Sun Transit in Capricorn

Capricorn belongs to Saturn, whom the Sun counts an enemy. The texts name Saturn as Surya's son, and the coldness between them is old. Makar Sankranti opens the month, and with it Uttarayana, the Sun's northern course. Nepal keeps the day as Maghe Sankranti and India as Makar Sankranti, and both mark it with sesame and jaggery.

Capricorn governs the knees, career, duty and structure. The Sun shows the work a person has taken on and what it costs. Recognition comes slowly here, and it lasts.

The nakshatras are Uttara Ashadha, Shravana and Dhanishta. Uttara Ashadha belongs to the Sun, so the stay opens strong. Shravana, under the Moon, favours listening, learning and spoken teaching, and Dhanishta, under Mars, closes the month with drive and public work.

Phaladeepika places the Sun well in the third, sixth, tenth and eleventh from the Moon, which falls to Scorpio, Leo, Aries and Pisces Moons, and Cancer Moons carry it in the seventh. Capricorn Moons hold it in the first, where the knees and the energy both suffer.

The month separates duty from ambition, and work done out of fear tires the body quickly. Use Uttarayana for a practice you mean to keep, and begin now what should continue past the month.

• Offer arghya at sunrise from Makar Sankranti onward, without a gap.
• Give sesame, jaggery and warm cloth, as the season's custom asks.
• Serve an elder or a worker who is given little notice.

Sun in Capricorn for each Moon sign

Counted from the natal Moon, following Phaladeepika. Read the ascendant the same way. Vedha and the birth chart can change the result.