New Moon in Capricorn – 15 January 2010
January 19, 2010 by Kay Snow-Davis
Filed under Soul Purpose Astrology, Soul Purpose Living
New Moon in Capricorn - 15 January 2010
I like to use the moment of a New Moon as a birth chart for the following month.
My comments are intended to point towards attitudes
that maximise our ease and growth during that month.
Don’t worry about understanding the astrology – just go for the drift.
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Cancer vs Capricorn for 2010
Before talking about the New Moon, I’d like to comment on the Full Moon chart at the change of the year from 09 to 2010. In that chart the full Moon was in Cancer, which is the emotional sign that the Moon rules. The Moon was opposite the Sun in Capricorn, which is about being adult as opposed to child. This opposition suggests that 2010 is a year when we need to notice our emotional reactions, and acknowledge when they are inappropriate. We do need to recognise the child in ourselves, but we also need to balance it by being the adult who takes care of that child. This Full Moon was a reminder that we all have our foundation and first learning in childhood, and it’s a call to take responsibility for finding ourselves in our present circumstances.
The child-instinct is to look for causes in the outside world, and blame them for its perceived problems. The adult-response is to relate intelligently to what is, so we are open to solutions that move things forward. This New Moon, rather than fostering the emotionally reactive child, supports the adult who creates responsible solutions.
This New Moon – Capricorn gets things done
Capricorn is a practical, competent, earth sign – preferring to get necessary things done, rather than ‘wasting’ energy talking or emoting about them. The Sun and Moon in Capricorn are together with Venus, suggesting that the Cancer/Capricorn conflict of interests at the last Full Moon is likely to be overcome by our love for the natural world, and our desire to work with it. >From family being all-important, we will be focussing on working relationships, people who are involved in the same projects as ourselves.
We will be discovering again how necessary it is to stand back from situations of potential emotional conflict, in order to find the most workable way through (Sun/Moon/Venus and North Node sextile Uranus). This month we could find ourselves ignoring our emotions in order to get things done, and whereas sometimes that can be damaging, this month it might just be the best way.
The power of choosing to be in the moment
In this chart Mercury conjuncts Pluto – our understanding and communicating energy being extremely intense as we feel the importance of what is known and said. (Mercury crossed over Pluto on 7 December, continued forward to the North Node in Capricorn late December, and then retrograded until now it reaches Pluto again, turns and begins to go forward again.) In early December, you may have had to face a hard truth, in the shape of a person telling you something, or a situation arising, and you just can’t understand why it happened. Whatever it was, it would have indicated an inevitable change on the way. Now we have come round to that point again, so it may be more possible to see what needs to change.
The change itself is probably a consequence of a choice we made earlier, even if we can’t remember what it was – all the consequences of a choice are part of it, we can’t pick out only the bits we like, we have to realise that we chose it all. So this month requires us to CHOOSE what is happening as one of the steps along our way. The amount of power this will give our efforts to achieve cannot be overstated. For instance, if we accept that earth changes are happening, we will be open to understanding what we need to do, and we will have a place in the future. Otherwise (with Mercury/Pluto square Saturn), if we deny the changes, our struggle to survive in the ways that worked before will lead us deeper into the quicksand of being-unprepared, and we will find ourselves being bypassed
Late December, around Christmas time (Mercury on North Node) we may have understood, and even experienced, the best that can be achieved just now, and from this New Moon until early February we get the chance to make that ‘best’ our new normal (Mercury on North Node again on 3 February).
Revisiting the Age of Pisces
Taking a slightly longer view, on 18 January, Jupiter moves into Pisces, rushing through into Aries by early June – taking only four and a half months, when it has been spending 12 months in each sign for the last few years. It will re-visit Pisces in September for another four months, but this first brief rush could be interesting. Jupiter represents expansion and growth, and therefore tends to open up everything a sign potentially contains. I wonder if we are about to be treated to a quick slide-show of the Piscean Age, a look at the last 2,000 years of religious wisdom and folly that encompassed humanity’s spiritual growth.
The Age of Pisces would have been about recognising our connectedness with each other and all things, the boundaries dissolving. When survival is a top priority, ‘all being One’ can be a frightening thought – boundlessness can feel very unprotected for the small personality. So the backlash would be to separate us into small groups for safety, defining more and more boundaries between groups. That way, the merging could be felt within one’s own group, while other groups are defended against or even attacked – hence, religious wars.
In contrast, the Age of Aquarius allows us all to be unique, celebrating our differences as interesting, each one of us having something valuable to share with the group. The biggest group is humanity itself, and, as members of humanity, we know that we are completely inter-dependent. This connection requires that we live in love, that unconditional boundless Piscean love that we have been gradually realising on a spiritual level. It’s beautifully appropriate that this New Moon in Capricorn should come with Venus, the planet of loving connection, so we begin Jupiter’s journey through Pisces acknowledging our need of the love that binds us to each other and our planet.
Jupiter through Pisces personally . . . letting go of the past
On a more personal note, as Jupiter speeds through Pisces, you might notice, from now until June, that all your emotions get worked. The important thing with emotion is to allow it to keep flowing through and out, not to cling on to a mood, or get stuck in resentment, for longer than a day – or perhaps, for the really big emotional issues, allowing yourself a 7-day process to help let go: (the following is a suggested pattern)
- (Saturn) – you become aware of a strong emotion rising from the past
- (Jupiter) – you examine how it feels, what started it, and what still triggers it
- (Mars) – you give vent to the emotion through sound, action and/or writing, when by yourself
- (Sun) – take the emotion’s apparent cause into your heart and hold it tenderly like a damaged bird
- (Venus) – there may be something to express, to say to someone, or a poem or artwork to create
- (Mercury) – tell yourself the story of it all, with interest, but no longer emoting
- (Moon) – lift the whole thing to your crown chakra and let it rise off you into the Light – let it go.
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Contemplation for this New Moon in Capricorn
Take this moment to rest
a break from the work of your day.
Allow your muscles to relax
and surrender to this moment . . ..
Feel your breath ebb and flow gently
like waves on the shore
relaxing your sweet body more and more.
Gazing out to sea,
know that you have arrived on land
to accomplish your spirit’s dream.
Accept this task from the brilliant Light,
whose source is the centre of your heart,
and as you do this
feel the love of that Light radiate through your system.
Let all that you do
be done in that Light
and you will be borne along your path in deep joy.
Pay attention to each person you meet
be they family, friend, colleague or stranger
knowing that we are all necessary
within the great plan.
With love,
Margaret Koolman
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