Yogi's Horoscope for New Moon in Capricorn: Keep Walking: Wailea, HI: January 13, 2021

Keep Walking! Even though it might be lonely, scary, uncertain, full of bad news. Big breaths and keep moving into YOU.

It’s almost a full week after the New Moon in Capricorn. The Goat being a sign of a high achiever, I’m not letting tardiness deter me from posting. It clearly occurs to me that not doing anything won’t get you anything except what you’re already doing. So for anyone interested in transformation and breaking out of everything having to be perfect before you make a move, this blog is especially for you.

January 13 was the first New Moon of the New Year. It conjoined with Pluto, the. Planet of upheavals and power struggles, almost right on cue with political happenings in our country. And take a look internally, too, as many of us are suffering greatly from pandemic fatigue. Are you experiencing struggles within? Is it hard to keep going? Is it difficult to shine anyway in the dark of new moon nights?

We’ve all had to dig deep. We’re practiced at it, actually. So keep going, diving in, again and again with your inner wisdom. External structures continue to shift and move. Take time to ground your ethics, hopes, and dreams; these are made manifest by tapping into your strength, talents, intuition and inspiration. Make this a daily practice. The yoga sutras (sutra 1.3) remind us that practice takes place over a long period of time to become established. Chip Hartranft translates "Practice is the sustained effort to rest in that stillness. The stillness he refers to (sutra 1.12) is practice measured with surrender.

There’s nothing to rush, there’s no need to run around all crazy getting things done. By all means, do your work (even if it’s post that is a few days late!) and keep moving. We are asked these days to go down and in, not up and out. The new moon waxes with more and more light without us having to push her.

Perhaps allow this new moon in this new year be more about becoming who you are, rather than striving for a new, better, bigger, more improved version of the you gracefully placed here on Earth at this time, and exactly where you are.

The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard observed the most common form of despair is that of not being who we really are, adding that an even deeper form of despair stems from choosing to be someone other than one’s self.

But how do we connect to that part of ourselves that knows, without a shadow of a doubt, what we could be?

Practice, practice, practice. All your answers are within.

Shine On!