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We'll be discussing the meaning and images associated with the first Decan of Capricorn. Capricorn I is represented by the 2 of Pentacles card in the Tarot and Austin Coppock calls it "A Headless Body."

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Summery and descriptions courtesy of Silverius Materi

Decan Images:

Yavanajataka: A pale-hued warrior whose eyes are pitiless to his enemies. He is clothed in white. His head is like an elephant’s. He has arrows for weapons, and he knows the purposes of minerals and mercury. His limbs are heavy and hairy.

Liber Hermetis: A two-headed face and a lotus of the kings on its head. In the compass of the lotus there are stars of the splendour of gold. He has also in his right hand a water jug which is called life, in his left a sceptre the extremity of which is bifurcated. This decan is clothed in linen and he treads under both feet a tortoise entirely covered with a net.

Brihat Jatakas: A woman with red cloth, fond of ornaments and food, bot-belly, horse-face, thirsty and single-footed.

Samhita Skanda Sutras: A woman wearing red garments, pot-like in shape, with canine face, ugly feet and sore eyes.

Picatrix: A woman dressed in green clothes and lacking in one leg. And this is a face of high rank, nobility, worth, and kingship. Or…a woman wearing a scarf and dressed in red, with also just one foot on the floor, her face resembling a lively and angry horse. She is looking for her son, clothes, ornaments and her daughter.

Ibn Ezra: The figure of a woman draped in clothes and a mantle, and she has one leg, and she has the form of a horse. Agrippa: A woman, outwardly cloathed with a red garment, and under it a white, spreading abroad over her feet, and the image causeth nobleness, height of a Kingdom, and greatness of dominion.

Bruno: A woman, not unattractive, wearing a white tunic, and over that a cloak dyed in truly imperial purple. her hair hangs freely and is crowned with laurel.

Crowley: A green-clad woman, with one leg bare from ankle to knee.

Rulership: Chaldean: Sun Triplicity: Sun

Daimons/deities/spirits:

Persephone, Lady of the Underworld, Goddess of Spring (the Seasons), and New Growth. In Hellenistic Greece, this would be the time of year the first buds planted back in Sagittarius would have begun to sprout, covering the land in a delicate layer of green. There’s maybe a sense here of homecoming to the self, to stepping into a role that fits well and engages our abilities unlike before, of leveling up to reach a new plateau of potential. There’s a finding of a sense of mastery, of growing into the self, of comfort or grace walking through the world wherein we find ourselves. This easily draws in the decanic imagery of the woman in green or red, standing on one foot (as others have pointed out before me it evokes a new sprout emerging from the soil, standing upon the single leg of its stem).

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(Summery by Silverius Materi)

Yavanajataka: A man with a shining sword. His tawny hair stands up. Covered with garlands of skulls, he wears armour. His is the colour of sunset clouds, and his protruding teeth are fierce. He is covered with the strings of nooses and so forth.

Liber Hermetis: It has a human likeness.

Brihat Jatakas: A woman covered with a dirty cloth in a forest, bearing pots on her head and dragging metals in a burnt cart with cotton trees in it.

Samhita Skanda Sutras: None.

Picatrix: A man like unto a king who permits much to himself and abhors what he sees. It signifies beauty and position, having what is desired, completion, detriment, and debility.

Ibn Ezra: A very black man whose beard is long and in his hand a bow and arrows, and purses that contain precious stones and gold.

Agrippa: A man with a long beard. It signifies understanding, meekness, modesty, liberty, and good manners.

Bruno: A man wearing the clothes of a counselor, seated and holding in his hand a small piece of paper with reminders on it. From his very long chin hangs a beard and he seems to have a severe countenance.

Crowley: A man arrayed like a king, looking with pride and conceit on all around him.

Rulership-

Chaldean: Mercury

Triplicity: Mercury

Daimnons/deities/spirits:

Phobos, daimon of fear, specifically representing panic and flight from a situation. His brother is Deimos, who represented terror and dread. The two were sons of Ares and Aphrodite. Andrew Watt points out that in both Hellenistic Egypt and Egyptianized Greece, this season was a period where rations were dwindling and spring was still far enough away to be worrisome, and settlements could easily be attacked by raiders. It was also a time of illness in Egypt specifically. The fear that one might not survive until the next equinox was real at this time of year and required both practical preparation and a sort of idealism, a hope for the future, which calls nicely on Austin Coppock’s ideas of this Decan and the RWS image of the 6 of Swords.

Decan Chat: Capricorn I

Join us on the 3 of Wands Discord server for an open discussion about the significations and meaning of the 1st Decan of Capricorn, which includes the first 10 degrees of the sign. We will be its meaning in an astrological context as well as interpreting the linage of images associated with this Decan.