Full Moon
Full Moon in Capricorn
A Full Moon in Capricorn is when the Moon in Capricorn opposes the Sun in Cancer, bringing the tension between duty and home to a head.
Modern
The Full Moon is the bright, culminating point of the cycle, when something that has been building comes to light. In Capricorn, opposite the Sun in Cancer, it lights up the pull between your responsibilities in the world and your need for comfort and belonging. The state of your career, your commitments, and the structures you have built tends to come into sharp focus now and ask for an honest accounting. It is a sober, clarifying time to release a duty that has quietly outlived its purpose and to see what you have actually accomplished, as long as you do not measure your worth only by the work.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
The When two planets sit directly across the zodiac from each other, about 180 degrees apart. It creates tension, awareness, and a pull between two sides that need balancing. of the lights, the Moon in Capricorn against the Sun in Cancer, was read as a moment of fullness and visibility. The Saturn-ruled Moon set against the Moon-ruled Sun marks the old tension between the world and the hearth coming to its peak, a time of culmination and, often, of release.
- culmination
- career
- duty
- structure
- release
Lean in
Seeing clearly what you have built and releasing a duty that has run its course.
Watch for
Measuring your whole worth only by the work.
Sources
- Hand, Planets in Transit (1976)The standard modern reference on how transiting cycles, the lunar phases included, are experienced.
- Brady, Predictive Astrology (1999)A modern guide to timing and the rhythm of the lunar and planetary cycles.