The new moon is at 9° Capricorn falls on the 30 December just one day before the end of the year, giving this New Moon a feeling of beginnings and endings. This is the day to review your 2024. It’s also the day to set New Moon intentions, which can also be New Year Resolutions. Things put in place today will be long and enduring. This is because this New Moon has durability and staying power.
Capricorn is the sign of durable, enduring, stable structures. Achievements are arrived at through discipline and hard work. Luck results from rules, structures, boundaries and putting in the effort. Of course, structures can break down, buildings can become no longer useful, and ambitions can lose their meaning. Now is a time to examine your foundations, check your supports, kick the tire and wiggle bolts. If something is outworn and no longer serving us, It needs to stay in 2024. If we realize there is nothing supporting the structures of our lives, it’s time to put in reinforcements, or new structures altogether. Do we need to be more disciplined? Is a schedule needed? Set intentions for creating needed foundations. Set up the scaffolding and invest quality time, materials and workmanship.
The New Moon is Sextile to Saturn and Saturn is the ruler of the New Moon. This is a time for being realistic and taking responsibility for what must happen. We know it will be hard work and we are up for it. This is good news because there will be challenges. The new moon is also conjunct Pallas, Lilith Pholus and Quaoar which is a dwarf planet. This makes it a very creative, but complicated time for setting our intentions. Creativity and wisdom are available, but so too are fear, blocks and unintended consequences if we are led astray…
Quaoar is a dwarf planet. Quaoar was named after a Native American creator God. Quaoar was the primordial god with a song in it’s heart. It began to sing and dance and whirl, and in so doing it created the sky and earth. Quaoar created a three-part harmony with the Sky and Earth and this helped to create the Sun and Moon and all the other planets. In astrology Quaoar represents creativity. It’s that thing that is in your heart, that wants to burst forth. Quaoar encourages us to find the harmony, resonance and vibration of your creative urges, and to strum, whistle and whirl them into being.
Pallas is also connected to creativity. She was said to be the goddess of crafts. But Pallas is also the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy and war. She helps us to lean into wisdom, either on our own or from those we trust. This is a feminine wisdom, one that guides us strategically. What alliances do we need to make? Who can we trust and who do we keep at a distance? What actions should we take and when? These are the needed ingredients at this time for manifesting our creations.
You cannot have a New Moon in Capricorn without a little fear and blockage. Lilith is there to remind us of this. Lilith is blocked creativity. Lilith’s first appearance in Mythology is in the story of Lilith and the Huluppu Tree. Inanna had planted this sacred tree in her garden but wanted to harvest it into a bed and a throne. It had a serpent at its base and a bird on its branch and in the middle was Lilith. Lilith in those days was a sexually frustrated or infertile woman. So sitting in the middle of the tree she represents the blockages we may face in birthing our creations. By the time Lilith reached the Talmud/Bible, she was Adam’s first wife who wanted equality and was tossed out and replaced by Eve. Lilith angry and furious lived a banished life stealing children and making fertile women fearful she would take their creations. Lilith Is therefore the thing that threatens to ruin our creations. What would relieve her infertility? What would allow her creations to come forth? Sometimes we need to work a little harder to create the right conditions. For example, technology has allowed us skills that were completely beyond us years ago. Technology created the first test tube baby (check out the movie Joy if you haven’t already) Creating the right conditions may also mean stopping doing one thing (for example drinking) and starting doing another (for example working out or losing weight). Blocked creativity or infertility can be overcome! But it will require some work.
We also cannot have a New Moon in Capricorn without a little sabotage….. In astrology, Pholus represents the ways in which we sabotage ourselves. Actions we take can grow out of control or have unexpected turns. Pholus is a mild-mannered Centaur who while hosting Hercules neglects to give him anything to drink. Hercules sees a cask of wine and convinces Pholus to open it. But once he does, the smell of it attracts the not-so-mild-mannered Centaurs who arrive to fight Hercules for the wine. Hercules starts shooting them with poison arrows, which is effective in killing them off. Pholus is somewhat curious at how a little arrow can kill the centaurs and he picks one up only to drop it on his foot. Pholus ends up killing himself. Pholus is there to remind us to not be careless, to not give in to pressure nor to go in a direction we don’t want to go. It’s there to remind us to trust our intuition about things. Our actions may seem impolite to others, but it is important that we listen to our own guidance.
The Sabian symbol for the new moon is an albatross feeding from the hand of a sailor. An Albatross is a fairly large bird. interestingly, It is also the word for an obstacle to success. This Symbol encourages us to build a relationship with our obstacles, understanding them and building trust with them. Only then will they be eating out of our hands!
Happy New Moon in Capricorn. And Happy 2025.
If you are in business, I hope that you will join me on Jan 8th for a planning workshop for entrepreneurs for 2025. 2025 will have many shifts with two major planets (Neptune and Saturn) moving into Aries the sign of the entrepreneur. If you’re not in business, please share with your entrepreneurial friends!
Invoking the spirit of creation, I leave you with the Aulos Flute. The flute was created by Pallas Athena, and in this animation is used in the creation of wine!