It seems that half the guys I know have had their hearts broken by a GEMINI woman. That’s not surprising since they often change their minds and run away a lot, or that they are the femme fatales of the zodiac. One of the reasons GEMINI is so attractive is because being MUTABLE and AIR, they are SMART and can sum up a man very quickly, but also because they are very LIGHT, like a breeze, and are very easy to be around. What’s interesting is that all the men that I know that have fallen prey to their charms are the most heavy signs — CAPRICORN, TAURUS and SCORPIO. Now certainly they have other things in their charts that creates the attraction, but ultimately, it is an opposites attract kind of scenario. Being heavy, they appreciate the lightness of GEMINI. But this got me thinking about THE WEIGHT OF SIGNS, and how it is pretty easy to see that there is a weightiness or lightness to all the signs, and another tool in how to perceive them in life and on film.
AIR (LIBRA, AQUARIUS, and GEMINI) and FIRE (ARIES, LEO, and SAGITTARIUS) is lighter than EARTH (CAPRICORN, TAURUS and VIRGO) and WATER (CANCER, SCORPIO and PISCES). But within each family their are different weights also. FIXED signs are the heaviest and MUTABLE SIGNS are the lightest, and so for instance if GEMINI is lightest sign because it’s AIR and MUTABLE, then TAURUS or SCORPIO are the heaviest signs because they are FIXED and EARTH and WATER are heavier than AIR and FIRE. Even the symbols that represent the signs show what we perceive as gravity. The alchemical symbols for EARTH and WATER are triangles pointing downward and the symbols for FIRE and AIR are pointing upwards. (EARTH and AIR have a horizontal line through them as well that show us that they are the heaviest and lightest). This shows us that EARTH and WATER as elements fall while FIRE and AIR rise. In other words, they are more buoyant and lighter. This is why on average EARTH and WATER signs are “deeper” as people and tend to be more negative than FIRE and AIR signs. Partially because they peer deeper into things, while FIRE and AIR tend toward the superficial and are generally more positive, as they are POSITIVE signs. Certainly our complete charts dictate much of this, but if we isolate a sign or look purely at SUN SIGNS this is true. This is also why ARIES comes into this reality and says “yes”, with TAURUS coming after it and realizing that “yes” isn’t always the greatest answer, comes in and learns to say “no”. And nobody can say “no like a TAURUS. Then in it’s usual expanding way MUTBLE sign GEMINI throws a monkey wrench in the program, with it the newly introduced polarity and says, “maybe”.
As we’ve touched on this, this is another way to look at signs. We have LEADER SIGNS, FIXED SIGNS, and MUTABLE SIGNS. We also have FIRE, EARTH, AIR and WATER. but with those we might ask ourselves would that character say “yes”, “no”, or “maybe”. All the AIR signs LIBRA, AQUARIUS and GEMINI are “maybe” signs as their DUALITY dictates that they always seeing both sides of something of an issue. All the FIRE signs will tend toward yes, because they are the most positive — ARIES, LEO and SAGITTARIUS, While the EARTH signs CAPRICORN/TAURUS, and VIRGO tend toward the “no” because they often think in a defensive posture and are the least social, with VIRGO being the EARTH SIGN most likely to say “maybe” because of its MUTABILITY. Being FEMININE, WATER would also tend toward the “no”, but with PISCES mutability could react like VIRGO in the “maybe”.
When you think about it, FEMALES genetically say “no”, while MALES say “yes”. All that we have to do is look at how we mate and see that one! So like all things in astrology it follows nature, or perhaps nature follows it.
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