New Moon in Capricorn 2026: How to Set Intentions That Last
The Capricorn New Moon is not here to inspire quick breakthroughs or emotional fireworks. It’s here to ask something far more enduring: what are you willing to build slowly, deliberately, and with care?
Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, the keeper of time. Under this Saturnian New Moon, intention-setting is about committing to processes.
This lunation calls you to think in years ahead and overall long-term plans. How are you planning to grow some roots within the house Capricorn New Moon is occupying in your unique birth chart?
These are seeds planted in winter soil. Invisible at first, quiet, and very easy to doubt, I know… And yet, some of the strongest structures begin exactly this way, just think about it.
Below, you’ll find guidance for each rising sign, mirroring how Capricorn works differently through each Whole Sign house. Of course, keep in consideration your placements, aspects, transits, progressions, and overall general timing.
Date: January 18th, 2026 • New Moon degree at 28°43’ at 07:51 PM GMT/UT (adjust to your time zone for accurate timing)
Aries Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 10th House
Commanding, purposeful, forward-facing
Capricorn New Moon is a reckoning with direction, dear Aries rising. Not motivation, not ambition in theory, but trajectory. Where are you actually headed, based on the choices you’re making now?
You may feel the weight of responsibility more strongly than usual and the pressure to “be someone.” But Capricorn here isn’t calling you to put pressure on yourself to perform. It’s asking you to genuinely define success on your own terms, then take responsibility for pursuing it
The seed you’re planting is long-term authority, a reputation built over time.
Leadership that comes from consistency rather than force is kind of a theme, if you decide to engage with this Saturnian New Moon.
This might mean committing to a career path, stepping into a public role, or redefining what achievement looks like for you entirely.
Ask yourself: what do I want to be known for in five years, not five days?
Then act accordingly. <3
Taurus Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 9th House
Contemplative, steady, quietly expansive
Capricorn New Moon asks you to take your beliefs more seriously. But not inherited beliefs! The ones you actually live by deep within.
Long-term seeds are being planted around education, wisdom, travel, teaching, and truth. You may feel called to commit to a course of study, new traveling adventures, a spiritual discipline, or a worldview that grounds you rather than distracts you.
Capricorn here reminds you that expansion doesn’t have to be chaotic. You don’t need to chase every idea. You need to choose the one that deserves years of devotion.
The question is not what inspires you, but what sustains you. Build your future on that.
Gemini Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 8th House
Intimate, serious, emotionally precise
This Saturnian New Moon asks you to look at the contracts beneath the surface of your life, on an emotional, financial, and energetic level overall.
Where are you entangled? Where are you avoiding depth? Where are you over-giving without structure?
Seeds planted now involve trust, intimacy, shared resources, and transformation. This is about choosing long-term emotional investments wisely.
Capricorn brings maturity to places that often feel raw or complicated. It asks you to build containers strong enough to hold vulnerability and boundaries that allow closeness to last.
This is a powerful time to redefine what commitment means to you, especially in spaces where power and trust intertwine.
Cancer Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 7th House
Relational, grounding, quietly discerning
Relationships are under review. Not from an emotional lens alone, but from a structural one. This New Moon points out a finger to the question: is this {insert relationship, friendship, collab} sustainable?
You’re planting seeds around partnership, commitment, and reciprocity. This could mean redefining a relationship, stepping into a new agreement, or releasing dynamics that rely on imbalance.
Capricorn doesn’t romanticize connection, because its Saturnian nature stabilizes it. It asks you to show up as an equal adult, not a caretaker or a mirror.
The seed you plant now is a mutual responsibility. The kind of bond that can withstand time, pressure, and change.
Leo Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 6th House
Supportive, practical, grounded
This New Moon turns your attention to the scaffolding of your life. The daily systems that either support your vitality or quietly drain it.
Habits, routines, work structures, and health practices are the focus with the Capricorn New Moon for you, dear Leo rising. None of them is glamorous, but all of them are powerful. Capricorn here reminds you that long-term well-being is built through repetition.
You’re planting seeds around sustainability, work that respects your energy, and routines that serve the future version of you, not just the present one.
Ask yourself: what would it look like to design my days for longevity, not urgency?
Virgo Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 5th House
Intentional, creative, quietly devoted
This New Moon pulls you gently by your sleeve to remind you to take your joy seriously. Creativity, romance, pleasure, and self-expression want commitment now, not perfection.
Capricorn here doesn’t dampen creativity, please keep that in mind. It asks you to show up for what you love even when inspiration fades. If you decide to tap into this New Moon, it can give your creativity its form.
Seeds planted now might involve a long-term creative project, a more mature relationship with pleasure, or redefining what fulfillment looks like beyond productivity.
Joy doesn’t have to be spontaneous to be real. Sometimes it grows best when tended consistently.
Libra Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 4th House
Nurturing, stabilizing, emotionally grounded
New Moon settles into your foundations, the earthy, grounding Saturnian way. Home, family, ancestry, and inner safety are key themes. The places you return to when the world feels heavy.
You’re being asked to plant long-term seeds of emotional security. This may involve redefining family roles, creating a new sense of home, or healing patterns passed down through generations.
Capricorn here asks you to become your own anchor. To build inner stability that doesn’t depend on external harmony.
What you nurture privately now will support everything you build publicly later.
Scorpio Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 3rd House
Focused, intentional, quietly incisive
Your mind is the soil right now. Thoughts, conversations, language patterns, and daily exchanges.
Capricorn New Moon asks you to gently slow down and become more deliberate with words. What you say, how you say it, hat you commit to learning or teaching over time is the key now.
Long-term seeds are planted through communication. Writing projects, educational paths, sibling dynamics, or shifts in how you process information.
Capricorn reminds you that words have consequences, so choose them with care.
Sagittarius Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 2nd House
Grounding, reassuring, value-centered
Capricorn New Moon brings you back to the basics: money, resources, self-worth, and stability.
You’re being called to plant seeds around building something solid. Not flashy income streams or quick wins, but real security rooted in self-respect that lasts over time.
Seeds planted now involve long-term financial planning, redefining your values, and learning to trust yourself as a provider for your own life.
Capricorn and its ruler Saturn here teaches that confidence grows from consistency. Invest in what truly matters to you.
Capricorn Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 1st House
Authoritative, empowering, self-defining
This is your reset point for your identity, presence, and embodiment!
It’s an ideal time for planting seeds for the person you are becoming, not the person you’ve been performing as. It’s time to set intentions around fully stepping into self-leadership.
Capricorn here is about self-mastery. Choosing discipline not as punishment, but as devotion to your future self.
This is a powerful time to commit to who you are, without apology or delay.
Aquarius Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 12th House
Introspective, spacious, gently dissolving
This New Moon works quietly for you, beneath awareness, in your subconscious.
Seeds planted now involve rest, release, and subconscious restructuring. You may feel called to retreat slightly, to end cycles, to let go of burdens you’ve been carrying silently.
Capricorn here asks you to take your inner world seriously, because healing requires structure, too.
Trust that what you dissolve now makes room for something stronger later.
Pisces Rising – Capricorn New Moon in the 11th House
Visionary, connective, future-oriented
Your future is being shaped through community, goals, and shared vision.
It’s time to set intentions to commit to the unique dreams that are realistic enough to build and meaningful enough to sustain you. Not every hope deserves your energy, so choose the ones that align with your long-term values.
Seeds planted now may involve collaborations, community roles, or redefining what success looks like collectively.
Capricorn reminds you that the future is built with others, over time.
Plant what will endure over time
he Capricorn New Moon teaches us that real magic is patient. What you begin now may not reveal itself immediately, but it has the potential to last.
If you’d like personalized guidance on how each New Moon and Full Moon activates your chart, I offer Lunar Mapping Readings, where we explore:
How each New Moon and Full Moon works specifically for you
What seeds to plant, and where
How to align your intentions with your long-term cycles
If you feel called to work intentionally with the Moon and your natal chart, you can book a Lunar Mapping Reading with me and begin building in rhythm with time, not against it.
Slow growth is still growth. And often, it’s the kind that endures.
With love until the next diary entry,
