see with more than just eyes.

Capricorn represents the endpoint in terms of how much we can achieve on this physical plane. Situated at the zenith of the horoscope, the terms and conditions of this life are not for the weak hearted. And the elevated zodiacal position that she has been called for cannot exist without accompanying trauma or suffering. At the bottom of the mountain, Saturn’s reception can be shadowy, inflexible and melancholic. She is here to physically build the images conceived in the worlds beyond this one. It is her ascended manipulation of time, space, and material that produces what is useful. In this way, she is the architect who forms the very contours of reality.

The individual is forced to keep moving forward despite the harsh demands that emanate from someplace deeper, directed toward the tiny flicker of Saturn's immortal light in the dead of winter. Life is a game of chess to the Capricorn, and every move is made with spectacular calculation and wisdom. She wins every time. After all, she was the one who wrote the rules before time even began.

Venus' Baths, (Detail), in English Gardens of Caserta

I will remember and not be unmindful of Apollo who shoots afar. As he goes through the house of Zeus, the gods tremble before him and all spring up from their seats when he draws near, as he bends his bright bow. But Leto alone stays by the side of Zeus who delights in thunder; and then she unstrings his bow, and closes his quiver, and takes his archery from his strong shoulders in her hands and hangs them on a golden peg against a pillar of his father's house. Then she leads him to a seat and makes him sit: and the Father gives him nectar in a golden cup welcoming his dear son, while the other gods make him sit down there, and queenly Leto rejoices because she bare a mighty son and an archer. Rejoice, blessed Leto, for you bare glorious children, the lord Apollo and Artemis who delights in arrows.

Sleeping Muse