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Planet: Saturn
Key Phrase: "I use"
Color: dark brown, green, gray, black
Animal: sea goat
Sensitive body part: skin, knees, bones, gall bladder
Element: earth
Day: Saturday
Stone: moonstone, white onyx, jet
Metal: silver
Number: 4
Foods: rye, almonds, kale, spinach, pickled foods, yogurt, starches


Your phone rings. It's your date from this afternoon. "I had a very nice time and wanted to know where you stand," he says simply. "I'm willing to put in the effort if you think this is going somewhere, but if not, let's both save a lot of time and just go our separate ways." (Toss in a question about why you overtipped at the restaurant and a bit of one-upmanship based on the latest translation of Bruegel if he's smart.) Why do you feel like you're being efficiently elbowed with a metal stylus as he speaks? Because he's a Capricorn, of course: known for being responsible, cautious, scrupulous, serious, unforgiving, cold, fatalistic--in other words, something of an old goat.

Now, now, just as he's got an earthy side (as in grounded like a stone sculpture to its iron base), don't forget that the calculated Capricorn, with his practical concerns and frosty-horned ways, happens to have a fish's tail. Thought to come from Ea, a Babylonian god who ruled the land by day and the patrolled the sea by night (did someone say "god complex"?), your sea goat also has a hidden nature. If you can stand by his rigid self while he methodically Palm Pilots his way through the daylight hours, climbing the corporate ladder, commanding conversations and ramming to the top of the goat hill, you may also find he has an oceanic heart. Just be sure you want that kind of devotion before you sign up to be his partner, because a pure goat, even a loving one, rarely leaves room for anyone to walk closer than half a step behind him.

 

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