Sabian Symbols · Capricorn · Degree 6 of 30
Capricorn 6°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “Ten logs lie stacked beneath a dark archway that opens onto darker woods.”
THE SYMBOL
“Ten logs lie stacked beneath a dark archway that opens onto darker woods.”
Capricorn 6° · 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
Raw material, gathered and ready, sitting right at the threshold of something considerably less lit. This degree pairs resource with warning: the logs are useful, real, countable, and they are positioned exactly where the path gets harder to see. Capricorn's respect for what is tangible meets, here, a genuine caution about what lies past the visible edge of the stockpile. Ten is a full, round number: enough to build with, not enough to pretend the dark ahead does not matter.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows real resources gathered and ready, positioned right at the edge of something that will require more courage than accounting to enter. Saturn or Pluto here can indicate material readiness for a genuinely difficult passage still ahead. It rewards counting what you have honestly before stepping into the part of the woods you cannot yet see.
What have you already stacked and readied, right at the edge of a darker stretch you have not yet actually entered?
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