Building a sandcastle in high tide? Creating with integrity - new expression of Capricorn.
Last week I mentioned that this year's Capricorn new moon felt different this year.
This is the main way it has felt different for me: Deeper awareness of my life force energy and how I use it.
In December I spent some time reflecting on 2023, and acknowledged & celebrated the gifts I received. I had a very clear idea of the things I wanted to create and experience this year, at least during the first few months.
As we got closer to the new year, that energy started to fizzle out. I had many ideas that wanted to come through but no energy to start working on them.
I created the 12 paths to Impeccable Personal Power ebook (free download here) and after that got clear instructions from my guidance within to ‘do nothing, just rest and listen in the stillness'.
That is a hard message for someone with Mercury and Mars in Capricorn to hear! Especially when I had all these ideas that were calling out to be brought into form!
I did listen to it though; half-heartedly; and then a week later fractured my foot. Ok, now I got the message :)
But it got me reflecting on how strongly we are conditioned to go go go at the start of the year.
Old way of creating with Capricorn
This shows up as:
- Have a goal, have a plan and be responsible enough to work it.
- Feel guilty when you don’t have a plan, feel like resting and judge it as 'slacking off'
- Feel like a martyr or resent it if you are working very hard and see others ’slacking off’
- Judge yourself and/or others for how they show up in their life in regards to productivity
- Put immense inner pressure on yourself to move ahead even when you don’t feel like. Push, push, push, till it gets done.
- Feel pressure from others when they judge how you live your life (or you imagine they are judging you)
- Feel ‘useless’ when you are sitting and doing nothing, pressure to do something useful all the time.
These are the negative traits of Capricorn energy, because it ties our sense of self-worth to how productive we are.
Little-talked essence of Capricorn
But one thing that is often missed when we talk of Capricorn, is that it is also very concerned with the right use of resources, which includes your personal life force energy.
The ideal Capricorn has a regard for how resources are used, that its sustainable, and that it's in the best interest of all concerned.
This is what Pluto’s journey through Capricorn since 2007 has been working to transform.
- Reclaiming the regard for life force energy and its right use.
- Being in integrity with your own energy and honoring yours as well as others.
Parting shot transits this week
On Friday Jan 19th, Venus in Sagittarius squares Neptune in Pisces.
This implies that even though there may be a desire within to expand and move out, there is also a need to surrender to the flow of energy.
Outwards (Sagittarius, fire) vs inwards (Pisces, Neptune, water).
It can feel like building a sandcastle in high tide. You put in the energy to create something, but it's washed away. We can easily feel frustrated and disillusioned by this tension.
Last week's new moon was the last Capricorn new moon with Pluto in Capricorn. From next year, Pluto will grace the sign of Aquarius at the time of the Capricorn new moon.
But as a parting shot, Pluto and the Sun meet up on Saturday Jan 20th, at the degree of 20Capricorn59', with the moon trining it in Taurus....just a minute before going into Aquarius!
Clearly this is a message we are meant to pay attention to!
The key message here is:
Compost old ways of creating, old habits and routines that form the structure of your life and pay attention to how you direct your life force to create your life. .text-lg
Letting go of the rigidity of old structures, giving way to flexibility and pliability.
New way of creating with Capricorn
These are some ways we can interpret this energy and reach for its higher essence:
- Instead of rushing in to do something, tune into your personal life force energy and honor how it wants to flow.
- De-link your sense of self-worth from how much you accomplish, what you accomplish or what anyone thinks of your accomplishments. This is a BIG one! Really worth paying attention to because this is what distorts our life force.
- Start creating your life from a place of clean, pure life force energy instead of habitual patterns of the ego (comparison to others), mind (inner critic, judgement, outdated ideas of productivity), emotions (feeling lack, less than, pressure to perform), body (outdated habits and routines that bring security)
- Discern when you are taking action from a place of internal or external pressure to do or be something, rather than your authentic life force energy moving towards what your heart wants to create
- Transform the uneasiness that may come up when you are slowing down, or being called to be in stillness, into acceptance. Our sense of security should not come from how much we do.
- Be like a tree - patience, flexibility, ability to flow, groundedness and ability to be still are qualities that will help us greatly this year.
If you feel like resting, honor your body and do it.
If you feel that putting action towards something doesn't feel right just yet, listen to that voice inside.
If you feel that taking teeny tiny steps is all you can manage, then so be it! Sometimes taking small actions steps can be more than enough, just watch out for the inner critic voice saying if its not.
The key thing here is to activate the** higher essence of Capricorn, which wants the structure and form of creation to be in integrity with the energy behind it**.
If an action is forced, or coming from judgement or lack, the final creation will reflect that because it's been infused with that intention, even if it's unconscious.