Spiritual guidance November/December 2025: Let there be love

Here’s my spiritual guidance November/December 2025, covering the lunar month beginning with the Scorpio new moon on November 20th at 6.47am (UK) through to December 19th. Every new lunar month I draw one card from the Thoth Tarot to spark intuitive insight about the key energy to navigate by during the coming four weeks. I then take a quick look at the astrology.

Spiritual guidance November/December 2025 inspired by the Tarot

The water theme continues this lunar month with the Two of Cups subtitled, disarmingly simply, Love. While last month invited us to notice where love had grown conditional or dulled by familiarity, this card welcomes us into the joy of connection freely given and freely received.

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We use the word love so casually that it can lose its gravity. Yet the spiritual traditions of the world point to something far deeper than sentiment or chemistry. They describe a love that perceives no separation, a love that recognises the other as an extension of the self; a love that is, at its heart, divine.

This isn’t about romance. It isn’t about preference, attachment, or even affection. It’s the kind of love that sees through masks, stories, wounds, and roles. It sees essence. And once you see essence, see soul, you can’t help but respond to the world with a quiet, steady reverence. A love of all life.

Myth has whispered this truth for millennia. When Isis gathered the scattered pieces of Osiris, it wasn’t just devotion. It was the recognition that what lives in one life echoes through and augments another. When Radha sees Krishna, she sees the divine in playful disguise. These stories don’t ask us to imitate the supernatural. They remind us that love at its purest recognises what is eternal in another being.

So this month, the invitation is to explore, invite, and recognise this unconditional love flowing through the world in an embodied way. Not as an idea, but as a lived reality. It’s a love of life – all life. I offer some suggestions on how to do this here, but I’m sure you can discover many more.

Presence: In many teachings, love begins with presence; the willingness to meet another being fully, without agenda or distraction. Whether it’s the Zen practice of “just listening,” the Christian tradition of contemplative compassion, or the Sufi devotion of beholding the Beloved in all faces, the message is the same.

Love pays attention. To truly see someone is to offer them dignity. To truly hear them is to offer them sanctuary. To hold space without rushing to fix, solve, or advise is one of the purest forms of love we have.

Stories reflect this too. In Buddhist lore, Quan Yin hears the cries of the world because she listens to and witnesses its suffering without turning away. Her compassion is not sentimental; it is a form of deep, unwavering presence. In a world saturated with noise, this kind of presence is medicinal.

Contemplate: Are you fully present to life?

Service: Spiritual love moves into action not from duty or martyrdom, but from recognition that another’s wellbeing is part of your own. Many traditions speak of this as service; not servitude, but sacred reciprocity. The Bhagavad Gita calls it seva, selfless action. Jesus speaks of it as loving your neighbour as yourself.

Indigenous teachings frame it as caring for the community and the land as an extension of your own body. In the Navajo Beauty Way, living well means tending the harmony between yourself, your people, and the earth. Service becomes a way of restoring the world’s balance.

We support, uplift, tend, and help not because we’re trying to be good, but because love naturally expresses itself as nourishment. Love feeds what it values, protects what is vulnerable, and strengthens what is emerging.

Contemplate: Where does your heart call you to serve joyfully?

Connection, collaboration, and interdependence: At a spiritual level, love is the recognition that nothing exists in isolation. Buddhism calls this interbeing. Kabbalah calls it the unbroken unity of creation.

Myth reveals it again and again through cosmic pairs whose union keeps the world in balance. Like the Sky Father and Earth Mother whose embrace brings forth life. To love unconditionally is to live from that awareness; that your words ripple, your actions resonate, and your inner state vibrates into the field we all share.

You are not one small life moving alone through the world. You are a node in a vast web of being. As you serve and support others in that web, so the web supports and holds you.

Contemplate: How easily do you collaborate and reach out for help, or do you tend to rely only on yourself?

Self-love: Unconditional doesn’t mean unguarded or boundary-less. Real love includes clarity. It knows when to say no so that something deeper can flourish. It refuses to enable harm to self as well as other. It honours your energy as sacred, not endlessly available.

Many traditions speak of this as right relationship. This is compassion that stays compassionate, even when it’s being firm. The gods model this in myth. Isis, among many other goddesses, protects and loves and she also sets limits when truth or integrity is at stake. Boundaries become part of sacred order.

The other-than-human world: Every spiritual tradition eventually widens the circle of love beyond humans; thank goodness! To include the trees that breathe life into us. The animals who walk beside us. The waters that nourish the Earth. The stars that shaped our bones.

This is where love becomes cosmic; a recognition that everything is animate with the same spark we carry. In loving the world, all of it, we love ourselves more fully.

Myths in many cultures and fairy tales encode this wider kinship. Animals speak, rivers bless, mountains hold wisdom. The world isn’t a backdrop to the human experience but a family of beings woven from the same luminous thread.

Contemplate: How do you feel and foster relationship with the other-than-human world?

Responsibility: Unconditional love doesn’t ask you to float through the world in blissful detachment. It calls you to act, to embody the truth that the whole is strengthened when each part is honoured. This means checking your personal desires against the wellbeing of the wider field, choosing what contributes to harmony over what gratifies in the moment. It means recognising that “me” cannot flourish without “we”.

This isn’t sacrifice. This is alignment with the deeper order of things; the place where your joy and the world’s joy meet each other. It’s belonging.

Contemplate: Where do you make personal changes to benefit the whole?

Trust in the cosmos: In our overwhelmingly individualist modern culture, one of the quiet revolutions on the spiritual path is recognising that the cosmos is for you, not against you.

The Tao supports all that flows in harmony with it. The Great Mother nurtures what seeks to grow. The quantum field responds to coherence and clarity of intention. Astrology reminds us we’re woven into a great cosmic pattern, rhythm, and intelligence.

This isn’t fantasy or wishful thinking. It’s a lived experience once you attune to it. Even when life feels uncertain or disordered, you’re not being punished. You’re being shaped, taught, redirected, expanded. You’re being called into alignment with a life that fits you – the whole and holy you – more truthfully.

When you trust that the universe is collaborative rather than adversarial, something in you softens. You stop fighting what’s unfolding. You begin listening for guidance, and life starts to co-create with you. Without this trust, an activist for change or a seeker of spiritual development or well-being can just as easily become exhausted and burnt out. It’s one of the deepest expressions of love – to trust and accept the benevolent perfection of the way things are.

Allow yourself to be held by the great mystery that holds us all. Remember to call on the earth, the stars, the gods and goddesses – life itself – to help you. And know that you will be held.

Contemplate: Do you truly trust the cosmos and life?

If this sounds wonderful and impossibly idealistic, it’s because slowly, over millennia, we’ve forgotten. We’ve moved far away from this truth and towards its shadow – fear. Start right now, where you are and exactly as you are. Begin with whoever and whatever is easiest to love, and let that soften you into embodying this deeper love wherever life places you. As you give, you open yourself to receive this same love in return from All That Is. It’s never one way.

Everything you’ve walked through until now – the cleansing, the clearing, the surrendering – has been preparing your heart to love in this way. You chose to be born and be shaped for this time and this task. You’re remembering how to love, and to trust All That Is to respond with all that you need to do so.

Guidance November/December 2025 from astrology

The powerful Scorpio new moon on the 20th November offers the potential to kickstart impactful new developments. Any ventures that reflect new values and ideals in their systems and structures in response to social needs should do well. Luck is blessing the generous, responsible, and disciplined.

Mercury, retrograde in Scorpio, meets Venus there on the 25th, singing aloud the blessings of the gods available for many. Particularly those who acknowledge the joys and duties of caring for family – both personal and collective. The stars spell the words collective and holistic.

We may regret the past but we must have faith in the future now. The full supermoon in Gemini on 4th December will illuminate any misjudgements and deceptions so you can look clearly at the options.

Between the 6th and 8th, Mercury brings heightened depth, imagination, and wisdom to our minds as it connects to the trine between Saturn and Jupiter. When Mars moves into Capricorn on the 15th, it assists the Sun to intensify disciplined, constructive work. Possibilities need testing if they’re to become probabilities.