What's actually happening
A Last Quarter Moon occurs when the Moon is ninety degrees behind the Sun in the zodiac — a waning square. The Moon is half-lit, now diminishing rather than growing.
For a Last Quarter in Capricorn, the Moon is in Capricorn while the Sun is in Aries. The tension is between the patient, structural quality of the Moon and the initiating, forward-moving quality of the Sun.
What the tradition makes of it
The Last Quarter is a "crisis of consciousness" — the recognition of what was genuinely learned in the cycle and what must be let go. Capricorn brings the accounting function to that moment of release: what was actually produced in the cycle, at what cost, and whether the investment was proportionate to the result.
The release is structural. The commitments and disciplines that have run their course are completed rather than merely abandoned. The accounting is honest: what was built, what it required, and whether the same approach should continue into the next cycle.
How to actually use it
Make an honest accounting of what this cycle's commitments produced. Complete what can be completed. Release what has genuinely run its course — not by abandoning it carelessly but by acknowledging what it accomplished and closing it with appropriate finality.
The Aries Sun is already looking toward the next beginning. The Capricorn Moon asks that the previous structure be properly closed before the new one begins.
When in doubt
Ask what from this cycle is genuinely finished — and whether you have given it the proper closure it deserves before turning toward what comes next.