I have snail mail friends. Capricorns who can't get over it. I'm amazed when I look back how many Capricorn friends I have had. I'm not sure exactly why they are attracted to friendship with me. I've never had much ambition. It's probably because they can't find anybody else who will forgive them for being they own mean self. They can be so polite you'd never guess how mean they can be until they show up in court. They go up and down so much. I had one Capricorn friend who was convinced she was manic-depressive, but she was just another Capricorn trying to get over.
Everybody got the sign Capricorn in their natal chart. It may be emphasized by having one or more planets occupying it or no particular emphasis at all, but it's still there doing what Saturn rules it to. Capricorn in my natal chart intersects the third house of Gemini. The third house is the Sign Gemini's natural home. The Signs take on the flavor of the particular house. There's two important locators in astrology. The Sign and the house. They are represented by two encompassing circles that "contain" the zodiac.
Some people think the houses and the Signs move in opposite directions, but that's not true. Only the houses move. The houses are associated with the mundane, daily events whereas the Sign represent the backdrop of the movement of the houses. It's the Earth and the other planets that move. Some of them, like the Earth, wobble. It the wobble of the planet in it's orbit around the Sun that determines it's seasons. The seasons are seasons of the Sun.
When a person is called a Taurus or Leo or Scorpio or Aquarius, that means that the Sun occupied a specific Sign that it would only be in once a year. The location of the Sun in a particular Sign represents a person's life time goals. Whereas it's the Sign that intercepted the first house, the rising Sign, the Ascendent, that determines their daily goals.
Capricorn in the third house in my natal chart is occupied by the planet Mars, so I'm said to have Mars in Capricorn in the third house. To look this up in an interpretation book, you would first look up the meaning of Mars in Capricorn, and then look up the meaning of Mars in the third house, which is as I've pointed out, the natural home of Gemini.
One of the significant factors of the planet Mars being located in the Sign Capricorn in the third house is that Gemini and Sagittarius are opposite Signs, but they both represent travel. Sagittarius represents long distance travel, and Gemini represents local travel. Like the movements one does while conducting their daily affairs. Chopping wood and toting water.
Another perspective that gets considered are the angular relationships of the other planets and significant points of interest by Sign. Mars in Capricorn in the third house of my natal chart has several major aspects. It has a trine relationship with Neptune in Virgo and the Moon/Uranus conjunction in Taurus. Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn are the three Earth Signs. A "trine" is an angular relationship of 120 degrees between two planets or other important points of the zodiac like the Ascendent and the Midheaven.
My natal chart has what's called a Grand Trine. A Grand Trine is a series of three trines that add up to 360 degrees, a full circle. The Grand Trine in my natal is composed of the four planets in Earth Signs in Air houses I named above. Trines are considered the most positive aspects in astrology, so a Grand Trine is considered to be thrice lucky. All the positive aspects of the four planets and three Signs and houses are combined and support each other.
This is a really good thing in my natal because Mars and Neptune have other things going on that's not so wonderful That has to be considered in regard to interpreting the Grand Trine too. The location of Neptune in my natal can be blamed for a lot of the PR problems I suffer from in my daily affairs. For one thing it's in opposition to the two benefics, Venus and Jupiter in Pisces, and Neptune is the ruling planet of Pisces, and the opposition between the two conjoined benefics and the ruler of the Sign they occupy is the bane of my existence. There are a lotta "banes" in my ex-is-tense.
This opposition of Neptune in the eleventh house to Venus and Jupiter conjoined in the 5th house of romance can be used to explain most of both the misery I've experienced, and the misery I've caused other people. It's disheartening both to me and significant others. Just Venus and Jupiter being in conjunction is considered the luckiest pairing in astrology. Having them only two degrees apart in the very compatible Sign of Pisces is luckier yet. But, there's that opposition from Neptune in Virgo to screw it all up.
Back when Pluto was considered a planet the trine from both Venus and Jupiter to it offset the Neptune opposition to some degree. I'm pretty lucky in love, but the person I get lucky with ain't so lucky at all. Neptune is not considered so much of a subjective influence in one's natal chart, but more of a generational indication.
Mars in Capricorn, although one of the keystones of a Grand Trine is also mightily afflicted by being in mutual reception with Saturn in Aries. Mutual reception simply means that Mars inhabits the Sign ruled by Saturn, and Saturn occupies the Sign ruled by Mars. These two planets in my natal chart are located in each other's ruling Sign. Mars and Saturn are called the malefics just like Venus and Jupiter are called the benefics.
The malefic planets Saturn and Mars are not only in each other's ruling Sign, they are also in a square relationship of 90 degrees. Two wrongs sometime make a right, but not often.
What I'm attempting to point out here is that a lotta stuff has to be considered at every point of astrological interpretation, but that's why it's so valuable. Every aspect of the art of astrology is an assigned construct. Any part of it could be used any other way that the current assignment, and it would still do what it's designed to do. Astrology is a vegetable oracle based on the cycles of the Moon. It can be used to write anything off. That comes in handy when you've lived like I've lived.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
