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Capricorn:
Symbol: The Mountain Goat, (Esoterically, the Sea Goat)
Glyph: Represents the human knee
Element: Earth
Polarity: Yin
Modality: Cardinal
Orientation: Transpersonal
Wills/Rays: 1, 3 and 7
(The Constellation Capricorn distributes Ray 3 and Ray 5.)
Relates to Saturn and the 10th House
The Rulers of the Sign of Capricorn are Saturn, (exoteric), Saturn, (Esoteric), and Venus, (Hierarchical).
Core Meaning: “I Utilize”
Key Phrase: “My need for structure, organization and accomplishment. Or “I identify myself through what I use.”
Key Concepts:
The earth of Capricorn is not the deep fields of Taurus or the shifting sands of Virgo. Capricorn is the mountain pushing its way up out of the Earth’s core and into the sky. Capricorn is an active individual, full of energy and vigor, at least where their own interests are concerned. Like the other earth signs, Capricorn’s real feelings are buried within themselves. They are not one to react to life with any outward display of emotion. Instead, they maintain a level of coolness which can be disconcerting to other, more excitable signs. Capricorns seem to worry a great deal and are often beset by a certain oppressive “heaviness” which they find difficult to shed.
Capricorn energies are designed for pursuing life purpose … desire is the generating impulse which leads toward leadership and power … Capricorn is linked to the Midheaven which represents high achievement … They always carry the inner knowledge that there are important tasks to be fulfilled, scaling those heights with the surefootedness of the Goat.
Capricorn organizes and plans with the qualities of patience and perseverance … one of the hallmarks of Capricorn’s energy is the ability to be patient and wait … using knowledge and concentration to finish any task given … business success is accomplished through painstaking preparation and research examining what has been done before … they will prepare themselves before making any moves. Capricorns prefer to leave nothing to chance and prepare very diligently for any contingency. They need to develop their faith and cultivate hope.
A Capricorn’s basic concern in life is with security and materiality … one of the biggest emotional urges in this Sign is the need to control others to avoid being dominated by them … If the Capricorn person has lost sight of the bigger picture through self-serving ends, life could be a solitary and empty experience for them … it is important for Capricorn energy to be used to further the good of the whole.
The Capricorn individual has many associates but few friends and those they have had their loyalties tested over the years and have proven themselves. To this circle of loved ones, Capricorn is most generous and sacrificing. They will assume many of the burdens and problems of those they truly care for, depriving themselves rather than seeing their friends suffer. In most other situations, Capricorn can be as aloof as the mountaintop. They have a way of not getting involved in other people’s lives, of remaining oblivious to any problem with which they do not wish to deal. This detachment helps them develop the executive skills they are famous for having and they are happy to order others about with impunity.
Capricorn is a sign which is concerned with growth based upon traditional values and inherited resources. They can take the established order and move it, intact, into another stage of its evolution. Capricorns are very pragmatic, even in affairs of the heart. Marriage is examined from more angles of the logic than of the heart … they marry for love and prestige, but may forego the former for the latter.
Planets in Capricorn tend to emphasize the reserved nature of this energy and its need for control … people-oriented Planets such as Venus and the Moon may suffer from the “chill factor” … action-oriented Planets such as Mars and the Sun tend to be less inhibited by Capricorn’s energies. The Goat Symbol is a reminder to Capricorn that through service to the whole, the mountain of initiation is easily and effortlessly climbed by utilizing wisdom as the guide.
Land Areas ruled by Capricorn:
North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, parts of Greece, Lithuania, Afghanistan, Mexico, and India
Cities:
Peoples:
Oxford, Brussels, Port Said, Delhi, (and the administrative centers of most cities come under this sign)
Hindus and Jews
Plants ruled by Capricorn:
Hemlock, henbane, nightshade, and black poppy
Stones and Gems ruled by Capricorn:
Parts of the Body Ruled by Capricorn:
Onyx, jet, sapphire, coal, and all black or ash-colored minerals
Skeletal system, knees and the skin
Capricorn on the Wheel:
Ordinary: And the Word said: “Let ambition rule and the door stand wide.”
Reversed: “Lost am I in light supernal, yet on that light I turn my back.”
Capricorn ~ on the Path:
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Capricorn from an Occult Standpoint:
The Mount of Initiation: “I reveal the transfigured glory of the Soul.”
Unskillful Qualities:
Controlling, conservative, obsessed with order, compulsive, guarded, overcautious, rigid, fearful, miserly, materialistic, distrustful, restricted, inhibited, pessimistic, constricted, unemotional, undemonstrative, lacking spontaneity, cold, guilty, repressed, unimaginative, self-doubting, melancholy, opportunistic, calculating, over-ambitious, Machiavellian, manipulating, self-seeking, demanding, insatiably ambitious, worships only position and prestige, secretive, unsympathetic
Skillful Qualities:
Organized, practical, responsible, disciplined, dutiful, conscientious, structured, systematic, hardworking, mature, law-abiding, dependable, industrious, pragmatic, realistic, constructive, administrating, planning, patient, orderly, deliberate, methodical, efficient, cautious, prudent, frugal, reserved, striving, accomplishing, attaining, ambitious, achieving, successful, recognized