✨New Years Resolutions / from Jodi Childs

Capricornus - Mythical Sea-Goat

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Capricorn II: the Pyramid

The second decan of Capricorn, the Pyramid, begins on December 31, 2025, at 5:37 am EST — and lasts xxx days, uh hours, and xx minutes until xx January 2026, at hh:mm am EST. It is administrated by Mars under Saturn as the sign ruler. The name comes from Austin Coppock’s book, 36 Faces, while T. Susan Chang called it Time and Materials in her book 36 Secrets. The Golden Dawn taught its members to associate this decan with the three of pentacles — which depicts a monk, a merchant and an architect working together to design and build a cathedral. The Sun will be here for nine days, 19 hours, and 34 minutes, before entering Capricorn III on January 10, 2026 at 1:10 am EST.

The Greeks of the latter Hellenistic era had gradually come to associate these ten days with Hygeia, the goddess of health. Depicted as a woman with a bowl or chalice from which a snake drank (or to which the snake added its poison), she was the goddess of general health and well-being. Various myths describe her as the daughter of Asclepius, or his wife, but most often as his mother — the first nurse and patroness of that profession, but also the first pharmacist and the first brewer of medicines to cure disease and the creator of tonics to ward against illness.

The planetary administrator of this decan is Mars under Saturn’s rulership — which serves as a reminder that the warrior planet is exalted in Capricorn, as well as being a triplicity ruler, as well as being this decan’s chief manager. He may be under the Sun’s beams right now, but the soldier is still in charge — and responsible for deciding what treasures get spent and what weapons get brought forth from the armory… or what drugs get brought forth from the pharmacists’ cabinet of wonders. If you’re in the medical profession, it’s worth asking am I prescribing the right drugs? Am I putting the right pharmaceuticals to work on these cases? What are the risks and side effects I should mention to my patients? If you’re the caretaker on watch against household colds, fevers and injuries, it’s a good time to go through the medicine cabinet and dispose of expired medications and bandages, and figure out what needs replacing.

This idea of building systems to sustain you, rather than relying on emergency management, is apparent in the Three of Pentacles, the parallel pip card from Tarot. In Pamela Colman Smith’s sketch, a stonemason on a bench examines a trefoil window while a monk and a merchant offer their own perspectives on his labors. A cathedral building isn’t simply a physical structure, of course — just as health is not simply a matter of keeping the physical body strong. A cathedral is also a symbolic structure imagined and designed and built around theological concepts and imagery designed to express a singular vision of spiritual truth. A “first aid kit” with only gauze and bandages in it, isn’t prepared to deal with even the basic risks of mild ill health: there’s analgesics for pain and muscle relaxants for tensions and aches, medicines for diarrhea and for constipation, tweezers for splinters and parasites, and more. The architecture of good health requires a broader imagining of what ill health looks like.

The dodeks of Capricorn II are dedicated to Taurus, Gemini, Cancer and Leo, representing the way in which a person becomes sick — first they are their ordinary selves, minding their own business; then they are two-faced, at once perfectly fine and healthy but also exhibiting strange symptoms of illness in the form of a cough or distress in the stomach; then come the waterworks, as the “inner sea” of the body sloshes back and forth between the high tides of health and the low tides of illness, before the fever finally breaks forth like a lion.

Dates to Watch

January 1 — Mercury square Neptune — your resolutions are likely to be confused fantasies or “pie in the sky dreams” if you’re not intentional and careful about setting your goals to be SMART — specific, measurable, actionable, relevant and timely. Set a specific goal for January, and then February, and then March… be realistic and deliberate about choosing goals you yourself can achieve.

January 2-3 — Sun conjunct Venus — be creative in how you pursue or show love.

January 6-10 — Sun, Venus and Mars conjunct — And then get ambitious about it. Not creepy, just forthright. If you do find someone behaving in a stalker-y sort of way, though, confront that right away and shut it down. Guys won’t take maybe for a no the time around, and you may have to get as specific as Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham: “I will not love you here or there, I will not love you anywhere.”

January 10 — Mars opposes Jupiter — This can manifest as “getting lucky” or as “being foolish” and it’s hard to know which it will be in anyone’s specific case. It’s worth taking risks, because they may pay off in a big way — but you have to recognize that if the choice is “success or death” then don’t take the leap of faith. Sometimes the guy in the hospital bed gets a kiss from the girl of his dreams — but sometimes his weeping family turns off the ventilator, too. You have to be alive to be embarrassed about what a foolish risk you took — not win a Darwin Award.

Wanderings in the Labyrinth

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