This Is the Climb: Capricorn Full Moon Lessons in Legacy and Letting Go

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l Moon in Capricorn – July 10, 2025 @ 18°50′ Capricorn

Tagline: Build what endures. Reclaim your core.

Time: 4:36 PM EST / 9:36 PM UK

Moon Opposes Sun at 18°50′ Capricorn-Cancer AxisPhase: Full Moon

Theme: Grounded clarity, emotional maturity, aligned effort

Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, speaks of sovereignty, structure, and soul-earned integrity. This Full Moon at 18°50′ brings a moment of crystallization. Emotional depth (Sun in Cancer) meets practical reality (Moon in Capricorn). This isn’t a time for fantasies—it’s a reckoning with what is real, reliable, and ready for long-term growth.

This lunation draws a powerful contrast between internal needs and external commitments. The question is: Can your outer life hold the truth of your inner world?

🌌 What the Full Moon in Capricorn Symbolises

Capricorn is the architect of the zodiac. Under this moon, we are asked to stabilize, prioritize, and cut through the noise. Feelings aren’t dismissed—they’re refined into wisdom. Capricorn governs time, discipline, and the long arc of becoming.

With the Sun in Cancer opposite the Moon, we sit at the tension between nurturing and achieving, roots and aspirations, feeling and form. This is an invitation to re-parent yourself: to become the inner authority who knows when to hold on, and when to release what no longer serves.

✨ Major Aspects and Influences

☀️ Sun in Cancer ♋︎ Opposing Moon in Capricorn ♑︎ (18°50′)

This polarity asks you to reconcile the emotional safety of Cancer with the resilience and responsibility of Capricorn. Emotional wisdom now requires embodied boundaries, conscious effort, and soulful recalibration. What have you outgrown emotionally? What needs to be built to reflect your truth?

🔥 Mars in Virgo (13°32′) Trine Moon in Capricorn

This harmonious earth trine grounds your ambition. Mars, in detail-oriented Virgo, lends methodical drive and momentum to whatever you're building. This is the green light to act with precision—especially around work, wellness, and practical transformations. What you refine now will serve the long haul.

💎 Venus in Gemini (6°54′) Square Mars in Virgo (13°32′)

Tension between heart and will. Venus desires connection and variety, while Mars craves clarity and action. This square may stir relationship friction or creative tension—but also invites deeper honesty. Communication can be edgy now. Watch for impatience, but allow this friction to fuel growth, not conflict.

⚖️ Jupiter in Cancer (7°03′) Square Saturn (1°56′ Aries) + Neptune (2°10′ Aries)

Jupiter in Cancer invites emotional expansion through nourishment, memory, and intuitive belonging. But its square to both Saturn and Neptune in Aries brings growing pains. Saturn challenges your hopes with real-world limitations, while Neptune stirs confusion, idealism, or spiritual overwhelm.

This is not the time to rush into new commitments or emotional declarations. Your dreams are valid—but they need grounding. Trust what feels emotionally resonant, but wait for clarity before making binding choices. Expansion comes not through force, but through emotional maturity, boundaries, and patience with the becoming

🌟 Saturn in Aries (1°56′) Sextile Pluto in Aquarius (2°55′)

This subtle, supportive aspect between two outer planets marks a long-term theme: strategic innovation. While not directly touching the Full Moon, this aspect underpins the collective mood. It asks: What new paradigm are you quietly building? What systems want to emerge from the ashes of the old?

Tarot

Full Moon in Sagittarius Tarot

Our Tarot Cards for this moon come from The Royal Tarot ( and I have no idea, who they are by)

5 of wands ~ There may be some tension, or conflict, the angels said you may find a need to transform your words from this space. Be careful not to be the rival, be the sage instead and use the power of the word.

9 of swords  ~ What are you distressed about, let it go. Find a way to reel in the feelings that you are going through and drop any negative worries or fears that may be gripping you right now. Get support if you need it, speak to a friend, find a way to lean into the 9 that says you are nearly at the end of the road that has been tricky and it will give you a new beginning.

Let the Moon Illuminate your new direction...

🌕 Key Themes: What the Capricorn Full Moon Is Asking You To Do

🧱 Reassess Your Commitments

Capricorn urges you to check your structure. Are your habits and relationships aligned with your long-term vision, or are you maintaining them out of obligation? This Full Moon gives you clarity to re-commit—or release.

🧠 Act on What’s Been Made Clear

With Mars trine the Moon, you can now move forward with practical adjustments. This is action rooted in clarity, not emotion. Refine, restructure, and realign with care and consistency.

💘 Navigate Relationship Tension with Clarity

Venus square Mars may stir desire, frustration, or creative charge—especially in communication. Don’t run from the tension. Let it sharpen your insight into what you truly want to give and receive in connection.

🌊 Ground Big Feelings Into Form

Jupiter’s expansive square to Saturn and Neptune can amplify emotions—especially those tied to family, personal growth, or collective ideals. You may feel a strong pull toward expansion, but also face resistance or fogginess. Let emotions rise, but don’t rush decisions. What’s emerging needs space to integrate before it solidifies into action.

🪨 Anchor Yourself in What Endures

This Full Moon brings mature magic—not fireworks, but foundation. It's about doing the work, tending to your soul-soil, and building a life that won’t collapse under false expectations.

✨ Final Note

This Capricorn Full Moon is a cosmic checkpoint. It isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing what truly matters. Let what is heavy fall away. Let your values guide your actions. Let your soul take the reins.

You’re not here to carry the weight of the world—you’re here to build your part of it with wisdom, clarity, and heart.

If you have personal planets or angles between 13°–23° of Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn), this lunation activates your chart with particular potency.

Let it be the turning point. Your foundation is being rewritten—stone by conscious stone.

💔 RELEASE STATEMENTS FOR THIS FULL MOON IN CAPRICORN

• I release commitments that drain my soul instead of nourish it.

• I let go of the belief that control equals safety.

• I no longer carry outdated responsibilities that are not mine.

• I release perfectionism and honor progress as sacred.

• I release emotional patterns that block grounded, authentic action.

Brand New Offering ~ Journalling Prompts

✨ Capricorn Full Moon Journaling Prompts

Let this Full Moon in Capricorn guide you into grounded self-inquiry and intentional release.

🌕 Where am I shrinking in order to feel safe, and what would it look like to expand with integrity instead?

(Reflect on where fear, control, or perfectionism may be limiting your growth.)

🌕 What distractions or coping mechanisms are keeping me from being fully present with my truth?

(Notice patterns of avoidance or busyness. What might emerge if you paused?)

🌕 What inherited beliefs, family narratives, or generational burdens am I ready to lay down?

(Explore the stories you’ve been carrying that are no longer aligned with who you're becoming.)

🌕 Who have I outgrown—and who am I now stepping into becoming?

(Let yourself name the version of you that is dissolving, and the one that is rising.)