Rigor in its pure state: seriousness, endurance, and a sense of duty, with the risk of hardening too much.
A will to build that accepts slowness to reach the summit, at Saturn’s pace.
Building lasting success stone by stone, taking on every responsibility.
Forbidding themselves joy and lightness, in the name of duty and the goal to be reached.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
At the break of a winter day, the Goat and the Sun rise together: initiating and receptive clod, placed under the sole scepter of Saturn.
Tradition saw a grave, patient, responsible character here, one that matures with age. The person seems reserved, serious, competent; they speak little, listen a lot, and their opinions are considered. They are readily consulted before an important decision.
This patience is a considerable strength. The person climbs the rungs one by one, builds a business over decades, takes on heavy family responsibilities without complaint. Their reliability is legendary: a promise made is a promise honored. With time, they often gain a natural authority, and many double Capricorns grow lighter and funnier as they age. Their loved ones count on them like a pillar.
The downside is well known: austerity. Nothing comes to soften the whole: pleasures are postponed, work hardly stops, the future often looks gray. They may also judge harshly those who do not share their sense of duty. Cancer on the descendant would offer the antidote: tender, warm partners who remind them of the value of affection. A warm friendship would bring them a great deal.
A serious, lasting commitment: the double Capricorn expresses few emotions but feels them deeply, never shirking the responsibilities of the couple.
The Crab, in the west, would introduce them to tender, protective people attached to the home, whose warmth helps them open up. Taking the time to say their affection, and not only prove it through actions, would nourish the relationship and pleasantly surprise the other.
Executive roles, administration, law, architecture, engineering, finance: the person excels in positions of lasting responsibility.
They progress with patience and method, rung after rung, without skipping steps. Their reliability inspires rare trust, and the heaviest files are readily entrusted to them. Beware, though, of confusing the post with the person: a life also unfolds outside working hours.
Up early, a calendar kept, clear goals, work until evening: the days follow a strict order.
The home is sober and functional, with a few valuable objects handed down by elders. Mountains, endurance sports, history books fill their leisure. They save methodically. A party, an escapade with no itinerary, a fit of laughter among friends would help them enjoy their patient work. Their rare vacations are often studious.
Sole master of the front and the foundation, Saturn would sit in his own house if he occupies the Goat.
The ancients tied Saturn to age, time, patience, and melancholy; they also saw in Capricorn the moment when the days, after the winter solstice, slowly begin to lengthen again. This chart would be first of all a matter of duration and maturation.
The sign rises with the luminary of the day, around half past eight at this time of year. The Sun therefore occupies the 1st house, the joy of Mercury for the Greeks, where one looked for the bearing and conduct of life.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Capricorn takes about 1 hr 49 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Capricorn, the rising sign is Capricorn for a birth during that rise.
A earth sign, cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
The Capricorn signA earth sign, cardinal; descendant in Cancer.
Capricorn risingSaturn rules Capricorn: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Saturn| Sun in Capricorn | Capricorn rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| December 23Start of the sign | 8:42 AM to 10:30 AM | 1 hr 49 min |
| January 5Middle of the sign | 7:50 AM to 9:39 AM | 1 hr 49 min |
| January 18End of the sign | 6:59 AM to 8:48 AM | 1 hr 49 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
At the moment of birth, the Sun was in the Goat and that sign was rising in the east: it was the late dawn of a winter morning. Inside and out, seriousness, ambition, and patience reign. The Moon and the rest of the chart would nuance this portrait considerably, one that horoscopes like to caricature.
The person may be, especially when young: Saturn evokes gravity and restraint. But tradition also says that Saturn matures with age. Many double Capricorns grow lighter, funnier, and warmer with time, once their goals are reached and their responsibilities lighten.
Saturn rules the east here as well as the core, in his own domain. Where he stands, what contacts he forms: that is what would describe the way of building. An angular Saturn would reinforce the portrait still further; a Saturn in Cancer, his exile, would make it more anxious.