It is Time ~ New Moon in Capricorn January 18th 2026
- UnWind the Soul - Juliet Butters Doty
- Jan 14
- 5 min read
We are in the midst of a rare threshold moment, simultaneously with the chronology
of our human evolvement readying to move forward.
We are living in intense, potent and pivotal times indeed,
I don't think you need me to tell you that.
I also want to take a moment to highlight that we are all experiencing the last days of Neptune at the last degrees of Pisces. He will not be back in Pisces for another 167 years so make the most of these dissolving energies where life seems to be blurry and unsure. It is intended so that we may release and let go of much of our past, making way for the new.
For indeed, we will experience a big shift come January 26th @ 7.37am HST | 9.37am PST.
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The New moon in Capricorn on the 18th January, it is time like none other, even as we have been melted down, suffered loss, surrendered, worked hard, having tried to keep up with the material world that is now collapsing.
We all face a stark, reality check and reset point, of what do you want to focus on into the next chapter of your life. - On a Collective and personal level, all at the same time.

The Sabian Symbol from Elias Lonsdale
For the New Moon in Capricorn @ 29 ( always rounding up).
An architect carefully surveying old ruins.
What is to be seen is the outer skeleton of things.
What is to be known is the inner essence of things.
The code, the extraordinary revelation, the realization is there inherently in the very substance of existence.
A practiced eye can see inside, can penetrate and illuminate.
The schooling in perception comes between lives and then overshadows each and every idea or notion anybody can come up with.
But to access and do honor to this advanced faculty is rare.
For seeing the whole truth is excruciating to the ego-mind.
And therefore the battle is on to awaken to your innermost truth, or to succeed brilliantly in adapting your truth to the marketplace, selling your soul to the highest bidder.
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Capricorn represents the invocation of "I Achieve".
It stands on the foundation of "I establish" - coming from its opposite archetype of Cancer - our ability to nourish ourselves so that we feel safe and secure, anchored into the ancestors of our lineage.
Capricorn is the culmination point, where we express our soul's purpose, rooted deep in our heart. It is the work of finding our true work.
We have a Capricornian gathering of Mars, Mercury, the Sun & Moon
together with Venus and Pluto in Aquarius, all close together.
We are at a reckoning of what is real and what is fantasy, what is too idealistic and just what is solid and long lasting at this point of so much dissolution. The bubble of much is leaking and bleeding out as we near the 00degree of Aries ready to spark and ignite a Fire like we have never seen before in our lifetimes. Or as Ang Stoic says:
' ... like a match about to spark up a gas station'. Need I say Boom.
When Neptune enters Aries he will begin a fiery traverse through the archetype of Initiation for the next14 years. We are about to build the future for our children to inherit!
When Saturn joins him on January 13th, we will be finishing up their 36 year cycle that began in 1989. Substantially, on February 20th they come together exactly, to then begin the next 36 year chapter in a New Phasal Relationship, beginning a new Era for Humanity.
We are currently moving through a convergence of dynamism, of multiple endings and beginnings, needless to say, particularly with the personal planets - Mercury, Venus & Mars.
And so dear ones, we are finishing cycles and beginning cycles literally with this New Moon; It is Time.
What are you going to build?
What is going to be unshakeable and worth committing to?
What will be still be standing within you when the collapse happens all around?

Venus has just begun her new phase relationship with Mars just a few days before this New Moon. THis is generally about every two years. Signifying that she is now initiating a new two year (approximately) chapter, ushering us all to stabilize and integrate our passions and purpose into mature and long term effectual ways. A very grounded, real, practical, and committed path is encouraged here so as to initiate our long term focus and take responsibility rising into our authority individually and collectively.
The Cycle between Mercury and Pluto is near three months can be a
revelation of hidden truths emerging from the subterranean psyche, new found power dynamics in how one communicates, uncovering secrets too, probing investigation within, perhaps to an obsessive point to reach the very thing that needs to emerge within you.
The Cycle between Mars and Pluto is 1.8 years, during the 20-25th of January, will be important as Mars is the little brother to Pluto whose interest is primarily our transformation - Mars therefore heads out to accomplish just that.
The focus will be Aquarian and with Uranus being the Boss of the two, there will be an electric, intense push to break free, the frequency will be in the air quite literally, to liberate in order to express that needed transformation collectively and personally.
Watch this space during that time frame.

Woven so beautifully into this rare threshold moment is that Uranus assists us all with an aspect that is beyond helpful. He will have a few days with each planets igniting dynamically with an electric Go time message from 'On High' -
I say that as Uranus is Divine Mind, bringing through incredible creativity for our collective and communal creations. Use it, milk it, for indeed when the Sun meets up with Pluto in a Cazimi, we will have the spotlight on radical transformation on January 23rd with Pluto to begin a New Phase relationship to the Sun. - BTW every planet completes to the Sun. In other words the Sun is infusing Pluto with light- headlining Plutonic energy across the frequency field. Potent, transformational opportunities to embrace new direction/s imbued with the Aquarian harmonic of Freedom and Innovations for the future.
The next Lunation will be on February 1st as a Full Moon in Leo.
Until then,
~A Hui Ho ~
I gave a talk of The Astrology of 2026
at the Temple of Peace in Haiku this week.
I covered the Transits, Ingresses, Eclipses and Nodal Shift, and the Retrogrades too.
For those who were not able to attend near or far, please find :
the 1 hour talk here that I gave @the Grande Wailea - for the PDF 14 page version .
Or, if you prefer to listen on a YouTube Audio, see below.
Please note: the Audio version begins with a visualisation for release and, at the end, an Invocation for the future which the PDF does not have.
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