ALMUTEM
Mars in Capricorn
Mars represents your energy, your desire and the courage to act. In Capricorn, it expresses itself with method, ambition and the patience to build.
Mars rises into Capricorn — cardinal earth, house of Saturn — and stands here in his exaltation, honoured as a guest to whom the master yields the place of honour. Saturn lends him structure, and the fire, instead of burning at random, becomes the heat of the forge under the hammer: a disciplined force, a surge that obeys a plan and saves the blow for the right hour. Here courage gains patience, ambition finds a weapon, and the will marches in order toward the heights. It inclines to cold command, to the strategy that measures before it strikes, to a hardness that wastes no effort. It gives a great capacity for execution — the general who wins by discipline, the trade raised by toil and method. It tends to a relentless severity, to the ambition that treads on whoever stands in the way, to rigour without mercy. The danger is that of an exalted force that thinks itself without limit: a hardness that climbs by treading and forgets the step that holds it up.