Ambitious nourishment
full moon in Capricorn on 7/10
These newsletters mirror the current energetics of the moment. The placements and transits of the stars and planets are infused within the writing, cuing us in to our contextual landscape.
"It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.”
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The new moon in Capricorn occurred within a few days of New Years, activating the resolve of this earth sign to commit to a goal over a long span of time. Capricorn - the sea goat - will climb the highest mountain and swim to the depths of the deepest sea, even if it takes a lifetime. Or longer.
(See “Resolutions are canceled” for a refresher on the energetics of the new moon in Cap on 12/30.)
Now, at the peak of the full moon in Capricorn, we take stock. How far have we come since the beginning of 2025? What have we achieved? What goals are still in process and which ones need to be discarded? Where has failure been the necessary compost for the rich soil of an even more grounded vision to come to life?
Gravity’s Law
How surely gravity's law
Strong as an ocean current,
Takes hold of even the strongest thing
And pulls it towards the heart of the world.
Each thing - each stone, blossom, child - is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
Push out beyond what we belong to
For some empty freedom.
If we surrendered to Earth's intelligence
We could rise up, rooted, like trees.
This is what the things can teach us: to fall,
Patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that.
Before he can fly.
- Rilke
Gravity is not a downward pull. Gravity is the force by which a body draws other bodies towards its center. It is the scientific and incomplete definition of eros: the primal love-driven longing to merge with another: human, nature, music, art, food, or a couch. Anything that we are drawn to, and that we perceive ourselves to be separate from.
We know that eros is desire, but I think we forget that desire, at its core, is love. Specifically, it’s the love that moves us. Compels us. Breaks us out of routine, stagnancy, and going through the motions. It’s disruptive love. It is, as Dante defines it: “L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.” (The love that moves the sun and the other stars.)
Unlike Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Capricorn is very interested in what you do for a living. This sign is ambitious, to say the least. Because of it’s evolutionary aim towards mastery, responsibility, and towards accomplishing a “great work,” the part of each of us that relates to this relentless drive requires nourishment from the very thing that we’re striving towards in order to keep from burning out. And this nourishment doesn’t exist in the future (that’s the trap).
Instead of striving towards it, the invitation with this full moon 🌕 - illuminated by the sun ☀️ in care-taking Cancer - is to fall towards it.
Like gravity.
Like falling in love.
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves."
- Mary Oliver
If it’s disruption you’re seeking - a turning point in the direction of manifesting your goals - there is nothing more radical you can do than allowing the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
There will be action to take, yes. But action that results in positive change must come from the state of desire, of love, of nourishment.
Usually I send these newsletters out a few days before the lunation but I was too busy filling myself up in the rich embrace of the Rocky Mountains and soul-rooted friendship to be concerned about tasks and deadlines. And that’s the purpose of all of our ambition anyway, right? To live in the end state of our desire.
It’s here now. It’s grace. Let it in.
💚
Coach Laura
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