A reflection inspired by the new moon in Capricorn, January 19th 2026
I woke this morning with a lingering sense from a dream — not clear in detail, but carrying a feeling of not having achieved much in my life. These vague remnants of a dream brought to my awareness how painful it can be to tie my self-worth to outer ideas and measures of success. I also remembered that we have a New Moon today in Capricorn — a fitting theme that seems to want deeper attention.
This morning’s New Moon in Capricorn, right at its final degrees — seems to be an invitation to let go of old ways of looking at responsibility, work, and self-worth.
Saturn and Capricorn are very strong themes in my own birth chart.
My Capricorn father was my first lived experience of this energy, at least as it has traditionally been expressed. His focus was on working incredibly hard, sometimes at the cost of his own — and our family’s — emotional needs.
That makes sense when I remember his childhood. He grew up in poverty, carrying deep shame as he was sent from house to house with a cart, asking for pig food — food the family needed to survive. He told me one day that he made a vow this would never happen to him again.
These are burdens often passed on through generations, and I sense that part of what I’m seeing this morning belongs to my dad. It’s a theme many of us can recognize, and one that surfaces often in family constellations.
I have a great passion for astrology as it has offered me a road map of the qualities of time. I believe this year offers big opportunities to all of us to leave some of the burdens we carried from our parents and ancestors reaching far back in time, where they belong, in the past and embrace these big energetic opportunities open to us to embrace new ways of being.
These are burdens often passed on through generations, and I sense that part of what I’m seeing this morning belongs to my dad. It’s a theme many of us can recognize, and one that surfaces often in family constellations.
I hold a deep passion for astrology, as it has offered me a kind of roadmap for understanding the qualities of time throughout my life. This year seems to offer great opportunities to lay down some of the burdens we have carried for our parents, ancestors and past versions of ourselves, leave them in the past, and open ourselves to new ways of being.
Astrologically, Saturn and Capricorn have often been framed as hard work, endurance, achievement, recognition, and contribution — but mostly through a lens of fear, driven by a sense of lack or separation. This New Moon, which will flavors the whole month, feels like an invitation to meet this energy differently. It offers a preparation for a new way of integrating Saturn into our lives as it moves into Aries (together with Neptune) mid February, an event mentioned by many astrologers as a big shift in human history.
What if responsibility is really response-ability — the capacity to meet each moment as best we can, while allowing ourselves to be enough? What if we loosen our grip on measuring our worth against old systems of success, and instead rest into gratitude for where we have been and where we are, right now?
When I feel into all this, something softens. The burden lightens. There is more trust, and a sense of being in service to a spontaneous movement unfolding. And while it’s still okay to dream and envision, it feels important to hold those dreams lightly — trusting that life may lead us ‘somewhere’ even wiser, deeper, and more true than anything we could plan or know in advance.
I look forward to our constellation days this year, where some heavy burdens no longer need to be carried, can be returned to where they belong. Dates will be posted soon!
I’m not a professional astrologer — these reflections come from personal experience and how I sense and work with these themes in my own life.
For a talk on the new moon of an astrologer I like, click here