New Moon in Capricorn

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On December 24, we have the last new moon of the year, in Capricorn, a focused, determined earth sign. Before we even get started about this new moon, check out your natal chart to find out where Capricorn falls. That house will be most impacted by this new moon. Go here to find out what the houses means.

This new moon is at 2 degrees Capricorn, so for me it  lands in my third house of communication, writing, siblings, education, travel, my neighborhood, my conscious mind. I can expect new opportunities in any or all of these areas.

One thing you can count on with the Cappy new moon is heightened ambition, strategy, planning. You’re suddenly a paragon of the efficient. You’re the arrow headed for the target, right into the bull’s eye. Listen to your intuition and then act accordingly.

One of the things this new moon represents for Rob and me is the empty nest again. Megan has been living with us for the last seven months, since her graduation from college. Even though her activities are quite separate from ours, the three of us inhabit the same space, come together as a family when we need each other’s support and unconditional love. Her internship with Disney begins in mid-January, she’ll move  the weekend before it begins. But for you, this new moon could mean a new job, a new career, partnership, creative endeavor. NEW. That’s the operative word.

If you’re an earth or water sign, or have your moon or rising in earth or water, you’ll be as pleased as a pig in mud. But because we all have Capricorn somewhere ,  you will  enjoy something new in whatever house Capricorn falls.

Pluto falls within five degrees of this new moon, so whatever this new opportunity is, it has the power  to transform some area of your life.  Uranus, the planet of sudden, unexpected events, forms a challenging angle to this new moon. It could mean some tension in the air, but it also suggests that the new opportunities come to you out of the blue. Surprise! Here I am. 

Then, the really good news: Jupiter in Taurus forms a close, beneficial angle to this new moon and that is certainly cause for celebration. It means the new opportunity expands some area of your life. Even though Jupiter is retrograde on the 24^th, it turns direct the next day, so once Jupiter is behaving, you’ll start to see some action.

Happy New Moon!

New Moon in Scorpio

On October 26, there’s a new moon in Scorpio, the most emotionally intense and psychic sign in the zodiac.  New moons, just to refresh, are about new beginnings, new opportunities, new chapters, new, new new.  This moon favors research, investigations, psychic development, digging deeply for answers.

This moon occurs at 3 degrees of Scorpio, so those of you born in the early days of water and earth signs – Scorpio, Pisces, Cancer, Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn – will be especially pleased. Those of you with moons or rising signs in water or earth signs will like this new moon, too. The rest of us – air and fire signs – also have Scorpio somewhere in our charts and those areas will be the ones that experience a rebirth.    For a free natal chart, click here.

Scorpio is the most enigmatic and mysterious of signs. It always seeks the absolute bottom line. So look at your natal chart and find the place where you see the glyph featured here:

In  that house is where the new opportunities will surface. If Scorpio is on the cusp of one of the four critical houses – i.e., your rising sign, or the cusp of your 4^th, 7^th or 10^th houses – then pay very close attention to this new moon. Your personal life, domestic situation, partnerships and career will be impacted in a major way. The new opportunities that surface are likely to start deep within, that’s the nature of Scorpio, the internal rumblings that tell you this is good or I don’t need this anymore .  The sign is exceptionally intuitive and secretive, so be sure you’re paying close attention to you on the 26^th.

On the 28^th,  Jupiter (expansion) and Pluto(permanent transformation) get together in a beneficial way and suddenly, you get it. Regardless of where you live or what sign you are, this day is one of the luckiest this year. Some predictions have stated the world will end on the 28^th. But ever  since Jose Arguelles wrote The Mayan Factor, doomsayers have played around with his end date of 12/21/12 for the Mayan calendar and come up with various dates that have come and gone without the world ending.

But if you choose to hunker down in a bunker on this date, that’s your choice. But you may emerge the next day with egg on your face, okay?