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Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo and Pisces are called common signs, their intrinsic nature is best expressed by the keyword, Flexibility.

The forces working through the cardinal signs impinge upon the dense body and stir it to action.

The power of the common signs is mental and spiritual, it gives purpose to action and incentive to nobility of life.

Therefore people influenced by stellar forces focused principally through cardinal signs are the workers of the world, not the toilers, but executives, who accomplish things industrially, and who bring into concrete existence great schemes, or small, of value in the world’s work. The common signs are all double; two of them are human: Gemini, the Twins, and Virgo, the Virgin; the third, Sagittarius, the Centaur, is partly human; and only the fourth symbol, Pisces, the Fishes, is taken from the lower kingdom. None are violent, however, but intensely moral, intellectual and spiritual symbols.

Unstable as reeds they are swayed hither and thither; nothing appeals to them permanently, they desire nothing as much as change. No matter how well placed, they can seldom resist the lure of an opening in another city, the farther away, the better. Therefore the old maxim: “a rolling stone gathers no moss,” applies particularly to this class,