ALMUTEM
Venus in Capricorn
Venus represents what you love, what gives you pleasure and the things you value. In Capricorn, it expresses itself with method, ambition and the patience to build.
In Capricorn — cardinal earth ruled by Saturn — Venus walks peregrine, on cold and severe earth, under the lord of time and of limit. The moist heat of the star cools, and affection becomes contained, serious and prudent. It inclines to a reserved and lasting love, slow to open but, once given, enduring like stone; the desire of union weighs status, duty and profit, and distrusts transport. It gives austere fidelity, sober taste, an attraction to those who have weight, age or authority, and measured pleasures. The concord here harmonises by firm commitment and responsibility, sweetens with parsimony and only with time. It tends to a grave and well-composed beauty, that does not wear out early. The danger is dryness: the star of pleasure freezes into calculation and reserve, and the affection that ought to warm is held hostage by ambition and by the dread of giving itself. But what is settled, is settled to last.