A Deeper Look at Venus in Capricorn

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Friday, everybody. Today we're going to take a look at Venus in the sign of Capricorn and some of the archetypal meanings of Venus in the sign. We're going to do this through a rewind episode. Some of you may already know this a couple of years ago, I did a series called Planets in Profile, where I took Venus and Mercury, and Mars through all 12 signs and kind of unpacked the archetypal meaning of each of those planets through each of the signs. Because Venus is appearing right now as an evening star, carrying forth some of the energy of the eclipse that we recently had. We talked about that earlier this week; I thought it would make for a good rewind episode.

I like these episodes, and I think they're good for people to know about. So I occasionally like to redo them so that you can, say, go back and look in the archives. And anytime you want to look at, at least so far, Venus, Mercury, and Mars through the signs, you can do that. Once I'm finished with the Tao Te Ching for Astrologer series, which will probably be in the new year sometime, I will probably be returning to this series. But I will be going at least starting with the moon and going through all 12 signs. So, at any rate, that's what we're going to do for today.

Before we do that, let's just refresh a little bit. Venus is going to be in the sign of Capricorn from December 9. It recently entered Capricorn all the way until January 2. And so during that time again, Venus appearing as the Evening Star when Venus is in recent conjunction with the sun happened during the solar eclipse that we had on October 25. It makes this appearance pretty special. And I think part of understanding what Venus is bringing forth, which we did earlier this week through horoscopes, can be deepened by understanding a bit more about Venus in Capricorn. So that's sort of the goal for today.

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So this is Venus in Capricorn. Let's go ahead and take a look. So the point of the series is to give a quick profile or understanding of Venus and Mars right now; I'm just focusing on Venus and Mars anyway, through the signs. So this episode, we're looking at Venus in Capricorn. Now, in every video, the point of the video is to give you some of the simplest and most helpful ways of understanding of planet when it is in any of the 12 signs in particular. And this should give you some basic ways of interpreting the placement in both a psychological archetypal sense and also, more specifically, within the context of a chart.

Now, with Venus in Capricorn, we're talking about a place where Venus is not essentially dignified or debilitated means she's not in her own home; she's not in her own exultation. She's not an exile or detriment. She's not in fall or depression. So if you don't know the language of ancient dignities, it's really interesting and worth looking into. At some point, I hope to do a series on the dignities as well. But for now, all you really need to know is that when a planet is not in its own essential dignity, it relies very heavily upon the host. So which planet is the host of Capricorn, Saturn? Saturn rules both Aquarius and Capricorn. But Capricorn, in particular, is the feminine domicile of Saturn, the feminine home of Saturn.

Masculine home is Aquarius. Every planet has both feminine and masculine rulership. You can think of them as Yin or Yang. So when you have Venus in Capricorn, first of all, it's the Goddess hanging out in the feminine tropical earth sign of Saturn. So she's in a feminine place, an earthy place, a tropical place, and the home of Saturn what is let's take a look at what each of those means. So first of all, as a feminine earth sign, this is a place where Venus, The Goddess, is going to do very well with those elements that that kind of feminine Yin component of Capricorn is comfortable for Venus. Venus likes the earthy qualities of all of the earth signs and does well in all of them. Virgo has a little bit of a tough time.

But even with Venus in Virgo, you'll so frequently see people who are just masterful craftsmen, craftswomen, and often are just really good with the raw, earthy materials of, of a craft or trade like hair hairstylist, or I mean, I think in the Virgo Venus in Virgo video I mentioned a hairstylist friend of mine who's very famous, and he's Venus in Virgo. I've mentioned an interior designer that we hired to help build our yoga studio who is Venus in Virgo; actually, she volunteered. And Martha Stewart Venus in Virgo so very crafty. And even though Venus in Virgo has some troubles in, in Virgo that are particular. All Earth signs Venus usually gets along with on some certain level; Venus, during the day, is the triplicity ruler of all of the earth signs. So it's natural; there's a natural elemental fit. On some level, you could say between Venus and the earth signs.

The Earth is sensual. The Earth naturally produces beautiful things and is very sensual. It's, it engages all five of the senses. These are things that Venus is associated with the harmony of the senses, pleasing and pleasing environments. And the topic of making things out of raw materials that are beautiful or pleasant, all Venus-related things. Capricorn is so feminine earth sign; also, Capricorn is a tropical sign, which means tropical from the word Tropos, which means to turn. So Capricorn is a sign that represents a turning point in the year, which is, you know, fine.

The planets, as far as I can tell, don't have any, you know, major problems with the different modalities. There are some exceptions maybe but what it's referring to is that Capricorn is a sign that often indicates a dramatic or distinct turning point, a pivotal moment in the season, the seasonal flow of the year where a new season is starting. So it has an initiating quality that we often talk about. So you could say Capricorn has a kind of ambitious initiating quality to the sign. It's also feminine and earthy. And it's also the domicile of Saturn. So Venus is going to express herself through all of those qualities. What you get from the combination of qualities, the best way to really start combining them and get a deeper understanding is to start with Saturn.

Saturn is a planet that is, of course, related to winter, old age, and death and decay. Saturn is related to the melancholic temperament contemplatives, hermits, isolation, and solitude. Saturn is related to wisdom and discipline and maturity and sobriety and respect and mastery. But Saturn is also related to restrictiveness and oppression and being cut off and isolated, it's related to walls and boundaries and the things that are on either side of the wall, and the relation is sort of implied by Capricorn or Saturn; I should say, Saturn.

So, when Venus is in Saturn's sign, Saturn's feminine birth sign, sometimes you will see a love for things that are sturdy, a love for things that are sturdy, stable, earthy, and sensual. You'll see in the picture that I show I showed here is a wood carving of a woman in a tree. So it has a kind of feeling of something that's beautiful, but it's also very earthy, that requires craft and skill to build something like that. To make something like that or the inside of a tree requires craft, it requires mastery requires, skill, it requires patience. It requires a long time of focused work to make something like that. These are all saturnine qualities, and Venus expresses herself through the lens of Saturn.

There are boundaries. Something's been carved, something has been shaped into a definite hard form, but it's beautiful, it's sensual, and it's made out of that which is organic and natural. So you'll find that these qualities often blend very nicely with Venus in Capricorn, that Venus in Capricorn can appreciate that which is dark and earthy, exotic and sensual because Saturn is related to death, but also the kind of hard cold reality of nature, the tooth and nail of nature, and the kind of frozen landscape of nature. Death is such a part of nature. We'd like to see nature in terms of, you know, like dolphins swimming in a pod and rainbows and, you know, baby whales, things like that, which is fine. That's a part of nature too.

But Saturn in Capricorn is nature's wintry side of nature. It's not like Taurus. It's not like Cancer, you know, feminine spring and summer signs. It has. Capricorn has more of this feeling of the loneliness of the Arctic or the tundra. It has the feeling of, you know, the bold and jagged rocks on a cliff or a mountainside. It has the feeling of a tree gnarled and growing out the side of a cliff. Capricorn is more rugged but also natural and also beautiful. And so sometimes what you'll find is a combination of this kind of love of that which is pagan, that which is outside the city walls, the outside of the well-kept, nicely ordered, pristine, you know, airy spaces like a Libran, you know, the inside of a courthouse, very Libran, right. The inside of a monastery or Cathedral has a clean kind of vibe to it. I guess some monasteries maybe are a little bit more Capricornian, actually, but more Saturnine, but you get the idea.

So Venus in Capricorn has this way of being in touch with things that are beautiful, but outside the city walls, out in the pagan countryside, so to speak. And she rebels there; she loves it there. And so this is how she expresses herself through the earthy, dark wintry sign of Saturn. She'll enjoy saturnine things, earthy and also tropical things, meaning she likes to initiate Venus, and Capricorn is a taskmaster, someone who appreciates good labor or may like to initiate things that are very ambitious and forward-looking.

Remember that in Capricorn, the sun starts to gradually the days start to lengthen again the sun starts to move up in the sky toward the north from being so far into the south. So, that rising up gradually from the darkness. Capricorn is very content with that the growth of the seed below, deep below, in the cold of winter. So you have to always acknowledge with Venus in Capricorn a dark side is very, very important, and finding the sensuality of darkness, the patience, the passion, remember passion, as a word means to endure, to suffer along with. And so, to endure, to suffer, to bleed to sacrifice, as one moves toward a vision of beauty out of the raw, organic material of life. This is something of Venus and Capricorn. And again, where are you getting that most basic consideration from reading Venus in terms of Saturn, reading Venus as expressing herself through the world, the Earth feminine world of Saturn.

So, in your chart, if you're ever trying to read Venus in Capricorn, you not only want to think about all of these things, but the placement of Saturn always matters a great deal. For example, if you have Venus in Capricorn in your birth chart, Saturn is in Sagittarius, right? Or Saturn is in; I don't know Gemini or something like that. Wherever Saturn is located in your chart, that's going to give you specific information about how the host provides raw material for Venus. Venus naturally signifies love, relationships, beauty, harmony, cleanliness, you know, the Goddess, women.

Wherever she's at in the chart, she's going to want to signify those things. But if she's in another house, you got to consider the house topics. If she's in another, the domicile of another planet, you have to consider not only that planet in terms of how she expresses herself like we've just mentioned, but you also have to consider where is Saturn in the chart because Saturn's going to provide for Venus as though Venus is his house guest. So let's say Saturn is in your 10th house, whatever Venus signifies. She's going through the lens of Saturn, and she's going to say something about your work, let's say, or your career is going to feed into what Venus is trying to signify in her own position in the chart. So you always, always, always have to think about doing some blending work with whatever the host planet is providing your significator; within this case, Venus in Capricorn, again, would be provided for by Saturn. I don't know challenges that Venus in Capricorn can run into our, you know, excuse me, the kinds of difficulties that Venus in Capricorn can encounter in Capricorn has to do with saturnine challenges. For example, let's look at some of the people on our list.

So Frank Sinatra, right? A classic beauty. Do you know what I mean? He just he has that like, like aged wine feeling to him, like the sort of the classic entertainer. There's something so aged and wise and mature and beautiful and timeless, and it has that feeling of kind of it's both it's timeless. What I mean is, it has that feeling of being like a classic, you know, that's the golden age of Saturn that in shrines, things that are so beautiful, and grants their legacy some kind of immortality.

So Frank Sinatra however, what did Frank Sinatra say about Elvis? He condemned Elvis for being, you know, to basically to what's the word to sexual, you know, this is to this. So Frank Sinatra condemned what he thought of as too sexual from Elvis, however, he praised it was George Harrison from The Beatles for Something in the Way She Moves, saying it was one of the best love songs ever written. He, he had a way of, you know, I only like what feels to me like it's mature, sober, serious, down to Earth. Not a lot of tolerance sometimes for that, which is, you know, more avant-garde or outside of the box, sometimes the, within the walls within what I think of is, and if there's anything that feels too frivolous or loose or whatever, then sometimes there's a problem, and this can lead to a kind of repression with Venus in Capricorn, being too tight about what one considers, you know, beautiful.

On the other hand, you have people like Bjork, who is like The definition of like a pagan wilderness, a sort of pagan wilderness; musical Goddess is so dark but so etheric, and that's a Venus in Capricorn as well. But you also have the potential for some degree of obsessiveness with darkness. For example, David Lynch, who I'm not suggesting is bad. David Lynch is definitely, like all of his artwork, really dark. The David Lynch, who did Twin Peaks, if you don't know, he's done a lot of things but Lost Highway, for example, that David Lynch has a real kind of morbid, dark imagination, and that's what he's known for.

But, you know, sometimes it can kind of stay in that dark, you know, this. This is a sort of dark, barren treed wilderness, a vision of beauty and the kind of otherworldly, the sort of, never forget, the Capricorn, by the way, is an enigmatical sort of mythic sign and that the constellation images that of a mythical creature, a sea-goat, there's something about these Venus in Capricorn, individuals like Bjork and David Lynch for example, where it's actually like way off the map it has this feeling of being the need to be defiant, like remember the wall the idea of Saturn and walls, either you're inside the wall; timeless beauty Frank Sinatra, or you're like, I'm out in the wild wilderness on the other side of the wall, and you can kind of go-between those extremes. Then could go get kind of get stuck in the pagan dark wilderness landscape. Exotic dark, alien, other beautiful, rich, mysterious Capricorn.

Or on the other. Another side, you can come in to like, the classic hears about James Dean, you know, another classic beauty; of course, James Dean's sexuality was definitely more of on the outside or status, Walt Disney, right, a perfect little kingdom of happy, beautiful, traditional; sort of a legacy but it's also very, for his day it was very imaginative and otherworldly. So Capricorn has this weird duality, where it can be like, what's inside the wall or what's outside the wall. And sometimes the two, you know, they meet in weird ways.

RuPaul is another great example of Venus in Capricorn, where there's this sense of going again, with sexuality going out into this sort of pagan landscape painting just means countryside, by the way. So all I mean by that is going outside the sort of enclosure of, you know, the city and or the status quo, you might say, there's an interesting relationship back and forth between the two though because often, the Venus and Capricorn people want to be known and they want to have a legacy for being dark or for being outside the status quo. There's still a real kind of think of the ambitiousness that's there in that Saturn-ruled sign and also Dostoevsky who was at, you know, dark. He was Russian, if I remember correctly, a novelist. I had to read crime and punishment in one of my grad degrees, and I think we read The Brothers Karamazov, but at any rate, heavy stuff and often themes of isolation, alienation, loneliness murder, that he managed to draw out this kind of existential beauty in the midst of it.

Britney Spears is an example of the cookie cutter. I'm gonna do Disney Club; I'm gonna do fashion shows as a kid; I'm gonna, you know, mom really put her in and up to all of this stuff. But as an adult, of course, she then struggled to, like, I gotta break out of all this, I gotta, I've got to, you know, I really need to get outside of the box of these. This kind of enclosure of being like the perfectly traditional, you know, blond-haired, blue-eyed singing, dancing, successful young girl thing that kind of drove her nuts, actually. And you remember part of one of the things she had, one of her nervous mental breakdowns? I believe she shaved her head. This is also very Venus in Capricorn.

Steve Jobs is very similar to Walt Disney's kind of character, where there's this desire for something fantastic and amazing and sort of outside the box, but also the desire to keep it in, close it off, define your legacy, and make sure it's like a rock solid. Right. So, you know, if you have Apple products, there's this weird way in which it's like a little isolated world. And that's very much like Walt Disney. It's like, here's my little empire. And the empire is full of my magic and my fantasy, but it's my little closed-off world. That's Venus in Capricorn as well. So these are just some different things to think about where you can go to the extremes on either side with Saturn with Venus in a Saturn-ruled sign where Saturn can be either side of the wall that keeps one in or that blocks one out the need to go outside the wall. That desire still to make things structured and solid and sort of exalted and a lot of pride around status and things like that. So I hope that you've enjoyed this. That's where I'll leave it. Okay, everyone, thanks for listening, and take care. Bye.