My favorite Capricorn of the moment is an under-appreciated quarterback in The NFL. His name is “Shaun Hill” and he plays for The San Francisco Forty-Niners. His resume reads like a survivors guide for playing in The NFL. He’s played for both The Vikings and his current team, as well as The Amsterdam Admirals of the now defunct NFL Europe. He’s not especially fast, but nimble and not slow for his position. He doesn’t have a great arm, but seems to make it work when it counts. He doesn’t come across as a savant, like Peyton Manning, but he’s smart enough to know when to get rid of the ball and to find the right receiver most of the time. By all accounts, Shaun Hill is at best an average NFL quarterback, but all he does is win. Whenever he has been pressed into service, the team plays better and if they don’t win, they are rarely out of any game. And yet, every season, there seems to be some sort of flirtation with some other player with a bigger arm, like the failed experiment with JT O’Sullivan and now The Niners semi-degrading flirtation with Kurt Warner of The Arizona Cardinals, who will likely re-sign with Arizona, leaving Hill like the girl that gets to go the prom because the other girl, you know the popular, pretty, sexy, perky one said, “no” as their best hope at quarterback.

The moral of the story is that Shaun Hill typifies the Capricornian spirit of tenacity and self-confidence in the face of continued mistrust and even betrayal while ultimately reaching the heights of their profession or trade. Let Hill be your sherpa right now as you adjust to the intensity of Pluto while Venus in your house of home and family makes things quite uneasy for you, shaking the very foundation of where you hang your hat. Exercise the patience of Shaun Hill and continue to believe in yourself, even when Mercury makes things a little fuzzy for you in the middle of the month. By the beginning of April, the haze will disappear and just like the Niners front office, people will come to their senses and recognize your true value and worth.