New Moon in Capricorn – January 18, 2026
Welcome to the first New Moon of the year! Capricorn is the workhorse of the Zodiac: ambitious, grounded, focused, and unafraid of hard work. Even if you don’t have any Capricorn placements in your chart, you’ll feel this energy around January 18th with the New Moon in Capricorn.
This is a powerful time to focus on your career and reconnect with what helps you feel safe and supported. Capricorn wants to be useful to society and can sometimes look outside itself for validation and approval. When that happens, old people-pleasing patterns may resurface, leaving you feeling a little strung out.
Instead, pause and slow down. Tap into your inner knowing. What are your values? What expectations do you hold for yourself? Resist the pull of society’s expectations. While this New Moon is potent for making bold AF intentions, it’s just as important to set intentions around rest, care, and sustainability.
Speaking of those bold AF intentions: carve out time this weekend to script your future. Who are you in six or twelve months? What does your life look like three to five years from now? Go big. Go bold. And if you haven’t created a vision board yet this year, this is your moment.
Envisioning something different is the first step in manifesting, and Capricorn’s New Moon helps you get super specific about what you truly want. It brings clarity, confidence, and resolve around your goals. This is also an excellent time to focus on what you’re committed to this year, not just what sounds good, but what you’re willing to show up for consistently.
If you feel called to break a goal into steps, map out timelines, or visualize each phase along the way, absolutely do it. Capricorn can deliver a serious boost of motivation during this New Moon. And with Eclipse Season arriving in February, now is an ideal time to set intentions that will carry powerful momentum into that eclipse magick.
Remember: small choices and steady progress add up. Capricorn invites deliberate action. Commit to new patterns or habits that genuinely support both your career and your life.
This New Moon is aligned with Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto. When the inner planets gather like this, it’s time for some real magick. Venus is the only one in Aquarius, but it sits closely between the Moon and Pluto, bridging innovation with practicality. This alignment supports creative problem-solving, strategic leaps, and meaningful growth in your career and public reputation. The seeds you plant now influence your long-term goals, responsibilities, and legacy.
Stay open to invitations and collaborations that align with your vision. Cooperative energy will play a key role in helping you step into your next level of success. Overall, this New Moon is likely to leave you feeling both hella inspired and genuinely ready to get to work.
And because this New Moon falls on the very last day of Capricorn season, expect the energy to hold a dual focus: what you’re building for the future and why it matters to the world.
Here is Your Horoscope for the New Moon in Capricorn
Aries: You've entered a long game with a career pivot or perhaps a promotion. Your themes for the New Moon are confidence, self-care, and leaning into your potential. It's time to get serious about your goals. Use your fiery energy to fuel your big career moves.
Taurus: Your focus will be on taking leaps with a sense of adventure, something that can feel challenging for your grounded energy. Tap into how these leaps help you come back home to yourself and marvel at what unfolds. Set intentions around intentional travel and spiritual growth.
Gemini: You've been navigating old stories around your finances and emotional baggage, but the shift has arrived. Set intentions around cleaning up your finances, making long-term investments if possible, and focusing on the new version of you who is fully responsible for yourself and your future.
Cancer: Your themes for this New Moon focus on the agreements you've made with yourself and others. It's time to redefine your expectations in professional, romantic, and personal relationships. Healing is on its way to you, Cancer!
Leo: Set intentions around your routines and make changes in your day-to-day life that will sustain you for a prosperous future. Commit to being healthier and prioritizing yourself, no matter what others think. Stop looking for outside validation to say you're doing a good job and define that for yourself, in all parts of your life!
Virgo: It's time to focus on your creative pursuits and relationships. How can you nurture the emotional, creative, and less strategic parts of your life for a year of balance and alignment ahead? A big pivot is coming soon, and you may feel the urge to completely reengineer your day-to-day schedule. Set intentions around how you want to show up authentically before that pivot arrives later in January.
Libra: You're getting a big reset to your personal life with this New Moon. You may have been carrying around a lot of responsibilities or obligations for your family or home life, and now's the time to hit the reset button and refocus on yourself. Set intentions around creating stability and boundaries.
Scorpio: Your themes for this New Moon are communication, commitment, and managing your energy. Set intentions around these themes. Be on the lookout for conversational red flags and remember that your words can be especially cutting right now. When in doubt, take a beat and create clarity in your message before delivering it.
Sagittarius: Lean into the Capricorn energy and set intentions around making money, pricing your work (if you work for yourself or have a side gig), asking for a raise (if you work for someone else), and creating security without sacrificing your day-to-day enjoyment. Use your adventurous spirit to help you create something in your life that actually supports your quest for freedom.
Capricorn: Happy New Moon! This lunation is a personal reset point in the year. Set intentions for all year long and dedicate yourself to the vision of who you want to be come January 2027. Focus on what fills your cup and get honest with yourself about what you'll no longer tolerate in your life.
Aquarius: It's time to refocus your energy on your spiritual rituals and rest. It's also a time for emotional closure. You've been clearing space, pruning things out of your life that don't support you, and allowing room for something new to enter. Trust that these actions are opening space for the next evolution of you.
Pisces: Home in on the future you want to build and who you want to come along on that adventure, both in your romantic and personal relationships. Whose energy is aligned with you and what you want to create? Who pulls energy away from you and doesn't give in return? Set intentions around intentional relationships that help you thrive.
Happy New Moon, witches!
Megan Winkler