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NEW MAGICKS FOR A NEW AGE

Volume II: The Magickal Sky

Part 3: The Signs

Introduction

Notes

In general, the influence of each Sign is very similar to that of its mundane Planetary Lords, in terms
of the way in influences any Planet or Light within it. In a way, the effect of Planet X in Sign Y is much
like that of a conjunction or parallel between Planet X and the mundane Lords of that Sign, a marriage of
the two types of influence. The correlations of each Sign with various Gods, colors, forms, herbs,
animals, etc., as well as its place in the Solar caldendar and the ecological and other implications of that
place, are discussed in detail in the chapters following this one in this part of Volume 2 of this work. In
general, however, a few things should be noted here concerning the Signs, as follows.

A Season is three Solar months long. The first such month in a Season is a _Cardinal_ Sign, the
most characteristic month of that Season. The second is a _Fixed_ or _Cherubic_ Sign, which "fixes" its
energy, in which the characteristic processes of the Season run their course. The third and last is a
_Mutable_ Sign, the time when the Season is just about to turn to the next one.
Cardinal Signs are called that because they are placed at the East, West, North, and South points of
the astrological figure, hence compare to the four cardinal points of the compass. Other names for them
are the Leading, Movable, Acute, Changeable, or Initiating Signs or types. As they represent the active
temperament, they are said to partake of the nature of the Ascendant of a chart, that is, representative of
the Will of the querent, the one inquiring in the matter.
Fixed Signs represent a balance of conflicting forces. They are more uniformly referred to as the
Fixed, Grave, Cherubic, or Executive types. Sometimes they are called the "foundation" Signs. They
most distinctly typify each element, because of which they were said to have been dominant in the
formulation of the Mosaic Law (the laws given by Moses to the children of Israel). They have also been
called Seismic or "earthquake" Signs on the assumption that earthquakes most frequently occur when the
Sun or Moon is in a Fixed sign. They are the power-houses of the zodiac, reservoirs of cosmic energy:
the Formators of the Chaldeans, the Cherubim of the Hebrews, the builders of the world. The tenacity of
the fixed Sign -- the middle third of a Season -- is depended upon to support or stabilize the influence of
the leading Sign (the first third of a Season).
Mutable Signs represent the arcs in which there is a perpetual condition of slowing down in readiness
to turn a corner, a mobilization for action, and the indecision which can result from or accompany it.
These Signs are symbolized by ideas expressing this duality: Gemini, the Twins; Pisces, the two fish or
deep-water sea-horses of neptune; Sagittarius, the centaur, half-man, half-horse; Virgo, Sign of Mary,
mother of Jesus, half mortal, virgin girl, half immortal, heavenly mother. They represent the different
aspects of Mind; because of their agility, versatility, and quickness, they act as mediators between the
Fixed Sign of their own Season, which precedes them, and the Cardinal or Leading Sign of the following
Season, which comes right after them. They have been called the "reconcilers of the universe."
Fire Signs represent the Will, Spirit, or Intentionality of living beings, the future toward which Life
struggles. These Signs -- Aries, Leo, Sagittarius -- rule the immediate present and the future as a goal to
be realized by force of Will.
 Water Signs represent the Psyche, the Emotions, the personal and collective Unconscious. They
represent the ancestry of all living Beings: the immediate, intraspecific genealogy of an individual, by
Cancer and the Fourth House, which rules the soul or psyche, feeling, land, inheritance of land, family
titles, and so on; the genetic ancestry of living beings, by Scorpio and the Eighth House, ruling the great
biological imperatives of life, birth, death, transformation, rebirth, transmutation, the alchemy of Life;
and the ancestry of the soul, by Pisces and the 12th House, rulers of reincarnation, past lives, one's
connections with others via the Collective Unconscious, the past. These Signs rule the past as the
foundation of existence.
The Air Signs -- Gemini, Libra, Aquarius -- are the Signs of Intellect and Reason. They are also the
Signs of relationship: Gemini and the 3rd House, relationship with siblings, cousins, neighbors,
neighborhood as a microcommunity; Libra and the 7th House, one-on-one relationships of all kinds,
including with total strangers, from marriage and business partnerships through all relationships with
professionals (one's doctor, lawyer, or other professional specialist), to face-to-face combat and other
forms of one-on-one hostile interaction -- relationships between two individuals, social dyads as
communities of two; and Aquarius and the 11th House as the broader community of the network of
friendships, business associates, co-workers, and acquaintances of which one is part, a community that
ultimately embraces the whole world (Aquarius rules humanity as a collective entity).
The Earth Signs -- Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn -- rule manifest physical reality: the body, its functions
and needs; physical objects of all kinds; manifest results of any endeavor. These are the Signs of
practicality and pragmatism, of people who get things done. They indicate skill in using and managing
the material and financial resources necessary to make other functions of human life possible. In
whatever Houses of the horoscope Earth Signs are found, the native will show the virtues of pragmatism,
common sense, practical skills.