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Capricorn personality, love and compatibility The sign that climbs.

Capricorn is the tenth sign of the zodiac, a cardinal earth sign ruled by Saturn. It usually runs from 22 December to 19 January. By the zodiac's geometry, its easiest matches are Taurus and Virgo, and its hardest are Aries and Libra.

Capricorn people are serious, capable and patient, and they build for the long run. They are the zodiac's planners, and their dry humour is one of its best-kept secrets.

Dates
22 December to 19 January
Element
Earth
Mode
Cardinal
Ruler
Saturn
Symbol
The Sea-goat
Opposite
Cancer
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Capricorn on the zodiac wheelCapricorn sits at the top of the wheel. Trines, the easiest angle, run to Taurus and Virgo; sextiles to Scorpio and Pisces; squares, the friction, to Aries and Libra; and the opposite sign is Cancer.ARITAUGEMCANLEOVIRLIBSCOSAGCAPAQUPIS
Capricorn and the other eleven signs. TrineSextileSquareOpposite

Personality

Capricorn plays the long game and usually wins it

Capricorn is a cardinal earth sign ruled by Saturn, the planet of time, limits and responsibility. Capricorns take duty seriously, often from a young age. They plan, they save, they show up, and they measure themselves by what they have built. The symbol is the sea-goat, a creature that climbs the mountain and keeps something deep in reserve.

Their reserve can read as coldness. Most Capricorns feel a great deal and show it through reliability: the help with the mortgage, the drive across the country. Work can crowd out rest, and self-worth can get tied to achievement. The Capricorns who thrive learn to let people close before the goal is reached.

CardinalFixedMutable
FireAriesLeoSagittarius
EarthCapricornTaurusVirgo
AirLibraAquariusGemini
WaterCancerScorpioPisces
Capricorn sits where earth meets cardinal. It shares its element with Taurus and Virgo and its mode with Aries, Cancer and Libra.

At their best

Responsible, disciplined, patient, loyal, dryly funny, and the person everyone calls when something serious needs handling.

Under pressure

Rigid, pessimistic and prone to overwork, and slow to show feeling. A stressed Capricorn works harder and talks less.

What they need

Respect, clear goals, time to build, and people who see the warmth under the competence.

Capricorn dates

Born on 21 or 22 December? The year decides

Horoscopes round the dates. We measured the moment the Sun entered Capricorn in every year from 1940 to 2030 with Astronomy Engine, the engine behind every Skyprint reading.

The Sun entered Capricorn on

  • 21 December43 of 91 years
  • 22 December48 of 91 years

It moved on into Aquarius on

  • 19 January7 of 91 years
  • 20 January77 of 91 years
  • 21 January7 of 91 years
Dates are in UTC, so your local calendar date can differ by one. If your birthday is one of these days, your birth time and place settle it: check your exact Sun sign, free.

Compatibility

How Capricorn gets on with each of the twelve signs

Capricorn's easiest matches are Taurus and Virgo, the other two earth signs, which sit in trine. Scorpio and Pisces, a sextile away, come next. Cancer, directly opposite, is the classic pull of opposites. The hardest angles are the squares to Aries and Libra.

  1. TaurusTrine, 120°Easy flow

    One of the best matches Capricorn has. Both value loyalty, security and good things built slowly.

  2. VirgoTrine, 120°Easy flow

    Both like a job done properly. A practical, loyal, hard-working couple with a quiet, dependable warmth.

  3. ScorpioSextile, 60°Open door

    A loyal, determined, private pairing. Scorpio's depth and Capricorn's resolve make a couple that is very hard to break.

  4. PiscesSextile, 60°Open door

    Pisces softens Capricorn and Capricorn steadies Pisces. A gentle, supportive match that brings out the goat's tender side.

  5. CancerOpposition, 180°Opposites attract

    Career facing home. Cancer gives Capricorn warmth, Capricorn gives Cancer security, and together they make a strong family.

  6. CapricornSame sign, 0°Mirror

    Two Capricorns understand ambition, patience and duty. They build an impressive life and have to remember to enjoy it.

  7. SagittariusSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Sagittarius brings optimism and Capricorn brings realism. Capricorn can find Sagittarius careless with plans.

  8. AquariusSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Saturn rules both in traditional astrology. Capricorn keeps the structure, Aquarius questions it, and they respect each other's minds.

  9. GeminiQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Gemini is light and changeable, Capricorn serious and structured. Gemini can lift Capricorn's mood, and Capricorn can find Gemini hard to pin down.

  10. LeoQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Leo wants recognition and Capricorn wants achievement. Both are ambitious and proud, and they make an impressive, occasionally competitive team.

  11. AriesSquare, 90°Friction

    Two cardinal signs who both want to lead. Aries is fast and Capricorn steady, and each respects the other's drive while fighting over the plan.

  12. LibraSquare, 90°Friction

    Both lead, both have taste. Libra wants harmony, Capricorn wants results, and they meet in a shared sense of how things should be done.

The angle between two Sun signs is one of dozens that a full compatibility reading measures. What each angle means, and the chart for all twelve signs.

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From the book

What the reading says when Capricorn turns up in a chart

Chapter 2Sun in Capricorn

You were serious early and playful late, and that order is right for you.

You carry more than your share and rarely say so. You understand structure, time and consequence better than most people twice your age, and you are willing to do the ten years of work that the result requires. Ambition in you is not loud. It is a quiet, daily decision to keep climbing, made again every morning, whatever the weather.

Learn to be seen carrying it. Capricorn suffers alone on principle, and then wonders why nobody helped. The climb is easier with witnesses, and the people who love you would rather carry a bag than watch you fall. The reward for a Capricorn who lets people in is the second half of life, which is famously the better half: lighter, funnier, and earned.

Chapter 3Moon in Capricorn

You need to be competent, even in grief.

You handle things, then feel them later, sometimes years later. You learned early that being useful was safer than being needy, and you have run on that rule ever since. In a crisis you are the one making the calls while everyone else is crying, and you are proud of that, and it is lonely.

Being useless in front of someone you trust is the bravest thing you can do. The Capricorn Moon softens with age, and the second half of life is where it lets itself be held. Start earlier than that.

The people who love you are not waiting for you to be strong. They have seen it. They are waiting for the rest.

Chapter 6Venus in Capricorn

You love seriously, slowly, and for the long haul.

You are cautious in love and reliable once committed. You want a partner you can build a life with, and you show love by showing up: the practical help, the plan, the fact that you are exactly where you said you would be. You are more romantic than you let on, and it comes out with age.

The tax is holding back so long that the other person gives up, and treating love as a project with milestones. Let yourself be a little foolish sometimes. Venus in Capricorn is famous for its second act: the love that arrives late and lasts for the rest of your life.

Printed word for word from the Skyprint reading. A chart with the Sun in Capricorn gets the first page. The Moon and Venus pages appear only when those planets were in Capricorn too, and your own chart decides which of the twelve versions you read.
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Love

A Capricorn in love builds something meant to last

Capricorn approaches love the way it approaches everything: carefully, with the long term in mind. They are rarely impulsive and prefer to know someone properly before committing. They court with reliability: plans kept, promises honoured, practical help offered before you ask.

Once committed, a Capricorn is loyal and protective, and builds a shared life with real ambition. What they need is patience with their reserve and thanks for what they provide. A partner who can make a Capricorn laugh and stop working for an evening has found the key.

Your whole sky

Capricorn is the foundation, and the chart builds on it

The Sun sign comes from your birth date alone. The Moon changes sign every two to three days and the rising sign roughly every two hours, so two people born under Capricorn a week apart can read very differently. Your birth date, time and place draw the whole sky, computed to the arcminute.

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Questions

Capricorn questions, answered

When are the Capricorn dates?

Capricorn usually runs from 22 December to 19 January. The start moves by a day: between 1940 and 2030 the Sun entered Capricorn on 21 December in 43 years and 22 December in 48 years, in UTC. If you were born on one of those days, your birth time and place decide your sign.

Who is Capricorn most compatible with?

By the geometry of the zodiac, Capricorn's easiest matches are Taurus and Virgo, the other earth signs, followed by Scorpio and Pisces. Cancer, the opposite sign, brings the strongest pull and the most work, and the squares to Aries and Libra are the hardest angles. A real match also depends on the Moon, Venus, Mars and rising sign in both charts.

Are Capricorns cold?

Capricorns are reserved, which reads as cold at first. The sign is ruled by Saturn and tends to show care through reliability and effort more than words. Once they trust someone, Capricorns are warm, loyal and very funny.

What motivates a Capricorn?

Progress they can measure and respect they have earned. Capricorns work toward long-term goals and feel most secure when they are building something: a career, a home, savings, a reputation.

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All signs and the compatibility chart. How this page was made: Skyprint is built and edited by Khalil Yazouri. The text was drafted with AI assistance. The sign dates were measured with Astronomy Engine for every year from 1940 to 2030, the compatibility follows the angles between the signs, and the sample pages are printed word for word from the reading's own library.