The Climb That Calls You Home
- Shannyn Rhodes
- Jul 10
- 8 min read
Take a deep breath. Can you feel that subtle pull inward today? That grounding energy? It’s the Buck Full Moon in Capricorn, and it’s arriving like a wise elder with a clipboard and a candle ready to illuminate the path we’ve been walking and the mountain we’re still climbing.
This isn’t just any Full Moon. It’s a cosmic checkpoint. A moment to pause, breathe, and ask ourselves: What am I building? Is this still aligned with the life I genuinely want?
Capricorn the determined goat is all about structure, legacy, and ambition. Under this Full Moon, we’re asked to zoom out. To look not just at the day-to-day hustle, but at the long game. This is soul-meets-strategy energy. A beautiful (sometimes sobering) reminder that our time and energy are sacred currencies.
The Energy Right Now
This lunation illuminates’ themes of responsibility, success, and structure, but also gently brings emotional clarity around work-life balance, burnout, and the quiet ache for purpose. You might be feeling the pressure or the pride of all that you've been holding up lately.
This Full Moon in Capricorn is mature, sobering, and profoundly clarifying. It brings focus to themes like:
Long-term goals and legacy
Responsibility and discipline
Structure, boundaries, and sustainable ambition
Capricorn energy is all about integrity, commitment, and results but under the illumination of a Full Moon, this sign also asks us to pause and check: Are we climbing the right mountain? There’s a subtle invitation to move from performance to purpose, from external validation to inner truth.
Expect an emotional undercurrent despite the Earth sign nature because Full Moons illuminate what’s been brewing beneath the surface. You may feel a clash between head and heart, or between obligation and soul-truth.
Collective Impact
For many of us, this moon stirs deep reflections about how we define success, where we over-function, and what sacrifices we’ve made to ‘keep it all together.’ It’s a call to realign with sustainable ambition the kind that doesn’t burn us out but builds us up.
This lunation acts like a magnifying glass on:
Work-life balance
Burnout culture and over-functioning
Societal or familial definitions of success
Emotional suppression in the name of professionalism
Collectively, we may feel a strong push to release outdated ideas about productivity and embrace more authentic ways of living and working. It’s an exciting time to break free from cycles of over-responsibility, hyper-independence, or imposter syndrome and step into grounded, aligned leadership of our lives.
You may see global conversations spark around legacy, environmental responsibility (Capricorn also rules systems and the Earth), and the long-term sustainability of our goals both personal and societal.
Most Affected Signs:
Capricorn, Cancer, Aries, and Libra you’re likely feeling this one in your bones. Whether it’s a professional pivot, a relationship boundary, or a big decision about your next chapter, trust what’s being revealed now.
Let’s take a deeper look at how the July 10 Buck Full Moon in Capricorn may personally affect Capricorn, Cancer, Aries, and Libra, and how each sign can work with the energy for clarity, growth, and alignment:
Capricorn
Themes: Identity, direction, purpose, personal evolution
This is your Full Moon a spotlight on your journey, identity, and the version of you that’s quietly evolving beneath the surface. You may feel a deep emotional pull to reevaluate your goals, titles, responsibilities, or even the legacy you’re building. The pressure to “succeed” might be palpable, but the Moon is encouraging you to redefine what success means on your terms not society’s.
You’re being asked to:
Release rigid self-expectations
Reflect on your true definition of success
Reclaim time for rest, presence, and emotional nourishment
Soul Medicine: You don’t always need to be the rock for everyone else. Let this moon soften you, ground you, and remind you that vulnerability is strength.
Cancer
Themes: Relationships, balance, boundaries, emotional needs vs. outer demands
As Capricorn’s opposite sign, this lunation lights up the axis between your inner and outer worlds. You may feel tension between your need for emotional safety and the pressure to show up for others or hold things together. Questions around partnership, caregiving, and work-life balance may surface. There’s an opportunity to release patterns of over-giving or hiding behind comfort zones.
You’re being asked to:
Strengthen boundaries (especially with work or family)
Stop carrying what isn’t yours
Acknowledge how your nurturing is valued without over-functioning
Soul Medicine: Your sensitivity is a gift but so is your ability to say no. Choose reciprocity over responsibility.
Aries
Themes: Career shifts, authority, long-term focus, sustainable ambition
This Full Moon touches the top of your chart your public image, leadership, and career goals. You may feel called to step up… or step away from something no longer aligned. It’s time to take an honest look at what you’re building and whether it honours your soul’s fire. Burnout is real, Aries and Capricorn wants you to think long game, not quick win.
You’re being asked to:
Embrace strategy over speed
Get clear on your “why” before chasing the next milestone
Let go of roles that feed ego but drain energy
Soul Medicine: Your courage is unmatched now pair it with vision. Sustainable success is your birthright, not a reward for burnout.
Libra
Themes: Home, foundation, emotional security, inner vs. outer stability
This Full Moon activates your roots home, family, emotional foundations, and the stories you carry from your past. You might be feeling the weight of other people’s expectations or obligations. Now’s the time to ask: What do you need to feel stable and secure? You’re allowed to outgrow environments, roles, or caretaking dynamics that no longer serve you.
You’re being asked to:
Reclaim your energy from old family patterns or inherited pressure
Build a foundation that supports your peace, not just others’ comfort
Release guilt around prioritizing your needs
Soul Medicine: Your balance begins within. You don’t need to earn your place by keeping the peace your truth is enough.
How to Work With This Moon:
This Full Moon is best worked with through reflection, intentional release, and recommitment to your aligned path.
Try the following:
Release Ritual: Burn or bury a list of outdated goals or external expectations you're done carrying.
Journal: Ask yourself: Whose success story am I living? What does my soul define as enough?
Reclaim Time & Energy: Make one bold decision this week that honours your future self not your past self or someone else's plan for you.
Reconnect with Nature: Capricorn is an Earth sign grounding your energy outdoors helps you access clarity and presence.
Journal on your definition of success and whether it’s changed.
Release outdated goals, roles, or patterns that feel heavy or performative.
Recommit to your future self the one who’s already living your soul-aligned life.
Here are journal prompts aligned with the July 10 Buck Full Moon in Capricorn, each designed to help you reflect deeply on the themes of structure, ambition, release, and soul-aligned success:
What am I currently working toward and does it still align with who I’m becoming?
Why it matters collectively:
We live in a culture that prizes achievement but rarely asks us to check in on whether those achievements still serve our evolving selves. As a collective, many of us are waking up to the truth that success without soul leads to burnout, disconnection, and dissatisfaction.
Under this Capricorn Full Moon, which rules career, legacy, and long-term goals, this prompt invites a pause a reckoning. It asks us to stop chasing outdated dreams and start aligning with authentic direction.
How to work with it:
Meditate or journal on who you were when you first set that goal and who you are now.
Ask: Is this still mine? Or did I inherit this dream from someone else’s expectations?
If the answer is no create a symbolic release ritual (burn, bury, or write and rip up the outdated goal).
Then, write down a new vision based on how you want to feel, not just what you want to accomplish.
What legacy am I quietly building and does it reflect my soul’s truth or society’s expectations?
Why it matters collectively:
This question hits the heart of Capricorn’s deeper wisdom: that everything we do is part of the imprint we leave behind. In a world that often measures legacy by titles, wealth, or followers, this Moon asks us to rethink what it means to leave something meaningful.
As a collective, we’re moving away from performative success and toward soulful contribution. This prompt invites each of us to take personal responsibility for the energy, values, and vision we pass on.
How to work with it:
Reflect on what you want others to feel, remember, or receive from your presence or work.
Ask: If I stripped away all job titles and social roles, what would I still offer the world?
Let that truth shape your next steps.
Consider creating a "legacy list" 5 values or messages you want to embody and pass on, starting today.
Here is a guided meditation with affirmations inspired by the July 10 Buck Full Moon in Capricorn, designed to help you ground, reflect, and realign with your soul’s definition of success and purpose:
If you’re feeling the weight of everything right now the pressure, the expectations, the “shoulds” take this as your gentle invitation to pause. Come sit with me for a moment. Let’s breathe together. Let’s reconnect with you.
Get comfy. Close your eyes. Take a deep, nourishing breath in... And a soft, grounding breath out. Again. Inhale deeply fill your belly... Exhale slowly let it all go.
Imagine we’re standing at the base of a magnificent mountain, under the light of this Capricorn Full Moon. The sky is dark velvet, sprinkled with stars. The moon glows with this quiet, steady wisdom like it’s seen you at every chapter and still whispers, you’re doing better than you think.
With each step up the mountain, feel the old layers fall away… The hustle you’ve outgrown.The dreams that no longer fit. The weight that was never yours to carry.
Let’s say this together gently, like a promise:
I release the need to prove myself.
Success gets to feel like truth.
I am allowed to change.
My legacy is mine to define.
I climb lighter, freer, more aligned.
Now, picture yourself at the top bathed in moonlight. Feel how clear it is up here. How quiet. How sure.
Ask your heart softly, lovingly:
What am I really building?
Who am I becoming not for anyone else, but for me?
What am I ready to let go of so I can rise with less resistance?
Let whatever wants to come up… come. There’s no rush. Just truth. Just you. And when you’re ready, slowly come back. Wiggle your fingers. Place a hand on your heart. Feel your breath, your body, your presence.
You’re not behind. You’re not broken. You’re building something beautiful. And I’m so proud of you.
Soul Tip:Let go of what you’re gripping too tightly. Real success doesn’t need force it needs flow.
Sometimes the climb gets easier when we drop the weight that was never ours to carry.
Tonight, maybe light a candle, sip something earthy, and have a chat with your higher self. Ask them: What legacy am I leaving and is it one I’m proud of?
You’ve got this, mountain-mover. Keep climbing, but don’t forget to rest. You don’t need to prove your worth through perfection. Your rest, your boundaries, and your truth are part of your success story.
Let go of the “shoulds” and choose what nourishes you deeply. The climb is still yours, but the path can feel lighter when it's aligned with who you're becoming.
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