Full Moon in Capricorn: Lunar Eclipse

The lunar eclipse in Capricorn (4:30pm, CDT) and the full moon (4:38pm, CDT) are on July 16! 

A kissing goodbye and a bidding adieu is bittersweet.  The solar eclipse on July 2 brings about an epiphany, opening a new door.  But, for the door to open, an obstacle that is blocking its path is removed.  The eclipse on July 16 brings to light what can be let go of.  Being drawn back into the past occurs, stepping closer to a sense of completion.  This allows endings to outworn situations so that transformation can begin. 

Mercury retrogrades July 7-July 31, turning up the volume on subconscious underpinnings.  Eclipses plus Mercury retrograde redirect the course; routinized rhythms reset.  Untold stories become unearthed.  Truth is stripped down to its bare bones, to its skeleton, having a sobering effect.  Difficult conversations resurface and finally get to the root of the problem.  Yet non-verbal cues and underlying meanings may reveal more than direct communication.  Mercury turns direct July 31 and dynamics reverse.  Calm waters turn tempestuous as a storm rolls in, just as problems resolve and disappear.

Saturn and Pluto join the moon in Capricorn, as matters are finalized.  Limitations are defined.  Issues regarding real estate arise.  Power changes hands.  The influence of Saturn and Pluto give emphasis to the topic of boundaries, such as walls and structures that divide, separate and support.  Trauma surrounds the borders of our country, as accountability for the treatment of fellow human beings is called for.  What boundaries need to be set to prevent cruelty and suffering?   

The well of intuition runs deep right now.  Psychic and empathic antenna is tuned in- receiving messages from the ethers.  Whatever ends up lost in translation over the radio fuzz becomes clearer as the summer continues.    

*Image from the Ancient Tarot of Lombardy