A Cardinal Sign

Capricorn is one of the four CARDINAL signs who like to take action and can be quite ambitious. 

An Earth Sign

Earth is the element of Capricorn and as you might expect, those with earth strong in their chart are quite practical, down to earth types. 

Ruling Planet

Each sign of the Zodiac is ruled by a planet (or co-ruled by two). Capricorn is ruled by planet Saturn – immediately recognisable by the beautiful rings surrounding it.  All the planets of our solar system are in each person’s chart. Saturn has dominion over rules and regulations, discipline, structure and leadership. It spends about two and a half years in each sign – a fairly slow moving planet in charts. Those with a Capricorn or strong Saturn nature are disciplined, pragmatic and can be quite serious.

Groups of Planets

The planets in a chart are described as personal (The “Luminaries” Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars) and are the more inner planets. Social planets come next (Jupiter and Saturn).   Transpersonal or outer planets are Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (yes, yes I KNOW it’s now classed as a dwarf planet but it works as a planet in Astrology and other bodies such as Eris, Ceres etc can also be taken into account in a chart.)  Capricorn’s ruling planet therefore is a social planet.

Capricorn’s Glyph

Capricorn at the Summit

Like a mountain goat, Capricorn may move around to see all aspects of a problem. They may not take the direct route, but rest assured and never doubt that they can come out on top. They only need apply their logic and determination in order to eventually succeed.

Designs for each sign of the Zodiac are available on my website. Here is the link to Capricorn. All my designs are copyrighted.