MONTHLY ORACLE READINGS

ARIES ORACLE:
Sun, Moon, and Rising

FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2025

PREFACE

December does not come to Aries with a brand new plot twist. It comes as a blunt update on a process you already know is running: the handoff between what you have already understood with painful clarity and what you have still not fully let yourself feel.

You are sitting at the threshold where the macro Swords vector (discernment, decision, rupture) is meant to pass its data into the micro Cups vector (grief, integration, emotional reassembly). The mind has done its job. The problem is not insight. The problem is what has not yet been allowed to move through the heart.

1. The Discernment Is Not the Problem

Queen of Wands (Upright) ﹠ Three of Swords (Upright)

You did not sidestep the hard part. The Three of Swords upright says you let the blade cut the illusion instead of trying to tape it back together. The Queen of Wands upright is you on the other side of that: more self-aware, more honest, more capable of directing your energy without self-betrayal.

You already know what happened. You already know what it cost. You already know what needed to end. There is no confusion here. The macro Swords process has completed its run. The hitch is that the emotional OS still has the old grief held in a locked file.

2. The Emotional Interface Is Blocked

XIX. The Sun (Sideways) on Five of Cups (Reversed)

The Five of Cups reversed here is not apathy. It is unprocessed grief kept behind a reinforced door. The Sun sideways shows an identity signal that cannot fully lock in upright, because the version of you that would exist after the grief moves is still unfamiliar.

At some point the sorrow stopped being just a response and started functioning as an anchor. When everything fell apart, that ache became the one stable inner signal that confirmed you were still real. Losing it feels dangerous, even if you are exhausted by it. So the system does not let the Cups vector fully open. It keeps grief in a suspended state instead of letting it flow.

3. The Tower Is Internal, and the Ace Is Holding the Match

Ace of Swords (Upright) ﹠ XVI. The Tower (Upright)

The Tower in this spread is not the original event. It is the structure you built so you could function after the event. It is the internalized framework of "I am fine, I can handle it, I am already over this."

The Ace of Swords upright is the part of you that has outgrown that structure entirely. Not in theory, but in lived reality. Your clarity is now sharper than the scaffolding built to contain it. The Tower stands between you and a fully integrated identity. The Ace is the force that brings that Tower down.

This demolition is not a cosmic punishment, nor is it a failure. It is what happens when survival architecture has done its job and now blocks the doorway it once protected.

4. The Architect of the Tower

Knight of Swords (Reversed)

The Knight of Swords reversed is the part of your mind that tried to keep you safe by outrunning your own feelings. Its logic sounds like:

• If I understand this enough, I will not have to feel it.
• If I stay sharp, I stay safe.
• If I keep moving, I will not fall apart.
• If I hold my identity together, the loss cannot swallow me.

That Knight was doing crisis management. It built a Tower out of speed, analysis, and self-control so you did not collapse when the ground first gave out. That was not wrong. It was just temporary. The problem now is that the same Tower is blocking the very grief that would let you reorganize at a deeper level.

5. The Tower's Outer Armor

Six of Wands (Upright)

In this configuration, the Six of Wands is not describing a clean win. It is describing the costume of being already "healed" or matured past it. It is the impulse to present as put-together, insightful, and past the worst of it:

• "I'm perfectly fine, I understand what happened and accept there's nothing to change it."
• "I already processed this, so there is no justification for wallowing any further."
• "Bitching and whining helped get me into that situation, and bitching and whining won't help me get over it."
• "Other people have it worse, so I should be over this by now."

That posture is the outer plating of the Tower. It kept everything from crumbling earlier, and helped keep you functioning (to some degree, at least), while also giving temporary social grace and internal permission to move on. Now, though, its the very thing keeping the Five of Cups from being properly metabolized and the Sun from turning upright and finally allowing this dark night of the soul to finally break dawn. You weren't lying--(or maybe you were, I don't know your life)--you do what you could with the means that were accessible to you to simply Survive. The cost of that "survival" method--whether this is the first time you've used this strategy or not--is that at this point in life, your nervous system is still rigged to believe collapse to ANY degree automatically equals personal failure and proof of immaturity or some disgust-worthy defect in character. Allowing grief to metabolize is not counterproductuve for the same reason digesting your food isn't wasteful. Opting for PROCESS instead of STASIS is the only way for something to reach COMPLETION.

6. What December Actually Asks of You

This month is not asking you to discover a new truth. It is asking you to stop standing between the truth you already know and the grief that comes with it. You do not need more information. You need permission to fall apart in the ways you never got to when you were busy holding everything together.

As the Ace of Swords executes the Tower, your nervous system may try to reassert the old posture: stay composed, stay quick, stay impressive, stay "fine." Each time that reflex fires, you have a choice. You can hold the mask, or you can let the feeling move. One preserves the Tower. The other clears the rubble and gives you back a floor you can actually stand on.

7. What Waits On the Other Side

When the Tower falls, the Five of Cups is allowed to be what it always was: a painful but finite wave that passes through instead of a permanent state. The Sun can stabilize upright, not as relentless positivity, but as a coherent sense of self that is no longer built around holding onto pain as proof of being real.

The Queen of Wands you already became on the mental level crosses the threshold into your emotional body. Your will, your clarity, and your heart stop fighting each other and start operating as one interface instead of three different war rooms.

Nothing in this spread says you are weak. It says you are overdue to stop performing recovery and start experiencing it. The fall is not the end of you. It is the point where you stop gripping the wreckage and let yourself finally step out of it.