posted March 19, 2007 05:45 AM            

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Capricorn

December 22- January 19 (Topic starter's note: please understand that the beginning and ending dates vary each year and books only choose approximate dates when generalizing, as most of us are aware of)

Cardinal, Earth
Ruler: Saturn

Key words: ambition, conservatism, conscientiousness, organization

Since they were born under an earth sign, Capricorns will never be content merely to keep body and soul together. They have a persistent feeling that they must develop into something. They must have some accomplishment to point to, some property to look after, or some obligation to fulfill, which may be in business, politics, or the social or intellectual fields.

They have excellent intuitions and use them in their struggle to achieve personal independence and economic security. Like their symbol, the mountain goat, they are steady and surefooted. They love law and order and are dogmatic in their view that a rule is a rule and an order is an order. Since they are of the element earth, everything has to be sensible.

Capricorns have a knowledge of practical affairs, not through formal study so much as from reading articles and talking to people. Their prudent habits predispose them to utilize everything they see, hear, or learn, but they are not students per se. The key phrase for Capricorn is "I use."

Capricorns are never deterred by things that stand in the way of their climb to the top. Their extreme capacity for hard work is linked with their notion that success means material security, and they will work and in return for what they have contributed.

They have great faith in their own power, and they are worldly and careful. Asking for no mercy from anyone, they drive a hard, but not unjust, bargain. They are extremely apt in finding solutions to the most difficult problems and are very successful as troubleshooters.

They are neat and methodical in their work and tend to be slave drivers at home. Their household, they feel, should be managed with precision, with everything in perfect working order.

Capricorns are excellent executives and remain in subordinate roles for a short time only. They may appear to be meek as lambs, but they can take the boss's place without snapping a finger if the opportunity arises. They never voluntarily step backward. They move up by alternating security and ambition as their goals.

They desire money, because theirs is a long-lived sign. They fear being dependent on others when they are old. This need for security may cause them to have frugal instincts, which make them stingy and at times greedy.

They are old when they are young and young when they are old. As a child the Capricorn may have had difficulties with health, but once he passes the early years he can live to a ripe old age.

Because Saturn rules Capricorn, the natives have a tendency to be melancholic and, at times, lonely. Occationally, they behave on the principle that the world is a place in which every man is for himself. Yet they have sensitive personalities and want much to be appreciated.

posted March 20, 2007 12:10 PM              

I learnt that for capricorns as long as they are comfortable and no ones trying to hurt them or change them, they wuld be very good people.

But it is very true what they say abt capricorns and their careers. Im only 22 and im doing a professional art job and people rely on me. As for health wise, I had athritis and constant skin and digestion problems during my teenage years but I turned out a speedskater when i turn 20 Was even an elite in the armed forces.

posted March 21, 2007 06:42 AM            

Capricorn is a very talented sign. Many people born under this sun sign become either scientists or artists (and of course many other elites in different professional fields). A good sense of organization (and often accompanied by a well-aspected Mercury, which could be either in Capricorn, Aquarius, or Pisces) makes Capricorns scientifically intuitive. Capricorn's inborn sensuality, and its fifth sign counting from itself being Taurus, which further grants aesthetic tastes and appreciation, also give Capricorns the potential to have good artistic expressions.