Welcome to your mini guide to the last New Moon of the month and the entire year of 2024.
This New Moon in Capricorn is the second New Moon in December,
which is also known as a Black Moon.
That’s not something that happens very often!
This magical celestial event couldn’t come at a better time,
as it coincides perfectly with the beginning of the New Year and ushers us into 2025,
and the start of a new cycle.
It is a powerful time to set firm intentions about what you want to create, build,
and manifest for the coming weeks, months and beyond.
What can we learn from this New Moon?
The New Moon in Capricorn is offering us an invitation to look back over the past year,
asking us to reflect on what changes were made in our lives, how we ourselves may have changed,
and what looks different now than at the start of 2024,
when we kicked off January with a New Moon in Capricorn.
These two Capricorn New Moons are acting like bookends to this entire year.
That makes it the perfect occasion to look back over the intentions you may have set at the beginning of the year
with that January New Moon, and notice how everything has unfolded since that time.
How Capricorn Energy Weaves its Magic in Our Lives
This Capricorn New Moon represents the most powerful and constructive aspects of the sea goat – disciplined,
resourceful, wise, ambitious, prudent, constant and hardworking.
These are really great traits to embody for the start of a New Year
and we can use this time to consider how to positively integrate those qualities
into our intentions and our lives going forward.
Capricorn has a strongly ambitious energy and the diligence to see things through responsibly,
which we can harness to focus on making our goals and dreams, resolutions and plans come true.
- Use this New Moon to direct your attention towards practical and attainable long-term goals.
- Work on developing an action plan grounded in common sense, make commitments you can stick to and nurture your dreams in a realistic way.
- This moon urges us to construct lasting foundations, not just to meet our ambition, but for the nourishing of our soul’s true desires.
- If you ever needed to show yourself how resilient you are, this New Moon will remind you of your inner strength, and the ability to overcome obstacles with grace.
This New Moon is a powerful time for setting intentions that will grow over time,
infused with the energy of Capricorn’s steadfastness and long-term diligence.
Use this simple ritual to set lasting intentions on December 30th:
- Cleanse your space with sage, palo santo or simply by lighting a candle or burning some essential oils. (My favorite is sandalwood, it has a sense of the sacred about it and smells great).
- Sit in quiet contemplation for as long as it takes for you to quiet your mind and find inner stillness.
- After a few moments like this, write down your intentions onto a piece of paper.
- Choose the intentions that most resonate with the energy of this New Moon. So think about long-term goals that you have for the year ahead, things that you know will require careful organization and planning. This will align perfectly with the Capricorn energy.
- As night falls and the darkness of the sky is present with its magnificent stillness, create a small fire where you can burn your piece of paper. Just make sure you do this safely, in a cast iron or flameproof dish, or in a fireplace or sink.
- Allow that piece of paper with your intention written down to be burned to ashes. As you watch it burn, release the intention to the universe, without attachment.
The energy that is symbolized with this burning and release is deeply powerful,
and creates the right frequency for you to reap the rewards of your intention setting down the line.