Capricorn 2027

Capricorn holds both ends of 2027. The year opens inside its season — the Sun is just past 10° Capricorn on New Year's Day and leaves for Aquarius in the third week of January — and closes inside it again from the December solstice. Two new moons fall in the sign, one at each end: one in the first week of January, one in the last week of December. Whatever you seed in the first days of the year is seeded again, near the sign's beginning, in the last. The tradition calls that a second firing.

Between them, the full moon in Capricorn in mid-July is also a penumbral lunar eclipse — the Moon at the goat's late degrees, its edge barely grazing the Earth's outer shadow, with the Sun in Cancer opposite. It is the only eclipse to touch the sign this year and the faintest kind there is: no drama, no dimming the eye can see, only a contact you have to know about to notice. The structure is not cracked. It is shown to have a shadow side.

Mercury does not retrograde in Capricorn in 2027. Pluto, which moved through the sign from 2008 to 2024, has gone into Aquarius and does not return. Mars enters in late November and is exalted there through the December season; Venus passes twice, in February and again in late November. For the sign of structure, this is a year of building without the demolition crew on site — which means every wall you raise is one you chose.

At the January new moon in your sign, write one intention on paper and put it inside a book you will not open for a year. At the December new moon in your sign, write the same intention from memory before you retrieve the original. Compare. The difference between the two is what the year built. The similarity is what held. Both are yours; neither was handed to you.