Astrology: how to read your Birth Chart: The Elements

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Your birth chart, or horoscope, is usually shown in the form of a wheel, symbolising the cycles periodically undergone by all living things on this planet. The symbols ("glyphs") displayed stand for the astrological signs, planets and other chart factors representing forces which may affect your life at any given time.

Each of these astrological factors represents a coded set of drives in your sub-conscious. Drives may be activated and brought to your awareness by circumstances in your life, presenting you with a range of choices. Of course, your choices are to a considerable extent limited and determined by your character, which is itself revealed through an understanding of the symbols that make up the chart.

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the elements and qualities
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Astrological signs are categorised by their ancient, elemental identities of

fire (spirit & energy),

air (intellect & communication),

water (emotion & nurture) and

earth (material things & security).

These elements are considered the building blocks of existence at all levels. They interpret a much broader range of experience than the "chemical elements" of modern science, and should not be confused with them. They are also known as the quadruplicities.

Each sign is also identified by its quality, that is whether it is

cardinal (creative),

fixed (determined) or

mutable (changeable) in character.

These features are known as the triplicities and are usually interpreted in conjunction with the elements or quadruplicities.

The Fiery signs, for example, are Aries, the Ram (cardinal-fire), Leo, the Lion (fixed-fire) and Sagittarius, the Centaur (mutable-fire). The other signs follow a similar pattern (see table).

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TABLE OF ASTROLOGICAL QUALITIES & ELEMENTS

Sign	Quality	Element
Aries	Cardinal	Fire
Taurus	Fixed	Earth
Gemini	Mutable	Air
Cancer	Cardinal	Water
Leo	Fixed	Fire
Virgo	Mutable	Earth

Sign	Quality	Element
Libra	Cardinal	Air
Scorpio	Fixed	Water
Sagittarius	Mutable	Fire
Capricorn	Cardinal	Earth
Aquarius	Fixed	Air
Pisces	Mutable	Water

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How to read your Birth Chart Part Three

the elements and qualities(view table)

the elements and qualities
(view table)