What are signs? |

It is common for people to be interested in knowing what their sign is or the characteristics related to it. The sun sign is the best known and results from the interaction of planet Earth with the Sun. In the zodiac, there are twelve in total: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.

ORIGIN

English astrologer Alan Leo took the Astrology from the dungeon of knowledge under lock and key, popularizing it through the sun signs, first. When someone asks “what’s your sign?” is raising a point that only became significant from the beginning of the twentieth century.

HOW IT WORKS?

Each sign represents a space of action of the planets. Therefore, the ideal is to know the basic qualities of all the signs and discover, through your Astral Map, in which of them each planet is located. From there, the person will know how the symbology of their planets will be expressed, based on the characteristics of that sign. After all, it is he who provides a descriptive basis for people’s identity and behavior.

Check out the main characteristics of each sign:

Positive characteristics: sincerity, spontaneity, pioneering spirit and ability to channel attention. Negative characteristics: aggressiveness, intolerance, impulsiveness and self-centeredness. Positive characteristics: solidity, firmness, sensuality and ability to perform. Negative characteristics: stubbornness, inertia, gluttony and materialism. Positive characteristics: intelligence, perspicacity, versatility and power of communication. Negative characteristics: unnecessary speculation, restlessness, lack of concentration, and contradiction. Positive characteristics: sensitivity, intuition, zeal and good memory. Negative characteristics: resentment, phobias, manipulation and exaggerated fantasies. Positive characteristics: generosity, optimism, nobility and creativity. Negative characteristics: melodramas, arrogance, self-centeredness and authoritarianism. Positive characteristics: perfectionism, systematization, analytical intelligence and studious attitude. Negative traits: Compulsive obsessions, criticism, pedantry, and being bound by logic. Positive characteristics: kindness, cooperation and sense of proportion and concord. Negative characteristics: indecisiveness, excessive idealism, inconstancy and futility. Positive characteristics: depth, intensity, transformative power and unshakable will Negative characteristics: morbidity, resentments, sarcasm and self-destructive impulses. Positive characteristics: expanded perception, clear vision, intuition and faith. Negative characteristics: intellectual arrogance, tendency to excess, bigotry and intrusiveness. Positive characteristics: sense of responsibility, capacity for hard work, sobriety and practicality. Negative characteristics: negativism, bad temper, fatalism and tendency to complain about everything. Positive characteristics: originality, individuality, independence and developed social conscience. Negative characteristics: exaggerated utopias, radicalism, tendency to shock the other and impractical theories. Positive traits: compassion, friendliness, sensitivity, and artistic tendencies. Negative characteristics: denial of one’s own life in favor of something or someone, self-delusion and difficulty facing reality.

APPLICATIONS

Many believe that Astrology is based on the calculation of the solar sign, that is, on the analysis of your identity according to the position that the Sun occupied in your Birth Chart. Thus, being an Aryan means having the Sun in Aries – which consists of a more superficial view of a person’s profile, since the real Astral Chart evaluates the time of birth and also considers the position of the Moon and other planets, in addition to the main aspects related to your personality and association between them.

Therefore, it is difficult to establish the sun sign as the only criterion – let alone as the main criterion. In that case we would say that there are only twelve types of human beings on Earth. When Alan Leo popularized astrological knowledge from sun signs, the goal was to find out what a person’s sun sign was, based on the day and month in which he was born. Therefore, he disclosed the astrological point that would be easier for anyone to identify, without having to perform any overly complicated mathematical calculations: his sign. It was a simple and easy way to insert Astrology into people’s daily lives.

CURIOSITIES

the signs are not constellations – are the result of the relationship between the Earth and other stars, therefore they do not refer to the stars. The fact that some stellar constellations bear the same name as zodiac signs is just a tribute that ancient peoples paid. After all, there are more constellations in space than there are signs in the zodiac.

Our experts

– Alexey Dodsworth he has been an astrologer for almost 30 years, member of MENSA, author of the Astrology, Tarot and Runes analyzes of and is studying for a doctorate in Philosophy and Ethics in Venice.

– Vanessa Tuleski She is an astrologer and carries out astrological-therapeutic consultations, either in person or at a distance.

– Maria Eugenia de Castroan astrologer, is also the founder and president of the Astrology Society of Rio de Janeiro.

– Clarissa de Franco She is a psychologist and works on the subject of death (losses, mourning and suicide) and on the debate between religion and science, including themes such as atheism and astrology.

– Marcia Fervienza has been an astrologer for over 15 years, member of American Federation of Astrologers and collaborator in Astrology for several magazines.

– Giane Portal is an astrologer specializing in relationship analysis, which she uses in her astrological consultations. She is part of the Deliberative Council of the National Astrology Center.