

The five planets represent theseįive vibrations – Jupiter for Ether, Saturn for Air, Mars for Fire,Ĭhinese astrology uses the Five Elements of ( Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal,and Water, ) on top of the twelve animal signs in a sixty year cycle. "Om" or "Aum." From "Om" the five elemental vibrations emerged representing theįive different tattwas (or elements). It was said in the Veda that everything emanated from the one basic vibration of In addition, in Vedic thought each of the five planets are linked to an element (with ether as the fifth). The following table gives the correspondences: Indian astrology shares the same system as Western astrology of linking zodiac signs to elements. Along with their empathy, also comes a tendency to actually absorb the emotions of others. If their emotions become too strong, these signs can become addicted to drugs, alcohol, food, or anything that keeps them from being overloaded. They can be self-protective and like to spoil themselves. They are also nurturing and base many actions they take on sense. They tend to be susceptible to mood swings, and it takes a while to get to know them. They are emotional, intuitive, responsive, sensitive, psychic, and deep. These signs are feeling, sustaining, and receptive. These signs fear something new and hunger for freedom. They can be cold, superficial, and impractical. They are logical, objective, talkative, social, spontaneous, flexible, cautious, idealistic, and unprejudiced.

These signs can talk and communicate well they tend to be intellectual, and they are able to handle abstract reasoning. They love material comforts and have good recuperative powers. These signs are practical, stable, consistent, rigid, determined, dependable, patient, conservative, and sensual. They also tend to take credit for things that others have also taken part in. These signs don't have time to sympathize and comfort others they have no patience for emotionalism or heaviness. They can be very arrogant, self-centered, bossy, and forceful and hungers for attention. These signs are fiery, bright, ardent, enthusiastic, leaders, confident, proud, spontaneous, self-sufficient, and romantic. The following table summarizes their characteristics as follows: In modern astrology each of the elements are associated with different personality types. These associations are not given any great importance in modern astrology, although they are prominent in modern Western neopaganism, druidism and wicca Winter - Water - Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.Autumn - Earth - Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius.The seasonal elements of ancient astrology are as follows: In ancient astrology, triplicities were more of a seasonal nature, so a season was given the qualities of an element, which means the signs associated with that season would be allocated to that element. "Participating" rulers were not used after the Hellenistic period. * (Ptolemy later modified the rulerships of Water triplicity, making Mars the ruler of the water triplicity for both day and night charts-and William Lilly concurred.) Triplicty rulerships (using the "Dorothean system") are as follows: Triplicity Rulerships Triplicity Triplicity rulerships are a very important essential dignity – one of the several factors used by traditional astrologers to weigh the strength, effectiveness and integrity of each planet in a chart. In traditional astrology, each triplicity has several planetary rulers, which change with conditions of sect – that is, whether the chart is a day chart or a night chart. Water - 4 - Cancer 8 - Scorpio 12 - Pisces - wet, soft, coldĮlements in classical astrology Triplicity rulerships.Air - 3 - Gemini 7 - Libra 11 - Aquarius - light, hot, wet.Earth - 2 - Taurus 6 - Virgo 10 - Capricorn - heavy, cold, dry.Fire - 1 - Aries 5 - Leo 9 - Sagittarius - hot, dry, ardent.

The elemental rulerships for the twelve astrological signs of the zodiac (according to Marcus Manilius) are summarised as follows: This cycle continues on twice more and ends with the twelfth and final astrological sign, Pisces. Most modern astrologers use the four classical elements extensively, (also known as triplicities) and indeed it is still viewed as a critical part of interpreting the astrological chart.īeginning with the first sign Aries which is a Fire sign, the next in line Taurus is Earth, then to Gemini which is Air, and finally to Cancer which is Water – in Western astrology the sequence is always Fire, Earth, Air, & Water in that exact order. In Western tropical astrology, there are always 12 astrological signs thus, each of the four elements is associated with 3 signs of the Zodiac which are always located exactly 120 degrees away from each other along the ecliptic and said to be in trine with one another.
