Horoscopes for Capricorn Season

This is the last Capricorn season where Pluto will be in Capricorn before it transits into Aquarius at the end of the month, where it will stay for the next 20 years. Pluto represents generations, eras, worlds ending, and new worlds beginning. When Pluto went into Capricorn in 2008, it marked the financial crisis and global recession that has reshaped our world ever since. Collectively, this is a time to reflect on the global shift that is well under way as it relates to the themes of Capricorn (where we’ve been) and Aquarius (where we’re going).

In the zodiac, Capricorn is conservative in nature, representing the underlying rules of society. Capricorn tells us to learn the rules of the game of life so that we can play to win. Capricorn also represents the paternal principle, protecting those in our care by taking public responsibility and securing material resources for our own.

Aquarius also is attuned to the rules of the game called life. But unlike Capricorn, Aquarius wants to change the rules of the game by advancing an alternative social vision. Aquarius is co-ruled by Uranus and Saturn, two planets that in the ancient mythology, represent a father and son, respectively. In the mythology, the father represents the creative and genius principle of humanity, but he lacked the grounded sense of responsibility to care of his creations. The son, one of the father’s creations, castrated his own father - cutting off the creative capacity - in order to protect and preserve existing creation.

Aquarius’s dual rulership highlights the tension between on the one hand, having a singular, coherent, and organized vision of social progress, the North Star that guides a politic, and organizes individuals into collective action, and on the other hand, the need to attend to and care for the existing needs of each individual who makes up the collective. Aquarius asks that we balance and integrate the tension between Saturn and Uranus by tapping into the creative principle necessary for new generation along with the conservation principle necessary for responsible stewardship.

Pluto’s transits highlight karmic phases of our lives where the underlying logic or cohesion of a particular area of life is undermined, unwound, where contradictions and tensions are magnified, and where we are compelled to transform by shedding an old form in order to usher in the new. In the natal chart, the transit of Pluto from Capricorn to Aquarius asks us to reflect on the last 15 years and to ready the ground for the next 20. 

Pluto in Capricorn over the last 15 years may have undermined our sense of security that comes from following the playbook handed to us from generations of deeply, culturally ingrained programming. However, in that time, we may have also become more self-possessed in a particular area of life while also more capable of shouldering life’s responsibilities, grounded in a deeper and more personal sense of right and wrong, and to whom we owe our labor and commitments. 

In the next 20 years while Pluto is in Aquarius, we channel that power that comes from our self-possession by taking on collective responsibility and tapping into the genius principle, learning to re-write the rules of society according to our broader social vision.

This New Year is a good time to reflect on the Plutonian themes of transformation, endings, and re-births in the area of life where you have Capricorn (by house, sign, and/or aspect). 

See below for how this Capricorn season will affect your sign (for the most accurate horoscope, look at your Rising sun, but Sun signs and Moon signs also work)

Aries

“I’ve learned to take care of others and let others know I’m a responsible agent in the world. In this next season, I am blending into the social fabric in order to contribute my unique gifts to the cause that is bigger than what I can do by myself.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security that comes from your career or public mission. This may have looked like struggles with authority and authority figures, but also you yourself may have attempted to wield power in the public domain in order to achieve your public purpose. 

The next 20 years, you may find that your karmic purpose in this life time means struggling with how you work within and against social groups in order to advance a broader social vision in the world. These two Pluto cycles reveal how your life’s purpose is deeply tied to making a place for yourself out there in the world in order to advance the social order.

Taurus 

“I’ve expanded my sense of self in the world through my engagement with self-expansive ideas through deep study of philosophy, law, high religion, worship, wisdom, knowledge gleaned from experience, and encounters with the other. In this next season, I will take what I’ve learned and put it into action by taking responsibility for what I want the world to be and acting in a publicly accountable role.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security in learned wisdom, universal truths, and faith practices. This may have looked like struggles over your adherence, or lack thereof, to dogmatic belief systems that forced you to confront and experience new truths or undermined your earlier belief systems.

The next 20 years, you may find that your karmic purpose in this life time means struggling with how you gain and use power in the public domain, whether through a career, business, or public profile. These two Pluto cycles reveal how your life’s purpose is deeply tied to how you take your higher truths and deeper philosophies and channel them into a source of power for your public mission in the world.

Gemini 

“I’ve learned to understand on a deeper level how others around me, particularly from my places of origin, have shaped me on an emotional and psychological level. This next season, I will transcend those emotional imprints in order to rise from the ashes as a seer and a visionary.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of emotional security that comes from your interdependent bonds or from your comforting, if not limiting, emotional imprints. This may have looked like emotional difficulties in relationships that you either felt controlled by or that required radical action on your part in order to regain control (i.e. break ups, divorces, moving out, going no-contact), but Pluto also might have presented the opportunity to gain insight into your own emotional depths with engagement with, for example, depth psychology or the occult. 

The next 20 years, you may find your karmic purpose in this life time means struggling to gain more transcendent and universal wisdom, experimenting maybe with different religions or philosophies or moving to faraway and foreign places, struggling within and against dogmatic belief systems and figureheads along the way. These two Pluto cycles reveal how your life’s purpose is deeply tied to piercing the psychic and subconscious veil of emotional conditioning in order to allow your consciousness to elevate.

Cancer 

“I’ve learned to take care of and maintain my closest connections and partnerships. In this next season, I will allow my interdependent bonds to be sources of social wealth, vision, and inspiration as well as sources of emotional nourishment.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto may have undermined your sense of security that comes from your relationships and close partnerships. This may have looked like relationships as sites of intense personal growth but also intense conflict (whether conflict within oneself or with another). 

The next 20 years, you may find your karmic purpose in this life time means confronting the emotional consequences of choosing to engage in certain relationships and sharing your resources and life responsibilities with specific others. These two Pluto cycles reveal how your life’s purpose is deeply tied to balancing what is yours and yours alone versus how you choose to share and who you choose to share it with, maybe forcing you to confront codependency in order to get to the root of subconscious conditioning about yourself and your worth.

Leo 

“I’ve learned to do the hard and necessary work of cultivating my skills and tending to my body (whether through health and wellness, craftsmanship, or skill development) as a site of productivity. In this next season, I emerge as someone who can attract the right significant others to help me build toward my social vision.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security in your ability to structure your daily life in a way that is productive and allows for stability. This may have looked like struggles over defining and investing in your own work while potentially not receiving or fighting to receive the recognition, support, and material resources you need or deserve for your efforts. For some, this may have looked like struggles over health, or the physical body as a controlling or limiting factor in what you’re able to do.

The next 20 years, you may find your karmic purpose in this life time is deeply tied to your interpersonal relationships as intense sites of personal growth but also of conflict (whether conflict within oneself or with another). These two Pluto cycles reveal how your life’s purpose is deeply tied to right-sizing the individual ego-self through skill development and/or experiencing the limitations of the individual self in order to hold open space for meeting and partnering with the other that can co-shoulder the burden.

Virgo 

“I’ve learned to validate the part of myself that desires to be someone of significance in the world by offering my own unique contribution. In the next season, I will emerge as someone who not only talks the talk, but who can walk the walk.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security that comes from ego validation or your desire to be someone of significance in your own life and in the life of those around you. This may look like strong identification or overidentification with pleasure seeking endeavors: fun/play, hedonism, romance, even relationship with children (child-rearing as a site of ego validation), or experiencing great losses or setbacks, changes and transformations in those areas of life.

The next 20 years, you may find your karmic purpose in this life time is deeply tied to how you use your own labor and efforts to show, instead of tell, your social vision and make contributions to the world. This may look like defining one’s self through work even if your work is not always recognized or validated, or you may experience health challenges that limit or control how much you can work and how much self-worth can be derived from able-bodiedness. These two Pluto cycles reveal how your life’s purpose is deeply tied to how the creative principle requires both the vision but also the good works in order to actualize in your life.

Libra

“I’ve learned to till the soil in which I choose to root myself. In this next chapter, I emerge as a flower in full bloom in a way that others will take notice of.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of stability and security over your foundations, places of origin, and structures of home as well as your sense of deep personal responsibility that comes from your early childhood conditioning and/or family of origin. This may have looked like struggling with a parent or over a parent, role reversals in the parent-child dynamic, changing homes frequently, losing a long-established home, or maybe finally finding an established home.

The next 20 years, you may find that your karmic purpose in this life time means struggling with how you derive self-worth by feeding your ego-needs, for example, through struggles with overidentification with the pleasure seeking endeavors: fun/play, hobbies, hedonism, romance, even relationship with children (child-rearing as an important site of ego validation). These two Pluto cycles reveal how your life’s karmic purpose is deeply tied to creating home for yourself as a place of emotional belonging and safety from which a healthy ego-self can emerge and engage with the creative principle of life.

Scorpio 

“I’ve learned how to belong to a community and how to orient myself to what’s right around me. In the next season, I put roots down for myself in a place that allows me to show up in the fullness of who I am in the world.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security that comes from successfully navigating the social mediums you find yourself immersed in. This may have looked like finding yourself in social settings, communities, and networks or navigating environments where what you needed or wanted to know is not said or cannot be consciously understood. Put another way, your truths were getting lost in translation as you attempted to integrate into the social fabric around you.

The next 20 years, you may find that your karmic purpose in this life time means struggling to find and establish home. This could mean changing homes and/or the dynamic of home, a changing relationship or dynamic with your family of origin, an intense focus on finding home (physically and emotionally) and conflict (whether within or with others) over home. These two Pluto cycles reveal that your purpose in this life time is tied to learning to till the ground underneath you, while paying attention to environmental conditions that affect the fertility of the ground you choose to plant yourself in. 

Sagittarius 

“I’ve learned how to have my stuff together. In this next season, I transmute energy from material form I’ve stored for safe-keeping into dynamic energy that I make generative by spreading out and exploring new terrains.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security that comes from money, material possessions, and accumulation. You may have gone through great financial ups and downs in order to learn the true value of money as a form of energy and as the deeper-seated relationship between people, one another, and society at large.

The next 20 years, you may find that your karmic purpose in this lifetime means struggling to establish a network, community and social mediums as expressions of social ideals, or in finding your ideal of community and how you engage with your local context. These two Pluto cycles together reveal that your purpose in this life time is tied to moving from personal security by storing and stagnating energy in one’s own being, into co-reciprocity with the world around you by transmuting energy into dynamic form by exploring, engaging, and taking seriously the process of immersing yourself in the world around you.

Capricorn 

“I’ve learned how to work on myself as the creative project of my life. In this next season, I deepen my sense of self by cultivating my natural talents and capacities from within that I offer in exchange for deeper self worth.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security by undermining the persona of responsible, hard-working, and self-seriousness you project to those around you. This may have looked like periods where you were well received by others for your projected image of self, but where in other periods, you might have also faced harsh or dramatic social rejection or isolation from others. This may have forced you to re-evaluate who or what is the “real” you that you want to be known as.

The next 20 years, you may find that your karmic purpose in this life time means struggling with your material or financial resources and how you earn your keep. You may go through great financial ups and downs in order to learn the true value of money as a form of energy and a deeper-seated relationship between people, one another, and society at large. These two Pluto cycles reveal how your life purpose is deeply tied to moving from a sense of self as something you curate and perform, to self as something you cultivate, steward, and contribute.

Aquarius

“I’ve learned the true meaning of resiliency and the depth of the human soul. In this next season, I emerge as a powerful and influential agent, inspiring all those that I encounter.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security by undermining your faith. This may have looked like experiencing great amounts of suffering, grief, tragedy, and periods of isolation or even struggles with addiction or mental health, whether personally or from those around you. This may have allowed you to gain a deeper insight into the depth of human experience, your own resiliency, and to learn to accept all that is, maybe even adopting a spiritual life.

The next 20 years, you may find that your karmic purpose in this life time means struggling with how to incarnate the self as an individual agent and vehicle to achieve purpose in this life time. These two Pluto cycles reveal that your life purpose is deeply tied to moving from stasis that comes from the deeper acceptance of all that life is (the light and the shadow) into the combusting energy needed to center and create the self as the creative project of your life.

Pisces

“I’ve learned to surround myself with a community of supportive and like-minded people who share my hopes for the future. In the next season, I transcend identification with a defined social group in order to connect with a more universal human experience.”

Over the last 15 years, Pluto might have undermined your sense of security that comes from investing yourself in the right social ideas or social groups. This may have looked like a radical break from a social group or ideology, maybe joining, then falling out with, then rejoining various social groups, collectives, or movements.

The next 20 years, you may find that your karmic purpose in this life time means struggling with more universal human experiences, possibly in isolation, for example encountering grief, loss, or tragedy, in order to gain a deeper acceptance of all that is. You may also find yourself immersed in a deeper spiritual life or a life built on significance outside of your control. These two Pluto cycles reveal that your karmic purpose is deeply tied to moving from correct or acceptable social ideals as translated by social groups into a transpersonal path that more meaningfully connects you to the feeling-sense of humanity.