Welcome to the Capricorn New Moon. It’s the time in the lunar calendar when we take the energies of Saturn to build and construct our material lives. As the final earth sign, Capricorn is the sign of maturity and responsibility, time and aging, lessons and growth.
New moons are new beginnings. They give us a personal reset and turn our attention to the sign at hand. Through Capricorn, we learn to think about our lives on a grander level. And, as a result, this is a new moon to plant seeds and outline resolutions that not only take us into the New Year, but into the years to come.
Ruled by Saturn, Capricorn is a long game sign. After all, Saturn takes 29 years to go around the Sun. We’ve come to the end of another year and we may be taking stock of what we’ve accomplished and what’s more to be done. It’s not a coincidence that Capricorn Season and the start of the New Year prompts us all to make healthy resolutions and initiatives for the future. So, what are we resolving and initiating under the energies of this new moon?
Keep in mind that Saturn’s been in a long square with Uranus in Taurus. While their three exact aspects were in February, June, and December of 2021, we saw a revisit of the energies with the recent eclipses of October and November 2022. The Sun’s return to Capricorn reinvigorates the square, though more as a coda than a dynamic push for transformation.
That said, I think we still have to honor Saturn square Uranus, an aspect that has demanded sometimes seismic changes in our material lives (or more depending on if we’re a Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or Aquarius.) As much as Capricorn Season and the New Year is about healthy initiatives, use the inspiration of Uranus to think outside of the box, to find new solutions to old problems, and to shakeup the status quo.
The new moon falls just shy of the first degree of the sign, making a square to Jupiter newly in Aries. This is a push for new beginnings, a bold leap of faith, or a need to reconcile a matter of conviction and truth. With Mars still retrograde in Gemini, we still need to temper our choices, cooling some of the impulsiveness of Jupiter in Aries.
There’s a bit of a crowd of planets in Capricorn, the Sun and Moon joining Venus, Mercury, and Pluto with the energy pulling towards Saturn in Aquarius. There’s a need to reform systems or to reevaluate if something is working. Pluto’s still holds a powerful influence over Capricorn, a planet that’s happy to show us what’s in the way, which is usually ourselves.
So, with that in mind, use this new moon to set up new frameworks and systems, to plan ahead, but to clear the the past in order to make space for the new.
Want an advanced look at the astrology of 2023? You can still get my THREE-hour webinar. In it I talk about two major changes in the astrology of next year — Saturn in Pisces and Pluto in Aquarius, both in March 2023. What will this mean for you? Go to The Astrology of 2023 to learn more and get the webinar.