On January 18th, 2026, we have a New Moon at 28° Capricorn.
This is not your usual New Moon; this New Moon is literally conjunct all the personal planets + Pluto.
This is a 6-planet stellium New Moon – an “all hands on deck” lunation that interconnects every single layer of our life.
The geometry of this New Moon is spectacular. The chart of the New Moon is one large Minor Sextile, with 6 planets conjunct sextiling Saturn and Neptune, and trining Uranus.
If you were looking for a good time to plant long-term seeds, this is it. It really doesn’t get more supportive than that.
With that being said, keep in mind that New Moons are times of seeding — not manifestation. So the invitation here is to plan, design, and dream in alignment with your FUTURE.
Not with the present. This is NOT a time for “I want this now” – it’s a time for “I’m building this for where I’m going.”
New Moon In Capricorn – Cycles, Not Calendars
Another important feature of this New Moon is that the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars cluster in the final degrees of Capricorn, while Venus and Pluto occupy the first degrees of Aquarius:
- Mars is at 26° Capricorn
- Mercury is at 26° Capricorn
- Moon is at 28° Capricorn
- Sun is at 28° Capricorn
- Venus is at 1° Aquarius
- Pluto is at 3° Aquarius
All these planets create a bridge between the old world (last degrees of Capricorn) and the new (first degrees of Aquarius). Capricorn is what we’ve been building over the past decades; Aquarius is what comes next – the new world we’re stepping into.
This is a threshold New Moon – and if you haven’t done it already, THIS is the right time to write your New Year’s resolutions, or plan for the future.
I’m personally not a fan of New Year’s resolutions, because the astrology rarely matches the calendar. It might be January 1st on paper, but the Moon could be waning, or we could be dealing with heavy or disruptive transits that have nothing to do with fresh starts.
Our ancestors knew to align with the real cycles of nature when making important decisions or starting new initiatives. Temples all around the world based on solstices, equinoxes and other cycles are a prime reminder of that.
But somewhere along the way, we became disconnected from those rhythms and forgot their power.
…well, not everyone.
Gardeners, fishermen, farmers – and many traditional cultures – still use the lunar cycle to decide when to plant, harvest, sail, or act.
And us – people who know astrology – we have that extra advantage. We can see the timing. We can read the sky. We can choose our moments.
We get to work with nature – not with the calendar. Hence, we align our intentions with New Moons, not with Mondays or the 1st of the month.
New Moon In Capricorn – All Hands On Deck
Coming back to the New Moon in Capricorn.
We know that New Moons in general are good for planning and seeding. But if there’s one New Moon of the year that’s particularly good at planning and goal-setting, it’s the New Moon in Capricorn.
Capricorn helps us set goals that are ambitious, yet achievable – because unlike some other signs, Capricorn always has a plan. Not only intentions and wishful thinking – but concrete steps, structure, and a realistic path to actually get there.
But what’s truly unique about this New Moon is its stellium alignment.
We don’t only have the Sun and the Moon conjunct. We have the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars – and Pluto – all lined up, all hands on deck, all pointing in the same direction.
The Sun is our purpose. It’s literally the center of the universe – at least of our universe, i.e. solar system – and everything that sustains life, movement, and direction stems from this giant ball of light and energy.
So when all our personal planets align with the Sun, there’s no more Venus wandering by herself, saying “I don’t feel like it,” Mercury arguing “but my mind tells me something else” or Mars protesting “I’d rather do it differently.”
No.
When there’s this level of alignment, all planets agree on the purpose. This is when we mobilize all our wants, needs, resources, and drive toward the same goal – without internal sabotage, mixed signals, or second-guessing.
Pluto – Let There Be Truth
And then comes Pluto.
Pluto takes what might still feel like an abstract idea or intention and drags it into the depths of the soul. When Pluto gets involved, we can’t help but come face to face with what’s most primal, raw, and true inside us.
Depending on our personal relationship with Pluto, this process can feel uncomfortable at first. It can surface buried emotions, or some sort of uneasiness – especially if where we are now in life is not quite aligned with who we know, deep down, we’re meant to be.
But this process is also extremely liberating.
When we face this deepest truth, all the stories, all the excuses, all the lies we’ve been telling ourselves – all the inauthentic facades we’ve been hiding behind – suddenly lose their power.
They simply can’t survive the encounter with Truth.
Once Pluto’s truth lands, nothing else matters.
This won’t come as a neat, neocortex-style insight – but as a deeper knowing, a visceral recognition of who you are and what you are here to do.
This encounter with the deeper part of you – the part that knows what’s best for you without negotiation – can activate something primordial. It can light a fire, ignite a spark, and make it impossible to keep living inside old stories that no longer fit.
As our old identities collapse, the psyche stops cooperating with who you thought you were – and from that zero-point energy, something entirely new can begin to take shape.
New Moon In Capricorn – A Woman Reading Tea Leaves
And the Sabian symbol of this New Moon says it even more clearly: “A woman reading tea leaves”.
Reading tea leaves, Tarot, astrology – all forms of divination speak to the same thing: our attempt to understand the deeper mystery of life. Here, answers don’t come from linear logic, but from patterns, symbols, and connections that aren’t obvious to the rational, Mercury-brain way of thinking.
Whether that medium is tea leaves, runes, Tarot, or the planets themselves, what matters is not the tool, but the ability to tap into a symbolic language – into the language of nature.
In the Capricorn context, reading tea leaves becomes a symbol for understanding the larger role we’re meant to play in the world. Capricorn – together with Aquarius and Pisces – is the final stretch of the zodiac, where consciousness naturally zooms out toward the bigger picture.
Here, the questions are no longer just about work, relationships, or getting by. They become questions of calling, purpose, and contribution.
And with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries just around the corner, change is no longer optional. A door is closing – and a new cycle is beginning, with new rules, new priorities, and new opportunities.
By the end of 2026, the world will look VERY different from the one we’ve known.
This New Moon in Capricorn gives us a moment to tune ourselves to that shift. To take what worked in our “past life” and find a new container – a new way of expressing it – in the world we’re stepping into.
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