2022 Capricorn New Moon
This new moon will be exact at 1 degree and 32 minutes of Capricorn on Friday, 23 December 2022 at 2:17 a.m. PST/ 5:17 a.m. EST / 10:17 a.m. GMT
In This Article
New Moons in General
This New Moon's Chart
Summary
Recommendations
Topics by Rising Sign
New Moons in General
New moons coincide with new beginnings and thus indicate good times for intention setting and initiating new endeavors.
New moons occur every 28 days. Over the course of one year, there will be one new moon in each of the twelve signs, which correspond to each of the twelve houses (areas of life) in your birth chart. You can use these events as occasions to annually review each one. Consider the topics represented in each new moon's chart and set related goals for the corresponding life area. That way, you'll intentionally work on every part of your life throughout the year, focusing on one per month. The Topics by Rising Sign section at the end of this article will help you determine which life area this new moon will activate in your natal chart.
Set your intentions on the day of the new moon. The two weeks following the new moon are typically excellent times to take initial steps related to those intentions. For the next six months, set goals, make plans and take actions in alignment with those intentions.
Six months later, when the full moon occurs in the same sign, check in with how your approach to your goal has served you, and readjust as needed.
This New Moon's Chart Features
Moon conjunct Sun in Capricorn's first decan: This new cycle involves considering one’s position within a given structure and initiating practical, earthly projects.
Moon and Sun copresent with Venus, Mercury, and Pluto: Communication, transportation, connection, beauty, love and art may all factor into the practical projects beginning now. There may also be themes of obsession, intensity, death, sex, or abuse of power.
Capricorn’s ruler Saturn in Aquarius’ third decan: These practical projects are responding to untraditional rules, boundaries, and responsibilities, and perhaps also a sense of regret at having agreed to certain obligations.
Moon and Sun square Jupiter in Aries’ first decan: What’s begun at this time conflicts with impulsive, optimistic expansion, looking before leaping, risk-taking, and jovial self-expression.
Aries’ ruler Mars retrograde in Gemini’s second decan: That jovial self-expression is responding to reworking how we pursue conflicting desires, how we seek information and how we get what we want through conversation, debates or arguments.
Mercury will station retrograde on 29 December, 2022: We can expect to make lots of edits and revisions to whatever we choose to begin at this time.
Summary
Responding to unconventional, burdensome obligations, we initiate practical endeavors that involve communication and connection with others. We leave room in our plans for detours, edits, and new information.
At the same time, we’ve recently been reworking how we get what we want when we want conflicting things, how we pursue information, and also how we get what we want by communicating with others. That reworking underlies a desire to impulsively express ourselves and our beliefs.
The slow and steady practicality of this new project conflicts with that impulsive self-expression, and we’ll need to be creative to resolve that conflict. Perhaps the mullet best symbolized the compromise needed: business in the front, party in the back.
Recommendations
Set intentions: Consider the topics and themes described in the Chart Features and TLDR Summary section above. If you know your rising sign, check the list below for the topics this lunation will activate for you specifically. Spend some time brainstorming on these combined topics. What are the most positive, desirable versions of these themes you can imagine for yourself? If you find yourself imagining negative scenarios that seem dauntingly plausible, think about what practical steps you could take to turn that situation positive. I like to write a list of my goals during new moons, but you could get creative with it and make some art, or a vision board, to visually represent your intentions.
Make plans: Once your intentions are set, consider actions to take over the next six months to make your vision a reality. Figure out what you'll do and decide when you'll do each thing.
Plant metaphorical seeds: Over the next two weeks (between the now and the next full moon) take the first steps toward the goals you've set.
Work that plan: Follow through on your plan for the next six months, until the Capricorn full moon, which will represent the culmination of your effort.
Topics by Rising Sign
If you know your rising sign you can further individualize your approach by considering the house topics Capricorn represents for you. If you don't know your rising sign, you can email me your birth date, time and city and I'll look it up for you: element@octothorpeindustries.com.
Aries: Career, reputation, public life
Taurus: Beliefs, higher education, long-distance travel
Gemini: Inheritance, shared resources, taxes, debt, mortality
Cancer: Romantic partners, close friends, clients
Leo: Physical health, work, chores, pets, service
Virgo: Creativity, children, leisure
Libra: Home, family, private life
Scorpio: Communication, daily schedule, siblings, commute
Sagittarius: Finances, values, self-worth
Capricorn: Self-presentation, appearance, personality, body
Aquarius: Solitude, meditation, dreams, substance use, mental health
Pisces: Community, friend groups, goals
* I use Austin Coppock's book 36 Faces, an excellent guide to the decans, as a reference for writing these articles.