Practical Magic Prep: Full Moon in Capricorn
The Queen of Light Took Her Bow, and Then She Turned to Go
The Full Moon in Capricorn is bringing us back to the age-old battle of evermore for every adult: the balance of personal and career. Home/Life balance is an oft debated, and in my experience, rarely achieved balance. With the moon in Cap, its sign of exile, we can expect to experience a heightened sense of question around what this balance should look like (work/career – Capricorn and family/home – Cancer).
Oh, Dance in the Dark of Night. Sing to the Morning Light.
There’s a great line from the Great Gatsby (one of my favorites! The Baz version) when the Nick Carraway character tells Gatsby, “You can’t repeat the past.” To which the astonished Gatsby says, “Of course you can, Old Sport, of course you can.” Of course, we all know the wisdom in Nick’s Capricorn perspective in this debate and how it all turns out. With the Full Moon in Cap you may find yourself in a rather Gatsby outlook of wanting to repeat some old, glorious form of the past. But we can’t repeat the past (well, even that’s up for debate as we start to understand parallel time lines). What we can do is take the lessons of the past, and reflect on what went well, and what didn’t go well and try to create a future that aligns to the best of what we’ve learned.
The Magic Runes are Writ in Gold…
Fear not, however. As this Full Moon does invoke a sense of longing or a struggle for work/life balance, Mars is coming to our aid this Full Moon to help us battle through any confusion or emotional fog. The truth is that balance looks different for everyone. And not everyone is meant to embody the same balance. Some of us need more career to feel healthy and same. Some of us thrive on some hustle muscle and strain. Others of us really need that downtime and recharge greater at home. The truth of balance, in this astrologer’s opinion, is understanding yourself and aligning to your real balance point – not taking advice some other people or influencers on what balance looks like.
… to Bring the Balance Back
Balance to me is not sleeping and sipping tea. I would die of boredom with that schedule but its heavily promoted right now that we all need to have more slow mornings and long, hot cups of matcha and skipping with a basket of flowers. On the opposite extreme I personally don’t want to count macros, spend 3 hours a day at the gym and eliminate all sugar from my diet while crushing it at work with an 18-hour workday. I’m somewhere in the midpoint of that spectrum.
Bring it Back! Bring it Back!
What I know to be true is that what is true for me is NOT true for you. I’m seeking a life of balance that feels good. Work that feeds me (and helps me feed my children). Time with my kids to enjoy and play and read, but not all my time with my kids because then I feel totally burned out. Movement every day but some days that’s a walk and others it’s a run. I would urge you to set a very personal intention this Full Moon to work with the lunar cycle and observe your body’s own longings and changes – not subscribe to any way of being that you’re punishing yourself into trying to be. No guilt. Just awareness. No judgement. Just alignment with your own knowing.