Structure, Strain, and Sustenance

The Full Moon in Capricorn (July 10, 2025)

The Full Moon on July 10, 2025, rises in Capricorn, standing in stark opposition to the Sun in Cancer. As always, a Full Moon reveals something. This one illuminates the tension between containment and comfort, between the need to draw lines and the yearning to dissolve them. In this lunation, we see structure in sharp relief against the soft pull of intimacy. It’s a Moon caught in the middle—and that’s exactly the point.

The Moon in Capricorn: A Place of Tension

When the Moon is in Capricorn, she is in her detriment. This isn’t a moral judgment—it’s a technical description. Capricorn is the sign opposite Cancer, the Moon’s home. So in Capricorn, the Moon is not where she functions easily. And with the Sun in Cancer, we have a classic polarity: the emotional instinct to merge (Cancer) versus the structural mandate to separate and define (Capricorn).

Cancer wants to fuse. Capricorn wants to file. And the Moon is caught in Capricorn’s domain, where she feels the full brunt of rules, limits…