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Signs Qualities & Elements Flashcards

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Cardinal Signs

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Aries
Cancer
Libra
Capricorn

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Name the Fixed signs

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Taurus
Leo
Scorpio
Aquarius

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Name the Mutable signs

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Gemini
Virgo
Sagittarius
Pisces

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What mode do these words represent?

Ambitious       
Assertive
Committed
Driven
Independent
Leadership
Self-motivated
Spontaneous
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Cardinal Signs

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Authoritative
Catalysts
Enterprising
Forceful
Motivators
Original
Initiating
Enthusiasm
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Cardinal Signs

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What Mode do these words represent?

Acquisitive
Constructive
Builders
Persevering
Rigid
Stable
Thorough
Permanent
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Fixed Signs

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What mode do these words represent?

Dogged
Obstinate
Persistent
Productive
Steady
Tenacious
Loyal
Dogmatic
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Fixed Signs

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What mode do these words represent?

Adaptable
Argumentative
Impatient
Flexible
Mediators
Networkers
Supporters
Synthesizers
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Mutable Signs

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What mode do these words represent?

Changeable
Chameleons
Variable
Connectedness
Persuasive
Restless
Versatile
Inconsistent
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Mutable Signs

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What sign is Cardinal fire?

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Aries

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Name the Fixed Earth sign.

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Taurus

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What sign is Mutable air?

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Gemini

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What sign is Cardinal Water?

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Cancer

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What sign is fixed fire?

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Leo

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Name the Mutable sign

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Virgo

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What sign is Cardinal Air?

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Libra

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Name the Fixed Water sign.

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Scorpio

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What sign is Mutable Fire?

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Sagittarius

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What sign is Cardinal Earth?

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Capricorn

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Name the Fixed Air sign.

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Aquarius

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What sign is Mutable Water?

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Pisces

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To create and begin; dynamic change, movement, vitality; take action

Starters

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Cardinal signs

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To maintain; determination and willpower; complete what is begun in the cardinal signs

Maintainers

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Fixed signs

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To change and destroy; adaptable, flexible; subtle; to find compromise

Negotiators

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Mutable signs

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a return that conjuncts a star

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Sidereal Cycle

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a return by a conjunction to the Sun

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Synodic cycle

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This sign’s most distinguishing characteristic is activity, with a desire to be at the head, and to command. It is the sign of ambition and projective energy.

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Aries

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As a “dry sign” with little water in its makeup, this sign does not handle displays of emotion well, except for enthusiasm, assertiveness, and sometimes anger.

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Aries

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Any planet in this sign operates more decisively, quickly and in a more ego-oriented way than usual.

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Aries

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This sign is of the night house of Venus rulership

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Taurus

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The most characteristic feature of this sign is its instinct for finance, and its watchword is practicalness.

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Taurus

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Since his psyche is oriented in a perceptive manner, this sign concentrates mainly on material pleasures whether sensual or purely artistic. … All the same, the native of this sign can work hard and long.

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Taurus

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The earthiest of earth signs and the most fixed of the fixed signs

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Taurus

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In its objective expression this sign denotes material education and brain intellect; subjectively it is concerned with higher thought

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Gemini

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This sign tends to quicken the energy of planets, and to make them work at a more abstract level.

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Gemini

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The most characteristic feature of this sign is its duality.

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Gemini

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This sign has the tendency to retain and hold the effect of the vibrations made upon it, and like a lake it reflects all that is mirrored upon it.

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Cancer

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This sign is concerned with sensation, and all consciousness that affects the feelings and emotions, from the most external physical sensation to that internal sensitiveness

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Cancer

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This sign symbolizes the need for emotional security. … and the need to support and nurture others

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Cancer

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This is the sign of the central will, the inner consciousness, beyond the brain mind.

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This sign’s most distinguishing characteristic is the desire to give, or to rule, with a fondness for lavish outlay, and the instinct of loyalty.

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This is a sign of developed ego and self-confidence, with strong needs for self-expression, admiration, and uncompromising personal integrity.

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This sign tends to make the energies of planets located within it operate in a steady, relentless manner

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Issues surrounding planets in this sign are likely to be areas in which one’s pride or sense of self-esteem is involved.

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This is the sign of Service … and the outcome of industry and labor.

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It is a sign connected with criticism and analysis, to finally bring forth discrimination and wisdom.

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One of the most characteristic features of this sign is its love for details and statistics, and its tendency to quote authorities.

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This is a sign in which neither higher nor lower mind predominates, the subjective and objective mind being equalized and causing the mind to tend more toward comparison and justice than toward any definite bias.

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This sign’s most distinguishing characteristic is conjugality or ‘unifiableness’ usually manifesting as the desire to please, or in its highest aspect as devotion.

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A person of the this sign greets social experience with open arms; he has an interest in psychology and in human relations

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This sign is more favorable to planets that are relationship-oriented and generally peaceable in nature

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Planets in this sign will bend the issues concerned with each planet more toward relationships and getting along with others.

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This sign presides over all liquids of a thick and heavy nature, viscid oils, poisons, sewage, stagnant pools, chemicals, mineral waters, ice, etc.

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Along the evil side there are seen pride, jealousy, malice, personal ambition, envy and hatred; and along the good side perseverance, courage, both physical and moral, and practical ability.

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This sign will try to penetrate to the deeper significance of life on earth and to the meaning of human life.

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This sign is a dramatic sign, one that loves emotion even while it appears pained by its own experiences. It is the only water sign that will fight.

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Planets in this sign operate with intensity, usually emotional intensity.

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This sign suggests the passage of consciousness from one state to another. It is a sign of vibration, transmutation, and interchange.

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Sagittarius

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The activities of this sign are directed towards a higher state of existence, in which aspiration and devotion are the keynotes.

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Sagittarius

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This sign’s most distinguishing characteristic, perhaps, is its love of sport and travel, having the attribute of sympathy.

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Sagittarius

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In this sign’s phase, essential importance is attached to placing facts and things in a philosophical or religious framework so as to be able to participate in a wider social whole.

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Sagittarius

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This sign is more concerned about principles and general patterns than it is about the details of implementation.

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Sagittarius

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Planets in this sign tend to increase the general quality of mutability and fire in a chart, and indicate a desire for freedom.

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Sagittarius

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The influence of this sign is strongest on the physical plane, therefore, the tendency will be to bring out all practical and material experiences, which will become manifested in the outer world of action.

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The most characteristic feature of this sign is its instinct for business and politics–in fact all things which have to do with the world at large.

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This sign is concerned with an objective idea of truth that is at the same time experienceable. … Efficacy is something this sign desire above all else.

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Planets in this sign tend to increase one’s reality orientation and may limit one’s ability to get outside the social viewpoint in which one was reared.

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Whatever a planet’s normal inclinations may be, in this sign they are subjected to practical considerations …

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The most characteristic feature of this sign is its love of human nature; and there is always some attempt to blend art and science in this sign.

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This sign can think objectively without consulting his feelings. However, this may mean that he experiences a certain awkwardness in emotional matters.

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Friendship, the exchange of thoughts and ideas, and love based on similarity of outlook are found at the core of the this sign’s character.

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This is the sign of the individual as a cooperative unit of the group. They are gregarious and enjoy social interactions.

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This sign need social interaction in order to define themselves, but having done so they are strong individuals who tend to dominate.

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This sign is most beneficial to planetary energies that are airy and/or socially oriented.

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This is a sign concerned with hospitals and philanthropic institutions, wherein sympathy and benevolence are expressed.

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As a water sign, it is very sensitive, often emotional and is very impressionable. This sign does not always know what to do with these emotions.

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This sign is extremely receptive. In the primitive type this leads to passivity and inaction and to being a victim …. In the advanced type it leads to a desire to know the truth at a deep spiritual level .

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A large number of planets in this sign tend to reduce the forcefulness of the personality while increasing its level of empathy and its receptivity to others.

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Sensitive, receptive Venus is in her detriment here. There is nothing receptive in this sign for Venus to work with.

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Cold, dry Saturn is in fall here. The cold stasis of Saturn and the hot movement of this sign are opposites, so Saturn is in a bad mood here.

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Warm, moist, receptive Venus is in her rulership here. She adds her moisture to make Earth fertile. Cold and moist Moon is exalted here.

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Hot, fiery Mars is in his detriment here, and is about as effective as a sword cutting through thick spring mud.

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Jupiter is in detriment here. It is most effective with expanding structure, but Jupiter scatters rather than expands here.

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Jupiter is exalted here. Its expansive magnanimous quality is given a sensitive, nurturing quality from the moving water.

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Saturn is in detriment here. It blocks the water’s flow, and is cold and dry in a summer sign. It can signify a block or restriction on physical health and energy here.

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Mars is in his fall here. Hot, dry Mars and water don’t mix. Self assertive Mars in a nurturing sign can get cranky here.

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Cold, dark Saturn is in detriment here in the hottest, brightest sign. There is no flexibility here, just a rigid clash of opposites.

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Mercury is both exalted and ruler here. It can be more detailed, practical and useful in this sign than in other signs that may create a more scattered energy.

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Jupiter is in detriment here. It thrives where it can expand and build, but in this sign there are structures being taken down, dissected, harvested and broken apart.

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Saturn is exalted here due to its association with judgement and discrimination.

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Mars is in detriment here. It is a hot, outgoing planet in a cold, dry season and moist receptive sign.

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The Sun is in fall here, in a time of year when its powers of light and heat are starting to decline and the night is longer than the day. Sun is about noticing “me” while this sign is all about “we”.

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Venus is in detriment here. The cold and dry of the season and the fixed quality of the sign work against Venus and her receptivity.

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Mercury is in detriment here. This is not a place where the communication and attention to detail can be easily expressed due to the contracting, rule following nature of this sign’s ruler

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Sagittarius

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Mars is exalted in this sign, creating the sign’s hardworking and ambitious nature.

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The moon is in detriment here. Cold wet Moon in a cold dry element in the coldest season of the year, ruled by a cold dry planet does not allow for the Moon to empathize, nurture and sympathize.

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Jupiter is in fall here. This sign is far too cold and dry for warm, moist Jupiter to feel at home. The rulership of this sign does not respect or listen to Jupiter.

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The Sun is in detriment here. The dead of winter ruled by a cold, impersonal planet does not allow for the Sun’s light and heat to shine through easily

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Mercury is in detriment and fall here. With an abundance of wet, communication here is like writing on water.

W101 Astrology Fundamentals (4 decks)

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