There’s something bone-deep about this Full Moon. It doesn’t just rise — it reverberates through the spine of legacy, responsibility, and karmic echoes that refuse to stay buried.
This lunation is no ordinary culmination. It feels like a cosmic reckoning, a sacred rupture. The Mother of Bones archetype awakens with her full force — not to punish, but to liberate. To crack open the cages we built out of loyalty to pain.
Because what we don’t transform, we inherit. And what we don’t release, we pass on.
And I’ve had enough.
Capricorn: The Shadow of Strength
The Moon doesn’t feel safe in Capricorn. She’s in her “detriment” here — but maybe that’s the point. Because this Full Moon asks: What have you buried beneath your strength?
Capricorn governs the bones, the father line, the structures we cling to because we think survival demands it. And for the Divine Feminine, this is where we’ve become the “strong one” for too long — the unyielding spine holding up collapsing systems.
But under this moon, I’m not holding anymore. I’m surrendering what never truly belonged to me.
The Degree Speaks: 18°49
- 18: The Moon card in tarot. Hidden fears. Emotional illusions. The parts of us that tremble in the dark, waiting to be seen.
- 49 (13): Death. Sacred endings. Soul-level transformation.
- 22 → 4: Foundations. The bones of our being being rewritten.
This Full Moon whispers:
“I see what was hidden. I feel what I buried. And now I end the cycle.”
Divine Feminine Reclamation Through Trines & Sextiles
Trine Mars in Virgo (13°):
Mars, the sacred fire of action, aligns with the Capricorn Moon — forming a trine that burns through martyrdom and emotional rigidity. This is the Death card meeting the Six of Wands: a funeral for who I used to be, followed by the triumph of becoming who I truly am.
Trine South Node in Virgo (20°):
This is karmic excavation. The perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the emotional over-functioning — it all comes up now, not to break me, but to free me.
Judgment meets Strength.
The call to rise from what I was.
The courage to be soft in a world that asked me to harden.
Sextile North Node in Pisces (20°):
This is grace. A gentle reminder to let intuition lead.
The Divine whispers:
“You don’t have to hold the structure anymore. Let me.”
My Father. My Awakening. My Lineage.
Capricorn is the Father sign. And this moon touches the very root of my story.
When I was a child, my father called us Buckshot. A strange endearment that I now see as foreshadowing. Because this is the Buck Moon — and something about that loops me back to my own father wound, to my awakening, to the breadcrumb trail of healing.
After my awakening, I’d drive past his house on the way to the native reserve. Every time, I’d pass a sign:
“Art Lessons.”
The irony?
The man who cracked open my soul was named Art.
He once said:
“Make peace with your father before he dies.”
I didn’t know it then, but that was a soul command.
This Full Moon feels like the moment that command comes full circle.
Because now, I can finally say it:
The buck stops here.
Not just with my father.
But with the fathers of my daughters.
With the men who ran from the mirror instead of facing their own wounds.
A Karmic Unraveling in Real Time
This Capricorn Full Moon lands in the 6th house of my youngest daughter’s father — a space tied to service, health, routine, and accountability. It also conjuncts his current partner’s Capricorn Sun — illuminating their shared illusions, responsibilities, and emotional suppression.
For him, this may feel like collapse.
Not because I wish it — but because the mask can’t hold anymore.
This lunation also touches the chart of my older daughter’s father, another Scorpio Sun, who has a Virgo North Node now activated by this lunation. The message is clear:
Face your patterns. Heal the wound. Show up.
Capricorn energy demands more than talk. It asks for consequences, structure, consistency.
Releasing the Weight That Was Never Mine
This moon is a mirror — not just for them, but for me.
I see how I carried what was theirs to bear.
I see how I over-functioned so they didn’t have to feel.
I see how I played the strong one, while grieving alone in silence.
But no more.
This moon marks a breaking of the spell.
A final breath before I put it down.
I grieve.
I forgive.
I reclaim.
If You’re Feeling This Too…
You’re not imagining it.
You’re living it.
Over the next two weeks — and even through the end of the year — watch for:
- Emotional unravelings that free your nervous system
- Subtle shifts in their lives (career, health, finances) that reflect spiritual consequences
- Your own capacity to stop managing what was never yours
Ritual Invitations for the Capricorn Full Moon
- Write a letter to the burden you’re releasing — then burn it.
- Speak aloud: “The buck stops here. I will not pass this pain on.”
- Anoint your spine with oil or saltwater as a symbol of reclaiming your backbone.
- Place a stone or bone on your altar — a reminder that your foundation now belongs to you.
Closing Message
Capricorn is slow-moving energy. It doesn't promise overnight release. But it does promise lasting change if you choose to meet it with radical truth and soul-deep discipline.
This Full Moon isn’t just an ending.
It’s a soul agreement being rewritten.
A karmic cycle dissolving in the light of emotional clarity.
A Divine Feminine choosing softness, not as weakness, but as revolution.
You are not the burden-bearer anymore.
You are the one who breaks the chain.
And you don’t need anyone’s permission to set yourself free.
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