Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas - The Week of December 22nd, 2025: Getting playful and practical with Venus

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

Episode 262In this podcast, New York Times best-selling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all.The astrology of the week of December 22nd, 2025, brings two very different energies to our relationships. Venus (the planet of connection) squares off with delulu Neptune, urging us to rest, play, and let our guard down around our loved ones. But it also moves into no-nonsense Capricorn, where romance means commitment and planning ahead. Feel free to goof off with the people you care about — just remind them that you’re serious about loving them too.This episode covers:Venus’ square to Neptune on Tuesday, December 23rdVenus’ entrance into Capricorn on Wednesday, December 24thThis episode was recorded on 11/13/2025.Already thinking about 2026? We have readings for that. Open your CHANI app and head to the “This Year” tab to listen to your month-by-month astro breakdowns from Chani Nicholas, read your horoscopes for the year (tailored to the four main areas of your life), and dive into the journal prompts, rituals, altar suggestions, and guided meditations that will help you navigate the astrology of 2026 as it unfolds. Btw, we’re never wrong.For more, check out your free daily horoscope on the homepage of the CHANI app — now on iOS and Android.Want to know what Chani’s reading beyond the astro? Join her book club, The Next Chapter, to explore her favorite titles and build community around books that reckon with and reimagine the world we’re living in.The music featured in the podcast was created by Latashá.

Three things about this week. One, we're going to get incredibly flirtatious with life. Two, we're going to remember how practically important it is to center our values and to value what brings us joy. And three, it's kind of like recess, astrologically speaking. Hey, Astrobastie, good news. We have made our year ahead content four times. more detailed, richer, more in depth. It's really like four times the readings. You have four astrological horoscopes for the year, 26. Instead of four readings for the year, instead of giving

you a quarterly reading for the year, I have recorded 12, count them 12 readings for the year, one for every single month, because I need you to understand the astrology month by month. It is a wild year and we're going to make the most of it understanding when to go, when to hold them, when to fold them, you get the idea. There's also a bonus year at a glance reading. I cannot wait for you to dive in. Head to the Chani app now and go to the Your Year tab. I'll see you over there. Hello and welcome. This is the Astrology of the Week Ahead podcast. I'm your host, your Astro Bestie Chani Nicholas. In this week's episode, we were talking about the week of December 22nd, and there is not much going on. Y'all, I'm happy to report.

There's a lot going on next week, the week after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, this week, we're just going to bring it down to two little tiny movements. Well, one big movement, but one little tiny one. On Tuesday, Venus, planet of pleasure and joy and love and sweetness and good things makes a square to Neptune. This is the height of romantic delusions. This is about letting your guard down and making bad choices. J.K., this is about having a little moment of escape. It's time.

We have survived at least almost the end of 2025. one of the hardest most dumpster fire years on record. I mean, we've had some doozies, but this one, I think, takes the cake, at least in terms of the past, I don't know, 50 years. Anywho, it's been a year. This year has been a century. And it's time to have some fun. It's time to rest. It's time to party. It's time to play. It's time to have a good time. And that's one. what Tuesday the 23rd calls for. So please live it up. On Wednesday the 24th, Venus moves in to the practical sign of Capricorn. Now, practicality is not not romantic. When someone makes a date to have a date, that is very romantic. When somebody makes a reservation for your date, that's even more

romantic. When someone buys the tickets and books the car and make sure that you're going to get to the concert, to the show, to the situation where you're going to have the date, that's even more romantic. So we are talking about putting some love on practicality and making sure that we are centering all we value and that we remember we value our joy and our connection and our time. Why am I saying all these words? Because Venus is the planet of what we value. Venus is a planet of relationships. Venus is the planet that brings us together. And in the sign of Capricorn, it's got to be realistic. It's got to be practical. It's got to be pragmatic. That's how we actually get to hang out. You can tell me you love me all you want. But until you make a date with me, I don't know if you

mean it. You know what I'm saying? Venus in Capricorn is like, get out your deal. You know, date book, we're putting this in. I'm sending you a Cal invite and you're going to accept it. And if you don't, too bad for you, I'm going to move on and schedule somebody else. So this is our opportunity. This is our invitation to look at our calendars, to look at who we've said yes to, and to make sure that we have made some practical progress towards centering the things we value, centering our joy, centering our friendships, our connections, our relationships, centering what we love. It's got to be in the works. We have to get the ticket. We have to put it in the cow. We have to do the things that will practically make it happen for it to happen. I mean, I'm not opposed to letting things just happen.

I love a spontaneous good time. That was for Venus and Sagittarius. You know what I'm saying? that's for Venus and Pisces, you know what I'm saying? That is for other moments. Not this one. No, no. This one, we are going to make sure that we are showing up prepared. That's how we're going to demonstrate our love to people. And to ourselves. What do you need to do? What do you need to put in your little calendar? What time do you need to quarantine for yourself? Sorry, too soon to use that word. What time do you need to set aside for yourself? What time do you need to schedule for yourself? maybe it's to do a little manny-pity, but maybe it's to do a little reading of that book you wanted to read forever. Maybe it's to take yourself on a little artist date. Maybe it's to do something that

you always say you want to do, but you never actually make time. You never actually prioritize it. Why don't you prioritize it? Open up your little calendar right now and prioritize it. Put yourself in your schedule. What do you value? Put it in your schedule. What do you never have time for? But you always say you want to make time for, but you never actually do. Write it down right now. Not if you're driving, but you know what I'm saying? Make time. Make a commitment. I think that's the word I'm searching for. Capricorn is a sign that's ruled by Saturn. Saturn is a planet that helps us understand how powerful, how transformative commitments are. If we want more love and more pleasure and more delight in our life, while Venus is a good.

in Capricorn, we need to create the architecture for it to happen. We need to create the caldron for that alchemy to occur. We need to, yes, make the time. Capricorn is a sign that really understands time because it's about aging and wisdom and it's about TikTok. You don't have all the time in the world. What do you want to make sure you center in 2026 or in terms of this next season? We just have the solstice. Isn't it delightful? Solstice. I love the solstice. Oh my gosh. If it's a solstice when you're listening to this, if you're listening to this on Sunday the 21st, happy solstice. I hope you're setting your intentions with the growing light of the sun in the northern hemisphere at least. But what I want to say is that Venus moving into Capricorn is really important,

not just because it's the only thing happening this week. It does make it important for this week. But because of this, in January, Venus in Capricorn and Mars in Capricorn and the Sun in Capricorn are all going to meet up and they're all going to oppose Jupiter. And that is a wild combination. The part of your chart that contains Capricorn is getting so many little boosts of positive energy and of go, go, go supercharged initiatory moments. of like plant the seed and take action in January. I really want you to go listen to your reading this week in the Chani app so that you understand where this is happening in your life and how to

work with it in the new year. I want us to rest. I want us to delight. I want us to make space for again scheduling what is important to us, but we want to spend our time on what is delightful for us to do right now. And I also want us to have in our minds some like battle plans for the beginning of the year for January 2026 because we have a little pocket of time that's really good to work with. And I want us to work with it because February 2026 is super messy. And I just want us to get a little ahead of that situation. More on that later. More on that in your year ahead reading. Have you listened to the year ahead readings yet? I gave 12 readings for the year, this year, one for every month. Have you listened to yours yet? Please say you're going to listen

to them. I put a lot into them. I put so much work and so much love and so much intention into them. I want us to make the most of 2026. It is a wild, weird year, y'all. There are some moments that you're just like, what is going to happen that hasn't happened in decades? Okay, cool, cool. I gave you some really practical advice month to month to month. So you can schedule up your whole year. It's already in the Chani app. We want you to be able to get ahead of the game. Capricorn style. You know what I'm saying? Okay, let's go. So I want you to just focus on what you can do to make sure you're committing to yourself. You're committing to your joy. You're committing to your creativity. You're committing to the relationships. you definitely desperately want to show up for.

And that is how we're going to work with this week. And then the rest is up to you because that's all we've got going on. Okay, now it's time for our Ask Me Anything question from the audience. I love that y'all are leaving me voice memos on the Channy app. Here is this week's. Hi, Chani. My question has to do with being a parent. I have an eight-month-old and I'm curious about his chart.

I've taken a cursory glance at it. I've heard some astrologers say that looking at your child's chart is a little bit taboo because it's kind of personal information that maybe you could look at together, but maybe not kind of use it over their head. I just would be interested to use it to help him in whatever life struggles he might deal with. So I was just curious what your take was on that and kind of the predictive nature of astrology that might go along with that question. Thanks. I mean, this is the deal with children being the parents of a child. We have so much power over them. You know, children have a situation

where they just have to hope, we as children have to hope that, you know, the adults in charge are going to have our best interests in mind. So I think knowing their astrology chart is kind of the least of But I do think that it is important to know your child's astrology chart if you don't hold it against them and if you don't presume to understand how they themselves as individual souls are going to live out their life's purpose because you don't know. I will tell you one thing. When my daughter was born, I was aghast that she had the setup that she did. Why? Because I was in my reptile brain. Because, you know, when the child is born, everyone's in like, is everyone okay? Fight or, like, it's a traumatic experience. Birth is a traumatic experience.

It's a gorgeous, beautiful, you know, it's all the things. Hopefully it is a gorgeous, beautiful experience. But it's also traumatic. Like, it's a lot, as everybody knows who's experienced it or experienced it by proxy. So because I was in that state of like, is, like, is, a lot? And my wife going to be okay? Is my baby going to be okay? You know, like all of that. I wasn't the one that gave birth. I was the supportive parent. So I was like, you know, trying to see if everyone was okay the whole time. And when I saw her chart, I mean, I knew exactly what each rising sign would mean for her chart. I was like, oh, no, is she going to be okay? I projected all of my fears onto her chart. Totally, totally, totally not the thing to do. But it is what you do when you're a parent. You do that. And so you have to

know that you're going to do that. You have to know that because you're so protective of them, because they're just little tiny, like, you know, little noodles in your hand. And you've got to, like, hope that, like, make sure and keep them safe and do all the things that you are going to, first and foremost, because you're in your reptile brain, you're in your survival brain. Maybe I'm saying that wrong, but you're in your survival brain. You are going to worry first. And I have worked with parents and they've been like, oh no, my child's son is in the eighth house. Does that mean that, you know, their life is going to be really hard? And it's like, no, that's not what that means. But when it happens to you, that is what I thought. You know, I thought my child set up. I was like, oh, no, what is?

And then I look at it now and I'm like, oh, my God, it's like, she's got so many gorgeous things and so many ways to work with it. And now that I understand her more as her own person, she's still little, but I'm like, oh, that's how you're expressing that. And, you know, I have to see. We have to live out our life together and see how she's going to work with it. But I know enough as an astrologer to know better. And still, I projected my fears onto it because I was in a really vulnerable situation. So I think what I would say is like, wait until you feel sturdy. Wait until you feel like, okay, I am recovered from the birth process or we as a family have like recovered or you're not in like the throes of something that you feel is really traumatic or difficult. But when you're in a

place where you feel like you can digest the information and be somewhat because you can't be totally, but be somewhat objective when you hear it, which again, it's a tall order, but somewhat, then you can try to understand your child from other points of view. But you need to know that just like you, like I lived out my chart in a very different way when I was five and when I was 15 and when I was 25 than I do now like really different. And my hard stuff was so hard when I was young. And now it's really not. I mean, it's still, you know, that gives me a run for my money. but I have faculties, I have resources, I've developed skills, I have support now that I never had. And you also have to realize that if you grew up without the support that you needed,

but you are able to give your child, at least most of the support that they need, that they are going to have a radically different experience of everything difficult in their chart than you did. You know what I'm saying? When you have a difficult setup astrologically, but you have parents, who are parenting you, who are helping you and who, you know, you have a decent relationship with at least, like you know you're loved. That's a totally, it's a different world than if you have really difficult stuff and you don't know you're loved and you don't know you're okay. Just like anything else. Psychologically, like we all have our own makeup and that's much harder

when we don't know if we're loved than if we do know that we're loved. So we have to like take everything into consideration when we're looking at our child's chart. But I think it's such a blessing that I know her chart. I mean, my God. And then I get to like love that part of her. And I get to understand a whole new way of understanding those signs and those planets and those houses and that set up and this aspecting that. And this is like, oh yes, it manifests like this for her. Like, of course it does. It just gives me so much compassion for her because it's my way of seeing people. It's my way of feeling witness. It's my way of witnessing the people that I love. So maybe it's, I'm biased and it's, you know, it's worked really well for me. But again, not the whole time. I had a hard time at first.

I had a misunderstanding at first. I had to like, you know, give myself a talking to at first. So wait until you're in a good, stable kind of situation and you're able to take in the information. And when you do know that you won't understand the full chart and you're not going to understand how they're going to use it all. But you're going to be there as their guide and as their adult. And you're going to use the wisdom that the chart has to help them accept who they are. because that's the biggest gift I think we can give our kids is just loving them for who they are. I'm not even emotional. It really is.

It's like the biggest blessing of being a parent is being able to just like honor them and love them. And the chart can help you do that. And if it's not going to help you do that, don't look at it. If that's on you, I think it can help you do that. But if you can't do that with the information of the chart, then don't use it. But I think it's there. It's there. Find an astrologer who can help you.

But you can also plug your child's astrology into the Chani app and read about them. Read about them. Let some of it wash over you. If you're in a place where you're like, I'm not going to let my fears get the best of me. That's the deal. You have to make me that promise before you do that. Okay? Okay.

Thank you for that question. Next week we have a big old emotional, full moon in cancer. It feels a little cranky. It looks very emotionally evocative is sitting in opposition to Mars. More on that next week. I definitely feel like it's going to remind us how tender and vulnerable we are and how much we need to be there to protect and love and care for one another. So until then, enjoy. I hope you have a day off. I hope you have a couple of days off. I hope you're able to commit some time to the things that you love and that you feel loved and supported by those commitments. I'll see you back here really soon. Bye for now.