Astrology Lost and Found

Capricornus (The Goat), December 21st - January 18th This is the Negative Pole of the Earth Triune and corresponds to the knees of the Grand Man. Its colors are maroon, brown, silver and black. Its birth stones are moonstone and white onyx. Its profession is teaching and the management of large sums of money, estates or many servants. Its chief characteristics are idealism, inspiration and a great love of learning and self-improvement. Its tribe is Judah, meaning " The Praise of the Lord." Its planets are Saturn and Mars. These people always possess the charm of looking well. They are generally fine-looking, with beautiful, expressive eyes—round instead of almond-shaped —dark hair and sometimes olive complexion. The ambition they have to carry anything they undertake to a brilliant finish has a tendency to overtax their endurance and cause acute indigestion. This in turn leads to fits of the blues, as every one knows the digestion is responsible for a great deal of the ...

Capricorn: If you could be given the responsibility of bearing the entire world upon your shoulders you might not hesitate in accepting the mission, although you (might afterwards be sorry when you found your labor for your pains, with others ready and willing to accept the glory after your efforts had ceased. Large undertakings are the trend of your business qualifications, and your pleasures in life are in the great expectations from your herculean task. To organize and bring latent powers into combined action is your principal forte, and with means you would surely be a success to the extent of the means. No menial position will ever be gratifying to you. Were you a street sweeper you would soon want a contract to clean the entire city. You lire to glorify. CAPRICORN is the nature of an afflicted Saturn, ambitious, scientific and, like the goat, continually soaring in an endeavor to reach some unattainable height. Excerpt from Astrology in a Nutshell by Carl Webber (1902)