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THE DAILY PLANET ~ SATURDAY DECEMBER 21ST: A Blessed Winter Solstice to All! This morning at 4:21 AM EST, the portal of winter opens, the Sun heads into Capricorn and winter officially begins. Today is the shortest day and longest night of the year. From this day forth, till the summer solstice we will gain minutes of daylight each day. 
 
The birth chart of winter gives us our marching orders for the new season. In the Solstice chart cast for Washington DC, the national chart, the Capricorn Sun is in the fiscal/material sector of the chart, inviting us to spend this winter getting our financial/material and marketing ducks in a row. It’s a beautiful season to define our fiscal goals, tend to our possessions, including our bodies, or anything else on the physical material realm that requires our attention. 
 
The Moon is in Virgo for the Solstice, indicating that this winter will have the soul of a Virgo. In the Solstice chart, the Virgo Moon is in the career sector, inviting us to nurture success by attending to the details that lead to success with precision and devotion. The chart is Scorpio rising perfect for a year that will lead us into the lunar year of the snake in eastern astrology. It’s a fantastic winter to pull in, shed the past, incubate success, and hone our skills. It also looks like a great winter for big brilliant partnerships and to advance inspires domestic and professional visions. To learn more register for my solstice seminar you can get the recording here. https://heaventoearthastrology.com/new-moon/
 
I will be leading an in person Winter Solstice Ceremony at the Anthroposophy Center at 6PM EST in NYC tonight Walk ins Welcome at 138 West 15th Street NYC 10011 To Register Click Here: https://www.newcenterny.org/event/invite-the-light/
 

ARIES: This morning at 4:21 AM EST, the Sun heads into Capricorn in your career sector as winter officially begins. It looks like a stellar winter to define your commitments to yourself, your home life and your healing. The Moon is in Virgo in your health sector as winter begins, calling you to explore all things organic, botanical, and healthy, as you sharpen the tools of your trade, hone your skills and clarify, your thinking and your commitments. 

TAURUS: This morning at 4:21 AM EST, the Sun heads into Capricorn in your publishing sector of travel and presentations as winter begins. It looks like a fantastic winter to refine projects, presentations and how you publish or promote your work. It also looks like a beautiful season to refine creative projects and relationship dynamics. Venus, your ruling planet is in Aquarius for the solstice, calling you to delight in friendships, team work and new alliances. 

GEMINI: This morning at 4:21 AM EST the Sun heads into Capricorn in your deepest sector as winter officially begins. It’s a beautiful season to define your long-term goals for your closest relationships and mergers. The Moon is in Virgo for the Solstice indicating that this winter looks beautiful for nesting and all manner of organizing, decluttering and domestic activities that create a gorgeous healthy sacred space. It’s a gorgeous winter to transform by attending to the details. 

CANCER: This morning at 4:21 AM EST, the Sun glides into Capricorn in your partnership sector, and winter officially begins. It’s a beautiful season to work on the relationships that you’re committed to. The Moon is in Virgo for this Solstice, indicating that clearing your mind, organizing your ideas, cultivating your capacity to focus, and refining your thinking will lead to beautiful visionary, success, as winter fades and spring approaches. 

LEO: This morning at 4:21 AM EST,  the Sun, your ruling planet, heads into Capricorn in your work and health sector, as winter officially begins. It’s a stellar winter for you to get organized for success on all fronts. The Moon is in Virgo in your fiscal sector for the Solstice, indicating that organizing your finances and your material life will play real dividends this season.

VIRGO: This morning at 4:21 AM EST, the Sun heads into Capricorn in your creative sector of children, art, recreation and romance as winter officially begins. It’s a beautiful season to hone your creative skills and make time for fun and for inner or actual children. The Moon is in Virgo this winter indicating that it’s a perfect winter to pull in, cocoon, and nurture yourself in every possible way. It’s a perfect winter for self care.

LIBRA: This morning at 4:21 AM EST, the Sun heads into Capricorn in your home sector as winter officially begins. It’s a beautiful season to pull in and get your domestic ducks in a row. Attend to your home the family relationships that mean the most to you. Meanwhile, the Virgo Moon indicates that this is a beautiful winter to see enlightenment, and make your dreams come true by attending to the details that support the larger visions that you are dreaming up.

SCORPIO: This morning at 4:21 AM EST, the Sun heads into Capricorn in your sector of mind as winter officially begins. It’s a beautiful season to cultivate mental focus and discipline that really keeps your attention on the goals that mean the most to you. The Moon is in Virgo in your social sector for the Solstice, indicating that you will thrive by not traveling through the winter alone, but with beloved friends, colleagues and collaborators with whom you can share fun, healing and success.

SAGITTARIUS: This morning at 4:21 AM EST, the Sun heads into Capricorn in your fiscal sector as winter officially begins. It’s a perfect winter to get your financial and material ducks in a row. Prepare for prosperity. The Virgo Moon will be shining in the career sector of your chart, indicating that by attending to the tiny little details of success and getting organized, you will rise and thrive this winter. 

CAPRICORN: Happy Birthday Season Capricorn! Today the Sun enters your sign, and light begins to shine on you and on the world in a bigger way, once again. It’s a beautiful season to focus on yourself, your goals, and all that is most important to you. The Moon will be in Virgo for this Solstice, in your philosophical, traveling sector, indicating that this particular winter is wonderful for travel, philosophical exploration, and refining your thinking, beliefs and your capacity to promote and present beloved ideas and projects. The healing is in your mind and belief systems this winter.

AQUARIUS: This morning at 4:41 AM EST, the Sun heads into Capricorn in your spiritual sector as winter begins. It’s a beautiful season to cultivate deeper connection to the Heavenly Source of your being. The Virgo Moon is in the deepest sector of your chart for the birth of winter, indicating that it’s a beautiful season for you to connect deeply with yourself and with those you want to build friendship, partnership, and relationship with.

PISCES: This morning at 4:41 AM EST, the Sun heads into Capricorn in your social sector as winter officially begins. It’s a beautiful season to commit to the friendships, collaborations, group activities, and commitments that you’re committed to. The Virgo Moon in the chart of winter indicates that this is a beautiful season for partnership for you. Get clear about qualities that you most value within committed relationship, and work to attract partners that align with them, or try to bring these qualities into your existing partnerships.