This New Moon in Capricorn marks a singular event, the final one with Pluto in Capricorn for the next quarter-millennium. Additionally, it aligns with the Lord of the Underworld, signifying the end of a Capricorn cycle that has shaped the past 250 years.
New Moon in Capricorn: The Conclusion of a 250-Year Cycle
January 2024: The Moon in Capricorn and the T-Square Axis
But there’s more: the Moon precisely positions itself on the axis of a T-square with the Lunar Nodes, spanning Aries and Libra, heralding a gateway to a new dimension. This shift urges us to embrace a less materialistic lifestyle and to concentrate on the evolution and reassessment of human relationships.
Capricorn colors January, driven by Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Sun transiting through this sign.
This month offers clarity in discerning what’s obsolete in our lives and the urgency to make pivotal decisions. Saturn, the ruler of this lunar phase, removes the blindfolds and confronts us with reality.
Under its influence, it’s time to address pending matters, even if they’re not to our liking: dental appointments, banking transactions, document renewals, among others. Similarly, the New Moon challenges us to manage anger and jealousy, common manifestations of Plutonian energy. Mars, present in Capricorn since the 5th, adds a dose of combativeness to this mix.
Although it may sound grim, this period is typical as we begin to let go of old habits and prepare to progress in our evolution. Saying farewell to familiar ways of being isn’t easy, but it’s essential and, ultimately, immensely rewarding.
Uranus in the New Moon: Innovation, Faith, and Change in 2024
Jupiter and Venus in Play: 2024 of Healing and Embracing Diversity
As always, the cosmos extends a helping hand. The Moon and the Sun form a stimulating trine with Uranus, the planet of innovation and surprises.
Something within us prompts questions: “What if…?”, “Why not?”, “There must be another way…” To address these queries, we need faith.
Here, Jupiter, the source of this faith, comes into play, arriving with strength to assist us. Despite its square with Pluto, the first since their conjunction in 2020, Jupiter forms a sextile with Saturn, urging caution. This aspect inspires a poem of optimism, encouraging us to try, overcome fear, and take a giant leap, whispering: “It’s going to be alright…”
Venus, aligning in an exact trine with Chiron for this New Moon, seems to urge us toward the adventure of healing our wounded relationships. We are faced with the dilemma of learning to accept the polarities in which we find ourselves.
It’s crucial to learn to listen to “the other”, with their ideas and beliefs different from ours. Probably, this will be one of the main tasks of 2024. Instead of continuing the dispute, we must understand that it is our diversity that makes up the Truth. It is never found on just one side. It’s the two sides of the coin, with its heads and tails, that complete it.
This luncheon revives the square between Eris and Pluto, a recurring theme in recent years, highlighting the issue of immigration. This matter, still unresolved for world politicians, will continue to remind us of the urgency to find solutions to this dramatic global situation.
The right to seek a better life in new places is fundamental and simple. As we move, as we have for hundreds of thousands of years, cultures intermingle, and notions of “pure races” blur.
We are all, increasingly, genetically connected. Marked racial differences are disappearing at an accelerated pace. This cultural blend is also a vision of the future that begins now.
Capricorn and the Reinvention of Success
Achieving Soul Alignment: Capricorn and the Pursuit of True Professional Fulfillment
Capricorn is often associated with career and professional ambitions. Therefore, it’s time to reflect on your trajectory and set intentions related to your growth in this area.
Now is the ideal time to plan and strategize for long-term success. Moreover, the concept of ‘success’ is evolving, no longer confined to social recognition. A new definition of success is more about the ability to do what we “should” do, as Jung suggested, with joy and creativity, regardless of external recognition.
The famous “alignment” that Artificial Intelligence seeks with human moral values takes on another dimension here.
The “alignment” is internal, more about understanding what the soul demands and achieving it with intellect, body, and emotions. When we do what the soul asks of us, this “alignment” brings happiness, freedom, and meaning to life.
These are the moments when our actions and thoughts are in harmony, filling us with a sense of purpose and liberation. The creative process guides us there.
Lunation and Renewal: Impact on Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn
Celestial Impact on Aries, Cancer, and Libra: Challenges and Opportunities in the Last Lunation
Earth signs, specifically Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, are most stimulated in this lunation. On the other hand, cardinal signs, Aries, Cancer, and Libra, are especially propelled, with a clear vision of the challenges and risks that might appear on their path.
Fixed signs, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, will have their moment of reset in February. However, as we all possess a bit of each sign or quality, this celestial movement is a subtle message inviting us to evolve and learn.
Happy beginning to all!
With information from Archetypal Astrology – Cristina Laird
