The sky is a wondrous place. So many beautiful, twinkling little stars. Though random in their placement, they occasionally form patterns or pictures called constellations. The ancient sky watchers must have had very good imaginations as they named hundreds of star pictures. They saw whales and swans and bears both big and small. Lions, dolphins, fish and hunters were all seen in the patterns of stars in the night sky by imaginative people all over the world. As the earth circles the Sun we see its position slowly shifting each day against the background of pictures created by the stars. It takes us one year to orbit the Sun and so from our point of view the Sun will slowly circle the sky and pass through twelve different star pictures in the course of its journey. It will then repeat that same journey over and over again, year after year after year. These star pictures or
ARIES: A Cardinal Fire Sign. Ruled by Mars. Impulsive, hasty, assertive, aggressive, eager, fast, pioneering, self-reliant and self oriented.
GEMINI: A Mutable Air Sign. Ruled by Mercury. Curious, clever, quick witted and mental. Changeable, restless, fickle, dualistic and communicative.
LEO: A Fixed Fire Sign. Ruled by The Sun. Dramatic, proud, noble, fun, vain, generous, egotistical, creative, romantic, bossy, pretentious, well organized and attention getting.
LIBRA: A Cardinal Air sign. Ruled by Venus. Harmonious, pleasant, refined, cooperative, diplomatic, persuasive, partnership oriented and indecisive.
SAGITTARIUS: A Mutable Fire Sign. Ruled by Jupiter. Cheerful, optimistic, idealistic, enthusiastic, philosophical, religious, fair, honest, freedom loving, risk taking, self-indulgent and blunt.
AQUARIUS: A Fixed Air Sign. Ruled by Uranus. Original, unique, independent, one of a kind, humane, liberal, revolutionary, inventive, impersonal, and intelligent.
TAURUS: A Fixed Earth Sign. Ruled by Venus. Stable, patient, materialistic, possessive, dependable, sensual and very stubborn.
CANCER: A Cardinal Water Sign. Ruled by The Moon. Traditional, emotional, maternal, protective, overly cautious, security oriented, domestic and patriotic.
VIRGO: A Mutable Earth Sign. Ruled by Mercury. Service oriented, detailed, practical, analytical, studious, methodical, health conscious, fastidious, and fussy.
SCORPIO: A Fixed Water Sign. Ruled by Pluto. Secretive, probing, all or nothing, intense, controlling, passionate, suspicious, resourceful, possessive and jealous.
CAPRICORN: A Cardinal Earth Sign. Ruled by Saturn. Ambitious, authoritative, serious, responsible, traditional, cautious, self protective, insecure, old fashioned, well mannered, distinguished & status seeking.
PISCES: A Mutable Water Sign. Ruled by Neptune. Sensitive, impressionable, compassionate, sympathetic, intuitive, artistic, timid, self-sacrificing, escapist and impractical.
Below is a brief description of the quality's the 12 signs of the zodiac.
What is the most important single fact for you to know about the signs? That the planets must express themselves according to the nature of the sign where they are located. And what are the signs? They are twelve individual sections of the sky that are each thirty degrees in length. They form a circle through which the planets must pass as they transit the horoscope and they each possess certain specific quality's. The most common error the general public and new students make about the signs is that they refer to them as if they were actual people. From this moment of time on, when you are talking about a sign, you are referring to a section of the sky that possesses certain qualities. You are not talking about a person. A person has all the signs and all the planets at work in their horoscope. You may have the Sun in Taurus or Leo but you are not a Taurus or a Leo or any other sign. You must never limit yourself and your potential in this manner. We are all ourselves which is a unique combination of all the planets and all the signs working together in their own unique manner in our horoscopes and encouraging us to be the people that we are.
make up each sign and how to combine them to determine what the signs are all about. We also study the planet that is most closely associated with that sign, sometimes referred to as its ruler, and that the signs have a basic masculine and feminine nature. We learn the signs from the ground up including how they will modify the expression of both the planets and the houses.
constellations form a circular path or road in
the sky called the zodiac which translated from Greek means the circle of animals. The zodiac will tell us where the planets are at any given time.
At Kissing Astrology we learn more than just the meaning of the signs. We learn why the signs mean what they do and we learn it in great detail. We begin with the two basic ingredients that
