Sign profile
Capricorn
December 22 – January 19 · Earth · Cardinal · ruler Saturn
Capricorn belongs to Saturn, an earth sign the tradition reads for standing, career and what has to be earned.
What's in Capricorn
Nothing is in Capricorn at the moment—the sign is empty, which is the ordinary state for most signs most of the time.
Every planet's sign todayCapricorn season, to the day
Capricorn season next runs 22 December to 20 January. Those are real crossings, computed from the Swiss Ephemeris—the almanac's “December 22 – January 19” is a rounded average, and it is a day out most years.
What touches Capricorn in November 2026
Every planet movement this month that touches Capricorn, and the part of life it falls in for a Capricorn.
- supportiveNew Moon in Scorpio on the 9th—supportive for friends and hopes.sextile · 11th house
- neutralVenus turns forward again in Libra on the 14th—neutral for career and standing.square · 10th house
- supportiveMercury turns forward again in Scorpio on the 14th—supportive for friends and hopes.sextile · 11th house
- neutralMars moves into Virgo on the 26th—neutral for travel and study.trine · 9th house
What a sign gives our astrology engine—and what it doesn't
What the tradition gives Capricorn: Saturn as its ruler, earth as its element, and planets that are stronger or weaker in it. What it can’t give: your days—those depend on your whole chart.
How the rulebook reads Capricorn
Saturn rules Capricorn, and that matters to the scoring in one specific way—not the way most sun-sign writing implies. Nothing gives Saturn extra weight because you are Capricorn; the scoring never reads your Sun sign at all. What it does read is the transiting planet’s own condition: a Saturn moving through Capricorn is in domicile, and our astrology engine counts that contact for more than the same aspect from a Saturn with no dignity.
In Capricorn, Saturn is in domicile and Mars is exalted; the Moon is in detriment and Jupiter is in fall. Those conditions are the whole of what a sign does to a transiting body in our rulebook—the same dignity table the scoring reads, which is why a transit from a planet in its own sign counts for more than the identical angle from one with nothing here.
Right now Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn, is in Aries, retrograde, where it is in fall and counts for less.
The other thing a sign gives our astrology engine is geometry. Every transit stands in a whole-sign relation to Capricorn—conjunct, sextile, square, trine or opposite—and that relation is fixed by the sign alone, so it is computable without knowing anything else about you. The dated lines above are exactly that, and exactly its limit.
Capricorn is an earth sign, with Taurus and Virgo. That is a fact about the sign and not about the scoring: our rulebook has no element term in it at all. The dated list above is computed for Capricorn alone, and it comes out different for Taurus and Virgo—same element, different geometry.
“Capricorn, today the universe is on your side.”
Right now the sky holds what it holds—and whether any of it is “on your side” depends on your own birth chart, not on your being Capricorn. Here is what is actually in the sign, and what touches it this month.
Kalendom is the precise and honest horoscope: it reads your natal chart against the real sky and turns months like this into your exact dates.
What the chart doesn't tell you
Sun-sign astrology is the entry point—it's also the least specific bit. Two Capricorns born a few hours apart in the same city can have very different days: the rising sign changes about every two hours, and it decides which part of life each planet touches. That is where the mainstream horoscope stops and we keep going.
That's why the calculator asks for your birth time. With it, our astrology engine knows which part of your life each planet is moving through—so a Mars day means something concrete for you, not a generic Capricorn blurb.
Your sign is a starting point, not a calendar
Everything above is what the tradition says about Capricorn in general. None of it can tell you when—two people born three weeks apart are both Capricorn and share almost none of the same strong days. Timing comes from a whole chart meeting a moving sky, so here is one being scored against three real months of it.
We build your natal chart with the Swiss Ephemeris, place it in Placidus houses, then score each day by how the transiting planets aspect your chart—per life area, 0 to 100, with the exact reason. It is astronomy applied to your birth chart, not numerology.
The rulebook encodes that tradition whole—four centuries of transit doctrine, written down as rules you can read, not a model that guessed. Read the methodology.
- Swiss Ephemeris precision
- Your exact birth time and place
- Past dates free to test
Your chart and any past day are free. Unlocking the year ahead is what shows you your own dates—the ones no Capricorn page can print.
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This page describes a typical Capricorn chart—the average, not you. Your own dates will differ, sometimes by weeks. Compute your real chart to see them. Or test a past date first.