Moon into Capricorn: Moving Mountains Slowly

Monday night through Thursday morning

Tonight at 10:00pm EDT, the Moon pulls on heavy work gloves and steps into Capricorn for a few days of hard work. This sign of cardinal Earth loves nothing better than getting down to it and getting things done. No job too tough for Capricorn, and it doesn't matter how long it takes.

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Capricorn is where Pluto is hanging out these days (well, years), and the Moon will be joining Pluto on his side of the ongoing Pluto–Uranus square. This is the slow, red warning light of a square that keeps letting us know big changes are ahead. At 4am EDT Tuesday, the Moon will square Uranus, then at 7am EDT, she'll be right with Pluto.

So, the work week after the Labor Day holiday begins with a fresh awareness of just how massive these changes are. As the Eastern seaboard and inland areas continue to face the results of hurricane Irene, the Gulf Coast is lashed by another tropical storm, and large swaths of the West continue to burn, it hardly seems as though we need the reminder.

And yet, Capricorn is never daunted by a challenge. The Moon in Capricorn doesn't shrink back or shirk. Instead, she grins and digs in. Just before 5pm EDT Tuesday, the Moon trines Jupiter in Taurus, connecting with the planet of generosity and good fortune. At midnight, the Moon trines the Sun in Virgo, bringing the two luminaries together with energy for good, detailed work and practical healing.

In the early hours of Wednesday, the Capricorn Moon squares Saturn in Libra. This is a challenging aspect, and yet, Saturn rules Capricorn––in this square, like meets like. Here again, we get an invitation to buckle down, find balance, and do the work.

Just after noon, the Moon trines Venus in Virgo, echoing the Sun trine. In the realm of relationships, finances and creativity, where is work needed? Where do we need to pay attention?

The Moon's last classical aspect in Capricorn is an opposition to Mars in Cancer. I'm not sure how things have been for you, but this Mars in Cancer transit has been difficult, with more than its share of anger, tension and emotionality. This opposition brings the emotional Moon in hard-nosed Capricorn, into contact with action-oriented Mars in emotional Cancer, and so asking the question, what action needs to be taken? What work is needed here?

The opposition initiates a void of course time that lasts until 5:42am EDT Thursday, when the Moon moves into visionary Aquarius.