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What are the four major signs of the zodiac?
The four cardinal signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, and each zodiac sign fits into one of those three categories. According to the AstroTwins, here’s what it means to be a cardinal and why it matters.
What are the many signs of the zodiac?
Is that clear? Good. Let’s take it a step farther now. Four triplicities and three quadruplicities separate the twelve zodiac signs into sub-groups. Don’t worry if this appears a little perplexing; there’s a method to the madness. Fire Signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius), Earth Signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn), Air Signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius), and Water Signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) are the four zodiac sign elements, each with three zodiac signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces). Fire signs are passionate and energetic, earth signs are practical and grounded, air signs are intelligent and inquiring, and water signs are intuitive and emotional, to name a few characteristics.
What are the three most important zodiac signs?
When most individuals think of astrology, their solar sign is often the first thing that comes to mind. After all, that’s the sign you’d check up when reading your horoscope or researching your cosmic compatibility with your crush. Understanding the differences between your sun, moon, and rising signs is a crucial place to start if you’re ready to delve deeper into your own astrology.
In astrology, your “big three signs” are your sun, moon, and rising sign.
Consider them your most important astrological data. These three signs are quite essential in your horoscope, and each is in charge of a different aspect of your personality and total self. While the sun represents your core self and the moon your inner self, you might consider your rising sign to be reflective of your outward self.
Even if you don’t believe in astrology, it’s just a matter of time before someone asks you for your big three, so now is the time to practice. Let’s go through the basic meanings and differences of the sun, moon, and rising signs so you may start looking into your birth chart and using astrology to your advantage. Continue reading to learn more about this crucial astrological trifecta.
Is it true that there are four zodiac signs?
Each of the zodiac’s 12 astrological signs is said to occupy 1/12 (or 30) of its vast circle. These symbols no longer match to the astrological constellations where the Sun can be found.
Who is the earth sign’s leader?
Don’t you think of a tough and authoritative leader when you think about Capricorn? Because they are the rulers of astrology, they emit cardinal energy. Winter has arrived when the sun enters Capricorn, and Capricorn is in charge with the same serious and calculated power that is required to survive the toughest season of all. Capricorn, as an earth sign, leads with logic, reason, and long-term goals in mind. This zodiac sign is quick to devise a strategy and delegate responsibility within their society. It’s up to them to devise a winning strategy.
Is there a distinction between the two sorts of zodiac signs?
Although decans or decanates are no longer used, each sign can be divided into three ten-sector segments known as decans or decanates. The sign ruler rules the first decanate, which is said to be most emphatically of its own nature. In the same triplicity, the planet controlling the next sign sub-rules the next decanate. In the same triplicity, the final decanate is sub-ruled by the next in succession.
While a sign’s element and modality are sufficient to characterize it, they might be grouped to reveal its symbolism. Personal signs are made up of the first four signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer. The group of interpersonal signs is made up of the next four signs: Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio. The transpersonal signs are Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces, the last four signs of the zodiac.
Dane Rudhyar discussed the tropical zodiac fundamental factors, which are covered in the RASA School of Astrology’s curriculum. The tropical zodiac, as opposed to the sidereal zodiac, is the zodiac of seasonal variables (constellation factors). The fundamental seasonal elements are determined by the shifting light-dark ratio throughout the year. The first consideration is whether the selected time falls during the half of the year when daylight increases or during the half of the year when darkness increases. The second consideration is whether the chosen date comes during the half of the year when there is more daylight than darkness, or during the half of the year when there is more darkness than daylight. The third factor is the season in which the chosen time falls, which is determined by the first two factors. Thus
- The winter season is when the amount of daylight increases and the amount of darkness decreases.
- The spring season is when the amount of daylight increases and the amount of darkness decreases.
- The summer season is when the amount of daylight is greater than the amount of darkness.
- The autumn season is marked by an increase in darkness, with more darkness than daylight.
What are the three Sagittarius types?
A decan connected with the moon, Goddess of mystery and fluidity, begins around December 1 and spans 10-20 degrees of Sagittarius. Because the moon is associated with feminine nocturnal elements, it is not usually regarded as particularly lucky or powerful in masculine fire/air signs. Sagittarius, on the other hand, is a mutable sign, and its fluctuating environment corresponds to the moon’s continual light oscillations. This decan also happens to be opposite the midpoint of the moon’s two most powerful signs, Taurus and Cancer. The moon gently ushers us into the oncoming night here.
The number nine of that element, in this case the Nine of Wands, is associated with the second decan of a mutable sign. The Rider-Waite version of this card, known as “the Lord of Great Strength” in Book T of the Golden Dawn, depicts a battle-scarred warrior who appears to be on alert and ready at all times. At first glance, this does not appear to be a reflection of the moon’s energy, but it is a defensive rather than aggressive posture. Nines depict the suit’s energy being fully realized, as well as the cost of achieving it. It is now necessary to defend what has been gained through a series of wars.
What are the zodiac signs of the air?
There are a few distinct lenses through which you can have access to zodiacal knowledge. The most obvious method is to learn about planets, aspects, and houses based on your own narcissistic discoveries through the lens of your own birth chart. This is a perfectly valid route. I’ve completed the task. It’s something I’ve done to myself, my crushes, and even my celebrity crushes. I was ten years old and anxious to figure out how Gerard Way, the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, and I could finally make it work. One of the touchstones of my current astrological understanding was that romantic desperation.
But if I could start over, I’d start with the fundamentals: the ingredients. The 12 zodiac signs are split into four elements in Western astrology: air, water, fire, and earth. Each has its own characteristics and associations, which are included in diverse ways by the three signs an element rules.
You’ll have a good knowledge of every sign if you comprehend the ingredients. This will give you access to the full wheel of the zodiac. The planets in each sign become (kind of) easy to imagine from there. Even compatibility, which we’ll discuss later, becomes more straightforward. Earth and water coexist, fire and air coexist, water extinguishes fire, air hovers above the earth… It’s like playing Pokmon or Rock, Paper, Scissors on a cosmic scale.
Of course, it was an air sign who first introduced me to this ingenious strategy. Air signs are both communicative and intellectual. They are experts in the ephemeral, or things that do not have a physical shape in our world, and this is especially true of language and knowledge. Our breath is the air element, and it is the most important and unseen function of our bodies. The Chinese zodiac does not recognize air as a traditional element; instead, it is transformed into qi, the ultimate power that pervades everything. The Air, which represents the East on a Wiccan altar, can be symbolized by anything from a feather to incense; the Air is untouchable and immaterial because it has no tangible material form, even in devotion.
Air signals are especially subject to their own personal projections because air is formless and lacks a physical body. Air signs are unrestricted by space and can fly everywhere, from places to individuals; as a result, they’re prone to total imagination. They prefer theory to practice and can become engrossed in continually thinking or talking about something rather than implementing it.
Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius are the three air signs. For the time being, consider each of them to symbolize a different stage of emotional and spiritual development. Gemini is the first sign on the zodiac calendar, and Aquarius is the last, making it the most mature of the three. So, in Gemini, we have a newborn, a nave variant on air; in Libra, we have a teenager who wants to try everything; and in Aquarius, we have a cantankerous, old soul.
The twins are GEMINI. I believe that the things we dislike the most in ourselves are the qualities that zodiac signs have the worst reputations for, and poor Gemini is a constant victim of that unjust slander. In Paprika, one of my favorite movies, a minor character transforms into a villain, splitting into dual heads and rupturing his seam with cerulean butterflies. “I never knew this side of you!” exclaims the heroine, horrified. “I have many sides,” our doppelganger responds, “and that is what makes me human!”
All of that bullshit about Geminis being two-faced liars is true, but we all do it to some extent. This is code-switching in its purest form. It’s “turning on for work,” having a “phone voice,” and avoiding the topic of your kinky sex life at the dinner table with your Evangelical grandfather. Our identity is fleeting, changing all the time. Gemini simply embraces its natural duality a little more forcefully and openly than the other of the zodiac signs.

