blend together. Here, separation between self and another, self and nature, self and all seems to dissipate. While it was in retrograde, Neptune helped us experience stronger boundaries between the tangible and intangible, reality and imagination.
As it moves forward, these boundaries begins to lessen. We once again have access to the etheric realms of the imagination where life can take any possibility as long as we dream it. Neptune stationing direct inspires us to dream again. It is a doorway welcoming vaster possibilities, ideas, visions, and art. It is our entrance to the dreams, creations, imaginations, and possibilities waiting for us to bring them into this world.
Venus Enters Aquarius
As Neptune stations direct, Venus enters a new sign on the same day. From December 7, 2024, to January 2, 2025, the planet of love, beauty, value, and relationships occupies the radical, futuristic, and humanitarian air sign of Aquarius. Here, Venus supports authenticity, inner freedom, and a sense of belonging and acceptance.
Venus moves differently through Aquarius. Here it opens the space for a new kind of love to coexist within us, a more impersonal, wide-reaching, and humanitarian love. A love that celebrates diversity and inspires authenticity. A love that holds the collective in its arms, desiring opportunity and freedom for every member.
Venus in Aquarius inspires the kind of love and acceptance that allows us to break free from expectations and narratives that were never ours. It also welcomes greater acceptance of others for who they are rather than who we may desire them to be. And it brings a greater sense of belonging within the collective body from which we are all from.
Venus Conjunct Pluto
After the recent era-defining movement of Pluto into Aquarius, any planet entering through the gates of this air sign are greeted by Pluto before continuing their travels. On December 7, 2024, as Venus steps into Aquarius, it comes into a conjunction, or close proximity, with Pluto.
As the planet of love, inner values, and relationships meets our planet of transformation, depth, and truth, they prompt our hearts to open. They also inspire intense connection—self-love as well as intimacy with our chosen people.
Weekly Horoscope for December 1-7, 2024
This week, parts of our shadow or our unconscious are calling out for our own love. By freeing ourselves with self-love, we empower ourselves with the embodiment of our own worth. It’s a week that favors embodiment, magnetism, intimacy, liberation, and self-value. Allow the events to realign you with what you desire to create and how you choose to express yourself, and how you intend to channel your life force. Your weekly horoscope for December 1-7, 2024, explains how to heighten your awareness.
Aries Rising
This week brings an exploration of your beliefs about potential and truth, potential and imagination, while reconnecting you with your sense of the sacred. It desires to bring a deeper sense of belonging while inspiring you to slow down and reconnect with your truth, authenticity, and desires.
Taurus Rising
Reconnect with yourself. When you access more of your depths, more of the energy stored within patterns and emotions from your formative years can be unleashed. Also, more of your desires and visions for your life can be accessed for the life you’re continually creating.
Gemini Rising
This week desires intimacy. It desires connection with yourself, your chosen people, and with life itself. It desires more expansive dreams and hopes for your life. And it desires for you to question the narratives within your mind that stop you from sharing yourself with authenticity, creativity, and truth.
Cancer Rising
This week brings a different relationship with wisdom and truth. As Mars begins its retrograde, it invites you to reflect on your relationship with self-value, security from within, desire, and tangible resources. As you bring more intention to your habits and rituals, you bring more inspiration to your days as well as depth to your partnerships.
Leo Rising
Creativity is calling your name and self-expression is your medicine this week. As Mars retrogrades in your sign, your creative expression may begin to turn inward instead. Allow yourself the space to reflect on your identity and passions. Things are shifting and realigning.
Virgo Rising
Inspiration awaits from deep within yourself. When you create comfort, safety, and a sacred sanctuary for yourself, you open yourself to hope, rewrite your own possibilities, and create space for transformation and intimacy within your body. Mars in retrograde also invites you to reflect on your relationship with the sacred.
Libra Rising
Your weekly horoscope invites you to play with the world within your mind. Let it open in new ways so you can write a different story for yourself. As Mars retrograde holds space for contemplation about your visions for what lies ahead, the week encourages a reconnection to everyday ritual and devotion to yourself as art.
Scorpio Rising
Sometimes taking the time for contemplation, questioning, and slowing down is what best serves forward movement. This week invites you to look backward and let your emotions begin to shift so you can look ahead with greater clarity and information. When you question what you desire for your career, bigger visions, and goals, you’ll bring liberation to yourself.
Sagittarius Rising
The new Moon in your sign invites you to reconnect with hope in a way that comes from inner wisdom. It invites you to rewrite your narratives of yourself, your identity, and your truths. As Mars begins its retrograde, your relationship to life itself desires a new level of authenticity. You may feel the need to slow down before you speed up.
Capricorn Rising
It’s a mystical week—a week to connect with the unseen, the unconscious, and the sacred before grounding yourself as your season comes around. The days ahead call for space for the sacred, communication with your own psyche, and inner alchemy.
Aquarius Rising
This week initiates a review of your relationships. That includes your relationship with humanity and the collective, yourself and your identity, and your chosen people and what you desire in partnership. Let your heart continue to open and shift as you move through past hurts and ascertain new ways of loving.
Pisces Rising
This week initiates a chapter of inner review and reconnection with your physical body and your everyday habits. As the Moon begins again, it invites you to look ahead and broaden your horizons as you do so. Let what you envision for yourself shift and change, revealing more of yourself in the process. If your days are your canvas and your habits the brushstroke, what are you creating?
Learn more about the influence of the Moon and planets on your everyday life, including your weekly horoscope, when you sign up for our astrology email newsletter.
