Birth Chart Elements: Unravel Mysteries and Personality

The four elements of the Birth Chart (Water, Air, Earth and Fire) indicate the characteristics that determine your personality, according to your sign. In this way, it can be said that each element carries traits of its temperament that, by understanding them, help in its emotional balance.

If you believe that understanding Astrology can reveal important messages about yourself, then check out the influence of the elements of the Astral Map and their characteristics.

Meaning of birth chart elements

Any individual interested in Astrology knows how the four elements of nature – Fire, Earth, Air and Water – have a strong representation in a person’s astrological chart and, consequently, in their personality traits.

The classification by elements in the birth chart is so important that it is the first thing an astrologer checks in a consultation, when he starts to put together someone’s astrological puzzle.

This variation of the four elements in the birth chart, which are little present or appear in excess, is capable of revealing basic and unique aspects of our personalities and possible directions we will take throughout life.

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The lack of elements and their consequences

Once you have the Astral Map material in your hand, you may find that the missing a certain element in a person will lead him to try compensate somehow.

Either by external factors or by the constant coexistence with someone who has a good amount of this element.

Lack of each element in the Astral Map:

• Lack of Water in the Astrological Chart: it determines a personality that does not feed its emotions or its needs, that is, that person who does not invest time for itself;
• Shortness of breath in the Astral Map: determines a more serious and anti-social personality, in addition, these people have great difficulty in communicating with each other;
• Lack of Earth in the Astrological Chart: determines a reckless personality for not being able to impose limits or deal with rules, so she has problems in realizing her projects;
• Lack of Fire in the Astral Chart: determines a very shy and suggestible personality, as this person does not make a point of appearing and defending his beliefs.

On the other hand, when there excess of some element in the astrological chart, it means that there are intense and constant use of this element, which leads the person to have a limited view of certain things.

In this case, she needs to seek a balance and open her mind to see the world from other perspectives, accepting different opinions.

Excess of each element in the Astral Map:

• Excess Water in the Astral Chart: determines a personality that has great difficulty in seeing reality, therefore, it becomes a slave to its own emotions;
• Excess Air in the Astral Chart: determines an extremely rational and pragmatic personality, thus, never relying on feelings and emotions to make a decision;
• Excess Earth in the Astral Chart: determines a very conformist personality for not being able to impose their desires and, thus, accepts all situations as they are;
• Excess Fire in the Astral Chart: determines a personality dissatisfied with everything and everyone, in all aspects of your life, whether personal, social, professional or romantic.

Keep in mind that there will always be an emphasis or lack of certain elements in any person’s birth chart.

The highlight points to a predominant way of dealing with life and the lack indicates something to look for in order to become complete, either through close people or through circumstances.

Characteristics of the elements in the Astral Map

Fire

• Features: intuition, imagination, creation, idealization;
• Signs: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius;
• Typical personalities: artists, creative geniuses, idealists, adventurers.

Earth

• Features: sensation, touch, realization, action;
• Signs: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn;
• Typical personalities: entrepreneurs, doers.

Air

• Features: power of thought and mind;
• Signs: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius;
• Typical personalities: intellectuals, communicators, writers.

Water

• Features: spontaneity of emotions and heart;
• Signs: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces;
• Typical personalities: mystical, sensitive, emotional people.

But do you know how to determine the predominant element in your Astral Map? Continue here and you will learn a very simple method!

How to discover the predominant element in the Astral Map?

To discover the predominant element in the Astral Map, there is a very simple method. To illustrate the calculation for you, we will use a fictitious astrological chart. So, first, you score the stars on the chart.

Star Score:

• Sun, Moon and Rising Sign: 3 points;
• Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn: 2 points;
• Uranus, Neptune, Pluto: 1 point;
• Midheaven: 1 point.

Then it is necessary to separate the stars in a table of 4 columns corresponding to the 4 elements.

Table of the 4 elements of the Astral Map:

AIRWATEREARTHFIREPunctuation Moon Sun Ascendant 3Mercury Venus, Jupiter Mars Saturn twoPluto Capricorn Uranus1midheaven 1

Result:

• Air: 5 points;
• Water: 5 points;
• Earth: 6 points;
• Fire: 7 points.

Therefore, in the fictitious astrological chart used as an example above, the personality of the person in question has the predominant element fire.

Therefore, it is concluded that she is a very creative, intuitive, passionate and intense person. However, you can see that the 4 elements are more or less balanced, so there are no shortages or excesses.

Real awareness of the distribution of elements in the birth chart is of great value in understanding that, for different individuals, certain things in life are so easy and others so difficult. For example: efficient and pragmatic person who has difficulty being creative and intuitive.

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This is a simple way for those who want to know how to interpret the Astral Map.

But if you seek the most in-depth knowledge of your personality and tendencies, make an online consultation with an astrologers. He will be able to show you exactly the good points, qualities and challenges of your Astral Map.

Good luck!