Last Updated: 10/10/97

The Complete Capricorn

Welcome to my page devoted to my sign of the zodiac. Here you can find personality descriptions and traits, influences from the planets, things associated with Capricorns, interesting facts, and famous Capricorns. Newest addition: love compatabilites. Comments, suggestions, complaints, ideas? e-mail me at eklt@mindspring.com . Disclaimer: this is just a page created for fun with no real truth in it (to my knowledge). It is non-profit and hurting no one. If there are any legal problems with it. please tell me and I will change/fix/eliminate them. Thank you, and enjoy. The Capricorn is the 10th sign of the zodiac, ruled by Saturn, is an earth sign, and symbolized by a fish-tailed goat.

Personality Descriptions

Capricorns take things seriously. Capricorns can solve any problem, and enjoy the mental and physical challenge of difficult problems. Capricorns are wary, and do not trust others easily. Because of that, we do not make friends easily and quickly. But once a trust is established, we remain loyal and true. We behave with dignity, and do not like to hurry. We are very stubborn, and this leads to dogmatic tendancies. Caprincorns can sometimes lack a sense of humor, their dry wit biting. Capricorns can and do work hard for long periods of time, and have achieved premient positions worldwide. Like their symbol -- the goat -- Capricorns can face any challenge. Capricorns also have a very good memory, being able to hold many, many minute details or facts over long periods of time. This gift also makes Capriocorns unwilling to forgive: we have been known to hold grudges for many years (I'm guilty). Capricorns often drown themselves in work to avoid the emotional part of life. Capricorns like to be in control of things, though you tend to be rather delicate and emotionally fragile.

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As a parent, a Capricorn is paternal, responsible, dutiful: always looking out for the best for one's family. Capricorns want their children to suceed, and will provide them with whatever they need to better their lives. Capricorn parents do not spoil, and help focus drifting artistic types. You are good at teaching your kids how to reach their goals.
The Capricorn style is true and definite. For home decor, Capricorns choose classic looks, whether it be from Asian to Amish. In the South, the looks of 'old money' are a favorite: high ceilings, rich dark woods, rich colors. In the north, Ivy League Gothic is always a favorite. Even modern styled houses have their fine woods and solid structures. Fashion wise, once Capricorns have found a fashion image they feel confortable in, they keep it. You buy suitable and nice clothes, and will scrounge sales to find the best deals. You stick to basics: buying only what you need.
Capricorns are like turtles. They have very resistant and tough outsides, and are quite defensive. They don't open up easily, because on the inside they are very vunerable and real. Like the turles, Capricorns will often pull the exposed pasts of themselves back inside their shells, and it difficult to get them to come back out again. They are sure, steady, and always win their race.
Personality Traits
We embody these charateristics:
Ambition + Caution + Dignity + Patience + Persistance + Practicality + Perserverence + Idealism + Competense + Excellent Memory + Cynacism + Solitary
Interesting Facts
- The Capricorn birthstone is an emerald. Deep, beautiful, and dark, emeralds radiate good luck to the Capricorns who wear them.
- Capricorns rule the joints of the body.
- The glyph, resembling a seven with a hooked bottom, was said to represent Pan, the fertility god who jumped in the nile to control his sexual desires, and turned into a half goat half fish creature.
- In early times, the earth was thought to be composed of water, earth, fire, and air. The Capricorn, an earth sign, embodies the earth characteristics: melancholy, the physical world, being grounded, materialistic, organized, and deliberate. The astro-chemestry of earth signs, Capricorns, Virgos, and Tauruses, corresponds to the mixings of the elements in real life. Earth smothers fire, erodes with too much wind, and becomes either fertile soil or mud with water.
- The fixation of the sign also describes how one behaves. Capricorns, cardinal signs, are go-getters, real acheivers.
- Signs also have a polarity, and Capricorn is negative: feminine, reactive, yin.
- Under the moon, which reveals the emotional needs of someone, the moon is cool, calculating. Capricorns feel security through power in the outside world, as opposed to a nesty dwelling. Capriconrs are dutiful to those they love, but they love to climb to the top of the business or power ladder. Great satisfaction is derived from concrete achievement.
- Under Mercury, which reveals how a person thinks, Capricorns are shown to be orderly, serious, organized: we are very disciplined. While Capricorns may lack originality, they make up for it with their dry wit.
- Under Venus, which reveals the passions of a person, and Capricorns are very double sided here. On the outside, they are cool, calculating, and ambitious, but on the inside, are very insecure and yearn for a stable relationship. Capricorns are realted to people of all ages, and favor classy, traditional clothing and dignified, conservative lifestyles.
- Under Mars, which reveals what drives a person, Capricorns is shown to be the exalted cheif executive. We have a drive for sucess, and the discipline to achieve it. We aim for status, and we will always keep climbing. We work for what we want. We are well organized and persistant, and sexually, you may go for someone useful, instead of standardly desirable.
- Under Jupiter, which reveals the enthusiams, Capricorn is shown to be infuriated about waste: of materials, of time, of anyhting.
- Under Saturn, which reveals the fears and dark sides of a person, Capricorn is shown to be very concious of the image he portrays: we do not take risks here. Saturn ensures sucess: a Capricorn's persistance and Saturn's strict and disceplined influnce gaurentee it.
- Under Uranus, which reveals how one handles freedom and independence, Capricorns are shown to love tradition, while battling Uranus's urge to change.
- Under Neptune, which reveals fantasies and the world of illusion, Capricorns are brought illusions of material power, something which perpetually plagues Capricorns.
  Love
  In general, it's been said, people of the same elements are more compatable. This would mean that Capricorn, an earth sign, is most astrologically compatable with Virgos and Tauruses, also earth sign. It is also said that Earth signs are compatable with water signs -- Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. But this doesn't mean a relationship can't work out if it not supposedly compatable. It just means that according to astrologers, you may have to work a little harder to have you love work out.
  - With Aries: You both are ambitious and fedd each other's fires: Aries may come up with the idea, Capricorn will follow it through. Not a bad combination, though the downs sides are wrapped around communuication. Your objectives are different -- Aries wants fame, you want status. Also, you are very different on the pessimism and optimism scale, and as said before, (lack of) communication might pose a problem.
  - With Taurus: You are very similar in tastes and goals, and you both are hard workers who love the fruits of you labors -- result beauty and quality. You are also both responsible, and get along well beacuse of your maturity. The main down side in this combination is that you inevitably overwork your self, and Taurus feels neglected, and questions your priorities.
  - With Gemini: You can help organize their life and get soemthing out of their social skills, but Geminis are frivolous and social, you are serious and hardworking. Not a good match: you get tired of their flightyness and ninchalance, they get irritated by your all work and no play mantra.
  - With Cancer: You are both achievers, you both enjoy the profits of hard work. Capricorn's fatherly side and Cancer's motherly side create a safe and nuturing haven. Sometimes, though, both of your melancholy amd intense emotions can strain the other, a sense of humor can help. A very good match.
  - With Leo: You both are aristocrats who love power and status, and you combinations of know-how and salesmanship can accomplish anything. But Leos love the luxeries that Capricorns deem frivolous, and seem to need others around them to create their status unlike the loner Capricorn. Difficult.
  - With Virgo: You bend otgether in the wind, you are both realistic and ambitious, but the overwhelming seriousness can cause trouble. Learn to vacation and relax without stressing. Nice.
  - With Libra: A very comprimising couple: both are debonair, and Libra will lighten up the Capricorn life as you will inject substance into theirs. On the oh-so present downside, they love luxery and wil buy whatever nonchalently, and your thriftiness will clash terribly with this. Libra's need for a social atmosphere and you disdain of it will also clash. As I said before, comprmising.
  - With Scorpio: It is your similiarities that make you click, and it is you similarities that make you sink. You are both hard working, and like power and status, and are both loners who still enjoy the company of one another. But you are both very melancholy signs, and sometimes drown yourselves in work.
  - With Saggitarius: You are both realistic, and you enjoy their bluntness as they like they way you help them focus. But it is again an optisimist verses pessimist battle, and negotiating will become key.
  - With Capricorn: A nice match in that they are as realistic, amvitious, and thrifty as you, but energy is drawn away from the home into the workpplace, and the attaraction doesn't last long.
  - With Aquarius: They always seem like they have more important things to thatn be with you, and their craving for fame will irritate you. But you do both work together effectively, and get results.
  Associations
- Builders and Building
- Businesses and Corperations
- Chiropracters
- Minerals
- Mountains
- Age
- Property
- Order and Organization
- Tradition
- Antiques
  Famous Capricorns
  - Humphrey Bogart (actor)
  - David Bowie (singer)
  - Marlene Dietrich (actress)
  - Ava Gardner (actress)
  - Raisa Gorbachev (Mikhail Gorbachev's wife)
  - Cary Grant (actor)
  - Diane Keaton (actress)
  - Val Kilmer (actor)
  - Jared Leto (actor)
  - Elsie de Wolfe Mendl (interior decorator)
  - Mary Tyler Moore (actress)
  - Aristotle Onassis (shipper and second husband of Jackie O.)
  - Dolly Parton (singer)
  - Diane Sawyer (anchorwoman)
  - Christy Turlington (model)
  - Hotaru Tomoe (character)
  Bibliography: 'Capricorn,' World Book Encyclopedia, 1989, volume 3, page 198; The Little Book of Fortune Telling, Hilary James, 1995, pages 47-48, 51. Capricorn, Sydney Omarr, 1995 (This book was very interesting and informative, if you are interested in horoscopes, I suggest you get the lastest copy.)
  Published 1997, by L.E.B. The resources listed above are not mine, they are copyrighted by someone or another. I did not copy from them, and I am making no profits here. Consider this a promotion of these books, or something. The page is mine; feel free to link from it or quote parts of (giving me credit, of course). Thank you for coming. I hope you enjoyed this.
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