Capricorn Full Moon 2017

©2017 ML Monroe

If your favorite thing in to remain secluded at home, the Capricorn Full Moon may not be your best supporter. Even though the sun is in Cancer and home base is easily and completely the focus, Capricorn is going to tug you out for all the world to see.

Cancer is all about beginning; Capricorn is about the making it to the goal. Neglecting either of these will not work. The best path during this Full Moon would be to find a place of balance between the two. There's a strong flow of emotions between these two extremes and we are in the space to express our feelings and see where they lead. Something is about to be birthed.

This Full Moon is also called the Blessing Moon. Even though it may not herald a changing season, it is calling forth change. With July as the start of the second half of the year, that call for transformation is fitting. It's a good time to breathe deeply and look for every possible chance to express gratitude.

Alongside the Full Moon is a Moon-Pluto conjunction. This is the particular point of that deep summoned transformation. It's also where a sense of solitude or even loneliness can show up. We are being called to identify our tribe as well as define our place of safety.

A curiously strong aspect of this Capricorn Full Moon is that balance point between home and work, inner and outer pursuits. We have the opportunity to choose how we are going to present ourselves and our being to the private and public aspects of our lives.

Think about what is happening in our world today. The G20 meeting recently completed, we found ourselves facing decisions and agreements made without the overarching influence of the current President of the United States. There are actions being discussed in every region of the world that will influence every facet of our future environment ~ natural, political, economic, educational, physical, etc.

This Full Moon, with its polarizing focuses of the Cancer home/internal and the Capricorn work/external, also affords us the chance to connect with others in an entirely new manner.  We can choose to yell and scream and call others out on their 'stuff' ~ whatever that may be ~ while ignoring our own or we can choose a quiet one-on-one chat about our differences.

Drawing people in to conversation grows from the Cancer home quality. Consider the shaming and name-calling and how it shatters the tribe. Drawing people in gets past individual, systemic or privileged identities as well as beyond oppressive, limited and limiting definitions of ourselves and others.

For the past several years, Pluto has been residing in Capricorn, the sign of the Middle World, of established institutions. While it's been digging up the foundations for that entire time, the Cancer Moon makes it personal. The Capricorn Full Moon shines its glaringly bright light on both the large and small aspects of our world and asks us to pay attention to where we would like it to go from here.

What cracks are showing up in your world? In which aspect of the world (personal/private or work/public) are they? How are others influencing or affecting your current sense of the world? How are you affecting or influencing those around you? How do you want to see and experience the world in the future?

Dream Anew

At each day's start, whenever I open myself to it and allow it in, I focus on a goal or dream for the day: How do I want this day to go? What new dream do I want to plant in my life? What is currently blossoming?

In stores or restaurants, I've overheard people commenting on how old they are and/or how set they are in their ways. If I can catch sight of the speaker, I often find that she or he is probably anywhere from 20 to 40 years old. I have to turn quickly away so they don't notice my grin. The overheard conversation circles around how they haven't reached whatever they consider to be "stardom" yet: their book isn't published (or perhaps even written); they haven't found "the one"; their dream job has turned into a nightmare. After years of change, and survival, I know I can set another goal and accomplish it or dream another dream and reach it.

I find that the older I get, the more I realize just how much age is a state of mind. I have the option of letting it define me.... or not. Reviewing my life, I find there have been many times over the years when I renewed my dream or my goal for my life. I have never given up or thought that I was too old or too settled or too set in my ways. Well, not for more than a few days at a time.

Have you set new goals recently? Have you dreamed anew? How has that made you felt? Are you ready to move forward again?