Capricorn rising
Its own mind
Capricorn rising gives a tactful, diplomatic mind that runs deep and thinks things through, though it can also lean towards selfishness, envy and wanting what others have.
Capricorn
Rising
The Capricorn ascendant
Capricorn was coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. The old books call it the sign of the goat: ambitious, watchful, and so tenacious that it never gives up.
Capricorn rises today
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Capricorn rising
at a glance
RulerSaturn
Element and modeEarth, cardinal
Symbolthe goat
Opposite, on the seventh houseCancer
Time to rise each day in London
Your rising sign is the sign that was coming up on the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born. Astrologers read it as the way you meet the world: the first impression, the manner, and in the older books the look of the body too.
With Capricorn there, the chart starts in a cardinal earth sign ruled by Saturn. Cancer, its opposite, sits on the seventh house, the house of partners.
How Capricorn
rising looks
After Max and Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, 1918
- The face
- Pale and peaked, with small eyes, a pointed chin that turns up and a pointed nose that turns down.
- The hair
- Thin, silky and dark.
- The build
- Short and slender, with a narrow chest and a thin neck.
- The skin
- With the years it tends to wrinkle and draw in, a mark of Saturn, the sign's ruler, that can show even in a fuller body.
These are types, written a century ago. Planets close to the ascendant, and where Saturn stands, change the picture, and pure types are rare.
Capricorn rising
personality
After the Heindels, chapters V and XIX
Ambition runs the show. Capricorn rising wants its worth recognised and its rise in the world secured, and it often suspects that others are working to hold back the prize. Most of that worry is unnecessary, and if it is left alone it can settle into a lasting low mood.
This is one of the more melancholy signs, and it needs all the encouragement it can get. The Heindels advise time outdoors, funny stories and a sense of humour cultivated from childhood. After a delicate start in early childhood, these people show a tenacity that often carries them into a very old age.
They never give up, which makes them good at detective work, where patience is needed to get to the bottom of a mystery. Under difficult placements they can hold a long grudge. At its best, with the Sun rising, the sign shows its justice, purity and honour and produces captains of industry who move great enterprises forward.
The Capricorn rising
mind
The Heindels read the rising sign as the shape of the mind, first by the sign itself and then by the group it belongs to.
The cardinal signs
Its group
Like all the cardinal signs on the angles, it makes the mind alert, quick to grasp an idea, active and enthusiastic, with the organising drive to carry what it starts through to success and a spirit that will not be beaten.
Questions
It depends on where you were born, because signs take different lengths of time to rise. In London Capricorn takes about 1 hour 46 minutes of every day to rise, less than the two-hour average, so it is rarer there. In Sydney it takes about 2 hours 19 minutes, more than the two-hour average, so it is a little more common there.
No. Being a Capricorn usually means the Sun was in Capricorn, which happens from late December to late January. Capricorn rises every day of the year for a few hours, so a person born in any month can have it.
Saturn. The ruler of the rising sign is called the chart ruler, and where it stands in your chart colours the whole reading.