Capricorn Zodiac Sign

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CAPRICORN RISING SIGN – Physical Traits

SATURN – Ruling Planet of Capricorn

• Boney
• Hunch shoulders
• Naturally very thin
• Pale
• There is a view of high functionality – when burnt out inside

• Burn Out – There is nothing like a Capricorn burn out when they hit rock bottom. It’s a mess, but they are able to make changes

About Capricorn Zodiac Sign

• Capricorn wants to build something substantial
• They have push and drive – but not staying lasting power to build durability
• All creation and destruction is Saturn energy
• Can we push the edge of how long it will last?
• Testing / trials for nurturing – doesn’t last or survive
• Hold the nourishment in form and structure that supports
• Very aware of time and takes pleasure in it
• Enjoys things constrained by time
• Prefers fewer options
• The Path: If you are going to accomplish – you need to be dedicated & focused
• Capricorn placements help you to achieve goals no matter where they are
• There is an unlimited capacity for optimism
• But the opposite can drag them down
• They can be good at being aware of what is needed
• It can be taken too far – as a first response as “No”
• Their initial impulse is to say “No” to things
• They are interested in what is possible – questioning and pessimism
• Need to understand to actually make things happen there needs action
• Think reality creates reality
• Saturn is the end of life – Capricorn is the land
• All dead things contribute to the foundation – compost
• Capricorn gathers valuable resources
• Investing in something tangible – land based investment to grow within it
• There is a stewardess
• What does it mean to be in the right relationship for the long term?
• Investing for the future – you may not be alive inside of it
• Capricorn fears things coming into the future
• Losing something and having it go away
• They fear if you make a similar mistake it may happen again
• Capricorn has austerity and is detached from unnecessary things
• They are greedy, hoarding and stingy – scared of losing and cheap
• Due to a fear and lack of something
• They think, “I need as much as possible for myself” hoping for security
• Insecurity is not aware of they get security
• Self-negation – Pride and austerity is purifying in some way
• Hestience in not having enough by getting by with the bare minimum
• Virtuous to live with less – it’s a sin to give into gluttony
• There is an awareness of gluttony in consumerism
• Their focus is on sustainability – minimalist
• Pleasure knowing you are not part of the problem
• Fear of being benefic
• Denies self because they don’t want to produce bad results
• Capricorn is aware of the consequences
• Aware of the legacy of – relationships and evolution
• Believe the best things come from mature grown things
• Capricorn has patience and high standards
• Never reaching goals or ability to see what is wrong – weakness
• Projected onto other things and people
• Sees the larger cracks and structure -Virgo sees the details
• Downside – It is internalized within creating inaction and inability
• It’s not good enough or doesn’t reach their expectations
• Inability to finish things because it’s not good enough for them
• There is too long of a vision and timeline
• No immediate decision making
• Awareness of consequences can be paralyzing
• Can’t move past because expectations are too high
• They are not aware of their own limitations
• They are trying to achieve something beyond their limitations of “their” reality
• It is debilitating and they are unable to reach their goal
• There is a process to find boundaries
• Over time they find a technique to find the sweet spot of doing what they like
• Capricorn thinks “I don’t need to spend money – I don’t need help”
• They hit a wall because they don’t have the tools and resources
• There is a resistance to the tools because they don’t believe they deserve it
• But it is exactly what they want and need to push back from limitations
• Capricorn is allergic to entitlement
• They prioritize what is being built
• There is a separation of the body and emotional needs – but what is necessary
• They need to get down into emotions and relationships
• Otherwise who are you building it for?
• Capricorn is alone on the mountaintop craving for family
• Worldly knowledge and wisdom
• They are more distant, cold, absent
• They are the provider for structure – absent from home to provide
• They nurture through supporting away from the home
• Structurally present – but not emotionally available
• The Moon is the opposite – that’s why it is hard
• There is an emotional coldness to Capricorn
• Distance is experienced as spaciousness
• Saturn gives you room to be who you are
• They do not coddle people – but sometimes you needs a hug
• Capricorn has a macgyver quality and make due with resources available
• “Mastery” is Capricorn and Saturn
• The ability to achieve the highest and get to the best it can be
• Paralyzed always wanting to be the best
• Capricorn withhold or hold onto things
• They are financially frugal – stingy downside / frugal upside
• They buy what lasts and can be repaired
• Buy high quality and spend less later
• Capricorn has the pleasure of making things last – life & death cycle
• They are rigid and take things too serious
• Their early life may have been more serious
• Capricorn gets better with age
• People assume they are older than their age, when younger
• They hold logical ramifications of what you did – Karma
• They have a time component of when and when not to do things
• The key is the length of those periods and knowing it
• They feel more like the victim rather than the participant of time
• Especially if they don’t know or are aware of Saturn transits
• Capricorn is always planning for the winter
• Capricorn is to preserve in many ways
• Through energy and resources – manifesting positive, neutral or negative
• There is a delayed gratification
• They put off indulgences until they know of it’s safe to indulge
• Long term planning – they want to look back and be proud

What Is Important For Capricorns

• Family
• Integrity
• High standards of behavior

Negative Traits of Capricorn

• Holding onto what was – if I could turn back time
• They are good at not showing their creations
• They bury it away
• Attempting to manifest the “Status Quo”
• Over Idealized – eg. youth is ruining everything, society is going to end
• Endless time – Nostalgia of idealized past – past oriented

Corrective Quality of Sagittarius in Capricorn

• Moving from freedom to constraint
• Reality check Capricorn brings
• Asks you to put your money where your mouth is
• Sacrifice
• Decide which possibility you are going to focus on

Keywords For Saturn With Capricorn

• Time
• Impermanence
• Labour
• Working class
• Essential workers
• Foundational
• Legacy (consequence of durability)
• Bones and fossils
• Old age
• Hard work and long term planning
• Aloof
• Limitational in earthy plane
• Investing

Capricorn Is Attached To Ancestry

• Physical bodies made from ancestry
• Land being ancestors
• Food attached to land
• Makes us physical form

Capricorn Zodiac Sign With Other Signs & Planets

Mars & Capricorn

• Do well together
• Aries gives Capricorn the push when they are paralyzed
• Mars stops shooting in different directions
• Capricorn provides Mars with stuff to do
• Mars warms up Capricorn
• Capricorn cools down Mars
• Mars is competitive and driven
• Saturn has a long time structure
• This allows Mars to accept feedback
• Capricorn likes critical feedback as long as they don’t already know
• But if it helps and is something they haven’t already thought of
• Capricorn does not accept criticism if you’re worse than them
• Or not where they want to be
• There is a rejection of what could be nourishing because blinders are on
• They are moving in a different direction

Aries & Capricorn

• Capricorn is backward traditions forward to grow
• Aries is immediate and of the present
• Capricorn has consequences and is slow
• “Why did this happen?
• Aries knows no consequences and is fast
• “Oh well – keep running”
• Capricorn thinks things through
• Aries dives in and does not think things through
• The combo is Stop & Go
• Accelerate and braking at the same time
• Reaching Capricorns goals more quickly
• Especially in conjunctions
• It takes a lot of skill, mastery and fuel together

Taurus & Capricorn

• They share slowness, sustainability, tangibility, love for nice things
• They are inflexible about what is “nice”
• Capricorn has a refined taste and is part of their pleasure
• Taurus likes what it likes and that’s perfect for them
• Capricorn’s motivation is to impact the world
• The motivation and the process IS the point
• It is NOT in the achievement of the thing itself
• Hard work is what they share in common
• Once Taurus starts they can’t stop
• Preferences drives their motivation

Gemini & Capricorn

• Gemini does not endure and is not grounded
• Gemini is the antithesis of Capricorn
• They are not complementary
• Gemini has a shallow quality
• They collect and disclose information without discernment
• This is unattractive to Capricorn
• They can’t understand the meaning in what Gemini has to say
• Gemini can help bring flexibility and has the ability to lighten up Capricorn
• They keep Capricorn young
• Gemini is the jack of all trades
• This drives Capricorn crazy – pick one!

Leo & Capricorn

• They are similar – but with a different focus
• Capricorn is the sovereign of legacy and needs purpose
• Leo is the sovereign for self and only for themselves
• Capricorn things self is boring and their legacy is more important
• Leo talks about their own self
• Capricorn talks about one’s accomplishments
• Capricorn thinks if I have to be seen – I have to be worth seen
• Leo feels it’s their calling to be seen
• Leo is the single person at the heart of things
• Capricorn thinks they may not be special – but there is no one like me
• There is combination of things they give people

Virgo & Capricorn

• Capricorn sees the flaws in something
• Virgo focuses on the small details and sequential order – words & sentences
• Capricorn wants to know “How is your outline – overall structure?”
• Virgo wants to know what the details are in the structure
• Capricorn sets the direction and Virgo is talented in writing
• Capricorn says, “what is the point?”
• This gives Virgo a methodical structure to determine how to refine it
• Both are refinery and mastery
• Exalted in each other and doing things at the highest level
• Virgo is capable of self-denial as they perfect what they are working on
• They don’t want anything strenuous
• Virgo wears many different hats and do many different things
• This encourages Capricorn to add other assets, gifts and talents
• Virgo gives Capricorn accessory work to further Capricorn’s project
• This helps when Capricorn plateaus
• They both need more food, sleep and rest

Libra & Capricorn

• Capricorn initiates strategy and the long term goals
• Libra initiates partnership and collaboration
• This is a good collaboration, but also frustrating
• Capricorn knows the best way – but doesn’t want to share the way
• Libra is interconnected and has friction with Saturn’s isolation
• This interconnective way is challenging
• If Saturn works well with Libra things will be better
• Capricorn is dedicated to hard work
• Making sure connections are durable and for long term
• Libra motivates to inspires
• Is social and initiates connection
• Capricorn doesn’t want to be nice – just to be nice
• Libra incorporates social awareness
• Capricorn has a fear of commitment – marriage
• Because of the consequences of legal documents

Scorpio & Capricorn

• They both have a strategic outlook – seeing weaknesses and shortcomings
• Both are efficient and conserve
• Capricorn conserves so they don’t waste time
• Scorpio doesn’t want to overdo it – so it can be efficient
• They both are not able to turn away from the dark side of life
• They appreciate the “No bullshit” between them
• They have a bluntness and willingness to look at the dark side of things
• They appreciate the meaning of death

Aquarius & Capricorn

• Aquarius wants to look into the future
• Saturn wants to look back and be proud
• Aquarius is Saturn reflecting in self
• Helps to build belief structure
• Is the participant on tangible reality
• Can now hear Sagittarius’s ideas
• Aquarius finds ways to leverage things with more efficiency
• There is an aspect that is solitary – from a distance
• This is a shared quality with Capricorn
• They are dry in different ways – rigidity
• Capricorn is high achievement
• Aquarius is high intellectual and feels it has to enact ideas
• The responsibility of ideas vs. legacy
• Capricorn has the burden of responsibility
• They have the capacity to say “No” and criticize
• Aquarius is weird and unique to what the standard norm is
• They also are saying “No” to something
• They have different motivations
• Aquarius is proactive, up in the head and airy
• Capricorn defends, and more grounded to the physical

Pisces & Capricorn

• Capricorn can ground Pisces when they are not grounded
• Pisces can give awareness and a different outlook to Capricorn
• Capricorn will be their rock in the storm
• Capricorn doesn’t need a person, but a purpose
• Pisces doesn’t need meaning, but they need a purpose
• Pisces is un-sensuous – this is irritating to Capricorn
• Capricorn brings Pisces back to earth
• Capricorn and Pisces take things up from above and bring down to ground

Saturn Finds Joy In The 12th House

• There is less to manage
• Solitude
• When they are isolated they miss out on the benefit of other’s ideas

Capricorn & Astrology

• Capricorn loves that time has meaning
• They divide life into subsections
• Planning for the future
• Confidence of good and bad time
• It is therapeutic for Capricorns to work with Astrology