The final astrological grouping
according to ‘Triplicities’ is Water. These zodiac sign groupings are according
to the classical philosophical elements of Fire, Earth, Air and Water [check
out early posts]. Let us look us now look at the quality of WATER when combined
with each of the 3 modes or ways of doing things in the Cardinal, the Fixed and
the Mutable people.
Primal Egyptian god
of water – Nut
[Lucy Lamy, ‘Egyptian
Mysteries’]
The water element brings life to
all things and makes up the bulk of a living organisms. Water is our greatest
solvent and is used for cleansing and as a neutral medium in which the bodily
chemistry can take place. Water is fluid and takes the shape of its container,
as do the emotions, which find their symbolism in this medium.
The water element strong in a
chart makes these people prudent, shrinking and fearful but they also have
foresight, developed psychic sensitivities and strong self-protective
capabilities. Water people being intuitive and sensitive in feeling and
perception respond readily to the rhythms of life so aptly portrayed in art,
poetry, music, dance and even in sport and sailing.
[From
Budge, ‘The Egyptian Zodiac’]
CANCER: This is water mixed with the cardinal or active
state. Water is on the move in the tumbling streams and fast moving rivers –
lots of energy just like the emotional force of Cancerian people. The rain can
fall softly in nurturing droplets that allow the spring flowers to bloom or it
can fall in uncontrollable torrents wiping everything out. So too the emotions
and caring of the Cancer person – they are the best nurturing care- givers
being both sensitive and wanting to help in practical ways. However, be wary of
those over powering emotional outbursts or the clinging and hard-shelled crab
who lives in the gentle ebb and flow of the moonlit tidal movements at the edge
of the sea.
[From Budge, ‘The
Egyptian Zodiac’]
SCORPIO: Now the water element is mixed with the fixed state
of matter. Imagine the hard, cold, frozen snow of the polar caps. Imagine the
beautiful, majestic ice-flows let loose into the sea to move along in slow
dignified and haughty grace twinkling with shades of blue-green and purple.
Likewise do you find the Scorpio personality, alone, isolated and aloof. Think
of the power and force of the glacier, moving ever forward in its slow
determination, allowing nothing to block its path as it grinds ever onwards. So
too will the Scorpio person move towards its goals and ambitions. But don’t be
fooled, even the ice-flows and glaciers can be melted eventually with the right
set of circumstances, then you can drink their life giving waters.
[From Budge, ‘The
Egyptian Zodiac’]
PISCES: Down at the bottom of the deep dark sea
you will find the magic environment of the Piscean with its strange and
wonderful world. In the fastness of the incredible oceans are a myriad of life
forms all swimming with the rhythms of its watery medium, curling and arching
and darting swiftly about. This is water mixed with the mutable quality –
always on the move, changing, full of mystery and wonder, hard to pin down just
like our Piscean personalities. Strange people of this world and yet not of
this world, sometimes like fish out of water you can see them gasping for the
air of far away ideas and impossible dreams. Be careful that you have a life
raft, for you may well need it when the sea boils and rages with uncontrollable
drive and mountainous waves trying to get somewhere and yet nowhere, causing
the greatest havoc to the land-lubbers.
