Signs And Their Significance

          Signs, the Ancient History:

         

               When the ancients noticed the planets moving along the ecliptic path, they also noticed the background of fixed stars behind that path. It would be as though you noticed a background

of billboards around a racetrack. You could tell the positions of the horses around the track just

by identifying the billboards behind each horse. The ancients used the background of fixed stars the same way. They divided their racetrack (the ecliptic) into 12 equal sectors. Each sector was named after the fixed-star group seen in that sector. Aries the ram, etc. The ancients referred to these sectors as the "little zoo", which in Greek is "zodiac".

Cardinal Signs Fixed Signs And Common Signs

 

Cardinal Signs Fixed Signs And Common Signs

 

The Significance of The Signs

The Significance of The Signs

         

          The Significance of The Signs:

         

               The planets represent the energies that drive your physical, emotional mental and intuitional systems. These energies manifest themselves differently depending on the positions of the planets  in the signs of the zodiac. Different signs channel the energies into different behavior patterns, which are then recognized as personality traits. In a word the traits associated with each sign are as follows:

         

              Aries         Outgoing             Taurus      Conservative

              Gemini        Versatile           Cancer      Emotional

              Leo           Authoritative        Virgo       Exacting

              Libra         Helpful                 Scorpio     Determined

              Sagittarius   Optimistic         Capricorn   Cautious

              Aquarius      Independent     Pisces      Impressionable

         

               Every sign falls into a group of signs, either fire, earth, water, and air; depending on

their orientation in the zodiac. These ancient astrologers had associated each  Element with their          temperaments, and each group of elements are at 120 degree angles to each other.

         

          Fire Signs:  Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Enthusiastic, courageous, passionate and impulsive.

          Earth Signs:  Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. Practical, materialistic, conservative, and inhibited.

          Air Signs:  Gemini, Libra, Aquarius.  Intellectual, adaptive, impractical, and superficial.

          Water Signs:  Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.  Emotional, sensitive, placid, and susceptible.

         

               These four groups of signs: fire, earth, air, and water, combine to form two major groups that represent two fundamental approaches to life; active and passive. The fire and air signs make up the active or masculine signs, while the earth and water signs make up the passive or feminine signs. It is unfortunate that the ancient astrologers called the active signs masculine and the passive signs feminine.

               Another group of traits occurs among signs that are 90 degrees apart from each other. There are four signs in each group of Qualities , which are cardinal, fixed, or mutable. They suggest the basic kinds of activity a person will be engaged in--getting things started, keeping them going, or steering them in different directions.

         

          Cardinal Signs:  Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn. Initiating, enterprising, ambitious, domineering.

          Fixed Signs:  Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius.  Determined, conventional, organizing, dogmatic.

          Mutable Signs:  Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius.  Adaptable, imaginative, tutorial, critical.