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84 for their roving habits usually keep them poor. They spend as fast as they earn, or faster. Thus these people drift upon the sea of life propelled by the currents of circumstances, Outside conditions dominate them as they lack stamina to assert their own individuality.

The foregoing in true of the great majority who are under the rule and influence of common signs. they respond to the lower phase simply because the higher side is too high for all but a very few at our present stage of development, Those who make a success in the world because prodded by the cardinal and fixed influences, call them indolent and good-for-nothing, but were they bereft of the cardinal or fixed energy which goads them to action, and placed under the common ray, they would soon realize the luck of power and learn compassion for those who must so live all their life. What then is the lesson these people have to learn?

While the nature of the cardinal signs is such that their rays stir our latent forces into Action, and promote change, the most prominent quality of the fixed signs is Stability. But the student. must beware of confounding stability and inertia. The action impelled by the rays of cardinal signs may be changed into other channels with considerable facility, all they want is expression; the direction in