Makara (Capricorn)

Makara (Capricorn) rising

With Makara rising you are slender rather than muscular, slow to grow as a child and suddenly tall after sixteen, with a thin face, deep-set eyes and a long nose; your constitution improves with age, and many carry a mole or mark near the knee. Shani (Saturn) rules your lagna: you are prudent, practical, patient and methodical, you decide carefully and then execute fast, and you can organise and head large undertakings. You are reserved, slow to trust and slow to befriend, but once a friend always one; ambition for name and standing drives you, and you build slowly, saving steadily and wasting nothing. Your lessons are to lift the gloom that settles when things go wrong, not to overwork, and to let people see the affection you feel.

The Moon in Makara (Capricorn)

Chandra in Makara gives a serious, responsible and practical mind that plans for the long term and keeps its feelings to itself. You are dependable, truthful and hard-working; the mind's shadow is melancholy and worry, which cheerful company, warmth and a sense of progress lift.

The Sun in Makara (Capricorn)

Surya in Makara, an enemy's sign: authority comes late, by duty and hard work rather than favour, and dealings with the father or seniors can be formal; government, municipal and large organisations suit your ambition.

Work

• Government and municipal service
• finance and accounts
• administration of large organisations
• mining and minerals
• land, buildings and construction
• engineering and surveying
• agriculture
• leather and chemicals
• politics
• wholesale trade

KP Reader 2 pp.238-253; Gochar Phaladeepika pp.41-42; BPHS 3.49