Capricorn. Capricorn. Capricorn. With Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, the South Node and now the Sun and Mercury in Capricorn, it can feel like we have had a full dose of Capricorn (and this will continue for much of 2020). We also just had a Solar Eclipse in Capricorn at the end of last year further tipping the astrological scales toward Capricorn.
Now, on January 10, 2020, we have a Lunar Eclipse that brings all of these planets in Capricorn into our awareness yet again, but now through the eyes of the Moon in Cancer.
Lunar Eclipses, which are always also Full Moons, attempt to energize life so we have “full awareness”. With the Sun in Capricorn (along with its Capricorn friends) opposed by the Moon in Cancer, this Lunar Eclipse brings the Cancer Moon out of the shadows and the qualities of the sign of Cancer into our awareness.
This
Lunar Eclipse
seeks to
balance the power of
Capricorn
with the feelings of
Cancer
This Lunar Eclipse is demanding that we become aware of and work to embrace both sides of this astrological equation:
One side is the practical and
external focus
of Capricorn
The other side are the feelings and
internal focus
of Cancer.
Most often Capricorn will attempt to dominate Cancer and our feelings. For example, if we don’t work hard both at our job and at home or, if we are not practical with finances, Capricorn has a tendency to make us feel guilt and shame, as if we have let everyone down.
This happens with the big things and the small things in life where we can also feel guilty because we didn't take the garbage out soon enough or we let a few dishes pile up in the sink.
Capricorn
appears to demand
that we are
perfect
in every way.
When perfection is a driving force, we tend to focus also on control: how can we control the outcome so that we look perfect.
When perfection and control become dominate, we tend to drown out our feelings and, when our world gets busy and externally focused, we feel lost along the way.
Capricorn
actually wants us to be
practical
,
not
perfect
.
When Capricorn asks us to be practical, Capricorn actually wants us to shift our focus from the external and the trappings of perfection to the internal and be aware of other perspectives, other needs, and in particular our feelings.
Using the concept of polarity, the key to understanding Capricorn is the sign of Cancer and the Moon (the ruler of the sign of Cancer).
When we establish priorities and boundaries that honor our feelings and internal needs, we balance the Capricorn-Cancer scales.
This is where January’s Lunar Eclipse and the Moon in Cancer can bring awareness to the perspective that there are other needs in life and we can benefit from taking our feelings into account.
The Cancer Moon wants us to remember those tender places that are most dear to us, but that we don’t allow ourselves to make a priority.
The Moon wants you to know that, by honoring your feelings and taking the time to remember what makes you joyful, to hold your partner, to share a story with a child, etc., that you are saying "your feelings and the feelings of those around you are truly important and worth the time it takes to embrace them.”
You set that as a priority and establish boundaries in support of that priority.
