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Check your decan
The dates move by about a day depending on the year you were born. Enter your birthday and we’ll work out where the Sun was.
What gives you away
Three signs you’re the double Capricorn
01You were the responsible one early
You were probably the kid who knew where the spare key was. Friends call you when they've lost their wallet, missed the last bus, or need someone to read the fine print. People have been calling you mature since before you knew what it meant.
The astrologySaturn rules both the sign and the decan here, and astrologers tie Saturn to responsibility and growing up. With two doses, you take the grown-up role before anyone asks you to.
02You're playing the long game
You'll run the same boring routine for months, three gym mornings a week, long after everyone who started with you has quit, because you can see where it leads. Slow progress doesn't scare you the way it scares other people.
The astrologyCapricorn is a cardinal sign, the kind that starts things, and Saturn is the planet of patience. Together they make you someone who starts early and keeps going.
03Your birthday gets lost in the holidays
If your family does Christmas or New Year's, your birthday has probably shared a cake, a party or a gift with one of them. So you learned young to make your own plans instead of waiting for someone else to. You still love it when someone makes the day all about you.
The astrologyAstrologers link Saturn with self-reliance and doing things for yourself. Being born in the busiest week of the year just gave you early practice.
Why you’re like this
How Capricorn’s decans work
Each zodiac sign covers 30 degrees of the sky. Astrologers split every sign into three 10-degree slices called decans, and the Sun spends about ten days in each one.
Capricorn is an earth sign. In the decan system most popular in modern astrology, each third of a sign mixes in a sign of the same element, in order. The first third mixes in Capricorn itself, so you get a double dose of Saturn, Capricorn's ruler. Saturn is the planet of time, rules and patience, and astrologers say it rewards effort that adds up over years.
Love
The double Capricorn in love
You date like you're building something. You notice how they talk about their exes, how they treat a waiter, and whether they have goals of their own. It takes you a while to say how you feel, and once you say it, you mean it for a long time.
You need someone who respects your ambition and doesn't ask you to prove you care by dropping everything. Under the serious face is someone who wants to be looked after for once.
If you love one
Thank them by name for the thing they handled without being asked. A double Capricorn hears that rarely and remembers who said it.
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At work
You like a clear goal, a long timeline and the chance to prove yourself. People hand you the hard job because they know you'll finish it. Astrologers often match this decan with business, management, law, finance, architecture and government.
The hard part
When it gets heavy
Being the responsible one can turn into never letting yourself off duty. You might answer work emails in the middle of a movie, treat sadness as a waste of time, or skip a friend's dinner to finish something nobody needs until Monday.
When you catch yourself working through something fun, finish the sentence you're typing and close the laptop. The deadline will look the same in an hour.
Famous faces
Born in this decan
- Timothée ChalametDec 27, 1995
- Denzel WashingtonDec 28, 1954
- Jared LetoDec 26, 1971
- Kit HaringtonDec 26, 1986
- Annie LennoxDec 25, 1954
- John LegendDec 28, 1978
We checked each birthday against the Swiss Ephemeris, the planet-position tables astrologers use, so everyone listed sits inside this decan whatever time they were born. Sharing a decan is a fun overlap. Your Moon, rising and the rest of your chart are still all your own.
All three Capricorn decans
Which Capricorn are you?
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Your questions
Frequently asked questions
What dates are Capricorn decan 1?
In most years, December 22 to 31. The Sun enters Capricorn on December 20, 21, 22 or 23 depending on the year and time zone, and moves on to decan 2 on December 30 or 31, or January 1 (we checked every year from 1940 to 2026 with the Swiss Ephemeris). Born on one of those days? Use the decan checker on this page, or your free birth chart.
I was born on December 20, 21, 22 or 23. Am I a Capricorn?
Maybe. The Sun enters Capricorn on December 20, 21, 22 or 23, depending on the year and where you were born, and the switch can land in the middle of your birthday. Put your birthday into the decan checker above. If it says your birth time decides, your free birth chart gives you the exact answer.
Is Capricorn ruled by Saturn?
Yes, in both traditional and modern astrology. Saturn is also the traditional ruler of Aquarius. Decan 1 gets Saturn twice, which is why the double Capricorn is described as the most driven and self-reliant third of the sign.
Do decans work for my rising sign or Moon too?
Yes. Any planet or point in Capricorn has a decan, set by its degree. A Capricorn rising at 15°, for example, is in the Taurus decan, even if your Sun is in another sign. Your rising degree needs your exact birth time, and your free birth chart shows it.
Which decan system does ZODIA use?
The triplicity system, the most popular one in modern astrology. Each decan mixes in a sign of the same element, so Capricorn goes Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo. Older Hellenistic astrology used a different set called the Chaldean faces, which gives Capricorn’s thirds to Jupiter, Mars and the Sun. Both are real traditions.
Is my decan my whole personality?
No. Your decan sharpens your Sun sign, and your Sun is one part of your chart. Your Moon shapes how you feel, your rising shapes how you come across, and your Venus and Mars shape how you love and go after things. Two people born on the same day can still be very different.