Full Moon in Capricorn: Root to Rise
- Vanja Banks
- Jul 8
- 5 min read
As we step into the light of the Capricorn Full Moon on July 10, 2025, we are invited into the deep and ancient dance of polarity - the kind that calls us home to ourselves.
As the Sun and Moon oppose on the Cancer/Capricorn axis, we’re asked to find balance between our emotional and our physical sense of security. This lunation offers a clear look at the structures that hold us—or hold us back. Because Capricorn doesn’t coddle— it demands.
This Full Moon arrives on the heels of major energetic shifts: Uranus and Venus made a final, liberating touchpoint at the 29th degree of Taurus on July 4, before Uranus entered Gemini on July 7, sparking a long-awaited era of change. But this change isn’t only external. Uranus can stir revolutions of the inner kind—disrupting patterns, awakening dormant parts of ourselves, and catalyzing shifts in our relationship to love, worth, and value. What once felt like safety may suddenly feel like stagnation.
We’re not who we were just a month ago. And this Full Moon asks: Now that you’ve woken up, what are you willing to build?
A Polarity of Parents: Capricorn & Cancer
As always on a Full Moon, the Sun and Moon sit in opposition—this time across the Cancer-Capricorn axis. The archetypal mother and father. The inner feminine and masculine. The emotional and material realms. The past and the future. This axis reveals how we create safety and security for ourselves—both emotionally (Cancer) and physically (Capricorn). One cannot stand without the other.
If we dwell too long in the emotional tides of Cancer, we may become overwhelmed, seeking comfort in others to fill unmet needs. But when we live solely in Capricorn’s domain—defined by work, duty, and performance—we risk disconnecting from the tender inner world that fuels our authenticity.
This lunation brings these two inner figures—our internal mother and father—into sharp focus. It reveals the ways we’ve been shaped by our early experiences of parenting, whether through caregivers, culture, or conditioning. Capricorn symbolizes the legacy we’re building, but that legacy is always rooted in where we come from.
During this lunation, we’re asked: Do you feel safe enough within to rise into your leadership? Do you nourish yourself emotionally, or expect others to meet needs you have yet to name? Are your structures built to protect your inner child—or are they prisons that keep you small?
Saturn in Aries: Initiation as Devotion
Capricorn is ruled by Saturn—and Saturn has just entered Aries for the first time in nearly 30 years. This is a radical shift in how we relate to time, duty, and authority. Aries brings courage, momentum, and self-starting fire. Saturn in Aries is about taking sacred responsibility for your path. No more waiting for external validation. No more excuses. Just initiation.
And yet, Saturn is also conjunct Neptune—the planet of dreams, illusion, and higher vision. We are being asked to materialize the dream. Not by pushing, but by showing up. This is about discipline in service of the soul. Boundaries in service of beauty. Fire in service of something real.
