NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN + WEEKLY ASTROLOGY FORECAST: JANUARY 11-17

MERCURY OPPOSITE JUPITER, VENUS ENTERS AQUARIUS, NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN, ECLIPSE WINDOW OPENS

The energy of now is subtle attunement. Small frequency adjustments. Titration. A recalibration that happens not through force, but through repetition and quiet integrity. We are moving through a major threshold, and it is not a single door we walk through once. It is many micro movements that help the nervous system and psyche acclimate to a higher frequency without overwhelm.

This is the final full week of Capricorn season, and the final stretch of this Capricorn lunar cycle before the New Moon on January 18. There is a sense of consolidation here. Orientation. A gathering of what matters before eclipse season begins to open and before Saturn and Neptune continue their historic shift toward Aries. Let this week be a place to listen carefully and choose consciously.

THEMATIC OVERVIEW

We are at a turning point in the year. The calendar year has begun, yet the energetic year is still forming. The body may feel pulled in two directions at once. One part sensing the new timeline emerging. Another part craving contraction, restoration, and the womb of winter. This is normal. Thresholds rarely feel clean. They feel layered.

Capricorn season has been asking for structure, responsibility, and truth in the smallest choices. Not the dramatic overhaul, but the brick by brick building that no one sees. This week continues that audit. It is a time to take inventory of what you are carrying forward and what you are ready to set down.

MERCURY IN CAPRICORN OPPOSITE JUPITER RETROGRADE IN CANCER

On January 14, Mercury in Capricorn opposes Jupiter retrograde in Cancer. This transit highlights the tension between practicality and emotional reality. Capricorn wants clarity, plans, and coherence. Jupiter in Cancer expands memory, belonging, sensitivity, and the desire for safety. Oppositions ask for integration rather than choosing sides.

This is a recalibration of the mind. Notice where your thoughts are coming from. Are you acting from fear disguised as logic, or from emotion disguised as truth. Are you over planning and gripping too hard, or avoiding structure entirely by staying in the cocoon. This is a moment to find the middle. The kind of discernment that includes the body.

Supportive practice for this transit is gentle reality checking. Let emotion be honored without letting it drive the steering wheel. Let planning be present without letting it become control.

VENUS ENTERS AQUARIUS

On January 17, Venus enters Aquarius and the Capricorn stellium begins to loosen. The tone shifts. Values pivot toward authenticity, freedom, and spaciousness. This is not detachment for detachment’s sake. It is the desire for honest connection that can breathe.

Venus entering Aquarius also begins to pave the way for the Aquarian season ahead. Over the coming weeks more planets will move into Aquarius and meet Pluto. Community, systems, friendships, and the future oriented vision of your life begin to stir. This ingress is the first signal that the collective field is beginning to change shape.

Consider what kind of relationships and communities support your truest self. Where are you performing devotion out of obligation instead of alignment. Where do you need more honesty, more room, more truth.

NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN

On January 18, the New Moon arrives at 28 degrees Capricorn at 11:52 AM Pacific. This is a late degree Capricorn lunation, and it carries the feeling of completion and consequence. New Moons are beginnings, but this one is also a closing chapter. It is a threshold moment. A pause at the edge of something you have already been preparing for.

Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, and Saturn is completing its time in Pisces. The tone is sober, quiet, and mature. This is not a New Moon for frantic reinvention. It is a New Moon for vows. For refinement. For choosing what you will tend with consistency when no one is watching.

This lunation gathers together multiple layers of your operating system. Mind, action, desire, devotion, values. It is an embodied agreement between what you think, what you do, what you love, and what you choose.

SATURN AND NEPTUNE: DISCIPLINE THAT SERVES SOUL

This New Moon forms supportive connections to Saturn and Neptune at the late degrees of Pisces. This is crucial. Saturn offers containment, patience, and discernment. Neptune offers surrender, devotion, intuition, and faith. Together they teach the balance point between structure and softness.

This is the invitation. Let discipline serve soul. Let your systems remain permeable. Let your plans be rooted without becoming rigid. Build the structure that supports your sensitivity, not the structure that suppresses it.

URANUS IN TAURUS: THE LONG ARC OF CHOICE

This New Moon also carries an activation with Uranus in Taurus, bringing a long arc review of the choices you have made over the last several years. Capricorn asks for accountability without shame. Taurus asks for embodiment without resistance. Uranus asks for evolution without attachment.

This is a week to look at the choices that created your current life. What is ready to be outgrown. What is ready to be strengthened. What has been preparing you, quietly, for what comes next.

ECLIPSE WINDOW OPENS

This New Moon opens the eclipse window. The first eclipse of the season is the New Moon solar eclipse in Aquarius on February 17. This matters because it marks a shift in pace. It is as if this New Moon is the final checkpoint before the road changes.

Use this week to orient. To gather your tools. To commit to the practices that create steadiness. You do not need to know everything that is coming in order to feel prepared. You only need to know what you are willing to tend consistently.

SOMATIC AND PRACTICAL INTEGRATION

Choose one small practice that you can keep for the next thirty days. Let it be simple. Nourishing food. Morning sunlight. Ten minutes of quiet. A nightly screen boundary. A clear desk. A daily walk. Capricorn does not need grand gestures. It needs repetition.

Work with the nervous system by reducing speed. Let this be a week where your choices are slower and more intentional. Ask yourself before you say yes. Ask yourself before you react. Let the body be part of the decision.

ALTAR QUESTIONS FOR THIS NEW MOON

What choices am I making each day that shape my future
Where am I operating from fear disguised as control
What devotion is mine to tend in quiet consistency
What am I ready to carry forward, and what can be set down now

KEY DATES

January 14 Mercury in Capricorn opposite Jupiter retrograde in Cancer
January 17 Venus enters Aquarius
January 18 New Moon in Capricorn at 28 degrees at 11:52 AM Pacific

This week is a threshold within a threshold. A quiet gathering. A moment of orientation before the speed accelerates. Capricorn asks for maturity, not perfection. Commitment, not pressure. Let your systems support your sensitivity. Let your discipline serve your soul. Choose what is in right relationship with the timeline you are calling in.

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— ALI OFSTEDAL

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