On Astrology and the Four Elemental Signs

I’m starting to think there is more than a little something to astrology.

I have had this idea for a long time, mostly due to a book I read maybe 40 years ago called Unmentionable Subjects. I can’t find it now, so maybe it’s out of print and I certainly don’t recall the author, but he had an interesting bit in there about how it made sense that at the moment of birth the various influences of the gravity fields of the various bodies in our solar system, as well as possibly further afield could have an influence on our brains.

That, along with various other aspects of reality (fractal aspects of the human brain/hologrammic universe, and others) too involved to get into here, have given me the view that as I say, there is a bit more to it than nothing. There is also the fact that all the so-called “statistical studies” done to “prove” that there is nothing to astrology have methodologies that are completely flawed and would not pass muster as statistical studies in any case at even an elementary level.

Anyway, all that said, the real reason I think so is my family.

Our kids are composed of 2 Water Signs, 2 Air Signs, 1 Earth and 1 Fire sign. And what I noticed is this:

The fire sign, is, like me, generally always positive, doesn’t hold a grudge, is ready to GO, with pretty much anything, and while she has a fiery temper, she is also very affectionate and fearless.

The Air signs are generally quite, well, airy… which means inventive, quick witted but in a more aetheric way than the fire sign, who are also quick-witted but in more practical, instantaneous, tactical way. The Earth sign is instead slower perhaps in his considerations, but generally foundational and immovable in his perceptions, which can be of a depth that surprises me regularly. And the water signs of course are moody, subterfugeous, scheming, and I would say rather deceptive in their ways, the least transparent of the elements.

I may be biased because I am one too, but I would say the fire signs are the most direct and transparent. We really are the best people! Air signs are pretty direct too but they have a head in the clouds aspect that can make them imaginative, inventive, and surprising, though not in a necessarily intentionally deceptive way. Earth signs are not really deceptive either, but they are a bit like Ents in The Lord of the Rings. Naturally somewhat laconic and gradual in their ways, one could be fooled into thinking they are simpler than they are, when in fact, they have quiet but deep ponderings.

Overall, I’d say that it is water signs that are the most deceptive, and most consciously and knowingly so. There is an element of general suspicion and subterfuge in their way of thinking that is somewhat alien certainly to fire signs. Of course, anyone of any sign can be a deceptive asshole intentionally, but I mean this more as the kind if “flavour” of it. I think water signs are natural schemers. Even when not being deceptive they will have two or three levels of considerations below the obvious ones for how they act or take on the world. Fire signs by contrast, if deceptive have generally a specific, direct and fairly obvious intent. Earth signs might be the least deceptive in a way, as they naturally tend to move with the sort of tectonic intent of geology. If conscious, their deceptions are probably obvious and motivated by some rather deep dissatisfaction with something probably fundamental to them. Air signs might be deceptive because they saw a butterfly and they want to see where it goes so will lie about why they have to leave the meeting now. Or they could deceive you perfectly, directly, cleverly and inventively, only to forget their own lie a day later and expose it themselves.

So that is my sense of it anyway.

Feel free to give your own views below.