We have a New Moon falling in the Earth sign of Capricorn Monday the 3rd of January.
Having a New Moon very early at the beginning of the year sets us up to bring some fresh energy into our lives. The start of the year is typically a time when we start thinking about our goals and ambitions for the months to come so, a New Moon here adds to that fresh start energy.
Capricorn is ruled by the Sea-Goat, an ambitious sign, a mythical creature that can swim the deepest oceans and climb the tallest mountains. It is this agility, skill, and ambition that flows through us when the Sun and Moon align in Capricorn.
Goal setting, setting intentions and making our wish lists for the year ahead is perfect here with the New Moon in Capricorn as we are very supported during this time. But we also have to follow up with actions that we can take too.
This is a time to take responsibility for the life we have always wished to lead. It’s a time to put any excuses we may have to the side and to set the structure and boundaries needed in order to achieve our goals.
The start of 2022 may feel a little sluggish with Venus in Retrograde and Mercury about to follow on the 14th, but the Capricorn New Moon offers a gentle reminder that it’s time. It is time for us to instigate real change and to help us along even more as we have a positive aspect between the Moon and Uranus.
Uranus is the planet of freedom, liberation, and awakening, and its favorable position under this New Moon means we can harness its energy and use it to our fullest advantage. This aspect’s spiritual meaning to positive change, freedom, and higher self-awareness.
This aspect makes us more open-minded, adventurous, experimental, and progressive. Heightened intuition can lead to flashes of insight and glimpses of the future. It can also lead to greater self-awareness and the confidence to express the more unique, creative, or quirky sides of our personalities.
This is a time of unexpected but positive change, freedom, opportunity, and excitement.
Now is also a very good time to think and reflect within to see if we have any self-limiting beliefs or thoughts that run through our minds. Are we self-sabotaging, are we shrinking ourselves down or stuck in old programming patterns? We are fully supported under the dark night of the New Moon to help release any of these behaviors and to switch any limiting beliefs into ones of expansion.
While switching out of limiting thinking can take time, know that simply becoming aware of where those limiting beliefs are hiding can often be 90 percent of the healing process.
The Capricorn New Moon also is conjunct to fixed Star Nunki which brings the energy of honesty and optimism. So, this really is a positive and hopeful moon phase. There should be more freedom and opportunity to bring back some adventure and excitement into our lives.
The asteroid Pholus is also active under the energy of this New Moon, which indicates that some new and perhaps surprising information may come into our awareness.
Whatever is revealed to us under this New Moon, the presence of the asteroid Pholus indicates that the information can bring healing or perhaps closure to a wound.
On a global level, the Capricorn New Moon is likely to trigger the effects of the Saturn Uranus Square that we have been working with all through 2021.
The Saturn Uranus Square is a long-running energy that is essentially about freedom vs. control. We are seeing this manifesting on a global level, especially in regards to the pandemic but we may also be feeling it in our personal lives as well.
Again, as Uranus is in a favorable position under this New Moon, know that the pendulum leans more towards freedom than it does control. While we need some control and stability in our lives and in society at large, the alignment of the planets shows us that the call for greater independence and freedom will eventually triumph.
I think a lot of us are questioning just what freedom means to us now after the last 2 years. Here in Australia, we have been so controlled and now that “they” say we are opening & offering us back “Our” freedom many of us still feel limited in what we can actually do as the virus is running rampant at the moment.
But people are becoming less fearful and less rebellious. The Capricorn New Moon should bring unexpected breakthroughs or changes in relation to the pandemic.
Such changes would lead to more personal freedom, air travel, and greater opportunity to add some adventure and excitement back into our lives. This more optimistic outlook is supported by the next major planetary aspect: Jupiter sextile Uranus in February 2021.
All in all, I feel this Capricorn New Moon is swinging the pendulum towards positive change and beginnings. This is a powerful New Moon for setting ambitious goals and intentions, as well as taking some actionable steps to push our lives in a more progressive direction.
Happy New Year… Much Love and Blessings ♥♥♥