The first ones are called the Cardinal signs. You can remember them by the seasons. Aries is the beginning -- Spring. Across from Aries is Libra -- Autumn. Halfway between Aries and Libra is Cancer -- Summer. Halfway between Libra and Aries is Capricorn -- Winter.
You can draw a cross on a sheet of paper and put Aries at the left of the horizontal line and Libra at the right of the horizontal line. Put Capricron at the top of the vertical line and Cancer at the bottom of the vertical line.
If you drew a circle around this, you would now have the circle divided into quadrants.
When it comes to these four signs, you can see at a glance which ones are opposites and which ones are square.
The Cardinal signs you just noted are the beginning energies. Aries is the beginning of the energy of FIRE -- which is ACTION and PASSION. Cacncer is the the beginning of the energy of WATER which is EMOTION and INTUITION. Libra is the beginning of the element of AIR, which is THOUGHT and MOVEMENT. Capricorn is the beginning of the energy of EARTH, which is SENSUAL and PHYSICAL.
THERE ARE TWO MORE SETS OF CROSSES TO DRAW.
The next set is called FIXED. These are TAURUS, which follows Aries. Across from Taurus is Scorpio, which follows Libra. Halfway between Taurus and Scorpio is LEO, which follows Cancer. And halfway between Scorpio and Taurus is Aquarius, which follows Capricorn.
Place Taurus at the left and Scorpio at the right of the horizontal line.
Place Leo at the bottom and Aquarius at the top of the vertical line.
Now draw the next set.
This is the MUTABLE cross.
The first sign is GEMINI, which follows Taurus. Across from Gemini is SAGITTARIUS, which follows Capricorn which follows Scorpio. Halfway between Gemini and Sagittarius is VIRGO, which follows Leo. Halfway between Sagittarius and Gemini is PISCES, which follows Aquarius.
Place Gemini at the left and Sagittarius at the right of the horizontal line.
Place Virgo at the bottom and Pisces at the top of the vertical line.
If you were to place these two crosses inside the circle which holds the Cardinal cross of Aries/Libra and Cancer/Capricorn, and you placed them according to directions, Taurus following Aries and Gemini following Taurus, and so on, you would have a circle with TWELVE divisions. These could be numbered, beginning with Aries and going around the circle, counter clockwise.
Think of Aries at the 9 o'clock position. Taurus would be 8 and Gemini would be 7 and Cancer would 6. I would rather you didn't think of them with these numbers, however. They each have their own numbers. This instruction was for placement, only.
A quick drawing might show what I'm talking about:
TWO: Taurus
THREE: Gemini
FOUR: Cancer
FIVE: Leo
SIX: Virgo
SEVEN: Libra
EIGHT: Scorpio
NINE: Sagittarius
TEN: Capricorn
ELEVEN: Aquarius
TWELVE: Pisces
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