The Solstice Shift

21 - 27 DECEMBER 2025

This week arrives as a quiet turning point.

There’s a moment here, almost imperceptible, where the year exhales its final deep breath. Where the striving eases, the noise softens, and something deeper begins to settle in the body. As we cross the Solstice and step into Capricorn season, the energy doesn’t ask us to rush forward. It asks us to just arrive.

You may feel this as a subtle shift rather than a dramatic change. A sense that something is completing. A feeling that you’ve come a long way, even if the path hasn’t looked the way you imagined or wanted. The Solstice marks the point where the light changes direction, and with it, our inner compass begins to reset. This week holds both tenderness and strength as we notice the direction in which we are now walking. 

It is also Christmas week, and that alone carries layers. For some, this time is filled with joy, connection, and familiar rituals. For others, it can bring loneliness, grief, reflection, or complicated family dynamics. You may feel all the feels, sometimes all at once: gratitude and sadness, warmth and heaviness, joy and fatigue, love and hate.  Please allow any feelings to come and go, and try not to hold on to anything too deep this week. If you are with your family, there's an old saying that if you want to know how much you’ve healed, spend some time with your family; they have a way of revealing how far we’ve really come.

You know what you need to do to look after yourself, so treat this week like any other week; self-care and daily ritual need to stay consistent. Balance is the new black. 

As we now walk into Capricorn season, we are invited back to the bones of things, to what is real, steady, and sustainable beneath the surface. It reminds us that we don’t need to have everything figured out right now. We simply need to stay present with what’s true, grounded in what supports us, and open to the quiet emergence of what comes next.

How to work with the energy this week

• Honour the Solstice pause, you don’t need to rush this transition

• Stay grounded in your body: rest, nourish, simplify

• Let Christmas be whatever it is for you this year

• Release expectations of how you should feel

• Focus on what you want to build next, not what you’re leaving behind

You don’t need big goals yet. You’re simply planting seeds right now.

Capricorn season reminds us that small, steady steps taken with intention create real change.

This week's astro

On December 21, the Sun enters Capricorn, and we cross the Solstice, one of the most powerful energetic gateways of the year. 

The Solstice marks the moment when the Sun appears to stand still, a pause point between cycles. In the Southern Hemisphere, it brings the longest day of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest night. Energetically, it’s a time of recalibration, where intention, direction, and inner alignment gently reset.

This is a potent moment for:

• reflection rather than action

• intuitive insight

• quiet intention-setting

• reconnecting with nature and inner wisdom

As Capricorn season begins, the energy becomes more grounded and deliberate. Capricorn isn’t about rushing or pushing; it's about choosing the path you’re willing to walk for the long term. You may find yourself thinking about what you want to build in the year ahead, what truly matters now, and what you are no longer willing to carry forward.

On December 24, Venus also enters Capricorn, adding clarity and practicality to matters of love, relationships, money, and values. This energy isn’t overly sentimental; it's honest and steady. It asks us to look at what is solid, supportive, and worth investing in over time. It’s a supportive placement for practical conversations, financial planning, and business ideas you want to grow slowly and sustainably.

✨ Affirmation of the Week

"I ground myself in the present and trust the new cycle unfolding."

As we move through this sacred turning point and into the final days of the year, may you give yourself permission to feel exactly where you are. Whether this week brings joy or quiet, connection or solitude, reflection or celebration, it all has a place. 

If you are spending time with family or loved ones, may you move through those moments with softness and self-awareness, remembering that presence is often the greatest gift we can offer. And if this week is quieter for you, may it hold space for rest, grounding, and gentle reconnection with yourself.

Wherever you are, and however this week unfolds, I wish you steadiness, ease, and moments of genuine peace. May you feel supported by the slowing pace, nourished by the season, and quietly open to the new cycle beginning to take shape.

Go gently with yourself.

You are exactly where you need to be.

I love you,

Sarah

If you would like to receive some more guidance about this week's energy, watch my Weekly Cosmic Forecast below.

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Open Your Heart

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