For whom do you cast
On the New Moon in Capricorn
A New Moon for an old year. A New Moon in an old sign. A New Moon in Capricorn, governed by Saturn, following this month’s initial New Moon in a spirited Sagittarius. Last summer, our back-to-back Capricorn Full Moons arrived at the Solstice and again a month later, with Pluto retrograde in Aquarius. Pluto is moving forward now with Mars retrograde in Leo applying to an opposition. Saturn meanwhile is separating from the recent t-square with Mercury and Jupiter retrograde.
What does all of this portend or indicate for us at the crossroads of an outdated and collectively constructed way of managing time? With Saturn in Pisces, the New Moon points to the nature of time as slippery, as increasingly unstable, as losing its purpose. Time is a marker of what, exactly? Of death? Of birth? Of achievements and failures? Of all things historically associated with Saturn. Mercury and Jupiter have been messing with us, pointing out all the ideas we mistake for truth, and the truths we forsake because we are misunderstood.
What if we stopped fighting the dying powers (Mars rx opposite Pluto) and just allowed these outdated notions of time as a system of control to dissolve? What might emerge from the Neptunian (or Jupiterian) world of Pisces that is more fluid, more expansive? A different sense of time would reflect a different conception of existence, a different relationship to all that is. All of our timekeeping ways are under construction in 2025, as the Nodes fall back into Pisces/Virgo, while Saturn and Neptune emerge from Pisces into Aries.
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