Astrology: The Signs (Purpose)
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| TAURUS Fixed Earth. 2nd House. Venus |
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Symbol |
Earth. Peace |
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Purpose |
Being. Timelessness. Peace. To find deep serenity and
keep it. |
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Strategy |
To be close to Mother Earth. Silence that breeds simplicity
which breeds peace. To achieve inner silence through creative expression.
To feel the world through the senses, especially touch. |
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Resources |
Aversion to drama, avoidance of complexity. Reverence
for life. Live and let live philosophy. Iron Will. |
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Shadow |
Choosing material security instead of the path of growth
and change. Stagnation. Stubbornness and inflexibility. Unimaginative,
narrow responses to experience. Failing to take the leap of faith. |
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| GEMINI Mutable Air. 3rd House. Mercury |
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Symbol |
Nothing escapes notice, no detail to minute to notice. |
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Purpose |
To unravel the secret of the world. To gather all the
clues. To see everything. Perception (speaking, listening: communicating) |
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Strategy |
To live as intense and varied a life as possible. To
Avoid boredom. To give the universe permission not to make sense,
to absorb information. To master the art of eloquence. To get information.
Must learn to listen. |
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Resources |
Curiosity. Vitality (mental and physical). Intelligence.
Probing the minds of others. Talking. The substance of the universe
is information - gathering, correlating and broadcasting it. |
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Shadow |
Twisting the truth to win an argument. Cunning, using
language to manipulate. Busyness, overextension, over-optimism, emotional
exhaustion. Tension. Need simple communication and physical exercise.
All tactics and no strategy. Running in circles. |
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| CANCER Cardinal water. 4th House. Moon |
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Symbol |
To grow a shell to protect the delicate heart and spirit. |
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Purpose |
To see the hellish discord of life, the cauldron withing.
To feel. Against all odds, to love, trust, and accept existence. Protracted
process of psychoanalysis - usually self-administered |
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Strategy |
To feel. To establish the minimal defenses consistent
with survival. To shed the shell in a controlled, calculated, slow
way to avoid damage. To learn to take risks and feel trust and love.
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Resources |
Imagination, subjectivity, feelings. Love for others,
the desire to help, heal, and nurture. To competitiveness of fear,
only support. Kindness and concern. Mothering. |
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Shadow |
Mothering. To shroud the self in so much wisdom, understanding,
that your own turbulent inner life and needs become invisible. Boredom
and predictability because its safe. |
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| LEO Fixed Fire. 5th House. Sun |
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Symbol |
To be on center stage, adored. |
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Purpose |
Expression. To leave tangible evidence of its internal
processes in the hands of the world. To development of personality. |
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Strategy |
To celebrate one's self. To create. To keep no private
secrets. To maintain the innocence, spontaneity and freshness of a
child. |
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Resources |
The soul of a performer. Creative directing of raw human
energy. Knows how to be happy. Creativity and charisma. Living in
the now. |
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Shadow |
Projection of self-assurance and pride, performance
that drives people away. Leo needs love, but may get rejected out
of misunderstanding of performance. This leads to arrogance, haughtiness,
and overweening pride. |
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| VIRGO Mutable Earth. 6th House. Mercury |
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Symbol |
Purity. To serve. To seek to perfect the self. |
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Purpose |
To express the self through service. To serve the principle
of service. |
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Strategy |
Sense of the ideal that forms ethics and principles
that lead to perfection. Meticulous, scrupulously honest sense of
what is really happening. Practicality, abhorrence of inefficiency.
No sign is more eager to grow. The capacity to be of use to other
people. |
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Resources |
Sees the self with merciless clarity, to work unceasingly
to perfect the self. Meaningful work is key. Competence. Sense of
responsibility. Loyalty. Careful mind. |
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Shadow |
Too much self-sacrifice. Doubt, uncertainty that leads
to low self-esteem. Self-limitation. Needs to learn self-acceptance.
Perfectionism in trivia. Must learn to live in the present. |
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| LIBRA Cardinal Air. 7th House. Venus |
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Symbol |
Harmony. Equilibrium. Reconciliation of opposites. |
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Purpose |
Teaches serenity. Has signed a peace treaty with chaos.
To be bothered by nothing. To calm down and learn unbreakable inner
harmony. |
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Strategy |
Tranquility must be achieved through the action of will
on the structure of consciousness. Peace through sustained effort.
Libra has no natural defenses against stress. Learn to recognize the
early symptoms of emotional imbalance. To form deep, harmonious bonds.
To compromise idiosyncrasies without compromising essence. |
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Resources |
Sense of harmony. Recognition of opposite views. Every
truth is composed of 2 half truths. Toleration of paradox. |
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Shadow |
Indecision due to ambiguity. Needs to learn to choose
a path and then act as if it were the only choice. Commitment phobia. |
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| SCORPIO Fixed Water. 8th House. Mars & Pluto |
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Symbol |
To live intensely in the present with an alert
mind. |
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Purpose |
To burn away pretense. To let nothing be hidden
by fear. To make the unconscious conscious. To live each moment as
though it were the last. |
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Strategy |
To create a perfect alignment between feelings and actions.
T feel everything intensely. To fully accept into consciousness the
reality of one's inescapable death. To let one's sexuality be what
it is. To answer the question "what is really important to me?"
on a moment to moment basis. |
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Resources |
Merciless introspection. No repression. A mind sharp
and silent., bent on tearing away every comforting lie, Soothing half
truth, every phony description of a phony life. |
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Shadow |
To much emotional revelation leads to collapse into
moodiness and brooding. Obsessive compulsive behavior. Dark treachery
due to attempts at repression. Lashing out to avoid the self. Inability
to forgive. |
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| SAGITTARIUS Mutable Fire. 9th House. Jupiter |
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Symbol |
Questioning the reason for existence |
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Purpose |
Action that expands awareness through the gathering
of unfamiliar experience. To realize the ultimate meaning of life.
To arrive at truth. The process, The quest for meaning-sacrificing
security. |
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Strategy |
Gypsy - to remain open to foreign ways of thinking.
To look at life from a different point of view. Student - to learn.
Philosopher - to grasp the wholeness of life and find our place within
it, fueled by experience. To take the leap of faith. |
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Resources |
Love of freedom. Enthusiasm. Buoyant spirits, Adventurousness.
Certainty that life means something. Faith in his/her ideals. Operates
at the level of principles. |
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Shadow |
Overoptimism, overextension. Bad judgment. Blind trust.
Acting or speaking before thinking. |
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| CAPRICORN Cardinal Earth. 10th House. Saturn.
Fixed Air. 11th House. Saturn and Uranus |
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Symbol |
Will leading to unlimited power within the self. |
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Purpose |
The marriage of one's nature and one's public identity.
Integrity. To be the master of solitude. Immunity to public acclaim.
To seek approval within the self. |
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Strategy |
To find practical supports for one's self-sufficiency.
To attain inner solitude then do in the world what s/her wills. To
select a public role that expresses his/her own personal values, interests,
and whims. |
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Resources |
Iron will. Solitude, determination, patience. Unerring
logic that helps overcome all obstacles. Actual behavior reflects
intentions not emotions. Instinctive practicality. |
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Shadow |
Misplaced self-control as suppression of emotion - the
person turns to stone. Icily unemotional. Loneliness. Dictatorial/tyrannical
behavior as the result of loneliness. Workaholism. Pushing to the
top over everyone's backs out of lonely frustration. |
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| AQUARIUS Fixed Air. 11th House. Saturn and Uranus. |
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Symbol |
Rebellion that leads to human freedom |
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Purpose |
Freedom and individuality. Mortal enemy is the tribal
instinct. Absolute loyalty to truth. To stand firm and accept destiny
as an exile from the tribe. Flawless, uncompromising expression of
self. Individuality perfected. |
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Strategy |
To resist the coercions of one's culture. To follow
the dictates of individuality. To resist pressure form people who
love them to conform. To resist being other than what you are. To
steel oneself to walk the austere path of individuality. |
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Resources |
Genius. The ability to think in ways you have not been
taught to think. Implacable stubbornness. To stand by truth regardless
of pressure. |
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Shadow |
Stubbornness about artificial issues or trivia, due
to conformity. Conventionality leads to alienation from self, and
the feeling of no one home. |
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PISCES Mutable Water. 12th House. Jupiter
and Neptune.
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Symbol
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The experience of the ocean of life. |
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Purpose
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Recognition that we experience an awareness
of the world, not the world itself. Observes the mind observing the
world. To know the subjective dream. |
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Strategy
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Subverting belief in an objective universe. To experience
consciousness. Meditation. Creative imagination that lends solidity
to the inner world. Living colorfully in the world to change how one
looks at the world. Letting go of the world. Consciousness is the
only reality we have. To learn. To have compassion, helpfulness, non-competitiveness. |
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Resources
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Instinctive awareness of higher levels of consciousness.
The mind. Imagination. Sense of possible self-transcendence. |
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Shadow
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Getting lost in the mind without self-discipline. Escaping
form objective world into subjective one-escapism (escape into drugs,
books, television, any addictive behavior). Drifting. Following the
path of least resistance that leads to numbness instead of insight. |
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