the New Moon in Capricorn: 2024 Intention Setting
If you haven't set intentions for 2024 yet, don't worry. You're right on time. We're a week and some change into the New Year, but cosmically speaking, the energy hasn't supported setting firm goals. On New Year's Day, Mercury, the planet of communication and intellect, stationed direct, after retrograding backward through both Capricorn and Sagittarius the past few weeks. It takes Mercury a few days to pick up speed and resume forward motion, but he's still re-tracing the territory he visited end of November and December of 2023. One of the transits he's been making during his retrograde is a cloudy Square to Neptune—the planet of dreams, imagination, mysticism…and also…confusion, illusion, and delusion. He's just now completing his third and final Square to Neptune (phew!), just in time for the first New Moon of 2024 in the ambitious and practical sign of Capricorn. Mars, the planet of action and drive, recently entered Capricorn as well. The fog is lifting, and we're finally feeling motivated to set some objectives for the year ahead.
The Capricorn New Moon takes place on Thursday, January 11th, 2024 at 3:57 AM PST. Capricorn is Earth energy, symbolized by the Mountain Goat and ruled by Saturn. Capricorn is the 10th sign of the Zodiac and houses the area of life that deals with our ambitions, public persona, personal legacy, and achievements. Saturn reminds us of the value of time, responsibility, limitations, and karma—giving us the tangible framework to set our goals.
This New Moon is making an exact square to the Nodes of the Moon (aka The Nodes of Fate) in Aries and Libra. The North Node in Aries is the area of life where we are being asked to develop our independence and leadership, while the South Node in Libra is pushing us to release outdated co-dependency and people-pleasing patterns that might be preventing us from going after what we truly want. This New Moon offers a distinct fork in the road when it comes to the year ahead. Will you take the road you've traveled time and time again? Or, will you choose to take the road less traveled, different than before, perhaps frighteningly unfamiliar, but intuitively calling you at a soul level?
The New Moon also makes a wide-orb Conjunction with Pluto at the 29th Degree in Capricorn, days before Pluto ingresses Aquarius on January 20th, where it will begin a new, 20-year chapter. Pluto is transforming the outdated structures and familiar ways of doing things in favor of moving into new, innovative ways of operating. All of this to say, it appears to be the year of trying things differently! I don't know about you, but I'm aiming North. ;)
The New Moon energy can be felt for a couple of days before and after it perfects. The next few days offers a potent time for reflection and intention setting—what have you achieved in recent years, and what would you like to achieve in the year ahead? Does anything need to shift in your life to make your new vision more feasible? Is there something that you're feeling called to do, but feel afraid to go after?
To help you narrow your focus on what areas of life you'll feel this the most, you'll want to identify where you have 20 degrees of Capricorn, Aries, Libra, and Cancer in your birth chart. Understanding which house each Zodiac sign falls for you personally can help you center your intentions around the areas of life (career, relationships, home, finances, etc..) where the energy will be activated for you the most.
And the energy is just beginning to ramp up! 2024 is a highly transformative year—a number 8 year in Numerology, ripe with change. I've been having so much fun doing 2024 Look Ahead astrology readings with clients. These readings are pure magic! During our time together, I'll walk you through the major 2024 planetary transits and how the astrological energy will be working with your birth chart directly. You'll walk away with a better understanding of the areas of life that are “up” for you this year and where you're being cosmically supported to grow and evolve. Here's a glimpse of the transits we'll cover during your session:
Major 2024 Transits
Pluto moving into Aquarius in January: Start of a new 20-year story
Four Eclipses in Aries and Libra: impacting the North and South Nodes of Fate
April's Uranus Jupiter Conjunction: An explosive, new 13-year story
Jupiter moving from Taurus into Gemini in May: bringing luck and abundance to this part of your chart
A lovely Venus and Sun dance through Gemini this summer
Three Mercury Retrogrades in Fire Signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
Saturn continuing its journey through Pisces
Mars Retrograde in Leo and Cancer December 2024 - Feb 2025
If you'd like to gain more clarity around your intentions for 2024 and learn how the cosmic energy will be showing up for you this year, I invite you to book a 60 or 90-minute reading with me. You can email me or book a session directly through my website, over here!
Wishing you a magical New Moon in Capricorn
xo, Tiffany