New Moon… New Year

With the new year now just a days away from writing, the new moon in Capricorn offers us all an ideal time to manifest a new reality for ourselves! This new moon is also referred to the ‘black moon’ because it’s the second new moon of the month after the new moon in Sagittarius which occurred on December 1. Furthermore, since the new moon marks the beginning of a new lunar cycle, it’s the perfect time to plant the seeds of a new chapter and set our intentions or the first few weeks of 2025 and beyond.

Capricorn is an Earth sign and is associated with determination, ambition and perseverance. It encourages us to undertake new things, to establish a plan and do everything in our power to see that plan come to fruition. As this new moon occurs at the end of the year, it encourages us to overcome any habits we want to leave behind and start afresh.

A great place to start might be to focus first on what you wish to let go of this year and leave behind in 2024, then reflect on what you’ve experienced since the previous new moon in Capricorn at the beginning of the year, such as:

How has the year gone for you?

Has anything changed?

Does anything seem to be stagnating?

This new moon is the ideal time to manifest your hopes, dreams and wishes and encourage them into fruition and reality. It invites us to plan for the long term. It helps us envision our future and align ourselves with the energy of the person we want to become in our minds eye.

In 2025, there won’t be a new moon in Capricorn at all, adding an air of exclusivity and significance to this celestial event. Make the most of the cosmic energy available to you during this time. This new moon feels like a clean slate, turning over the fresh dirt and blank page of a month-long lunar cycle. The sky goes dark and we can go all in, imagining our futures at the point before creation is conceived.

The lesson of this new moon is to start small and keep going, to form your hopes based on how you would like to feel in the long run. The committal nature of Capricorn encourages and conspires to help us lock in what we want for ourselves as the new year dawns, So let us reflect on our aspirations for the upcoming year, set realistic and achievable goals and commit to the disciplined action required to manifest our dreams and wishes.

Start to envision your next year. Begin by focusing on how you want to feel in the months ahead. We are all energetic beings and exist in a certain frequency. You can determine that frequency and then allow that to help you create a life that supports it.

So decide how you want to feel each day of 2025. For example do you want to feel Grateful? Content? Joyous? Abundant? Peaceful? Let yourself feel this emotional frequency. Spend a few moments locking this emotion into your body. You may not spend every moment in this emotion, although it will become your home frequency that you return to each day after you’ve allowed yourself to slip into another vibration. It will become your default state and the frequency that feels most like home to you.

Having a vision and a frequency to anchor your attention allows you to understand and say no to distractions. It helps you each day to hear your resounding “Hell Yeses!” because they align with your chosen frequency. When faced with a decision, you can ask yourself, does this align with how I want to feel?

If the answer is no, then the decision is clear.

Also, spend time before the new Moon becoming conscious about where and how you spend your energy. If you are busy focusing on something that is not aligned with your desires, then you are wasting your resources and draining your energy. This is a wonderful opportunity to practice gaining clarity over what you want to experience in 2025 and to ensure that it aligns with the frequency you want to feel.

As you reflect on how you spend your energy, try and notice where you are gaining energy back and where you are losing it. Align with Capricorn’s affinity for structure to create healthier boundaries for the things that take too much from you. If certain emotions are taking up your attention and focus, commit to resolving and releasing them. Try to spend a limited amount of time each day processing your emotions until they are no longer clamouring for your attention! This practice in reality could look like dedicating 15 or 20 minutes a day to writing a journal about your emotions so they feel seen and heard rather than overtake your entire day or even week.

Its really helpful to create everyday practices that help you align with the frequency you want to feel. These can include affirmations, meditations or simple rituals that help you embody that vibration. When you exist in the frequency you desire then situations appear that help support that frequency. And this is how we become powerful manifestors! – by regularly tuning our vibration to our chosen frequency.

Capricorn teaches us that our energy and attention are precious resources. Holding a clear vision and focusing your energy creates magic in your life. When you have these two components, things begin to evolve rapidly as you meet the people you need, stumble across the ideal and unexpected circumstances that you wanted but couldn’t dare to imagine and experience those wonderful intuitive hits that help you know your on your right path …….and go on find the courage to take the leaps of faith presented to you.

 Happy New Moon & New Year Ahead – and please remember: If its not a HELL YEAH! response to invitations, people or circumstances – then perhaps its not really aligned with you anymore or at least not for this era…