♑ Capricorn — knees

Tenth sign / knee joints

Capricorn marks the knees in the descending Zodiac Man anatomy. Because the ontology has no dedicated knee tag, the point uses the general body and fate tags while its label and description retain the specific traditional region.

♈ Aries — head and face♉ Taurus — neck and throat♊ Gemini — shoulders and arms♋ Cancer — chest and stomach♌ Leo — heart and upper back♍ Virgo — abdomen and digestion♎ Libra — kidneys and loins♏ Scorpio — genitals and pelvic organs♐ Sagittarius — hips and thighs♑ Capricorn — knees♑ Capricorn — knees♒ Aquarius — calves and ankles♓ Pisces — feet

Point 10 of 12 in Zodiac Man — Melothesia (Homo signorum)

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Zodiac man (homo signorum) diagram, Wellcome Collection M0017629 (primary_canonical)

Fifteenth-century Zodiac Man diagram assigning zodiac signs to descending bodily regions from head toward feet.

Nicholas Culpeper, Semeiotica Uranica, or, An Astronomicall Judgment of Diseases (secondary_translation)

Later English medical-astrology tradition translating celestial significations into bodily and disease correspondences.

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