New year, new you. A cliche, but one that is very apt for 2019. After 2018’s massive overhaul through Venus and Mars retrogrades and Jupiter’s journey through Scorpio— you are truly experiencing a new you. A new you with greater wisdom and skills to navigate even more transformation.
First up, Saturday’s New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse at 15° Capricorn is asking us to work in a new way. This can look like, how we effort towards achieving a certain result or our actual work in the world.
The Capricorn archetype can be described in one word, integrity. This is where intent and action are aligned. It’s the model for using a public role that matches who we are. For most of us that will mean our work or role in community.
Responsibility is another word associated with Capricorn and linked to our work. It’s important for our positive sense of self to feel a sense of responsibility, whether that’s to family, friends, employer, or country. And equally important is to know what you are not responsible for. Allow this New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse, to take away responsibilities that are no longer yours to own. It will be okay. You will find new ones.
New Moon conjunct Saturn and Pluto
This New Moon will take some effort to realize it’s positive potential. With Saturn and Pluto on either side of this New Moon, we may feel stuck between a rock and a hard place. But you are not stuck. You are grappling with what gets in the way of getting on with the work. Stress, resistance, procrastination, or apathy may show up for you.
There is new work ahead and you are learning how to tackle it in a new way that doesn’t harm your well-being. This takes time, so be patient with yourself.
Pluto is helping you transform old outworn behavioral patterns emotional intensity that keep you from getting on with it. Think back to your childhood and those times that you felt stressed out about a big school project, exam, or performance. How did you deal? This will be a big clue to what may need to be rearranged within you. How can you transform your unhealthy reaction to stress brought on by your work or responsibilities?
Saturn, the ruler of this lunation, will square Neptune during the New Moon. You may feel the need to avoid what needs to get done by utilizing your favorite escape tactics. Equally likely, you may try to avoiding feeling by over working. Whichever pops up try not to judge yourself through it.
Finally, this is an eclipse of releasing. It’s okay to let go of the thing you’ve efforted towards for so long. The experience has not been wasted. You will take the wisdom with you towards something new.
New Moon sextiles Neptune
This New Moon will sextile Neptune. As we begin to structure a different approach to our work in the world, consider taking a global perspective. Ask yourself, how what you do can fit into the whole? And, how does what you do contribute to a better world? One with greater compassion and connection.
Whatever got us here won’t get us where we need to go. Pluto in Capricorn is making sure of that. We’re yearning for a new way of working that is healing.
Sending you New Moon blessings!
For 2019 Plan with the Moon in Mind
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