Before we get into tonight’s Full Moon —
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And now, for the reality check that is tonight’s Full Moon in Capricorn
The Full Moon is exact at 8* Capricorn tonight at 7:56pm Eastern.
Moving toward a square with Saturn in Aries, this Saturn-ruled, decidedly serious lunation is here to bring reality checks and stress tests, to make sure that we are making any changes upon a firm foundation.
Which sounds nice, or comforting, in theory. But the process of stress testing, of getting reality checks, can be a deceptively anxiety-producing.
Notable, then, that the first decan (which is to say, the first 10 degrees) of Capricorn, in which this Full Moon arrives, is known as “The Headless One.” In the out-of-print 36 Faces, astro-mage Austin Coppock calls this decan “A Headless Body.”
Just this morning, I complained to my trainer that I longed to be a brain on a stick (something that anyone who has spent even a modicum of time with me has heard me say). Amusing, then, that this lunation as well as my own sun is in the decan of Capricorn that, perversely, removes the head — which is to say, the intellect, the mind, the logic — from the equation.
from my copy of 36 Faces
Those of you familiar with the nature of Saturn may be saying, now wait a minute, Jeanna — Saturn is extremely logical, very much a brainiac.
And so I will ask: is he? Is he, really? And in Capricorn?
The Saturn of Capricorn is not in the head, but the body. Not in the idea, but in the tangible, material execution. Saturn is the calendar, the bank account, the home, the lived experience — moving slowly, so slowly, accountable to gravity and the slow passage of time alike.
Capricorns are CEOs, the internet memes tell us. But I do not think a worse stereotype could have been invented for this sign. CEOs do not perform the labor that creates the value (fight me). Capricorns are sculptors. Carpenters. Authors! Parents taking care of small children, and adult children taking care of their aging parents. Capricorn is mowing the lawn and doing the chores and outlining and editing and revising and planting seeds in a garden you never see.
(I’ve been reading Ada Palmer’s marvelous Inventing the Renaissance, so I am immediately struck that the archetypal Capricorn I am imagining is probably Cosimo de Medici, who almost certainly had a Capricorn moon.)
Capricorn energy demands that we descend from the head to the hands, from the idea to the implementation.
I know; I’m pissed about it, too. As I said, I often wish I was a brain on a stick.
But there is a muscle memory to these early degrees of Capricorn, and to this Full Moon. A way that repetition creates routine, that practice brings pride.
And there is a way that such profound material engagement with the body and the things of the body also demands rest.
The business of having a body is exhausting, and Full Moons — especially on this axis of Cancer and Capricorn — do love to underline that. Recently, I spoke with friends about an important distinction in rest: between the bed rot of a video game day (usually what I need) and the kind of rest (which is to say, input) that makes you feel alive (often what my 9-5 friends need).
Tonight’s Full Moon is going nowhere quickly. Cap lunations are not for fast money or manifestation magic, especially when quite literally applying to a square (a SQUARE!) with Saturn itself. Rather, this is a moon for integration, for taking it slow, for returning to the body, for remembering the importance of process over product.
Without the head, we have to rely on our instincts: on muscle memory, on what we can touch and feel.
Take it slow, beloveds.
Happy Full Moon.
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