Moon in Capricorn
What Moon in Capricorn means, the traditional facts behind it, and when the Moon is actually in Capricorn.
What Moon in Capricorn means
Your Moon in Capricorn meets feeling with composure — you hold steady and handle things before you let yourself lean. Capricorn is an earth sign, so safety comes from structure, and it helps to let support in sooner.
A sign placement reads the same in every house system.
These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.
The sign: Capricorn
- Element
- Earth
- Modality
- Cardinal
- Polarity
- Yin: inward, receptive
- Ruler
- Saturn
Essential dignity
The Moon is in its detriment in Capricorn, the sign opposite one it rules. The tradition reads it here as working against the grain.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When the Moon is in Capricorn
The Moon spends about two and a half days in each sign and returns roughly every 27 days. Its next passes in Capricorn:
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026, 12:56 | Oct 19, 2026, 01:39 |
| Nov 12, 2026, 20:27 | Nov 15, 2026, 09:24 |
| Dec 10, 2026, 03:08 | Dec 12, 2026, 16:05 |
| Jan 6, 2027, 09:17 | Jan 8, 2027, 22:10 |
| Feb 2, 2027, 15:32 | Feb 5, 2027, 04:28 |
| Mar 1, 2027, 22:35 | Mar 4, 2027, 11:31 |
Times in UTC, to the minute.
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How this page is made
Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.