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We’ve just had the Winter Solstice on Wednesday, heralding the start of winter. And with that icy fresh essence still in the air, we have a fresh New Moon in Capricorn.
The world is hard, cold, a bit unforgiving—but there is newness. Days are growing longer. We are approaching a catalytic change in March. But first, we must walk there, out of the Old.
Capricorn is old stuff, indeed. Tried and true tradition. The straight and narrow. The Law—the mountain peak of mastery that we reach after successfully sticking to a long-term goal. We’re getting a hefty dose of this no-nonsense archetype, so close to the Solstice.
But there’s a lot going on in this storyline that will carry us into January. This isn’t just merely “follow the rules and you’ll be ok.”
It’s a lot wackier than that. Remember, we’re still dealing with this dominant late fall backdrop of circus-like events, cultish charisma, delusion and dizzy facts.
We’ll unpack that theme as we go on. What you need to keep in mind is that anything related to Gemini or Mercury pertains to our voice, expression, smarts, wit, sense making and logic.
But the first thing my eye is drawn to in this chart is the New Moon squaring Jupiter, the planet of truth and hope and adventure. The only way this can happen is if Jupiter is equally in the early fresh degrees of a cardinal sign like Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn.
So the “newness” theme is striking us again. Really impeccable timing for Jupiter to have changed signs like this, just in time for the New Moon.
But look at the sign he’s popped into: Aries, the springtime sign of new beginnings.
Given his harsh conversation with the Capricorn New Moon, it’s like our message is this:
“Yes, take the Capricorn straight and narrow. . .but follow these old ideas and habits in your life so that you can set your sights on something fresh, new and springlike awaiting you in the distance. Something you cannot even conceive of now, which seems impossible.”
It’s a slender hope, but Capricornian practicalities can get us there.
Our challenge at this New Moon will be to focus on the straight and narrow, so the big payoff comes through—lest we get scammed by hazy ideas or disillusioned by impatience and too many competing opportunities thrown at us.
Let’s dive in.
“I Want It Fast!”
The tough issue with Aries (and Mars) is impatience.
How can we walk the straight and narrow out of the old, when we impatiently want to be done with it all and get on to the good new stuff, to the world where justice reigns?
It’s very tempting to cut corners now, again not only because Mars is retrograde, or because of this New Moon square to Jupiter in Aries. We must remember too that Chiron is in Aries, and he is stationing direct right now after many months spent retrograde.
Chiron is the painful spur that leads us into authenticity, and in Aries he has been dredging up a collective conversation about masculine determination and the will to execute on tasks. For all of us.
It’s like at this New Moon we don’t really want to inspect the roots of our impatience—we just want to gallop away from it and say “my inbox is empty now.”
But there’s so much now asking us to inspect roots, and through that we will find the fastest way out, even if it’s a Capricornian grind at first.
Some of you know that on Twitter I’ve talked about watching some of my favorite childhood TV shows lately. Let’s look at a scene from the terribly campy—but still instructive—Batman show.
Catwoman—played by the vivacious Julie Newmar—has a device that steals voices. She zaps a dynamic pop music duo from Britain and then demands a ransom.
She tells Batman that she wants 8 million pounds by noon the next day, for the return of their voices, which she keeps locked in a little black box—and she wants it fast. Since the very successful musical duo pays so much income tax to Britain, Catwoman claims this could sink the British pound and economy. So hurry up, Batman, secure the bag!
There is definitely an intense collective storyline we are entering now. When Pluto entered the alpha degree of Capricorn back in 2008—almost the same degree as this New Moon—a financial crisis rippled across the world.
Ironically, we are FINALLY near the end of this 15-year debacle. When Pluto enters Aquarius in March, a new cycle of experimentation will begin. We’ll wash away the Capricorn corruption that Pluto has exposed—we’ll harshly question government officials who held the lifestyles of citizens for ransom.
But again, there’s more road to go. Mercury is turning retrograde on Pluto as we speak, dredging up all the last bits of corruption. There are investigations underway, or leaks of Sam Bankman’s scapegoat status, for example. And a lot of it is hidden, contained in black boxes that some citizen eyes and ears cannot access.
Venus, the planet of justice, isn’t too far off from Pluto now, just like last Christmas, when we were faced with the dark underbelly of our disintegrating culture.
We feel coerced by choices and opportunities, bent and contorted into versions of ourselves that play to the corruption and fakery of the day. But there is a slender hope. A straight and narrow that goes THROUGH the Old to reach the New.
We have tools at our disposal to reach a breakthrough via breakdown.
Let’s keep going.
Sun Also Rises
Many of you have likely read Hemingway’s great novel, “Sun Also Rises.” Of course, Hemingway took the title from a Bible verse that speaks to how the end of old cycles is always followed by new. It’s law, it’s inevitable, like the Winter Solstice telling us that the Sun will stay longer in the sky.
“The Sun also rises, smarty tights,” Catwoman cackles as she holds the box containing valuable voices. She is so self-assured, so confident that evil is always on the rise. It’s a perverse twisting of the verse’s original meaning.
That’s what evil does. Evil makes it seem like its ascendancy is permanent—when we know for a fact that goodness and justice always follows on the heels of evil.
And that’s how we should deal with ransoms and justice and tight corners in our life right now. Freedom isn’t something we are going to simply logically argue for, like an impatient lawyer. It’s something we can accept as an inevitability, and through that acceptance, freedom will manifest in our lives.
Saturn is always the ruler of a Capricorn New Moon, and at this moment we find him in a harsh square with Ouranos, the planet of absolute freedom.
This square has been playing out over two or so years, just as it did in Depression Era America. It has broken our concept of what the American Dream is supposed to be. Nothing makes sense anymore.
Many longtime readers know I’ve talked a lot about this long transit of Ouranos in Taurus, the sign of value, abundance, self-reliance, resourcefulness, fertility, wants and pleasurable desires.
Ultimately Ouranian freedom is coming to all these realms, but it’s been a harsh start with Saturn putting his heavy foot in this cultural conversation of new values and currencies. It feels like every advance grants us a new problem rather than contentment.
Saturn will move into Pisces in March, when Pluto goes into Aquarius. We will no longer have this Saturn-Ouranos mash up. What we will have is something more like the main course of the 2020s. This has just been the appetizer, loosening our expectations of what “should be.”
When those expectations loosen, it’s disturbing, destabilizing. But in that chaos, there is the possibility of new freedom.
We must not let our impatience make us think that a new turn of events is “impossible.”
Many times now we may feel like an oppressive situation has gotten the upper hand. Perverse propaganda or Twitter figureheads may blackpill you. We are certainly fighting with our own shadows now, too.
But there’s value inside the boxes we feel are locked away from us, held for ransom.
And because that value simply EXISTS—by virtue of that truth—that value WILL escape the prison it has been put in and fertilize the land, spreading abundance and freedom.
So stick to what you know right now, everyone, that’s my advice. That will lead you safely into the experimental unknown, where you can begin to enjoy what you do not know.
And if you want to watch a condensed clip of the episode discussed, here it is. Merry Christmas!
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