Capricorn season, aka baby-making season

How is Capricorn season treating everyone? In my experience as a Capricorn, people don't 'get' our sign. They're like "oh you're a stubborn goat" or "oh you're so ambitious" but they forget that we're the sign that starts the year, we bring the sun back when it disappears for a few days in the far northern hemisphere at the solstice, which kicks off Capricorn season. We're little combustion engines that can and we can't help it. We're cardinal earth. We're instigators. We're goats AND we're mermaids. It's in our nature to climb mountains and swim the depths of emotion, sometimes simultaneously. And I'm betting that's what everyone, regardless of your sign, is trying to do right now, with varying results, because we're now all deep into Capricorn season.

Sure, Cappys can be intense, and sure, we can struggle to live in the moment...but we're bloody good at forward motion and unblocking emotional barriers. Which makes sense when you look at our season. Everything is frozen rain but don't worry, we'll carry whatever you want from Christmas through to February. We'll get you through the darkness. We'll carry YOU if you like. And we'll help everyone process and feel their emotions while they're sitting in the darkness. We're perfectly adapted to January.

Any time of the year, we're the ones you want on your team when the proverbial is hitting the fan. Because we'll make a plan, start the task, make sure it gets finished and then our playful mermaid will come out and we will throw an awesome party to celebrate its completion. People think that we're the work hard, play hard sign. But what looks like hard to you is just our regular modus operandi. We don't know any different. We're moving to stay warm/alive. We were born in the freaking depths of winter. So that's why you're working so hard right now, in our season.

And I have lost count of the times I have been called emotionally detached or aloof. We may be good at your emotions, but we're told we're rubbish at our own. Being seen that way is a Capricorn thing, apparently. But we're just focussed, and earning our respect isn't very easy. If you're a fellow cardinal sign (Aries, Cancer, Libra) or a mutable sign (Virgo, Sagittarius, Gemini, Pisces), you probably think Capricorns are way aloof. But you fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) know. You see our inner combustion engines and all the emotion bubbling under the surface fuelling our trek up whatever mountain.

And that's the crux of it. What seems like Capricorn control-freakery/emotional detachment to most people is actually just an ability to harness our emotions and use them for fuel for whatever needs to get done in this frozen month. We haven't got time for your drama and we're so direct because those who don't DO in January are starved and/or frozen by the time Aquarius season rolls around. A conversation I had the other day:

Friend: Anna, you're a Capricorn, how do I know whether this Capricorn wants me or not?
Me: He doesn't.
Friend: What? How do you know?
Me: Because if he did, you'd know already. We're very direct like that.

And that's the energy we're all living through right now, in Cappy season.

Capricorns also age in reverse, so it is said. We start out all 'should' and responsibility in our teens and twenties and get mellower and more fun as we get older. This is definitely my experience. And so it is the same with Capricorn season. The season starts off all preparation and family pressure for the holidays, and by mid-January, everyone's throwing caution to the gale-force wind and leaping into bed with each other to make babies. As a dear friend just reminded me, September is by far the most popular month for birthdays (hi Virgos!) because Capricorn season is baby-making season. So there's also that. It's in Capricorn's nature to just effing do it AND it's in our nature to be sensual sirens. Therefore, forward-focussed Capricorn season being the month when couples not only look to the future but CREATE the future is totally logical. And when it comes to sex for Capricorns, it is also all about that Cappy combustion engine. This is true of every Capricorn I know. Capricorns will use that skill of harnessing all of that emotional energy to get whatever task done. And then if you're lucky, we'll harness it to get you done. But you have to be very lucky (and direct), because we are as picky as you'd expect a mermaid-on-a-mission (who doesn't really want to stop moving in case she freezes) to be.

Hey presto, Capricorn energy = baby-making season. Forward looking, sensual, combustable, but with goals.

Hope you're all snuggling and seducing and working and achieving and don't worry, the full moon eclipse in Leo is on the way and we'll all have a good and healthy cry about everything then. Until then, try to avoid the things we do in excess in order to numb our emotions. Whatever that thing is for you, be it alcohol, food, netflix, sex, exercise or something else, know that by numbing your inner mermaid this season, you also numb your inner mountain goat. Your emotion IS your motion. Your emotions are your combustion engine. So feel them, accept them and use them to propel you forward into Aquarius season...see you there <3