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A sharp angular stroke rising to a point and falling again, ending in a small closed loop curling below, the zodiac sign for births between 22 December to 19 January.
Also known as: Capricorn, Capricorn zodiac sign, Capricorn star sign
Capricorn is the zodiac sign traditionally assigned to births between 22 December to 19 January. Astrology classes it as a earth sign of cardinal quality ruled by Saturn, and reads the glyph as the horn of a goat joined to the tail of a fish, the sea-goat of the constellation. The sign no longer lines up with the constellation it is named after.
The astrological sign Capricorn, which tradition assigns to births between 22 December to 19 January. The dates shift by a day either way from year to year, because they track the Sun's position rather than the calendar.
Encoded at U+2651 in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, alongside the other eleven signs.
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Classified in astrological tradition as a earth sign of cardinal quality, ruled by Saturn.
A classification within astrology, recorded here as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything about a person.
The glyph is conventionally read as the horn of a goat joined to the tail of a fish, the sea-goat of the constellation.
The sign and the constellation of the same name no longer coincide. Precession of the equinoxes has shifted them roughly one sign apart since the scheme was fixed around two thousand years ago, and the Sun's actual path crosses a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, that the twelve-sign zodiac does not use.
A sharp angular stroke rising to a point and falling again, ending in a small closed loop curling below.
Astrological tradition assigns Saturn as this sign's ruling planet.
Both belong to the twelve signs of the tropical zodiac.