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

Signs · Reading a chart · Intermediate

Polarity

Also called masculine and feminine signs, yang and yin signs, positive and negative signs

The alternation of the signs between two kinds: fire and air, and earth and water.

Ptolemy called the fire and air signs masculine and the earth and water signs feminine, a vocabulary that describes an old theory of qualities, not people. Many modern astrologers say yang and yin, or expressive and receptive, instead. This site uses those words and does not map them onto gender.

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

Related: Element, Polarity balance

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