Welcome back to Everyday Tarot, where we explore how tarot can support your real, everyday life!
In today’s episode, I’m talking about Tarot and Capricorn as we wrap up Capricorn season and reflect on what this energy can teach us about structure, ambition, boundaries, and the material world.
What We Explore in This Episode:
Why I’m talking about Capricorn right now (Capricorn season timing + the “New Year energy” overlap)
Capricorn’s astrological associations (10th house, Saturn, work/rewards)
Capricorn’s Major Arcana correspondences (The Devil + The World)
Minor Arcana timing within Capricorn season (Pentacles progression)
Capricorn Season: Structure, Limits, and What We’re Building:Capricorn season usually begins around the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. It arrives at a liminal moment, when the calendar asks us to look forward while the body and the land are still deep in winter.
In this episode, I reflect on Capricorn season as a container for three overlapping themes:
Goal-setting and “New Year” momentum
Energy limits (winter as a season of boundaries)
Career and identity reflection: what we’re building, and why
Capricorn season often carries a quiet tension. Culturally, we’re encouraged to set resolutions, push ahead, and reinvent ourselves. Seasonally, winter asks us to slow down, conserve energy, and work with realism instead of urgency. Capricorn sits right at that crossroad.
At its core, Capricorn is associated with the structures that shape our public and professional lives.
In this episode, I name Capricorn’s key astrological correspondences.
Tarot Correspondences for Capricorn:Capricorn season also has rich connections within the tarot, particularly through the Major Arcana.
The Devil (Capricorn)
The Devil is the Major Arcana card most closely associated with Capricorn. In tarot, The Devil often speaks to:
Temptation, attachment, and desire
Power dynamics and control
The material world (money, comfort, status, and security)
The question of whether something liberates us or quietly enslaves us
Seen through a Capricorn lens, The Devil becomes a mirror rather than a warning. It asks honest questions:
What are we building toward?
What are we attached to, and why?
Where does ambition turn into a chain instead of a support?
The World (Saturn)
Saturn is linked with The World, one of my favorite tarot pairings to contemplate during winter. The World points to:
Completion and integration
Seeing the whole system, not just individual parts
Cycles, closure, and long-range planning
Limits that aren’t punishment, but physics: time, energy, capacity, and reality
Through this lens, Saturn isn’t simply restrictive. Saturn says: "You are powerful, and you are finite. What will you do with what you have?" Capricorn season invites us to make peace with that truth instead of fighting it.
Minor Arcana Timing Within Capricorn Season
This season can be broken into smaller tarot windows associated with the Pentacles suit:
Two of Pentacles
Three of Pentacles
Four of Pentacles
These cards reinforce Capricorn’s themes of money, effort, systems, collaboration, and stability. They remind us that what we build is rarely a solo effort, and that balance and sustainability matter just as much as ambition.
💭 Today's Tarot Pull:
From Numerology Oracle by Rosemaree Templeton, I pulled the Six - (Reasoning).
This card reminds us that this season isn’t only about achievement. It’s also about steadiness, care, and the quiet infrastructure that holds our lives together.
Reflective prompts on this card:
Where have I been offering steady care that I haven’t fully honored?
Ways to Connect & Support
