Spiritual guidance December/January 2025: A mind that serves the heart

Posted on Dec 18, 2025 in Spiritual living, Tarot, Uncategorized

Spiritual guidance December/January 2025: Thoth Tarot Prince of Swords

Here’s my spiritual guidance December/January 2025, covering the lunar month beginning with the Sagittarius new moon on December 20th at 1.43am (UK) through to January 17th. 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 December/January 2025 inspired by the Tarot

This lunar month takes us into the realm of the mind, guided by the Prince of Swords. Here you’re asked to look closely at how your conscious and unconscious minds are working together – or not. The mind is a powerful instrument. Used creatively, it expresses itself as brilliance, insight, and even genius. Left unchecked, it can tip into chaos, cruelty, or madness.

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Many of us know the experience of the monkey mind; thoughts leaping from one thing to the next, pulling us in all directions, rarely pausing long enough to ask whether they’re true, kind, or aligned. We are shaped by what we think, and when thought becomes detached from feeling, the mind can turn cold; blocking empathy, severing connection, and silencing the heart.

The mind on its own has no moral compass. It can argue anything, justify anything, follow whatever idea happens to shout the loudest in the moment. Looking around the world right now, that may feel uncomfortably familiar.

I keep seeing the figures of Saruman and Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings who are such powerful illustrations of this principle. Both are beings of great intellect and vision. Yet one becomes corrupted when mind separates from heart and humility, while the other remains aligned with wisdom, service, and love. Their words, expressions, and actions show us exactly what happens when intelligence either serves the whole… or only itself.

This month invites you to slow down and ground. Breathe deeply in and out of your heart centre. Then gently observe your thoughts, opinions, and beliefs about everything. From what brings you joy in daily life to your views on politics, spirituality, or religion.

Ask yourself: Do these ideas still feel alive? Do they still resonate as true for me? If not, let them go. You’re allowed to evolve. Find what your heart and soul actually believe in now. What moves you, steadies you, and guides you towards purposeful action.

From this perspective, it becomes clear how ideas can divide us: politics, belief systems, social status. And yet, at a deeper level, we belong together. In Source, there is no separation. Those who hold different views are simply expressing another facet of being human; another way of being you.

Anger, volatility, deception, and cruelty will still play out in the world. Where shadow hasn’t been faced or integrated, it acts out through fear and survival instincts, cut off from the voice of the heart, causing confusion and chaos. This isn’t going to vanish overnight, so you may still see and feel it around you. But that doesn’t have to define you.

Be you. Do you. Align with those whose minds and hearts are working together, so that your shared vision of a more beautiful, humane world can begin to take form. When mind is aligned with divine will and Source, it gains clarity, purpose, and direction. Thought becomes focused. The shadow is acknowledged rather than denied. Action flows from love.

In this state, you don’t waste energy trying to control how others think or live. Instead, you commit to embodying your own ideals, by examining your beliefs honestly, refining them, and living them with integrity. That quiet commitment speaks louder than any argument.

This is the higher calling of the Prince of Swords: a mind in service to the heart, a voice guided by love, and ideas that unite rather than divide.

As this new month unfolds, remember that your thoughts are not who you are. They are tools you’re learning to use with care and discernment. When mind listens to heart, something beautiful happens: clarity replaces chaos, conviction softens into wisdom, and your words begin to build rather than divide.

You don’t need to fight the noise of the world. You only need to tend the quality of your own inner dialogue. From there, your presence becomes a quiet act of leadership, one rooted in love, integrity, and conscious choice.

Let your mind serve what you love. Let your words reflect what you value. And trust that even the smallest, most thoughtful shifts within you have an effect far beyond what you can see.

Guidance November/December 2025 from astrology

The Sagittarius new moon on December 20th and Winter Solstice the day after are a potent turning point. The planetary line-up is asking the question how best can love manifest?

Give careful consideration to the beliefs and ideals that will inspire you in the years to come. Find groups and relationships that can support you in taking action on them with commitment and confidence.

Mercury enters Capricorn on the 1st January, joining the other personal planets Venus and Mars in opposing beneficent, optimistic Jupiter in Cancer. The full moon in Cancer on the 3rd creates an incredible portal to ground this potential with Capricorn’s practical realism.

Plan, research, do the serious work now. Then you’ll be ready to harness the opportunities that come with January’s new moon.

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Semele Xerri

© Semele Xerri is a psychic intuitive guide, healer, animal communicator, and Reiki Healer / Master Teacher. To find out more about her and her services, go to her Work with me page.
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