December is a very romantic month for you. Things don’t go so well at home this month with Mercury retrograding in your fourth house, but joy is on hand for you everywhere else. Have fun when the romance goes a bit topsy turvy December 4 under a mischievous Gemini full Moon AND Mercury retrograde, and don’t get too stressed. It’s very possible you might not recognize your partner at times during this strange planetary dance. Did you want to get pregnant? (Never a dull moment in Leo-Land!) Anything can happen this month.

Concern about home and where (all) your family will live is still present.

A good astrologer is a good detective as well as a healer, and I’ve always been a personal fan of the kid who shouts out the truth in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes. Our beloved writer of moralistic fairy tales was born a brave Aries on April 2, 1805 in Odense, Denmark.

Going further here, Scorpio traditionally rules the eighth house, which rules, beyond secrets, other people’s money, shared resources, mutual funds, taxes, inheritance.

Within your own chart look at which planets you have in Scorpio and in which houses. Also on which cusp you have Scorpio. This gives you a clue as to where more light of day – secrets, revelations – will soon shine!

In your case, Leo, look at the areas of your fourth house: home, property, family, inherited genetics from your family (in the younger generation), personal endings and beginnings, and on a more superficial level, real estate.

It’s an exciting time, whatever else it is. For in your fifth house of romance and passion you have:

Awesome Sun, the giver of life, light and energy (your ruler)

Beautiful Venus, planet of love and beauty

Sexy, powerful Mars until December 15

Adoring Juno

Brilliant Mercury, thought and word planet, after December 11

An exciting new Sagittarius Moon Friday, December 19

And your fifth house, traditionally ruled by fun Leo, covers these areas of your life:

Offspring and creations

Romance and being in love

Fun

Your Art

Creating and giving birth

Parties and entertaining

Gambling, risk-taking

Feeling good and confident!

Playing, dressing up

Theater, performance

A confusion in your mutual resources becomes clearer as the month gets underway. This will involve your family.

You benefit more this month by throwing up your hands and letting the chips fall where they may. Also, by not pressuring yourself or letting others pressure you. It will be a huge karmic lesson for you, eternal worrier, and you come out on top!

Practice Zen. Leo, you are really a supreme master. And this December you are master of the senses. The power of the earth is with you – and you with it. Trust in your physical world.

And make a fresh start in your business affairs.

There are pluses and minuses associated with family over the holidays. Shocks may be felt with merged resources. Anything from shared monies to a household to a joint bank account to mergers to merging into someone’s mouth for a kiss.

Single and attached Leos: you may be drawn to some inappropriate people!

Personally, it will feel rough and wild (a nice change.) Artistically, it means a terrific masterpiece is headed your way.

For you creatives: Invite the muse in. Play with it (her or him) a while.

Take some time out with difficult members of your family or household. This is part of what has been draining you – without you even realizing it.

You’re allowed to be more selfish now, you truly are.

Those big cats with wild unattainable dreams should go forward, very solidly, very realistically now, to attain them.

Keep your big paws on the ground, on the solid earth. I mean this literally, too.

And as far as your house – remember what I said about making your dreams attainable? – the more time you spend with the earth right now, the better.

Get ready for a wealth of new work to come in when 2026 starts. You’ll be lucky. Count on it!

If you’re feeling out of sorts about family and all the obligation you feel, that is perfectly normal. Also about your sexuality. Your confusion will clear within a couple of weeks.

The fifth house rules love affairs, and I can pretty much guarantee there will be no celibate Leos left! Always attractive, you draw the suitors now like honeybees. Intense interest and attention.

Even attached and married Leos do — so watch out.

At the same time the holiday is really your time, and you always make it so special for others. An intensely creative decorator, as well as generous gift-giver, you make the house look beautiful and make everyone feel cared for.

Avoid getting involved with other people’s dramas, including children’s dramas. More support for love affairs, less support for marriage this month. Career opportunities and your creativity receive the lion’s share (!) of support this month. There will be a planetary dance between romance and creativity and between just getting it done, everyday work and domestic routine.

Remember that you are like a rich red ruby; you reflect brilliantly, and you have depths and surfaces the like of which we can only imagine.

So single Leos: GO to those holiday parties.

Attached Leos: your love enters a very romantic time.

And those of you breaking up – there’s someone new on the horizon!

Try to keep a realistic schedule for yourself – you always take on so much. Many of you are trying for something new at work or beginning to feel creative juices stirring. Congratulations. Your efforts pay off at the end of the month.

And, as ever, you win huge.

Leos are innately creative, ruled by the fiery Sun, the giver of life. Within this end-of-year maze, you will find out how completely unique your presence is on this earth.

Value yourself highly, Leo. You are a precious, precious gift.

Sept 1, 2025: In honor of U.S. Labor Day, which won’t exist much longer in the U.S., I’ve decided to remove $100 permanently from my reading fee! It’s now $350, down from $450. (Originally, as many of you will remember, it was $550.) Book for any time.

If you’d like to schedule a reading or need to ask any questions email my assistant Viola here.

You can now read future horoscopes with Zelle and credit card in addition to PayPal – by calling 212-631-5844. I will call you back. And get to hear your voice. And you, mine! 

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For my British friends and whoever might be in London in Spring — the date for my Palmistry 101 course is Saturday, April 11 at The College of Psychic Studies. Book soon as size class is limited. And so I can give mini readings to all in the class!

It’s a 6-hour workshop, 11am to 5pm, we’ll have lunch together, and the fee of 130 pounds includes a mini reading from me in the class and membership to the historic College.

It’s a great honor to be teaching at The College of Psychic Studies again (I first taught, lectured, and read there in 2001). Founded in 1884, it has an impressive history. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) was President of the College 1901 – 1904. The College is located in South Kensington where I went to school as a child. It’s one of the most beautiful areas of London.

Simply put, I cannot wait to see you / meet you there!

Sign up here for more info and to reserve your place: Palmistry for Beginners | College of Psychic Studies

The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensbury Place, South Kensington

And dear Lion ’tis the season and I want it to be joyous for you!

Welcome to 2026, dear one. Please join me in this new beautiful year.

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