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THE TRINES The four elemental trinities generate an elemental energy from leading cardinal sign and distribute its influence by the actions of the fixed an mutable sign. Thus only the first column where the cardinal signs are listed produces the essential energy while subsequent colums use that element as a key component of their formula. In the case of the male elements -Fire and -Air the triplicities element will be 'on top' of any division, while in the case of the female elements -Water and -Earth the element will be 'below' wherever there is a division as if to provide a template for the yin and yang sayings of "Mo' Beta" and "Less is more".

FIRE

God's word

1. -Aries **2 /  ^-Air v-Earth

5. -Leo  /  ^-Fire v-Air

9. -Sagittarius sqrt(  *  ) ^-Fire ^-Earth

Aries == Fire(Fire) questing Water; Enthusiasm vibrant flame iso lamp Leo == Water(Fire) questing Earth sensing life manifests it Sagittarius == Air(Fire) questing Water; Process rationally intuiting towards wisdom

Mars, Sun, Jupiter

AIR

Man's word

7. -Libra  /  ^-Fire v-Water

11. -Aquarius **2 /  ^-Air v-Fire

3. -Gemini  *  ^-Air ^-Water

Libra == Air(Air) questing Earth reflective reasoning seeking application Aquarius == Earth(Air) questing Water; Design controlling the mind for illumination. Gemini == Fire(Air) questing Earth enliven the facts for trivia

Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus

WATER

God's aims

4. -Cancer sqrt(  /  ) ^-Fire v-Earth

8. -Scorpio  *  ^-Earth ^-Water

12. -Pisces  / **2 ^-Fire v-Water

Cancer == Water(Water) questing Air sensing shapes yields understanding Scorpio == Air(Water) questing Fire; Research inquisitive sensing yields inspiration Pisces == Earth(Water) questing Air; Melting concretely sensed understanding

Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto.

EARTH

Man's aims

10. -Capricorn  /  ^-Air v-Water

2. -Taurus  * **2 ^-Earth ^-Water

6. -Virgo  /  ^-Air v-Earth

Capricorn == Earth(Earth) questing Fire; Function purposefuly controlling the facts Taurus == Fire(Earth) questing Air live growth know-how Virgo == Water (Earth) questing Fire connect the details for inspiration

Mercury, Venus, Saturn

Each of the trinities can be seen as 'the home' for any number of the world's religions. While I have some ideas as to how these attributions might go, I don't know enough yet to make a comprehensive list. For now, perhaps this table is helpful to summarize the quarters: East: -Fire through -Air North: -Earth through -Air West: -Air through -Fire South: -Water through -Fire What I find interesting in this list is how it indicates that 'no matter what' any and all of the season's generate through the above or male elements. In no case find the formulas any evidence of female energies 'rightfully' dominating the male element, at best we find them co-distributing in -Sagittarius and -Gemini or co-sustaining in -Scorpio and -Taurus. The absence of Mars's activity from the 'concrete planes' of Man's life might be seen as a reinforcement of the notion that "its good to drop the macho stuff to live in the world" ... the macho-overidentification with the divine spark may be fun and exciting, but as the formula's attest, nothing much comes from concrete force of any kind. -- this is not to say that the martian principle is not awesomly important, it just has a somewhat abstract role to play when it comes to the concrete. the amount of psychobabble you can elimate by working with first principles boggles the ming.