Full Moon in Capricorn Homework

Where your chart ages like fine wine, no shortcuts allowed

What if I told you your only job in the house of Capricorn is to fall in love with taking the long way?

Let’s say the quiet part out loud: many Capricorn placements feel like late bloomers. “But it’s the sign of success and self-made baddies,” okay and have you met an entrepreneur who didn’t feel like they could be doing more? Should have hit higher sales last quarter? Isn’t questioning a launch or pivot? Afraid their work-life balance is leaving a lover or child left wanting?

For the same reason you wouldn’t buy a house built in a day, the foundation being laid by Capricorn will take as long as necessary to achieve lasting success in your chart.

From the outside looking in, others might view Capricorn as an “overnight success.” This is due to the allergic reaction Capricorns have to being seen as a work in progress. These placements prefer to move in silence until there are tangible results to present to the world. Here stews the inner critic, unrealistic expectations, procrastination, father issues, and general sense of malaise when their goals and reality are not yet in sync.

Capricorn rules my house of career, and I feel this deeply in every chapter of my professional life. I’ve been told many times that astrology seems to come effortlessly to me… but I didn’t broadcast the thousands of hours of study over the last fifteen years; I only posted once I started my business. I’ve been told building a company seems to come naturally... They didn’t see me at age six selling homemade soap in the neighborhood to afford horseback riding lessons, or braided headbands outside a music festival at thirteen to pay for a camera and plane ticket, or the websites I built for my mom’s businesses or the venture capital I raised at nineteen when I had no idea what a term sheet was yet — the point being, where Capricorn placements appear to be an overnight success are actually years of effort forged through countless ups and downs, dead ends, pivots, hours invested, and late night ‘Jesus take the wheel; moments.

Solace for the sea goat is this simple guarantee: build it and they will come.

My brief stint as a neighborhood soapmaker (Capricorn midheaven peeking out)

“Where Capricorn placements appear to be an overnight success are actually years of effort forged through countless ups and downs, dead ends, pivots, hours invested, and late night ‘Jesus take the wheel’ moments.”

We all have Capricorn within us. Your chart is divided into twelve houses. Even if the sign is empty in your chart, the house still rules a specific area in your life, and the sign tells us how you manifest and behave in that area. I repeat, you do not need planets in Capricorn to connect with it in your chart.

Affirmations to practice on behalf of your Capricorn placements:

• Longterm goals are achieved by daily steps. I do not need to do everything today.

• Every single person I admire was once a beginner in their field.

• Success and prestige are for me alone to define.

• I am allowed to start exactly where and as I am. I am my own greatest investment.

• I inspire others with my courage to build a life in my own image.

Keyword reminders for the twelve houses:

• 1st: Body, confidence, personal identity and aura

• 2nd: Finances, stability, self-worth, integrity

• 3rd: Communication, siblings, curiosity

• 4th: Family, home, unconscious, roots

• 5th: Creativity, play, ego, being seen

• 6th: Health, wellness, service, routines

• 7th: Relationships, balance, boundaries

• 8th: Intimacy, privacy, shadow work

• 9th: Big ideas, travel, study, expansion

• 10th: Career, reputation, work ethic

• 11th: Friends, technology, community

• 12th: Spirit, mysticism, subconscious

Keyword reminders for the major placements:
(The house of each adds major context and becomes increasingly more important the further out in the solar system you get)

• Sun: identity, ego, core sense of self

• Moon: inner landscape, emotional self, intuition

• Rising (AC): who you’re rising into, and stepping into more visibly

• Mercury: how you process and communicate, what interests you

• Venus: how you give and prefer to receive love, wealth style, aesthetic

• Mars: how you take action, sex drive, motivation, conflict style

• Jupiter: your effervescence, abundance codes, and radiant joy (house dependent)

• Saturn: your life lesson and themes of how you learn and grow (house dependent)

• Uranus: the disruptor and innovator (house is where you change and stick out)

• Neptune: your spiritual connection (house is where you’re dialed in)

• Pluto: the great transformer (house is where you undergo the most evolution)

• North node: the direction your soul is being called to work on (house is where)

• South node: the gifts and comfort of what is already known to your soul (house)

• Chiron: the repetitive wound or story you’re here to heal and reclaim (house)

• Descendant (DC): your frequency and magnet for marriage or long-term

• Nadir (IC): the karma of your roots and family

• Midheaven (MC): your ambition and larger sense of purpose

The house of Capricorn and all placements here, age like fine wine.

The house of Capricorn and all placements here, age like fine wine. There is no shortcut up the mountain; it is antithetical to overnight success, thanks to Saturn‘s rulership. You are building your own kingdom, brick by brick — there is no blueprint here except the one you craft.

With my Capricorn midheaven, working for someone else was never an option. Entrepreneurship was instilled in youth from a place of a necessity, but now it’s my karma to choose it as an adult; a process I get to fall back in love with at the dawn of each new idea, program, song, or service I feel compelled to create.

From selling soap and headbands as a child, to building websites for my mom and starting my own magazine as a teenager, building an app, raising venture capital, landing a program more competitive than Harvard, just to walk away from it all and press hard reset at 21 (Saturn, cough cough) — looking back, it’s so clear to me now that they were each a thread in the tapestry that is my Capricorn midheaven. Each chapter added a new skill to my life’s toolbox. Those tools serve each new iteration of my “purpose,” no matter how unrelated they seemed at the time.

Full Moon Homework

It wouldn’t be a Capricorn Full Moon without an assignment!

1. Study the house of Capricorn in your own chart (+ any placements).

2. Create a physical timeline on paper of every major evolution you have experienced in this area, throughout your life. You can go year by year, or every few, but the goal is to recognize how this area has aged like fine wine, gaining mastery and miles over time.

3. Identify a tool or skill you gained in retrospect from each “era” of your Capricorn timeline.

4. Journal and ruminate on how each chapter is connected.

5. Consider if a chapter has recently completed…

6. With all the tools you are aware of in your toolbox, are there any inklings of what you might like to cultivate next?

A Full Moon is a release, exhalation, celebration, peak of energy. Over the next few days as the energy subsides, consider the spaciousness left in its wake.

How would you like to use those tools next? Comment any patterns and examples you notice, and we can brainstorm down below together.

To the moon and back,
Ocean Pleasant