Cosmic Currents:
What’s Shifting in the Stars This Week?
What’s Shifting in the Stars This Week?
1 December, 2025
This week brings clear light and real movement. A powerful Full Moon in Taurus, Jupiter changing signs, Mercury shifting into Scorpio and Mars leaving Scorpio for Sagittarius all reshape the inner and outer landscape. Saturn has just gone direct, helping the slow return of stability. This is a week of grounded release and shifting direction.
🌕 4 December: Full Moon in Taurus in Krittika: Purifying Fire, Steady Earth
This Full Moon rises in Taurus, a sign of grounding, nourishment and calm. Its placement in Krittika Nakshatra adds a sharpness and clarity that cuts through fog.
What this brings:
This Full Moon rises in Taurus, a sign of grounding, nourishment and calm. Its placement in Krittika Nakshatra adds a sharpness and clarity that cuts through fog.
What this brings:
- A moment of decisive emotional clarity
- Strong ability to remove what drains or distracts
- Embodied grounding after weeks of intensity
- A call to honour simple needs: rest, food, stability, peace
🌓 Mercury Direct in Libra, Moving to Scorpio on 6 December: Clearer Words, Deeper Insight
Mercury starts the week direct in Libra, helping conversations flow more easily after recent delays. On 6 December, Mercury moves to Scorpio, deepening thought and sharpening intuition.
What this brings:
Mercury starts the week direct in Libra, helping conversations flow more easily after recent delays. On 6 December, Mercury moves to Scorpio, deepening thought and sharpening intuition.
What this brings:
- Honest communication, even in difficult areas
- The ability to see beneath surface explanations
- Better decision making by the end of the week
- A shift from diplomacy to truth
♋➡️♊ 5 December: Jupiter Retrograde Moves from Cancer to Gemini: Learning Returns
Jupiter has been exalted in Cancer, bringing emotional intelligence and inner wisdom. When it slips back into Gemini, the focus shifts to thought, dialogue and rediscovery.
Expect:
Jupiter has been exalted in Cancer, bringing emotional intelligence and inner wisdom. When it slips back into Gemini, the focus shifts to thought, dialogue and rediscovery.
Expect:
- Revisiting old studies, ideas or goals
- Curiosity waking up after an emotional cycle
- A desire to reorganise your thinking
- Growth through questioning and inquiry
♏ Sun, Venus and Mars in Scorpio: Until Mars Moves on 7 December
Most of the week holds deep Scorpio energy with the Sun, Venus and Mars all present. This creates emotional intensity, honesty and powerful inner awareness.
This period supports:
Most of the week holds deep Scorpio energy with the Sun, Venus and Mars all present. This creates emotional intensity, honesty and powerful inner awareness.
This period supports:
- Shadow work and emotional depth
- Strong intuition and inner truth
- Creative expression from a place of honesty
- Clear boundaries
♐ 7 December: Mars Moves to Sagittarius: New Direction, New Drive
On Sunday, Mars steps into Sagittarius, shifting from emotional intensity to open fire.
Expect:
On Sunday, Mars steps into Sagittarius, shifting from emotional intensity to open fire.
Expect:
- Forward momentum
- Greater clarity of purpose
- Energy for travel, study, planning or expansion
- A sense of renewed optimism
- This is the first real outward push in weeks.
🪐 Saturn Direct in Purva Bhadrapada: Slow Structure Returns
Saturn has only just gone direct, beginning a new phase of rebuilding.
This brings:
Saturn has only just gone direct, beginning a new phase of rebuilding.
This brings:
- Slow but reliable progress
- A sense of stability returning
- Realignment with long term goals
- Clearer responsibility and discipline
- The heaviness does not lift all at once, but the path forward is visible again.
♒ Rahu in Aquarius in Shatabhisha: Clean Vision
Rahu’s movement into Shatabhisha, its own nakshatra, heightens clarity and truth seeking.
This activates:
🦁 Ketu Alone in Leo: Inner Authenticity
With Ketu alone in Leo, creative expression becomes more introspective.
This supports:
Rahu’s movement into Shatabhisha, its own nakshatra, heightens clarity and truth seeking.
This activates:
- Insight into patterns
- A strong desire for reinvention
- Clear awareness of what needs healing
🦁 Ketu Alone in Leo: Inner Authenticity
With Ketu alone in Leo, creative expression becomes more introspective.
This supports:
- Inner honesty
- Quiet confidence
- Creativity without performance
✅ Weekly Vedic Astrology Action Steps:
- Use the Full Moon to simplify your commitments and stabilise your energy
- Revisit old ideas and reorganise your thinking as Jupiter shifts signs
- Allow Mercury in Scorpio to reveal deeper truths
- Move into new directions once Mars enters Sagittarius
- Take steady steps forward with Saturn now direct
🔮 Jyotish Insight of the Week:
This week brings light where you need it most.
Let clarity stabilise you.
Let movement return naturally.
And trust that every shift now creates space for what comes next.
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