New Moon at 28° Capricorn
The last gasp of the old system
New Moon 18 of January at 20:52 CET
This New Moon in is not an isolated event. It belongs to a precise and rare sequence of six New Moons unfolding between autumn 2025 and spring 2026, all occurring at the 28th degrees of the zodiac signs — degrees of culmination, exhaustion, karmic completion, and closure. These are not degrees of fresh new glamorous beginnings, but of endings that have reached their natural limit. This sequence began with the Solar Eclipse on the South Node in Virgo at 29° on September 21, 2025. A Solar Eclipse on the South Node initiates a deep karmic cleansing process — a revisiting of the past, not to repair it, but to release it. Over these six months, each New Moon participates in the same movement: closing old chapters while quietly planting seeds that will not fully sprout until late February.
What a time to be alive!
Neptune is at the final degree of Pisces and will leave the sign on January 27, closing a 165-year cycle through the entire Zodiac, or 14 years through Pisces. Saturn follows shortly after, leaving Pisces in February and completing its own 29-year cycle through the Zodiac and 2.5 years through Pisces. These two giants are about to conjunct at the Aries Point—a restart point, which symbolizes the end of collective dissolution and the beggining of the incarantion of individual consciousness and personal will, and a new collective Karma.
These are not minor transits. They mark profound thresholds on both the collective and individual levels. We are living in historical times—beyond anything we have experienced in human history. It is that significant.
Respecting the cycles
It feels unnatural, in the midst of such deep endings—endings that are still unfolding—to force beginnings, to push, to climb, to assert something prematurely. Yes, there is strong Capricorn energy present, but this energy is not about reckless initiation. Not at all. That is patriarchy. Capricorn is yin, and teaches us how to hold the center while everything around us collapses, shifts, and dissolves. It grounds us so that when a new form emerges, it does so with integrity and stability. There is much wisdom in this sign.
There are layers to remove before we enter this new cycle. Let’s honor the wisdom and beauty of all things natural—good and bad, death and life, blood and honey, endings and beginnings. There is so much wisdom in endings too.
A whole new paradigm begins toward the end of February. Until then, the most aligned approach is to let the process of shedding unfold naturally. This is how the new grows healthy—rooted and strong.
Anaretic Capricorn – Exhaustion of Old Structures
Twenty-eight degrees of Capricorn carries the energy of endings. Old systems of power no longer function, yet they still try to survive. Authority exists without inner legitimacy. Rules are followed out of habit rather than meaning. Responsibility has turned into a burden instead of a sign of maturity.
At this degree, patriarchy is tired, rigid, emotionally disconnected, and aware that the end is approaching—yet it continues to resist. Symbolically, the 28th degree of Capricorn carries the karma of abused authority, suppressed emotions, and the domination of reason over life itself.
This is the final degree of the old hierarchy, just before the energy flows into Aquarius.
Capri energy becomes depleting now when directed toward power, status, social hierarchies, or inauthentic expectations. This New Moon teaches us that we do not need to push, force, or prove our worth through external criteria.
With Saturn exiting Pisces in a balsamic conjunction with Neptune, this old structure is dissolving. Collective karma is being cleared, and as Saturn and Neptune enter Aries, new karma, values, ideas, holidays, beliefs, and a new history will be written. This is why this period invites deep inner reflection, pattern recognition, and conscious release, allowing us to step into a fresh and authentic energetic space.
Pluto’s gate
At this moment, the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus (Venus is leading the way) are all transiting the final degrees of Capricorn—an anaretic zone. This clustering indicates the culmination of a long-standing soul investment in hierarchical systems, authority-based identity, and externally defined purpose. What seems familiar or stabile now, might shift soon. As these planets enter Aquarius, they pass through Pluto’s gate at first degrees of Aquarius.
Pluto at this degree brings lessons to all these Capri planets. It represents the soul’s passage from a control-oriented, survival-based paradigm into an unknown evolutionary field that demands authenticity, individuation, and conscious participation in the collective.
These conjunctions signify direct encounters with power structures—both internal and external—that can no longer support the soul’s ongoing development. Control dissolves. Familiar identities destabilize. What emerges is not yet fully formed, but it carries the seed of a new identity—one rooted in inner alignment, responsibility, and conscious freedom, not status roles.
So we will have a series of conjunctions with Pluto.
Venus Conjunct Pluto in Aquarius January 20, 2026
Theme: Transforming love, values, and attachments.
Venus here is about relationships, aesthetics, and what we value, while Pluto digs deep into hidden desires, power, and authenticity. This aspect pulls superficial relationships to the surface, showing which ones are aligned with your true self. It can feel intense, magnetic, and sometimes obsessive—but the purpose is purification of relational patterns. Psychologically, it calls for courage to claim authentic emotional expression, to stop seeking approval and start resonating with what truly matters. Relationships become mirrors of soul growth, reflecting where attachment, control, or fear of intimacy may reside.
Mercury conjunct Pluto in Aquarius January 22, 2026
Theme: Mental transformation and clarity.
Mercury governs thoughts, communication, and perception; Pluto digs for hidden truths and psychological depth. This is a moment for mental detox, bringing buried thoughts, fears, or biases to light. Ideas or beliefs long held may suddenly feel outdated or limiting. It encourages deep reflection rather than impulsive action, promoting a shift toward strategic, conscious thinking. Our minds are recalibrating to see truth beyond collective conditioning, fostering insight, psychological resilience, and discernment.
Sun conjunct Pluto in Aquarius January 23, 2026 at 05:28 CET
Theme: Identity rebirth.
The Sun symbolizes ego, core identity, and life purpose. Pluto is about transformation, endings, and regeneration. This aspect can destabilize your sense of self if it’s overly tied to social approval or roles. What’s left after the old patterns drop away is a purer expression of your essence.
There may be a sense of intensity or pressure, but it’s fertile ground for conscious empowerment. This is a moment for soul-directed identity, separating the true “I” from societal or familial expectations.
Mars conjunct Pluto in Aquarius January 27, 2026 at 18:01 CET
27, 2026 -In the moment of Neptunes transition into Aries- Mars, it’s ruler will be conjunct Pluto.
Theme: Power, drive, and conscious action.
Mars governs assertion, desire, and action, while Pluto is power, transformation, and survival instincts. This conjunction activates suppressed anger, ambition, and raw energy. The challenge is to channel intensity constructively, avoiding domination or coercion. It’s a call to align personal will with integrity, transforming raw force into purposeful action. Its time to claim our power without fear, asserting individuality while respecting collective ethics.
Together, these aspects create a powerful chain of introspection and transformation. Aquarius emphasizes innovation, individuality, and social consciousness, so these Pluto conjunctions push us to evolve beyond old structures and collective conditioning.
None of these planets move through Pluto’s territory unchanged.
There is inentese psychological weight to this process. When old identities collapse, the psyche naturally panics because familiar reference points disappear. But this discomfort is part of the transformation—it signals that something essential is being reshaped at the core.
Uranus supportive Uranus
Uranus sextiles and trines to Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, and Pluto- this growth is a profound psychological transformation guided by karmic lessons involving intuitive perception. Through these aspects, we gradually cultivate the ability to live from an authentic and empowered inner truth. Uranus reminds us that genuine change is experienced through the body, sensation, and the heart—where life becomes truly tangible. Now is the time to release what no longer sustains our vitality and to open our hands and hearts to what pulses spontaneously, gently, and honestly within us.
South Node in Virgo – Releasing the Obsession with Control
The South Node in Virgo, close to the asteroid Lucifer, illuminates old patterns: obssesive need for control, paralyzing analysis, energy-draining criticism, and life-suffocating perfectionism. Although challenging, this configuration offers liberation. The fall reminds us that old patterns do not need to define us. It serves as a discerning guide, highlighting exhausting ambitions, rigid rules, internal and external hierarchies, and the compulsive need to prove, explain, rationalize, and fix—all of which now require acknowledgment and closure. Here emerges space for genuine freedom and trust—in God, love, beauty, empathy, inspiration, and the unknown—the very essence to which the Pisces North Node calls us.
Emotions – the most powerfull tool of evolution
From an evolutionary astrology perspective, this period is a time of inward reorientation, where consciousness is drawn back into the body, the instinctual field, and the unconscious. Attention naturally shifts toward rest, somatic awareness, nourishment, emotional life, and dream life—domains governed by the Moon and Neptune, where the soul processes experience beyond rational control.
With Jupiter amplifying emotional material through Cancer, the collective and individual emotional bodies are intensified. This amplification is not accidental. In evolutionary terms, emotion is the carrier of unresolved memory and karmic residue. What surfaces now is not meant to be bypassed, corrected, judged or managed, but fully felt and metabolized so that the soul can complete unfinished developmental processes.
The nervous system responds instinctively to environmental and ancestral memory. Memory moves non-linearly. For those who are more sensitive, there might be a sense that one sees the past moving and fading, or distant images of reality. This means that consciousness is temporarily withdrawing from consensus reality in order to process and reorient itself at a deeper evolutionary level.
As we allow the unconscious material to surface, the psyche begins a spontaneous process of reorganization.
The soul already knows what’s coming or the next direction of growth; the ego experiences this phase as uncertainty because it is losing its former reference points. It’s the lower ego that feels threatened when unconscious material wants to surface because it threatens our ego-constructed self-image,
which is now about to change.
The approaching Solar Eclipse in Aquarius on February 17th 2026 will reset of that conscious identity.
Chiron in Aries square Jupiter in Cancer
Chiron forms a square to the Cancer–Capricorn axis, to the planets in Capricorn, and Jupiter in Cancer. This speaks not only of family wounds, but of collective, ancestral wounds, above all those created by the patriarchal system. It is a wound of structure itself—one that has shaped the emotional life of humanity for centuries.
Patriarchy emotionally crippled men and shamed women for their emotional nature. Emotions had to be suppressed for the system to survive. Chiron’s square to Cancer speaks of repressed emotional memory, while the Moon—the ruler of Cancer—in Capricorn shows how emotions were placed under control, discipline, and survival mechanisms.
Capricorn, with its planets, under the rulership of Saturn, carries the weight of collective responsibility, control, and rigid structures. Saturn at the final degrees of Pisces, in a balsamic conjunction with Neptune, signals the completion of a karmic cycle. This is the dissolution of old structures of power and authority that can no longer sustain collective evolution.
The evolutionary message is clear: emotions are the key to the evolution of consciousness. The collective cannot evolve because emotional nature has been systematically suppressed. When emotions are suppressed, the soul is suppressed as well. This is why they return through crises, illnesses, conflicts, and collapses.
Chiron here brings answers to both the why and the how.
Why does the collective blockage exist?
Because emotional experience has been denied.
How does healing occur?
Through the courage to feel, to acknowledge the wound, and to build identity from truth rather than control.
Neptune at the Aries Point -Mars Conjunct Pluto
27 January, 2026
The moment of Neptune’s transition into Aries marks a powerful evolutionary rupture in collective consciousness. Neptune, the symbol of the collective soul, ideals, and myths, leaves the phase of dissolution in Pisces and enters the sign of incarnation, will, and beginnings—Aries. At that moment, its ruler Mars is conjunct Pluto, giving this transit an inevitable, radical, and irreversible meaning.
The Aries Point (0° Aries) is the place where personal karma collides with collective destiny, where the soul enters time, history, and concrete events. When Neptune occupies this degree, a collective ideal, myth, or vision can no longer remain abstract or hidden in the unconscious—it becomes a historical event. Illusions can no longer be concealed; they must manifest. A new spiritual ideology moves out of the realm of longing and into the world of action.
The Mars–Pluto conjunction represents an extreme concentration of will and a compulsion toward deep transformation. There is no return to the old ways: the collective soul is now forced to evolve through radical action. This includes the destruction of obsolete systems, a struggle for the future of consciousness, and an intense technolohical-spiritual conflict.
The shadow expression of this configuration can manifest as totalitarian collectivism, enforced or illusory “freedom,” and dehumanization. Yet, this new will (Aries)—will work manifest in profound transformation of collective structures (Mars–Pluto in Aquarius).
The collective lesson is to stop seeking salvation outside oneself, to stop sacrificing oneself to old myths and illusions, and to take responsibility for one’s own will. This is a moment when the divine can no longer remain an idea—it demands action. This energy will start to manifest itself once Saturn joins Neptune in their exact conjunction on February 20, just a few days after the Solar Eclipse in Aquarius (February 17).
It marks the beginning of a new paradigm, one that will truly and fully come alive with the first dandelions of spring. 
Pluto in Aquarius; Dismantling false authority and oudated Structures
Pluto in Aquarius is already beginning to dismantle old systems that still operate through Capricorn-style hierarchies—control, authority, and rigid power structures. Over the next twenty years, Pluto will continue to expose collective systems that cannot survive the consequences of the knowledge they promote. Anything built on denial, repression, hipocrisy, oppression or false neutrality eventually comes under pressure.
Any group, community, or ideology that presents itself as neutral, objective, progressive, or “correct,” while refusing to acknowledge its own power dynamics, activates Pluto. When exclusion, discrediting, hipocrisy or rupture happens within a system, it is not a judgment on an individual’s truth. It is a structural shift. It signals that power is now moving away from centralized authority and back to where it belongs—into individual awareness, and integrity.
At its core, Pluto is not concerned with who is right, who is recognized as a leader, king, guru, priest, teacher, or who belongs where. Pluto asks only one question: Where is power located—inside the system, or within the consciousness of the individual? Everything else is secondary.
As this process unfolds, false light fades. Hypocrisy and ego inflation are exposed. What remains is quieter, less performative, but far more real: integrity, inner transformation, and the ability to take responsibility for one’s own choices while the world reorganizes itself from the inside out.
More on Pluto in Aquarius will follow in my next post.
Planetary shifts of this magnitude have always been honored by mystics, astrologers, and initiates. Throughout history, they retreated into solitude, meditation, and communion with the Earth—choosing to align with greater movements rather than resist or bypass them.
This is not a time to force anything or anyone.
It is a time to listen.
To ground.
To soften.
And to allow the old to dissolve, so the new can emerge with clarity.
A song for this moon > https://youtu.be/GCVZy5dgTyc?si=s1G7YxKjtOcQcv_6
Wishing you blessings on your journey.
By Tea Franca