Capricorn rising
Capricorn rising meets the world composed and capable. Older than your years when young and younger than them later, you are trusted with serious things on sight.
At nineteen, strangers took you for the person in charge, and nine times out of ten you were.
Capricorn was rising when you were born, the sign on the eastern horizon that sets your first impression and begins your first house. Capricorn is the sea-goat, a mountain climber with a fish’s tail, and it starts at the northern midwinter, when the Sun is at its lowest and begins to climb again.
Serious first
You shake hands properly, dress for the job you want, and listen to the end of a sentence before you answer it. People bring you their problems on first meeting because you look as if you have a plan, and you do.
Underneath, you are funnier than anyone expects: dry, quick and kept for the people who have stayed long enough to hear it.
Saturn and time
Your rising sign is ruled by Saturn, the planet of time and of what lasts, which makes it the ruler of your chart, and time is on your side. Capricorn rising is known for growing younger: careful and old at twenty, freer at forty, easy in a way the hard years earned. In whatever part of life Saturn holds in your chart, you build slowly and for keeps.
The tender one opposite
Cancer was setting as Capricorn rose, and it opens your seventh house, where your chart keeps the people you commit to. The people you want close are tender, home-loving and frank about their feelings: everything you keep behind your good posture. They make you laugh at yourself. You make them feel safe enough to be soft.
Say you are tired when you are tired; the people who love you are not checking your record.
Built to last
The people beside you at fifty are the ones who were beside you at twenty-five, and they tell anyone who asks that you were worth the wait.
Were you born with Capricorn rising?
The eastern horizon turns through all twelve signs every day, some quickly and some slowly, so your rising sign depends on the minute and the place you were born. Capricorn takes 1 hour 46 minutes to rise in London, 1 hour 54 minutes in New York and 2 hours 19 minutes in Sydney.
Two people born on the same day a few hours apart have different rising signs. Your chart, below, finds yours to the degree.
Find your own rising sign
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and every planet in its sign and house.