Capricorn Moon sign
A Capricorn Moon sign means the Moon was in Capricorn when you were born. The Moon is in detriment here, and crosses the sign in about two and a half days each month. This page says what the tradition makes of it, how it mixes with each Sun sign, and when the next six crossings are.
- Ruled by Saturn
- The Moon is in detriment here
- About two and a half days a month
The Moon in Capricorn
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899. Public domain, and the full text is readable online.
Capricorn Moon personality
Brought before the public, and with a drawback attached.
- GiftsCapableAdministrative ability and a gift for leading, careful with money, cautious, and able to influence others. Leo says this Moon brings the native before the public, sometimes to real prominence.
- StrugglesColdOften cold, a little selfish and fond of show, thinking too little of what others feel. Some drawback always attaches to the position or reputation it wins.
Leo says this position brings the native before the public for good or ill, for popularity or for notoriety, and that there is always some drawback attaching to it. Well placed, it can make a popular head of an undertaking; badly placed, the publicity is of an unpleasant kind, and the reputation may suffer deservedly or not.
He gives it a degree of rulership, generalship and administrative ability. He also calls the nature careful with money, calculating and cautious, knowing how to influence others, and often cold, thinking too little of what other people feel. Warmth here is shown in what gets done rather than in what is said.
The Moon is one placement among many. See your whole birth chart, free, on Natal Chart Maker.
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, the chapter on the Sun and Moon combined
A Capricorn Moon with each Sun sign
Alan Leo read the Moon together with the Sun. Find your Sun sign below.
Aries Sun, Capricorn Moon
An intense love of fame and a drive to lead, sometimes to domineer. Determined, imaginative and very receptive to other people's moods, but changeable, with impulse often overriding tact.
Taurus Sun, Capricorn Moon
A very practical and successful pair, both earth. Careful plans, independence and keen ambition, well able to build a fortune and to carry out big schemes, especially in public life.
Gemini Sun, Capricorn Moon
A very good business pair: the Capricorn Moon gives ballast to the quick Gemini mind. Not fully harmonious, but patience and perseverance get much done. Ingenious and tactful, with a love of science.
Cancer Sun, Capricorn Moon
More practical and ambitious, with a head for business and a wish to lead and govern. Leo notes difficulty expressing the inner feelings, and many obstacles in the life.
Leo Sun, Capricorn Moon
It hardens the inner nature. Ambitious, exacting and keen to govern, outwardly grasping and too practical, while the heart keeps pulling away from outward things.
Virgo Sun, Capricorn Moon
Leo calls it the most practical of all the pairs. Shrewd and calculating, with a strong wish to build wealth, and a lean towards material and self-interested thinking.
Libra Sun, Capricorn Moon
A good pair for popularity and public recognition, with some musical ability. The mind can be too practical for the Libra Sun, pulling it out into the external world.
Scorpio Sun, Capricorn Moon
Proud and inclined to self-indulgence, but with great patience, perseverance and endurance. Determined ambition that can reach high, a material turn of thought, and the makings of a fine dramatic critic.
Sagittarius Sun, Capricorn Moon
The Moon steadies the Sagittarius Sun and wakes ambition in higher thought. Industrious and practical, if changeable at times and with a sensual streak, plus musical ability and influence in religious matters.
Capricorn Sun, Capricorn Moon
Thoughtful, with a tendency to low spirits and to withdraw more than is good. Very independent, sometimes to the point of isolation. Good at business, acquisitive and somewhat self-centred.
Aquarius Sun, Capricorn Moon
Shrewd, tactful and very ambitious, often rising with the help of friends and their favour. Solid thinking and a gift for politics.
Pisces Sun, Capricorn Moon
The practical Capricorn Moon tends to lead the dreamy Pisces nature towards material aims. An active life suits it best, with responsibility and the chance to lead.
Alan Leo wrote this in 1899, and a whole chart says far more than two placements. See your Sun and Moon together, free.
The doctrine of dignities, standard in Western astrology since the Hellenistic period
Where the tradition places it
The tradition calls this the Moon's detriment.
Detriment is the sign opposite a planet's own. The Moon rules Cancer, so it is in detriment here, in the sign directly across the circle. The tradition reads that as the Moon being asked to work in the opposite manner to its nature: to be useful instead of comforting, and to be measured instead of warm.
It is not a verdict on a person. It is a statement that this Moon does its job by another route, and that the warmth is real but arrives as reliability rather than as sympathy.
The doctrine of the elements and the modes, and habit built on top of it
What these days are used for
Duty, structure and the long view.
- EarthSolidEarth holds still. The tradition gives these days to making something that will last, to money and to the body, and to work that shows a result.
- CardinalOpeningA cardinal sign opens a season, so the two and a half days are read as an opening: the impulse is to begin.
The tradition gives these days to the work nobody enjoys, and reads them as poor days to ask anyone for sympathy.
This is tradition and habit, not a measured effect. It is here because it is what the sources say, and each part carries the name of the source it came from.
The next six Capricorn Moons
| Enters Capricorn | Time | Leaves for Aquarius | Time | Stays |
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Questions people ask
What does a Capricorn Moon sign mean?
That the Moon was in Capricorn at the moment you were born. In astrology the Moon stands for feelings and instinct, so a Capricorn Moon is read as a cautious, practical and ambitious emotional nature, more reserved than warm. The tradition counts it the Moon's detriment.
How long is the Moon in Capricorn?
About two and a half days each month. The exact length changes a little because the Moon's speed changes, and the table above gives the real figure for each crossing.
Is a Capricorn Moon the same as being a Capricorn?
No. A Capricorn Sun means the Sun was in Capricorn at your birth, which is late December to late January. A Capricorn Moon can happen in any month of the year.
Does the Moon sign depend on where I was born?
The sign itself is the same everywhere at the same moment, because it is measured from the centre of the Earth. What changes with your place is the local clock time it starts and ends, which is exactly what decides your sign if you were born near a crossing.
Positions and times are calculated in your browser with an open astronomy library and match published ephemerides to the minute. The birth chart reading is written from Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, which is in the public domain. The dignities and the doctrine of the elements are standard traditional astrology. Tradition is labelled as tradition throughout, and the sources page sets out what is calculated and what is not.