New Moon in Capricorn January 2026: A Before-and-After Point

Stepping across the threshold and consciously creating your 2026

Tonight, Monday 19 January, we have a New Moon at 28° Capricorn, which is no ordinary lunation. It marks the first New Moon of 2026, and it arrives with an extraordinary concentration of planetary energy, making this one of the most supportive and consequential New Moons of the entire year.

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for intention-setting, long-term planning, and consciously choosing the foundations we are building our future upon.

A Rare Six-Planet Stellium New Moon

This New Moon is activated by a powerful six-planet stellium, concentrating immense focus, pressure, and potential expressed through

• Mars at 26° Capricorn | our drive, motivation, and capacity to act with purpose
• Mercury at 26° Capricorn | our thoughts, decisions, plans, and strategic thinking
• Moon at 28° Capricorn | our emotional body, instincts, and inner needs
• Sun at 28° Capricorn | our identity, ego, and how we see ourselves
• Venus at 1° Aquarius | our values, relationships with ourselves and others
• Pluto at 3° Aquarius | the planet of transformation, rebirth, on a collective level

With so many personal planets clustered so tightly together, this New Moon demands presence, maturity, and intentional choice. There is no autopilot here!

Capricorn Energy: Building What Will Last

Capricorn is the master builder of the zodiac. It governs structure, responsibility, integrity, legacy, and long-term vision.

This is not about quick wins or temporary motivation. It's about asking

• What am I building for the long haul?
• What systems, habits, and commitments will actually support my future self?
• What am I ready to take full responsibility for?

Capricorn energy helps us design our lives with intention, anchoring dreams and transmuting energy into matter through discipline, patience, and aligned effort. 

It's a powerful time to set long-term goals that feel both realistic and expansive, while grounding our dreams in solid foundations rather than building on sand. However, it also asks for commitment, not just to what we want now, but to what we want to be true years from now.

A Threshold New Moon at the Final Degrees of Capricorn

This lunation occurs at the very end of Capricorn, at the final degrees of the sign. This matters, personally and collectively!

This is a threshold New Moon, bridging a previous version of ourselves and the person we are actively becoming. It is also the last New Moon for the year of the Wood Snake, before the Fire Horse year begins next month, which will rapidly accelerate us forward. It is our last chance to get really clear about our direction for the new year.

The final degrees of any sign offer a sense of completion and initiation. Something is coming to a close, even as something new quietly approaches and is being seeded. It invites us to reflect on what has matured, solidified, or reached its natural endings, and to reframe outdated ambitions, old definitions, or external expectations, consciously moving into the next chapter of your life.

Cosmic Pressure That Activates Growth

Speaking of final degrees, this new moon is creating some significant aspects

• Squaring Saturn and Neptune at 29° Pisces, just before they begin their transit into Aries and their new journeys around the zodiac 
• Trining Uranus at 27° Taurus, stabilising innovation and grounded change

Saturn and Neptune at the final degree of Pisces represent the end of a long karmic and collective cycle. Their square to this New Moon may feel sobering, clarifying, or emotionally confronting, but it also strips away any illusion.

Meanwhile, Uranus offers a supportive opening to change what isn't working, without destroying what is. The message is clear

We are being asked to step into our growth, to awaken to a deeper level of awareness, to witness what’s unfolding around us, and to consciously shape and begin building the new earth.

Pluto's Role: The Threshold of Transformation

And then there's Pluto. Pluto entered Aquarius in November 2024 and has already begun transferring power back to the people. We have been seeing this theme unfold through leadership changes forced by the people in many countries around the world. Pluto holds the gate between the old world and the new. All of the personal planets in this stellium are passing through Pluto's threshold to be transformed. This is not a surface-level change, or another year with more unachieved New Year's resolutions! Pluto demands primal truth, raw honesty, and exposes what can no longer be sustained. 

Pluto asks us to confront power dynamics, integrity, and where we've been living out of alignment with our truths. There is no bypassing this energy! You work with it by consciously engaging with it, illuminating and seeing the whole truth.

The Before-and-After Point

This New Moon marks a clear before-and-after point in our personal lives and in the collective as a whole. A chapter is closing, and with it come new cycles, new priorities, and new ways of doing things. 

Change is no longer something we can ignore, postpone or avoid; it is already unfolding and reshaping around and within us.

By the end of 2026, we will not be the same people, and the world itself will be transformed. The profound question we are being asked is 

Will we continue to allow fear to shape our path, or will we choose to begin building a future grounded in love

This New Moon marks the moment we decide whether fear continues to shape our path, or whether we begin building a future grounded in heart-led living, soul alignment, embodied wisdom, integrity, and a future built on conscious foundations.

The choice begins now.

Peace ✌🏼 Love ❤️ and Good Vibes ✨

Emma Rose D