Capricorn

December 21 – January 19

As a Capricorn, an earth sign and somebody ruled by the very focused planet Saturn, you work hard to get your life organised. You weigh up your current activities, you think about what you’d like to do and achieve, and then you organise plans to make it all happen. And should circumstances change, you’ll alter that plan. However, as you’ve probably noticed over the past couple of years, even at your most perceptive and analytical, you won’t necessarily have been able to anticipate the twists and turns that have gone on – and especially the twists and turns that have influenced you. The other thing to bear in mind is that while many of these twists and turns may have been unwelcome at the time, looking back on them, what seemed most unsettling, if not just plain worrying, actually turned out to be a breakthrough – although perhaps in disguise.

In order to understand this, we actually need to go back some way, back to 2008, when Pluto, the planet of truth and transformation moved in your sign. During this period, events will have raised numerous tough questions, but generally, you had time to reflect on them, and learn from them. However, in late 2017, Pluto was joined, in Capricorn, by your own ruler, Saturn. And with the two of them together, you’ve faced a combination of changes in circumstances, and your own recognition that you could do things differently, or approach things differently, will have meant that you will, indeed, have had to rethink your approach to a range of elements of your life, and often had to do things in a very new way. Having made those changes, however, you’ll assume that’s that.

However, it’s worth noting with a series of eclipses taking place in Capricorn this year, the Capricorn eclipsed New Moon on January 6, the eclipsed Full Moon in your sign on July 16, and with another Capricorn eclipse at the end of the year on December 26th, and with those eclipses shaking things up, this isn’t about a single day. This is about doing things very differently.

The trick to dealing with all of this is to recognise that no matter how much you think things through, with powerful planetary activity altering the world around you, your own world, the circumstances of others and, in fact, the way things will proceed, even you won’t necessarily be able to figure things out.

That may seem worrying, but at the same time it will be invigorating, because it means you’ll be dealing with new ideas and will be in new territory. Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind is the move by Uranus, the planet of innovation into a new position. Uranus spent a portion of the year of 2018 in the part of your chart that has to do with who and what you most enjoy in life, and in your fellow earth sign of Taurus. It departed in November of last year. On March

6 it moves there, to remain for the rest of this year and, in fact, until 2026. Because Uranus is about shaking up the old and, even more, about new ideas – genuinely new ideas, things that won’t previously have crossed your mind – its presence suggests that whatever you’ve been thinking about or contemplating will either be changed, or something entirely new will appear. This may involve going new places, making new friends, discovering a new activity or pursuit you’re passionate about. Or, because this is a lengthy cycle, what or who you encounter now could be the springboard for something new and wonderful in your life in the years to come.

As a Capricorn who works hard to organise things, this may initially seem somewhat worrying. But when you understand that this is a period of discovery, then when those unexpected or even unsettling twists and turns arise, you won’t be concerned but will, instead, embrace them. It’s the same with the powerful focus on earth signs, and on the most expansive parts of your chart. This is especially the case from late August, when the New Moon accents those matters until September’s first half, when the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars are all in your fellow earth sign of Virgo, and focusing on those potential changes.

If there’s any hint you’ll want to take during this period, it’s to resist the temptation to make a single plan. Instead, to make a commitment to explore whatever arises. The more you explore now during the year of 2019, the better informed you’ll be when, in December of this year, Jupiter, the planet of opportunity, moves into Capricorn, to remain through 2020, which begins a year during which you reap rewards for your efforts during 2019 and the past years.

As a Capricorn who works hard to organise things, when you understand that this is a period of discovery, then when unexpected twists and turns arise, you won’t be concerned