Capricorn is all about time.
It places great stake in lineage, origin, and precedent to dictate
the way we succeed in the future. It likes to canonize and feel its gravity. It
understands better than anything else that time is the key ingredient in
fruition, maturation, and mastery. There’s simply no getting around it. Time is
the architecture we hang our reality on. Ideas, feelings, and inspirations can
be instantaneous but without time and effort nothing of concrete form can
materialize.
Capricorn also represents our
foundations. What are we building our more sophisticated structures on? Without
a solid foundation our loftiest aspirations can result in unsustainable
projects, relationships, and endeavors at best, or, at worst, work to our
detriment. It’s the reality of needing to crawl before you can walk. It is not
a step that can be skipped, and in the world of Capricorn there are demerits
for cutting corners. The world of Capricorn is where all rewards and losses are
earned. For a free ride go see Jupiter.
Saturn rules the sign of
Capricorn and is often referred to as the “astrologers best friend.” When we
follow Saturn’s cycle around the chart we can reliably see the manifestation of
events and turning points that are unmistakable.
Saturn is really feelin’ itself
right now and will for the next two years. It entered its home sign in
Capricorn this time last year and will remain there until December 2020. The
south node of the moon (an astrological point of over development and
complacency) moved into Capricorn last month, and will move through it and host
eclipses there until May 2020. Settle in to witness concrete examples of how
well we’ve dealt with issues of social structures and organization, geographic
and political boundaries, national securities, and sustainable agricultural and
economic practices.
On a shorter cycle and more personal
timeline, how was 2018 for you? What were the milestones or hardships? What
passed muster and what fizzled?
Capricorn either delivers the goods or gives you a good butt kicking.
It’s not always fun but it is always on your side. It’s always showing the way
to make dreams reality…if you’re willing to put in the time.
Join Margherita Tisato and I
as we explore our strength, test our endurance, and put thoughts and feeling into
action at Body Astrology workshop. Wednesday, December 19th at 7PM
at Juniper. Please register early. We are no longer taking walk-ins.
Here are some ways to tap
into this season’s abundant Capricorn energy.
EMBODIED Capricorn
Body
parts: Saturn's job is to crystalize and harden. Skeletal system, bones, teeth, skin. Traditionally, the knees.
Key
words:
The Climb: The social climb, the ladder of success, to
ascend, to rise to the top. Stratum. Rank. Ambition, goals, status. Achievement,
mastery. Grades, levels, social STRUCTURES, hierarchies. The work it takes to
achieve, accomplish, ascend.
The Boundary: limitation, rules, earth-bound-3-D reality, consensus reality, constrict,
conserve, definition, shape, form, contour, contrast, STRUCTURE, regulation,
materiality, the six senses, the sensual, tests, barriers, responsibilities,
obligations, commitments, containers.
The Foundation: the basics, the scaffolding, the
architecture, the building blocks, the supports. The rudimentary. Tangible
securities. STRUCTURE, format, the past, origins.
Father Time: traditional, long-lasting, patience,
time-tested, time-honored, reliability, routine, persistence, endurance, the
ultimate STRUCTURE of time, the metronome, maturity, the past.
Polarity: Yin. Restricted,
constricted, limited, conservative action. Restraint and reserve.
Modality/Element: Cardinal Earth. This is
the start of winter and winter solstice. It is careful cautious initiation of
all that is practical, material, and foundational.
Ruled
by:
Saturn. The symbol is the mountain goat or sea goat.
Embodied
explorations:
Align and strengthen your bony architecture:
Activities such as Alexander Technique, dance,
Pilates, Body Mind Centering, and Klein Technique help you understand the alignment
of bones and joints to support conscious and considered movement habits.
Weight-bearing activity has been proven to
strengthen bones and muscles and improve bone density. Develop and fortify your
plank position. Pump some iron!
Vitamin D from sunshine, nuts and leafy greens
have been proven to strengthen bones and teeth.
Climb a mountain or even some stairs! ASCEND
through hard work and effort! Bike uphill.
Take care of your knees. Take some time to
understand how they work and strengthen the muscles that support them. Show
them some TLC.
Go slow. Move incrementally. Slowly build in
intensity. We learn more about our bodies and build strength when we slow down.
Master the basics of an art form, practice or
activity.
Give physical shape and form to an idea, feeling
or intuition. Manifest!
Structure your time in a way that helps support
your ambitions. How can you structure your morning, week, season, or year to
give tangible form to your aspirations?
What is your relationship to time? Do you honor
its passage? Do you squander? Do you adhere to a strict schedule? Are time,
tempo, cycles and rhythms part of your consciousness? How are your time management skills?
Commit to a routine, project or schedule for a
limited amount of time. How long can you keep this up? Test yourself. Build
endurance. Measure your growth.
Check your mental, physical and emotional foundations. Are your relationships, projects, finances,
health routines built on supports that are sturdy, sustainable, and well
constructed? If not, take the time to
fortify the structures and foundations that hold you up.
Take the time to cleanse, feed, and condition
your skin. It’s our largest organ and the barrier/interface between what’s
inside and what’s outside. Like all boundaries, skin works best when its
flexible and can breathe. Boundaries are different than walls.
Saturn rewards all efforts made and all time
taken to build something solid that has integrity. No short cuts.
