Steve Judd's Forecast for December 2010

Initially, the second week of December is seen as being one of the two most critical periods of the year, the other being at the very start of last August. The conjunction of Mars, Pluto, Mercury and the North node brings with it the risk of a surgical strike, a sudden and incisive intervention in the global politic in such a way that leaves no room for misunderstanding. Mercury is retrograde until just before New Year’s Eve, so much of the month is going to be clouded with mis or disinformation and proper clarity won’t become obvious until the start of January. December should not be taken too seriously – a few of the big boys are going to take out a few others of the big boys, but this is just boys with their toys and it won’t affect the majority of us until the New Year. There is revolution in the air – but it’s not going to become palpable until January at the earliest.

Aries Much of December is going to be taken up in the background with the apparent difference between two choices. Are you going to push all of your available energy into your professional and public domain, where you can get both recognition and achieve a quality of what passes for success, or are you instead going to be more concerned about walking your talk and living your life according to your philosophies and personal belief systems. Either way you’re going to find that you’re coming out more into the world, and you will be seen and even held up in the light by others, so make sure that whatever course of action you take that it is completely above board and transparent.

Romance and Relationship

Things could easily get a little out of control in the first half of December if you’re not attentative to the effects that you have on other people at this time. You may not be at your most subtle, and I suggest that it’s better to keep your peace in the short term rather than risk blowing something for short term gain. Quick fixes and short cuts may seem rather appealing, but as far as romance goes this is not time to take chances. Keep it straight, keep it clean and keep it calm.

Business and Finance

This month is the calm before the storm, in that the pace of communication and information at the professional level is going to dramatically accelerate in the New Year, so take your time because despite the apparent urgency there’s still plenty of water to flow under the bridge, and if you were to make premature actions or decisions this month then you will soon find yourself floundering. In the short term there’s mixed signals, so best wait till January.

Health and Spirit

You’re on the outside looking in as far as December goes, and perhaps that’s not such a bad place to be. Your normal sense of involvement is somewhat lacking now, and it would be easy for you to get swept and caught up in the flow of things in a way that could rapidly escalate out of control. Far better to play the role of interested but detached observer, where you can dip your toe in the water when you want but won’t get swept along with the throng. Bide your time.

Taurus You’re more likely to feel comfortable during December if you’re interactive with at least one other most of the month, the idea of doing things alone right now doesn’t sit well with your more gregarious nature. You’ll have the chance to refine and qualify the company that you keep to a better quality of degree than normal, but this will be seen as a process of selectivity rather than being forced upon you. Perhaps the only danger during this month is that of getting too much into your comfort zone, something that potentially affects all Taureans from time to time. Just don’t let yourself get too sedimentary, because come the New Year you may have problems getting out of ruts if you do.

Romance and Relationship

With Venus in your opposite sign of Scorpio all month, you can be sure that your one to one relationship patterns are going to get stimulated this month, no matter whether they are friend, partner, parent/child or professional. Just make sure that you neither give nor take too much, because excess and over extending your generosity are all well and good, but at the end of the day you can’t do it for others, you can only help them do it for themselves, so help people stand on their own two feet.

Business and Finance

There can be misunderstandings around external finances with one or two other people if things are not kept totally transparent, so at the first sign of confusion don’t hesitate to explain yourself. There are no clear signs of new limitation, and indeed there are the first signs of new opportunities beginning to develop in the background. But you’re not going to see clear light in this until January, so write everything down and don’t speculate too much just yet.

Health and Spirit

Your normal generous and big hearted nature could get tested this month if you’re not moderate in both your financial and your emotional expenditure, so be aware of a tendency to either over stretch or undercut yourself. The best course of action is sometimes inaction, knowing when to wait and when to act. And if you do decide to be specific and take definitive actions, tread the middle path despite the fact that’s it’s the boring option, because it’s really the only safe show in town.

Gemini Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, this month is a time of split opportunities and potential dichotomies where the choices that you’re going to make will be seen as the bedrock for future developments. And with the Gemini full Moon on the day of the Solstice bringing a finale to events that have been going on in some cases over three years, it’s time to re-assess everything and everyone in the light of recent experience and ask yourself whether or not those things or people still sustain and compliment you. Free yourself from the mindless superficialities of life and ask what it is that still has meaning for you – then go for it after eliminating the dross.

Romance and Relationship

The first week of the month can be highly provocative if you’re not careful, the potential exists for a number of buttons to get pushed, especially in terms of sudden actions or decisions. Definitely a count to ten time, by the second week of the month there’s a notable decrease of stress and tension in all that you generate around you, and things begin to calm down. There’s an itch that you can’t scratch, you’ll not get everything that you want, but you’ll do OK if you don’t bite too early.

Business and Finance

One to one interactions at the professional, business or financial level are one of the main arenas of operation during December, and if you’re not careful you can get caught up in situations that then rapidly escalate out of proportion to reality. There’s misunderstandings and the potential for strange information that can throw things out of kilter. Keep things at the day to day level and let big choices and decisions wait until the start of the New Year.

Health and Spirit

Definite and strong rumblings in the undergrowth now, there’s a growing sense of anticipation about the short term future that if you’re not careful could push you into mental and/or emotional states they are a variation to the norm. It’s important now to keep some of your anchors into the ground well oiled and checked, and not to let go of certain base principles in life. Certain boundaries are unbreakable, and those who abuse them need to be released before things get worse.

Cancer Everything seems to be happening to you as opposed to coming from you, it’s as though you’re a mirror for the world and no matter what you do people will either misconstrue or else negate your efforts. Sometimes there’s a time for stepping back and allowing the world to flow around you, as opposed to trying to manage things, and that’s the case now. If you persist in struggling against external challenges things can get very convoluted, whereas if you voluntarily step back and pull your bubble around you, you’ll find yourself unaffected by the madness going on around you. It’s time to anchor onto the bedrock for a little bit and let the waves sweep over you.

Romance and Relationship

And the beat goes on ... This month can be really great, or it can be really bad. What it won’t be is normal and conventional. With Mars opposing you much of the month, your libido and possibly your temper are going to be raised substantially, so bide your time and don’t let things get to you otherwise you’re going to do the headless chicken in a way at its strongest. Stay nimble, stay live, and stay sane.

Business and Finance

Some of you are having to cut your cloth according to your means now, whilst others of you are having to evaluate priorities in the face of new, more recent developments. Either way, this is a time of objective and analytical decision as to the difference between your needs, wants and desires, and a test of how you manage the boundaries between them. If you are relatively conservative now, you’ll benefit yourself later. December is certainly not a month for pushing the boat out.

Health and Spirit

It’s almost karmic out there at the moment, there seem to be so many ‘chance’ meetings and developments’ going on that it’s as though you’re dancing on unseen strings, or there’s the background feel that you’re fulfilling some type of plan. Whether this is true of not is one of the fundamental arguments in astrology, but this month the opportunity for significant and meaningful meetings that could have a major long term influence on your life is very strong. Antenna up for new opportunities.

Leo You’re the gooseberry at someone else’s party, which suits your style not one bit. You’re the odd one out as far as December goes, it’s as though there’s a kind of transparent but unbreakable veil between you and the rest of the world. Believe it or not, this is not a bad thing, because it’s protecting you against some of the madness and disruption that if it got hold of you would bring worse circumstances than are currently around. Knowing when to retreat into your own space and be the master/mistress of your own domain is the mark of an intelligent person, so perhaps taking time out to recharge your psychological batteries is not that bad an idea.

Romance and Relationship

In the background there’s an ongoing degree of sultriness that permeates all around you, and possibly makes you on the receiving end of a number of misconstrued or misunderstood actions or comments. Best not come out to play this month, stay inside your existing boundaries and contacts and be comfortable with what you’ve got. If new contacts or opportunities arise, be prudent and patient in letting them develop, because only the good ones will still be there by mid January.

Business and Finance

There is the capacity for slow but steady progress during December, you can be a bit lava like, slow but unstoppable, clearing everything in your path. Or, you can go full speed ahead into uncharted territory and see where you end up, but realistically the potentials here are not that healthy. Why take chances if there’s no need? I know that sometimes you feel lucky, but perhaps this time it is foolish estimation as opposed to realistic opportunities, so bide your time ...

Health and Spirit

If you’re trying to play catch up with the rest of the world, you’re likely to find that not only do you fail to do this, but that you could also lag further behind. Instead, why not take a month out for yourself and go on a personal journey, whether physical, mental or other, that opens up new doors not limited by normal cultural and societal boundaries. You’re not going to get much sense from the outside world at the moment, so perhaps it’s a good time to explore the internal world ...

Virgo Just within the last month or so, there’s been a notable shift in the ways that you manage your interactions with other people resulting in a change in attitude towards you. It seems as though others are becoming more amenable to helping you, not so much in specific ways but in an all round generalised form that makes you feel both more valued and more wanted. And as a result of this, you’re able to project yourself more confidently onto the outside world stage and as a result feel better about potential outcomes. This is a good month for moving forward, but slowly and gradually as opposed to fits and starts. Things will speed up as the month evolves.

Romance and Relationship

Whilst it’s not exactly spectacular out there at the moment, there’s a definite undersurge that says that December is likely to become steadily better and better as far as your love life goes. There are clear opportunities arising that will bring clear chances to prosper. If you don’t take these chances then you lose nothing, but they don’t come along as good as they are now that often, to keep your antennae up. And of course, existing relationships that are good only get better at this time.

Business and Finance

It would be tempting to take advantage of all the sudden offers that appear to be pouring in at the moment, but hang on a minute… they’ve been potentially brewing for a long time, and now all of a sudden they’re coming in quite fast – surely grounds for suspicion? Now that things are on your doorstep, make sure that you still really want them before gulping, because perhaps it was just the journey, not the destination that brought the real lessons and the true results are yet to transpire.

Health and Spirit

There can be s short sharp shock for a few days just before the solstice that could affect a substantial number of Virgo’s and although acute and precise it is very short term, but nevertheless a point to be aware of. Apart from this, December is a month of relative calm, at least compared to many others out there, and indeed you may find that you can be of considerable help to others at this time - something that won’t be forgotten in the future, be sure of that.

Libra Basically, the last five or six months have been bxxxxy hard work with added stress and double tension on top. But look, at least as a result you’re a lot leaner, a bit meaner, more effective and efficient – as well as being a bit raw and sore, feeling a bit battered or bruised. Now you’ve got the chance to step back and evaluate recent developments and watch as bits of the jigsaw slot into place. You can begin to make more than short term plans with a healthy degree of optimism, for perhaps the first time this year, because what’s left after recent months at least has a degree of reality about it, although the final proof of the pudding won’t be until June ... Sorry!

Romance and Relationship

This is one of those months where things could get a little fractious if you’re not willing to either stand aside or else take control. You’re either going to have to bury your head in the sand and choose not to become involved, or else you’re going to have to put yourself in the firing line in a way that definitely walks your talk. Either way you’ll discover sides of yourself through your interactions with ‘other’ that should empower you with a new confidence in your own ability to stand up for yourself, resulting in better quality interactions all round.

Business and Finance

In a specialised sub group, those of you born from the 7th to the 10th are under a great deal of pressure and stress that suggests a lightening of one’s load and the weeding and pruning of some of the choices you’re currently facing. Otherwise, all Librans are currently faced with patterns suggestive of a number of choices, many of which are still unformed. Better to not make any permanent decisions until you have all the information that you need, which probably won’t be till mid January.

Health and Spirit

Whilst 2010 has been a year of considerable development, in many cases challenge, and in others a need for substantial restructuring, nevertheless now there’s a chance to not only reflect on what has happened but also take a few specific chances. This is not to do with words, logic or even feelings or emotion, but it is to do with that occasional sense of theatre, where it is as though the whole world is a stage but you are the casting director. Eyes open for specific chances – they are around.

Scorpio 2010 has not been as much a difficult year as it has an irritable time where the need for common sense and compromise with others for the common good has all been very well, but hasn’t satisfied the desire to sting someone… Now, in December, you can accept the fact that it’s a strange time and dissociate yourself from it, become more detached and objective and finally focus on yourself. It’s a great month for enjoying yourself, doing what you want and for once putting your own benefit ahead of that of others. How can you help anyone else if you’re not in good working order yourself? The rest of the world can look after itself for a short time – go and have some fun.

Romance and Relationship

And so finally, after about three months of flirting and teasing with you, Venus comes back to grace you with her presence again. Throughout the entire month Venus is in your sign, creating a background harmonic of more gentle, sensual and sensitive appreciation of some of the good things that life has to offer. This is a good time to let yourself be wooed, courted or in other ways have your favour sought. You’re in demand, so milk it a little – just don’t let things go to your head, by mid January it’s over.

Business and Finance

There are the first signs of new developments beginning to come to fruition but take your time… Just within the last month you can see how things are taking shape, and as a result of that you can now plan for the future with a greater confidence in your budgetary and your financial generating abilities. This is a month for the taking of small chances and the steady stepping forward into a future that’s a little more optimistic now that at any time since May – and there’s more substance now.

Health and Spirit

It’s almost as if you’re breeding something in the background, there’s a sense of long term nurturing and planning going on at the initiatory stages, so long term plans for your future that are based on grounded common sense are more than likely to prosper now. Just don’t get carried away with visions of grandeur, remember that you live within a community and that you can’t do it alone, no matter how much you wish that you could. A good time for not only summarising, but also projecting.

Sagittarius Just when you thought it was safe to come out from underneath the bedclothes, Mercury steps back into your sign around the third week of December in a way that brings new information, different ideas, a change of attitude or opinion, or some other type of mental or verbal flow that give you the chance the change your mind. Because of this, perhaps it’s a good idea not to commit to any large scale or long term decisions until the start of January, because it’s only going to be then that you’re going to be able to say to yourself with any clarity what it is that you really want to do. December is the final month of test and trial, experience and experiment, so narrow your options now ...

Romance and Relationship

It’s only really the first week of December that gives any major cause for concern, bringing with it the potential for impulsive and impatient behaviour, especially if there’s someone who seems to be cramping your style. If you’re going to say or do something that you may later regret, you’re most likely to do it before the 8th. So take the advice of those who know you well and have no agenda, and don’t let the blood rush to your head. It’s a month of reflection, not further action.

Business and Finance

Just don’t try and make logical or rational sense of anything this month, Mercury will be retrograding in or close to your sign all month, and this won’t change in terms of meaning or impact until the New Year. So obviously this is not a good time for long term decisions, plans or schedules, because there’s more information and news to come yet in the early new year that will cause at least a change of heart if not a change of mind. See where you stand by mid January.

Health and Spirit

It‘s like an echo, or reverberation during December, a memory of recent times that were a lot harder than what they are now. Certainly, if there’s any unfinished business left lying around from the last three or four years, then this month is a time to tie up any remaining loose ends. It’s the final cobweb check for old dust and bits of rubbish that are still hiding in your internal nooks and crannies, so get in there with a broomstick and a duster and give yourself a psychological spring clean.

Capricorn The nature of Capricorn is that of the mountain goat taking the hardest route up the sheer cliff face, but having an internal faith that the choicest morsels will only be found this way. And because you’re no stranger to doing things the hard way, you’re capable of periods in your life of almost superhuman endeavours. Your energy levels are going to be up in December, your passion and libido, vivacity, enthusiasm, get up and go – all of these things are going to come more proactive and inspired, but a note of caution – don’t become too ruthless, otherwise you alienate others and find yourself alone and lonely, and you really don’t need to go to that extreme.

Romance and Relationship

With Mars entering your sign around the 8th December, the last three weeks of the month are likely to be the fastest time of the year in terms of being assertive and projective, but the problem is that this could easily tip over into being confrontational and aggressive, at least in other people’s eyes. Best act incisively and cleanly, almost as if with a scalpel, and that way you can feel honest within yourself. Don’t let yourself become too alone by becoming too eliminative or ruthless – remember who your friends are.

Business and Finance

Whatever you’re doing with yourself in the professional world at this time, you’re in a good position to advance yourself by being projective and assertive without coming across as confrontational or aggressive. You can be seen as more confident of yourself, with a greater degree of efficiency and effectiveness than is normally the case, so push forward whilst you can – just do your best not to tread on other people’s toes. The last five days of the month are especially good.

Health and Spirit

Months like this only come about on average every two years, so it’s very much a case of use it or lose it as far as chances go. You seem to be in a position to attract better things and situations than normal. Of course, you could sit back and get complacent, knowing that little if anything will go wrong, or you can take the initiative and get out there and make things happen. There’s even a better chance than normal of something not only long term but lifetime developing, so ears and eyes and gut instinct open.

Aquarius Having had both Neptune and Chiron together in your sign for much of the year is like standing in a river delta up to your knees in mud, only able to move forward with a great deal of effort and suction. However, just within recent weeks the flow of new rivulets of clear water around you is removing much of the quicksand and treacle that has had you in it’s grip over recent times, and there seems to be indications of you being able to not only extricate yourself from the cloud and mist of recent times, but also to become lighter in yourself and thus more able to easily flow across the surface. The fog is clearing, but at the moment there’s still a little fine mist, so take your time ... February looks great.

Romance and Relationship

It would be a little too easy for your feelings to get tinkered with this month, so be aware that you’re in an unusually sensitive state at least as far as feelings around home and family go. It may be that you’re going to retreat to an extent behind that famed Aquarian wall of disdain – but if so this will only be for a few days, whilst you make your mind up about what you really do and don’t want. Best not be too provocative this month, your shields are not quite as strong as normal.

Business and Finance

To be honest, it’s a waiting time, when only the normal movement forward or backward will occur. Certainly there’s no reason why you shouldn’t put in place foundations and potentials for the future, but activation doesn’t come until February I’m afraid. But what you can do in readiness is clear the decks in readiness and rid yourself of any clingons that are still slowing your potential progress forward. Sit tight and sharpen your act – a couple of months from now it’s all systems go.

Health and Spirit

As the mist of recent times evaporates, so your potential pathways forward become both clearer and fewer, and the false dawns and cul de sacs of recent times fall by the wayside. Those ways forward that remain are more realistically favoured than almost any time so far this year. There’s a greater common sense available than has been the case and with prudence you can being to safely plan your path ahead for the coming months – although action may have to wait a little longer.

Pisces Much of 2010 has promised more that it has delivered, but finally there are clear signs of real growth on the near horizon. Both this month and early January hold in them real chances for both personal and professional expansion, as long as you’ve learnt the lessons of over reaching and instead bring in the principle of moderation. It’s the wise person who’s learnt enough recently to be able to say to themselves ‘I think I’ll stop here, I’ve had enough’. This represents not only self discipline, but also wisdom. Keep things simple, don’t let yourself get pulled to extremes in any direction, and all should transpire in a positive and healthy way.

Romance and Relationship

One of the two best signs in the heavens as far as affairs of the heart go during December, it’s a month where you can get through almost any problem in your relationship patterns without too much trouble, simply by making your fortune that of others also, and vice versa. There’s an energy of co-operation around you during December that makes your popularity levels high and brings you into contact with a number of influential people, many of whom will help considerably if you’re not too scared to ask. Use it or lose it.

Business and Finance

Lots of promises and little substance has been the order of the day so far this year, but finally there seems to be the ‘green shoots of recovery’ coming through. Those things and people who have survived the recent test of character and worthiness are now seen as having substance and worth, and should be taken a bit more seriously. You can begin to make realistic plans now in ways that stand up in the face of examination, and the more you get towards the end of the month the better things get.

Health and Spirit

Much of this year so far has held promised of luck, fame, fortune and opportunity, most of which has come to precisely nothing, and if you’ve not been careful you’ve also lost the shirt off of your back. But now it seems as though Lady Luck is beginning the cast a favourable eye on you, and there does seem to be the chance to make things happen. It’s OK to take a few chances, now, there’s more fortune in December than in any other month of 2010, but keep your powder dry mainly for January ...

About Steve Judd

Steve was born near Southampton in southern England in July 1955. After leaving the army at twenty, Steve found his first astrological book in 1980, and spent the next years buried in books studying astrological basics, leading to his first consultations in 1982. He is totally self taught. Over the next fifteen years, he expanded his ability by doing 4,000+ chart readings.

In 1994, after many years working at the Glastonbury Festival Green Fields, Steve was a founding members of the Big Green Gathering and is currently on the Board of Directors. Since 1998, Steve has increased his astrological career many fold, starting when he began work for the astrological phone lines. He wrote for Jonathan Cainer, as well as contributing to Jon's web site and column in the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail. During 1999 and 2000 Steve worked as a real-time internet astrological consultant for World International Television. He now works solely for himself.

In the last seven years, Steve's number of consultations has increased to the point where he now has records of over 20,000 horoscopic readings, with a loyal client base, many of whom return for monthly and yearly updates.

Steve has considerable experience of dealing with different media. He has appeared on local radio stations in Cornwall, Bristol, Hereford, Stevenage and the highlands of Scotland amongst others, on local TV in the HTV and GMTV areas, and has national TV appearances to his name. He has his own brand of idiosyncrasies which endear him to his many clients and fans, which coupled with his bohemian and sometimes direct attitude makes him a unique individual.

In September 2003, Steve began studying for the Master of Arts Degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the Sophia Centre, Bath Spa University. He was awarded his Masters Degree on July 22 2005.

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