We are about 80-85% through this Capricorn 2 decan as I write this. This is just the Part II update, on observations of the decan, and how the correspondences seemed to manifest. For more details of the decan, see the prior post for Part I. The Three of Disks combines Capricorn, the Devil, with Mars, the Tower. While it sounds ominous, in reality it is quite potent in a good way.
The image here combines the images from the cards of the decans of Capricorn from Tabula Mundi Tarot: the Two, Three, and Four of Disks. This is the “Decans of Capricorn” card from the optional expansion pack.
It’s a good reminder that ambitious Capricorn begins or ascends with the impulse for Harmonious Change (Two of Disks), continues or succeeds in the fixed or middle decan via Work or Works (Three of Disks), and concludes with Material Power in the cadent decan (Four of Disks).
Decan rulers of the three decans of Capricorn: Jupiter, Mars, Sun. Expansion, effort, achievement.
Decans of Capricorn
It all seems fairly congruent with people’s desire to turn a new leaf in the New Year. At the Solstice, the Two of Disks/decan 1 begins the sequence, with a new solar year and knowledge that the calendar year is coming to a close. We look back, and forward, and consider what we want to leave behind and what we want to bring in, for Harmonious (Jupiter) Change. At the Three of Disks/decan 2 we have the start of the calendar New Year, and we start taking action (Mars) towards these new Works. I guess it is all in service of wanting to achieve (Sun) a new stability (Power), when the Four of Disks/decan 3 rolls around.
Capricorn decan 2 is when people do things like begin their New Year’s resolutions, start a sober “dry January,” drop sugar or start restrictive diets to combat holiday bloat, and launch into exercise programs. None of which sounds like much fun – its all Work. It can be fun work, like resolving to take up a new hobby, a sport or a new craft, learn a language or to play an instrument. It can also be a resolve to start a new business, or a new phase of a business, or somehow take charge of some area of life. But Decan ruler Mars plus sign ruler Saturn, all points to applied energy and effort (Mars) and discipline (Saturn). Without that, obviously most resolutions fail. One needs to really desire it (Mars) and have the endurance to stick to it (Saturn).
Mars/Saturn combinations in astrology are considered difficult, bordering on cruel. So in pursuit of goals, that is something to look out for, whether it is ruthlessness or self-directed. But here in this decan of Capricorn it really doesn’t present that way, probably because Mars is exalted in Capricorn. Though the precise exaltation degree of Mars is in the last decan of Capricorn (28 degrees), it is exalted throughout the sign. Since this decan is actually ruled by Mars, it really shows here. And because Threes are above the Abyss on the Tree of Life, an area of purity, the realms of the three facets of Deity.
That’s my Part II observation. I have a few “irons in the fire” which is a very Mars/Saturn phrase if you ask me. Various things I’ve begun to work on, or am beginning to work on, or aware that I need to work on this year.
In 36 Faces Austin Coppock calls this decan “the pyramid,” and it sure seems to be aspirational, with many bricks needed, and many steps to take to evolve to the next levels and rise towards the pinnacle.
