Capricorn tarot card quiz: The Devil and the Goat
Why the Golden Dawn gives Capricorn The Devil and why it has nothing to do with evil: 12 questions on ambition, attachment and readings, five per run.
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What is the tarot card of Capricorn, and what does this quiz test?
This quiz checks how well you understand the bond between Capricorn and The Devil, the fifteenth Major Arcana card. In the Golden Dawn system, which Tayna uses, the sign of summits and long-range goals receives the card of the material world. The questions cover the logic of the match, details of the artwork, the sign's bright and shadow sides, and scenarios from readings about work and money.
Each run serves five of twelve questions, and every answer is explained. The name need not alarm you. The quiz shows why The Devil in tarot speaks not of evil but of what holds us and how to handle it.
Why did Capricorn get The Devil?
In tarot The Devil is the card of matter: money, the body, status, desire and everything that ties us to them. Capricorn has a rare skill, turning a plan into a result. It understands the rules of the game, sees hierarchies and knows what time is worth. The card reflects that strength honestly, as the ability to deal with reality rather than flee from it.
On the Tayna card a creature with a goat's head and huge curling horns sits on a dark pedestal. The mountain goat's horns point straight to the sign that stubbornly climbs towards the peak. And the chains around the two figures' necks hang slack: nobody holds them by force, and they could walk away.
How to read The Devil in a Capricorn spread
The card brings themes of career, money, power and obligation, and with them the question of what is holding you. It passes no sentence; it invites an honest look at your attachments. The pair's bright side is stamina and ambition, the stuff that builds things to last for decades. Its shadow is working for status, control and fear of losing what you have achieved.
Tarot cannot replace a financial adviser, but it can show hidden motives and weak points in a plan. If Cups appear in the reading, listen for the question of the heart that Capricorn tends to postpone. The pair's main lesson is simple: things may serve you, but they should not own you.
All questions and answers
Open after you play: the full question set with right answers and explanations.
1. Which arcanum does the Golden Dawn give to Capricorn?
Right answer: The Devil
Capricorn gets The Devil, a card not of evil but of matter: ambition, money and attachment.
2. For Capricorn, The Devil stands for an evil force.
Right answer: Myth
In tarot The Devil is the card of the material world: money, body, status and what ties us to them.
3. Which detail of The Devil in the Tayna deck points to Capricorn?
Right answer: A goat's head with horns
The mountain goat's horns point to Capricorn, the sign that stubbornly climbs the rocks to the peak.
4. Which Capricorn strength does The Devil reflect honestly?
Right answer: Turning a plan into results
Capricorn knows the rules, the worth of time and effort: that is how things are built to last decades.
5. What do the chains on The Devil card tell Capricorn?
Right answer: They can be lifted off anytime
The chains hang slack: no one holds the figures by force, and they could walk away.
6. Capricorn draws The Devil about working without days off. What does it ask?
Right answer: What is really holding you?
The Devil invites an honest look at your attachments and asks which ones you choose on purpose.
7. Which themes does Capricorn bring to readings most often?
Right answer: Career, plans, negotiations
Capricorn asks about prospects: whether to take on a project, how talks will go, where to put effort.
8. Under the Golden Dawn, The Devil is the card of which sign?
Right answer: Capricorn
The Devil belongs to Capricorn, the sign of ambition, stamina and a sober eye for resources.
9. What does Tayna advise Capricorn when Cups appear in a reading?
Right answer: Hear the heart's question
For Capricorn, Cups often raise a heart question that keeps being postponed. Now is the time to hear it.
10. Which Capricorn shadow shows in The Devil?
Right answer: Working for status alone
The pair's shadow is ties turning into chains: status over meaning, control and fear of loss.
11. Capricorn asks about a big investment and draws The Devil. How to take it?
Right answer: Look for hidden motives in it
Tarot does not replace a financial adviser, but it helps you spot hidden motives and weak points.
12. What is The Devil's key lesson for Capricorn?
Right answer: Things serve you, not own you
The pair's key lesson: the material world may serve Capricorn but should never own it.