Here is your New Moon Report —18 January 2026 at 29° Capricorn
“Auditing the emotional cheque book.”

New Moons are usually shrink wrapped by pop astrology as “New Moon, New vibes, set your intentions, manifest your future,” this New Moon is kinda special -because it’s NOT about that. This moon lands at 29 degrees of Capricorn. To understand what is required of us – lets look at the sign and the degree.

Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, the planet of time, limits, reality, and accountability. So, Capricorn energy is about growing up, whether you like it or not. It’s about mastery through effort – nothing is handed to you; competence is earned. Authority – not loud power, but quiet credibility. Long-term vision – Capricorn plays the long game. Responsibility – owning your choices and their outcomes. Legacy – what remains after you’re done. Capricorn doesn’t care how something feels. It cares whether it works.

29 degrees in any sign is the anaretic degree — the pressure point. The final degree. The place where avoidance stops working and consequence takes over. This is not a beginning frequency. It’s a reckoning frequency. Do the maths and what 29° Capricorn actually wants one thing from you: to stop managing life and start authoring it. There is no prize for holding out the longest or accepting the bare minimum. Not coping. Not holding it together. Not being the responsible one while quietly bleeding. Saturn’s (the planet of structure) has run out of patience for half-measures and apathy.

This isn’t the tantrum Moon that says, “fuck this” and drops the mic. It’s the Moon that stops rubber-stamping things just to keep the peace. My mother bought me a Dr Phil book – years ago when he started his crusade – and in the book is a line that fits this Moon uncomfortably well: “You teach people how to treat you.” Not through the boundary you finally voice, but through what you tolerate repeatedly. Through the moments you stay silent to avoid friction. Through the limits you feel but don’t enforce, it’s simply apathetic approval.

Nothing explodes with this new moon, but nothing gets a free pass anymore.

In the Chandra symbols, 29° Capricorn is described as a postmortem. Something (everything) is being examined without sentiment. Not to bring it resuscitate. but to understand exactly why it happened (or continues to happen) so it doesn’t get added to your operating system because “it’s always been like that.” That symbolism matters because it tells you exactly what this Moon is doing. It’s not asking what you want next. It’s saying: Let’s do an audit. Where have I been complacent. Where have I leaked my truth and authority. Where have I kept saying yes out of habit while the deep growl of resentment keeps getting louder. Capricorn at this degree isn’t interested in how reasonable your excuses were — it’s interested in where the fuck your backbone is.

Where and when did you stop choosing and start passively consenting? This is exactly the vibe where “this is how it’s always been done” gets dragged into the light and measured against one brutal metric: does this work for me?

For me, the postmortem goes deeper than that, because how you treat yourself is how you teach people how to treat you. Every time you ignore your own discomfort, minimise your needs, or smooth things over to keep things running, you give the “thumbs up” to everything and everyone that “this is how I like it.” It’s installing the 2.0 update to personal operating system. If you have been the person who always puts effort into a friendship, this is where you get brutal about your personal investment. Not sentimental. No drama llama vibes. And while I hate the term: but ghosting that part of yourself that accepts this shit as a form of energy protection. Effort is rewarded with effort. Anything else is quite frankly an emotional drain pretending to be loyalty. And this doesn’t stop at friendships. If you’re always the one who stays late after work, the one who picks up the slack, the one everyone turns to because you’re dependable, stable, capable — the Moon wants you to be done with that.. Not because you’re wrong for being strong, but because strength that’s endlessly available gets exploited by default.

And don’t fool yourself here. Indecision is actually a very clear decision. This Moon strips away the stories you tell yourself to avoid seeing that. What remains is information you can finally act on and restructure with some boundaries. And yes, the only people who will have a problem with you having boundaries are the ones who benefited from you having none. Capricorn doesn’t dramatize that truth. It just wants you to see it.

This New Moon also matters because eclipse season is coming, and eclipses don’t negotiate. They expose weak structures violently if you don’t address them voluntarily. This Moon is your chance to pause, examine, and rebalance before life does it for you in a way you don’t get to control. If you don’t do the work, eclipses will. they have no problem pulling the plug, the rug and whatever else to “course correct you”. this is not a threat – its real talk. Don’t expect fireworks after this Moon. Expect quiet. Expect space. Expect the strange, sober calm that comes when you finally stop lying to yourself about what’s still alive and what you’ve just been keeping on life support.

If tolerance is your training and silence is your approval, continued resentment will be your reward.

Bonus step:

I know nothing about rituals, spells, or aesthetic “moon magic” spirituality. But intentionality matters and I’m a big believer in signalling – signalling to the universe, to God, to Source, to whatever you believe governs order and consequence. Signalling deliberately. This New Moon is about withdrawing funding. It’s about stating, clearly and without negotiation, what you will no longer underwrite with your time, energy, effort, or silence. That declaration matters — because your energy system responds to decisions, not wishes.

If you want a practical way to mark this moment: Take a piece of paper and fold it in half. On the right side, write what you are done carrying. Be honest. Over giving. People-pleasing. Weak boundaries. Staying quiet to keep things running. Carrying slack that isn’t yours. On the left side, write what you are moving toward. Short term. Long term. Be specific. Capricorn doesn’t respond to vague hopes — and Saturn responds to decisions with structure and timeframes. Then cut the paper along the fold.

Destroy the right side. Burn it. Shred it— just end it. Keep the left side. Assign it a timeframe: a month, three months, a year. Something measurable. Something real. Then read it. Slowly. Repeatedly. Not to fantasise or as woo-woo manifesting, but to familiarise your nervous system with the reality you are choosing. Thoughts matter because they shape behaviour. Behaviour shapes outcomes. Outcomes reshape your life. That’s not magic. That’s consequence.

As always

Neen.