The Best Laid Plans: New Moon in Capricorn

While our calendars help keep our society functioning, our bodies and brains evolved under the cycles of the Sun and Moon. In our calendars, the Sun defines our years and days, while the Moon defines our months. But we had to make a few tweaks to get everything to fit neatly into a 12-month year, hence the leap years and the occasional year with 13 New Moons instead of 12. It all works out, and everybody can agree on what day it is.

Regardless of what the calendar says, life on Earth still responds to those planetary cycles, and astrologers know that the New Moon — that moment every 29.5 days when the Sun and Moon are aligned at the same degree of the ecliptic — heralds a shift in the patterns of our lives here on Earth. It also indicates how the patterns forming at the moment of the New Moon are likely to play out before the next New Moon. That gives us the opportunity to shift things in our personal lives in line with our goals and desires. Or we can ignore the opportunity and just g…