This is a month perfect for fixing things in your life that are not working. This is an unlikely time to find a peaceful period to decide what you'd like to change, what to leave, and what to bring in the New Year, but it is the perfect time to do so. During most of this month, you will be in an enormously reflective mood.
Mercury, the planet of perception, communication, and negotiation will be retrograde, first in Capricorn, and later, in Sagittarius, and Mercury in these placements will give you ideas of what you would like to next. It seems you need to clear out certain outworn elements of your life - people, feelings, possessions, and obligations - that you feel no longer have the meaning they once did for you. You are at the end of your yearlong cycle, almost ready to start a new birthday year, and you are ready to start fresh.
Holiday time is always a hectic, but just after the new moon arrives in your twelfth house on December 5, try to take a little time by yourself to think. You don't need advice - the small voice within will tell you precisely what you need to do. Saturn, your ruling planet, will be very friendly and allow you to make long-range plans that best fit your values and goals that may have matured in time.
Mars will enter Capricorn on December 7 and remain there until January 15, 2011. This is great news, for Mars will put your needs center stage. Your energy, determination, and drive will reach new heights. You will want to institute changes instantly, but you will need to wait until January to act. This month, turn that energy internal, to bring change within you - transforming yourself from the inside out.
Actually, these types of eclipses can work in one of two directions, so conversely, you may get very good news about a relationship when something from the outside world creates a trigger point that pulls you together. This is less likely, but still possible, because so many things will be working dynamically at the same time. As you see, either you will get very good news, or not so good about a relationship, but there seems to be no room for middle course if you were born December 21-25.
If you were born later in the sign, this eclipse will not as likely affect your closest relationship, but rather affect your assignments, co-workers, and subordinates, for it will light your workaday sector. You may see a trusted assistant leave at work, or a nanny or other personal helper leave at home. A client many leave or your company may make changes in the hierarchy, or even move to new headquarters.
Whatever comes up at this December 21 eclipse, it will be completely unexpected. When you get the information, you will get a flash of insight, and suddenly something that has been a bit of a mystery to you will become crystal clear and you will know precisely what to do. With Mercury retrograde, be careful about what you write or say this month, in person, email, or social media, as something you say could come back to haunt you.
Summary
With Mars moving into your sign on December 5, to stay until January 15, you will be raring to go. Even so, you will have to be patient, as the world won't be ready for your ideas and plans just yet. Mercury will be retrograde in Capricorn from December 10 to 30, and you will feel things slow down all month. Mercury rules all the things that the world spins on - communication, negotiation, contracts and agreements, travel and shipping - but when retrograde, all these areas become confusing and out of sync. It's not the time to set anything new into motion.
You will be feeling energetic and in a festive mood, so direct your actions toward socializing while you have time. Jupiter and Uranus in your short-distance travel sector will allow you to pick up and go at will, often for work, but at other times for personal fun.
