“Reconnect with joy”

As Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer, Monday’s Capricorn Full Moon is asking us to reflect on joy and tune into the natural rhythms of life as if it were our sole occupation.

The Tarot Majors associated with this Full Moon include The Devil (Capricorn), The World (Saturn rules Capricorn), The Chariot (Cancer), The High Priestess (The Moon rules Cancer), The Wheel of Fortune (Jupiter rules Capricorn’s first decan), and The Empress (Venus rules Cancer’s first decan), The decans hold the nurturing, stabilizing and harmony-seeking energy of the Queens and 2s of Cups/Pentacles. Together, the Tarot speaks to breaking free from the chains of the mundane and fully embracing joy, flow, compassion and abundance.

The Sun sits in the Growing Sabian expression in Cancer 9 (A tiny, nude girl reaching in the water for a fish), while the Moon occupies the Wisdom expression in Capricorn 9 (An angel carrying a harp). Themes of innocence, delighting in simply joys, curiosity. creating harmony and tuning into the natural rhythms of life are evoked.

The I Ching activations are in the 5th lines of Hexagram 52 (Keeping Still) and Hexagram 58 (The Joyous). Both hexagrams/lines speak to tranquility, innocence and truth. Hex 58.5 warns of naive exchanges with destructive or exploitative people while Hex 52.5 advises being especially judicious with your choice of words. Hex52 is also one of the 4 hexagrams tied to the omen of qilin, signifying transformative events to come relating to the near-future rise of a sage or leader.

This Full Moon in Capricorn asks us to slow down, tune out unnecessary and destructive noise, and tap in to stillness to reconnect with what sparks joy.