2023 Capricorn Horoscope Preview
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Capricorn Horoscopes, the Year 2023: 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 2023 Capricorn Yearly horoscope.
2023 Capricorn Horoscope Overview
(Click on any sign above to navigate to that sign’s preview horoscope).
Areas of Expansion in 2023 for Capricorn: Home, Personal Life, & Love
- Home & Living Conditions
- Family
- Personal Life
- Long-standing Projects
- Romance
- Hobbies, Entertainment, Leisure, & Pastimes
- Creative Self-Expression
Your Capricorn 2023 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.
Until May 16th, you begin to expand and improve your personal life. You are more confident about your family, living arrangements, and living conditions. These areas of life blossom, expand, or improve.
This influence spans two date ranges, with the first wave already behind you, and the second one underway as you begin the year 2023:
- from May 10-October 28, 2022,
- and from December 20, 2022-May 16, 2023.
You’re experiencing these themes in steps, and this is the second and final step, lasting until mid-May.
During this period, you’re comfortable with your position, and you may be building loving and secure connections with others. There can be special attention to the comfort and beauty of your home or a stronger desire to connect with your roots. You can also possess a more remarkable ability to bounce back from problems in your personal life.
While this is a rather domestic transit, relationships with anyone you feel especially connected with emotionally
can benefit, grow, and expand.
Your inner world, family life, domestic activities, and domestic arrangements blossom, develop, grow, or expand at this time. Relations with family can be especially pleasant and supportive.
There are various ways this energy can play out, depending on your current situation: For example, there can be a move to a new home, likely a bigger one, or there can be new purchases of real estate or significant items for the home. Current living arrangements or conditions improve. Some of you can get a mortgage or support that allows you to expand your home base. The family itself can grow, or there might be an addition to your home. Some might take on a roommate, for example, or bring more friends to their home. Others might pool resources with a partner and move in together. Entertaining in the home can be emphasized if it makes you happy. Otherwise, you can experience a stronger sense of peace and privacy in your home life.
This can be a phase when you spend more time with family or at home. You could be on the reclusive or introspective side as you build up your inner strength or improve your home base. Fortifying your energy and emotional reserves can figure strongly, and it’s most helpful!
Generally speaking, increased positive energy comes to your domestic life, and you might put long-standing problems with family behind you. Do be careful about overextending yourself with home improvements or larger accommodations that are beyond your means.
Your personal life tends to overshadow your professional life or material activities during this cycle. Relationships with family can improve significantly now, although pre-existing problems might initially magnify, motivating you to handle them.
This can be an excellent time to set up a home business or home studies. On a more psychological level, confidence in yourself and feelings of security increase during this period.
Potential problems: Excessive money spent on home improvement, too much emphasis on the home to the point that other areas of your life suffer, or some unwillingness to expand your horizons. Avoiding or escaping responsibilities may be a problem from time to time. You may wish to please too many people, but overdoing things leaves you exhausted, as it seems there is never enough time and energy to meet all your needs.
However, with some moderation, this time can be most rewarding. For the most part, you are likely to feel emotionally secure and supported. It’s a time of nest-feathering and a strong period for psychotherapy and purging as you are willing to look at the root of problems.
There can be more power and resources available to you to establish yourself, primarily through a home or property, but also for long-term business or learning endeavors/projects. Self-acceptance and understanding can be in strong focus.
From May 16th onward, your creative, playful, and romantic side begins to expand, develop, and blossom. It’s a powerful time for self-expression, new forms of entertainment, and romantic explorations.
This influence lasts just over a year–from May 16, 2023, to May 25, 2024.
Your focus is now on having fun, enjoying life, and expressing yourself in freeing, rewarding ways. Your romantic and creative worlds grow and expand, and your desire to express your unique side and creativity increases. As you learn to express yourself playfully and creatively without apology, you are more willing to take some personal risks along the way!
Romantic opportunities tend to abound during this cycle, or chances to kick back and have fun, express yourself in unique ways, and pursue hobbies and entertainment are abundant. Creatively speaking, this theme fills you with ideas and plans for realizing a dream.
This can be a fertile time on many levels, including physically and emotionally. Romance can blossom. Note that this influence is associated with casual dating and exploring romantic possibilities more than binding or committed relationships.
This enhancing, supportive influence is also strong for self-confidence and personal popularity. In fact, your creative, romantic, or leisure pursuits define you more and more this year–they enhance your self-image and image to others. You identify with these things or with your creations, including children, if applicable! You’re more often following your heart.
Potential challenges: Excessive emphasis on, or attention to, having fun to the detriment of other life departments. Throughout this transit, you may need to come to a balance between engagement with romantic and creative needs and the rest of your life.
You might also need to juggle worries about money or resources with your stronger focus on entertainment, love, or leisure in May. You may be holding on a little too tightly to certain possessions and attitudes, and as you begin to feel a strong desire to break free and try new things and ways of expressing yourself, there can be some tension. It’s a time to examine what’s preventing you from enjoying your life and taking a few creative risks. Aim to deal with fears and ties to things or situations that are no longer healthy for you.
However, for the most part, you are likely to feel supported and confident. Others gravitate to you, and your appeal skyrockets.
Fortunately, in June especially, you enjoy a healthy confidence and good judgment for making long-term plans. Relationships can be smoother, perhaps as you put more effort into communication or better structure your personal interests to accommodate other pursuits and connections. Reasonable expectations help your life across the board, but especially with current projects, creative pursuits, and relationships.
Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Resources
Your Capricorn 2023 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 from itself.
- Finances
- Belongings
- Communications
- Transportation
Until March 7th, 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 suitable and worthy will endure and strengthen.
This influence began in 2020, and it comes to an end this year in March.
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 23 to 30 degrees, and those born from January 13-20, are most directly affected right now.
Tests can come to your financial affairs during this cycle. This influence challenges you to better manage your personal resources and develop 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 well 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 eliminate 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.
During this cycle, 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. In February, especially, your mission to focus on your family and home life can seem to clash with your financial goals or fears.
From March 7th, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are communications, learning, and local transportation. 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 suitable and worthy will endure and strengthen.
This influence runs from March 2023 until 2025/2026. You’re likely to feel this transit most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Capricorn. This year, it will influence those born from approximately December 21-28 and with a Capricorn Ascendant of 0-7 degrees the most. The rest of the sign will feel its influence more directly in later years.
Challenges can come to your communications during this cycle. For example, you may be more guarded and particular with your communications, taking things quite seriously and somewhat fearful of making mistakes. For another, you may feel pressure to produce ideas and make them work in the real world.
A certain somberness in your outlook can characterize this phase, as it could be a time of worry or heavier thinking. Or, it can be a time of more chores or things to learn.
It may seem that acquaintances are blocking your growth in some manner, and these relationships may be strained as a result. There can be some tensions or distance with siblings, classmates, or neighbors since these relationships come under the rule of the third house where Saturn is currently transiting in your solar chart.
Although you could have the desire to make contacts, you are now rather preoccupied with learning or other mental projects, and you may view idle chit-chat as frivolous, distracting, or even a waste of time if it’s too much.
You may feel unusual pressure to structure your time and effort and cut out unnecessary communications. You may sometimes feel overwhelmed by errands, red tape, and other day-to-day “disruptions.”
By the end of the transit, however, you will have (ideally) gained a greater depth of understanding, having focused on information and communication that you really can use to feel more effective in the world. It can be good to cut out some interference so that you can focus, concentrate, and advance.
There is a great need to structure your life by way of schedules, managing daily details and your time more effectively. There can be some problems with local transportation — getting from point A to point B. Restrictions with transit or transportation breakdowns and blocks are possible.
Communications can be delayed or lost, perhaps impeding specific projects. Disputes with relatives or neighbors are possible when Saturn is challenged in this area of your solar chart. March can be an example–your mission to get a handle on your daily affairs can compete with your needs for downtime, family, and more attention to home life.
Publications or announcements may not be received as well as they would at other times. Another possibility is you aren’t as charming or warm as you usually are in your communications. There can be some restlessness or an urge to get out and about, but you might feel weighed down by your daily responsibilities.
There can be issues with mobility and transportation during this transit, and mechanical breakdowns can present challenges. Ultimately, these things lead to improvements and more efficiency, even if they’re frustrating in the short term.
Fortunately, this is a time of increased practicality and esteem. You are more reliable than usual. You procrastinate less. Teaching, learning, and guiding can be in strong focus. There can be a greater love of the less glamorous aspects of your work, studies, and projects, and you are capable of tremendous effort to further your goals.
The last time this influence occurred was from 1993 to early 1996 – it doesn’t happen often!
You’re far more invested in how and what you communicate during this period, as it represents you. Identifying closely with your personal interests, communications, or studies can figure strongly.
Especially in April, June, August, and October, you enjoy healthy confidence in many areas of your life. Your judgment is good for making long-term plans, and it’s a fine time to make a relationship with a child, sibling, or romantic partner work in the real world. You’re willing to take the bad with the good–expectations are reasonable, helping your life across the board, but especially with current projects, creative pursuits, and relationships.
Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: Romance, Children, Creativity, Hobbies, Entertainment
Your 2023 Horoscope, dear Capricorn, also points to areas of your life that seemingly speed up so that you can take 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 the coming years.
You are also 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. It can be a time of unconventional love affairs or pastimes for some. Energies can be up-and-down since you crave and 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 in these life departments.
This influence is rather lengthy–it’s been with you since March 2019 and will continue until April 2026! It helps loosen you up, and this is timely since it wasn’t too long ago that you had serious Saturn in your sign, and you still have ambitious, intense Pluto in your sign part of this year.
This influence opens you up to new experiences and helps you detach a little from the material world to enjoy yourself from time to time! It’s only sometimes steady or consistent, but you’re looking for–and often finding–your muse.
There can be times when you’re battling yourself or money matters with these themes. Part of you is focusing on steadying your life, building a sense of security and safety, and managing your resources this year (until March), clashing with another part of you that wants to take a risk from time to time, or to go out on a limb.
However, you’re also finding new channels for expressing yourself and your affections that are satisfying. You might give voice to some of your more unusual ideas. You’re inclined to do pleasure, leisure, love, and entertainment in different ways, and this attitude can open new worlds for you.
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, Romance, Creativity, Pleasure
Your 2023 Capricorn Horoscope reveals life areas where change and transformation occur. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”
Until March 23rd and then from June 11th forward, your outer personality and the ways you approach life and challenges continue to transform. Your personality continues to reshape in 2023. Pluto has been in your sign for many years–it’s a very long-term influence, and it’s certainly a time for reinventing yourself!
This year, Pluto is finally phasing out of your sign. It will be late 2024 when Pluto is truly done with Capricorn, but the process starts now. Note that Pluto’s transit of Capricorn began in 2008 and lasts until 2024.
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 critical cycle. You’re 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 occur if you’ve found that you’ve taken on far too many personal goals than are helpful for you, especially. It’s best to aim to nurture ambitions while avoiding pushing yourself too hard and/or going over the top. Recognize limits, as tricky as this may seem at times!
Aim to tap into your increased drive to improve your life, health, and presentation. Fortunately, difficult themes are resolving and wrapping up. February is particularly strong for finding a greater sense of purpose through your home life. Confidence-boosting activities can figure strongly. There can be meaningful opportunities to settle in, renovate, and improve family relationships.
From March 23rd to June 11th, a new Pluto theme is with you. While it’s only a sneak preview of a transit that will stick around for many years, you’ll see some preliminary shifts and changes in 2023.
This year, attitudes toward finances, possessions, money, and personal values begin to transform. Life lessons might occur for you to get in better touch with self-worth, principles, self-defense, and money attitudes. There can be changes in the source or level of your income. You may have to face control issues and possessiveness and learn how to better manage this part of your life.
There may be some challenges, particularly in May, when there can be a clash between a desire for personal expansion and a compulsion to feel secure, comfortable, and safe. You’re doing more connecting and sharing or risk-taking, which seems to compete with your desire to be self-sufficient. You might also need to juggle worries about money or resources with your stronger focus on entertainment, love, or leisure.
In 2023, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to challenge you to express yourself more creatively and openly. Friendships, group associations, creativity, and romantic involvements are evolving in meaningful ways. You’re learning to balance your romantic life and your connections with friends.
With the North Node continuing to move through your amusement/creativity and romance sector until mid-July, you can benefit greatly from expressing yourself more playfully and uniquely. Don’t be afraid to stand out from the crowd now!
Romantic relationships, children, and creative contacts can be a significant source of increased consciousness or inspiration in 2022.
You’re 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.
However, a new theme is weaving its way into your life this year, beginning with the Solar Eclipse in April and furthering with the North Node moving into your solar fourth house in mid-July.
It would benefit you to pay more attention to home and family life — this is where you find your greatest joy and challenge. There is a real need to get your domestic life into order, as this can bring fantastic benefits and much satisfaction to your life. While your public and personal lives seem to compete, you have every opportunity to come to the right balance. This influence will continue to develop until early 2025.
Your Planetary Ruler in 2023: Saturn, your ruler, moved out of your sign and into Aquarius in 2020. In 2023, Saturn moves to a new sign in March–into Pisces.
Saturn Retrograde in 2023
Saturn is retrograde from June 17th to November 4th 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 Pisces this year suggests a special focus on communicating, connecting, and learning.
Saturn is in particularly good shape in June this year–it’s a powerful time to move projects forward, make a difference, and begin anew.
*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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