capricorn full moon, take 2 - high-pressure plutonian portal into your future freedom
Sunday, July 21, 2024, 6:17 am EDT
Full Moon collage by Emily
Approaching Sunday’s Full Moon, pressure and intensity are amping up!
An expansive and auspicious cycle of rebirth started at the Cancer New Moon on July 5th. Now, the Capricorn Full Moon brings to light fears, wounds and conditioned responses blocking your power to create the fulfilling future you desire.
This is not an especially “feel good” lunation (understatement), stirring up challenging emotions - including possible depression, overwhelm, grief and rage. But, if you’re willing to turn toward the hard feelings, and take 100% responsibility for your experience, this Full Moon can open an alchemical portal into greater freedom and vitality.
Closely conjunct Pluto, the Full Moon lights up what’s been hidden, denied and rejected – the shameful, shadow selves that run the show of your life from behind the scenes. As pain from the past rises into awareness, you may be tempted to default into the distorted expression of Capricorn - judgment (I shouldn’t feel this way!) or control (shut it down and toughen up).
A more helpful approach is to lean into Cancer, the Great Mother, and fully EMBRACE, with compassion and love, ALL of you - even and especially the parts you think are “bad” or “wrong.” Pluto says, the only way out is through, and radical acceptance opens the doorway to transformation and rebirth.
The Full Moon activates the very last degree of Capricorn (29°), previewing Pluto’s final return to the sign of the Sea Goat, from September 1st to November 19th. This lunation gives you a glimpse of what you’ll be working with when Pluto is back in Capricorn – themes related to control vs. self-trust; projecting your power vs. self-authority; victimhood vs. self-responsibility.
This is a rare, second consecutive Full Moon in Capricorn. The first was on June 21st, and similar issues are likely to come up. You may be called into another, deeper level of completion, surrender, grief, acceptance or forgiveness. You may become aware of what you’re REALLY committed to, and what you need to release in order to fully step into the new direction.
Saturn - the ruler of Capricorn and presiding deity of this Full Moon - is retrograde in Pisces, calling you into greater spiritual integrity, asking you to deepen into your own intuitive knowing and to TRUST the mysterious flow of life. Patience and perseverance are key, along with compassion and kindness.
For more insight into what this Full Moon means for YOU, find the house in your birth chart that contains 29° Capricorn. The areas of life signified by that house are where events are coming to culmination, fruition or completion, and where you’re invited to:
identify and embrace what you’ve been afraid to see or feel, or what you’ve been judging;
consider what issues, wounds, fears or limits you might be working with when Pluto is back in Capricorn (and this house);
release attempts to manipulate reality and relax into greater self-trust;
know and express the infinite creative power of your human consciousness;
grieve, accept and forgive the past.
I go into all the Virgoan details about how you can co-create with these powerful planetary forces in my 48-minute Full Moon audio transmission. Become a paid subscriber for $16/month or $155/year for immediate access to this transmission, and to the archive of past lunar recordings. Founding subscribers ($185/year) can join me for quarterly livestreams and also receive the Pluto in Aquarius webinar as a gift!
