Capricorn is a cold, earthy, melancholy, arid, nocturnal, southern, obeying, moveable, cardinal, quadrupedian, changeable sign, the sign of the Winter tropic; the house of Saturn, and exaltation of Mars. It is accounted barren : it produces a dry constitution, slender make, with a long thin visage, thin beard, dark hair, long neck, narrow chin and breast, and weak knees. In disposition crafty, thrifty, subtle, and saving, witty, but changeable, and very liable to melancholy and curious dreams. If Mercury is afflicted, they have much of enthusiasm in their disposition, and are sometimes determined mystics. The voice is generally weak and effeminate.

It governs the knees and hams: and its diseases are sprains, dislocations, and broken limbs, melancholy, hysterics, cutaneous eruptions, and cold chills, with disorders of the chest and lungs. The regions subject to this sign are India, Macedonia, Thrace, and Greece, in general, Mexico, Saxony, Wilna, Mecklinburgh, Brandenburgh, and Oxford. Its colour, black, or dark brown.

In horary questions, it denotes houses for cattle, hot houses, places for lumber or old work, ship store-houses, arsenals, sheep-pens, fallow, or barren fields, thorny bushy places, dunghills, or places for soil, dark corners near the ground or threshold, covered jars or urns, mausoleums, church yards, sepulchres, vaults under churches, tombs, and obscure or low houses : the ancients have classed it as unfortunate.