Full moon in Capricorn: You weren’t born for this
Do you habitually accept responsibility when you shouldn’t? Read on.
Here’s the Sabian Symbol for the 10 July full moon at 18°50’ Capricorn:
A five-year old child carrying a bag filled with groceries (Capricorn 19°)
Keynote: Rising to the occasion when asked to assume social responsibilities ahead of one’s normal development.
One thing I’ve noticed about almost all of the folks I read the cards for is that they have a tendency to assume an outsized responsibility for situations, people, families.
Siblings. Pets. Plants.
Things that they have no business assuming responsibility or blame for.
Even if they were 50 miles away from the crime scene and have an airtight alibi, they’ll perform the mental gymnastics necessary to somehow, some way, declare their guilt and prepare to be put to death.
I place myself in that group. We’re always ready to take responsibility and blame, not because we’re guilty or it’s our job, but because it’s the quickest, easiest way to get folks to sit down. To shut up. To stop fighting.
I think I know why.
A lot of us were the adults in the room when we were kids.
Rudhyar says this about the Capricorn 19° symbol:
“The twentieth scene of the complete process [...] is evident that children at an early age are expected to assume a family role which at times will strain their natural capacities. This is part of the accelerating pace of our technological society.”
Although I’m taking Rudhyar slightly out of context here - I’m not talking about a “technological society” - I do believe the strain that was placed on us “kidults” overworked our responsibility muscles. We couldn’t trust the adults around us to behave in a proper manner so we built up those muscles and carried the load ourselves.
That’s a big bag of groceries.
We took on the emotional, and sometimes even physical, responsibility in our families because we just couldn’t depend on the adults around us to do so.
“If I play Für Elise perfectly, Mom and Dad will stop fighting all the time”.
The thing is, when use that type of thought process as children, we accept responsibility for things we shouldn’t as adults. We do this because we’re grateful for peace by any means necessary, but that’s how we wind up getting used.
The Hubster sent this comment after reading the first draft of this post:
“I don't know if this is relevant but I have this feeling that when you have to be the adult in the room, then at times this prevents you from taking responsibility for yourself. So I thought this might somehow go into the "Before you take responsibility for anything (that goes beyond your own self). Know the words are not the right ones…”
That’s a good point as well.
Capricorn is patient, serious, and organized. Very responsible. Very adulty. These are wonderful qualities. We can use the full moon to highlight how, when, and why we use them.
But in honor of this Capricorn full moon, before taking responsibility for anything outside of yourself, ask if it's really yours to take.
Or if you’re still the 5-year-old carrying someone else’s groceries.