2 Capricorn pt 1

CAPRICORN 2
A wisdom tooth that has been removed from someone's mouth. It is plated with gold.
It is useless to know certain things out of context. If you have always known something crucially important, that kind of knowing does not serve you any longer. So you must place yourself in the antithesis of what you have always known, and then when all seems lost, chaotic and super-strange, you must find deep inside you that spark of what you have always known, which holds true under impossible conditions. It always turns out that the massive superstructure, the beliefs and the concepts, fall away, crumble to dust.But what was deeply and truly learned and made your own emerges far stronger than ever and provides a basis for the future. Meanwhile, in the thick of the action, it can look pretty desperate until the need is so acute that you reawaken that special place and make it work for you, when truth is a matter of life or death.

Meghan Married - Event Pt.


Capricorn 2 – Additional Interpretation

This degree speaks to knowledge gained through pain, loss, or extraction, not comfort. What once grew naturally now must be removed, refined, and preserved. The gold plating shows that value remains—but only after something living has been taken out of circulation.

Capricorn 2 often marks a moment where authority based on habit or inheritance no longer works. The individual realizes that repeating what has always been known brings no power in the present situation. Survival now depends on inner mastery rather than external structure.

There is a stark choice here:

cling to systems, rules, or beliefs that once worked but are now dead, or

strip everything back until only what cannot be taken away remains.

This degree frequently manifests during crises where:

tradition collapses,

status offers no protection,

and credentials mean nothing unless they can be re-embodied under pressure.

What emerges is a hard, distilled wisdom—not comforting, not sentimental, but unbreakable. Capricorn 2 is about learning which truths survive when everything else fails and then rebuilding authority from that core alone.

If you want, I can:

integrate this directly with your 7-year event point / Meghan context, or

contrast Capricorn 2 with Capricorn 1 and 3 to show how this degree functions as a threshold.

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CAPRICORN 2
A wisdom tooth that has been removed from someone's mouth. It is plated with gold.
It is useless to know certain things out of context. If you have always known something crucially important, that kind of knowing does not serve you any longer. So you must place yourself in the antithesis of what you have always known, and then when all seems lost, chaotic and super-strange, you must find deep inside you that spark of what you have always known, which holds true under impossible conditions. It always turns out that the massive superstructure, the beliefs and the concepts, fall away, crumble to dust. But what was deeply and truly learned and made your own emerges far stronger than ever and provides a basis for the future. Meanwhile, in the thick of the action, it can look pretty desperate until the need is so acute that you reawaken that special place and make it work for you, when truth is a matter of life or death.

28th Degrees by Bovee

Here is a clean, accurate summary of what Blaine Bovee taught about the 28th degree, based on his degree work (not Sabian, not Jones, not Rudhyar).

Blaine Bovee on the 28th Degree of Any Sign

Bovee consistently described the 28th degree as a point of stress through excess and over-commitment, where momentum outruns capacity.

Core meaning

“Too much going on at once.”

This degree shows:

Life becoming crowded, overloaded, noisy

Multiple demands competing for attention

Energy scattered rather than focused

Pressure caused by accumulation, not crisis yet

It’s not collapse — it’s congestion.

Key phrases Bovee used (paraphrased faithfully)

Overstimulation

Excess activity

Mental or situational clutter

Stress from too many inputs

Busy-ness without resolution

This is the degree where:

things pile up faster than they can be sorted.

How Bovee distinguished 28° from 29°

This is important because people often confuse them.

28° → overload, congestion, stress from excess

29° → urgency, desperation, “now or never”

So at 28°, the system is still functioning —
but it’s no longer efficient.

Psychological expression

At 28° a person may:

Feel mentally crowded

Be pulled in too many directions

Try to juggle competing loyalties or obligations

Avoid prioritising because everything feels urgent

This fits your earlier theme of:

“Huge efforts are made even though the task requires none.”

Exactly Bovee.

Mundane / event expression

When events hit 28°:

Situations escalate due to too many moving parts

Coordination breaks down

Decisions are delayed because there is too much information

Public systems feel strained, busy, inefficient

Not failure — logjam.

In one sentence (pure Bovee logic)

The 28th degree shows stress caused by excess, not lack.

Too many voices.
Too many demands.
Too much happening at once.

If you want, next we can:

Apply 28° to a specific sign (it behaves very differently in Taurus vs Scorpio), or

Place it on an angle, midpoint, or planet (which is where it becomes really revealing).


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what did bovee say about the 28th degree

Here is Bové(e)’s core idea of the 28th degree, stripped of fluff and translated into plain meaning.

What Bové(e) said about the 28th degree (of any sign)

Bové(e) treated the 28th degree as a degree of strain, pressure, and forced reckoning.

Key themes he associated with the 28th degree:

Overextension – going too far, too fast, or carrying more than is sustainable

Urgency without ease – matters feel pressing, but resolution is difficult

A test of endurance – whether something can hold together under stress

Exposure of weakness – cracks show, physically, mentally, or socially

Karmic pressure – consequences arrive whether one is ready or not

He saw it as a degree where:

“The structure is still standing, but the strain upon it is unmistakable.”

How it differs from nearby degrees

27° → consolidation, gathering force

28° → strain, overload, warning signs

29° (anaretic) → crisis, ending, point of no return

So 28° is not yet collapse — it is the moment you realize collapse is possible.

Mundane / event astrology (very relevant to how you work)

At 28°:

Systems are stressed

Leaders feel cornered

Decisions are made under pressure rather than clarity

There is often public unease, agitation, or fatigue

Psychological meaning

Fear of losing control

Trying to “hold it all together”

Awareness that something must change, but resistance remains

In short

Bové(e)’s 28th degree = “the warning degree.”
Not the end yet — but the cost of continuation becomes obvious.

If you want, tell me which sign you’re applying the 28th degree to (or which event/person), and I’ll translate it specifically rather than generically.



5. Why this is a 28th-degree issue (not 29th)

28° = strain, overload, momentum running ahead of wisdom

29° = crisis, finality, point of no return

At 28 Aquarius:

The system is still functioning

But intervention is already destructive

Decisions are made under pressure, not clarity

You don’t wait — you cut.

Plain-language synthesis (Bovee-accurate)

28° Aquarius =

A system that has taken on too much, grown too complex, and is now being dismantled rapidly because there is no longer time or capacity to manage it gently.