More on the Philosophy of the Zodiac (Round 2)

Flashback from last time:


There are dozens of ways to break down or combine the signs; for one, Virgo is represented by Athena as a war-goddess emphasizing strategies; versus Aries is represented by Aries the war god emphasizing total war. There are lots of combinations, conglomerations and common places for the signs. Some of the broader ones are Quality; Phase; and another is polarity (masculine and feminine signs).

There's a bit of hopscotch about each of these matches around the wheel of the year; fore instance Aries is a Fire sign, and x amount of months later it's Leo, add that same number x to Leo's months and you get Sagittarius, and then x amount of months and back to Aries.

Starsky and Cox identify quadrants as another one of these identifiers. Quote, "The zodiacal quadrants correspond to the metaphysical planes of existence--physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual." The first group of 3 is Aries, Taurus, and Gemini (Physical), next is Cancer, Leo, Virgo (Emotional), Scorpio, Libra, and Sagittarius (Mental), and Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces (Spiritual).

Every time you hit the third one, it's supposed to be a combination or arbitration between the two previous stories.

So Gemini is both Push (Aries) and Pull (Taurus) in its Duality modus operandi.
Virgo is both Intuition-Sensitivity (Cancer) and Discipline-Logical Analysis (Leo) in Applying Fairness in its modus operandi.
Sagittarius is both Foundationalism and Exposing Mysteries (Scorpio) and Higher Civilization and Aesthetics (Libra) in its synthesis modus operandi.
Pisces is both Tradition-Pragmatism (Capricorn) and Invention-Newness (Aquarius) in applying the Dao to its modus operandi.