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Happy Birthday Capricorn
CapricornThis tenth sign of the Zodiac is so mighty in its import that we can do no more than hint at its subtle importance, its sublime magnitude, and its major effect to individualize man, making him a soul quickened by the Spirit, one of a great whole, yet with a distant sense of individuality.
Capricorn has several symbols. The best known is the Goat, a thrifty animal that climbs high up the mountain, cautiously moving from crag to crag, seeking the summit. Capricorn looks for the topmost position. Consciously or unconsciously, the inner motive is ambition, which may be used or good or ill.
All too often it is used to exercise authority over others and, with patience or with cunning, to secure prestige and power. This is symbolized by the Crocodile, an amphibious creature, aquatic and terrestrial. Another is the Fish-goat. Like the crocodile, the fish-goat is amphibious. Both have the faculty to swim in the depths, but on land the crocodile stays near the shore, often in the mud, whereas the goat can climb to the loftiest mountain top.
Here is symbolized man’s power to sink into a sea of selfish desires and egotism, or to conquer the lure of the desire world and, realizing truth by transcending to rise up into the mountain range of spiritual reality.
Still another symbol for Capricorn, as yet seldom known, is the Unicorn, a triumphant being, victor in all strenuous tests. It symbolizes the highest phase of this sign of initiation and of the world Saviour. It would seem that in referring to this marvelous, mighty sign of the Christ brought to birth – this Christmas sign, Capricorn – one is presumptuous and is stepping in where Angels fear to tread, yet one must not hold back, for the time is come to speak of the mysteries of God to those who have ears to hear.
No man can become a Christ-man, thereby reaching completion as a perfected being, unless he learns to correlate with the forces of Saturn through Capricorn, because the cradle of the Christ is in this animal sign; hence he was brought to birth in a manager with animals about him. Although many people still express the animal attributes of this sign, do not for a moment think that only animal forces inhere in Capricorn, for there is a side to it so lofty that few save initiates – those who know at firsthand – know of it.
What is known exoterically is that Christmas always falls on December 25th, when the Sun is in Capricorn and human hearts are warmed with the fine feeling of good will and love that prevails at this season of the year.
Through the birth of Christ, a new impulse was given to the Earth. Every year, after the entry of the Sun into Capricorn, there is a renewal of this impulse. The esoteric understanding must now become exoteric, the understanding that Christmas is the season of spiritual birth and the most propitious period with the Christ-etheric forces reaching their greatest intensity and amplitude with the Earth.
Cancer and the Moon are the Mother-forces; Capricorn, with Saturn, its ruler, are the Father-forces. They confer wise counsel to the human father-principle. It was Christ who revealed God as the Father, saying, “I and my Father are one” and “I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you”.
Today the world dwells largely in the luring Luciferic light of the lower egotistical self and in the Ahrimanic darkness of the intellect unlighted by Spirit-truth. Out of this chaos there will be resolved cosmos, the divine order of God. The mighty power of the Father-force in Capricorn is only tapped and expressed when the native of this sign realizes the light that shines in the darkness, for once this light is comprehended, the highest attainments are achieved through the action of the Christ within, who is all-wise, all-loving, and all-intelligent.
As our era passes, the master men of Saturn will come with their selfless executive-directive forces to make life worth living, whereas at present selfish Saturn souls seek to gain power over the soul and substance of myriads of men. When the humanitarianism of Aquarius is added to the patient persistence of Capricorn, Christ-altruism is added to the Father-force. Then, as Christ said, “I and the Father are one”.
We are on Earth to make progress, and Capricorn natives make progress through incessant perseverance. Their development is advanced within saying, “Father, not my will, but thine, be done”. Among the most characteristic negative qualities of Capricorn and Saturn are fear, gloom, pessimism, depression, and melancholy. Light and darkness pervade these souls. When they ride high, they are jolly, but when depressed, none are more gloomy in mind and soul. They should exert every effort to gain an even balance. Their worst enemy is despondency; for this reason it is important that they be informed of the science of the Spirit, which elucidates life and gives it profound and rich meaning, purpose and value leading to fruitful meditation and eventually to an elevation of consciousness and to evolution, which discloses the light that was ever shining in the darkness.
Capricorn rules the skeleton and all joints, especially the knees, endowing the body with stability and flexibility. This framework, a thing of marvelous wisdom, was built through aeons of time by the beings of the Spiritual Hierarchies.
As Capricorn gives the Spirit the right place in their lives and realizes its initiated power, then do they become light-bearers and true ‘doers of the word’. With their admirable courage and sense of responsibility, individuality and collectively, one can the highest business of this sign is that of being about the Father’s business.
A Saturn Song
Man suffers most from what he fears
He dreads the most what ne’er appears
Thus does he often bear far more
Than God for him did hold in store.
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