The December Wolf Moon

Earlier today, December 15th, the Wolf Moon illuminated the Sagittarius-Gemini axis at 4:01 am EST. Human society has many associations with wolves such as an alpha wolf, and a lone wolf to name a few. 

Our understanding of wolf behavior hasn’t always been kind to the wolf or to ourselves even. Historically, wolves were seen as animals equivalent to monsters, the fear leading to mass hunting and extinction of packs in many areas around the world. The elimination of this key predator species led to a domino effect of ecological imbalance in those environments. 

Even as there are efforts to correct this misstep in human and wolf interaction, being an alpha leader or a lone wolf, as well as a howling pack still holds great misunderstandings of the animal and how their behavior.

Alphas lead from the back—the place where they can see everyone to care for or direct them in case of danger, but also the most dangerous position because you can’t see what’s behind you—not from the front or in an ego-centric position. While lone wolves are easily the most dangerous type of wolf in the wild, not a disposition to envy and emulate. 

Howling occurs when the pack is being social, whether for fun or to celebrate a present moment, like the Full Moon. Packs hunt in silence though. Silence is a tool in their arsenal just like their claws and teeth.

The social, jovial energy of the Sagittarius-Gemini axis matches the December Wolf Moon, through howls of shared laughter, howling in celebration or in participation of the Wild Hunt, and the silence of Sagittarius and Gemini energy just as potent as the wolf pack’s. 

The Sun

Sagittarius energy encompasses experience, higher learning, philosophical thinking, and progressive action. As a mutable sign, there’s very little room or desire for stillness and stagnation as the energy continues to move in optimism, in whatever direction it can. 

The Sagittarius Sun highlights the shared experiences and sharing philosophies, even if those are not exactly the same, while aiming arrows of thoughts, logic, and strategic action at the stars. The Sun in this position brings vitality to and emphasizes the archer—us as individuals and as a collective—and the target—our dream lives and a better future than the present. 

While the Sun isn’t alone in Sagittarius, the closest celestial pack member is Pallas in Capricorn, making an out-of-sign conjunction between the two. The Sagittarius Sun and Capricorn Pallas approach the same situation from different perspectives—philosophical optimism and structured discipline. 

As the Sun Sagittarius provides jovial moments to share experiences, reasoning, and auspicious future results, Pallas in Capricorn helps by presenting lateral creative thinking and strategies to manifest the Sagittarius energy into our 3rd dimension reality. 

The Septiles

The Sagittarius Sun also makes two septiles with Haumea in Scorpio and Chariklo in Aquarius. Septiles occur at about 51.34° from each other, creating a connection more mystical than rational as a 360° circle can not be completed using the septile aspect. Either a .62° gap will exist, or a new 50.72° tail will begin to spiral—upwards or downwards, pick your direction—into a new cycle.

Whether it is the gap or the spiral that resonates with any particular situation, moment, or individual, this nature of the septile aspect is what makes it a spiritual, mystical, and magickal link between two celestial points.  

Scorpio Haumea transforms our relationship and deep, subconscious fears with Nature into intimate interdependency. The septile between the Sagittarius Sun and Scorpio Haumea encourages us to expand our perception beyond the optimistic results for us and bring it towards the best possible results for us as essential members of Nature—not a species or person outside of Nature—and thus for Nature itself.

Aquarius Chariklo offers energy healing and spiritual healing on an individual level that disseminates out into the collective, healing the pack, the tribe, society like osmosis. This septile aspect between the Sagittarius Sun and Chariklo in Aquarius links individual freedom and healing to healing society and the collective consciousness for a positive and healthier solution.

The Moon

The Wolf Moon in Gemini sits opposite the Sagittarius Sun, evoking as much good cheer and genial energy as its counterpart celestial. This full moon evokes a connection to friends, tribe, and community through laughter, especially in dark and difficult times. 

The Wolf Moon allows for us to take a moment to evaluate what we’ve done and felt since the New Moon—December 1st at 3:26 am EST—and to check in not with ourselves as well as with our pack for some levity, a sharing a meme, or making social plans. It’s a reminder to laugh, howl, or cackle as the case may be. 

A retrograding Jupiter in Gemini conjuncts the full moon. Jupiter as a benefic celestial brings expansion and optimism into any aspect, sometimes too much. In retrograde, though, Jupiter prompts us to turn our genial, good cheer and comedy relief inwards, expanding our understanding of our emotions and why things hit us in the feels. 

This conjunction offers us a way to sympathize and empathize with ourselves and others through big belly laughter and expanding our understanding on the details shared across the imaginary lines that we perceive to divide us from each other and from our dream life. 

Squares

The Sun, Moon, and their conjunctions stand at 90° squares to the Pisces Neptune and the Nodes in Aries and Libra. Generally, we humans are creatures of habit, and the energies from squares bring tension and just enough discomfort to force us to either change, grow, and take action, or acknowledge that whatever that thorn in our sides is, it’s not coming out without emergency services. 

In less than a month, on January 11, 2025 at 5:58 pm EST, the Lunar North Nodes will transit into Pisces and the South into Virgo. The Nodes in the Aries-Libra axis surround the Sun and Moon in out-of-sign squares, almost directing the energy through pushes and shoves. 

The Aries North Node challenges us to gather good cheer, philosophical thinking, and laughter and apply them to the Self, self-identity, and self-presentation. If we don’t love or like ourselves, not only do we tend to not like others, but it’s hard for others to reciprocate as well. 

The Libra South Node, on the other hand, challenges us to into our skills with others and share the same good cheer, philosophy, and laughter, even with those we had little to no reason to interacted and socialize with before. Growth and ascension are contagious, especially when shared with a smile and a belly laugh.

Neptune Pisces squares the Sagittarius Sun and the Gemini Moon with a challenge to edit the stories, news, and narratives we tell ourselves. Neptune in Pisces empowers our intuition and psychic self, underscoring the importance of hearing and following our gut, especially while external sources aren’t always motivated to empower our sense of discernment or knowing. Trust yourself and follow your intuition to the your dream life, and leave behind the illusions and delusions presented to distract you for sensationalism or materialism. 

Harmonious Aspects

Other celestial bodies harmoniously running in the Wolf Moon pack include Chiron and Eris in Aries, Vesta and Lilith in Libra, and Haumea in Scorpio making an out-of-sign trine to the Moon. These sextiles at 60° and trines at 120° support the Sagittarius Sun and Gemini Moon through modality and through element. 

In Aries, trining the Sun—through element—and sextiling the Moon—through modality—Chiron and Eris bring passion and ambition into the pack to heal and fight respectively. Chiron, the celestial wounded healer, addresses the wounds inflicted to the Self, the projective and electric energy, and personal agency through applying surgical laughter and deep thought. Eris, the rebel, tackles—head-on in Aries—the infringement on personal freedom, self-sovereignty, and independence. 

In Libra—trining the Moon and sextiling the Sun—Vesta and Lilith usher conversation and balance each in their own way. Vesta, symbolizing the divine flame within each of us, holds up a torch to encourage us to light the way to liberty, equality, and diplomacy for others and for ourselves. Lilith, personal advocate and wild child, dares to pull our cravings for balance, interdependence, and receptive, magnetic energies out into the open. 

Haumea in Scorpio makes an out-of-sign trine to the Gemini Moon. Haumea correlates to fertility, creation, transformation, and nature Just as the Sun-Haumea septile encouraged the best possible results to include nature because we are parts of nature as is nature a part of us, the trine to the Moon adds transformational power towards understanding that truth and growing secure in it so it can be shared throughout our packs and communities. 

So take some time this lunation phase until the next New Moon, and let ourselves howl in laughter, at the moon, together, as well as get comfortable in the moments of silence as we pursue the truth of our dream life.