Future and action. Between tensions and momentum, the planets of December outlining this month’s horoscope rush towards tomorrow without much nostalgia. No one wants to wait and everything is anticipated — the party, the event, the book release, the train departure, and even the colonization of space. Frenetic like never before, men and women struggle each day against the limits of time, which, as we’ve already seen in physics, becomes a negligible variable. It can be tightened, stretched, spread, and perhaps even forgotten. 14 billion years condensed into 14 seconds. The time passed from the Big Bang to present day — though perhaps we’re still in the Big Bang — that was represented by David Libenskind (May 12, 1946, Poland) in Cosmos of Light, an installation known as El Chandelier combining design and astrophysics. The architect born under the sign of Taurus, with Mercury in Taurus, worked with his son Noam, an astrophysicist, in an interplay of LEDs, algorithms and metal structures moving back and forth across our understanding of time in just 14 seconds. A heroic, cosmic and golden feat that responds to the grandeur of Libeskind’s Mars in Leo and the melancholy of a Saturn in Cancer that would like to shorten the distance between the present and the earliest memories as much as possible.
Not a single cloud will obscure your sky, dotted with planets that wink at you every step of the way. Confidence, which in you becomes a sort of swagger, goes hand in hand with a skillful management of time and relationships. Jupiter makes you popular and relaxes the instinct to act as a lone hero, always ready to take to the front lines. You feel like waiting, listening, collaborating. And benefits will come of it. “I don’t believe in the hero. I believe in collaboration. I think we have gone far beyond that. I think architecture is a collaboration between many people.” Frank Gehry
Your solid approach rooted in the context works well as long as the context allows. The environments in which you walk in December will have unmarked paths, mysterious indications, questionable directions. Those born in the first decade shouldn’t be surprised if rivers suddenly appear to be forded by clinging to some firm branch from the past. But Saturn guarantees firmness and determination. Let places and people speak to you and don’t let yourself bend — don’t insist if the air you breathe is unhealthy. “I believe in the power of materials and their ability to speak to us.” Tadao Ando
The light of the mind comes and goes, with Mercury playing as it shifts your attention and disrupts your circuits to slips of the tongue, lapses in memory, and events that have disappeared from your calendar. It’s the strong call of another illumination, intermittent and purplish, that brings you closer to intuition, emotion and passion. The balance of December is all about turning on and off rational knowledge and intuitive knowledge, until you find the point of light where the two can coexist. “Architecture does not exist without emotion. It is its very raison d’être.” Jean Nouvel
Literal meanings matter little to you. It’s not what they tell you that leaves a mark, but how and when they say it. And then there’s the where — why in that café of all places? And the uncontrolled hand gesture with which you arranged your hair and coat, carelessly abandoned on the chair beside you. Venus is no longer in opposition, as love returns to be savored and suddenly you feel like Alice coming into her correct size once more, with the wonder of wandering freely in a world of images, where you understand everything in a flash. “A room is not a room without a window. “Louis Kahn
Take it all in, without boundaries. Mercury and Mars are your allies in acting swiftly and effectively, a perfectionist to the core when manifested publicly. You’re a tireless machine that generously produces, directs, amplifies and shares. The condition required for this to happen without suffering is the courage to move away from an overly traditional idea of yourself — from a gaze fossilized in old judgments and obsolete habits. Leave the normal lens to others; your feelings require a wide-angle lens. “There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” Zaha Hadid
Purity and perfection, optimization and efficiency, and the analysis and resolution of complex problems with the minimum expenditure of resources — others. Yours is always the optimal response, for politeness and diligence. Whether it’s your boss, partner, friends or family. And at the same time, it rouses a nervous response, a symptom of fatigue, the dream of a mad, romantically free drift to which you can indulge without return. The economic principle of minimalism should be applied to your actions: what if you did only what was necessary? Necessary for you, of course. “Less is more.” Mies van der Rohe
Everything is at the right distance; your life looks like a temple of classical Greece. The pillars of duty and pleasure respect the ideal proportions as your sacred and inviolable needs have resumed their place in the nàos, no longer forgotten or at the mercy of anyone. You have a stable center, a slew of projects and stimuli, and brilliant loves that will have to learn not to upset the balance. If they want access to your temple, let them bring volume, substance, meaning. “Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light.” Le Corbusier
For you, every system — of ideas or facts — is constantly changing, subject to constant criticism, revision, drastic contestation. Herein lies the principle of your eternal movement, as a Tuareg of thought and feeling. Mars and Venus in quadrature suggest a settled phase, and you shouldn’t react to the pull of the ghosts of boredom and suspicion. There’s a possibility for play and movement on this side of the border as well, between well-marked schedules, an unfamiliar regularity, and the affectivity of simple, repeated gestures. “The city is a process, an endless process.” Rem Koolhaas
Positive signals from the body mean the feeling of recovery is realistic, though not definitive. You need only to regain your aim toward goals that have faded. Mars, Venus, and Mercury play offense and present you with new opportunities, encounters, and slots between commitments as you’ve learned to pace yourself. In the background, the weight of Jupiter and Saturn in a difficult moment seems to fade and lower the tone, just like expectations about the future. “As an architect, you plan for the present with an awareness of the past, for a future that is essentially unknown.” Norman Foster
There’s something impervious about you — a fortress that knows no age and survives all the tales and legends. Very few love pirates have tried to conquer it, and very few have succeeded — with some even losing an eye. Sometimes it seems inaccessible even to you, who would just like to caress it, find an old photograph of it, smell its scent, hold its value, measure its pulse. Meanwhile, it emerges from the sand to reveal a lock that can be picked. “The home should be the treasure chest of living.” (Alvar Aalto)
Except for a nervous first decade mired in tiring relationships, the rest of the sign travels on visionary ideas, desires of free love and moments of unexpected fortunes. It’s fertile ground for December’s sky, on which to blissfully relax while investing in the near future. Today’s encounters and exchanges show you new perspectives — ways of being that instantly make yesterday’s problems old and insubstantial. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Richard Rogers
Mercury and Saturn have made you hyper-rational, with an eagerness for analysis and self-analysis that you’d gladly do without. The technical and mechanical approach isn’t like you, nor is the accounting of feelings in a give and take. Every time you try to conform to the most ordinary lives, a chasm opens up, asking you to escape and return to the essence, to that sense of integration that makes you stand hand in hand with the roots of trees, sensing the mood of a sparrow from its song, fully aware of human limitations. “Originality consists in returning to the origin.” Antoni Gaudí
