The war is over, one side has won, the other lost, and the time has come to bow out. The need for aggression, manipulation, war tactics, propaganda, and fighting for territory or people has become obsolete, the old general knows the time has come to accept the situation. The sign of Capricorn, at its lowest octave, can signify the goat, the devil, and as such point to old ego-based desires, obsessions that no longer seem to be fulfilling and that can be left behind.

His efforts to win have not paid out, and it’s time to let go, the old general leaves the battlefield with grace, he knows he has done everything in his power to win the war, and he leaves with good conscience. Even the devil works for the divine. He’s old and wise, he does not need to win a tout Prix.

“Accepting defeat gracefully”: Graceful is usually considered a more feminine attribute, the general clearly more masculine. The left brain the masculine allows the right brain the feminine to join to bring peace to the mind.

At the lower level, the general does not accept defeat that gracefully: Where do we need to maybe let go? Accept a situation? And maybe out of the initial acceptance, the situation can turn around?

I found the 60th gene key (that does not correspond to this degree, however) fascinating; at the shadow level, there are limitations, rigidity, and finiteness, whereas, at the siddhi level, we are being reminded of sacred geometry underlying all physical structure through the platonic solids and the Flower of life pattern.

What if the old general, the rigid mind, the left brain thinking evolves into the higher aspects of the mind through the intervention of Grace ( 22nd Gene key) Just a thought.

Defeat, letting go, releasing obsessions, and aggressions, releasing the need for war, territory, and the need to be right, the wiser gives in, leaving an argument, a hostile situation, acceptance, surrender, and peace.