CAPRICORN FULL MOON HOROSCOPES
The Capricorn Moon is growing full...
officially, July 3rd at 4:38am Pacific - 11º Capricorn
This moon is both constructive and extravagant, like building a fence and painting it hot pink. We are reminded that when we feel secure, whether that's with clear boundaries or a cogent plan - our ability to play, have fun and be kooky expands.
This lunation also prepares us for a wild summer fling with ourselves. With Venus in Leo going retrograde July 22-Sept 3, some old paint on the fence might start to peel...past relationship or self worth topics could surface so that we can reclaim an updated, bolder version of ourselves. Venus works in 8 year cycles, so consider shifts that were happening in 2015 or 2007. You may already be noticing a tinge of questions around love and pleasure or be pondering self-confidence. Venus in Leo wants to know: who makes you feel seen, special and appreciated? What parts of you do you wish were more public, and what parts feel joyful to keep to yourself ? What kind of goof are you when you’re in a state of play ? What personal value, style and standard of relating help you be in that state, gives you the freedom to express yourself fully ?
As Mars moves into Virgo July 10, we may need to slow down and become more strategic around these questions. Covering up old, peeling, chipped paint with a fresh coat is good enough, but it often leaves rough edges. How can we thoughtfully strip away what's not working, and not skip steps ? This summer, a certain inner-chemistry takes hold, a going back to go forward in order to deepen our sense of self and take up space in a new authentic way.
Success is medicine and sometimes a hard pill to swallow. Being more accessible helps you be of service to a bigger audience and also exposes you to all the haters. To be successful you must know your values so you can move through the noise of everyone’s opinion - and everyone will have an opinion ! Trust in your hard work - how cool, you have climbed this far and stayed true to yourself. You don't need to explain it or prove anything about what you do, trying to explain everything to everyone drains your power. Some things are better left a mystery, some work just speaks for itself.
If you want to have more clarity around your values, collaborate with someone who is going in the wrong direction. It is here we insert our opinions, interrupt, redirect and get protective. We also die a little, having to figure out how to get on board with someone else's values, so that a world can be held together. How do you work with another person's bad ideas ? And how do you recognize that the passionate idea your excited about might actually be bad, too ? What are your security measures for deciding who to work with ? Find those who play like you do. Who see like you do, yet just different enough to help you grow in ways you can't without others.
So much work to maintain the body and the land it rests on. So much work, all the little steps that repeat themselves - all the laundry, dishes, mowing and brushing. All these chores to maintain our bearings, over and over - because when something is alive, it piles up, stretches out until it presses against the part of the world that stops it. The body loves to be alive - its vying to be a vessel, in the same way a ceramist feels the clay moving its hands. Our physicality is always aiming towards its own healing shape - yearns to press up against everything until the world stops it.
The modern family crest is a vinyl graduation banner in a yard, or a bumper sticker: student of the year. Our ego banks on all our family blessings, we all want to make our parents proud. But what if the greatest achievement you could give to your kin isn’t any privilege, prize or status symbol…but the little things you heal about yourself behind the scenes, the less visible you, coping with life - just like everyone else you grew up with, but in your own gentle way. The modern family crest should be a banner in the yard “I have forgiven my father, I have found the source of ancestral pain, I have made room in my heart 2023"
The ease of sitting in a salon chair, the hum of a vacuum cleaner in the next room, a shopping cart full of cake mix - we all invest in our physical comfort in some way or another. Notice those material values that you cash out on for enjoyment. Some of the oldest, happiest people on earth eat sugar for every meal, smoke cigarettes while playing cards. Sometimes, longevity comes down to how much you're letting yourself enjoy life. This is worth investing in, worth saving up for, worth raising your rate for, worth a monthly budget for therapy, massage, movie, dinner with friends - anything to help your nervous system hum.
For as long as humans have been alive, energetic protection has been a part of physical safety. It is true, sometimes there are chords to cut, negative energy to banish, an herb to plant outside your home - yet we must be cautious of where throwing a shield around ourselves perpetuates a paranoid psyche. When we think we need to keep something out, we may keep attracting things to keep out. At the end of the day, the most effective protection is to know yourself. To know your needs, your habits, what you like and what you can walk away from. To know yourself is the most solid shield, a self-cleaning system.
When you resonate with any teacher, artist, movie or music - you become looped into a fan base. Instantly, you are a part of a community of other admirers, hooked into the beatle-mania sentimental psychosis that huddles around a center stage. Yet, we've all stood stewing around our favorite things feeling like an outsider. Sometimes those sought-after goodies that give us the most joy, aren’t meant to be where we find community - some things we must pluck from the populace, pull it down and lay with it in private.
Easy to see that love is a drug, and the only one where sobriety is not encouraged. How anyone learns to handle the surges of dopamine is beyond me. All the in-and-out of controlness and wrestling with your sovereignty and the ego-annihilating bliss of affection. How essential it is to know the ligaments of your heart, to know what your life can handle, how much sleep you can lose over the itch in your chest, and also where you’re scared to scratch it. In time, every relationship gets better, over and over, as we learn who we are and what we need - as we get better at experiencing ourselves fully.
Feeling appreciated makes us feel safe and lets us do our best work. Yet, some of the most culturally impactful people, your favorite authors, artists, spent years in obscurity - deeply unpopular passing through as nobody. How did they do it ? How did they keep going with such little applause ? I suspect to continue churning, one must cultivate an internal recognition team - an entertainment channel for the gods. An audience inside yourself that has unconditional fun, unconditional positive self-regard, that celebrates the silence and applause in equal measure.
Reading this horoscope isn’t the same as sitting across from me, drinking earthy tea, looking up at the moon together. Reading this series of black shapes known as letters is not enough. Words are an endless string after string of empty signifiers, or maybe that's not true…maybe this paragraph has real effects ? Maybe this *word* is what’s most physical ? I’d like to know your opinion. I’d like to listen to you talk out loud, clarifying what you understand so far as best as you can say it, succinctly stating your truth or otherwise, calling upon others where you can’t find the words.Let language be a place you store power.
We move and wave and behave - making subtle adjustments to our handshake as we go. The art of being you has come with many oohs and aahhs, moments of charisma, eye contact and occasional ego-annihilation of errors. Becoming you is no different from temple construction - scaffolding coming on and off the facade with every call from god. Let yourself follow the signs, lay the new cement - you can demolish and start over at any time. You can be an open door or a closed off cult, re-measuring the risers and treads to regulate who can climb towards you. Be with the truth that respects the holy space you take up.
Not enough people swoon over the moment they fall into platonic love. The rush of meeting a friend or being in community can be just as intense and significant as romantic encounters. How might you seek out and maintain friendship with the same gusto you would a hot date ? A hot date who listens deeply to you with no expectations over the holidays, a soft landing of understanding when you cancel last minute...to the gaps and downtime and bridges that only friends can sneak into - or as Jane Austen puts it..."friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”