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Rh which they express themselves is a secondary consideration. Not so with the fixed signs, when their ray impels to action in a certain direction it is next to impossible to stay the force or change it. On the other hand, if they deny expression in certain lines, the obstruction is almost insurmountable.

People of the fixed class lack ability to make their inventions commercially useable, a task for which the cardinal class is eminently fitted. Thus these two classes work hand in hand and between them they have transformed the wilderness of the world to a condition of comparative comfort, their efforts of improvement are continually carried on, and in time the primitive desert will be made to bloom like a rose.

As material success depends on ability to cape with material conditions, the cardinal class is particularly fortunate, for it is the chief executive factor in the world’s work, and reaps a ready reward therefor. The fixed class is not so prominently before the public, labors in laboratories and works experimentally to complete the processes and perfect the models which arc later used in manufacture. Therefore they also are potent powers in life, and share the material and financial success of the cardinal class.

The common class is a sharp contrast. Forces focused through common signs are mental, therefore people ruled by them are averse to strenuous physical action which is the forte of the cardinal class;