🌕 Full Moon in Capricorn
Time to Grow Up!
🌕 Full Moon in Capricorn: Time to Grow Up!
The Full Moon in Capricorn takes place on July 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM ET
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🏔️ The Full Moon in Capricorn: Breaking Family Curses
The Full Moon in Capricorn thrusts us out of Cancer season's cozy family cabin and into the big, wide world. If Cancer is about nurturing and mothering and feeling safe, Capricorn delivers a cosmic coming-of-age moment. It's time to venture beyond the familiar hearth and prove what you're made of in the wider world.
This full moon brings stories of necessary departures: people moving out after roommate conflicts, adults finally establishing boundaries with family members, or individuals deciding they can no longer enable toxic relationship patterns. The underlying theme is a shift from "I'll do anything to keep the peace" to "I'm ready to stand on my own, even if it's uncomfortable."
This is the cosmic moment when parents who've wielded "not under my roof" as their final authority hear their children respond with newfound sovereignty: "Then I'll get my own roof." The sun in Cancer celebrates multi-generational homes, shared resources, collective care while Capricorn energy can swing toward radical independence—separate apartments, individual success, self-reliance above all.
But here's the Full Moon wisdom: the truth lives in the middle way. We can maintain loving connections while setting healthy boundaries. We can be self-sufficient without becoming isolated. We can honor family bonds without sacrificing our authentic selves. Full moons often feel polarizing until we mature enough to find this middle path—the place where we're neither completely codependent nor entirely alone.
One of the major themes of the Full Moon in Capricorn is lifting or breaking family curses. This might manifest as celebrations of freedom—graduation ceremonies, first apartment keys, mortgage signings. It could also bring complex homecomings where you're integrating who you've become with where you came from. Sometimes it's a joyful return where you can finally share your hard-won wisdom and success with the family that shaped you.
🧠 The Maturation Test: Bottling vs. Expressing Emotions
The other crucial aspect of the Capricorn full moon is compartmentalizing emotions. Cancer lets feelings flow like ocean tides—natural, rhythmic, but impossible to contain. Earth sign Capricorn arrives like a master jeweler, carefully selecting each emotional pearl and placing it in its proper velvet-lined compartment. It's the difference between feeling everything at once and organizing feelings into manageable, labeled categories.
Full moons always occur in the sign opposite to where the sun currently resides, creating a cosmic balancing act. When we've been swimming in Cancer's emotional waters for weeks, the Capricorn full moon serves as our life raft—offering structure, organization, and practical frameworks for processing what we've been feeling.
But this brings up the eternal question of this full moon: When is emotional restraint wisdom, and when is it avoidance? The answer isn't universal—it shifts based on context, relationship dynamics, and timing. What matters is that you're asking the question at all, because conscious choice around emotional expression is the hallmark of Capricorn maturity.
Here's a foundational principle I've learned to live by: Reserve your emotional vulnerability for people who have earned the right to hear it. If you're dealing with someone who consistently dismisses your feelings, shows no empathy for your experience, or uses your openness as ammunition against you later—that person hasn't earned access to your inner world. Save your precious emotional energy for relationships where it will be received with care.
The communication styles of these two signs reveal everything about their different approaches. Cancer tends toward emotional transparency: sharing the full story, explaining how actions affected them, referencing past incidents, and seeking understanding through detailed emotional context. Capricorn prefers factual precision: identifying the problem, presenting evidence, stating boundaries, and moving forward without extensive emotional labor.
✨ Saturn Conjunct Neptune: Magic Meets Authority
This year's full moon in Capricorn finds the moon's ruler, Saturn, in Aries conjunct Neptune. This adds a shimmer of glitter and magic to the energy—authority figures could partner with artists or spiritual leaders, and decisions made from the heart could take place.
But remember what we discussed in last month's newsletter: "Saturn with Neptune is like a drunk dad, spiritually awakened president, or kooky principal—it's a spectrum that runs from deluded leader to enlightened master." While some inspiring decisions could be made, be careful not to follow folks who have lost a grip on what's real.
This brings to mind the issue of people not realizing that posts online are fully fictional or AI-generated. "Growing up" right now might mean remembering that the long way of doing research—even if it's fishing up microfilm at the library—might be better than the quick fix of searching online, because sources can be misleading.
💫 Venus Conjunct Uranus in Gemini: Liberation and Innovation
A bubbly Venus/Uranus connection takes place in Gemini during this full moon, adding a dash of flirtatious banter. And yes—Uranus is in Gemini! This marks the beginning of a new seven-year cycle in our lives, liberating our minds. New ideas and innovations abound. New inventions of Gemini themes could proliferate during this period.
While Uranus was in Taurus—what astrologers call the sign of food, fashion, and finance—crypto became more commonplace than ever, fast fashion took over, and miraculous weight loss drugs hit the market. Here's the thing about all the planets: they're not good or bad. Is fast fashion good? Anyone who cares about the planet would say no. Is crypto good? I know next to nothing about it, but it seems like a lot of people made money unexpectedly and overnight, which is certainly Uranian. Are GLP-1s good? Yes, any medicine that frees people from countless maladies is a miracle, but of course, drugs can also be abused.
Uranus sets things free, but with freedom comes the responsibility to manage, be moderate, and wise. This full moon in Capricorn, ruled by taskmaster Saturn, calls us at the very start of Uranus in Gemini to think twice about silly behavior and to grow up.
🏠 The Great Leaving: When Safety Becomes Limitation
The Full Moon in Capricorn has a peculiar way of making us feel exposed at our most vulnerable moments. During Cancer season, we've been living in comfort-first mode—prioritizing family time over professional networking, choosing cozy nights in over ambitious projects. Cancer energy says "as long as I'm surrounded by love, I could wear pajamas to the grocery store and call it a successful day."
But Capricorn operates by entirely different standards. This is the energy that believes appearance matters, that reputation is currency, that success requires sacrifice. While the Cancer sun has been focused on nurturing relationships and creating emotional security, the Capricorn full moon feelings are whispering: "What about my career? What about my goals? What about building something that lasts?"
This creates an uncomfortable tension. Full moons illuminate what we've been avoiding, and during this one, many people suddenly feel acutely aware of where they're not measuring up professionally or financially. It's like being caught off-guard by your own ambitions after weeks of prioritizing rest and relationships.
But here's the deeper truth: this discomfort signals an important transition. The protective cocoon that served you during Cancer season might now feel restrictive. Whether you're being pushed out of your comfort zone by external circumstances or feeling an internal pull toward greater challenges, this departure from safety is actually the first step toward a more authentic version of success.
Leaving the nest—voluntarily or otherwise—can feel like heartbreak because it is a form of ending. But Capricorn specializes in building something lasting from the ground up. What feels like loss now is often the clearing necessary for the next chapter of growth.
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AFTER THE JUMP: Some exact steps to break generational curses (including a 90s throwback technique for setting bulletproof boundaries), explore real chart examples from our live session—from sibling warfare to career phoenix moments—and learn how your progressed Moon is secretly reshaping your emotional world for the next two years. Plus: why Pluto might be blocking your wealth (and how to break free), when to expect those electric "overnight success" Uranus moments, and how Venus in the 12th house creates the most profound soul connections of your life.
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