The Capricorn New Moon is culminating on January 18, 2026 at 1:52 PM Central Time, so adjust for your location. The window of opportunity for this to show up in your life opened one week prior on January 11, 2026 and does not close until a week afterward on January 25, 2026. It is a New Moon, so we will not see the results from these changes, conversations, incidents, and decisions until the corresponding Full Moon on June 29, 2026 at 8°14′ Capricorn. July 2026 looks to be major in astrological terms, so you may want to look at those charts alongside this one.

This Capricorn New Moon is at 28°43′ Capricorn in your chart. It is the first New Moon of the calendar year and it happens right before Capricorn season ends, which matters. This is a New Moon of completion, culmination, and mastery. This is the highest point on the mountain, where you are meant to see something with new eyes.

Capricorn energy is realistic, practical, methodical, grounded. This is where you are assessing the terrain. What you have mastered. What you have come through that brought you to this point. This is also a beginning point of integration, where you understand what has changed you, what has shifted your life direction, and what you want to move toward next.

This New Moon asks you to honor how far you have come. There is strength here. Self reliance. Resilience. Fortitude. Dedication. And it opens a new beginning toward the next level goals you want to achieve.

This can be a New Moon where clarity arrives around what you want to put your energy and effort into next. You may understand more clearly what matters to you now. That may be for this year, or for the next few months. Your priorities can feel fresh. There can be a shift in what you are willing to invest in.

Capricorn also plans for the long term. What needs to be handled now. What is presenting itself front and center that you need to responsibly address. And what you are realizing is no longer worth your time. A change in priorities can show up with this New Moon.

Capricorn is also the sign of restriction, accountability, and consequence. It governs not only what is built, but what happens when responsibility is avoided because the work feels heavy, slow, or demanding. Under Capricorn energy, what is postponed does not dissolve. It accumulates over time. Choices made through avoidance eventually produce visible results, often in the form of pressure, limitation, or enforced reality checks. This New Moon can coincide with moments where the cost of not doing what was required becomes clear, not as punishment, but as the natural outcome of cause and effect. Capricorn does not moralize. It measures.

That is emphasized because Mercury and Mars are conjunct the New Moon. Mars brings forward motion. This is a determined Mars, a Mars that wants to accomplish something and get it done. Mercury aligned with Mars and the New Moon brings attention to planning, strategy, and details. How are you going to get where you want to go. How are you going to move ahead. What needs to be thoughtfully considered.

This can also be a New Moon where you feel restrained, conserving energy, wanting to sit with something. Capricorn is discerning. It can be calculating. You may be working something out in a new way. You may want to approach the next chapter or goal with more awareness and better planning.

There is a mix here of planning and action. The mind is engaged. How this New Moon feels depends on how Capricorn energy works in your chart.

If you have strong earth or water placements, you may work with this New Moon in a grounded, systematic way. Researching. Understanding before acting.

If you have stronger fire or air placements, the slowdown can feel frustrating. You may want to move quickly and have less patience for assessment. But this New Moon is about acknowledging what matters now and what you are willing to put energy toward.

Mars is oriental here, rising behind the other planets. It provides forward momentum from behind the scenes. It keeps things moving.

So there is clear forward motion with this Capricorn New Moon, but it is based on a new approach. You are not starting from zero. You have learned from what you have been through. There can be a sense of been there, done that. You are at a higher point now, willing to do something differently.

This is part of Capricorn’s cardinal nature. It directs and initiates energy forward. But because this is the end of Capricorn season, the initiation is rooted in lived experience and earned authority.

After this New Moon, the planets move into Aquarius and begin making a sequence of conjunctions to Pluto at 3° Aquarius. Under a 5° orb, this functions as a sustained conjunction field rather than isolated hits.

Venus conjunct Pluto on January 20, 2026 at 3°19′ Aquarius, in a conjunction with the Sun at 2°59′ Aquarius, Mercury at 3°06′ Aquarius, and Mars at 0°52′ Aquarius.
Venus brings Capricorn themes of earned value, sustainability, and long term investment into Pluto, which may manifest as a stripping down of relationships, finances, and desires to what is genuinely viable long term. This alignment often coincides with a reckoning around attachment, resources, and what has outlived its usefulness. With Venus freshly out of Capricorn, values tend to shift from aspirational to practical, revealing what you are actually prepared to commit to.

Moon conjunct Pluto on January 21, 2026 at 3°01′ Aquarius, in a conjunction with the Sun at 3°58′ Aquarius, Mercury at 4°08′ Aquarius, Venus at 4°33′ Aquarius, and Mars at 1°39′ Aquarius.
The Moon carries Capricorn emotional conditioning, survival responses, and learned restraint into contact with Pluto. This alignment often shows up as an emotional purge. Habitual coping patterns may surface, with some transforming and others falling away. This conjunction tends to illuminate where emotional control has crossed into emotional suppression and can trigger a reworking of how safety and authority are emotionally internalized.

Mercury conjunct Pluto on January 22, 2026 at 3°23′ Aquarius, in a conjunction with the Sun at 4°58′ Aquarius, Venus at 5°28′ Aquarius, and Mars at 2°26′ Aquarius.
Mercury brings Capricorn mental frameworks into Pluto, frequently coinciding with the dismantling of thought patterns built around endurance, compliance, or survival. Long standing narratives, agreements, and internal rules are often questioned or exposed. Strategic thinking may replace inherited assumptions, and communication during this window tends to carry lasting consequences. Words spoken here often reshape direction.

Sun conjunct Pluto on January 23, 2026 at 3°25′ Aquarius, in a conjunction with Mercury at 4°36′ Aquarius and Mars at 3°14′ Aquarius.
The Sun brings Capricorn identity, authority, and self definition into Pluto, which often corresponds with a profound restructuring of how identity is held. Roles maintained out of duty or obligation may fall away. Personal authority can reemerge, but typically only after outdated self concepts are released. This conjunction frequently marks a shift in how power is embodied rather than performed.

Mars conjunct Pluto on January 27, 2026 at 3°34′ Aquarius, completing the conjunction sequence.
Mars carries Capricorn discipline, endurance, and strategic force into its final contact with Pluto. This alignment often functions as an execution phase. Decisions formed earlier in the sequence tend to be acted upon with precision and resolve. Energy is usually focused and deliberate. What begins under this contact often has staying power, and what ends here is rarely reopened.

Across this window, all five personal planets sequentially activate Pluto, with overlapping participation that shifts emphasis as each planet becomes exact. This is not a single moment. It is a sustained Plutonian field.

As these conjunctions unfold, all layers of your energy field are being activated. This sequence can deeply shift what you want, what you are moving toward, and what you believe is possible. Pluto in Aquarius changes life vision and makes it personal and unavoidable.

Late January brings surprising developments. Collective systems continue to shift. Old structures collapse as Pluto reveals what is no longer aligned with the collective higher good. Technology, networks, platforms, electrical systems, aviation, and digital infrastructure are all areas where weaknesses can be exposed.

Collapses happen first so new solutions can emerge.

Personally, this all concentrates between 26° Capricorn and 3° Aquarius in your chart. That house placement shows where you are being asked to leave behind old systems and outdated frameworks in order to move into the accelerated pace of this next chapter.

This is a watershed moment. Individually and collectively.

Returning to the New Moon itself, the Capricorn cluster works harmoniously with the planets in Pisces and with Uranus retrograde in Taurus. This supports release, acceptance, and necessary change rather than forcing transformation through crisis alone.

These themes are not new. They are returning. You have already been living them. There is readiness now. Even exhaustion. Grief. A sense that something is ending because it has run its course.

The trines to Uranus help jump start the new direction. The Pisces influence brings faith, creative trust, and unseen support. This New Moon can set you on a powerful new direction aligned with purpose and meaning. It helps you focus energy on what matters and complete what is finished. There is a strong sense of turning the page.

By the next New Moon, Saturn and Neptune will both re enter Aries. This is a major shift on the world stage. This Capricorn New Moon is the threshold before that initiation.

Find 28° Capricorn in your chart by house. You do not need a planet there. That is where the new is being initiated for you.

This is a moment of completion that initiates a new beginning.