Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

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Cardinal signs

Also called cardinal, movable signs

Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, which begin at the equinoxes and solstices; associated with initiating.

Astrologers associate cardinal emphasis with starting and directing.

Kind: Tradition, Interpretation
Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
In this site’s birth chart: used

Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.11, “Of Solstitial, Equinoctial, Solid and Bicorporeal Signs” (Robbins translation, 1940) (opens in a new tab) historical

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