Mars is exalted in Capricorn, the Moon at detriment and Jupiter at fall
Polar or Opposite sign: Cancer
Fixed Star Algiedi
Capricorn is the tenth sign of the zodiac, lasting from approximately 23 December to approximately 19 January.
Most Capricorn people are reliable, careful, prudent, patient and persevering. They are usually determined and ambitious, with a strong sense of discipline and a good head for business, usually directing their energies towards career interest, status and prestige. The Capricorn way to success is steady upwards progress, not the meteoric rise; they value their security too much to chance losing it by overreaching themselves.
As a rule, they are generally rather conventional, or serious. Often personal relationships are difficult, because Saturn subjects will rarely unbend and show their innermost feelings. It takes infinite patience and deft understanding to penetrate their strong wall of defence. Yet those who have the gift to 'get through' to a Carpricornian could find no finer nor more enduring love.
Capricorn people tend to be perfectionists. They have the strength of character to bear considerable hardships, disappointments and setbacks in life. Although many Saturn subjects tend to be loners, or people of few words, often they have a surprising and rather dour sense of humour, and their dry comments on life can be most amusing.
Usually, they are fond of good music, opera, drama and the arts. They are clever with facts, finance, and mathematics, and can devote much time for study to further their career.
Some Capricorn people can be very good company and outward quite charming, but beneath this outward cloak they are still Saturn subjects, sensible, determined, clever and superior, with a respect for wisdom, authority and age.
In the Age of Aquarius, Capricorns, often successful in scientific work that calls for mathematical skill, could find much demand for their talents. Good at taking responsibility, Capricorns should flourish.
The ruling planet of Capricorn, with which it has a special relationship, is Saturn; it is a cardinal, feminine earth sign. Positive traits include ambition, aspiration, a good sense of humour, prudence, discipline, patience, determination, caution. Negative traits include meanness, pessimism, over-conventionality, grumbling, wet-blanketing.
Capricorn in a nutshell: Ambition will be methodically calculated and patiently achieved.
