Full Moon in Capricorn 2025: Build your spice cathedral

The Moon will be full in the 19th degree of Capricorn on the 10th day of July, at 4:35 pm EST. 28 Scorpio will be ascending, with ruler Mars in Virgo on the Midheaven in the 11th house. The Full Moon will be Capricorn’s 2nd decan ruled by Mars in the Chaldean order, and by Venus in Triplicity. She will be in the 3rd house, her house joy. The Sun will be in the 9th, in his house joy, in a decan ruled by Mars by Triplicity and Mercury according to the Chaldean order.

There’s a definite spice to this lunation; the zest of Mars comes through his rulership of the ascendant, through his proximity to the Midheaven, and through these decanic associations.

This is not comfort food. The extra spice that Mars brings may be a call to action for the nurturing Mother Moon, in a constructive way: the Full Moon in Capricorn will be separating from a relatively gentle and agreeable trine to Mars in Virgo. Mars in Virgo wants to get sh*t done, and may fire up the oven, cracking eggs and barking out orders early in the morning, without regard for how anyone feels about it. Nothing personal, of course, but Mars in Virgo will let you know if you’re not doing it right. The second decan of Virgo, where Mars will be, is all about the unappreciated back end of disciplined work that goes into making beautiful (or delicious) things, and the brutal honesty required when upholding impeccably high standards.

The Moon will find herself in the second decan of Capricorn, the home of the Great Knight of Epic Building Projects, ruled by Mars (exalted in Capricorn), who provides focused determination, and by Venus, who provides artistic vision: this decan brings the Martial force and the Venusian harmony to build monuments to the greatness of the Saturnian Establishment. The Moon here can help manage and manifest Grand Dreams of Colossal Proportions: a top-notch professional kitchen, a coliseum, a cathedral, a massive sculpture, a spaceship, a pyramid….dreams so large that the Gods themselves may accuse us of hubris.

This hidden decanic consonance between Mars and the Moon tells us that this might be the perfect time to bring a Grand Dream to manifestation. (The Moon can appreciate these things more if food is involved.)

However, this does not negate more basic truths about Moon in Capricorn.

Capricorn is the sign of Moon’s detriment, which means that the Moon tends to feel starved, alone and longing for her domain, Cancer, which is far, far away. Capricorns’ ruler, Saturn, doesn’t particularly care what anyone wants or feels. Saturn in Capricorn will make sure you shut up and get in line, respect your elders and tradition: shine your shoes, tuck your shirt tails in, don’t pick your nose or get rowdy in church. Cancer season has trouble with rigid boundaries, and the Moon may start howling during the eucharist- nothing personal, of course, it’s just the what the Moon does.

Saturn stoically watches the lunation from the early degrees of Aries, noticeably irritated but also distracted by the dreamy tidal pull of Neptune in the deep recesses of the semiotic subconscious… we may find ourselves longing for the Golden Age of the Deep Past when the Goddess simply provided for us, without all of the pitfalls and moral dilemmas of the modern era.

We have seen previously that the conjunctions between Saturn and Neptune can lead to the collapse of non-functional, defunct regimes- but sometimes a voluntary, pre-orchestrated collapse or controlled demolition is a way for the supporters of a debauched way of life to regroup and rebrand, and launch a bigger campaign. Depending on the point of view of the observer, one could argue that the 1987 fall of the Berlin Wall (coincident with the last Saturn-Neptune conjunction) introduced the optics of the fall of Communism. But Communism was never defeated, it simply regrouped and rebranded.

This lunation is the first lunation after Uranus ingressed into Gemini, which I will deal with in another article.