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taurus1December is a good month to address issues you may be dealing with at home, or related to the energy you’re putting into a project. If you know there are things you need to do to keep yourself feeling mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy, it’s important you stay with those routines. It might be tempting to totally let them go because of the holidays, but I strongly advise that you stay with them, even if it’s to a moderate degree. Your routine is important to your entire sense of well-being. If new issues arise during the holiday season, perhaps with family or friends, go to your physical routines, or whichever practices make you feel good in your body.

Your ruling planet, Venus, will spend most of the month in your 7th house of intimate relationships. This can be good for bonding with other people—in a love way, or if you’re looking for someone to partner with on a project. Since you’ll have Venus and Juno, the goddess of marriage, traveling through your 7th house of intimate partnerships, deep, transformative, and intense connections are possible. I expect nice things for you this month, romantically and in terms of feeling like you’re being met as an equal. Note that intimacy issues or feelings of inadequacy or loneliness, could come up, too.

Jupiter in your 5th house of love and sexuality, expands, exaggerates, and highlights relationships. Generally, that’s good, if a relationship is something that you want. (I don’t want to assume that everyone wants a fuckin’ relationship. There’s so much emphasis on that in life already, it can get boring!) It also expands your ability to enjoy life and have fun. With Jupiter in Virgo and Venus in Scorpio, it’s a good time good to examine the ways in which we might shut ourselves off from connections through critiquing and criticizing to a fault.

The new moon on the 11th is happening in your 8th house of shared resources and other people’s money (debt, loans, and scholarships), so if you’re working on anything like that, it’s a great new moon to adhere to a plan around it. It’s not necessarily a new moon that’ll get everything jump started fast, but it’s good moment to commit to a plan of action. The 8th house is also associated with mental and psychological anguish, so if you’ve been considering therapy or another healing practice, this is a good time to begin those healing processes. This moment is about grappling with the things we most fear. Implement systems to help you move through that fear, and this could be a constructive couple of years. (New moons initiate a two-year period).

The full moon in Cancer occurs in your 3rd house, which is a time of connective and emotional conversations. People might take things personally or be extra sensitive, but this can also be a healing time. I suggest listening to healing music, speaking to yourself in ways that you find nurturing and nourishing, and remaining cognizant that feelings might close to the surface this month.

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Dylan’s advice: Those feel-good, physical routines that Chani mentions are sure to feel extra valuable this month, whether stress shows up due to the holidays, indulgence, or slightly more undercover, emotional waves lapping at your shore. What do you need to do to stay on an even keel, to keep your spirits up, or (to throw in another metaphor) to feel like you’re on solid ground?

Various things can make us feel refreshed and balanced, so don’t let the Juice Cleanse Illuminati tell you that you have to do 20 hours of hot yoga a week and only drink vegetable waters to feel good. The idea that there’s only one way to feel peak is total boo-crap. Smaller, more everyday routines count, too: hot showers, long walks on cold weekends, staying in bed all day, finally kicking yourself out of bed to go do something, going to the movies, putting on the right record, making comforting food, transitioning from coffee to tea to avoid jitters, visiting a body of water, stretching. It doesn’t matter! How do you find your stability? The more relaxed and comfy you are in your physical zone, the greater opportunity you’ll have to make those sick, magical connections of romantic and creative varieties that Venus and Jupiter are nudging you toward this month.