Like December, January is a threshold month. As we pass through it, we enter a new phase and leave behind the previous one. No transition is instant. Over the course of this month, we’ll learn just how long we need to make shifts and transform in our own ways in preparation for the year ahead. While we might be used to simply surviving the holidays and jumping into the new year with a sense of urgency to get started on the goals or intentions we’ve set, this January really calls us to slow down and prioritize reflection and repose. The astrology gives us more space to listen to ourselves and to get the rest we need to take action when the time is right. 

For many of us, December is one of the fullest months of the year. There are celebrations and obligations. There’s pressure to finish up work before the holidays, and pressure to participate in the season in ways that might not feel comfortable. There are also expectations about crossing the threshold from this year into the next, and you might find yourself wondering if you’ve done enough, grown enough, accomplished enough to go peacefully into our next collective chapter. The astrology this month is expansive yet protective. It’s asking us to widen our perception of what “enough” really means and to find that within the context of a strange, infinite universe, we can only always be enough.

November is the month of darkness. It begins with celebrations of the dead–a time when we’re allowed to open ourselves up to grief and sink into the hard things about being a human. At the end of October, a New Moon eclipse in Scorpio welcomed the new astrological season. Now, as we move through Scorpio and into Sagittarius, we’re shadowed by the energy of that eclipse.