Full Moon in Capricorn
We are good enough to be ourselves
On today’s Capricorn full moon — how we’ve learned to live our truth, why we must speak it now, and what it means for our children’s sovereignty.
🌕 Restlessness and Rightness
Today, the full moon in Capricorn comes exact at 3:38 pm CDT. I couldn’t sleep last night, and neither could my boys. When the tension of a full moon peaks, I often notice a restlessness — and it seems especially intense when I lay down and try to quiet my mind.
This full moon sits at 18° Capricorn, with the sun opposite at 18° Cancer. Their opposition is harmoniously aspected by the nodes, forming a trine–sextile that reminds us: wherever we are, if we can surrender to our fate, we are held by the laws of the universe.
All is right, even amidst restlessness and chaos.
🏛 Capricorn: Authority and Its Shadow
Capricorn rules our power structures and embodies the father archetype. It is the energy of should. After Sagittarius’s quest for what is good and true, Capricorn codifies those discoveries into how things ought to be — and then enforces them.
Capricorn’s job is to know what’s best for everyone, and to enforce it. Without enforcement, it isn’t really Capricorn. Often, coercion emerges when we believe we know what’s best. It’s hard to say if that’s central to Capricorn or if it’s its shadow.
When I consider authority, I see it as something earned and given — not claimed and held over others. Trust is essential. Without trust, Capricorn collapses into coercion.
Deep at the heart of Capricorn is the belief that we have to protect ourselves. And sometimes that belief keeps us from ever opening up. There’s a sense that if we’re vulnerable, people will take advantage of us. That if we soften, we’ll be hurt.
🌟 Uranus in Taurus: Learning to Be Ourselves
It feels fitting that this full moon arrives just after Uranus entered Gemini. One reason so many of us slip into Capricorn’s coercive shadow in relationships is a lack of understanding. Sure, Capricorn would be wise to check in more often before shoulding on others — but we, too, would be wise to be more open and honest about our lives.
Once we see the full picture of someone’s life, it’s easier to recognize their integrity. Without that context, it’s easy to assume we know what’s best for them.
The last seven years — Uranus in Taurus — have shaken and fortified our sense of worth. We’ve been learning that we are worth being authentic. That our truth is worth telling and living, no matter what we sacrifice.
We are good enough to be ourselves.
🗣 Uranus in Gemini: Speaking the Truth
Now, as Uranus shifts into Gemini, we are called to speak this truth. To tell the truth about what we want and don’t want — and to do it with love and compassion, but also with clarity and courage.
I’ve staked my reputation and livelihood on this belief: I don’t do things I don’t want to do. And nobody should, really. There’s a discipline in that — to do the things you truly want to do, not just the things you think you want in the moment.
Stay true to your intrinsic desires, and recognize the context of your passing ones.
We have to start talking about this more. About the fact that some of our lives aren’t honest. That what we’ve built isn’t actually true to who we are.
Once one voice emerges, others begin to echo it.
A chorus forms.
👶 Sovereignty and Our Children
I’ve been writing about my son Simon and our dilemma with his sovereignty and daycare. He loved it for about a year. But now he doesn’t want to go anymore. We could coerce him — Sorry, we make the rules, you don’t. You’re going to go because we know what’s best.
But that’s not true for me. That’s not authentic to who I am.
We send kids to daycare — and to school — not for their own good, but because society needs us to. And when we depend on that to keep the system alive, it stops being about what’s best for the child. It becomes coercion. Conditioning. Unsupportive.
It’s not that daycare or school are inherently bad. Some kids love them and thrive there. Some would choose them. But it’s only a choice if there are other options. If there aren’t, then it’s coercion. And that’s what we have to confront.
🔺 The Triangle of Revolution
My astrologer and mentor, Juliana McCarthy, calls the current outer-planet alignment the Triangle of Revolution: Uranus in Gemini, Pluto in Aquarius, Saturn and Neptune in Aries.
To me, it’s showing us that we must rethink and restructure how we educate our young. We’ve come to see education as job training — preparation for becoming economic contributors.
If we don’t adapt — if we don’t refocus our priorities — the cost will be catastrophic.
We’re talking about sovereignty here. About being in charge of your own destiny. If the first 18 years of your life are just imposed on you, what do we expect people to do afterward?
If we want to live up to the principles that last arose under Pluto in Aquarius — liberty, equality, brotherhood — then we have to do better. And we have to hear that truth without collapsing into shame.
💛 Closing
We must remember our own worth.
The worth of every child.
The worth of every choice.
And the courage to live and speak as if it’s true
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