THIS:♑ IS NOT a Capricorn symbol!
THIS^ is the correct occult symbol for Capricorn (loop should always be at top!). CONSULT ANY book on astrology or magick (ie. The Golden Dawn by Regardie) before 1993 and you will see that the corrupted version did not exist until the nerds at Unicode mangled it: ♑ . That is WRONG; the loop is always at the top never the bottom. That is NOT an accurate symbol. It was mangled in 1993 by the Unicode Consortium, which is a group of nerds NOT occultists.
Emoji just copied the same error in 2015 further promoting this inaccurate gobbledygook.
Jupiter also looks odd, ♃, as it is the same vintage as the Capricorn issue. U+2643 Jupiter was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993 Codepoints, part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block alongside all the other planetary and zodiac symbols.
This is the correct Jupiter:
So the whole batch of astrological glyphs went in together in ’93, and the font designers who drew the reference glyphs apparently didn’t consult anyone who actually uses these symbols ritually. The Jupiter crossbar not extending right is a less dramatic error than the Capricorn corruption, but it’s the same root cause — typographers treating these as decorative rather than functional.
I am very sorry if you got this incorrect tattoo on yourself but it is in no way accurate or a representation of anything astrological or occult. It is simply a mistake that has been repeated over and over and over. Cheap makers of occult jewelry, and other items, just copied directly from the Unicode that is why you will see so many items with this egregious mistake.
ONCE AGAIN THIS (U+2651), IS WRONG:
and this is also wrong:
Wait! What about that OTHER Capricorn symbol?
The alternate variant you’re thinking of — the one with a distinct loop or circle sitting on top — is an older form found in some medieval and Renaissance astrological manuscripts. In that version, the upper portion forms a clear circular loop (evoking the goat’s curling horn or head) before descending into the sinuous fish-tail below. It makes the dual nature of Capricorn as the sea-goat (Aigokeros) more visually explicit: a rounded goat-like form on top, aquatic tail trailing down.
You’ll sometimes see this variant in older European horoscope illustrations and some hand-drawn grimoire traditions. It fell out of mainstream use as the more angular, compact glyph became standardized in print, but it’s a perfectly legitimate historical form. Both encode the same symbolism — the hybrid creature sacred to the sign, half-goat of the mountain heights, half-fish of the abyssal deep.
The UNICODE looks like some bastardized version of BOTH the legitimate ones…oh well… If you think this was bad you see should all garbelization of John Dee’s Sigillum Dei Aemeth now that it’s used in pop culture.
