Welcome to the Capricorn New Moon, the last new moon of 2024. With the energies of Capricorn and its ruling planet Saturn, we turn our focus towards goals and ambitions, order and structure, commitment and accountability, maturity and tangible growth. The new moon is exact on December 30, 2024 at 5:27 pm ET, 9 degrees Capricorn. 2:27 pm Los Angeles, 10:27 pm London 12:27 am Johannesburg on December 31, 3:57 am New Delhi, 9:27 am Sydney, 11:27 am Auckland.

New moons are new beginnings. Every month the page turns and in turn we live life through the lens of the sign of the new moon. When we have a new moon in Capricorn, we’ve reached the summit of the zodiac, a sign that represents material achievement, leadership, and power. It’s our worldly life, too, especially the structures that support it.

However, nothing is given to us with Capricorn. Everything is built with time and hard work. We need a fair amount of commitment and dedication as a result, even if we are starting something under the energies of the Capricorn New Moon.

Then there’s the other side of Capricorn and Saturn. It puts things in black and white. It can make for sobering realities. One person’s pinnacle of achievement is another person’s roadblock or, worse, a resounding “no”.

This Capricorn New Moon period, it’s always practical as well as a good idea to use this energy to clean things out and clean things up. Review your commitments. Are you showing up? Following through? Are you honoring your time and the time of others? Are things in order? Following a schedule? It’s also an energy that is available to us to set a healthy boundary and to know our limits.

That said, this new moon points us towards Saturn in Pisces, a sign that Saturn has been in since March 2023. If Saturn is normally hard edged, in Pisces not so much. Instead, the work of Saturn has been through an emotional and spiritual lens the last 20 months. What have we learned? As materially focused Saturn usually is, in Pisces we need to build deep emotional connections and a greater sense of meaning and purpose. We need to cultivate our intuition and interiority. Not always so easy. (Read Saturn in Pisces: The Look Within.)

This new moon also brings us to the midpoint of the eclipses, which comes three months after a solar eclipse on October 2 and a solar eclipse to come on March 29, 2025. The midpoint marks entries and exit points. This may be a month that coincides with personal events, where someone enters from stage left. Or makes their final bow and leaves. Events may also thread back to events from October as well as presage events to come next March. (Note that the cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn may be feeling this energy the most.)

Chiron has also just turned direct the day before the new moon. We may be navigating an emotional ache, an old pain point reanimated. Do we have the courage to let go? Move forward? Go after what we want?

We take this energy into the New Year.

2025 is an uncommon year because three outer planets change signs, including Saturn. This, on the heels of Pluto in Aquarius means that 2025 is the start of a new cycle. New stories will emerge in our lives as a result.

To get you ready for 2025, I did a three-hour webinar, The Astrology of 2025, and you can still get the replay. Video includes monthly overviews as well as sign-by-sign guides. Learn more and get The Astrology of 2025.

Read More:

Chart of the Capricorn New Moon, December 30, 2025

Webinar Replay: The Astrology of 2025

Jupiter in Gemini: Sign by Sign

Saturn in Pisces: The Look Within

Saturn in Pisces: Sign by Sign

On Chiron, Suffering, and Knots

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