Capricorn as a friend

FRIENDSHIP, FRIENDSHIP, that’s the perfect friendship! Whoever warbled that must have been going on about the Capricorns. They make perfect pals, and are loyal, level-headed, and a lot of laughs. What more could you want?

Like their fellow Earth signs, Taurus and Virgo, you can always count on a Capricorn when you’re in a spot of bother. They’re supportive and sensible, and real pillars of strength. Capricorns have a stupendously strong sense of duty and responsibility to the ones they love. They will always rally round and hold your hand in a crisis, drawing on their wealth of worldly wisdom to find a scheme to save your skin and well-hoofed ones may even lend you some of their loot to tide you over if your bank manager is seeing red.

A Capricorn chum will stand by you through thick and thin. In fact, he or she won’t care how many diets you try out, but when the boot is on the other foot, and it’s your mate who’s in misery, you may not be allowed to return the compliment. Capricorns are stunningly self-sufficient and self-contained, and like to cope alone. When you offer advice, the Capricorn will grin and say, ‘Not today, thank you.’ Negative nanny goats, of course, will take your offer of help as their cue to totter at your tootsies, saying they can’t go on.

Though Capricorns make fine friends, you may have hassles getting them interested in the first place. They’re not the most sociable of signs, preferring an evening by the fire to a night on the tiles, and only gad and gallivant about like giddy Goats if a lively sign is part of their natal make-up.

When you first encounter a Capricorn pay attention. When the Capricorn thinks the coast is clear, he or she will clock you carefully to size you up and see that you’re suitable.

Capricorns don’t like socialising for the sake of it, because they’ve got better things to do with their time. So, you’ve got to be worth getting to know, or you’ll never climb on to their social lists.

And talking of climbing, that’s just what these guys do. Capricorns may not be aware of it themselves, but they are socially ambitious. As a result, you must be able to offer your Capricorn chum something apart from friendship at some point in your relationship. If you’re a failure, you may be on dangerous ground; your Capricorn pal will begin by helping you, but if all is in vain, slowly but surely, you’ll be eased off their social register. This might sound cold and calculating, but Capricorns can’t abide waste of any sort.

And time is money, where Capricorns are concerned.

But don’t get all het-up and have the heebie-jeebies because you’re not about to become Prime Minister, or can’t afford your own airline, and are worried that your mate is going to give you the elbow. Just show an atom of ambition, a molecule of magnificence, and all will be well.

If you want to take your mate out for a treat, have a day trip to a place pulsating with pageantry and heaving with history. But whatever you do, you’ll soon see that one thing Capricorns aren’t keen on is eating out. It’s much too expensive! But Capricorns will have a good go at the grub when someone else is footing the bill. After all, they’re not daft!