How To Confuse a Capricorn

A practical guide to overcoming fixation

Capricorn is the sign that best embodies. Its alleged stubbornness has more to do with an iron-clad fidelity to its own principles, its own logic, and the structure that sustains its life. In Capricorn, the will turns to stone: it doesn’t take a step without purpose, yielding comes only after resistance has been carried to its limit; one false step could mean a fatal fall from the mountainside.

But make no mistake: that obstinacy is not exclusive to those born under this sign. All of us, to a greater or lesser extent, live trapped in fixations—in ideas or patterns that we find hard to release. Let’s pause and examine the varied fixations that each sign feeds, the planetary root that sustains them, and how we can look at them squarely, without denying them, so that they work for us instead of dominating us.

Fixations: What They Are and Why They Matter

Fixations, beyond the “Fixed” modality (though fixed signs: Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius are by default fixators, habit keepers and the most stubborn among us, but let’s go deeper) are energetic patterns that organize and repeat the same response to life. They are not moral defects or condemning labels; they are strategies, psychic shortcuts that have been useful—at some point—for survival, belonging, or effectiveness. In the natal chart, they appear as knots: powerful planets, angular houses, repetitive aspects that crystallize a specific way of operating.

Understanding a fixation means recognizing the function it fulfills: protection, identification, control, evasion, or grounding. Astrology gives us a map to locate that knot and—most importantly—to offer intelligent ways to work with it, not against it.

The Planets that Build Our Fixations (and How to Read Them)