With the Sun in sensible and down-to-earth Capricorn when you were born, you are both able and motivated. You are no rebel and you usually have great admiration for long-established customs and traditions. Like the sure-footed goat, which climbs the mountain peaks, you seek a superior place in the society you live in and you usually succeed in reaching even your most complicated, ambitious goals. For your ability to work long hours and persistence, together with your well-developed sense of responsibility and commitment, and your vision, rarely let you down. What you build is built to last, and, as the sign that rules the winter solstice, when the Sun begins its rise towards the summer, it is usually both life-enhancing and creative.

Your ruling planet
The ruling planet of your personal chart is the one that rules your Rising Sign. However, if Capricorn is your Sun Sign, its ruler, Saturn, will also play a crucial role in your psychology.

The great ringed planet, Saturn, once marked the known limits of the solar system. Restrictions and self-discipline, as well as wisdom and constancy, are its domain. To the Greeks, it was Cronos, the Lord of Time, with its great cycles of succeeding ages. It gives willpower and stamina. Its position at birth shows where both your hardships and your real strengths lie.

Saturn shows the way that you relate to responsibility and commitment. As the planet of karma, and of boundaries, inhibitions and restrictions, Saturn's sign and house position, as well as the links it makes to other planets in your chart, show where, and why, you lack self-confidence or are frightened, and where you real life lessons must be learned. Saturn slows down and inhibits any planet that it touches. It shows your relationship to authority and towards your standing in the world. Its position also reveals where, and how, you can realize ambitions and give your life a firm foundation.

Capricorn, the goat with a fish's tail, is the Babylonian god, Ea, 'He of the vast intellect', 'Lord of the Sacred Eye'. He was also known as 'the antelope of the subterranean ocean', from which he emerged to teach man the arts of cultivation. The only one amongst the ancient gods who was always kind and never angry, he warned mankind about the Flood. Near his earthly palace on the shore of the Persian Gulf grew a great tree with leaves of lapis lazuli, which shed as much shade as a whole forest. Capricorn lies between Sagittarius and Aquarius on the zodiac chart.

The flowers of Saturn, Capricorn's ruling planet, are the heartsease, or pansy, the blue cornflower and Solomon's seal. Your herbs are fumitory and hemp, and your trees are the poplar, the tamarisk, the cypress and the sweetly scented lime, or linden. The spicy, oriental vetivert is also ruled by Saturn and by Capricorn. Your essential oils are vetivert, patchouli and myrrh, as well as the gentle mimosa.

The turquoise, used to guard both horses and their riders in ancient Samarkand and throughout Persia, belongs to the sure-footed sign of Capricorn, the goat that climbs the towering mountain and leaps from peak to peak. The turquoise is said to protect its wearer from all harm and to bring great good fortune. Capricorn is the sign that rules the winter solstice, when the sun begins its annual ascent towards the warmth and light of summer. The warm blue turquoise brings the rays of summer, with its hopefulness implementation, to its wearer, helping them to reach their goal.