Placement
Uranus in Capricorn
A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
In an older source
He may be compared to the combined effects of Saturn and Mercury.
Raphael, A Manual of Astrology, or the Book of the Stars (1828)
About this entry
Saturn appears twice in this pairing. Ptolemy makes Capricorn one of Saturn's two houses, and Raphael in 1828 likens Herschel to Saturn and Mercury acting together. Alan Leo, before 1917, also sets Uranus beside Saturn as dry and cold, so these voices see the planet as partly akin to the owner of the sign.
Kinship earned no favor from Raphael, who places the earthy signs on his unfavorable list. Mars is exalted here in Ptolemy and Jupiter has his fall, both old statements about position that make no mention of Uranus. No source writes a reading of this exact combination.
Its stays ran from 1904 to 1912 and again from 1988 to 1995 or 1996. Because the sky shows it throughout those years, the position is the same for a person born on any day well inside them. When a recent horoscope column talks of system breakers born under it, that is a modern reading of an era, and the old authors never offered it.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.
- Raphael, A Manual of Astrology, or the Book of the Stars (1828)
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- Claudius Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, or Quadripartite (1822)
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- Alan Leo, The Art of Synthesis (1917)
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