The Venus in Capricorn Queen accepts a heavy crown with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Through intensely laborious royal duties, she carries out her role with a dignity that cannot be trained and a style of command that attracts followers and admiration without force or coercion. She is a quiet heroine who confronts and overcomes great ordeals alone and without complaint. And just as she demotes her achievements, she minimises her pain and traumas.
She has a way of making her intentions, expectations, and presence known without fanfare or attention grabbing. There is a strong awareness of her public reception and her social reputation is important. She sublimely styles her public appearance to personify her business card or resume. It’s in this way that she is always on her game and prepared for any opportunity or chance encounter. It’s a recipe for great success, because she can wear the face of her boss babe and charm the right people at the right time. The Capricorn nature is subject to self-judgement and fear of denigration, ridicule, failure, and humiliation. So the trouble is when she views her public image through these personal lenses, and the result can be the sense she has of being judged or actively discredited. Other people could never judge her as harshly as she does herself.
The Venus in Capricorn mirror is cursed by the critical parent’s projections. There is a delicate yet strong, tender and yet commanding beauty in Venus in Capricorn that becomes more evident as her guards fall. But the mirror on her wall can be severely tormenting. She tends to feel like the provider and protector of loved ones, and therefore she must remain the ‘strong one’. The breakdowns are silent and in private, especially after somebody has questioned her love and heart. All she has ever shown is heart. Venus in Capricorns can be notoriously private and internalised. Though in many cases, she just has to be surrounded by the right company to relax into her interesting, insightful, kind, and comedic self. She tends to be generous, considerate, and deeply engaged with the people that spark her intrigue. Her sharp mind and observations can make her surprisingly funny with a dour, dry, and perfectly timed remark or commentary. It doesn’t take long for people who start getting to know her to realise that many early assumptions were incorrect, and she’s rather less sheltered and modest and mundane.
The Venus in Capricorn nature is noble and benevolent. Affection generates raw, tantalising and earthy sensuality. The heart becomes locked in what it finds valuable, and begins digging roots and blooming shoots, so relationships are long term flower projects. But she has certain expectations with relationships too, and these are not always so superficial or materialistic. It’s rather an expectation that you will equally invest as much into the relationship and into becoming the best version of yourself. She wants to see you succeed and make your dreams come true, she doesn’t want to bask in the glory that your success brings, she just doesn’t want you to sell yourself short and miss out on the life that you could make. The Venus in Capricorn heart is old as time and longs to depart its wisdom and experience. And sometimes she feels these vague aches that come with age, maybe she feels like she has loved many times over and been there and known it and now she is content or tired, or maybe it seems to have been broken too many times to mend, or that it never completely repaired. It aches and cries and longs and stops. And something the Venus in Capricorn is rarely given credit for is knowing the language and the antiquity of her heart, and it means she knows everyone else’s too. She will honour your heart and preserve its most natural, open, and loving form, and she will conserve your relationship during its golden age. She can make the best years last forever, turning your life into a traditionally beautiful old fashioned love story that future generations will retell over and over. -Cherry art by Jasmine Beckett-Griffith
Nikki Giovanni: Well, a cop is a white man. [Laughter]
Baldwin: And you know, yeah, and he may be a very nice man, but I haven’t got time to figure that out. All I know is he has a uniform and a gun, you know, and I have to relate to him that way, you know. That’s the only way to relate to him, at all. Because one of us is gonna–One of us may have to die.
Giovanni: You know, in New York, there’s a big campaign going on to humanize the, uh, policemen. And they have posterboards–uh, billboards up state, and they have a picture of this BIG cop bending over this little blonde girl, and the signs say “a nd some people call him pig.” And I wanted to buy–I told a friend of mine I wanted to buy a billboard and show this big cop and this 14 year old kid with thirty bullets in him, and say “and some people call him peacemaker.”
there is nothing innate about men that prevents them from competently cleaning
when people say things like “he’s a guy so any cleaning he does is ‘guy cleaning’” they mean “lower your expectations because men are slobs.” but women aren’t inherently neat (messiness is definitely a trait i have), and this just lets men off the hook when they don’t do domestic chores competently. it’s all social all the way down.
this also goes for cooking, and childcare, and and and
