2021 Capricorn Horoscope Preview
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Capricorn Horoscopes, the Year 2021: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Capricorn.
This forecast is for those born with a Capricorn Sun sign (born approximately from December 22nd to January 20th*). It’s also appropriate for people born with a Capricorn Ascendant**. You may also enjoy reading the full 2021 Capricorn Yearly horoscope.
2021 Capricorn Horoscope Overview
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Areas of Expansion in 2021 for Capricorn: Money, Talents, Personal Belongings, Communications
- Finances
- Income
- Self-Worth
- Natural Talents
- Valuables
- Communications
- Personal Interests
- Learning
Your Capricorn 2021 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.
Until May 13th, 2021, and then July 28th-December 28th, 2021, you’re focusing on building, developing, and enjoying yourself. Money, personal possessions, valuables, and self-worth continue to expand, increase, improve, and grow.
Your desire for security and comfort is hearty now, and you’ll pursue these things with more confidence and verve. You feel that you deserve more! Or, this can be a time when you’re committing to more personal enjoyment and settling in.
This is a strong time for buying long-term valuables. You are likely to make bigger decisions about your material resources during this period. This can be a time when imaginative undertakings boost your income.
You might enjoy a lifestyle that’s quite comfortable, and even lavish at times. You can feel protected against financial distress during this trend. With your faith and vision for the future, you’re developing more patience that helps your investments and projects grow.
This cycle influences your life for the most part until December 2021 (with the exception of May 13 to July 28, 2021). It’s strong for attracting more money from your professional endeavors and for expanding a business. Financial increase is quite possible, or there can be improved financial conditions. Still, you should certainly watch for overspending or taking things too much for granted.
Potential difficulties: Be on the alert for an attitude towards money that is careless. If you are accumulating personal possessions too 
quickly, this practice can lead to clutter and disorganization. If you’re overconfident about your ability to make money, then you might end up taking foolish risks, such as borrowing too much from your future. Watch for over-indulgence, and be extra careful/cautious if lending or borrowing.
Otherwise, this is a good period for bringing a fresh, positive, and confident attitude towards your own self-worth and value, and to your practical affairs, including work. You have a concurrent influence, outlined in the Areas of Contraction section immediately below, that helps to counteract the difficult potentials of this influence. Aim to tap into self-discipline if you want to realize a goal or dream related to money, things, talents, and personal income.
Perhaps most importantly during this time, your relationship with money and resources is changing. Your sense of abundance can evolve as well, as you see more value in what you have or you identify things that are no longer boosting your sense of security.
How you view your earning power, natural talents, and relationship with money can improve and change.
From May 13-July 28, 2021, and then from December 28th onward, you begin to expand your personal interests, mind, and connections. You are ready to take on big projects! Your confidence in the future is very strong during this cycle that is with you for part of the year 2021 and parts of 2022.
This influence spans three date ranges, and we’re on the first wave this year:
- from May 13-July 28, 2021,
- from December 28, 2021-May 10, 2022,
- and from October 28, 2022-December 20, 2022
It may sound complicated, but it just means that you’re experiencing these themes in steps, starting this year from May to July.
During this trend, your communications increase and expand. Depending on your current situation and your unique personality/circumstances, this influence can play out in a number of ways: You enjoy a greater ability (and desire) to express yourself, and your personal interests grow. You might develop a mental interest or project more fully this year.
Good fortune with vehicles, transportation, through siblings, and with the communications industry can be experienced during this cycle. You are sharper, more perceptive, and others are more receptive to your ideas. New opportunities to communicate can open up to you.
This can be a busy, exciting, and rewarding period for learning.
Potential problems: Taking on too many daily activities, communications, new interests, and learning endeavors or studies can be a problem now. Don’t overload your plate. There can be a real tendency to want to do it all, forgetting your limits with time and energy. Taking on too many projects or becoming too entrenched in details can cause problems.
However, for the most part, you are likely to enjoy more opportunities through your communications and contact with others during this cycle.
A booster transit supporting these efforts creatively will arrive in 2022 but for those sensitive to transits, you can begin to feel its energies this year. Your imagination blossoms, and creative writing, speaking, and other such pursuits can thrive.
You’re finding your voice and more fully enjoying what you’re doing, learning, teaching, and sharing. You might find that you’re busier locally. Your thinking is more upbeat, positive, and forward-looking, and so is the way you express yourself.
In fact, this is an excellent time for improving your communication skills and your general attitude or mindset. There can be important opportunities through meetings, courses, teaching, and connections made in the neighborhood or through siblings. If they exist, problems with siblings or neighbors could be put to rest now, although they might be magnified initially in order for problem areas to come out into the open and finally be resolved. If applicable, you might return to school or take some courses.
There can be increased communications with siblings, classmates, and peers in general during this period. You could be finding that transportation or communications options now available make life a little more enjoyable.
You may find it easier to express thoughts, feelings, or intuition in words at this time. Others may turn to you for your wisdom and advice.
Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Resources
Your Capricorn 2021 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.
- Finances
- Belongings
All year, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that governs personal finances, income derived from your own efforts (this excludes shared finances and financial support through debts and rebates), personal possessions, self-esteem, personal talents, and personal values.
There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life — as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.
This influence was only just getting started last year. While it wove in and out of influence in 2020, you’ll experience it consistently in 2021 and beyond. Saturn will transit this area of your chart until March 2023.
It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Capricorn. This year, those born with a Capricorn 
Ascendant of 1 to 14 degrees, and those born from December 23 to January 4, are most directly affected right now.
Tests can come to your financial affairs during this cycle. You are challenged to better manage your personal resources and to come up with a fair and realistic assessment of your value or worth.
You may be necessarily more cautious about entering into heavy financial commitments during this period, and more cautious in general with spending.
Worries can surface about your earning power, but as you progress, the ideal end result will be a stronger sense of what you are capable of earning, better spending and saving habits, and a more realistic budget.
Cutting back on some luxuries may be in order, but you may just discover that the security you gain is more important than the luxuries you let go of.
This should be a rewarding cycle for coming to a better position regarding the management of your material resources. You are exceptionally security-minded at this time and you can begin or step up savings plans. Any innate organizational and budgeting traits you possess are highlighted now. Look for overlapping or unnecessary expenses and other redundancies, and aim to rid yourself of material clutter. Your natural talents can contribute more to your personal income than previously. The last time this transit occurred was some time ago – from 1991 to early 1994.
Again, you have an interesting overlap where the very areas that we discussed in the section above (Areas of Expansion) that are expanding are also contracting at the same time. These effects don’t cancel one another out; instead, they coexist. While there can be some real swinging from one end to another at times, there is always the potential to find a balance. Your positive attitude and a sense of joy through increased responsibility and feeling on top of things can help you succeed.
In 2021, you can have a particular desire to work on your money, assets, and resources. You might take a particular interest in collecting. Handling financial security issues seems most important for your general sense of freedom and optimism or confidence.
Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: Romance, Children, Creativity, Hobbies, Entertainment
Your 2021 Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.
All year, a lengthy cycle continues in which your romantic and creative life can be unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. You are more attracted to people who are free-spirited, individualistic, and possibly even eccentric on a romantic level — or these are the types of people or experiences you attract into your life. Your romantic life or leisure time is bound to be very colorful this year and in coming years.
As well, you are tapping into your “inner genius” when it comes to expressing yourself creatively. This can be a highly inventive period. Unusual opportunities to meet people pop up. This may be a time of unconventional love affairs or pastimes for some. Energies can be up-and-down since you seem to need inspiration in these areas of life (romance, hobbies, creativity, pleasures, seeking your joy). You don’t feel at all comfortable only going through the motions with these matters. Authenticity is more important to you now.
This influence is rather lengthy–it’s with you from March 2019 to April 2026! It helps loosen you up, and this is timely since you recently had serious Saturn in your sign, and you still have ambitious, intense Pluto in your sign this year.
This influence opens you up to new experiences and helps you detach a little from the material world so that you can enjoy yourself from time to time! It’s not always steady or consistent, but you’re sure to find some inspiration.
There can be times when you’re battling yourself or money matters with these themes. Part of you is focused on steadying your life, building a sense of security and safety, and managing your resources this year, and these themes can interfere with another part of you that just wants to take a risk from time to time, or to go out on a limb. Restrictions on your explorations can be material or spiritual as you wrestle with a need for security, frugality, and predictability, particularly in February, June, and December.
It’s also possible that your income connects to fifth-house affairs, such as creative pursuits, hobbies, children, speculation, or the arts during this time.
Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation: Personality, Image, Attitude, Independence, Initiative, Work, Health, Repose
Your 2021 Capricorn Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”
Your outer personality and the ways in which you approach life and challenges continue to transform this year. Your personality continues to reshape in 2021 with Pluto in your sign for many years behind and in front of you–it’s a very long-term influence. This is certainly a time for reinventing yourself!
You will need to resist the urge to micro-manage and control the events of your life, how you come across to others, and your manner during this important cycle. You are learning about your inner motivations, and sometimes this can be an uncomfortable process because you are getting in touch with the darker elements of your psyche at the same time.
However, you are ultimately discovering that you cannot control the events of your life and you cannot control others and how they feel about you, but you can learn self-control.
You are tapping into your inner power, and how you handle it will make all the difference in the quality of your experiences now.
Challenges with this transit if you’ve found that you’ve taken on far too many personal goals than are helpful for you, especially. Nurture ambitions but don’t push yourself too hard and avoid going over the top. Recognize limits, as difficult as this may seem at times! Note that these themes were huge in 2020, but they’re expected to be far less dominant in 2021.
Aim to tap into your increased drive to improve your life, health, and presentation.
In 2021, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to challenge you to improve your attitude towards service, health, work, and privacy–areas destined to evolve in important ways this year. Circumstances are such that you need to develop healthier habits, routines, and schedules. You are called upon to rid yourself of guilt about under-performing, and to develop faith and trust in a larger more spiritual plan. Work on finding a balance between mental health and physical health; and between work and rest, particularly around the eclipses in May, June, and December.
With the North Node continuing to move through your work and health sector this year, you are called upon to face up to your needs and desires to provide services or pursue work that truly suits you, as well as to pay special attention to your health. You can benefit greatly from getting your life organized, and spending more time and energy on caring for your health and body. This is one of the major keys to happiness in 2021.
Near the end of the year, a newer theme begins. It’s only the very start of this influence that will develop more fully in 2022. It’s about more fully embracing your creative impulses, sense of play, connections with children or creative projects, or romantic life. In these areas of life, you’re likely to see important changes, beginning with the Lunar Eclipse on November 19th.
Your Planetary Ruler in 2021: Saturn, your ruler, has fully moved out of your sign and is in Aquarius, consistently, all year. While Saturn in your sign in the last few years has been empowering, it’s also been a strain, and you could feel considerably less pressure and more relief in 2021 as a result.
Saturn is retrograde from May 23rd until October 10th this year, during which time you’re in good shape for catching your breath, introspection, and reassessing your goals. For the remainder of the year, Saturn is direct, and you tend to feel most effective in taking action.
Saturn in Aquarius this year suggests a special focus on attending to your money, resources, and sense of security, but also of enjoying a little more detachment and objectivity.
Read the full 2021 Capricorn Yearly horoscope.
*It’s important to note that birthdates for Sun signs are always approximate since the starting date and time varies a bit every single year. If you were born on one of these cutoff dates (commonly known as a “cusp”), you can get a definitive answer using a Sun Sign Calculator. You can also write reports@cafeastrology.com with your birth information and we can let you know your true Sun sign if you were born on or beside the approximate date range given for any sign of the zodiac.
**If you want to know your Ascendant, find out with an Ascendant calculator, such as our What’s My Ascendant?, but do note that an Ascendant cannot be determined for unknown birth times. If you were born before 1970 when time zones were more unpredictable and not as well-documented, it may be better to determine your Ascendant in our free birth chart section or, if a historical time zone is in question, the excellent Astrodienst.
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