Capricorn New Moon

Please remember I’m writing about Capricorn in it’s pure state as it reaches out to the whole of existence; I’m not describing someone with a Capricorn Sun in their multi-faceted chart.

Today I send notes from the heart of Capricorn. This is a longer column but please stick with me. We’ve entered into a time cycle hell-bent on expanding consciousness faster and more vastly than ever before. And our Capricorn moon reminds us that we were born for this. And it has a few notes to help us on our way.

Finding words to honor this time seems a little like carving images out of bedrock. Yet for you, dear and resilient fellow traveler, I will do my best to find language that speaks to the work of steadying our lives, creating foundations that support our purpose here in Time, the message our Capricorn moon hopes we can hear.

This is energy that understands how to endure, how to carry on with patience and integrity.

An astro-babble side-note for context: As the moon moves through the heavens, it helps us to refine our personal approach to the cycles created by the large, outer planets like Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto which affect us collectively. 

So as the moon moves quickly through the signs, it offers us all sorts of different perspectives and good advice about how to expand through the slower outer planet cycles

I tell you this because we’re just at the beginning of a stunning cosmic surge. This is not news. We are becoming more and more aware that each of us has a unique role to play in this expansion of human consciousness.

The Capricorn moon reminds us how to steady ourselves. It acknowledges our quiet, sturdy inner strength and asks us to ground there. Like a cosmic hand at our back, this moon reassures us that we were built for this time. That we have the resilience and the endurance we need to carry on.

But because it is so capable of carrying the weight of the world on its shoulders, Capricorn also reminds us to watch out for any tendency to believe that we have to take on all the dragons alone. We’re being asked to refine our understanding of ‘responsibility’ and look again at all that we’ve taken on. This is a sign that respects a job done well but we’ve moved into exhausting and self-flagilating territory if we don’t know when to stop, when to see that we have already done so much. And that for today, it’s enough. More than enough.

Our moon would be grateful if you would remind yourself what helps you feel grounded so that you can return to some kind of simple daily practice to settle your heart and mind each day.

Simplicity is the key: a walk, a daily journal entry, the lighting of a candle and the drawing of a metaphysical card. For some, a grounding daily practice might be a long bath at day’s end with a book in hand, it might be a daily meditation, yoga or time at the gym. You might commit to 30 minutes a day to create a small drawing, to knit or listen to music. Maybe you ground yourself in your kitchen, but the practice can’t be based in a sense of duty. The idea is to find space in every single day to practice something that pulls you back into your core, back into the moment in time you’re inhabiting. Once you’re clear about what this daily practice is, you’ve got the tool you need to carry on into this new and rambunctious time. 

We are creatures who like to be in control. Capricorn gets that. And then some. But when it comes from its wisest notes, this moon sings us a song of release from our over-riding desire to know what’s coming, our need to know how to show up and keep all the balls in the air. Knowing the difference between what we can control and what we can’t is one of the central messages from this moon. When we are clenched in the desire to regain control of anything that’s beyond us, we stay clenched. We are learning to flow into the time before us.

Understand, counsels this moon, that the desire for a known outcome is a natural state for humans and yet we live in a time when nothing is certain so we have to use the higher notes of Capricorn to build a foundation that supports our relationship to our inner sage so we can continue working patiently on the building of a more sustainable world for ourselves and all who come after us.

You have heard about the 19 monks who are walking 2,300 miles across America. They are silent. No words of advice or judgement or complaint. They are mentoring for us the power of patient and deliberate movement as they quietly show the way to be in a state of peace in the midst of unrest. 

Most of us can’t stop our lives to walk thousands of miles but we can carve out time each day to ground ourselves, to compose our minds and our hearts as we engage with the rumbling of the world.

I write to you from Minneapolis. I promise you I am taking the challenges of this time seriously. But I believe in us. I have absolute faith in the power of a movement based in love and respect for each other. We’re finding our way. Sometimes we’re clumsy at the start. And sometimes we think that everything is a false start. We have to forgive ourselves and respect all that we manage to get right. None of us is expected to carry the world alone. 

Paul McCarthy once wrote: “The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear . . . .” 

As always, I bow to you. Carry on.

Deborah