Longing Found In Silence
The Gates of Capricorn
10 - 58 - 38 - 54 - 61 - 60
Can you feel the Earth pulsing in the dead of winter. Trees naked, nature silenced, so quiet you can hear snow fall delicately to the ground. The world is frozen, and we are laid bare. Energy is reserved. In nature, there is only movement of necessity. Energy for vitality and warmth.
Capricorn season begins her entrance in the G-Center, where we find universal love, purpose and direction. This energy holds the ability to ground us into the very central essence of who we are, the way we move in the world. Connected to the integration circuit, 10 teaches us the power of BEING. Life is a natural emergence reflected from our core essence.
We see that the drive found in Capricorn is a reflection of the sun’s movement through the root center. More so than the more mainstream idea of workaholic Capricorn, I see a longing for joy. An energy towards what is vital and alive. Moving towards joy is the drive to live, to thrive, to continue. Capricorn is intimately connected to her inner animus, to the part of ourselves that relishes in the pure sensation of the living world.
A capricorn’s drive can become a blind drivenness but its core is joy and love. Yearning and longing. In the long winter’s night, the life force of the world around us reserves and replenishes itself for the more vivacious and external seasons to come. This is a time for inner attunement. There is a sensitivity towards the more inner planes of our reality. Here we feel internally, what is worth living for. The sun illuminates Gates 58, 38 and 54 are all consecutively, all 3 pointing towards our survival center, the Spleen expounding this necessity to breathe life into the inner realms of dreaming, longing and imagining.
However, this inner world is more difficult to access in our bustling modern society. Is there space to slow down to the natural cycles of winter?
After we sample this drive for vitality, gate 61 in the Crown center balances our physical yearning with the dreamscapes of Inspiration. Similar in its pressure and drive, yet more etheric and dreamy. This is the mental organizing of the fully vivacious physicality of our longing. Bringing the visual component to what might become. Seeing is believing.
Our season is bookended with the format energy of gate 60, back in the root center. Similarly driven energy, yet guided towards creation in the Sacral. Gate 60 is the realistic magic found in planting seeds that might grow in the springtime. Which brings this realistic grounded energy back into this archetype filled with longing and desire.
The sea goat myth of Capricorn speaks to her deep watery intuitive connection in the grounded world. It is both dreaming and doing. Capricorn is filled with life, a cornucopia of what is and what might become. This potent time reminds us our inner power and invites us to ground into our deepest longing as the seeds of manifest reality. This work is not the typical work assigned to Capricorn, but is a devotion to life affirmation and joy. This season expands beyond our comprehension of time, it is a moment for reflection and correcting history. Rewrit
See below for more info on the gats of Capricorn
10 - Self-Obsesssion - Naturalness - Being
G-Center - Magnetic Monopole - Integration Circuitry - Physical: Chest/Heart/Liver
58 - Dissatisfaction - Vitality - Bliss
Root - Pressure Center - Collective Circuitry - Physical: Perineum
38 - Struggle - Perseverance - Honour
1 Root - Pressure Center - Individual Circuitry - Physical: Adrenals
54 - Greed - Aspiration - Ascension
Root - Pressure Center - Tribal Circuitry - Physical: Tailbone
61 - Psychosis - Inspiration - Sanctity
Crown - Pressure Center - Individual Circuitry - Physical: Pineal gland
60 - Limitation - Realism - Justice
Root - Pressure Center - Individual Circuitry - Physical: Colon