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Friday, May 10, 2013

3 Modes of Water


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.

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