An understanding of the zodiac will allow you to identify the personality of most people you meet according to their sign. Occasionally we're confronted with some one born perhaps squarely under a sign who does not appear to possess the qualities which belong to it. Perhaps the person will utterly disclaim the characteristics, especially the faults. This is not an uncommon occurrence, because the individual who is willing to admit his moral and spiritual overdoings and shortcomings is still rare enough to be called an anomaly.



Sometimes, however, there is a real discrepancy between the alleged qualities and those possessed in reality. At such times it should be remembered that there are instances where some of the qualities of each sign in the triplicity seem to be represented by one person. One born under Taurus, for instance, may have some of the traits belonging to Virgo and Capricorn, and this is equally true of every triplicity. But the careful observer will soon find that the characteristics of the domains are unfailing.

There is as much difference, for example, between the people born in the domains of fire and water as there is between fire and water; as much difference between the people who come under the air and earth triplicities as between air and earth. A little study will make these facts plain to every investigator.

When a planet or planets are strong at the time of birth, the characteristics of the signs are sometimes modified. Thus Saturn, being strong at the native's birth, may have much power over the Air Triplicity; Jupiter, being strong, would have the same effect upon the Fire Triplicity; Mars, being strong, would affect the Water Triplicity; Venus, being strong, would influence the Earth Triplicity.

Then, again, those people who are brilliant in intellect and quick of impulse would be marked if the planet Uranus was strong, as he governs the thinking and intellectual principle in man, being at home on his throne in Aquarius, which is the spiritual pole of the Air Triplicity; in fact, he exerts a marked influence upon all Air people. Again, Neptune, who is so little known, when powerful or in conjunction with powerful planets, wields a strong power over those born under Aries and Pisces, the Head and Feet of the Grand Man. This planet governs the spiritual life and the invisible physiology of man, and is at home in either of these signs.

The ancient philosophers had seven planets and the Zodiac upon which to base their calculations, Uranus and Neptune being unknown. Their judgment of character by these signs was phenomenally correct. "Everything else in the universe may lie," those wise men used to say, "but the Zodiac always tells the truth."

"If ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the Law."

It is the purpose here to teach that spirit is absolute, and that solar and planetary action can have no power over the spiritual man. "He is born a natural body, he is raised a spiritual body" - not after death, but NOW. When he finds his centre, establishes his Triunity, he is Monarch of himself and King of Circumstance.

The man who does not advance loses ground. He who has not the spirit of his age will be crushed under the misery of it. He who remains ignorant of his genius or talent will be blown about by every breeze of opinion and every wind of doctrine. The definition of ignorance is sin, sickness, sorrow, and death.

The progressive student will soon find that his power depends upon the harmonious development of his natural genius, and the establishment of true polarity. He will live each day a willing server, his mind ever fixed on the boundless opulence of nature, able to look steadfastly through nature up to nature's God.