Sabian Symbols · Capricorn · Degree 2 of 30
Capricorn 2°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “Three stained-glass windows glow in an old cathedral; the light through the center one has been broken by war.”
THE SYMBOL
“Three stained-glass windows glow in an old cathedral; the light through the center one has been broken by war.”
Capricorn 2° · Sabian symbols, devised 1925 (Marc Edmund Jones, clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler)
Remember to round up: a planet or point at 9°30′ takes the 10° symbol, not the 9° one.
What this degree describes
Two windows still cast their old colored light and the third stands damaged, proof that even the most carefully built structures take real hits and keep standing anyway. This second degree is about durability under damage: not everything that gets built survives whole, and Capricorn's task is keeping the building consecrated even with one window cracked. Nothing here is a picture of ruin, it is a picture of a structure absorbing a wound and remaining a cathedral regardless.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows an institution, a family, or a body of work that has taken a real hit and kept functioning, scarred rather than destroyed. Saturn here can indicate resilience proven by damage survived, not merely claimed in advance. On the fourth house, it favors a foundation that stayed structurally sound through something that genuinely could have brought it down.
Which window in your own cathedral got broken, and have you actually let the light back in through it, cracked as it still is?
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