With Capricorn as the cusp, the 11th house would bring together few friends, often older, and networks built over years.
Friendship is built like a structure: stone by stone, with commitments kept and time.
Keeping your word to your friends and carrying a group project through to its end, however long.
Choosing your connections for their usefulness, or keeping a reserve that discourages closeness.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
A former professor turned friend, an entrepreneurs’ club attended for fifteen years, an association whose treasury you keep with rigor: this is how tradition portrays this circle.
Capricorn bonds slowly, but its friendships withstand moves and changes of life. It respects competence and experience, hence friends who are often older or well established. The shared projects that motivate it have structure: a foundation, a professional union, a cooperative with bylaws in good order. Your hopes would be realistic, set in the long term, and sometimes kept secret until they come to fruition.
Saturn has charge of this house. Its full cycle lasts nearly thirty years, so its sign applies to everyone born over more than two years; its house, though, is unique to each person: in the 10th house, friends from your career; in the 4th, ties going back to childhood; in the 12th, a discreet, almost withdrawn social life. Exalted in Libra, it would give fair friendships; in Aries, its fall, stiffer ones. Jupiter in this house would find its joy there and lighten the whole.
The limit would be an apparent coldness. An aperitif missed because of an urgent file, a friend who feels judged on their success: distance sets in. The 5th house in Cancer, opposite, nonetheless keeps a tender heart for intimate pleasures. Letting the group see this softness would warm it considerably.
Love would often mature in a professional or association setting, after a long mutual esteem.
You look for a solid partner, one who keeps their commitments to friends and colleagues. You come across as warmer in private than in public. The 5th house in Cancer would reveal, in intimacy, a protective affection and a real wish for family, far from the reserved image you give in groups.
The network is a capital patiently built.
This placement would suit representative bodies, professional orders, association administration, boards of directors, or the management of large public projects. Support would come from experienced people who have seen you keep your commitments. The flaw would be treating colleagues only as useful contacts.
Few outings, but regular ones: the same monthly lunch, the same co-op board meeting, the same friend called every Sunday.
You note important dates and forget no favor done for you. You distrust groups that are too noisy. Saying yes, now and then, to an improvised outing with no particular use would show you lighter, more spontaneous ties.
Saturn ruling the Good Spirit worried some of the ancients, who read there slow, elderly, or austere friends and hopes slow to be fulfilled.
Lilly qualifies this: if Saturn is dignified and well aspected, support would come from serious and respected people, and favors, though late, would be lasting. Saturn remains, moreover, among the classical authors, the lord of Aquarius, which opens the eleventh house of the natural zodiac.
The moderns would read there an adult relationship to friendship, made of loyalty and responsibility. The axis Capricorn–Cancer would put structure on the side of the group and tenderness on the side of pleasures; the whole work would be to let one feed the other.
The sign on the cusp of the 11th house depends on the time and place of birth; its ruler becomes the ruler of the house, and where it sits in the chart extends the house.
succedent house: friendships, collective projects, hopes.
The 11th houseA earth sign, cardinal.
The Capricorn signSaturn rules Capricorn: its place in the chart extends the 11th house.
Saturn in the 11th houseIt would be the sign of solid, few friendships, networks built over time, structured and ambitious shared projects. You keep your word and carry responsibilities in the group. Your reserve may, however, seem distant. Right opposite, a fifth house in Cancer cultivates tender, family-minded pleasures.
Saturn, domiciled in Capricorn and traditional lord of Aquarius, the natural sign of the eleventh house: it therefore has a particular affinity with this sector. Its joy, on the other hand, lies in the 12th house. The place it occupies in your chart shows where lasting friendships come from.
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