Superior Conjunction
January 6, 2026: Venus meets with the Sun in Capricorn
The Gatekeeper Speaks
This total openness and contact becomes an intimacy with everything, totally independent of mind and memory. No loneliness and no sense of aloneness. Simplicity of Being has ushered me, through the door of aloneness, into its inherent intimacy.
-A.H. Almaas, Luminous Night’s Journey
Venus Reclaims a Part of Self
Venus Star Point’s gift to Capricorn:
Love and a heart-centered approach to life is expressed through a modest, dignified, traditional beauty. These individuals possess a natural ability to command respect.
-Arielle Guttman, Venus Star Rising
Responsibility and maturity are part of Capricorn Venus Star point individuals from childhood. They tend to be practical and realistic, in tune with nature, and concerned with protecting Earth’s resources. They are also talented at illuminating things from a former era in new and creative ways.
-Arielle Guttman, Venus Star Rising
The whole history of the human experience is contained in Capricorn, including what does and doesn’t work. Astrology as a global, historical, psychology originates in Capricorn as they are the ones who track the history of our experience on this planet. This is why Capricorn is associated with the Circle of Grandmothers, the Wise Ones, the Grandfathers and the Elders.
This suggests the emerging Capricorn Leader is here to create new structures that support individuals in taking responsibility for their own life, their own experience, and their own happiness and evolution, with reference to the objective reality of the actual needs of the planet and the culture that is now emerging.
The essence of Capricorn is the appropriate, effective, practical management of a culture over a period of time and includes responsibility to the next seven generations.
-Daniel Giamario, The Shamanic Astrology Handbook
Archetypal Journey of Capricorn
The Capricorn Mystery School Investigates:
Bringing Spirit into matter to manage it for the benefit of others
Being an effective and responsible leader
The rules and principles governing the structure of the culture and how to work with them effectively
What works and what doesn’t work and then focuses on what works
Responsibly managing their environment to get maximum results that benefit society and the culture
Knowledge and wisdom directed toward practical application
-Daniel Giamario, The Shamanic Astrology Handbook
Those taking Capricorn training are finding effective ways for the culture to organize itself around new structures in both home and society. Capricorn is learning the skills of practical leadership including building healthy infrastructure, (for example buildings, roads, bridges, etc.) as well as developing concepts, ideas, and socio-political structures that serve everyone. They are learning to lead, organize, and manifest with wisdom in order to serve the seven generations to follow and to honor the seven generations of the past.
The joy and satisfaction for Capricorn lies in the manifestation of what they are building. Capricorn enjoys concentrated focus and having the ability to see how the parts relate to the whole when applied to a project, or to administrating a process, or to building a society. It is this skill that ensures the success of whatever the Capricorn focus is.
-Daniel Giamario, The Shamanic Astrology Handbook
Capricorn asks: “Does it work? Is it practical?”
Light qualities:
Management and Control, Responsible Administration, Brings Spirit into matter to manage and administer it, Circle of Grandmothers and Grandfathers, Wise Ones and Elders, Leaders, counselors, and teachers, Attunes to what works and what doesn’t work, Builds structures of all kinds, Concentrated focus, gets things done, enjoys accomplishment, Experiences joy and satisfaction attending to the details that produce beneficial results, Revisioning how we steward and care for our Planet, family, and community
Shadow qualities:
Driven to achieve according current cultural standards, Stuck in old forms, Stuck on the material level, Difficulty receiving, Difficulty letting go of control, Stuck being teacher/leader/elder without a personal life, Drive toward perfection and overwork without any personal joy, Feels they must always carry the burdens of others, Takes self too seriously
-Daniel Giamario, The Shamanic Astrology Handbook
Inquiry Questions
Take some time to drop in, deepen into the quiet of your unfolding soul, and explore what is here now in your awareness, as sit in this place of transition.
As you read through the description of the archetype of Venus in Capricorn, what resonates for you personally?
Which of the light and shadow qualities jump out at you? From these, what do you think might be needed to integrate into the journey of Venus as Sacred Warrior?
What aspects of this archetype feel foreign to you, or that you don’t see yourself embodying at all? These spots can be of particular interest as they may be blind spots or under-developed areas for you personally. How would these aspects change your knowing of passionate purpose?
Sacred Warrior, what part of yourself do you now reclaim?
What is your own unique lens through which to explore this Archetype of Venus in Capricorn? With whom do you journey this cycle?
Ritual Space
Take some time to drop into ritual space as you receive the initiation of this gate. We step into liminal space, time out of time, in ritual space. We connect with the lineage of those who have watched the stars for millennia, receiving the gift of Venus's journey, aligning ourselves with the cycles that are already unfolding. We remember our nature as beings who cycle, change, transform. We remember how to receive knowing directly, rather than needing others to tell us what is so.
You may wish to create an altar, light a candle, and anoint yourself with oils. Sit with this gate, the quality of Essence that is being called forward. As you deepen in surrendering to receiving initiation, ask who would come to guide you in your journey with this quality of Essence? What of yourself do you offer in return? What is calling to be set down at this gate? What pattern, belief, way of being in this world, is challenged by this quality of Essence? What are you ready to release in order to deepen more fully in this journey?
What gift is revealed in the releasing of this pattern, belief, or way of being? What has more freedom to be itself in this release? You may see this directly, or may need to live with this initiation throughout the whole cycle and come back and answer this question before entering into the next gate. You may wish to draw cards to receive guidance in this way.
As you complete your experience in ritual space, take time to offer thanks and adoration to the archetype, to Venus, to your personal guide that arose for this journey, to your ancestors and lineage. Offer thanks to the land that holds and nourishes and grounds you. In the giving and receiving we remember our deep connectedness to all beings everywhere, throughout time and space.
