 Really beautiful souls. Welcome to this energy update for December 2023. My name is Ona Christie, visionary artist and soul oracle. And I'm going to be sharing in this video an Akashic message from my guides to kind of help us through this time. And I'll be sharing a bit of astrology of December 2023, as well as a quick spirit animal reading to support these energies. And let's just start with just the general feelings around December. I'm just feeling like things are starting to really come to a head. I think we can all feel this right now. My visual, when I tuned into this month, was just kind of like these spidery things coming down. I don't want anybody to be afraid of this, okay? And I'm going to go into this with the Akashic message, which I think really is on point about this. But just the feeling is, okay, well, we are in the spiritual war and it's just starting to ramp up a little bit more. Again, nothing to be afraid of, right? But we do need to be aware, okay? So when I tuned in to the Akash and asked my Akashic guides for some clarity on this month of December 2023, here's what they told me. Maintain your equanimity. The test of a soul is it is its opportunity for glory. Hold firm. You are here to hold the light. There is no saving grace in allowing your consciousness to follow those who are lost. Do not send your light after darkness. Rather, nurture it, encourage it to grow. Feed it with beautiful things with the sacred and the holy. Feed it with gratitude. Lift your heart to the sun and give thanks. Ask the sun to enter into your heart, into your mind. Become radiant like the sun and you will become a shining beacon of light in the darkening world. You will become an anchor for light, a lamp from which others may light their own vessels. Okay, so I just want to break this down here really quickly. Just some important points from this message. First of all, the phrase, the test of a soul, is its opportunity for glory. And I think this is an encouragement to understand that the dark night of the soul is a necessary part of the awakening journey for probably for all of us, right? So it's a bit of a caution against falling into the savior syndrome, right? Especially if you are awakening and working with the light, it's really easy to jump in and try to save people, right? Well, we can't do the work for others, but what we can do is hold space for them to go through their journey. And, you know, if they come to us for help, of course, that's when we can really jump in and do the healing work that we're here for. So I love that phrase, don't send your light after darkness, because there's a lot of kind of darkness out there that's wanting to distract us. The idea here is to work with your heart and work with the energy of the sun, right? Which is Christ consciousness. And that goes beyond any kind of religious, that's the life wave of the planet, the evolutionary force, right? That brings us on this awakening journey that we can really tune into through the heart, right? And calling on the energy of the sun to bring it into the heart space so that we can become a shining light, right? And part of what, like, I think that the core really of that dynamic is really putting ourselves in devotion to others, putting ourselves into service. Jordan Peterson recently said, and I love this, he said, the more you think about yourself, the more miserable you are. And he backs that up with like actual scientific studies. So really, I think the encouragement here is to ask first, how can I be of greatest service to others in my work in my daily life? How can I best serve humanity? And I feel like if we keep asking ourselves that, when we go into prayer, when we go into, you know, whatever daily devotions you have of consciously putting oneself into service with humanity, I feel like that is the best thing that we can do at this point. And that helps us to put everything into perspective, so that we can maintain that balance, that equanimity, which is what helps others so much. We don't necessarily even have to do anything, but when we're in that divinely inspired presence of being in service, and, you know, it can really help to anchor our own energy so that we can be that shining light to others, right? So going into the astrology of December 2023, just, I know there's a lot going on astrologically, there's just a couple things that I wanted to point out. First of all, of course, we're going to have the solstice coming up, the December solstice, winter solstice for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere that happens on December 21st, that's also the sun going into Capricorn. I'm going to make a separate video about that, but there's a couple of planets here that have been in retrograde and that are going direct here in December, and I wanted to spend a little time looking at that because I feel like that feels important to me. First, Neptune is scheduled to go direct in Pisces on December 6th, okay? Neptune's been in the sign of Pisces for a long, long time. It's been in there since since 2011, and Neptune is actually the ruler of Pisces, and Neptune itself carries a lot of that Piscian energy, so it governs spirituality, empathy, imagination, and the arts, but in its shadow side it's associated with things like addictions, illusion, and delusion that includes false light, okay? So Neptune's been in retrograde since last June in the sign of Pisces, and in retrograde it can really amplify the shadow aspects of Neptune and can create kind of a spiritual fog effect, right? And I personally was feeling that a lot, a lot, a lot over in the fall, especially right before and during that eclipse season that we had in October. So if you have been experiencing that sense of being in a fog or not being able to see clearly, maybe it's been a little harder to tune in if you're clairvoyant. I know I've experienced that. If you've experienced that over the six months, it may be at least partially due to this Neptune being in retrograde, okay? And just touching on this whole Neptune and Pisces season that we've been in since 2011, I'm going to speak more about this in my 2024 energy update video, but I really feel like Neptune has been a really super important, or it is a really super important aspect of this entire spiritual awakening that's happening on the planet. So Neptune stationing direct here on December 6, 2023 feels super significant. So as Neptune stations direct in early December, it may feel a bit like this foggy veil is lifting, okay? It might be easier to find clarity and to set clear intentions and goals, especially for anything related to your spiritual practice or your divine service in the world. Conditions are ripe here for illusions to begin to dissolve and the truth to be revealed. But remember that any time we dissolve illusions or reveal truth, there will be a backlash, okay? Because the dark does not want to be revealed, right? So this could be a really powerful time for disclosures and whistleblowing. And it also could become easier to seal and set and protect your boundaries. But again, when things are being revealed, the dark will resist more. And that's why I feel like we're likely to see, it may feel like we're going deeper into the dark than we may be, right? So that's why it's so important for us to shine our light and to bring in that light of the sun into our hearts, okay? And of course, this goes right along with the Christian mythos, right, of the sun and also the solar mythos of the solstice and the return of the sun happening three days after the solstice here. It's fitting really, really well in. So I'm feeling like this could be a really, really powerful season. Also, the first to second week of December could be a really good time for goal setting, okay? Because we're getting into that more clarity of Neptune going direct, okay? So looking at between the sixth and the thirteenth when Mercury goes retrograde in that week or so, I think it's a Wednesday to a Wednesday, that could be a really great time for goal setting, whether it's for personal goals or business planning. In conjunction with this, Jupiter, the planet of expansion is set to go direct in Taurus on December 30th. So Jupiter has been in the sign of Taurus since May of 2023. It entered retrograde on September 4th, okay? So Jupiter retrograde supports more of this going within energy. When it goes direct, it supports more outward activities, okay? So we're still in this period of time where Jupiter's retrograde is encouraging that any kind of going within, and that can include things like planning, setting intentions, getting clarity about, you know, who you are, what you're here for, how we want to be in service to the world, okay? So beautiful time still for that. And in conjunction with Neptune going direct, this can make December a really excellent time, again, for going within opening to the spiritual guidance, setting intentions for 2024, okay? And so this is especially true for financial help and business planning, because remember, Jupiter's in Taurus, and Taurus has a lot to do with money, with finances and material wealth, okay? So Jupiter will remain direct in Taurus once it goes direct on December 30th. It's going to remain direct in the sign of Taurus through the end of May 2024. So for some of this, this can signal the potential for some really nice financial things to happen in the early part of 2024. All right, so let's do a spirit animal reading to support us through this month of December. And I'm going to be using my own spirit animal awareness deck. And by the way, this deck and everything else in my Etsy shop is on sale through the end of November 2023. And just go in there and use the coupon code, thank you, one word. And you'll get that 10% off, as well as not just my Oracle cards, but I just came out with a new line of greeting cards. So we have goddess cards. We've got some holiday cards. This is an example. And this is a spirit animal card. Actually, this is one of the holiday cards here, Star of Wonder. You can see they're blank within to use them for pretty much any occasion. I've put packs of eight cards in there. And again, these are also going to be on sale through November with the coupon code. Thank you. Okay, so with that said, let's look at what animal is coming up to support us in December 2023. I love it. It is dove. Okay, so dove represents the Holy Spirit. It represents this kind of purity, this innocence, the transcendence. Okay, and I feel like that goes so well with the message that came through the dove represents love and the love of the Holy Spirit, which is a divine love that really puts others over ourselves, not in a martyr way. Okay, remember the boundaries and remember, you know, really holding true to yourself. That also includes financial abundance. Okay, we need that financial abundance is really a type of boundary, right? It says, okay, I'm going to set this strong, you know, material or financial platform for myself to work off of, and just holding strong for that. So, but once we have that that kind of sense of material kind of security, then we can really release the dove and just be here as a loving presence, which I think is the most important thing right now to stand firm and true in that sense of love and devotion for others. All right, so if you've enjoyed this video, if you feel like it's been helpful for you, I'd be so grateful for your likes, your shares. If you haven't subscribed yet, go ahead and subscribe and remember, you were born to be free.