Capricorn Rising – What Is The True Meaning Of Your Capricorn Ascendant

by Dawn Rose

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Understanding your Capricorn rising sign and how it fits in with your Sun and Moon signs can be a bit confusing.

This is why I have created a separate article on the Rising Sign Meaning, which you can check out here.

In short, the zodiac sign, which stands as a rising sign in your horoscope determines the specific manner in which the energies and qualities of your Sun sign will be manifested in your lifetime.

For example, someone with a Scorpio Sun sign and a Capricorn rising will have the chance to manifest their intense, inquisitive, strong-minded nature, which seeks to get to the root of every issue (Scorpio) a lot more easily, because they will be driven by the inner motivation to be patient, disciplined, systematic, and organized – all qualities of their Capricorn rising sign.

The very same person would find it a lot harder to realize this Scorpio-driven nature with a Gemini rising, which would make them more inconsistent.

This is why one of the very first things to be analyzed in a natal chart is how harmonious the interaction between the rising sign and the Sun sign is. Whether they are placed in signs that complement or contradict each other.

In addition, we should also consider and closely examine the planet, which rules the Ascendant and therefore the whole natal chart (in the case of Capricorn rising, the ruler is Saturn); where this planet is placed by sign and by house, and how it interconnects with the Sun and Rising signs.

Usually your physical characteristics are determined by the combined influences of the signs, where the Sun, Moon, rising, and the ascendant ruler are placed.

For example, if you are a Virgo with a Sagittarius rising and a Leo Moon, and your Jupiter (the ruler of your ascendant) is placed in Gemini, we will say that your Sun sign is Virgo, your Moon is in Leo, your Rising is in Sagittarius, and your horoscope and ascendant ruler is in Gemini. The latter will further color the characteristics of your rising sign.

The rising sign is something that you need to manifest and demonstrate gradually throughout your life, and this is why some of the traits and characteristics of this sign can be overemphasized and more obvious than some of the qualities of your Sun sign.

For example, someone with a Leo rising is ‘more Leo than the Leos’. They wish to be noticed at all cost, and they suffer if they don’t receive the attention they seek. Their strong desire to be the center of attention provokes their inventiveness, but their manners would also be a bit more demonstrative than those of a Leo Sun sign. In comparison, someone with a Leo Sun has the calm confidence that they are the king and he or she receives the attention they deserve with dignity.  A Leo Sun attracts this attention effortlessly.

To learn all the meanings of each zodiac sign, planet, and house, Download The Fast Track To Astrology Cheat Sheets.

Now that you have a good idea of the meaning and significance of the rising sign, let’s move on to

Capricorn Rising Appearance

Capricorn rising have medium height. They are usually lean and strong, whether they have large muscles or not.

The nose is straight and wide, while the mouth is usually big with thin, tight lips and an angular face with a well-defined forehead. The hair is usually dark and dense.

Capricorn Rising Meaning – An Overview

Capricorn rising are ambitious, persevering, reserved, showing the seriousness of Capricorn in their behavior, although they might be a lot milder on the inside.

Capricorn rising usually have good health, they are diligent, and hardworking. The well-known Capricorn pessimism is not so much pronounced in the Capricorn rising.

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Capricorn Rising Traits – Inner Motivation

Also read all about Moon in Capricorn

Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn. Saturn (or Cronus in ancient Greek mythology) is the god of restraint, limitation, control, and the authoritarian inner voice.

Since the ascendant determines the main psychological motivation of the individual, it is not difficult to guess what drives those born under the Capricorn rising sign. They seem to be driven from within by a demanding boss, a supporter of the absolute strict order and discipline.

Therefore, no matter how these people behave in their daily lives, it is characteristic of them that they are governed by a military-style discipline from within. Their inner voice is like a strict military leader, who has extremely high demands in all areas of life and uncompromisingly insists on their exact, timely and meticulous execution.

Of course, it is not easy to live with such demanding self-control, but as with any other astrological placement, there is both a positive and a negative side to the Capricorn rising.

As a negative personality feature mostly stands out the lack of emotionality and empathy. Capricorn rising are mostly motivated by the performance of their duties and responsibilities. Even if it costs them too much effort, nerves and time, they usually grit their teeth and keep going until they bring what they started to a successful completion.

On the other hand, their stability, resilience, purposefulness and steadfastness almost always guarantees their success. This can be accepted as one of the most positive aspects of Capricorn rising.

Capricorn Rising Self Image

The ascendant is largely related to the way we see and evaluate ourselves. When it falls in the restraining and demanding Capricorn, this attitude is also transferred to the mechanisms that drive us from within.

Capricorn rising have great doubts about their own strength and therefore they are often underestimated.

For example, when they are faced with a new type of task or problem for the first time, their initial reaction is negative. At first, they try to delegate the task to someone else, not for any other reason, but because they sincerely believe that they will not be able to deal with it.

However, when they have already been charged with certain duties, they work honestly, methodically and with great effort. These qualities are in fact the key to success and often Capricorn rising are only able to appreciate what they are capable of once they have completed another challenging goal in their life. This is how gradually their self-confidence increases and their self-image improves.

Most people can be divided into two groups – those with a very high self-esteem, which is however with little real coverage; and others, who have low self-esteem, but are capable of much more.

There is only a small percentage of people, who can accurately assess their own strengths and capabilities. This is because people almost never look at their own behavior objectively. Most of us live  our lives immersed in absolute subjectivism.

In Capricorn rising, we can observe a paradox. One day they believe they are capable to rule the world, and on the next they doubt their abilities in even the simplest of tasks. This staggering from one extreme to the other is due to the fact that they feel very strong in certain areas, but absolutely insecure in others. Obviously the areas in which Capricorn rising worked before and in which they had the opportunity to prove themselves are not an issue, but the fields they have not explored yet cause them great fear.

The main problem here is again rooted in the lack of objective self-assessment. It turns out that most Capricorn rising can be confident in their own strength only when they have already achieved something. In the areas and fields they have yet to prove themselves, they have very low self-esteem.

It is clear, however, that one cannot try everything and succeed in everything in one lifetime in order to gain good self-confidence. Therefore, to solve this problem, Capricorn rising should consciously strive to build their self-image and confidence. They should pay attention when someone encourages them as well as accept the compliments and kind words of others without doubt.

Capricorn rising should learn to trust the good opinions, expressed by others, and to willingly accept their support. By consciously building a better self-image, they will be able to achieve even more.

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Capricorn Rising Traits- Self-Restraint

If we make a comparison between a person and a car, then we will find that the ascendant is similar to the engine of the car. This is the force that drives the car. The engine type and the power it has are predetermined by the sign of the ascendant.

When it comes to Capricorn, then we can figuratively imagine that the driver has somewhat applied the parking brake and is trying to drive in this way. Not always is this a strictly negative phenomenon. In astrological charts, in which fire, air and positive aspects predominate, this would be a welcome restraint.

In other charts, however, the drive to move forward would be severely undermined by a lack of self-confidence.

Sometimes a loved one succeeds to inspire more confidence and release the parking brake. Which leads us to the next point…

Capricorn Rising Love Life

Love relationships are also not a particular strength for those born with Capricorn rising. For example, they can be very confident about their work and career (especially if they have gained some experience), but be absolutely insecure and uncertain about maintaining a long-term close relationship with a partner. They may even feel extremely insecure about their ability to start such a relationship.

As a matter of fact, however, we should note that once they have established a stable relationship, Capricorn rising are one of the most reliable, faithful, loving, affectionate and caring partners.

Not only that, but probably to everyone’s surprise, once they have formed such a lasting union, they become extremely sensitive partners, who respond positively to the emotions and experiences of their loved one, giving them a lot of attention, help, empathy and compassion.

These generally atypical qualities of Capricorn spring from its opposite sign – Cancer.

Capricorn Rising Compatibility

Whenever Capricorn stands on the ascendant, we can find the opposite sign, Cancer, on the descendant. While the ascendant determines the cusp of the first house and the beginning of things, its opposite sign, which stands on the cusp of the 7th house, has to do with the partner.

As with any other ascendant-descendant combination, here too the Capricorn rising partner should help them develop the qualities that are missing. The goal is to gradually develop these qualities. Because Capricorn rising usually learn successfully from the life situations in which they find themselves, over time they manage to develop the tender, sensitive, and emotional qualities that they usually lack with the help of the partner. This is why a Cancer-type partner, who is caring, sensitive, and emotional is suitable for a Capricorn rising.

Then it becomes clear that all the seriousness, detachment and business-like attitude of Capricorn rising are only an external mask, behind which lies a much finer nature. However, this tender nature is only shown to their loved one. Besides, this does not happen immediately, but after a long time and after the individual is absolutely confident in the stability and durability of the relationship.

Here we find the reason why people with a Capricorn rising externally show such a cold and insensitive facade. It is rooted in their hidden fear of inadequacy and incompleteness.

It is extremely difficult for them to express their deep feelings in words. For this reason, they work hard, as if they want to prove their own worth with their actions.

On a subconscious level, Capricorn rising believe that if their work bears good fruit, others will notice their value and respond with love and recognition.

However, this almost never happens, because the others notice only their business-like attitude and strictness and perceive them as a manifestation of insensitivity, coldness and lack of emotionality. Instead of receiving love, Capricorn rising remain bathed in the cold shower of indifference. In their quest to be positively evaluated, they start working even harder. Thus the vicious circle closes.

Capricorn Rising Challenges To Overcome

At the same time, some Capricorn rising cannot appreciate the feelings of others if they do not measure them by some real material means.

For this reason, especially in an early age, they give too much attention to the external, material side of life. At this stage, they put a lot of emphasis on money, possessions, official position, and other similar external symbols of prosperity and achievement.

It is possible for others to perceive them as distant, insensitive materialists. While some of them remain in this phase for the rest of their lives, others manage to develop some of the positive qualities of their opposite sign.

In any case, Capricorn rising need to develop greater finesse, sensitivity, understanding, emotionality, compassion, empathy, flexibility and pliability.

A good indicator of this are the joints of the hands, fingers and feet, ankles and knees. Saturn, the ruling planet of Capricorn, is responsible for these parts of the body. Any problems in the knees and joints should be seen as an outward sign of these people ‘s inability to be flexible, pliable and mobile.

Possible knee problems are also indicative of inability to literally and figuratively kneel before higher powers. When these problems are resolved on psychological level, they will be mastered on a physical level, too.

Capricorn rising tendency to accumulate internal anxiety can lead to a number of problems and diseases in their physical body. The most common scenario involves anxiety and nervous tension of upcoming tasks at work or worries (justified or not) that the individual is not sufficiently secured on the material level. As a result, gastritis, ulcers, digestive disorders or rashes may develop.

Capricorn rising should include in their busy schedule time for regular leisure activities, exercise and recreation. They also need to understand that they get depressed much easier than all the other signs of the zodiac. Even small obstacles or changes in plans can trigger in them an avalanche of unnecessary worries, pessimism and depression.

Therefore, regular exercise, relaxation, yoga, as well as dancing and music are the necessary elixir, which will heal and soothe their souls. All these activities can be very effective for them, as they bring to the fore their inherent qualities such as practicality, earthliness and rationality.

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Capricorn Rising Major Life Lesson

But perhaps the most important thing that Capricorn rising should not forget is the need for a leading spiritual component in all areas of their lives.

The spiritual should be the primary ingredient, and the material – the secondary. Everything made of matter has its spiritual architype.

The spiritual develops and changes, and the material follows it. The same applies to the spiritual components of a man – etheric body, astral body, mental body, causal body, buddhic body and higher self. As a first step towards rediscovering their spiritual nature, Capricorn rising should seek the spiritual purpose behind every illness or disease they suffer with their physical body.

Capricorn rising should strive to heal their spiritual body, using the physical body as a barometer for the success of their spiritual actions.

In short, one of the most important things these people need to learn is to see not only the material side of things, but also to bring a spiritual component into their lives.

Please remember that Sun Moon and Rising signs are not enough to properly evaluate compatibility or one’s personality.

You can see a very accurate and beginner-friendly step-by-step guide on how to check compatibility with your partner, taking into consideration the most important elements in the birth chart here.

And if you wish to order a full in-depth analysis of your natal chart that examines the interrelatedness of all elements and also provides a report with remedies on how to overcome your weakest points and challenges, you can do so here.