This New Moon is a great time to focus on setting goals, initiating projects, and committing to achieving financial and career success. Capricorn is a sign that demands integrity, discipline, and responsibility to accomplish these things. If you struggle with overspending or sticking to a budget, this New Moon is the perfect opportunity to work on changing that pattern of behavior.

Capricorn is the sign of climbing to the top of the mountain. It represents our journey towards achieving our goals and attaining success. This sign is associated with business, finances, and material world power. Capricorns are the zodiac's most goal-oriented sign, seeking social status, recognition, respect, and reputation. The planet associated with this sign represents struggles, including time, limitations, overcoming restrictions, and lessons learned the hard way.

During the Capricorn moon, we become more aware of the need for discipline and structure in our lives. It deals with important areas such as career, business, fathers, reputation, honor, material concerns, grounding, past lives, political matters, recognition, organizations, and ambition.

The message of this Moon is to be respected for our wisdom or authority. We should appreciate hard-earned knowledge and understanding and how we can benefit from it. This Moon also encourages us to focus on our community role and rely on each other. However, it's important to note that this Moon may bring depression and negativity if we are inclined to feel that way.

 Capricorn deals with the knees, bones, skin, and joints. Use this time to do healing work in these areas.

 During this New Moon in Capricorn, you can do one or more of the following:

• The abundance check is a great way of manifesting income.  

• I choose to achieve position and status in my working life.

• I choose to approach my work with greater tolerance.

•   I choose to learn from my responsibilities.

•   I choose to be seen as a figure of authority in my own right. 

•   Make a manifestation board of the things that you want in your life. Be creative about how you want things and how you design them.  

• Write your intentions on a 7-day candle, and light it up to the full Moon each day.

• Take small daily actions that signal you are committed to your goals.

•   Set goals  

• Dealing with material concerns.

•   This Moon is an excellent time for doing past life meditations or regressions to overcome past negative influences.

•   Getting in touch with and expressing your feelings.

•   Going outside and connecting with a tree in your backyard by grounding.

•   If you have been thinking about changing job fields, this Moon is excellent for assisting with that. Use this Moon to think of what you really want to do.

•   Write down your goals for the coming new year.

•   Write a personal mission statement

•   Read the biography of someone you admire

•   Work with crystals

•   If you haven’t already, establish your boundaries

Some Questions to ask yourself in this New Moon:

•   What things in your life are you resisting right now?

•   Can you accept yourself with all your faults and limitations?

•   Where do our lives need massive restructuring?  

• Where or to whom have we given our authority away  

• What have you come here to accomplish?  

• What do you need help with?  

• Who can help you with these things?  

• Who is preventing you from accomplishing what you need to?  

• Who is keeping you on track? Take a moment or two to acknowledge these people right now. 

• Are we climbing the mountain of our most cherished ambition? If not how do we begin to? What do we need to delegate, streamline, or organize?

  Where does this New Moon at Capricorn fall in your chart? What house/area of life is it lighting up? How do you need first to acknowledge yourself in that area of life? How can you bring the positive characteristics of gentle but firm discipline, order, good habits, and new foundations to this area of life? Can you let the business of others appreciating you come to you naturally instead of craving it so much that you are dancing as fast as you can all the time?

  Meditation ~  

Go within and find out how you can better channel your energies.

  Plan a ritual:

•   Things that deal with material concerns and desires.

•   Focus on stability, grounding, and centering.

•   To assist you in remaining steadfast in your convictions.

   Affirmations for this New Moon:

•   I am aligned with my highest good. I create order and peace naturally.

•   I release my struggle with life. I accept compassion and gentleness as divine aspects of my being. I choose to manifest consciously and with integrity.

•   I can achieve my ambitions and fulfill my destiny with confidence, discipline, and dedication.

•   I am industrious. I take on tasks that require considerable planning and work.

•   I am patient. I work steadily to produce rewards that are long in coming -- but worth the wait.

•   I am responsible. I meet my routine commitments, even when progress is hard to see.

•   I am organized. I keep track of my obligations and fulfill them reliably and well.

   

  Feng Shui during the New Moon in Capricorn:

  Place a water fountain in your home. Put it near the front door to attract wealth, prosperity, and abundance.

  Ruling Planet  ~ Saturn

  Element ~ Earth

  Cardinal Sign

  Angel associated with Capricorn ~  Gabriel & Hanael

  Hanael, Angel of December and ruler of Capricorn, meaning "Glory or grace of God," is known as the chief of innocents. He is invoked as an amulet against evil.

  Crystals for the New Moon in Capricorn ~ Amethyst, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Garnet, Leopard-skin Jasper, Jet, Magnetite, Malachite, Clear Quartz, Smokey Quartz, and Tigers-eye

 Candle colors & colors for this New Moon in Capricorn ~ Black, gray, violet, dark brown, dun, and shades of earth.

 Herbs for Capricorn ~ Rosemary, dill, tarragon, caraway, chamomile, heartsease, lambs ears, Rosemary and marjoram.